The Last Gasps of Indian Summer by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Written by Johnny Mandel and Michael B Altman.

M*A*S*H*

In 1951, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea is assigned two new surgeons; "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke"

Forrest, who arrive in a stolen Army Jeep. They are insubordinate, womanizing, mischievous rule-breakers, but they soon prove to be excellent combat surgeons. Other characters already stationed at the camp include the bumbling commanding officer Henry Blake, his hyper competent chief clerk Radar

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O'Reilly, dentist Walter "Painless Pole" Waldowski, the incompetent and pompous surgeon Frank Burns, and the contemplative Chaplain Father Mulcahy.

The main characters in the camp divide into two factions.

Irritated by Frank's religious fervor, Hawkeye and Duke get Blake to move him to another tent so newly arrived chest surgeon Trapper John McIntyre can move in. The three doctors; the

"Swampmen," after the nickname for their tent, have little respect for military protocol, having been drafted into the Army, and are prone to pranks, womanizing, and heavy drinking.

Frank is a straitlaced military officer who wants everything done efficiently and by the book, as is Margaret Houlihan, who has been assigned to the 4077th as head nurse. The two bond over their respect for regulations and start a secret romance. With help from Radar, the Swampmen sneak a microphone into a tent where the couple are having sex and broadcast their sexual comments over the camp's PA system, embarrassing them badly and earning Houlihan the nickname "Hot Lips."

The next morning, Hawkeye goads Frank into assaulting him, resulting in the latter's removal from the camp for psychiatric evaluation. Later, when Hot Lips is showering, the Swampmen prank her by pulling the tent sides off and exposing her naked body, in order to settle a bet over whether she is a natural

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blonde. Furious and embarrassed, Hot Lips screams at Blake for letting his staff run wild and failing to discipline them.

Painless, described as "the best-equipped dentist in the Army"

and "the dental Don Juan of Detroit," becomes depressed over an incident of impotence and announces his intent to commit suicide, believing that he has turned homosexual. The Swampmen agree to help him carry out the deed, staging a feast to evoke Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, arranging for Father Mulcahy to give Painless absolution and communion, and providing him with a

"black capsule," which is actually a sleeping pill, to speed him on his way. Hawkeye persuades the gorgeous Lieutenant "Dish"

Schneider, who has remained faithful to her husband and is being transferred back to the United States for discharge, to spend the night with Painless and allay his concern about his "latent homosexuality." The next morning, Painless is his usual cheerful self, and a smiling Dish leaves camp in a helicopter to start her journey home.

Trapper and Hawkeye are sent to Japan on temporary duty to operate on a Congressman's son and, hopefully, play some golf.

When they later perform an unauthorized operation on a local infant, they face disciplinary action from the hospital commander for misusing Army resources. Trapper uses anesthetic gas to sedate the commander. Using staged photographs of him as

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he awakens in bed with a prostitute, they blackmail him into keeping his mouth shut.

Following their return to camp, Blake and General Hammond organize a football game between the 4077th and the 325th Evac Hospital and wager several thousand dollars on its outcome. At Hawkeye's suggestion, Blake applies to have a specific neurosurgeon; Doctor Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones, a former professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers, transferred to the 4077th as a ringer. Hawkeye also suggests that Blake bet half his money up front and keep Jones out of the first half of the game. The 325th scores repeatedly and easily, even after the 4077th drugs one of their star players to incapacitate him. Hammond confidently offers high odds, against which Blake bets the rest of his money. Jones enters the second half, which quickly devolves into a free for all, and the 4077th gets the 325th's second ringer thrown out of the game and wins with a final trick play.

Not long after the football game, Hawkeye and Duke get their discharge orders and begin their journey home; taking the same stolen Jeep in which they arrived.

Save the Country

Laura Nyro

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Come on, people! Come on, children!

Come on down to the glory river

Gonna wash you up, and wash you down

Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down

Come on, people! Come on, children!

There's a king at the glory river

And the precious king,

he loved the people to sing

Babes in the blinkin' sun sang,

"We shall overcome"

And I got fury in my soul

Fury's gonna take me to the glory goal

In my mind I can't study war no more

Save the people! Save the children!

Save the country, save the country now!

Come on, people! Come on, children!

Come on down to the glory river

Gonna wash you up and wash you down

Gonna lay the devil down, lay the devil down That devil down!

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Come on people! Sons and mothers!

Keep the dream of the two young brothers Gonna take that dream and ride that dove We can build the dream with love, I know We could build the dream with love

We could build the dream with love, I know We could build the dream with love

And I got fury in my soul

Fury's gonna take me to the glory goal

In my mind I can't study war no more

Save the people!

Save the children!

Save the country!

Save the country!

Save the country!

Save the country!

Now!

Written by Laura Nyro.

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031 - Wall Street - Zurich, Switzerland

Wall Street

In 1985, Bud Fox is a junior stockbroker at Jackson Steinem and Company in New York City. He wants to work with his hero, Gordon Gekko, a legendary Wall Street player. After calling Gekko's office 59 days in a row unsuccessfully trying to land an appointment, Bud visits Gekko on his birthday with a box of Gekko's favorite, contraband Cuban cigars. Impressed at his boldness, Gekko grants Bud an interview. Bud pitches him stocks, but Gekko is unimpressed. Desperate, Bud provides him some inside information about Bluestar Airlines, which he has learned in a casual conversation with his father, Carl, leader of the company's maintenance workers' union. Intrigued, Gekko tells Bud he will think about it. A dejected Bud returns to his office.

However, Gekko places an order for Bluestar stock and becomes one of Bud's clients.

After making a considerable amount of money from the Bluestar tip, Gekko gives Bud some capital to manage, but the other stocks Bud selects by honest research and advice from respected senior broker Lou Mannheim lose money. Gekko offers Bud another chance, and tells him to spy on British investor Sir Lawrence Wildman, adding; “You’re either inside or you’re out.” They

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deduce that Wildman is making a bid for Anacott Steel. Gekko buys a large block of shares in Anacott, which Wildman is forced to buy from him at a high price, to complete the takeover.

Bud becomes wealthy, enjoying Gekko's promised perks, including a penthouse on Manhattan's East Side. He also gains a girlfriend, Gekko’s art consultant and ex-mistress, Darien, an interior decorator. Bud is promoted as a result of the large commissions he is bringing in and is given an office with a view. He continues to maximize inside information and use friends as straw buyers to provide more income for himself and Gekko. Unknown to Bud, several of his trades attract the attention of the SEC.

Bud pitches a new idea to Gekko. Buy Bluestar Airlines and expand the company, with Bud as president, using savings achieved by union concessions and the overfunded pension. Even though Bud is unable to persuade his father to support him and Gekko, he is able to get the unions to push for the deal. Soon afterward, Bud learns that Gekko plans to dissolve the company and sell off Bluestar's assets in order to access cash in the company's pension plan, leaving Carl and the entire Bluestar staff unemployed. Although this would leave Bud a very rich man, he is angered by Gekko's deceit and wracked with guilt of being an accessory to Bluestar's impending destruction, especially

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after his father suffers a heart attack. Bud resolves to disrupt Gekko's plans, and breaks up with Darien when she refuses to go against Gekko, her former lover.

Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a

Long, Long Time)

Elton John

She packed my bags last night, pre-flight Zero hour, 9 M

And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then

I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife It's lonely out in Space

On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no

I'm a rocket man

Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find

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I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no

I'm a rocket man

Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids In fact, it's cold as hell

And there's no one there to raise them if you did And all this science, I don't understand It's just my job, five days a week

A rocket man, a rocket man

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no

I'm a rocket man

Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no

I'm a rocket man

Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

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And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Bud then devises a plan to leak news of Gekko's takeover to drive the price up. This forces Gekko to buy the stock at a higher price, as he tries to secure a controlling interest. Bud then convinces the unions to pull their support, ending any prospect of Gekko completing the takeover, and causing the price to plummet. This forces Gekko to offload his stock at a considerable loss. Bud and the union presidents then secretly meet with Wildman and arrange for him to buy the stock and a controlling interest in Bluestar, at a significant discount, on the condition that he saves the company. When Gekko learns on the evening news that Wildman is buying Bluestar, he realizes that Bud has engineered the entire scheme. Bud triumphantly goes

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back to work at Jackson Steinem the following day, only to be arrested for insider trading by the SEC, who had been tracking Bud's illicit trading.

Sometime later, Bud confronts Gekko in Central Park. Gekko punches Bud several times, berating him for his role with Bluestar, and accuses him of ingratitude for several of their illicit trades. Later, it is revealed that Bud was wearing a wire to record his encounter with Gekko for the authorities, who suggest that he may get a lighter sentence in exchange for providing evidence against Gekko. Later, Bud's parents drive him down the FDR Drive towards the New York County Courthouse, telling Bud that he "did the right thing" by cooperating with the government and paying back his illicit earnings, and urge him to accept Wildman's offer of a job at Bluestar, once he has completed his prison sentence. After suggesting Bud "create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others," Carl drops Bud off at the courthouse, where he then ascends the steps, ready to face justice for his crimes.

Money

Pink Floyd

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Money

Get away

You get a good job with more pay and you're okay Money

It's a gas

Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash New car, caviar, four star, daydream

Think I'll buy me a football team

Money

Get back

I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack Money

It's a hit

Don't give me that do goody good bullshit I'm in the high-fidelity first-class traveling set And I think I need a Lear jet

Money

It's a crime

Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie Money

So they say

Is the root of all evil today

But if you ask for a rise

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It's no surprise that they're giving none away Away, away, away

Away, away, away

I was in the right

Yes, absolutely in the right

I certainly was in the right

Yeah, I was definitely in the right,

that geezer was cruisin' for a bruisin'

Yeah!

Why does anyone do anything?

I don't know, I was really drunk at the time Just telling him it was in,

he could get it in number two

He was asking

why it wasn't coming up on freight eleven And after,

I was yelling and screaming and telling him why It wasn't coming up on freight eleven

Written by Roger Waters and Uni Sol.

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032 - Humboldt County – Kimmswick, Missouri Humboldt County

Peter Hadley is an overachieving medical student at UCLA. He is given failing grades on his final exam by his professor, who also happens to be his father. Unable to graduate, he becomes bitter and disillusioned. He then meets up with the actress who played the part of his patient in his final exam, the free spirited, part time jazz singer Bogart. The two of them go back to her apartment after a night at a jazz club and have casual sex. Afterwards she gets up to go for a drive and asks Peter if he'd like to come, to which he agrees. The two of them drive north through the night and Peter eventually dozes off. When he wakes up, he finds that Bogart has driven all the way to Humboldt County. It is here that he meets her family. Jack and Rosie took her in when her family abandoned her, and they became her surrogate parents. He also meets Max, Jack and Rosie's son and Charity, Max's daughter.

From Silver Lake

Jackson Browne

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Did you see our brother

He was here the other day

But he only came to say

that he was leaving

Did you see his lady

She was looking where he'd gone

But she wasn't letting on

that she was grieving

She's bound to go

Perhaps she'll find him waiting

for his boat in some city far away

She's bound to go

Lately I remember afternoons

of smoke and wine

There was nothing we could find

but peace and pleasure

And with a smile he told me

That he wanted just to be on his way

across the sea no man can measure

He won't be back,

And the sun may find him sleeping

in the dust of some ruin far away

He won't be back

Early today as I watched

while the skyline was shaking

I heard a rumbling

Early today the mechanical city was waking And I ran out stumbling, mumbling

Out through the laughter of children and dogs

Did you see our brother

He was here the other day

But he only came to say

that he can't breathe here

Did you see his lady

She was reaching for his hand

Just as if to tell her man

that she can't either

They're bound to go

And the sun may find me running after them, seeing something far away

We won't be back

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.....Someone who had been away

.....Suddenly came back today

.....And I allowed him home today into my mind

.....For a moment face to face

.....Evil packed upon the place

.....Long ago he meant to stay out there this time

.....Oh, what do you know

.....The love that I've been feeling

.....The past is healing so slow

.....By tomorrow, gone from sorrow.

Written by Jackson Browne.

After an uncomfortable night in which Peter finds out that they are all involved in growing pot, he finally manages to go to sleep. The next morning he is woken up abruptly by Max. When he gets dressed, he finds out that Bogart has left. Stranded and unwilling to call his father for help, Peter's only choice is to take the bus, which won't come for another day. With nothing else to do, Max enlists him to help with his marijuana crop, which Peter reluctantly agrees to do. After a day of working on some irrigation problems, they relax back at Jack and Rosie's house. Bob and Steve, friends of Max, arrive bloodied and dirty.

Some local hicks found their garden, roughed them up and took their plants. The next day, Peter helps Max with his plants again. He becomes so focused on the work that he misses the bus.

It is after this that he begins to bond with Max and the rest of

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his family. He quickly falls in love with the natural surroundings and the residents of the rural community and stops trying to leave. He begins to understand empathy and love; the thing he previously lacked, which caused him to fail his final exam in the first place. When Jack asks him what he plans to do after this, Peter is shocked to realize that he'd never considered an "after this."

His sudden fear that he would never leave is further solidified by a conversation that he has with Bob and Steve in a bar later that night. Steve explains that almost everyone who lives in Humboldt County now came from somewhere else and never left, including Rosie and Jack, who used to be a Physics professor at UCLA. He also reveals that he was in Peter's shoes a few years earlier. He was a student at Stanford and followed a girl out to Humboldt county and never left. When Peter expresses doubts that their situations were similar, Steve also mentions that the girl he followed was Bogart. When they get up to leave, Bob refuses because he notices the guys that stole their plants sitting at a table behind them. While he and Steve argue about whether or not he's actually going to confront them, Peter drunkenly walks over and starts accusing the men and admonishing them for their cowardice. He then throws his drink in one of their faces and they all run out of the bar with the hicks in pursuit. They get

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away and are walking through the woods, laughing about what Peter had just done when Steve says that he wants to show them something. He takes them up to an unfamiliar area of the woods where there is a massive plantation, at least fifty plants.

Steve and Bob start to steal a couple because they figured that no one would notice. At this time, Peter sees a sleeping bag on the ground just seconds before someone fires a shotgun at them.

As they run away, Peter stops and looks back at the person chasing them. It is Max. It's revealed that this is his secret garden. Max is furious with Peter for trying to steal his plants and he yells at him to leave, brandishing the shotgun.

When Peter gets back to Jack's house, Jack is in the living room waiting for him. He confronts Peter and asks him how many plants Max has. At first, Peter is hesitant to answer, so Jack takes him out on a nature walk and explains to him the dangers of having more than a few plants. He believes that by growing only twenty plants, he makes enough to get by and keeps from attracting the DEA's attention. He warns Peter against letting greed run his life, because doing so destroys the entire reason they came out to the lost coast in the first place; to find salvation. After this, he goes to Max's trailer and asks him why he didn't tell him about the other plants. Max angrily fumes that he was planning on telling Peter as they got closer to

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harvest time. It's at this time that a federal SUV pulls up and Peter and Max are taken into custody. Peter is interrogated about Max's purchase history which includes fertilizer and water tubing, but he says nothing and they are let go due to a lack of any solid evidence against them. Afterwards Peter starts to question why he is still there. The next day, Jack has a barbeque. He confronts Max about his secret crop. Avoiding a direct question from Jack, Max instead mocks him, saying that the presence of the Federal police is probably due to their eagerness to steal Jack's extensive research on physics. Jack angrily storms off and Rosie begins to tell Peter about Max's real father. Jack, Rosie and her then husband, Charlie were all friends when they worked as professors at UCLA and they decided to move to Humboldt County together. However, eventually Charlie, who had been a long time alcoholic and drinking buddy of Jack's, died in a car accident while on LSD.

