Creativity

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

Griffin VanMeter, Whit Hiler and Coleman Larkin with ‘Pablo Escobear’ at the Kentucky Fun Mall last week. (Kentucky for Kentucky)
March 14, 2023 09:00 AM

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.

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