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Turns out, it’s a longer, stranger trip. While LSD is often associated with 1960s hippies and Timothy Leary, that’s not the whole story. “The first era of global experimentation with consciousness-expanding substances took place much earlier than commonly thought, in the 1920s through the 1950s, rather than the 1960s and 1970s,” Benjamin Breen writes in his new book, “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science” (out Tuesday). “Put another way: Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first psychedelic era. They ended it.” In this excerpt, Breen, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writes of actor Cary Grant — who reportedly tripped on LSD 100 times — and Connecticut Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce experimenting with psychedelics well before hippies got trippy. Throughout 1959, psychedelic therapy captured the public’s attention in a way it would not again until the 2020s.

Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the alluring subject of Errol Morris’ Showtime documentary My Psychedelic Love Story, became enthralled in the 1970s with the LSD guru Timothy Leary. It’s a sentiment the Oscar-winning filmmaker could understand.

Need a good real-life mystery to solve? TV audiences love them. And documentary maker Errol Morris famously investigated a murder with The Thin Blue Line, a government LSD conspiracy with Wormwood and Robert McNamara's role in history in Fog of War.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticTimothy Leary, the rock-star professor of 1960s acid-head mysticism, had a grin that said a lot about him. He was quite handsome, with that mane of silver-dark hair, the jutting chin and Irish eyes, that gleaming wall-of-teeth smile.

Dave McNary Film ReporterAFI Fest will close its 34th edition on Oct.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe 34th Annual AFI Fest announced today that the Showtime Errol Morris-directed documentary My Psychedelic Love Story will close the festival.The movie follows LSD high priest Timothy Leary and how he became a narc in 1974 and abandoned the millions he urged to turn on, tune in and drop out.

There have been many projects devoted to the life of Timothy Leary. But none have looked at the life of the psychologist and LSD proponent quite like the new film by director Errol Morris, which is set to arrive on Showtime later this year.

Showtime Documentary Films has picked up a new feature documentary from Oscar-winning Fog of War director Errol Morris about Timothy Leary, the high priest of LSD, to premiere later this year. The project, with the working title A Film by Errol Morris, questions why Leary became an FBI narc in 1974 and, in a first look trailer unveiled late Tuesday on YouTube, introduces Joanna Harcourt-Smith, with whom Leary had a long-term relationship.

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