Peter decides that he can't be a part of Max's operation any more and he tries to leave. Max gets angry and tells him that this isn't a game and he can't back out, but Peter starts walking away anyway. Max then starts to cry and tells Peter that if he doesn't pull this off, Charity will end up just like him.

While this affects Peter greatly, he continues to walk off.

Charity then finds Peter crying by a tree and asks him what's

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wrong. He asks her what she wants to be when she grows up and she says an astronaut. When she asks him what he wants to be, he says that he no longer knows, and she says that that's all right, which comforts Peter.

The next day, Peter's father shows up at the house, using Star-69 and MapQuest he managed to find where Peter was. After a brief visit with Jack and Rosie, where he is greatly put off to find that this is where his son has been all this time, he tells Peter that they're leaving, and Peter reluctantly goes with him despite his new found bond with Jack and Rosie. As they're driving, his father tells Peter that he decided to pass him, but this news doesn't affect Peter much. He then sees Bob and Steve speeding down the road in the opposite direction, followed by Max and then by a federal helicopter. Peter realizes that they must have found Max's secret crop and are on their way to raid it. He gets out of the car and tells his father to head for the beach, advice that Max had told him earlier, and he runs off to stop Max from trying to save his crop.

Peter's father gets to the beach, where he finds Jack along with all of the other local pot farmers. He informs him that Peter took off. Jack hadn't seen Max anywhere and he connected the dots and headed off towards Max's crop. When Peter gets there, he finds Max trying to save as many of his plants before the DEA

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gets there and Peter begins to help. Then the feds show up and Peter and Max narrowly manage to hide themselves. Then Jack shows up and leads them both back to the beach, where Charity happily reunites with Max. Peter says that he's sorry to Max for his loss and Max tells him not to take it so seriously. That night, Max is at the bar drowning his sorrows when his drunken behavior gets him kicked out. He is then seen driving down the highway and laughing to himself. The scene then cuts to the next day when a sheriff shows up at Jack and Rosie's and informs them that Max is dead.

They then call Peter, who is staying at a hotel with his father, and tell him. He attends the funeral and afterwards finds Jack in his study, weeping to himself. Jack is ridden with guilt.

Jack says that it was his idea to come up to Humboldt County and he blames himself for the deaths of Charlie and now Max. He breaks down saying that he has nothing left. In response, Peter tells Jack that has so much left and that he had not yet reached the event horizon, a concept of physics that Jack had described to Peter as the point of no return. The ending is left up to the viewer for interpretation. It shows Peter and his father having breakfast at a diner before heading back to Los Angeles. A bus pulls up outside and stops as one of the passengers needs to use the restroom. Peter gets up; his father apparently assuming he

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is going to the bathroom, and heads outside. Peter gets on the bus, which leaves when the other passenger gets back. Peter stares out at the landscape, not knowing where he's going and seemingly content with that.

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033 - Hare Rama, Hare Krishna – Montreal, Canada Hare Rama, Hare Krishna

In the background of the rise of the International Hare Krishna movement in the 1970s, is a Montreal based family of the Jaiswals, consisting of mom, dad, son, Prashant, and daughter, Jasbir. Due to differences, Mr. and Mrs. Jaiswal separate, leaving Jasbir with dad, and Prashant with his mom. Eventually Prashant and his mom travel to India, leaving father and daughter behind in Montreal. Mr. Jaiswal remarries, and brings his new wife to live in his home. Jasbir is told by her nanny that her mother and brother are dead. Back in India Prashant is sent to a boarding school and his father makes sure that none of Prashant's letters reach Jasbir, so that it would be easy on her part to get over the emotional trauma. Jasbir is upset with her inconsiderate step-mother and ignorant father who is deeply immersed in his business.

Within You Without You

Beatles

We were talking

about the space between us all

And the people who hide

themselves behind a wall of illusion

Never glimpse the truth,

then it's far too late, when they pass away

We were talking

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about the love we all could share

When we find it,

to try our best to hold it there with our love With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew

Try to realize it's all within yourself No one else can make you change

And to see you're really only very small And life flows on within you and without you

We were talking

about the love that's gone so cold

And the people who gain the world

and lose their soul

They don't know, they can't see,

are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself

then you may find

Peace of mind is waiting there

And the time will come

when you see we're all one

And life flows on

within you and without you

Written by George Harrison.

Years later, Prashant has grown up to be a pilot. He has received a letter from his dad that Jasbir, who had rebelled and left home, is now located in Kathmandu, Nepal, with a group of hippies. Prashant decides to find his sister and hopefully get her back to the family. When Prashant lands in Kathmandu he does not find Jasbir, but instead finds Janice, who is indeed his sister with a new name. Janice has no recollection of her

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childhood, and is always in the company of hippies spending most of her time consuming alcohol and drugs with them.

Janice lives with the hippies in the property rented out by local landlord Drona. Drona's real business is stealing ancient artifacts from Kathmandu and selling it to foreign nationals.

Michael, one of the hippies, is the one who does all the dirty work for him. Janice's boyfriend Deepak misunderstands that Prashant is trying to woo Janice, hence they exchange a few blows every time they meet. Meanwhile, Drona has an eye on Shanti, a local salesgirl working in one of the shops owned by him. Shanti has feelings for Prashant which creates one more enemy for him. Later Prashant and Shanti elope and get married.

At the same time a precious idol is stolen from local temple by Michael, which he hides in Janice's house. Prashant secretly observes all this. Drona tries to frame Shanti for theft by secretly planting another stolen artifact in her house. Later he spreads the word that since the day Prashant has arrived idols are being stolen and he is stalking local girls.

The police commissioner is a friend of Prashant's father, and has already received a letter stating the purpose of Prashant's visit to Kathmandu. He suspects that Drona is trying to frame Prashant because he has married Shanti. He gets a search warrant for the entire property of Drona and recovers a diary which has

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contact details of his friends abroad who help him sell the stolen artifacts. The police also recover the stolen artifact from Shanti's home, squarely blaming Prashant for it. Shanti is deeply hurt by this and looks around for Prashant. Prashant meanwhile is with Janice, trying to convince her that he is her brother, who she had been told was dead long back. Michael overhears the conversation and conspires to put the blame on the brother-sister duo. Taking advantage of the situation Drona and Michael instigate the locals against Prashant by framing him for the theft and duping Shanti under pretext of marriage. The hippies and the locals are now ready to bash Prashant the moment they come across him.

When Prashant again tries to meet Janice, the hippies give him a solid thrashing. The police commissioner intervenes and Prashant is saved. At the same time the true face of Drona is uncovered and he meets his end trying to run away from police. Janice sees that both her parents have arrived to meet her and realizes that Prashant is indeed her brother. Janice is deeply hurt that her parents had to see her in this state. She runs away from them and commits suicide. In her suicide note she tells Prashant how deeply she loved him and she never intended him to find her in this state and suicide was the only way out for her.

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034 - Wild in the Streets - Portland, Oregon Wild in the Streets

Popular rock singer and aspiring revolutionary Max Frost was born Max Jacob Flatow Jr. His first public act of violence was blowing up his family's new car. Frost's band, the Troopers, live together with him, their women, and others, in a sprawling Beverly Hills mansion. The band includes his 15 year old genius attorney Billy Cage on lead guitar, ex-child actor and girlfriend Sally LeRoy on keyboards, hook handed Abraham Salteen on bass guitar and trumpet, and anthropologist Stanley X on drums. Max's band performs a song noting that 52% of the population is 25 or younger, making young people the majority in the country.

When Max is asked to sing at a televised political rally by Kennedyesque Senate candidate Johnny Fergus, who is running on a platform to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, he and the Troopers appear. But Max stuns everyone by calling instead for the voting age to become 14, then finishes the show with an improvised song, "Fourteen or Fight!", and a call for a demonstration. Max's fans and other young people, by the thousands, stir to action, and within 24 hours protests have begun in cities around the United States. Fergus's advisors want

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him to denounce Max, but instead he agrees to support the demonstrations, and change his campaign, if Max and his group will compromise, accept a voting age of 15 instead, abide by the law, and appeal to the demonstrators to go home peaceably. Max agrees, and the two appear together on television, and in person the next day, using the less offensive mantra "Fifteen and Ready."

Most states agree to lower the voting age within days, in the wake of the demonstrations, and Max Frost and the Troopers campaign for Johnny Fergus until the election, which he wins by a landslide. Taking his place in the Senate, Fergus wishes Frost and his people would now just go away, but instead they get involved with Washington politics. When a Congressman from Sally LeRoy's home district dies suddenly, the band enters her in the special election that follows, and Sally, the eldest of the group, and the only one of majority age to run for office, is voted into Congress by the new teen bloc.

The first bill Sally introduces is a constitutional amendment to lower the age requirements for national political office to 14, and "Fourteen or Fight!" enters a new phase. A joint session of Congress is called, and the Troopers, now joined by Fergus's son Jimmy, swing the vote their way by spiking the Washington, DC

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water supply with LSD, and providing all the Senators and Representatives with teenaged escorts.

As teens either take over or threaten the reins of government, the "Old Guard," those over 40, turn to Max to run for President, and assert his-their control over the changing tide.

Max again agrees, running as a Republican to his chagrin, but once in office, he turns the tide on his older supporters.

Thirty becomes a mandatory retirement age, while those over 35

are rounded up, sent to "re-education camps," and permanently dosed on LSD. Fergus unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade Max by contacting his estranged parents, then tries to assassinate him.

Failing at this, he flees Washington, DC, with his remaining family, but they are soon rounded up.

With youth now in control of the United States, politically as well as economically, similar revolutions break out in all the world's major countries. Max withdraws the military from around the world, turning them instead into de facto "age police," puts computers and prodigies in charge of the gross national product, ships surplus grain for free to Third World nations, disbands the FBI and Secret Service, and becomes the leader of "the most truly hedonistic society the world has ever known."

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Ultimately however, Max and his cohorts may face future intergenerational warfare from an unexpected source; pre-teen children. When a young girl finds out Max's age, which is now 24, she sneers, "That's old!" Later, after Max kills a crawdad that was a pet to several young kids, then mocks their youth and powerlessness, one of the kids resolves, "We're gonna put everybody over 10 out of business."

Dancing Queen

ABBA

Ooh

You can dance, you can jive

Having the time of your life

Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene

Digging the dancing queen

Friday night and the lights are low

Looking out for a place to go

Where they play the right music

Getting in the swing

You come to look for a king

Anybody could be that guy

Night is young and the music's high

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With a bit of rock music, everything is fine You're in the mood for a dance

And when you get the chance

You are the dancing queen

Young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing queen

Feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah

You can dance, you can jive

Having the time of your life

Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene

Digging the dancing queen

You're a teaser, you turn 'em on

Leave 'em burning and then you're gone

Looking out for another, anyone will do You're in the mood for a dance

And when you get the chance

You are the dancing queen

Young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing queen

Feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah

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You can dance, you can jive

Having the time of your life

Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene

Digging the dancing queen

Digging the dancing queen

Written by Stig Anderson, Benny Andersson, and Bjoern K Ulvaeus.

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035 - El Dorado – El Dorado, Brazil

El Dorado

Sheriff J.P. Harrah comes into the town of El Dorado to talk to his old friend, gun for hire Cole Thornton, who has just arrived in response to a mysterious job offer from wealthy landowner Bart Jason. Harrah reveals to Thornton that Jason is actually trying to muscle the honest MacDonald family from their land.

Thornton agrees to turn down the job and rides out to Jason's ranch to tell him so.

El Dorado

Nelson Riddle

In sunshine and shadow,

from darkness till noon

Over mountains that reach

from the sky to the moon

A man with a dream

that will never let go

Keeps searching

to find El Dorado

So ride, boldly ride,

to the end of the rainbow

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Ride, boldly ride,

till you find El Dorado

The wind becomes bitter,

the sky turns to grey

His body grows weary,

he can’t find his way

But he’ll never turn back,

though he’s lost in the snow

For he has to find El Dorado

So ride, boldly ride,

to the end of the rainbow

Ride, boldly ride,

till you find El Dorado

My Daddy once told me

what a man ought to be

There’s much more to life

than the things we can see

And the godliest mortal

you ever will know

Is the one

with the dream of El Dorado

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So ride, boldly ride,

to the end of the rainbow

Ride, boldly ride,

till you find El Dorado

Written by Edgar Allan Poe.

Kevin MacDonald and his family hear about Thornton's arrival and fear the worst. The youngest son Luke is made sentry, but falls asleep at his post. As Thornton returns from his confrontation with Jason, Luke is startled awake and fires. Thornton reflexively fires back and wounds Luke in the stomach, and Luke commits suicide before Thornton can stop him, believing his wound fatal. Feeling guilty, Thornton brings the body to the farmhouse and tells Kevin what happened. The only daughter of the MacDonald clan, Joey, rides off before she can hear the truth, and shoots Thornton on his way back to town. Thornton survives, but the bullet has lodged against his spine. Local medic Doc Miller cannot remove it, so Thornton departs after healing, despite the protests of local saloon owner Maudie, who has feelings for him. Over time, the bullet in his back presses against his spine, causing bouts of temporary paralysis in his right side.

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Six months later, Thornton is in a saloon out of town, having avoided El Dorado. He witnesses a naive young man, Alan Bourdillion Traherne, A/K/A "Mississippi," confronting and killing Charlie Hagin, who killed Mississippi's foster father, Johnny Diamond, two years earlier. Thornton steps in to save Mississippi from retaliation from Charlie's friends, Milt and Pedro. Their employer, famed gunslinger Nelse McLeod, is impressed, and offers Thornton a job in El Dorado, revealing that he has accepted Bart Jason's job offer and that Sheriff Harrah became a hopeless drunk after a girl ran out on him.

Thornton refuses McLeod, and he and Mississippi return to El Dorado ahead of McLeod. They meet with Maudie and Harrah's deputy, Bull, who confirm Nelse's story. After a fistfight with the drunken Harrah, Thornton agrees to use a sobering concoction made by Mississippi to bring Harrah around, with violently effective results. Harrah, ashamed to be the laughingstock that he has become, agrees to stay sober.

After three men shoot Jared MacDonald, Kevin MacDonald's son, Thornton, Bull, Mississippi and Harrah hunt the men into an old church and gun them down. One man escapes, leading them straight to Jason, whom Harrah arrests and holds for trial. Mississippi stops Joey from killing Jason on the walk back to the jail, and the two begin a relationship.

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Bull officially deputizes Mississippi and Thornton. They patrol the town to keep the peace, stopping an attempted attack by McLeod's gang on the jail, during which Harrah is hobbled by a bullet to the leg. Maudie brings them some supplies while they are holed up in the jail, and McLeod's men start harassing her and her patrons. Thornton and Mississippi go to rescue them, but Thornton suffers an attack of paralysis and is captured by McLeod. Harrah agrees to trade Jason for Thornton and leave town, despite Thornton's protests.

Jason and McLeod's men kidnap Saul MacDonald and demand that Kevin turn over his water rights for the return of his son.

