Cocaine Bear’s unlikely rise to fame began with these Kentucky ad guys

When Universal Pictures released the horror-comedy film “Cocaine Bear” last month, it was just the latest twist in a long, strange tale that began on Sept. 11, 1985, when a man in Gucci loafers with a duffel bag of cocaine strapped to his body fell from the sky and landed with a thud in the driveway of a home in Knoxville, Tennessee.