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

When you're sittin' at the table

There'll be time enough for countin'

When the dealing's done

Every gambler knows

That the secret to surviving

Is knowing what to throw away

Knowing what to keep

'Cause every hand's a winner

And every hand's a loser

And the best that you can hope for

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Is to die in your sleep

And when he finished speaking

He turned back toward the window

Crushed out his cigarette

And faded off to sleep

And somewhere in the darkness

The gambler, he broke even

And in his final words

I found an ace that I could keep

You got to know when to hold 'em

Know when to fold 'em

Know when to walk away

And know when to run

You never count your money

When you're sittin' at the table

There'll be time enough for countin'

When the dealing's done

You got to know when to hold 'em

(when to hold 'em)

Know when to fold 'em

(when to fold 'em)

Know when to walk away

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And know when to run

You never count your money

When you're sittin' at the table

There'll be time enough for countin'

When the dealing's done

You got to know when to hold 'em

Know when to fold 'em

Know when to walk away

And know when to run

You never count your money

When you're sittin' at the table

There'll be time enough for countin'

When the dealing's done

Written by Don Schlitz.

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111 - Not Fade Away – Mendham, New Jersey Not Fade Away

In 1960s suburban New Jersey, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

In his late teens, Doug Damiano lives with his father, Pat, who suffers from psoriasis and is physically rough with Doug; his mother, Antoinette, who frequently grows hysterical and threatens suicide; and his sister, Evelyn. Doug sees his friend Gene Gaunt singing and playing lead guitar for a band in high school, and resolves to join the band to earn the affections of Grace Dietz. He gets his chance when the band's drummer, Schindewulf, is drafted to go to Vietnam.

Not Fade Away

The Rolling Stones

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be

You're gonna give your love to me

I'm gonna love you night and day

Well, love is love and not fade away

Oh, well, love is love and not fade away

My love bigger than a Cadillac

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I’ll drive you forward if you drive me back Your love for me has got to be real

For you to know just how I feel

Love is real and not fade away

Well, love is real and not fade away

Yeah

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be

You're gonna give your love to me

Love to last more than one day

Well, love is love and not fade away

Well, love is love and not fade away

Well, love is love and not fade away

Love, love is love and not fade away

Written by Norman Petty and Charles Holly.

In the wake of the "British Invasion", Gene is trying to remodel his band after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and he believes Doug is suited to this style. After an awkward bass player loses his position, the core of the band is Doug, Gene, and their friend Wells. Wells plays rhythm guitar, and Doug plays drums and sings backup vocals.

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At a party Gene accidentally swallows a joint while trying to smoke it and is unable to sing. Doug takes over on lead vocals, and the band members later agree that he is superior to Gene.

Gene feels threatened by Doug and tries to keep the spotlight on himself. Doug tells his father that he intends to join the army and get an ROTC scholarship, but abandons these plans after the Vietnam War begins. He drops out of college to pursue his musical career full time, causing a rift between himself and Pat.

Eventually Doug gets involved with Grace, but their relationship suffers when Wells reveals that Grace used to fellate him and others regularly. Doug and Grace have an argument in which she wrongly accuses him of sleeping with her sister, Joy. During a concert, Gene juggles firecrackers in protest of the war, but fumbles and burns his scalp, humiliating himself and the band.

Doug goes to Gene's house to formally kick him out of the band, and Gene beats him up until his father intervenes.

After Joy's parents commit her to a mental hospital, Doug and the grief stricken Grace get back together. As Pat learns that his psoriasis is actually mycosis fungoides cancer, he begins to mellow, taking Doug out to dinner and revealing family secrets.

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By 1967, Doug and Wells get the opportunity to audition for Jerry Ragovoy. They recruit Gene back into the band for the audition, although Gene tells them he wants a "featured" credit on their performance of an original song, "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre." Ragovoy sees potential in the band, but outlines a rigorous performance schedule before he's ready to sign them to a contract. He says that great music is "ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration," a sentiment Pat earlier expressed to Doug. The band is unenthusiastic about following Jerry's instructions.

After Wells is injured in a motorcycle accident, the potential record deal is postponed for another year. Losing interest in the rock and roll lifestyle, Doug decides to go to film school in California. At a party in Hollywood, he sees Charlie Watts leaving the house and hears a rumor that Mick Jagger is in the bathroom with several women, although nobody actually sees Jagger.

Doug tries to hitchhike home and is invited into a car by a strange looking woman who says he looks lonesome. He refuses the ride. Looking around downtown Los Angeles, he sees illuminated clouds that had inspired him before. Smiling, he walks down the street.

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Evelyn walks down the same street, and muses aloud that she is writing an essay about America's two biggest innovations; nuclear weapons and rock 'n roll. She asks which one will win in the end, then dances to the Rolling Stones cover of "Roadrunner"

in the street.

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112 - Where the Buffalo Roam – Durango, Colorado Where the Buffalo Roam

The film opens in the Rocky Mountains on the Colorado ranch of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist furiously trying to finish a story about his former attorney and friend, Carl Lazlo, Esq.

Thompson then flashes back to a series of exploits involving the author and his attorney.

In 1968, Lazlo is fighting to stop a group of San Francisco youngsters from receiving harsh prison sentences for possession of marijuana. He convinces Thompson to write an article about it for Blast Magazine. Thompson's editor, Marty Lewis, reminds Thompson that he has 19 hours to deadline. The judge hands out stiff sentences to everyone. The last client is a young man who was caught with a pound of marijuana and receives a five year sentence. Lazlo reacts by attacking the prosecuting attorney and is then jailed for contempt of court.

The magazine story about the trial is a sensation, but Thompson does not hear from Lazlo until four years later, when Thompson is on assignment covering Super Bowl VI in Los Angeles. Lazlo appears at Thompson's hotel and convinces him to abandon the Super Bowl story and join his band of freedom fighters, which involves smuggling weapons to an unnamed Latin American country.