Rightly suspecting that Jason will kill both Saul and Kevin once he has the water rights, Thornton rides a wagon up to the front door of Jason's saloon while Harrah, Bull and Mississippi sneak in the back. Once Bull gives a signal, Thornton opens fire, killing McLeod, while the rest free Saul. Joey shoots Jason, saving Thornton from being shot and making amends for her previous mistake. Doc Miller's new assistant Dr. Donovan agrees to operate on Thornton if he stays in town, and Thornton implies that he may stop wandering to stay with Maudie.

F/Y/I El Dorado is Spanish for "the golden," and is commonly associated with the legend of a gold city, kingdom, or empire purportedly located somewhere in the Americas. Originally, El

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Hombre Dorado, "The Golden Man," or El Rey Dorado, "The Golden King," was the term used by the Spanish in the 16th century to describe a mythical tribal chief or king of the Muisca people, an indigenous people of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of Colombia, who as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita.

A second location for El Dorado was inferred from rumors, which inspired several unsuccessful expeditions in the late 1500s in search of a city called Manoa on the shores of Lake Parime or Parima. Two of the most famous of these expeditions were led by Sir Walter Raleigh. In pursuit of the legend, Spanish conquistadores and numerous others searched what is today Colombia, Venezuela, and parts of Guyana and northern Brazil, for the city and its fabulous king. In the course of these explorations, much of northern South America, including the Amazon River, was mapped. By the beginning of the 19th century, most people dismissed the existence of the city as a myth.

The legend of the Seven Cities of Gold - Seven Cities of Cibola led to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's expedition of 1540 across the New Mexico territory. This became mixed with the stories of El Dorado, which was sometimes said to be one of the seven cities of gold.

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036 - The French Connection - Canal Zone, Panama The French Connection

In Panama a police detective follows Alain Charnier, who runs a large heroin smuggling syndicate. The policeman is murdered by Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli. Charnier plans to smuggle $32

million worth of heroin into the United States by hiding it in the car of his unsuspecting friend, television personality Henri Devereaux, who is traveling to New York by ship. In New York City, detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo go out for drinks at the Copacabana. Popeye notices Salvatore

"Sal" Boca and his young wife, Angie, entertaining mobsters involved in narcotics. They tail the couple and establish a link between the Bocas and lawyer Joel Weinstock, a major buyer in the narcotics underworld. Popeye learns that a massive shipment of heroin will arrive within two weeks. The detectives convince their supervisor to wiretap the Bocas' phones. Popeye and Cloudy are joined by federal agents Mulderig and Klein.

Devereaux's vehicle arrives in New York City. Boca is anxious to make the purchase while Weinstock urges patience, knowing they are being surveiled. Charnier realizes he is as well, "makes"

Popeye and escapes on a departing subway shuttle at Grand Central Station. To shake his tail, he has Boca meet him in

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Washington D.C., where Boca asks for a delay to avoid the police. Charnier is impatient and wants to conclude the deal quickly. On the flight back to New York City, Nicoli offers to kill Popeye, but Charnier objects, knowing that Popeye would be replaced by another policeman. Nicoli insists, however, saying they will be back in France before a replacement is assigned.

Soon after, Nicoli attempts to shoot Popeye but misses. Popeye chases Nicoli, who boards an elevated train. Popeye shouts to a policeman on the train to stop Nicoli and then commandeers a passenger car. He gives chase, accidentally crashing into several vehicles on the way.

Realizing he is being pursued, Nicoli works his way forward through the carriages, shoots the pursuing policeman who tries to intervene, and hijacks the motorman at gunpoint. He forces him to drive straight through the next station, and shoots the train conductor. The motorman passes out, and they are just about to slam into a stationary train when an emergency trackside brake engages, hurling the assassin violently to the floor. A battered Popeye arrives to see the killer descending from the platform. Nicoli sees Popeye, turns to run, but is shot dead. After a lengthy stakeout, Popeye impounds Devereaux's Lincoln. In a police garage, he and his team tear the car apart piece by piece searching for the drugs, but seemingly come up

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empty handed. Then Cloudy notes that the vehicle's shipping weight is 120 pounds over its listed manufacturer's weight, indicating that the contraband must still be in the car. Further search reveals heroin packages hidden inside the rocker panels.

The police reassemble and return the car to Devereaux, who delivers it to Charnier.

Charnier drives to an old factory on Wards Island to meet Weinstock and deliver the drugs. After Charnier has the rocker panel covers removed, Weinstock's chemist tests one of the bags and confirms its quality. Charnier removes the drugs and hides the money, concealing it inside the rocker panels of another car purchased at an auction of junk cars, which he will take back to France. Charnier and Sal drive off in the Lincoln, but hit a roadblock with a large contingent of police led by Popeye. The police chase the Lincoln back to the factory, where Boca is killed during a shootout while most of the other criminals surrender. Charnier escapes into a nearby warehouse with Popeye and Cloudy in pursuit. Popeye sees a shadowy figure in the distance and opens fire too late to heed a warning, killing Mulderig. Undaunted, Popeye tells Cloudy that he will get Charnier. After reloading his gun, Popeye runs into another room and a single gunshot is heard.

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Title cards describe the fates of various characters: Weinstock was indicted, but his case was dismissed for "lack of proper evidence"; Angie Boca received a suspended sentence for an unspecified misdemeanor; Lou Boca (Sal's brother, an accessory to the handoff) received a reduced sentence; Devereaux served four years in a federal penitentiary for conspiracy; and Charnier was never caught. Popeye and Cloudy were transferred out of the narcotics division and reassigned.

Can You Take Me Back?

The Beatles

Oh no brother, can you take me

Can you take me by the hand?

Oh brother, can you take me

Can you take me by the hand?

All you brother faith

Mmm, take me back

Can you take me, can you take me

Can you take me back?

Anybody, can you take me?

Can you take me back?

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Take me back to where I have come from

Oh take me back

I am happy here my honey

Can you take me back?

I ain't happy here my honey

Can you take me back?

Can you take me, can you take me

Can you take me back?

I ain't happy here honey, can you

Take me back?

Can you take me back where I came from?

Can you take me back?

Can you take me back where I came from?

Can you take me back?

Are you happy here honey, happy

Are you happy here?

I ain't happy here my honey

Can you take me back?

Can you take me back where I came from?

Can you take me back?

Can you take me back where I came from?

Can you take me back?

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Are you happy living here honey?

Honey are you happy living here?

I ain't happy living here baby

Honey can you take me back?

Can you take me back where I came from?

Can you take me back?

Can you take me back where I came from?

Brahma, can you take me back?

Can you take me back?

Mmm can you take me where I came from?

Can you take me back?

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

Sea of Joy

Blind Faith

Following the shadows of the skies

Or are they only figments of my eyes?

And I'm feeling close to when the race is run Waiting in our boats to set sail

Sea of joy

Once the door swings open into space

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And I'm already waiting in disguise

Is it just a thorn between my eyes?

Waiting in our boats to set sail

Sea of joy

Having trouble coming through

Through this concrete blocks my view

And it's all because of you

Oh, is it just a thorn between my eyes?

Waiting in our boats to set sail

Sea of joy

Sea of joy

Sea of joy

Sailing free

Sea of joy

Written by Stevie Winwood.

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037 - The Love-Ins – Tiburon, California The Love-Ins

The Love-Ins is a 1967 American counterculture era exploitation movie about LSD that was directed by Arthur Dreifuss.

The film is loosely based on the 1960s American figure Timothy Leary and represents the 1960s San Francisco scene, particularly the Haight-Ashbury district. The plot centers on a Leary-type figure becoming the head of a cult like following of hippies who all enjoy the effects of LSD. The production seems to be a typical representation of the producer Sam Katzman's work. It featured a number of different musical acts popular at the time.

The themes dealt with include drug use and martyrdom.

Legend of a Mind

The Moody Blues

Timothy Leary's dead

No, no, no, no, he's outside, looking in Timothy Leary's dead

No, no, no, no, he's outside, looking in

He'll fly his astral plane

Takes you trips around the bay

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Brings you back the same day

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary's dead

No, no, no, no, he's outside, looking in Timothy Leary's dead

No, no, no, no, he's outside, looking in

He'll fly his astral plane

Takes you trips around the bay

Brings you back the same day

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Along the coast you'll hear them boast

About a light they say that shines so clear So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier He'll take you up, he'll bring you down He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground He flies so high, he swoops so low

He knows exactly which way he's gonna go

Timothy Leary

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Timothy Leary

He'll take you up, he'll bring you down He'll plant your feet back on the ground He flies so high, he swoops so low

Timothy Leary

He'll fly his astral plane

He'll take you trips around the bay

He'll bring you back the same day

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Written by R. Thomas.

Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne, two students in a San Francisco school, become expelled for the publication of an off campus underground paper. As a result, a philosophy professor, Dr. Jonathon Barnett, resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and specifically the use of LSD. The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district, including Larry and Patricia, first see

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him as a hero and then as something more. Dr. Barnett makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to express his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD.

One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered on the use of LSD. He hopes to earn profit from the users and their lifestyles. Dr. Barnett's speeches are known as "happenings." At a massive LSD fueled dance, Patricia begins to have a bad trip which leads to an argument between her and Larry, ultimately splitting up the couple.

After Patricia realizes that she is pregnant, Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion, ultimately leading to her attempting suicide. However, Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective. Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches. As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization, Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement.

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038 - Easy Rider - Black Hills, South Dakota Easy Rider

Doc and Crazy Horse were freewheeling motorcyclists. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their haul and receive a large sum of money. With the cash stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars and Stripes painted fuel tank of Doc's California style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival.

Born to Be Wild

Steppenwolf

Get your motor runnin'

Head out on the highway

Looking for adventure

In whatever comes our way

Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

And explode into space

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I like smoke and lightnin'

Heavy metal thunder

Racing with the wind

And the feeling that I'm under

Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

And explode into space

Like a true nature's child

We were born

Born to be wild

We can climb so high

I never wanna die

Born to be wild

Born to be wild

Get your motor runnin'

Head out on the highway

Looking for adventure

In whatever comes our way

Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

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And explode into space

Like a true nature's child

We were born

Born to be wild

We can climb so high

I never wanna die

Born to be wild

Born to be wild

Written by Mars Bonfire.

During their trip, Doc and Crazy Horse stop to repair a flat tire on Doc's bike at a farmstead in Arizona and have a meal with the farmer and his family. Later, Doc picks up a hippie hitch hiker, and he invites them to visit his commune, where they stay for the rest of the day. The notion of "free love"

appears to be practiced, with two of the women, Lisa and Sarah, seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch hiking commune member before turning their attention to Doc and Crazy Horse. As the bikers leave, the hitch hiker gives Doc some LSD for him to share with "the right people."

Later, while riding along with a parade in New Mexico, the pair are arrested for "parading without a permit" and thrown in jail.

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There, they befriend lawyer George Hanson, who has spent the night in jail after overindulging in alcohol. After the mention of having done work for the ACLU along with other conversation, George helps them get out of jail and decides to travel with Doc and Crazy Horse to New Orleans. As they camp that night, Doc and Crazy Horse introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a

"square," George is reluctant to try it due to his fear of becoming "hooked" and it leading to worse drugs but quickly relents.

Stopping to eat at a small town Louisiana diner, the trio attracts the attention of the locals. The girls in the restaurant think they are exciting, but the local men and a police officer make denigrating comments and taunts. Doc, Crazy Horse, and George decide to leave without any fuss. They make camp outside town. In the middle of the night, a group of locals attack the sleeping trio, beating them with clubs. Crazy Horse screams and brandishes a knife, and the attackers leave. Doc and Crazy Horse suffer minor injuries, but George has been bludgeoned to death. Doc and Crazy Horse wrap George's body in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return the items to his family.

They continue to New Orleans and find a brothel George had told them about earlier in the film. Taking prostitutes Karen and

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Mary with them, Doc and Crazy Horse wander the parade filled streets of the Mardi Gras celebration. They end up in a French Quarter cemetery, where all four ingest the LSD the hitch hiker had given to Doc.

The next morning, as they are overtaken on a two lane country road by two local black men in an older pickup truck, the passenger in the truck reaches for a shotgun, saying he will scare them. As they pass Crazy Horse, the passenger fires, and Crazy Horse has a low side crash. The truck passes Doc who has stopped, and Doc rides back to Crazy Horse, finding him lying flat on the side of the road and covered in blood. Doc tells Crazy Horse he's going to get help and covers Crazy Horse's wound with his own leather jacket. Doc then rides down the road toward the pickup as it makes a U-turn. Passing in the opposite direction, the passenger fires the shotgun again, this time through the driver's side window. Doc's rider-less motorcycle flies through the air and comes apart before landing and becoming engulfed in flames.

Death Don't Have No Mercy

Hot Tuna

Well now death don't have no mercy

in this land

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Well now death don't have no mercy

in this land

He'll come to your house

and he won't stay long

Look 'round the room

one of your family will be gone

Death don't have no mercy

in this land

Death will leave you standin'

and cryin' in this land

Death will leave you standin'

and cryin' in this land

He'll come to your house

and he won't stay long

Look 'round the room

one of your family will be gone

Death don't have no mercy

in this land

Well death don't give you time

to get ready in this land

Well death don't give you time

to get ready in this land

He'll come to your house

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and he won't stay long

Look 'round the room

one of your mamas will be gone

Death don't have no mercy

in this land

Well now death don't have no mercy

in this land

Well now death don't have no mercy

in this land

He'll come to your house

and he won't stay long

Look 'round the room

one of your family will be gone

Death don't have no mercy

in this land

Written by Gary Davis .

Poverty Train

Laura Nyro

Last call for the poverty train

Last call for the poverty train, yeah

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It looks good and dirty

on shiny light strip

And if you don't get beat

you got yourself a trip

You can see the walls roar

see your brains on the floor

Become God, become crippled,

become funky and split

Why was I born

No, no, no, no

No, no, no, no

No, no, no, no

Oh baby, I just saw the devil

and he's smiling at me

I heard my bones cry devil

whys it got to be

Devil played with my brother,

devil drove my mother

Now all the tears in the gutter

are floodin' the sea

Why was I born

No, no, no, no

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No, no, no, no

No, no, no, no

Oh baby, it looks good and dirty

them shiny lights glow

A million night tramps tricks and tracks will come and go

You're starving today

but who care anyway

Baby it feels like I'm dyin’

Now I swear there's something better than Gettin' off on sweet cocaine

It feels so good, it feels so good

Gettin' off the poverty train

Morning

Written by Laura Nyro.

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039 - The Sound of Music –Salzburg, Austria The Sound of Music

Act I

In Salzburg, Austria, just before World War II, nuns from Nonnberg Abbey sing the Dixit Dominus. One of the postulants, Maria Rainer, is on the nearby mountainside, regretting leaving the beautiful hills ("The Sound of Music"). She returns late to the abbey where the Mother Abbess and the other nuns have been considering what to do about the free spirited ("Maria"). Maria explains her lateness, saying she was raised on that mountain, and apologizes for singing in the garden without permission. The Mother Abbess joins her in song ("My Favorite Things").

My Favorite Things

Julie Andrews

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels Doorbells and sleigh bells, and schnitzel with noodles

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Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver white winters that melt into springs These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites

When the bee stings

When I'm feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel so bad

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels Doorbells and sleigh bells, and schnitzel with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes

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Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver-white winters that melt into springs These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites

When the bee stings

When I'm feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel so bad

Written by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers.

