Famous shock patients

Confirmed: Arthur Alexander, Canadian singer Louis Althusser, French philosopher Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer Antonin Artaud, French playwright and actor Clara Bow, American actress Richard Brautigan, American poet Dick Cavett, American talk show host Kitty Dukakis, wife of politician Michael Dukakis Thomas Eagleton, former US Senator from Missouri Ralph Ellison, American actor Roky Erickson, American rocker Frances Farmer, American actress Janet Frame, New Zealand writer Connie Francis, American singer Judy Garland, American actress Naomi Ginsberg, Allen Ginsburg's mother Julie Goodyear, British actress David Helfgott, Australian pianist Ernest Hemingway, American writer Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian pianist Pat Ingoldsby, Irish poet Bob Kaufman, American beat poet Roland Kohloff, American timpanist Olga Koklova, Picasso's first wife Seymour Krim, American author Vivien Leigh, English actress Oscar Levant, American pianist and composer Robert Lowell, American poet Spike Milligan, British comic Paul Moravec, American composer Jennifer O’Neill, American actress Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player Robert Pirsig, American author Sylvia Plath, American poet Cole Porter, American composer Dory Previn, American singer/songwriter Lou Reed, American singer Paul Robeson, American actor and activist Michelle Shocked, American singer Yves Saint-Laurent, French designer Edie Sedgwick, American actress Andrew Solomon, American writer William Styron, American writer Gene Tierney, American actress Townes Van Zandt, American songwriter/singer Rosemarie Von Trapp (mother Maria inspired Sound of Music) Mark Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut's son John Wieners, American poet Rose Williams, Tennessee William's sister Simon Winchester, British writer Frank Wisner, CIA officer Stevie Wright, Australian singer Tammy Wynette, American singer Unconfirmed: James Forrestal, former US Secretary of Defense
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