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Thompson goes along with Lazlo and the revolutionaries to a remote airstrip where a small airplane is to be loaded with weapons, but when a police helicopter finds them, Lazlo and his henchmen escape on the plane while Thompson refuses to follow.

Season of the Witch

Donovan

When I look out my window

Many sights to see

And when I look in my window

So many different people to be

That is strange

So strange

You've got to pick up every stitch

You've got to pick up every stitch

You've got to pick up every stitch

Mmm-hmm, must be the season of the witch Must be the season of the witch, yeah

Must be the season of the witch

When I look over my shoulder

What do you think I see?

Some other cat lookin' over

His shoulder at me

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And he's strange

Sure is strange

You've got to pick up every stitch

You've got to pick up every stitch, yeah Beatnicks are out to make it rich

Oh no, must be the season of the witch

Must be the season of the witch, yeah

Must be the season of the witch

You've got to pick up every stitch

The rabbits runnin' in the ditch

Beatnicks out to make it rich

Oh no, must be the season of the witch

Must be the season of the witch

Must be the season of the witch

Where'd I go

When I look out my window

What do you think I see

And when I look in my window

So many different people to be

It's strange

Sure is strange

You've got to pick up every stitch

You've got to pick up every stitch

The rabbits runnin' in the ditch

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Oh no, must be the season of the witch

Must be the season of the witch, yeah

Must be the season of the witch

Where'd I go

Where'd I go

Written by Donovan Leitch.

Thompson's fame and fortune continue. He is a hit on the college lecture circuit and covers the 1972 presidential election campaign. After being thrown off the journalist plane by the candidate's press secretary, Thompson takes the crew plane and gives straight laced journalist Harris from the Post a strong hallucinogenic drug and steals his clothes and press credentials. At the next campaign stop, in the airport bathroom, Thompson is able to use his disguise to engage the candidate in a conversation about the "Screwheads" and the "Doomed."

Thompson, still posing as Harris, returns to the journalist plane. Lazlo then appears, striding across the airport tarmac in a white suit. He boards the plane and tries to convince his old friend to join his socialist paradise somewhere in the desert.

After causing a disturbance, Thompson and Lazlo are thrown off the plane, and Lazlo's papers that describe the community are

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blown across the airport runway. Lazlo, presumably, is not heard from again.

The action then returns to Thompson's cabin, just as the writer puts the finishing touches on his story, explaining that he didn't go along with Lazlo or Nixon because "it still hasn't gotten weird enough for me."

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113 - Fantastic Planet - Les Baux de Provence, France Fantastic Planet

In the distant future, the gargantuan blue humanoid Traags; in French and Czech spelling – Draags, have brought human beings, who are called Oms as a play on the French word for "man" –

homme, from Earth to the planet Ygam, where they maintain a technologically and spiritually advanced society. The Traags consider Oms animals, and while they keep some as pets, others live in the wilderness and are periodically slaughtered by the Traags to control their population. Traags have much longer lifespans than Oms, but reproduce much less.

Born Under a Bad Sign

Cream

Born under a bad sign

I've been down since I began to crawl

If it wasn't for bad luck

I wouldn't have no luck at all

Bad luck and trouble's my only friend

I've been down ever since I was ten

Born under a bad sign

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I've been down since I began to crawl

If it wasn't for bad luck

I wouldn't have no luck at all

You know, wine and women, it's all I crave A big bad woman's gonna carry me to my grave

Born under a bad sign

I've been down since I began to crawl

If it wasn't for bad luck

I wouldn't have no luck at all

Bad luck and trouble's been my only friend I've been down ever since I was ten

Born under a bad sign

I've been down since I began to crawl

If it wasn't for bad luck

I wouldn't have no luck

If it wasn't for real bad luck

I wouldn't have no luck at all

Born under a bad sign

Born under a bad sign

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Written by William Bell, Booker T, and Jr. Jones.

When an Om mother is tortured to death by three Traag children, her orphaned infant is found by Master Sinh, a key Traag leader, and his daughter Tiwa, who keeps the boy as a pet and names him Terr. Tiwa loves Terr and is careful not to hurt him, but, in accordance with her parents' instructions, gives him a collar with which she can pull him in any direction. She brings Terr to sessions in which she receives her education using a headset that transmits knowledge into her mind. A defect in Terr's collar allows him to receive the knowledge too. Around the time that Tiwa grows into her teens and first performs Traag meditation, which allows the species to travel with their minds, she loses some interest in Terr, who has become a young man and has acquired much Traag knowledge. He escapes into the wilderness, stealing Tiwa's headset.

There he runs into a wild female Om, who cuts off his collar and introduces him to her tribe, which lives in an abandoned Traag park full of strange creatures and landscapes. Terr shows them how to use the headset to acquire Traag knowledge and literacy, winning the right to do so in a duel. The literacy they gain allows them to read a Traag announcement that the park will be purged of Oms. When the purge comes, some are slaughtered by

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Traag technology while others escape, joining forces with another tribe. They are attacked by two Traag passers-by and manage to kill one of them before escaping to an abandoned Traag rocket depot, much to the outrage of Traag leaders.

They live there for years, joined by many other Oms. Due to the knowledge acquired from Terr's headset, they manage to replicate Traag technology, including two rockets. They hope to leave Ygam for its moon, the Fantastic Planet, and live there safe from Traags. When a large scale Traag purge hits the depot and many Oms are slaughtered, a group led by Terr uses the rockets to flee to the Fantastic Planet, where they discover large statues that Traags travel to during meditation and use to meet beings from other galaxies in a strange mating ritual that maintains their species. The Oms destroy some of the statues, threatening the Traags' existence. The genocide of Oms is halted on Ygam, and, facing a crisis, the Traags negotiate for peace. The Oms agree to leave the Fantastic Planet to the Traags for their meditations, and in return, an artificial satellite is put into orbit around Ygam and given to the Oms as a new home. This leads to an era of peaceful coexistence between the two species, who now benefit from each other's way of thinking.

