Comment on Pitcher Dock Ellis came up amid drug craze but conquered his demons

Midway through a 1970 acid trip, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis remembers wondering “What happened to yesterday?” when he looked at the newspaper and saw he was scheduled to pitch a game that very afternoon. Blending archival footage and interviews with ex-wives and former teammates, “No No” sheds light on major league baseball’s drug culture in the early 1970s, when amphetamines fueled high performance on the field. While Kubrick tackled many genres, curator Steve Seid points out that all his films embodied a bleak vision: Regarding his patent fatalism, Kubrick once said, 'However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.’ Rogen and Black are among the first subjects profiled in the new online video series produced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. “We have the ability to tap into our membership to tell stories nobody else is telling,” says Josh Spector, the academy’s managing director of digital media and marketing. Typically, when you see somebody like a screenplay writer or costume designer being interviewed, it’s to promote a specific movie, whereas what we’re doing is taking a step back to take a deeper look at their creative process.