"...by the time of his death on a Riviera tennis court in 1989 at the age of 61, R D Laing's reputation was at an all-time low, dismissed as the drunken high priest of failed Sixties hedonism, a fallen icon of the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll generation and wrecker-in-chief of traditional nuclear family values.
A new film telling the life and times of the radical Scots-born therapist considered to be Britain's answer to US psychedelic guru Timothy Leary is to be brought to the screen next year...Hayley Atwell, who recently starred alongside Keira Knightley in The Duchess, has also been approach-ed to play Laing's second wife Jutta..."
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