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114 - A Fistful of Dollars – Lawrence, Kansas A Fistful of Dollars

An unnamed stranger arrives at the little town of San Miguel, on the Mexico–United States border. Silvanito, the town's innkeeper, tells the Stranger about a feud between two smuggler families vying to gain control of the town: the Rojo brothers; Don Miguel, Esteban, and Ramón, and the family comprising the town sheriff John Baxter, his matriarchal wife Consuelo, and their son Antonio. The Stranger, in order to make money, decides to play these families against each other. He demonstrates his speed and accuracy with his gun, to both sides, by shooting four men with ease, including the three who insulted him as he entered the town.

Outlaw Man

Eagles

I am an outlaw,

I was born an outlaw's son

The highway is my legacy

On the highway, I will run

In one hand I've a Bible

In the other, I've got a gun

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Well, don' you know me

I'm the man who won

Woman don't try to love me

Don't try to understand

A life upon the road is the life of an outlaw man

First left my woman, it was down in Santa Fe Headed for Oklahoma, I was ridin' night and day All of my friends are strangers,

They quickly come and go

And all my love's in danger,

'Cause I steal hearts and souls

Woman, don't try to love me

Don't try to understand

A life upon the road is the life of an outlaw man Oo...

Woman, don't try to love me

Don't try to understand

A life upon the road is the life of an outlaw man

Some men call me Abel,

Some men call me Cain,

Some men call me sinner, Lord

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Some men call me saint

Some say there's a Jesus

Some men say there ain't

When you got no life to lose

Then there's nothin' left to gain

Outlaw man

Outlaw man

Written by David Blue .

The Stranger seizes an opportunity when he sees the Rojos massacre a detachment of Mexican soldiers who were escorting a chest of gold, which they had planned to exchange for a shipment of new rifles. He takes two of the dead bodies to a nearby cemetery and sells information to each of the two groups, saying that two Mexican soldiers survived the attack. Each faction races to the cemetery, the Baxters to get the supposed survivors to testify against the Rojos and the Rojos to silence them. They engage in a gunfight, with Ramón appearing to kill the supposed survivors and Esteban capturing Antonio Baxter.

While the Rojos and the Baxters are fighting, the Stranger searches the Rojo hacienda for the gold. While he is searching he accidentally knocks out a woman, Marisol. He takes her to the Baxters, who, in turn, arrange to return her to the Rojos in

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exchange for Antonio. During the exchange, Marisol's son, Jesús, runs towards her, followed by her husband, Julio. While the family embraces, Ramón orders one of his men, Rubio, to kill her husband as he has already told him to leave town. Silvanito attempts to protect the family with a shotgun with the Stranger backing him up. Neither Ramón nor any of his men attempt to challenge the Stranger, knowing that he is too fast on the draw.

The Stranger then tells Marisol to go with Ramón, and for her husband to take their son home. He learns from Silvanito that Ramón framed Julio as a cheat during a card game and took Marisol prisoner, forcing her to live with him.

That night, while the Rojos are celebrating, the Stranger rides out and frees Marisol, shooting the guards and wrecking the house in which she is being held to create the appearance of an attack by the Baxters. He gives money to Marisol, urging her and her family to leave the town. When the Rojos discover the Stranger has freed Marisol, they capture and torture him; nevertheless, he escapes them. Believing he is being protected by the Baxters, the Rojos set fire to the Baxter home, massacring them as they flee the burning building. After pretending he will spare their lives, Ramón kills the pleading John and Antonio Baxter. Consuelo, appearing and finding her family dead, curses the Rojos for killing unarmed men. She is

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then shot dead by Esteban. With help from the local coffin maker named Piripero, the Stranger escapes town by hiding in a coffin.

The Stranger convalesces inside a nearby mine, but when Piripero tells him that Silvanito has been captured and is being tortured by the Rojos for information on the Stranger's whereabouts, he returns to town to confront them. With a steel chest plate hidden beneath his poncho, he taunts Ramón to "aim for the heart" as Ramón's shots deflect off until Ramón exhausts his Winchester rifle's ammunition. The Stranger shoots the weapon from Ramón's hand and kills Don Miguel, Rubio, and the other Rojo men standing nearby. He then uses the last bullet in his gun to free Silvanito, who is hanging from a rope by his hands.

After challenging Ramón to reload his rifle faster than he can reload his own revolver, the Stranger shoots and kills Ramón.

Esteban Rojo aims for the Stranger's back from a nearby building but is shot dead by Silvanito. The Stranger bids Silvanito and Piripero farewell and rides away from town.

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115 - Performance – Leeds, England, UK

Performance

Chas is a member of an East London gang, led by gangster Harry Flowers; his specialty is intimidation through violence, as he collects pay offs for Flowers. Chas is very good at his job, and has a reputation for liking it. His sexual liaisons are casual and rough. When Flowers decides to take over a betting shop owned by Joey Maddocks, he forbids Chas to get involved because he feels Chas' complicated personal history with Maddocks may lead to trouble. Chas is angry about this and later humiliates Maddocks, who retaliates by wrecking Chas' apartment and attacking Chas, who in turn shoots him, packs a suitcase and runs from the scene.

When Flowers makes it clear that he has no intention of offering protection to Chas, but instead wants him eliminated, Chas decides to head for the countryside to hide out, but after overhearing a musician talk about going on tour and leaving his rented room in Notting Hill Gate, Chas goes there and pretends the musician was a friend who recommended him. He tells Pherber, a woman living there, that he is a fellow performer, juggler Johnny Dean. She lives there with Turner, a reclusive, eccentric former rock star who has “lost his demon,” and Lucy, with whom

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he enjoys a non-possessive and bi-sexual ménage à trois.