The Mother Abbess tells her that she should spend some time outside the abbey to decide whether she is suited for the monastic life. She will act as the governess to the seven children of a widower, Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine Captain Georg von Trapp.

Maria arrives at the villa of Captain von Trapp. He explains her duties and summons the children with a boatswain's call. They march in, clad in uniforms. He teaches her their individual signals on the call, but she openly disapproves of this militaristic approach. Alone with them, she breaks through their wariness and teaches them the basics of music ("Do-Re-Mi").

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Rolf, a young messenger, delivers a telegram and then meets with the eldest child, Liesl, outside the villa. He claims he knows what is right for her because he is a year older than she ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen"). They kiss, and he runs off, leaving her squealing with joy. Meanwhile, the housekeeper, Frau Schmidt, gives Maria material to make new clothes, as Maria had given all her possessions to the poor. Maria sees Liesl slipping in through the window, wet from a sudden thunderstorm, but agrees to keep her secret. The other children are frightened by the storm. Maria sings "The Lonely Goatherd" to distract them.

Captain von Trapp arrives a month later from Vienna with Baroness Elsa Schrader and Max Detweiler. Elsa tells Max that something is preventing the Captain from marrying her. He opines that only poor people have the time for great romances ("How Can Love Survive"). Rolf enters, looking for Liesl, and greets them with "Heil." The Captain orders him away, saying that he is Austrian, not German. Maria and the children leapfrog in, wearing play clothes that she made from the old drapes in her room. Infuriated, the Captain sends them off to change. She tells him that the children need him to show his love for them, and he angrily orders her back to the abbey. As she apologizes, they hear the children singing "The Sound of Music," which she had taught them, to welcome Elsa Schrader. He joins in and

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embraces them. Alone with Maria, he asks her to stay, thanking her for bringing music back into his house. Elsa is suspicious of her until she explains that she will be returning to the abbey in September.

The Captain gives a party to introduce Elsa, and guests argue over the Anschluss; the Nazi German annexation of Austria. Kurt asks Maria to teach him to dance the Ländler. When he fails to negotiate a complicated figure, the Captain steps in to demonstrate. He and Maria dance until they come face to face; and she breaks away, embarrassed and confused. Discussing the expected marriage between Elsa and the Captain, Brigitta tells Maria that she thinks Maria and the Captain are really in love with each other. Elsa asks the Captain to allow the children to say goodnight to the guests with a song, "So Long, Farewell."

Max is amazed at their talent and wants them for the Kaltzberg Festival, which he is organizing. The guests leave for the dining room, and Maria slips out the front door with her luggage.

At the abbey, Maria says that she is ready to take her monastic vows; but the Mother Abbess realizes that she is running away from her feelings. She tells her to face the Captain and discover if they love each other, and tells her to search for

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and find the life she was meant to live ("Climb Ev'ry Mountain").

Act II

Max teaches the children how to sing on stage. When the Captain tries to lead them, they complain that he is not doing it as Maria did. He tells them that he has asked Elsa to marry him.

They try to cheer themselves up by singing "My Favorite Things"

but are unsuccessful until they hear Maria singing on her way to rejoin them. Learning of the wedding plans, she decides to stay only until the Captain can arrange for another governess. Max and Elsa argue with the Captain about the imminent Anschluss, trying to convince him that it is inevitable ("No Way to Stop It"). When he refuses to compromise on his opposition to it, Elsa breaks off the engagement. Alone, the Captain and Maria finally admit their love, desiring only to be "An Ordinary Couple." As they marry, the nuns reprise "Maria" against the wedding processional.

While Maria and the Captain are on their honeymoon, Max prepares the children to perform at the Kaltzberg Festival. Herr Zeller, the Gauleiter of the region, demands to know why they are not flying the Flag of Nazi Germany now that the Anschluss has occurred. The Captain and Maria return early from their

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honeymoon before the Festival. In view of the Nazi German occupation, the Captain decides the children should not sing at the event. Max argues that they would sing for Austria, but the Captain points out that it no longer exists. Maria and Liesl discuss romantic love; Maria predicts that in a few years Liesl will be married ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Reprise)"). Rolf enters with a telegram that offers the Captain a commission in the German Navy, and Liesl is upset to discover that Rolf is now a committed Nazi. The Captain consults Maria and decides that they must secretly flee Austria. German Admiral von Schreiber arrives to find out why Captain von Trapp has not answered the telegram. He explains that the German Navy holds him in high regard, offers him the commission, and tells him to report immediately to Bremerhaven to assume command. Maria says that he cannot leave immediately, as they are all singing in the Festival concert; and the Admiral agrees to wait.

At the concert, after the von Trapps sing an elaborate reprise of "Do-Re-Mi", Max brings out the Captain's guitar. Captain von Trapp sings "Edelweiss," as a goodbye to his homeland, while using Austria's national flower as a symbol to declare his loyalty to the country. Max asks for an encore and announces that this is the von Trapp family's last chance to sing together, as the honor guard waits to escort the Captain to his

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new command. While the judges decide on the prizes, the von Trapps sing "So Long, Farewell" (reprise), leaving the stage in small groups. Max then announces the runners up, stalling as much as possible. When he announces that the first prize goes to the von Trapps and they do not appear, the Nazis start a search.

The family hides at the Abbey, and Sister Margaretta tells them that the borders have been closed. Rolf comes upon them and calls his lieutenant, but after seeing Liesl he changes his mind and tells him they aren't there. The Nazis leave, and the von Trapps flee over the Alps as the nuns reprise "Climb Ev'ry Mountain".

Musical Numbers

Act I

"Preludium" – Mother Abbess with Nuns

"The Sound of Music" – Maria

"Maria" – Sister Berthe, Sister Sophia, Sister Margaretta, and the Mother Abbess

"My Favorite Things" – Maria and the Mother Abbess

"My Favorite Things" (reprise 1) – Maria

"Do-Re-Mi" – Maria and the children

"Sixteen Going on Seventeen" – Rolf and Liesl

"The Lonely Goatherd" – Maria and the children

"The Lonely Goatherd" (reprise) – Gretl

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"How Can Love Survive" – Max and Elsa

"The Sound of Music" (reprise) – Maria, the Captain and the children

"Ländler" (instrumental)

"So Long, Farewell" – The children

"Morning Hymn" – Nuns

"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" – Mother Abbess Act II

"My Favorite Things" (reprise 2) – Maria and the children

"No Way to Stop It" – Elsa, Max and the Captain

"An Ordinary Couple" – Maria and the Captain †

"Gaudeamus Domino" – Nuns

"Maria" (reprise) – Nuns

"Confitemini Domino" – Nuns

"Sixteen Going on Seventeen" (reprise) – Maria and Liesl

"Do-Re-Mi" (reprise) – Maria, the Captain, and the children ‡

"Edelweiss" – The Captain

"So Long, Farewell" (reprise) – Maria, the Captain, and the children

"Finale Ultimo" (reprise of "Clim

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040 - 2001; A Space Odyssey – Houston, Texas 2001; A Space Odyssey

In a prehistoric grassy field, a tribe of hominids is driven away from its water hole by a rival tribe. The next day, they find an alien monolith has appeared in their midst. The tribe then learns how to use a bone as a weapon and after their first hunt, return to drive their rivals away with it.

Millions of years later, Doctor Heywood Floyd, Chairman of the United States National Council of Astronautics, travels to Clavius Base, an American lunar outpost. During a stopover at Space Station 5, he meets Russian scientists who are concerned that Clavius seems to be unresponsive. He refuses to discuss rumors of an epidemic at the base. At Clavius, Heywood addresses a meeting of personnel to whom he stresses the need for secrecy regarding their newest discovery. His mission is to investigate a recently found artifact, a monolith buried four million years earlier near the lunar crater Tycho. As he and others examine the object and are taking photographs, it emits a high powered radio signal.

Eighteen months later, the American spacecraft Discovery One is bound for Jupiter, with mission pilots and scientists Doctor Dave Bowman and Doctor Frank Poole on board, along with three

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other scientists in suspended animation. Most of Discovery's operations are controlled by HAL, a HAL 9000 computer with a human-like personality. When HAL reports the imminent failure of an antenna control device, Dave retrieves it in an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) pod, but finds nothing wrong. HAL

suggests reinstalling the device and letting it fail so the problem can be verified. Mission Control advises the astronauts that results from their backup 9000 computer indicate that HAL

has made an error, but HAL blames it on human error. Concerned about HAL's behavior, Dave and Frank enter an EVA pod so they can talk in private without HAL overhearing. They agree to disconnect HAL if he is proven wrong. HAL follows their conversation by lip reading.

While Frank is outside the ship to replace the antenna unit, HAL

takes control of his pod, setting him adrift. Dave takes another pod to rescue Frank. While he is outside, HAL turns off the life support functions of the crewmen in suspended animation, killing them. When Dave returns to the ship with Frank's corpse, HAL

refuses to let him back in, stating that their plan to deactivate him jeopardizes the mission. Dave releases Frank's body and opens one of the ship's airlocks with his remote manipulators. He positions his pod carefully so that when he opens the pod's airlock, he is propelled by the escaping air

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across the vacuum into Discovery's airlock, despite not having a spacesuit helmet. He goes to HAL's processor core and begins disconnecting most of HAL's circuits, despite HAL's pleas not to. When he is finished, a prerecorded video by Heywood plays, revealing that the mission's actual objective is to investigate the radio signal sent from the monolith to Jupiter.

At Jupiter, Dave finds a third, much larger monolith orbiting the planet. He leaves Discovery in an EVA pod to investigate. He is pulled into a vortex of colored light and observes bizarre astronomical phenomena and strange landscapes of unusual colors as he passes by. Finally he finds himself in a large neoclassical bedroom where he sees, and then becomes, older versions of himself: first standing in the bedroom, middle aged and still in his spacesuit, then dressed in leisure attire and eating dinner, and finally as an old man lying in bed. A monolith appears at the foot of the bed, and as Dave reaches for it, he is transformed into a fetus enclosed in a transparent orb of light floating in space above the Earth.

Space Baby

The Tubes

Space baby, you got no planet

Space baby, you got no planet

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Got no home to give a name

No air to breathe, but just the same

I dig my atmosphere machine

Space baby, you been so far

Unknown face on an unknown star

The time is now my life's begun

I'm burnin' green like a rhomboid sun

I've never seen a flower grow

It's a mystery to me just how my being came To be and why it came here

Maybe I'm not even human but I know

There's lots of room in infinity

There's got to be a time and place

For me to cease this endless search

And settle down with my own race

And never, ever, ever be a Space Baby

Written by Vince Welnick, Bill Spooner, and Mike Carpenter.

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041 - The Acid Eaters – Arcata, California The Acid Eaters

Middle class office workers Genna, Chickie, and Fran leave work on Friday afternoon and become weekend bikers, accompanied to a lake in the Californian countryside by Smiley, Ollie, and Artie.

They go for a topless swim, dance, party and play strip poker.

There they meet a girl called “Girl” who flirts with their men and fights with the girls.

Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)

Laura Nyro

"Farmer Joe, I’m the meanest woman you know

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Woman you know", she said

Farmer Joe, I’m the meanest woman, you know Woman you know

I let you slide about an hour ago, now

Farmer boy, get your gun, run, run, run Farmer boy, get your gun, run,

run, run, run, run, run

Farmer boy, get your gun, run, run, run Farmer boy, get your gun and run, run, run Like a son of a gun from love

Running from the mind reader,

run baby, run

Got a date with the town shoe maker

you know, baby you know

She said, "I can’t wait for your cornfields to grow, baby to grow"

Whoa, baby, whoa baby, give my bags

and let the good wind blow

Give my bags and let the good wind blow Give my bags and let the good wind blow I’ve got to see about a man I know

Fire, flames of gold rush my mind

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Fire, flames of gold rush my mind

Sock it to the railroad, baby

Baby, there’s a train whistle coming

Baby, there’s a train whistle coming

Once it was alright, alright, baby

Once it was alright, alright, baby

Once it was alright, alright, no

Written by Laura Nyro.

She eventually falls through some quicksand and ends up in hell.

Finally, the group “freak out” on and in “the White Pyramid,” a 50 foot tower of LSD.

In fantasy segments, a guy has sex with his neighbor and Pat Barrington dances topless while a guy plays the bongos.

My Generation

The Who

People try to put us d-down

Talkin' 'bout my generation

Just because we get around

Talkin' 'bout my generation

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Things they do look awful c-c-cold

Talkin' 'bout my generation

I hope I die before I get old

Talkin' 'bout my generation

This is my generation

This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away

Talkin' 'bout my generation

And don't try dig what we all s-s-say

Talkin' 'bout my generation

I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation Talkin' 'bout my generation

I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation Talkin' 'bout my generation

My generation

This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away

Talkin' 'bout my generation

And don't try d-dig what we all s-s-say Talkin' 'bout my generation

I'm not trying to cause a big sensation Talkin' 'bout my generation

I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-generation

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Talkin' 'bout my generation

This is my generation

This is my generation, baby

My, my g-generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

People try to put us d-down

Talkin' 'bout my generation

Just because we g-g-get around

Talkin' 'bout my generation

Things they do look awful c-c-cold

Talkin' 'bout my generation

Yeah, I hope I die before I get old

Talkin' 'bout my generation

This is my generation

This is my generation, baby

My, my, my, my, my generation

Generation

Talkin' 'bout my generation

Talkin' about

Talkin' 'bout my generation

My generation

Talkin' 'bout my generation

My generation

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Talkin' 'bout my generation

This is my generation, baby

Talkin' 'bout my generation

This is my generation

Talkin' 'bout my generation

Generation

Talkin' 'bout my generation

This is my generation

Talkin' 'bout my generation

This is my generation

Written by Pete Townshend.

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Comic actor Buck Kartalian dominates things as Artie and also shows up with a pitchfork as the devil, who shows the others how to smoke pot and gives them huge cubes of LSD.

Filmed in “psychedelic color”, The Acid Eaters is one of the most fascinatingly surreal cash ins on the peace and love generation made by people with obviously zero connections to the scene. It makes Skidoo - 1968 look like Easy Rider - 1969.

It’s an impossibly surreal film that follows no normal laws of narrative cinema. The trips to hell are unforgettable, as is the final orgy freak out.

This film screams for a wider cult reputation than it has received.

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042 - A Clockwork Orange – Surrey, England, UK

A Clockwork Orange

In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of

"droogs," not-too-bright Georgie, Dim and Pete. One night, after getting intoxicated on drug laden "milk-plus," they engage in an evening of "ultra-violence," which includes a fight with a rival gang. They drive to the country home of writer Frank Alexander and trick his wife into letting them inside. They beat Alexander to the point of crippling him. After making light of the Alexander’s pornographic “art” decorations, Alex violently rapes Alexander's wife while singing "Singin' in the Rain." The next day, while truant from school, Alex is approached by his probation officer, PR Deltoid, who is aware of Alex's activities and cautions him.

Alex's droogs express discontent with petty crime and want more equality and high yield thefts, but Alex asserts his authority by attacking them. Later, Alex invades the home of a wealthy

"cat-lady" and bludgeons her with a phallic sculpture while his droogs remain outside. On hearing sirens, Alex tries to flee, but Dim smashes a bottle in his face, stunning Alex and leaving him to be arrested. Deltoid brings word that the woman has died

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of her injuries, and Alex is convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Two years into the sentence, Alex eagerly takes up an offer to be a test subject for the Minister of the Interior's new Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals within two weeks. Alex is strapped to a chair, his eyes are clamped open, and he is injected with drugs.

