legendary story,  screenwriter Raymond Chandler (qv) offered to finish the  screenplay by working drunk: in exchange for sacrificing his health  to produce the requisite pages on time, Chandler was permitted to  work at home (a privilege rarely granted to screenwriters) and was  provided two chauffeured cars, one to convey the completed pages to  the studio and the other for his wife. Chandler turned the script in  on time. Many now believe the "drunkenness" was simply a ruse by  Chandler to wrangle extraordinary privileges from the desperate  studio.