Floating in and out of the house is a child, Lorraine.

The Boho Dance

Joni Mitchell

Down in the cellar in the Boho zone

I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well Just another hard-time band

With Negro affectations

I was a hopeful in rooms like this

When I was working cheap

It's an old romance-the Boho dance

It hasn't gone to sleep

But even on the scuffle

The cleaner's press was in my jeans

And any eye for detail

Caught a little lace along the seams

And you were in the parking lot

Subterranean by your own design

The virtue of your style inscribed

On your contempt for mine

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Jesus was a beggar, he was rich in grace And Solomon kept his head in all his glory It's just that some steps outside the Boho dance Have a fascination for me

A camera pans the cocktail hour

Behind a blind of potted palms

And finds a lady in a Paris dress

With runners in her nylons

You read those books where luxury

Comes as a guest to take a slave

Books where artists in noble poverty

Go like virgins to the grave

Don't you get sensitive on me

'Cause I know you're just too proud

You couldn't step outside the Boho dance now Even if good fortune allowed

Like a priest with a pornographic watch Looking and longing on the sly

Sure it's stricken from your uniform

But you can't get it out of your eyes

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Nothing is capsulized in me

On either side of town

The streets were never really mine

Not mine these glamour gowns

Written by Joni Mitchell .

At first, Chas is contemptuous of Turner, who himself attempts to return the rent paid in advance, but they start influencing each other. Pherber and Turner understand his conflict, and want to understand what makes him function so well within his world.

To speed up the process, Pherber tricks him by feeding him a psychedelic mushroom, and Chas accuses her and Turner of poisoning him. He soon accepts it, and in his hallucinogenic state, he experiments with clothing and identity, including the wearing of feminine clothes. Chas opens up, and he begins a caring relationship with Lucy.

Before all this, he phones Tony, a trusted friend who refers to Chas as “Uncle,” to help him get out of the country. Flowers and his henchmen use Tony to track Chas to Turner's flat. They allow him to go and collect his things upstairs. Chas tells Turner and Pherber he is leaving, then shoots and kills Turner before being escorted into Flowers' car. As the car is driving away, Chas

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still wears his feminine clothes and wig, but his face is identical to Turner's.

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116 - Once Upon a Time in America – Chicago, Illinois Once Upon a Time in America

In 1933, three thugs search for a man named "Noodles," torturing people for information. They enter a wayang theater, where the proprietors slip into a hidden opium den within the building and warn Noodles. He is apathetic, drugged and grasping a newspaper featuring the demise of bootleggers Patrick Goldberg, Philip Stein and Maximilian Bercovicz. He recalls observing police removing their corpses, Max's burned beyond recognition. Noodles evades capture and leaves the city alone and penniless.

In 1918, David "Noodles" Aaronson and his friends "Patsy"

Goldberg, "Cockeye" Stein, and Dominic struggle as street kids in Manhattan's Lower East Side, committing petty crimes for local boss Bugsy. Max foils one of their robberies but has the booty stolen from him by a corrupt police officer, Whitey.

Later, they blackmail the officer, catching him having sex with Peggy, a prostitute, and the five youngsters start a gang with the same level of police protection as Bugsy. Max and Noodles become best friends.

The group rises through the ranks after implementing Noodles'

idea to hide bootleg liquor. They stash half their earnings in a railway station locker, giving the key to "Fat Moe," a friend

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not directly involved in their activities. Noodles is in love with Moe's sister, Deborah, who dreams of becoming a dancer and actress. Bugsy, now a rival, eventually ambushes the boys and shoots little Dominic, who dies in Noodles' arms. In a fit of rage, young Noodles kills Bugsy and injures a police officer, and is sentenced to prison.

Noodles is released in 1930 and rejoins his friends, now prosperous bootleggers during Prohibition. His first job with them is a diamond heist using a jewelry employee and occasional prostitute named Carol as their informant. During the robbery, Carol goads Noodles into hitting her, after which he rapes her.

She later goes on to become Max's moll. That the job had been commissioned by a syndicate figure to eliminate the competition sits badly with Noodles who, unlike Max, dislikes hierarchy and lacks political ambition. The gang provides protection for Teamsters' union boss Jimmy O'Donnell, but Noodles later rejects Max's plan to deepen those ties.

Seeking to form a genuine intimacy with Deborah, Noodles takes her on a lavish date, where she reveals her plans to pursue a career in Hollywood. On their drive back, a frustrated Noodles rapes her in the limousine. He is later met with Deborah's aloofness when he watches her board the train to California.

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The gang's success ends with the 1933 repeal of Prohibition. Max suggests a New York Federal Reserve Bank heist, which Noodles and Carol deem a suicide mission. Carol convinces Noodles to inform the police about a lesser offense, hoping brief incarceration will cool off Max's ambition. After Noodles calls the police, Max knocks him out during a seemingly impromptu argument. This leads to the events shown in the prologue. Upon regaining consciousness and learning that Max, Patsy, and Cockeye have been killed by the police, a guilt ridden Noodles hides in the opium den. He saves Moe but finds out that his new girlfriend Eve has been murdered and the railway locker money has disappeared. With his gang killed and himself hunted by syndicate thugs, Noodles settles in Buffalo under an alias.

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

Bob Dylan

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If'n you don't know by now

And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe It'll never do somehow

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I'll be gone

You're the reason I'm a-traveling on

But don't think twice, it's all right

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And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe That light I never knowed

And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe I'm on the dark side of the road

But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say To try and make me change my mind and stay But we never did too much talking anyway But don't think twice, it's all right

So it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal Like you never done before

And it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal I can't hear you anymore

I'm a-thinking and a-wonderin' walking down the road I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told I give her my heart but she wanted my soul But don't think twice, it's all right

So long honey, babe

Where I'm bound, I can't tell

Goodbye's too good a word, babe

So I'll just say, "Fare thee well"

I ain't a-saying you treated me unkind

You could've done better but I don't mind

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You just kinda wasted my precious time

But don't think twice, it's all right

Written by Bob Dylan.

