His most recent screen appearance has been on the TV farce Police Squad! in the less than prestigious role of Poisoned Man.
However, the poisoned man screams in agony and dies.
"Men's Retreat," made in 2005, shows blindfolded members of George W. Bush's Cabinet pursuing strange outdoor rites; "Poisoned Man," painted the same year, is an imagined portrait of the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who barely survived an assassination attempt, in 2004.
I am certain, the answer to that is, simply, more death, including here in the US, more suffering, more shattered families, a poisoned world, and, eventually, the end of man.
In March, he is set to start filming "Expiration," a movie in which he plays a poisoned hit man seeking an 11th-hour antidote to save his own life.
Inevitably, when the book was published, newspapers filleted it for stories about poisoned relations between the man who became Labour leader and David, the older brother he beat to the job.
In all three novels, the events take a toll on Bond: he loses his wife in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; he loses his memory in Japan in You Only Live Twice; and he is brainwashed in Russia, is de-programmed by MI6 and almost dies from Francisco Scaramanga's poisoned bullet in The Man with the Golden Gun.
Placing her in a trance, he showed Blanche a 'poisoned' glass of beer and asked to feed the poison to another man, known as Mr G. Blanche happily complied, kissing Mr G as she did so, before he feigned death.
Directed by Dexter Bullard, Tracy Letts's "Bug" -- a poisoned love story about a man, a woman and a multitude of invisible parasites -- is a luridly dark comedy that is both a crackerjack entertainment and a disturbing comment on the American fondness for conspiracy theories.
Obviously it's extrapolated for this, and it's taken to its Nth degree, but the logical conclusion is that a man can become poisoned and toxic as a result of an experience of war, and can infect everyone around them.
Harold was linked to various other deeds of bravery during his naval service; one that stands out is of Harold jumping overboard to rescue a man while suffering from a poisoned arm himself.
