I watched The Panic in Needle Park last night. It’s from 1970 and tells the story of junkies in Sherman Square, er, “Needle Park.” It was Al Pacino’s first starring role; he is full of his usual manic charm.

Anyway, there’s a great scene where Pacino’s girlfriend, played by fresh-faced Kitty Winn, is “balling” a “trick” and Pacino bursts in on them and says: “You've been having, uh, assignation with my wife?” It’s clear that Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, had fun writing the script.