In 1968, Noodles is belatedly informed that the Beth Israel Cemetery is being redeveloped, and is asked to rebury any loved ones. Upon inquiry, the rabbi who had sent the letter informs him that the bodies of his three dead friends have since been relocated to Riverdale. Realizing that someone has deduced his identity, Noodles returns to Manhattan and stays with Moe.

Inside the Riverdale mausoleum, Noodles finds a key to the railway locker. The caption on the commemorative plaque falsely states that the mausoleum was erected by Noodles himself.

The locker reveals a suitcase full of money, and a note stating this is a down payment on his next job. Noodles watches news of an assassination attempt on controversial US Secretary of Commerce Christopher Bailey. The report shows Jimmy O'Donnell, still a Teamsters boss, distancing himself from the Bailey corruption scandal. Noodles finds Carol in a retirement home run by the Bailey Foundation. She tells him that Max manipulated them into tipping him off to the police and opened fire first, wishing to die young rather than in an insane asylum like his father.

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After spotting her in the retirement home's dedication photo, Noodles tracks down Deborah, still an actress. He tells her about his invitation to a party at Bailey's mansion. Deborah admits to being Bailey's lover and begs Noodles to leave before he is confronted with hurtful revelations. Ignoring Deborah's advice, Noodles sees Bailey's son just outside, who evidently looks like a younger Max.

At the party, Noodles meets Bailey, who reveals he is actually Max and that he faked his death with the help of the police and syndicate, stole the gang's money and reinvented himself as a self-made, Teamsters connected politician. He confirms that he made Deborah his mistress years earlier. Faced with ruin and the specter of a Teamster assassination, Max reveals the job he has for Noodles is to kill him. Noodles, obstinately referring to him by his Bailey identity, refuses, explaining that in his eyes, Max died with the gang. As Noodles leaves the estate, a garbage truck starts up and a man, presumably Max, walks from the entrance toward Noodles until the truck passes between them.

Noodles sees the truck's auger conveyor grinding garbage, but the man is nowhere to be seen.

In 1933, Noodles enters the opium den after his friends' deaths, taking the drug and broadly grinning.

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117 - The Harder They Come – Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica

The Harder They Come

Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin is a poor Jamaican man in desperate search of work. He leaves his rural home after his grandmother dies to live with his impoverished wastrel mother in Kingston, but is rebuffed. Before he can even locate her he has all his possessions stolen in a con by a street vendor he naively trusted. He later meets José, who takes him to see “Django,” a Spaghetti Western. Excited by urban life, he tries to get a job but repeatedly fails.

He finally drifts into the circle of a Christian preacher. There he finds menial work, and in his spare time he turns an abandoned bicycle frame into a working bicycle, then uses it to run errands for his new boss. He gets into trouble with the preacher after he shows sexual interest in the Preacher's young virginal female ward, Elsa, then with her assistance uses his church for rehearsing secular songs he intends to record.

After being brusquely run off by the preacher, ostensibly for his using the church space as a rehearsal venue, he returns to the church compound to collect his bicycle, but finds an older, much bigger former colleague has appropriated it. Challenged to

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take it back, Ivan does so, avoiding a broken bottle his opponent wields before slashing the man with a knife, for which he is sentenced by the local authorities to a violent whipping.

Ivan interests a prominent record producer in a song that he writes and performs, "The Harder They Come," but in spite of trying to wrangle more only gets the standard exploitative $20

offer for it. He dreams of stardom upon its release, but the stranglehold which the producer maintains on the local music industry through payola condemns Ivan to obscurity. He takes up with his lover Elsa, who has been violently driven away in a jealous rage by the preacher for "fornication."

Eventually José offers Ivan an opportunity to make a modest living running marijuana, moving the drug from the country to the city on a motorbike as part of a large police protected network. When Ivan complains about the poor pay and what he obtusely believes is high risk, being oblivious to the collusion with the authorities that makes the thriving enterprise possible, José sets up a take down for him with the corrupt local police official running the protection racket, Detective Jones. On Ivan's next trip he is flagged down by a policeman who routinely had previously waved him by. Ivan panics, and shoots the officer, who dies from his wounds and crashing his motorcycle.

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Griping in the Street

Callin' out around the world

Are you ready for a brand new beat

Warm weather's here and the time is right For griping in the street

They're griping in Chicago

Griping in the street

Down in New Orleans

Griping in the street

In New York City

Griping in the street

All we need are issues, sweet issues

There'll be issues everywhere

There'll be swingin' and swayin'

and topics playing

Griping in the street

Oh it doesn't matter what you wear

Just as long as you don’t care

So come on now; every gripe grab some sticks There’s still un-broken glass around for kicks

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There'll be griping

Griping in the street

They're griping in the street

Griping in the street

It's an invitation across the nation

A chance for gripes to meet

There'll be smashing, singing

and lead sticks swinging

Griping in the street

Philadelphia, P.A.

Griping in the street

Baltimore and D.C. now

Griping in the street

Can't forget the Motor City

Griping in the street

Ted Wheeler’s Stumptown

Griping in the street

In Raindrop City

Griping in the street

All we need is griping, sweet griping

There'll be demolition everywhere

There'll be smashin', swayin'

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and lead sticks swinging

And griping in the street

Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear

Just as long as you don’t care

So come on, every gripe stick a pig

Everywhere around the gig

They're griping

They're griping in the street

Griping in the street

Way down in L.A., every day

They're griping in the street

Let's get our big strong long

Get on time

They're griping in the street

Across the ocean blue, me and you

We're griping in the street.

