The cocaine congressman

Retired US Congressman Charlie Wilson left the hospital where he had been recovering from a heart transplant just in time to attend the premiere of the movie made in his name, Charlie Wilson’s War.

He was a bit critical. Mike Nichols' blockbuster, with the all-star cast of Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, had gone soft, cleaned up for the audience rating. Where, for instance, was the cocaine in the very first scene, featuring the Democrat of the Texas Bible Belt in the Las Vegas hot tub?

"They were kind to me," Charlie complains. "I had the idea when they started out that the movie was going to be rougher, a little more sex, a little more bad language."

That Wilson had to have a new heart at 74, and would be happy to have been portrayed rather