He is then forced to watch films of sex and violence, some of which are accompanied by the music of his favorite composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex becomes nauseated by the films and, fearing the technique will make him sick upon hearing Beethoven, begs for an end to the treatment.

Two weeks later, the Minister demonstrates Alex's rehabilitation to a gathering of officials. Alex is unable to fight back against an actor who taunts and attacks him and becomes ill upon seeing a topless woman. The prison chaplain complains that Alex has been robbed of his free will. The Minister asserts that the Ludovico technique will cut crime and alleviate crowding in prisons.

Alex is released from prison, only to find that the police have sold his possessions to provide compensation to his victims and his parents have let out his room. Alex encounters an elderly

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vagrant whom he attacked years earlier, and the vagrant and his friends attack him. Alex is saved by two policemen but is shocked to find they are his former droogs Dim and Georgie. They drive him to the countryside, beat him, and nearly drown him before abandoning him. Alex barely makes it to the doorstep of a nearby home before collapsing.

Alex wakes up to find himself in the home of Mr. Alexander, who is now using a wheelchair. Alexander does not recognize Alex from the previous attack, but knows of him and the Ludovico technique from the newspapers. He sees Alex as a political weapon and prepares to present him to his colleagues. While bathing, Alex breaks into "Singin' in the Rain," causing Alexander to realize that Alex was the person who assaulted his wife and him. With help from his colleagues, Alexander drugs Alex and locks him in an upstairs bedroom. He then plays Beethoven's Ninth Symphony loudly from the floor below. Unable to withstand the sickening pain, Alex attempts suicide by jumping out of the window.

Alex survives the attempt and wakes up in hospital with multiple injuries. While being given a series of psychological tests, he finds that he no longer has aversions to violence and sex. The Minister arrives and apologizes to Alex. He informs Alex that the government has had Mr. Alexander institutionalized. He

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offers to take care of Alex and get him a job in return for his co-operation with his election campaign and public relations counter-offensive. As a sign of goodwill, the Minister brings in a stereo system playing Beethoven's Ninth. Alex then contemplates violence and has vivid thoughts of having sex with a woman in front of an approving crowd, thinking to himself, "I was cured, all right!"

50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain

Ten Years After

I want to know you

I want to show you

I want to grow you

Inside of me

I want to see you

I want to free you

I want to be you

Inside of me

Love me 50,000 miles beneath my brain

Love me 50,000 times and then again

Can you love me with a thousand eyes?

Can you see right through my bones?

Can you kiss me with a thousand lips?

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Can you melt a solid stone?

Can you hear me from a thousand miles

When you're screaming at the stars?

Can you pull me up to Jupiter

When I'm all hung up on Mars?

Burn my eyes with your flame

Let your world spin free

Let it go, baby

I'll do the same

All depends on me

Let it go

It's all the same

What with jewels that you can't see

Love me, love me, love me,

love me, love me, babe

Bring it on home to me

Written by Alvin Lee.

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043 - The Passenger – Moundou, Chad

The Passenger

David Locke is a disaffected television journalist in northern Chad, looking to interview rebel fighters who are involved in the ongoing civil war. Struggling to find interviewees, he is further frustrated when his Land Rover gets stuck in a sand dune after being abandoned by guides. After a long walk through the Sahara back to his hotel, an exhausted Locke discovers that a fellow guest, Robertson, an Englishman with whom he had struck up a casual friendship, died in his room overnight. Locke decides to switch identities with Robertson and reports his own death at the front desk, the plan going off without a hitch.

Locke collects Robertson's belongings, which include a pistol, an appointment book and passport. He alters the passport to carry his own photo.

Third World Man

Steely Dan

Johnny's playroom

Is a bunker filled with sand

He's become a third world man

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Smoky Sunday

He's been mobilized since dawn

Now he's crouching on the lawn

He's a third world man

Soon you'll throw down your disguise

We'll see behind those bright eyes

By and by when the sidewalks are safe

For the little guy

I saw the fireworks

I believed that I was dreaming

'Til the neighbors came out screaming

He's a third world man

Soon you'll throw down your disguise

We'll see behind those bright eyes

By and by when the sidewalks are safe

For the little guy

When he's crying out

I just sing that Ghana rondo

E l'era del terzo mondo

He's a third world man

He's a third world man

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He's a third world man

Written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

In London, Locke's unfaithful wife Rachel becomes guilt ridden when she learns of her husband's "death." She approaches his friend, a BBC producer named Martin, in an attempt to track down Robertson and learn about Locke's purported last days.

Meanwhile, Locke, having flown to Munich, finds an airport locker which contains a folder with a price list and several photocopied pages illustrating armaments. Apparently acting on a whim, he follows a white horse and carriage to a wedding in a baroque chapel, where he waits at the back of the congregation.

Once the wedding has finished, two men who were observing Locke at the airport confront him and ask for "the documents." After Locke hands them the papers from the locker, they give him an envelope of money and tell him that the second half is to be paid in Barcelona. It becomes apparent that Robertson was an arms dealer for the same rebels whom Locke had been trying to contact in Chad.

In Barcelona, Locke spots Martin, who is trying to find Robertson. Locke encounters an architecture student, credited only as “The Girl,” while trying to hide in a Gaudi building,

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Palau Güell. Later at La Pedrera, another Gaudi building, Locke asks The Girl to fetch his belongings from the hotel so that he will not be seen there by Martin, who is watching the lobby.

Martin overhears her speak when she is collecting the baggage and confronts her outside, demanding that she take him to meet Robertson. She suggests that he follow her in a taxi, but she manages to lose him. She and Locke leave Barcelona and become lovers whilst on the run. Flush with cash from the down payment on the arms he cannot deliver, Locke is nevertheless drawn to keep a meeting scheduled in Robertson's diary. His appointed contact, however, does not show up. Meanwhile, the men arranging the arms deal are abducted, interrogated and beaten by hitmen operating for the Chadian government.

Rachel receives Locke's belongings, returned from Africa. Having heard from Martin of his unsuccessful chase in Barcelona, Rachel is shocked as she opens Locke's passport to find Robertson's photo pasted inside. As she heads to Spain to find Locke, the hitmen trail her. Rachel gets help from the Spanish police in her pursuit, but Locke and The Girl continue to flee. With their getaway car damaged, Locke sends The Girl away, instructing her to meet him three days later in Tangiers. Virtually trapped, Locke checks into a hotel in the Spanish town of Osuna, where he finds that The Girl has returned and booked a double room posing

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as Mrs. Robertson. He again tries to persuade her to leave. She exits the hotel and dawdles around the dusty square outside, wanting to return to him. Locke stares out the window and views a montage of goings on which poetically corresponds to an abstract art film. Soon the hitmen arrive at the hotel and depart just before the police arrive with Rachel. The Girl joins the latter group, who find Locke dead in his room. Asked by the police whether they recognize him, Rachel says that she never knew him, but The Girl says, "Yes."

Get Me to the World on Time

The Electric Prunes

Here I go (higher, higher)

Here I go (higher, higher)

Here I go, go, go, go, go!

You gotta get me to the world on time

You gotta get me to the world on time

The minute you walk in the room

I break into a sweat

My hands begin to shake so bad

I can't light my cigarrette

Then you start walkin' towards me

And my cool comes all undone

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If I could get my feet to move

I'd turn around and run

My pulse is beatin' faster

And I'm headin' for disaster

Here I go (higher, higher)

Here I go (higher, higher)

Here I go!

Get me to the world on time

You gotta get me to the world on time

One kiss from you

And my whole body starts to actin' strange You shake up all my hormones,

You put me through a change

This chemical reaction isn't easy to refine You drive me to distraction,

You disturb my peace of mind

You got me spinning like a top now

And I don't know how to stop now

Is this what loves all about

Lately I feel so without

Wild sensations

Sweet frustrations

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You get me goin'

And theres no slowin' me down

Here I go!

Whoa here I go, go!

Whoa, Here I go, go, go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!

Written by Jones and Tucker.

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044 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Burlington, Vermont

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

In the autumn of 1963, Randle McMurphy is on an Oregon work farm for the statutory rape of a 15 year old girl. He pretends to be insane in order to get himself transferred to a mental institution and avoid hard labor. The ward is dominated by head nurse Mildred Ratched, a cold, passive-aggressive tyrant who intimidates her patients.

The other patients include young, anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit; Charlie Cheswick, who is prone to temper tantrums; dim-witted, child-like Martini; the articulate, repressed homosexual Dale Harding; belligerent and profane Max Taber; epileptics Jim Sefelt and Bruce Fredrickson; quiet but violent minded Scanlon; tall, deaf-mute Native American "Chief" Bromden; and several others with chronic conditions.

Ratched sees McMurphy's lively, rebellious presence as a threat to her authority, which she responds to by confiscating and rationing the patients' cigarettes and suspending their card playing privileges. McMurphy finds himself in a battle of wills against Ratched. He steals a school bus, escaping with several

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patients to go fishing on the Pacific Coast and encouraging them to discover their own abilities and find self-confidence.

After an orderly tells him that his prison sentence no longer applies to him since he has been committed, McMurphy makes plans to escape with Chief. He also learns that he, Chief, and Taber are the only non-chronic patients who have been involuntarily committed. The others have committed themselves and may leave at any time, but are too afraid to do so. After Cheswick bursts into a fit and demands his cigarettes from Ratched, McMurphy starts a fight with the orderlies and Chief intervenes to help him.

McMurphy, Chief, and Cheswick are sent to the Disturbed Ward after the fight, and Chief inadvertently reveals to McMurphy that he can speak and hear normally. He has feigned deaf-muteness to avoid engaging with anyone, remembering the way in which alcoholism destroyed his father's life. After being subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, McMurphy returns to the ward pretending to be brain damaged, but then reveals that the treatment has made him even more determined to defeat Ratched.

McMurphy and Chief make plans to escape, but decide to throw a secret Christmas party for their friends after Ratched and the orderlies leave for the night.

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McMurphy sneaks two prostitutes, Candy and Rose, and bottles of alcohol into the ward and bribes night orderly Turkle to allow the party. Afterward, McMurphy and Chief prepare to escape, inviting Billy to come with them. Billy refuses, but asks for a

"date" with Candy, and McMurphy arranges for him to have sex with her. McMurphy and the others get drunk, and McMurphy falls asleep instead of making his escape with Chief.

Ratched arrives in the morning to find the ward in disarray and most of the patients passed out. She discovers Billy and Candy together, and aims to embarrass Billy in front of everyone.

Billy manages to overcome his stutter and stands up to Ratched.

When she threatens to tell his mother, Billy cracks under the pressure and reverts to stuttering. Ratched has him placed in the doctor's office. Moments later, McMurphy punches an orderly when trying to escape out of a window with the Chief, causing the other orderlies to intervene. Meanwhile, Billy commits suicide by slitting his throat with broken glass. Ratched tries to ease the situation by calling for the day's routine to continue as usual, and an enraged McMurphy strangles Ratched.

The orderlies subdue McMurphy, saving Ratched's life.

Some time later, Ratched is wearing a neck brace and speaking with a weak voice, and Harding now leads the now unsuspended card playing. McMurphy is nowhere to be found, leading to rumors

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that he has escaped. Later that night, Chief sees McMurphy being returned to his bed. Chief greets him, elated that McMurphy had kept his promise not to escape without him, but discovers that McMurphy has been lobotomized. After tearfully hugging McMurphy, Chief smothers him to death with a pillow. He then tears a hydrotherapy console free of its floor mountings, throws it through a window, and escapes as Taber and the other inmates awaken and cheer for him.

Psychotic Reaction

Count Five

I feel depressed, I feel so bad

'Cause you're the best girl that I've ever had I can't get your love, I can't get a fraction Oh, little girl, psychotic reaction

And it feels like this

I feel so lonely night and day

I can't get your love, I must stay away Well, I need you, girl, by my side

Oh, little girl, would you like to take a ride now?

I can't get your love, I can't get satisfaction Oh, little girl, psychotic reaction

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Written by John Michalski, John Byrne, Roy Chaney, Ken Ellner, and Byron Atkinson.

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045 - Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Manhattan, NYC, NY

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Early one morning, a taxi pulls up in front of the Tiffany and Co. flagship Fifth Avenue store and from it emerges elegantly dressed Holly Golightly, carrying a paper bag containing her breakfast. After looking into the store's window displays, she strolls to her apartment and has to fend off her date from the night before.

Moon River

Audrey Hepburn

Moon River, wider than a mile

I'm crossing you in style some day

Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker

Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world

There's such a lot of world to see

We're after the same rainbow's end

Waitin' 'round the bend

My huckleberry friend

Moon River and me

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Written by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini.

Once inside, Holly cannot find her keys, so she buzzes her landlord, Mr. Yunioshi, to let her in. Later, she is awakened by new neighbor Paul Varjak, who rings her doorbell to get into the building. The pair chat as she dresses to leave for her weekly visit to mobster Sally Tomato, who is currently incarcerated at Sing Sing. Tomato's lawyer pays her $100 a week to deliver "the weather report."

As she is leaving, Holly is introduced to Paul's "decorator,"

wealthy older woman Emily Eustace Failenson, whom Paul nicknames

"2E." That night, when Holly goes out onto the fire escape to elude an over eager date, she peeks into Paul's apartment and sees 2E leaving money and kissing him goodbye.

Visiting Paul afterward, she learns he is a writer who has not had anything published since a book of vignettes five years before. Holly, in turn, explains she is trying to save money to support her brother Fred after he completes his Army service.

The pair fall asleep but are awakened when Holly has a nightmare about her brother. When Paul questions her about this, Holly chides him for prying.

Holly later buys Paul a typewriter ribbon to apologize and invites him to a wild party at her apartment. There, he meets

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her Hollywood agent, who describes Holly's transformation from a country girl into a Manhattan socialite, along with wealthy Brazilian politician José da Silva Pereira, and Rusty Trawler, the "ninth richest man in America under 50."

Some time later, 2E enters Paul's apartment, worried about someone loitering outside the building. Paul confronts the man who explains he is Holly's husband, Doc Golightly. They married when she was 14, but she ran away, and he's come to bring her back to rural Texas. After Paul reunites Holly and Doc, she informs Paul that the marriage was annulled. At the Greyhound bus station, she tells Doc that he made a mistake in "trying to love a wild thing" and he leaves broken hearted.

After drinking at a club, Paul and Holly return to her apartment, where she drunkenly tells him that she plans to marry Trawler for his money. A few days later, Paul learns that one of his short stories will be published. On the way to tell Holly, he sees a newspaper headline stating that Trawler has married someone else.

Holly and Paul agree to spend the day together, taking turns doing things each has never done before. At Tiffany's, he has the ring from Doc Golightly's box of Cracker Jacks engraved as a present for her. After spending the night together, Paul awakens

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to find Holly gone. When 2E arrives, he ends their affair. She calmly accepts, having earlier concluded that he was in love with someone.

Holly now schemes to move to Brazil and marry José for his money. She receives a telegram notifying her of her brother's death in a jeep accident, and trashes her apartment in grief.

Later she gets arrested in connection with Sally Tomato's drug ring, and spends the night in jail.

