Thursday, 18. September 2003

Topic: DOPE HEAD - on September 18, 2003 at 2:06:02 AM CEST

Tommy Chong gets the joint

Thirty years ago, Cheech and Chong did a skit in which an unctuous lawyer and his dope-addled client comically plead for leniency but end up proving the defendant is guilty.

Did this memory flash back upon Tommy Chong last week as he stood before a federal judge for selling bongs?

"The whole time," Chong said.

Then, he stepped off the elevator at the federal courthouse and assumed his newest role: street mime. Chong answered every reporter's question by pretending to zipper his mouth shut. Chong didn't even dare autograph a copy of "Up in Smoke" for a fan who awaited him on Grant Street. Best not to further provoke the authorities.

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