it is not for nothing that the lawyer billy flynn in the broadway musical and movie chicago is patterned in part on clarence darrow. elmer had it coming. give him the old razzle-dazzle indeed. darrow was an notorious rick who are fed sensualist who took pleasure from the chase seduction and the act of love and to use sex as well as a narcotic. he relied on physical nearness to escape the emptiness and the spiritual isolation of his life said his friend and lover mary parton, the gelda talked him out of killing himself. for he was often lonely haunted by death and prayed to melancholy. folder was the only feeling in the world that can make you forget for a while. and work was in -- for darrow as well. even though i surf farc for freedom i had a consciousness i was doing it to keep myself occupied so i might forget. every man has his dope said darrow whether it was religion, philosophy, creeds, whiskey, cocaine, morphine anything to take away reality. he was a byronic europe, intelligent captivating, jaded, moody, renegade with little regard for rancor society. he scorned society and its n