The next day, Hollywood friend O.J. Berman pays Holly's bail, and Paul picks her up from jail in a cab. He explains that José has ended their relationship due to her arrest, but Holly says she will go to Brazil anyway. Paul says he loves her, but she says she is not going to let anyone put her in a cage. He says she is just afraid, and that being in love is the only chance anybody has got for real happiness. He storms out of the cab, tossing the engraved ring into her lap. She hesitates at first, but eventually runs after him, and they embrace.

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046 - Band of Outsiders - Joinville, France

“Bande à Part” is a 1964 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was released as “Band of Outsiders” in North America. Its French title derives from the phrase faire bande à part, which means "to do something apart from the group." The film is about three people who commit a robbery. It received positive critical reviews, and its dance scene has been referenced several times in popular culture.

A young woman named Odile meets a man named Franz in an English language class. She has told him of a large pile of money stashed in the villa where she lives with her aunt Victoria and Mr. Stolz in Joinville, a Parisian suburb. Franz tells his friend Arthur of the money, and the two make a plan to steal it.

Franz and Arthur go to the English class, where Arthur flirts with Odile and asks her about the money. Odile goes home and finds the money in Stolz's room. She then meets Franz and Arthur, and they go to a café, order drinks, and dance in a laconic, perfuncory, bored way. Odile tells Arthur that she loves him, and the two go back to his place and spend the night together.

Lo and Beholden

Patti Smith

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I was alone and content in my world

Dancing on air

You sent to me a message that said

I like your style

Will you come to the temple tonight

And dance for me there

I pledge to you all that you wish

The moon and the stars

Lo and beholden

Why don't you give it up

Lo and beholden Come on you know it's true Lo and beholden

Oh I'm beholden to you

In the palace there was wild reverie

And the look in your eyes

As I dropped veil after veil

With drunken desire

The dove calls and God notes it all

The naked truth

Here is my veil the seventh and last

It will cost you

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Lo and beholden

Why don't you give it up

Lo and beholden

Come on you know it's true

Lo and beholden

Oh I'm beholden to you

The royal word has passed

The prophet's head is all I ask

For beauty and the naked truth

It will cost you

Lo and beholden

Why don't you give it up

Lo and beholden

Come on you know it's true

Lo and beholden

Oh I'm beholden to you

Written by Patricia Lee Smith and Leonard J Kaye.

The next day, Arthur's uncle learns of the money and wants a cut of it. Franz, Arthur, and Odile decide to commit the robbery sooner than they planned. The three meet up and run through the Louvre in record time. That night, they go to Odile's house and

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find that the door to Stolz's room is locked. Arthur tells Odile to find the key. Franz and Arthur return to the house the following night, and Odile tells them that the locks have been changed. They tie and gag Victoria, before locking her in a closet. Then, they go to Stolz's room and see that the money is not there anymore. They search the house and find only a small amount of cash. When they open the closet to interrogate Victoria, she appears to be dead. Franz and Odile leave, and Arthur stays behind.

While driving away, Franz and Odile see Arthur's uncle heading to the villa, and they go back. They then see that Arthur has found the rest of the money in a doghouse. Arthur and his uncle get into a shootout and kill each other. Stolz returns to the house, and Victoria is shown to be alive. Franz and Odile drive off with the small stack of money from the robbery. They flee to South America and realize that they love each other.

“Bande à Part” was directed by Jean Luc Godard and was filmed in 25 days. Godard described it as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka." The film is an adaptation of the 1958 novel “Fools'

Gold” by American author Dolores Hitchens.

“Bande à Part” has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 52

reviews, with an average rating of 7.98/10. The website's

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critical consensus calls the film "an oddball heist movie with a dark streak that picks apart every rule in filmmaking." Film critic Pauline Kael described Bande à part as "a reverie of a gangster movie" and "perhaps Godard's most delicately charming film." According to critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, the film's outward charm contrasts with how sad it is, saying; "’Band Of Outsiders’ contains some of the medium's most sublime images of the anything goes possibility of youth, but it also captures the hopelessness and loneliness of being young with nothing to do.

Whether they're planning a crime or performing an impromptu dance routine, the trio is mostly motivated by boredom, and everything carries a tinge of personal darkness."

“Bande à Part” is often considered one of Godard's most accessible films. Critic Amy Taubin called it "a Godard film for people who don't much care for Godard." Its accessibility has endeared the film to a broader audience. “Bande à Part” was ranked No. 79 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010.

In tribute, Quentin Tarantino named his film production company

"A Band Apart." It was also Tarantino's favorite Godard film.

Memorable scenes

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When Franz, Arthur, and Odile are in a crowded café, Arthur and Odile decide to dance. Franz joins them as they perform a dance routine. The music is R&B or soul music composed for the film by Michel Legrand, but Anna Karina said the actors called it "the Madison dance," alluding to a novelty dance of the time. The Madison scene influenced the dance scene with Uma Thurman and John Travolta in Tarantino's “Pulp Fiction” - 1994. It also influenced scenes in Hal Hartley's “Simple Men” - 1992 and Martin Hynes' “The Go Getter” - 2007. In Roger Michell's “Le Week End” - 2013, the principal characters see the dance scene on a TV screen in their Paris hotel room and briefly dance along with it. The final scene of the movie is a longer reenactment in a café after one of the characters plays the music on a jukebox.

In "The Gentlemen's Wager", a 2014 short film made to promote Johnnie Walker whiskey, Jude Law and a group of dancers perform the Madison dance in order to win a bet. Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, and Rome Kanda perform the dance in "Exactly Like You," the fifth episode of the 2018 Netflix series “Maniac.” The entire dance scene was also used as the music video for the song "Dance with Me" by Nouvelle Vague from their album Bande à Part - 2006.

The group took their name from a scene in the film, where Arthur and Odile are walking on a street and pass an emporium with Nouvelle Vague; New Wave or New Trend, in large letters over the door.

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In a later scene, Franz, Arthur, and Odile attempt to break the world record for running through the Louvre museum. The narrator informs viewers that their time was 9 minutes and 43 seconds, which broke the record set by Jimmy Johnson of San Francisco at 9 minutes and 45 seconds. The Louvre scene is referenced in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1968 based 2003 film “The Dreamers,” in which its characters break the Louvre record.

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047 - Fellini’s Casanova – Stromboli, Sicily, Italy Fellini’s Casanova

Casanova visits one of Venice's islands to copulate with a fake nun for the pleasure of a rich voyeur. Casanova is frustrated that the man finds no interest in his research into alchemy and his further scheming. As he rows back to the mainland, Casanova is arrested, judged and imprisoned by the High Court over his famed debauchery.

During his time in prison, Casanova reminisces of his affairs with a dressmaker and later on with one of her junior employees, Anna Maria, who suffers from frequent fainting and requires constant bloodletting. Casanova escapes the prison through the roof and exiles himself from Venice, being taken into the Paris court of Madame d'Urfé. The Madame, an aged woman, enthralled by Casanova's apparent knowledge of alchemy, wishes to transform her soul into a man's through ritualistic intercourse with him.

Fortuitously, Casanova encounters his brother, whose girlfriend he entices away.

Casanova then moves to the court of a hunchback, Du Bois, in between taking charge of a beautiful girl, Henriette. The lovers vow fidelity to each other, but the following morning Henriette has disappeared. Du Bois informs Casanova that an emissary of a

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faraway court has reclaimed Henriette, and she has requested that Casanova not attempt to follow her.

While in London, Casanova is robbed by two women and he attempts suicide by drowning himself in the Thames. A vision of a giantess and two dwarves distracts him. He follows them to a frost fair, where he arm wrestles the giantess, a princess, and later pays to watch her bathe with the dwarves.

Casanova attends a deranged party at Lord Talou's palace in Rome, where he wins a bet over how many orgasms he can have in one hour. In Switzerland he falls in love with an alchemist's daughter, Isabella, who fails to keep an appointment to go to Dresden with him. Casanova instead partakes in an orgy within the hostel he's been stranded in. In Dresden, he has a brief chance encounter with his estranged mother in a theater. He then moves to a court in Württemberg, where his desire to be taken seriously as a writer/inventor is frustrated by the court's orgiastic, wild nature. It is here that he meets Rosalba, a mechanical doll with whom he shares a dance and later on has sex with.

Time goes by and an old Casanova finds himself librarian to Count Waldstein at his castle in Dux. Life at the castle is more than frustrating for Casanova, as he becomes an object of

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mockery and animosity. The final scene has a weary, bloodshot Casanova cringing in an armchair and recounting a recent dream.

In this dream, Casanova is back in Venice. He chases the ghosts of his past lovers, all of whom disappear. An ornate stagecoach beckons him to join its passengers. He finally meets with Rosalba, the mechanical doll, once again and they dance with each other.

Mercy On Broadway

Laura Nyro

Madison smiled

and she hung with a band of strays

The band was gone

Bringin' it on to the Broadway blaze

Once I lived under the city in my sweet July July mercy on Broadway

Don't you believe it

You better know what I say

She'll make you pay

Down the alleyway, slippin' up a sidestreet Shine everybody, shine everybody

Everybody, shine everybody

On Broadway, jive and pray

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There ain't no mercy now on Broadway

People and the landlords shine

Down and gay wine

In the doom swept the band away

Baby on Broadway

Is she mild like mother and child?

Does she obey?

Once I lived under the city in my sweet July July mercy on Broadway

Don't you believe it

You better know what I say

She'll make you pay

Black city fair

Ole road runner there

Shine everybody

Everybody, everybody

Shine everybody

There'll be no mercy on Broadway

Incomprehensible

Mercy on Broadway, mercy on Broadway

Hey!

Shine.

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Written by Laura Nyro.

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048 - The Wicker Man – Pagosa Sprigs, Colorado The Wicker Man

Sergeant Neil Howie journeys by seaplane to the remote Hebridean island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, Rowan Morrison, about whom he has received an anonymous letter. Howie, a devout Christian, is disturbed to find the Islanders paying homage to the pagan Celtic gods of their ancestors. They copulate openly in the fields, include children as part of the May Day celebrations, teach children of the phallic association of the maypole, and place toads in their mouths to cure sore throats. The islanders appear to be trying to thwart his investigation by claiming that Rowan never existed.

While staying at the Green Man Inn, Howie notices a series of photographs celebrating the annual harvest, each featuring a young girl as the May Queen. The photograph of the most recent celebration is missing; the landlord tells him it was broken. At the local school, Howie asks the students about Rowan, but all deny her existence. He checks the school register and finds Rowan's name. He questions the schoolteacher, who directs him to Rowan's grave.

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Howie meets the island's leader, Lord Summerisle, grandson of a Victorian agronomist, to get permission for an exhumation.

Summerisle explains that his grandfather developed strains of fruit trees that would prosper in Scotland's climate and encouraged the belief that the old gods would use the new strains to bring prosperity to the island among the pagan population. Due to the bountiful harvests, the island's other inhabitants gradually embraced paganism.

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin

There's a lady who's sure

All that glitters is gold

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

When she gets there she knows

If the stores are all closed

With a word she can get what she came for Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

There's a sign on the wall

But she wants to be sure

'Cause you know, sometimes words have two meanings In a tree by the brook

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There's a songbird who sings

Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven Ooh, it makes me wonder

Ooh, it makes me wonder

There's a feeling I get

When I look to the west

And my spirit is crying for leaving

In my thoughts I have seen

Rings of smoke through the trees

And the voices of those who stand looking Ooh, it makes me wonder

Ooh, it really makes me wonder

And it's whispered that soon

If we all call the tune

Then the piper will lead us to reason

And a new day will dawn

For those who stand long

And the forests will echo with laughter Oh whoa-whoa-whoa, oh-oh

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow,

Don't be alarmed now

It's just a spring clean for the May Queen

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Yes, there are two paths you can go by, But in the long run

And there's still time

To change the road you're on

And it makes me wonder

Oh, whoa

Your head is humming and it won't go

In case you don't know

The piper's calling you to join him

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow?

And did you know

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul

There walks a lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last

When all are one and one is all, yeah

To be a rock and not to roll

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

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Written by Jimmy Page and Robert Anthony Plant.

Exhuming the grave, Howie finds that the coffin contains only the carcass of a hare. He also finds the missing harvest photograph, showing Rowan standing amidst empty boxes; the harvest had failed. His research reveals that a human sacrifice is offered to the gods in the event of crop failure. He concludes that Rowan is alive and will soon be sacrificed to ensure a successful harvest. Seeking assistance from the mainland, Howie returns to his seaplane to discover it no longer functions and its radio is damaged; he cannot leave or call for help. Later that day during the May Day celebration, Howie subdues the innkeeper and steals his costume and mask (that of Punch, the fool) to infiltrate the parade. Rowan is eventually revealed. Howie sets her free and flees with her into a cave.

Exiting it, they are intercepted by the islanders, to whom Rowan happily returns.

Summerisle tells Howie that Rowan was never the intended sacrifice; Howie is. He fits their gods' four requirements: he came of his own free will, has "the power of a king" (by representing the law), is a virgin, and is a "fool". Howie warns Summerisle and the islanders that the crops are failing due to the unsuitability of the climate and that the villagers will

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turn on Summerisle and sacrifice him next summer when the next harvest fails again, but his pleas are ignored. The villagers force Howie inside a giant wicker man statue along with various animals, set it ablaze, and surround it, singing the Middle English folk song "Sumer Is Icumen In". Inside the wicker man, Howie recites Psalm 23, prays to God and curses the islanders.

Howie and the animals burn to death as the head of the wicker man collapses in flames, revealing the setting sun.

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049 - Willy Wonka ..... – Somerville, New Jersey Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie Bucket is a poor paperboy who often looks inside a candy shop but cannot afford to buy sweets. Going home one evening, he passes confectioner Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where a tinker tells him that no one ever enters or leaves the building.

Charlie's bedridden Grandpa Joe reveals that Wonka had shut down the factory because rival confectioners sent spies to steal his recipes. Production resumed three years later, but the gates remained locked, and to prevent more sabotage, the original workers were not rehired, leaving their replacements a mystery.

Sometime after, Wonka announces that he is holding a contest, and has hidden five Golden Tickets beneath the wrapping of chocolate Wonka Bars. The finders of the tickets will be able to enter and tour the factory, and will receive a lifetime supply of chocolate. The first four tickets are found by the following children: Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous German boy; Veruca Salt, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy English father; and two Americans, Violet Beauregarde, who chews gum constantly, and Mike Teevee, who is obsessed with television to the point of irritability when he's not watching it. As each winner is announced on television, a sinister-looking man appears and

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whispers to them. Charlie also takes advantage of his birthday, and a gift from Grandpa Joe, to open two Wonka bars, hoping to find a ticket, but he doesn't find one in either of them.

A news report reveals the fifth ticket was found by a millionaire in Paraguay, causing Charlie to lose hope. The next day, Charlie is on his way home from school when he finds money in a gutter and uses it to buy a Wonka Bar for himself and Grandpa Joe. Walking home, Charlie overhears that the millionaire forged the fifth ticket. Charlie opens his remaining Wonka Bar, discovering the final ticket. On his way, he encounters the sinister figure who spoke to the other winners.

Introducing himself as Slugworth, one of Wonka's competitors, he offers a cash reward for a sample of Wonka's latest creation: the Everlasting Gobstopper.

