Movies

November, 1986

Antidrug Crusaders would be wise to cite Sid and Nancy (Goldwyn) as a powerful propaganda tool. A flaming hit at the Cannes festival last May, the story of Sid Vicious and his groupie girlfriend Nancy Spungen is an elegy for the hard-rock Romeo and junkie Juliet whose deaths gave the punk movement some bizarre dramatic stature. Strung out on heroin while holed up in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel in 1978, Sid stabbed Nancy and was free on bail, charged with her murder, when a lethal dose of smack clo...