Next, Ivan has a tryst with José's girlfriend. While he is in bed with her, the police surround the room and try to capture him. He shoots his way out, killing three officers. On the run, he returns to shoot and wound the girl, believing she and José betrayed him. He then finds José and pursues him, shooting at him but missing.

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Ivan returns to the countryside. He is again betrayed and the police catch up with him, leading to another shootout and escape. Ivan seeks support from his closest drug dealer friend, Pedro, who helps him hide out. Detective Jones, tasked with rounding Ivan up, temporarily shuts down his lucrative protection racket in order to starve the entire community thereby pressuring the network to hand Ivan over to the police.

Meanwhile, the record mogul releases Ivan's song in order to capitalize on his notoriety, which becomes a hit and fans his fame as a charismatic rebel. Enamored of this image, Ivan has staged photographs of himself posing as a flagrant two gun outlaw. He sends them to the press, which is resistant to print them. He then steals a flashy car from a resort hotel and drives it aimlessly around the countryside in a reverie.

Pedro then advises Ivan to escape to Cuba. A rendezvous with a vessel bound there is arranged, but Ivan is ambushed by a police assault team while seeking to approach it and is unable to swim fast enough to reach and drag himself up a boarding ladder thrown over its stern. He passes out from his wound and finds himself beached ashore. The police approach, armed with automatic rifles; he comes out, holding his two guns, and is shot. The film ends with a woman's torso gyrating to the sound of Ivan's song over the credits.

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118 - Darling – Henley on Thames, England, UK

Darling

Diana Scott is a beautiful, bored young model married to Tony Bridges. One day Diana meets Robert Gold, a literary interviewer/director for television arts programs, by chance when she is spotted on the street by his roving film crew and interviewed by him about young people's views on convention.

Diana is invited to watch the final edit in the TV studio, and it's there that their relationship starts. After liaisons in bleak hotel rooms, they leave their spouses; and, in Robert's case, children, and move into an apartment.

Harry's House-Centerpiece

Joni Mitchell

Heatwaves on the runway

As the wheels set down

He takes his baggage off the carousel

He takes a taxi into town

Yellow schools of taxi fishes

Jonah in a ticking whale

Caught up at the light in the fishnet windows Of Bloomingdale's

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Watching those high fashion girls

Skinny black models with Raveen curls

Beauty parlor blondes with credit card eyes Looking for the chic and the fancy

To buy

He opens up his suitcase

In the continental suite

And people twenty stories down

Colored currents in the street

A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof

Like a dragonfly on a tomb

And business men in button downs

Press into conference rooms

Battalions of paper-minded males

Talking commodities and sales vouchers

While at home their paper wives

And paper kids

Paper the walls to keep their gut reactions hid

Yellow checkers for the kitchen

Climbing ivy for the bath

She is lost in House and Gardens

He's caught up in Chief of Staff

He drifts off into the memory

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Of the way she looked in school

With her body oiled and shining

At the public swimming pool

The more I'm with you, pretty baby

The more I feel my love increase

I'm building all my dreams around you

Our happiness will never cease

'Cause nothing's any good without you

Baby you're my centerpiece

We'll find a house and garden somewhere Along a country road a piece

A little cottage on the outskirts

Where we can really find release

'Cause nothing's any good without you

Baby you're my centerpiece

Shining hair and shining skin

Shining as she reeled him in

To tell him like she did today

Just what he could do with Harry's House And Harry's take home pay

Written by Joni Mitchell.

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As a couple they become part of the fashionable London media/arts set. Initially, Diana is jealous when Robert sees his wife while visiting his children, but she quickly loses this attachment when she mixes with the males of the media, arts and advertising scene, particularly Miles Brand, a powerful advertising executive for the Glass Corporation, who gets her a part in a trashy thriller after she has sex with him. The bookish Robert prefers the quiet life; it is he who now becomes jealous but increasingly detached, depressed and lonely.

Diana attends a high class charity draw for world hunger for which she is the face. The event, adorned by giant images of African famine victims, is juxtaposed with wealthy guests behaving decadently and gorging themselves with food. Diana later becomes pregnant and decides to have an abortion to sustain her career.

She flies to Paris with Miles for more jet set sophistication.

There she finds the wild party, beat music, strip dance mind game and cross-dressing vaguely repellent but slowly adjusts and holds her own, gaining the respect of the crowd when she taunts Miles during the game. On her return to London, Robert calls her a whore upon discovering her affair with Miles and leaves her, for which she is not emotionally prepared. Miles then, casts her

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as "The Happiness Girl" in the Glass Corporation's advertising campaign for a chocolate firm.

Diana finds comfort in the company of gay photographer Malcolm, who has created her new famous look. They go shopping, where she randomly decides to shoplift several items. On location at a palazzo near Rome, Diana smiles in her medieval/Renaissance costume and completes "The Happiness Girl" shoot. She is taken with the beauty of the building and the landscape, getting on well with the prince, Cesare, who owns the palazzo. With the friendly Malcolm, Diana decides to stay in Italy. They stay in a simple house by a small harbor in Capri, where Diana flirts half-heartedly with Catholicism. They are visited by Cesare, who arrives in a huge launch, invites them on board and proposes to Diana. She politely declines his proposal, but Cesare leaves the offer open.

Diana returns to London, still living in the flat she shared with Robert, where she has a party with Miles and other assorted media characters. Robert comes by to visit Diana but sees that she's with Miles and departs. Becoming disillusioned with Miles and the vacuous London jet set, Diana flirts with the Catholic church again. Impulsively, she flies to Italy and marries the prince, which proves to be ill fated. Though waited on hand and

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foot by the servants, she is almost immediately abandoned in the vast palazzo by Cesare, who visits Rome frequently.