Arriving home with the Golden Ticket, Charlie chooses Grandpa Joe as his chaperone. Overjoyed, Grandpa Joe miraculously springs out of bed for the first time in twenty years. The next day, Wonka greets the ticket winners at the front gates of the factory and leads them inside. Each signs a discipline contract before the tour, which begins in the Chocolate Room, a whimsical indoor park with plants and flowers made of candy and a river of chocolate. The visitors meet Wonka's workforce: little people known as Oompa-Loompas.

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During the tour, each child's character flaws cause them to give in to temptation, resulting in their unusual elimination.

Augustus gets sucked up a pipe after falling into the chocolate river; Violet swells up becoming a giant blueberry; Veruca falls down a garbage chute; and Mike is shrunk to the size of a chocolate bar. The Oompa Loompas sing a song of morality after each disposal.

Those Were the Days

Cream

When the city of Atlantis

Stood serene above the sea

Long time before our time

When the world was free

Those were the days

Golden cymbals flying

On ocarina sounds

Before wild Medusa's serpents

Gave birth to hell

Disguised as heaven

Those were the days

Yes, they were

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Those were the days

Those were their ways

Miracles everywhere-where are they now?

They're gone

Those were their ways

Yes, they were

Those were their ways

Those were the days

Yes, they were

Those were the days

Tie your painted shoes and dance

Blue daylight in your hair

Overhead a noiseless eagle

Fans a flame

Wonder everywhere

Those were the days

Yes, they were

Those were the days

Those were their ways

Miracles everywhere

Where are they now?

They're gone

Those were their ways

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Yes, they were

Those were their ways

Those were the days

Yes, they were

Those were the days

Written by Gene Raskin.

While on tour, Charlie and Grandpa Joe enter the Fizzy Lifting Drinks room and sample the beverages against Wonka's orders. The drink makes them float up and have a near-fatal encounter with the ceiling exhaust fan, but burping allows them to escape and descend to the ground.

At the end of the tour, Wonka assures Charlie and Grandpa Joe that the other children will be fine before he hastily retreats to his office without awarding them the promised lifetime supply of chocolate. When they follow him in to ask about this, Wonka angrily informs them that they had violated the contract when they stole the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, thereby forfeiting their prize, and then furiously demands that they leave. Stunned and infuriated, Grandpa Joe vows to give Slugworth the Everlasting Gobstopper in retaliation, but Charlie decides to return it to Wonka instead. Seeing that Charlie did not resort to revenge, Wonka joyously declares Charlie the winner, reinstates his

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prize, and reveals that Slugworth is his employee, Mr.

Wilkinson. The offer to buy the Gobstopper was a morality test for the kids, and only Charlie passed. The trio enters the Wonkavator, a multi-directional glass elevator that flies out of the factory. During their flight, Wonka tells Charlie that he created the contest to find someone worthy enough to inherit his factory, so he will give it to Charlie and his family upon retiring.

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050 - Breathless - Espelette, France

Breathless

Michel is a youthful, dangerous criminal who models himself on the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. He often looks at himself in a mirror simulating Bogart expressions. He also poses in front of a Bogart film poster for no one.

After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to an American love interest, Patricia. She is a “radical” American student in Paris and aspiring journalist, who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the boulevards of Paris.

While driving with her in the car, Michel tells her; “Cars are made to go; not stop.”

The ambivalent Patricia unwittingly hides him in her apartment as he simultaneously tries to seduce her and call in a debt from a shady pawnbroker, perhaps a police informant, who is the middleman for his stolen cars, to fund their escape to Italy.

Patricia says she is pregnant, probably with Michel's child. She learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police.

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Eventually she betrays him, but before the police arrive, she tells Michel what she has done.

He is somewhat resigned to a life in prison, and does not try to escape at first. When he decides to run, the police, one named Vital, shoot him in the street, and after running along the block, he dies "à bout de soufflé," "out of breath."

Closing dialogue

The film's final lines of dialogue cause some confusion for English speaking audiences. The original French is ambiguous; it is unclear whether Michel is condemning Patricia or condemning the world in general. It is unclear if the Police Inspector Vital is intentionally twisting Michel's meaning. It is also unclear whether Patricia is questioning Michel's scorn, questioning the meaning of a French word as elsewhere in the film, or unable to understand the concept of what Michel is saying as it is told to her by Vital when the two catch up with the dying Michel.

Michel: “C'est vraiment dégueulasse.”

Patricia: “Qu'est-ce qu'il a dit?”

Vital: “Il a dit que vous êtes vraiment ‘une dégueulasse.’"

Patricia: “Qu'est-ce que c'est ‘dégueulasse?’"

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This translates as:

Michel: “It's really disgusting.”

Patricia: “What did he say?”

Vital: “He said you are really disgusting.”

Patricia: “What is ‘disgusting?’"

In French, "dégueulasse" also has the connotation of

"nauseating," or making one want to throw up; in reference to a person, it can be loosely translated as a "disgusting person;"

i.e. a "louse" or "scumbag."

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In the English captioning of the 2001 Fox-Lorber Region One DVD,

"dégueulasse" is translated as "scumbag." producing the following dialogue:

Michel: “It's disgusting, really.”

Patricia: “What did he say?”

Vital: “He said ‘You're a real scumbag.’"

Patricia: “What's a scumbag?”

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The 2007 Criterion Collection Region One DVD uses a less literal translation:

Michel: “Makes me want to puke.”

Patricia: “What did he say?”

Vital: “He said you make him want to puke.”

Patricia: “What's that mean, ‘puke’"?

This translation was used in the 2010 restoration.

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This inventive, cinematic, jump cutting film proved to be the breakthrough for the French New Wave.

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051 - The Day of the Dolphin – Boca Raton, Florida A brilliant and driven scientist, Jake Terrell, and his wife, Maggie, along with their small team, are training dolphins to communicate with humans at their remote island research facility. They teach Alpha, "Fa", a dolphin they have raised in captivity for four years, to speak simple English. They introduce him to a female dolphin captured from the wild, whom they name Beta, "Bea". Fa regresses to his "native language" for a while, but soon teaches Bea to understand English, too.

I Got You Babe

Sonny and Cher

They say we're young, and we don't know We won't find out until we grow

Well, I don't know if all that's true

'Cause you got me, and baby, I got you

Babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

They say our love won't pay the rent

Before it's earned, our money's all been spent I guess that's so, we don't have a plot

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But at least I'm sure of all the things we got Babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

I got flowers in the spring

I got you to wear my ring

And when I'm sad, you're a clown

And if I get scared, you're always around Don't let them say your hair's too long

'Cause I don't care, with you I can't go wrong Then put your little hand in mine

There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb

Babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

I got you to hold my hand

I got you to understand

I got you to walk with me

I got you to talk with me

I got you to kiss goodnight

I got you to hold me tight

I got you, I won't let go

I got you to love me so

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I got you babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

I got you babe

Written by Sonny Bono.

Terrell's research is funded by the Franklin Foundation, headed by Harold DeMilo. An undercover government agent for hire, Curtis Mahoney, blackmails DeMilo into allowing him access to Terrell's facility under the guise of a freelance journalist writing about dolphin research. Although Terrell and his team attempt to stonewall Mahoney, he finds out the truth about Fa and Bea and threatens to publish his findings. To prevent this, Terrell agrees with DeMilo to reveal his progress to the Foundation board of directors, and travels to the mainland for a press conference. Once he and Maggie are there, the press conference is mysteriously cancelled, and Fa and Bea are stolen from the island.

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After the dolphins are kidnapped, Mahoney reveals that the Franklin Institute is planning to further train the dolphins to carry out a political assassination, using a magnetic limpet mine to kill the President of the United States. One of Terrell's team, David, is revealed to have been an undercover operative of the Institute, and is helping them train the dolphins for the suicide-assassination attempt.

Fa escapes and returns to the Terrells, and the conspirators set Bea off to explode the mine on the President's yacht. Realizing what is happening, Jake tells Fa to stop Bea. Fa intercepts Bea, and redirects her to place the mine on the conspirators' boat, which is destroyed in the ensuing explosion, killing David and most of the board. Fa and Bea return to the Terrells, but as DeMilo approaches the island in a seaplane, Jake instructs Fa and Bea to escape and live free in the ocean, away from rotten humans. Fa is reluctant to go, having formed a bond with Jake and Maggie, saying; “Fa love Pa,” but Jake gruffly orders him to leave. Eventually, both dolphins escape, leaving Jake and Maggie awaiting DeMilo and reflecting on what happened.

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Procol Harum

We skipped the light fandango

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Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor

I was feeling kinda seasick

But the crowd called out for more

The room was humming harder

As the ceiling flew away

When we called out for another drink

The waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later

As the miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, "There is no reason

And the truth is plain to see"

But I wandered through my playing cards And would not let her be

One of sixteen vestal virgins

Who were leaving for the coast

And although my eyes were open

They might just as well have been closed

And so it was that later

As the miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly

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Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said; “I’m home on shore leave

Though in truth we were at sea”

So I took her by the looking glass

And forced her to agree,

Saying; “You must be the mermaid

Who took Neptune for a ride.”

But she smiled at me so sadly

That my anger straightaway died.

And so it was that later

As the miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

If music be the food of love

Then laughter is its queen.

And likewise if behind is in front

Then dirt in truth is clean.

My mouth by then like cardboard

Seemed to slip straight through my head So we crash dived straightway quickly

And attacked the ocean bed.

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And so it was that later

As the miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

Written by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid.

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052 - Smiley Face – Venice Beach, California Smiley Face

Jane F is an unambitious young actress who enjoys smoking marijuana and lives in an LA apartment with her nerdy, somewhat disturbing roommate Steve. One day, she discovers a plate of cupcakes left by Steve for a science fiction movie marathon, all of which she impulsively eats. She soon realizes that the cupcakes were laced with marijuana while remembering a list of things she needs to do that day, including paying the electric bill and going to an important audition.

Smile

Laura Nyro

Winter

Turn on the night

Turn on your love light

I'm a non-believer

But I believe

In your smile

Well I'm gonna talk to you baby

On brandy-wine

Mars in the stars

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Mars is arisin

Mars in the stars

Mars is arisin

And I feel like I'm way in a deep dream baby Feel like I'm way in a deep dream

Yes

Lovers

Light in the inn

What are they thinking?

Patterns falling

Down the sky

And the fire

And the kiss

Of the cunt tree night

Your tender strong freaky love

Strangers and mountains

And blurred in a snow flight

Mars in the stars

Mars is arisin

The world's insane

The paper's gone mad

But our love is a peace vibe

Yes

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Let's go down by the grapevine

Drink my daddy's wine

Get happy

Down by the grapevine

Drink my daddy's wine

Get happy

Happy

Oh sweet blindness

A little magic

A little kindness

Oh sweet blindness

All over me

Four leaves on a clover

I'm just a bit of a shade hung over

Come on baby do a slow float

You're a good lookin' riverboat

And aint that sweet eyed blindness good to me

Down by the grapevine

Drink my daddy's wine

Good mornin'

Down by the grapevine

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Drink my daddy's wine

Good mornin

Mornin'

Oh sweet blindness

A little magic

A little kindness

Oh sweet blindness

All over me

Please don't tell my mother

I'm a saloon and a moonshine lover

Come on baby do a slow float

You're a good lookin' riverboat

And ain't that sweet eyed blindness good to me

Don't ask me cuz I

Ain't gonna tell you what I've been drinkin'

Ain't gonna tell you what I've been drinkin'

Ain't gonna tell you what I've been drinkin'

Wine

Of wonder

Wonder

By the way

Oh sweet blindness

A little magic

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A little kindness

Oh sweet blindness

All over me

Don't let daddy hear it

He don't believe in the gin mill spirit Come on baby do a slow float

You a good lookin' riverboat

And ain't that sweet eyed blindness good to me Good to me

Now ain't that sweet eyed blindness good to me

Written by Laura Nyro.

Jane first decides to call her pot dealer Steve to buy more marijuana to bake more cupcakes using money left to her by her roommate to pay the electric bill, but she is short and still around $40 in debt to him. He threatens to take her furniture, including her prized mattress, and inform her roommate about her buying marijuana with his money if she does not pay him back by 3:00 at a hemp festival in Venice Beach.

As Jane begins making cannabis infused butter for the cupcakes, she is distracted by a call from her agent Kyle reminding her about her audition in less than an hour. Her butter burns as she

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destroys her phone trying to turn off the smoke alarm. With no other options, she decides to sell her cache of government strength marijuana to pay her dealer. Though late to her audition, she is still allowed to be seen by the casting director, though it goes poorly and Jane tries to sell her weed.

Grossly offended, they contact the authorities, forcing her to flush her weed down the toilet in a panic.

Without her weed and broke, Jane begins cold contacting various acquaintances for money, eventually reaching out to Brevin, a nerdy friend of her roommate's who is infatuated with her.

Though unable to pay her immediately, Brevin promises to get her the cash she needs following an important dentist appointment.

Upon leaving, Brevin finds his car was broken into and his wallet, which was left on the dashboard, stolen. The police attempt to question Jane about it but, feeling paranoid, she flees. Seeking refuge at the home of one of her old college professors, a tutor on Marxist studies, she is invited in by his mother Shirley. Confusing her for his teaching assistant, she gives Jane a folder to take to his office.

Walking to an apartment complex across the street, she discovers the folder contains a first edition copy of the “Communist Manifesto.” Failing to sell it to a resident, her behavior

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causes him to call the police. She flees into the back of a meat truck, believing it will take her to Venice Beach. Later discovered by factory workers Mikey and Albert, they kindly give her a tour of the plant they work at.

After being kicked out by the foreman, Mikey agrees to drive her to Venice Beach after work. When a car accident causes a massive traffic jam, Jane leaves Mike's car and continues on foot. She is given a ride by a woman riding a motorcycle.

Jane is dismayed to arrive at the hemp festival just after it ended and is unable to find her dealer. Wandering the beach, she finds several ride tickets in the sand that allow her to board the Ferris wheel at the amusement park on Venice Beach Boardwalk.

While on the ride, she discovers Brevin, Shirley, her teacher, and the man from the apartment all looking for her below.

Wanting to do the right thing and return the “Communist Manifesto,” she tries to get their attention, but her carriage shifts, causing her to let go of the book, which sends the pages flying. Jane is arrested and sentenced to 1500 hours of community service.

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053 - The Night Porter – Berlin, Germany The Night Porter

During World War II, Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a Nazi SS officer who had posed as a doctor to take sensational photographs in concentration camps, and Lucia, a teenage girl interned in a concentration camp due to her father's Socialist political ties, had an ambiguous sadomasochistic relationship. Max tormented Lucia, but also acted as her protector.

In 1957, Lucia, now married to an American orchestra conductor, meets Max again by chance. He is now a night porter at a hotel in Vienna, and a reluctant member of a group of former SS

comrades who have been carefully covering up their pasts by destroying documents and eliminating witnesses to their wartime activities. Max has an upcoming mock trial at the hands of the group for his war crimes. The group's leader, Hans Vogler, accuses Max of wanting to live “hidden away like a church mouse.” Max wishes to remain hidden, but he voices support for the group's activities. Memories of the past punctuate Max and Lucia's present with urgent frequency, suggesting that Lucia survived through her relationship with Max. In one such remembered scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song, "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte" ("If I could make a wish"), to the camp

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guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max "rewards"

her with the severed head of a male inmate who had been bullying her, which is a reference to Salome.

