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1980s Robin Williams hit ‘Popeye’ fueled by cocaine says mogul Barry Diller

“You couldn’t escape it,” Diller told Anderson Cooper this week at the 92Y. “They were actually shipping in film cans at the time.”

©Paramount/Courtesy Everett CollectionThe film’s orchestrator Van Dyke Parks previously told the Telegraph that famed producer Robert Evans was almost caught when his cocaine-packed luggage went missing at the airport during the movie’s shoot. Diller, who is promoting his biography “Who Knew.” also talked about some jealousy between his butler and now wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, when they first met. Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueDiller, who has been married to fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg since 2001, opens up in the new book about his relationships with men.

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