Diana flees to London to visit Robert, who charms her into bed, making her believe they are ready for a stable, long-term relationship. However in the morning he tells her that he's leaving her and that he fooled her only as an act of revenge. He reserves a flight to Rome, packs her into his car and takes her to Heathrow airport to send her back to her life as Princess Della Romita. At the airport Diana is hounded by the press, who address her as Princess. She boards the plane to leave.

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119 - Joe - Clark, New Jersey

Joe

Advertising executive Bill Compton, his wife Joan, and daughter Melissa are a wealthy family living in New York's Upper East Side. Melissa has been living with her drug dealing boyfriend.

After Melissa overdoses and is sent to a hospital, Compton goes to her boyfriend's apartment to get her clothes. He confronts and kills the boyfriend in a fit of rage. At a nearby bar he hears factory worker Joe Curran ranting about how he hates hippies, and Compton blurts out that he just killed one. Joe reacts favorably, but Compton says it was a joke.

A few days later, Joe sees a news report about a drug dealer found slain a few blocks from the bar. He calls Compton and meets him. At first Compton is wary that Joe may be attempting blackmail, but Joe assures him that he admires Compton for

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killing the drug dealer. They become friends, and Compton and his wife have dinner at Joe's house with his wife. Melissa escapes from the hospital and returns to the family apartment, where she overhears her father discussing the murder. She storms out of the apartment house, saying to Compton; "What are you gonna do, kill me too?" Compton tries to restrain her, but she breaks away.

Joe and Compton search for her, and meet a group of hippies at a bar in downtown Manhattan. They join the hippies at an apartment, where the hippies share their drugs and girlfriends with the pair. They then abscond with drugs brought by Compton, which he had taken from the drug dealer, as well as Joe's and Compton's wallets. Joe beats one of the girls until she tells him that their boyfriends often spend time in an upstate commune. Joe and Compton drive to that commune, with Joe bringing rifles. In a confrontation at the commune, Joe and Compton kill all the hippies there, and Compton unwittingly kills his own daughter.

Eight Days a Week

The Beatles

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Ooh I need your love, babe

Guess you know it's true

Hope you need my love, babe

Just like I need you

Hold me, love me, hold me, love me

I ain't got nothin' but love, babe

Eight days a week

Love you every day, girl

Always on my mind

One thing I can say, girl

Love you all the time

Hold me, love me, hold me, love me

I ain't got nothin' but love, girl

Eight days a week

Eight days a week

I love you

Eight days a week

Is not enough to show I care

Ooh I need your love, babe

Guess you know it's true

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Hope you need my love, babe

Just like I need you

Oh, hold me, love me, hold me, love me

I ain't got nothin' but love, babe

Eight days a week

Eight days a week

I love you

Eight days a week

Is not enough to show I care

I love you every day, girl

Always on my mind

One thing I can say, girl

Love you all the time

Hold me, love me, hold me, love me

I ain't got nothin' but love, babe

Eight days a week

Eight days a week

Eight days a week

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

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Twenty-One

Eagles

I’m 21 and strong as I can be

I know what freedom means to me

And I can't give the reason why

I should ever wanna die

You got no cause to be afraid

Or fear that life will ever fade

'Cause as I watch the rising sun

I know that we have just begun

I might spend my life upon the road

Just tryna add to what I know

Then someday I might settle down

And all my friends will be around

They say a man should have a stock and trade But me, I'll find another way

I believe in getting what you can

And there ain't no stoppin' this young man

Because I'm young, fast as I can be

I know what freedom means to me

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And I can't give the reason why

I should ever wanna die

Yeah, I can't give the reason why

I should ever wanna die

Written by Bernie Leadon.

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120 - The Carabiniers – Arromanches-les-Bains, France The Carabiniers

“The Carabineers” was the fifth narrative feature film by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.

“Les Carabiniers” (1963) tells the story of two poor men called to serve in battle, lured by promises of the world's riches.

Ulysses and Michelangelo receive letters from the king of their fictional country that allow them to have complete freedom from consequence while fighting in the war, in return for anything they desire; swimming pools, Maseratis, women, at the enemy's expense.

Tin Man

America

Sometimes late

When things are real

And people share the gift of gab

Between themselves

Some are quick

To take the bait

And catch the perfect prize

That waits among the shells

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But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn't, didn't already have

And cause never was the reason for the evening Or the tropic of Sir Galahad

So please believe in me

When I say I'm spinning round, round, round, round Smoke glass stained bright colors

Image going down, down, down, down

Soaps a green like bubble

Oh Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn't, didn't already have

And cause never was the reason for the evening Or the tropic of Sir Galahad

So please

Believe in me

When I say I'm spinning round, round, round, round Smoke glass stained bright colors

Image going down, down, down, down

Soaps a green like bubble

No, Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man

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That he didn't, didn't already have

And cause never was the reason for the evening Or the tropic of Sir Galahad

So please

Believe in me

Oooh ooh ooh ooh-uh

Oooh ooh ooh ooh

Oooh ooh (dab dabad dab)

Oooh ooh (dab dabad dab)

Oooh ooh (dab dabad dab)

Oooh ooh (dab dabad dab)

Oooh ooh (dab dabad dab)

Oooh ooh (dab dabad dab)

Dab dab daah, Ooooh

Written by Dewey Bunnell.

Their wives, Venus and Cleopatra encourage them to fight when they hear about the riches. They leave and cross the battlefields and villages, destroying and pillaging as they wish. The pair's exploits are recounted through postcards sent to their wives, telling tales of the horrors of battle. The previously idealistic idea that the men have of war disintegrates, as they are still poor and now wounded. They

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return home with a suitcase full of postcards of the splendors of the world that they have fought for, and are told by army officials that they must wait until the war ends to receive their pay.

One day, the sky explodes with sparks, and the couples race into town, believing that the war has ended. Ulysses and Michelangelo are informed by their superiors that their king has lost the war, and that all of the war criminals must be punished. The two men are then shot for their crimes.