Because she could testify against him, Lucia's existence is a threat to Max and his former comrades. He goes to see a former Nazi collaborator, Mario, who knows Lucia is still alive. Max murders him to protect his secret. After Lucia's husband leaves town on business, Max and Lucia renew their past lovemaking in Max's apartment. Max confesses to Countess Stein, another guest at his hotel, that he has found his "little girl" again. The Countess tells him that he is insane. Max replies that they are both “in the same boat.” Meanwhile, Vogler has Max spied on by Adolph, a youth who works at the hotel.

Max is interviewed by the police about Mario's murder. He spends days with Lucia in his apartment, chaining her to the wall so that "they can't take her away," and sleeps little. Vogler, who wants Lucia to testify against Max in the mock trial, though he harbors more ambiguous long term intentions toward her, visits and informs her that Max is ill. He suggests that Lucia must also be ill to allow herself to be in this position, but she sends him away, claiming to be with Max of her own free will.

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The former SS officers are infuriated at Max for hiding a key witness. Max refuses to go through with the trial, calling it “a farce,” and admits that he works as a night porter due to his sense of shame in daytime. He returns to Lucia, telling her that the police questioned him and others at the hotel about her disappearance, and that no suspicion fell on him. Eventually, Max quits his job, devoting all of his time to Lucia. The former SS officers cut off the couple's supply of food from a nearby grocery store. Max barricades the door to the apartment, and he and Lucia begin rationing.

Max seeks help by phoning one of his old hotel friends, who refuses, and imploring his neighbor, but she is prevented from providing aid by Adolph. Max retreats again to the apartment, where Lucia is almost unconscious from malnutrition. After one of the former SS cuts off the electricity in Max's apartment, Max and Lucia, respectively dressed in his Nazi uniform and a negligee resembling the one she had worn in the concentration camp, leave the building and drive away. They are soon followed by a car driven by Max's former colleagues. Max parks his car on a bridge, where he and Lucia walk along the sidewalk as dawn breaks. Two gunshots ring out, and the lovers fall dead.

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054 - Barefoot in the Park – New Hope, Pennsylvania Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park had a pre-Broadway production under the title “Nobody Loves Me” at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

The play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on October 23, 1963, and closed on June 25, 1967, after 1,530 performances.

It was Neil Simon's longest running hit, and the tenth longest running non-musical play in Broadway history. The cast included Elizabeth Ashley (Corie), Robert Redford (Paul), Mildred Natwick (Mrs. Banks), and Kurt Kasznar (Victor Velasco); the director was Mike Nichols. Scenic design was by Oliver Smith, costumes by Donald Brooks, and lighting by Jean Rosenthal. The play was nominated for four 1964 Tony Awards, with Nichols winning the award for Best Direction of a Play.

Myrna Loy starred as Mrs. Banks opposite Joan Van Ark as Corie and Richard Benjamin as Paul in the national tour during the time the play was still on Broadway. Virginia Mayo and Margaret O'Brien co-starred in a 1968 national tour of the play.

Beginning in 1978, Dorothy Lamour spent three years playing Mrs.

Banks in dinner theatres around the country.

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Moondance

Van Morrison

Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance With the stars up above in your eyes

A fantabulous night to make romance

'Neath the cover of October skies

And all the leaves on the trees are falling To the sound of the breezes that blow

You know I'm tryin' to please to the calling Of your heartstrings that play soft and low You know the night's magic seems to whisper and hush You know the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush

Can I just have one more moondance

with you, my love?

Can I just make some more romance

with a-you, my love?

Well, I wanna make love to you tonight

I can't wait 'til the mornin' has come

You know, I know now the time is just right And straight into my arms you will run

And when you come, my heart will be waiting To make sure that you're never alone

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There and then all my dreams will come true, dear There and then I will make you my own

And every time I touch you,

you just tremble inside

And I know how much you want me,

that you can't hide

Can I just have one more moondance

with you, my love?

Can I just make some more romance

with a-you, my love?

Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance With the stars up above in your eyes

A fantabulous night to make romance

'Neath the cover of October skies

And all the leaves on the trees are falling To the sound of the breezes that blow

You know I'm trying to please to the calling Of your heartstrings that play soft and low You know the night's magic seems to whisper and hush You know the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush

Can I just have one more moondance

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with you, my love?

Can I just make some more romance

with a-you, my love?

One more moondance with you

In the moonlight

On a magic night

La, la, la, la, la, in the moonlight

On a magic night

Can't I just have one more, more

dance with you, my love?

Written by Van Morrison.

Corie and Paul Bratter are a newlywed couple. For their first home, they live in an apartment on the top floor of a brownstone in New York City. Corie is optimistic about their future together, while Paul, the more anxious and grounded half of the couple, worries about the various flaws in the apartment, such as a hole in the skylight, their leaky closet, and the lack of a bathtub. Shortly after moving in, Corie attempts to set her mother up with their eccentric neighbor Mr. Velasco. During the course of four days, the couple learns to live together while facing the usual daily ups and downs. Corie wants Paul to become more easy going; for example, to run "barefoot in the park."

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That’s pretty much it for the lighthearted, amusing play. Then Jane Fonda plays Corie in the movie.

Corie, a free spirited young woman, and Paul Bratter, a conservative, uptight man, are a recently married couple who move into a fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village. One of the film's running jokes alludes to the fact that everyone has to climb so many stairs to get to their apartment. Corie decorates the small, leaky space, turning it into a picturesque little home for the two. Among their many eccentric neighbors is the quirky Victor Velasco, who befriends Corie and even flirts with her. He lives in the building's attic, so he climbs through the Bratters' window to get to his apartment. He also helps Corie with her place, showing her how to work the seemingly broken heating and plumbing.

Corie sets up a dinner date with Paul, Victor, and Corie's mother, Ethel Banks, in a scheme to make her mother fall for Victor. Corie feels that her mother is lonely and in need of love now that she lives alone. Victor takes them all to an Albanian restaurant on Staten Island, whose owner he knows.

There the group drinks, and Corie and Victor dance with a belly dancer, while Paul and Ethel watch in embarrassment. Afterward, Corie and Victor return to their building in high spirits as Paul and Ethel drag themselves along in fatigue. As Victor

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escorts Ethel outside, Corie and Paul begin an argument over their different personalities. Corie feels that her adventurous spirit is impeded by Paul's cautious attitude, noting that he refused to go barefoot in the park with her one evening. His excuse was that it was freezing. Corie says she will kick Paul out and get a big dog to protect her from him. Paul quips that it will finally allow her to have someone who will go barefoot in the park with her. They eventually go to sleep, Corie in their tiny bedroom and Paul on the couch under a hole in the skylight on a snowy February night.

The next day, Paul comes down with a fever, but Corie still insists she wants a divorce. The two spend an awkward time together in their apartment until Corie kicks Paul out. She then receives a call from her aunt, who says that Ethel never came home. Corie panics, and eventually learns that her mother was at Victor's apartment. While Victor was escorting her to her home in New Jersey the previous night, Ethel slipped on icy stairs and fell. Victor and some neighbors took her back to Victor's apartment, where they spent the night. Strangely, Ethel was wearing nothing but her undergarments and Victor's Japanese kimono. It turned out that Victor had Ethel's dress dry cleaned.

Meanwhile, a drunken Paul skips work and sits in Washington Square Park. Heeding her mother's advice, Corie goes out

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searching for Paul and finds him drunk and running barefoot through the park. The once cautious Paul is now a fun loving drunk while Corie cautiously chases after him in order to get him to sober up. Eventually, Paul says it is his apartment and he is going back home. Corie follows. Back at the apartment, Paul, still drunk, climbs onto the roof of the apartment. Scared he might fall, Corie begs him to come down while speaking to him through the hole in the skylight. He says he will only come down if she repeats after him. He wants her to admit that her husband is a crazy drunk, when a few nights before she scolded him for being so cautious and practical even when he is drunk.

Meanwhile, realizing where he is, Paul becomes scared, and almost falls off the building. Corie asks Paul to sing an Albanian folk song they had heard at the restaurant that Victor had taken them to calm himself down. While he sings, Corie climbs up to the roof to help him down. A crowd of onlookers starts to gather in the street, including Ethel and Victor. When Corie reaches Paul, they kiss and climb back down as the crowd cheers.

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055 - Sixties News

1960

Democrat John F. Kennedy wins the U.S. Presidential Election after defeating Republican Richard Nixon. Kennedy became the first president and was the youngest person to have been elected into the highest office at the time.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is created.

The United States decides to send 3,500 U.S. troops to Vietnam after the French decide to leave.

TIROS-1, the first weather satellite, is launched by the U.S.

1961

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space.

One month later, Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.

Construction on the Berlin Wall begins in an effort to separate East and West Berlin.

The Bay of Pigs invasion is an unsuccessful US backed operation to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba.

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The Peace Corps is created.

WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) is created.

1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis has the world on the edge of another World War as the United States and USSR come close to launching nuclear attacks.

The Beatles release their first single, "Love Me Do," in the United Kingdom.

Sam Walton opens the first Wal-Mart store in Arkansas.

1963

United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

The United States begins to use Zip Codes.

Yugoslavia becomes a socialist federal republic and President Josip Tito is appointed as "President for Life."

The BBC broadcasts the very first episode of the iconic television show "Doctor Who."

1964

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United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

NASA's Mariner 4 space probe successfully approaches Mars and becomes the first spacecraft to take images of a planet from deep space.

The Beatles come to America and appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.

The world will never be the same.

The Ford Motor Company begins to produce and sell the Ford Mustang.

1965

Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to perform a space walk.

The Vietnam War escalates and opposition to it begins to mount as anti-Vietnam protests become more common.

Mary Quant designs the mini-skirt in London and it becomes a fashion craze.

1966

The first episode of the popular television show "Star Trek"

airs.

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The Soviet Union's Luna 9 unmanned spacecraft lands on the Moon.

Indira Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister of India.

The Canada Pension Plan is introduced in Canada.

1967

Rolling Stone publishes its first magazine issue.

The Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs play against each other in the first Super Bowl, with the Packers winning 35

to 10.

South African doctor Christiaan Barnard completes the first heart transplant operation.

The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.

1968

Egypt's Aswan Dam is completed.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed into law by President Johnson.

Richard Nixon wins the United States presidential election.

The first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7, is launched by NASA.

1969

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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to arrive on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission.

The Woodstock music festival takes place in New York and features such acts as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Mountain, and The Who.

ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, relays its first communications between UCLA and Stanford.

The popular children's television show "Sesame Street" debuts.

The United Kingdom abolishes the death penalty.

In the 1960s popular music began to diversify and more subgenres emerged as the world of Rock 'n' Roll became more profitable. It became easier to classify types of music in a very specific way with psychedelic, surf, folk, roots, hard rock, all becoming recognizable in their distinctiveness. Music became a huge influence on the younger generation and was used to define the lifestyles of rockers, hippies, and protesters.

The music of the time often reflected the changing social norms of the decade like the fight for the rights of women and the anti-war movement. The British Invasion also made its mark with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as two of the most popular

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bands emerging from the decade, gaining worldwide notoriety and popularity that has lasted up to the present.

As Lyndon B Johnson’s undeclared Vietnam war, officially a

“police action” never approved by Congress, steadily declined in popularity with the US public, the government took to issuing widely distributed, daily kill reports. Typically they’d say something like 48 Americans dead yesterday, and 54,766 Viet Cong dead. This was ostensibly done to say to the increasingly disapproving US public; “Just hold on a bit; we’ll have this won and over in no time.” However it backfired, as the days went on without a win, and at some point some bright person added up all those Viet Cong the government claimed to have killed, and replied; “Your daily kill reports indicate that you have wiped out the entirety of the populations of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. So, who are you now fighting with?” The unanswered question was both funny and effective in promoting the righteousness of the anti-war people as well as the lying mature and tentacles of the military machine. However, it had little if any effect on Johnson, as his dead bodies and kill reports kept coming.

This was the Decade of the Smiley Face, which was found on anything and everything around the world including T Shirts. Its popularity was at its peak in the mid to late 1960's. This

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decade can also be summed up with a few well-chosen phrases which epitomize the decade; "The Space Race," "Cuban Missile Crisis," "Continuing Cold War," "Kennedy Assassinations,"

"Vietnam," "Riots," "Hippies and Flower Power," and "The Beatles and Rock and Roll."

This was the start of the skateboarding era which was started by some surfing enthusiasts in California who were frustrated by the weather and put roller skates on the front and back end of wooden planks.

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056 - The Bear that Wasn’t – Erie, Pennsylvania The Bear that Wasn’t

A bear settles down for his hibernation and while he sleeps, the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex, where he gets mistaken by the foreman for a worker and thus is ordered to get to work. When the bear responds that he doesn't work there, and that he's is a bear and not a human, the foreman denounces him as merely being a "silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat," and takes the bear to each of his successive bosses; general manager and a trio of vice presidents, all of whom tell him their own version of the same claim, reaching all the way up to the elderly president of the factory, who concludes he cannot be a bear because "bears are only in a zoo or a circus; they're never inside a factory."

School's Out

Alice Cooper

Well, we got no choice

All the girls and boys

Makin' all that noise

'Cause they found new toys

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Well, we can't salute ya can't find a flag If that don't suit ya that's a drag

School's out for summer

School's out forever

School's been blown to pieces

No more pencils, no more books

No more teacher's dirty looks

Yeah!

Well, we got no class

And we got no principals

And we got no innocence

We can't even think of a word that rhymes

School's out for summer

School's out forever

My school's been blown to pieces

No more pencils, no more books

No more teacher's dirty looks

Out for summer

Out 'til fall

We might not come back at all

School's out forever

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School's out for summer

School's out with fever

School's out completely

Written by Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Glen Buxton, Neal A.

Smith, and Michael O. Bruce.

To prove that he's not a bear, the bosses take him to a zoo, where the zoo bears themselves express the same belief on account he would be in the cage with them otherwise. With his hopes seemingly dashed, the bear concludes that he is indeed a

"silly man" and promptly buckles down to work hard at the factory, much to the satisfaction of the foreman and the other bosses, all of whom shake hands happily as the bear works.

Months later, the factory closes for the winter and the bear finds himself turned out of doors in the cold snow, wishing that he were a bear. For a while, he just sits there, unsure of what to do, due to being torn between what he has been told so far.

Finally, he discards the trappings of his human existence, seeks out a cave to hibernate, which he enters feeling comfortable and bear-like once more, because he has realized that even though the foreman, the bosses and even the zoo bears had told him he was a "silly man," that did not necessarily mean it was really

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true. The narrator concludes that he "wasn't a silly man, or a silly bear, either."

Though appearing as a children's film, the story is a critical satire towards aspects of society. It revolves around the concept of people believing a constantly repeated idea even though it may not be true. People have a tendency to shift their views if a concept is hammered into them over and over again, like the bear being told he is a "silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat." The bear eventually succumbs to this mistaken assumption, believing he is a man even though he had previously known otherwise, just as humans shift their views on a topic because of repetitive information, or because "they all say it is true, therefore it must be." Yet, in the end, the bear, who is cold in winter, reverts to what he really is; a bear, and finds shelter in a cave. This idea covers the concept of people never changing due to outside influence. Though people may change for someone else, when placed in a difficult position, they revert to old habits, just like the bear hibernating. Whether something is fact or fiction, it is what it is and does not change, no matter how many people believe otherwise, hence that "he wasn't a silly man. And he wasn't a silly bear, either."

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The film also presents a visual satire of corporate culture.