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Entertainment & Sports

May 5, 2001

Noncelebrity Drug Offenders Need the Same Compassion

Within hours after actor Robert Downey Jr. was busted on suspicion of drugs in Culver City, David E. Kelley, the producer of "Ally McBeal," the TV series Downey stars in, summarily fired him.

        By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
        
        Within hours after actor Robert Downey Jr. was busted on suspicion of drugs in Culver City, David E. Kelley, the producer of "Ally McBeal," the TV series Downey stars in, summarily fired him.
        This seemed the signal that Downey's entertainme...

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