Writing about the film in Harpers Magazine in 1969, the critic Pauline Kael declared it, "hell to watch for the first hour ...

exciting to think about after because of its one good sequence, the long picture-postcard sequence near the end, is so incredible and so brilliantly prolonged. The picture has been crawling and stumbling along and then it climbs a high wire and walks it and keeps walking it until we're almost dizzy from admiration. The tight rope is rarely stretched so high in movies

... "

The renowned author and critic Susan Sontag referenced the film in her 1977 collection of essays On Photography. With respect to the "two sluggish lumpen peasants" returning home bearing postcards of the treasures of the world instead of tangible

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treasure, Sontag noted that "Godard's gag vividly parodies the equivocal magic of the photographic image."

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121 - Maryjane – Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Maryjane

Maryjane is a 1968 feature film starring Fabian as a high school art teacher who is framed for drug possession.

Do You Believe In Magic?

The Lovin' Spoonful

Do you believe in magic

in a young girl's heart?

How the music can free her

whenever it starts

And it's magic

if the music is groovy

It makes you feel happy

like an old-time movie

I'll tell you about the magic,

and it'll free your soul

But it's like trying to tell a stranger

'bout a rock 'n' roll

If you believe in magic,

don't bother to choose

If it's jug band music

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or rhythm and blues

Just go and listen,

it'll start with a smile

That won't wipe off your face

no matter how hard you try

Your feet start tapping,

and you can't seem to find

How you got there,

so just blow your mind

If you believe in magic,

come along with me

We'll dance until morning

'til there's just you and me

And maybe if the music is right

I'll meet you tomorrow

sorta late at night

And we'll go dancing baby,

then you'll see

How the magic's in the music,

and the music's in me

Yeah, do you believe in magic?

Yeah, believe in the magic

of the young girl's soul

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Believe in the magic

of a rock 'n' roll

Believe in the magic

that can set you free

Ahh, talking 'bout the magic

Do you believe like I believe?

Do you believe in magic?

Do you believe like I believe?

Do you believe, believer?

Do you believe like I believe?

Do you believe in magic?

Do you believe like I believe?

Do you believe in magic?

Written by John Sebastian .

A car driven by a driver intoxicated by marijuana plunges off a cliff, killing the driver and injures a female passenger.

It turns out marijuana use is rife at a small town high school, led by the clique of Jordan Bates. Art teacher Phil Blake tries to persuade student Jerry Blackburn not to smoke. Jerry borrows Phil's car and Jordan leaves some marijuana in it. Phil gets arrested for possession of marijuana.

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122 - Medium Cool – Minneapolis, Minnesota Medium Cool

John Cassellis is a television news cameraman. He and his sound recorder dispassionately film images of car accidents rather than help the victims. Cassellis is seemingly hardened to ethical and social issues. He is more concerned with his personal life and pursuing audience grabbing stories. Yet once Cassellis finds out that his news station has been providing the stories and information gathered by the cameramen and news journalists to the FBI, he becomes enraged. The news station creates an excuse to fire him, but he soon finds another job free lancing at the Democratic National Convention.

Glamour Profession

Steely Dan

6:05 p.m., outside the stadium

Special delivery for Hoops McCann

Brute and charisma poured from the shadow where he stood Looking good, he's a crowd-pleasing man

One on one, he's schoolyard Superman

Crashing the backboard, he's Jungle Jim again

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When it's all over

We'll make some calls from my car

We're a star. It's a glamour profession.

The L.A. concession

Local boys will spend a quarter

Just to shine the silver bowl

Living hard will take its toll

Illegal fun

Under the sun, boys

All aboard the Carib Cannibal

Off to Barbados just for the ride

Jack, with his radar, stalking the dread moray eel At the wheel with his Eurasian bride

On the town, we dress for action

Celluloid bikers is Friday's theme

I drove the Chrysler

Watched from the darkness while they danced

I'm the one. It's a glamour profession.

I'm the one. The L.A. concession.

Local boys will spend a quarter

Just to shine the silver bowl

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Living hard will take its toll

Illegal fun

Under the sun, boys

Hollywood, I know your middle name

Who inspires your fabled fools?

That's my claim to fame

Jive Miguel, he's in from Bogota

Meet me at midnight at Mr. Chow's

Szechuan dumplings

Now that the deal has been done

I'm the one. It's a glamour profession.

I'm the one. The L.A. concession.

Local boys will spend a quarter

Just to shine the silver bowl

Living hard will take its toll

Illegal fun

Under the sun, boys

Illegal fun

Under the sun, boys

Written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

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In the course of his television job, Cassellis meets Eileen, a single mother, and her son, Harold, who have moved from West Virginia to Chicago. Harold tells a woman canvassing the neighborhood that his father, Buddy, is "at Vietnam," but later tells Cassellis that he just took off one day and never came back. Eileen tells Cassellis that "Buddy is dead." Cassellis grows fond of them both, mother and son.

When Harold goes missing, Eileen goes to the site of the convention to ask Cassellis for help. She finds herself in the midst of the riots. After witnessing acts of police brutality, Eileen finds Cassellis. As they drive to an undisclosed location, unaware that Harold has returned home, Cassellis accidentally crashes the car into a tree, killing Eileen and critically injuring himself. A passing driver stops to photograph the accident, after which he leaves the heavily damaged car behind.

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123 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Taos, New Mexico

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

In 1862, in the American Southwest during the Civil War, three bounty hunters ambush Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez, who shoots them all and escapes. Elsewhere, mercenary "Angel Eyes"

interrogates former Confederate soldier Stevens concerning the alias of Jackson, a soldier who stole a cache of Confederate gold. Stevens gives the name "Bill Carson," offers Angel Eyes a bribe and then draws his pistol. Angel Eyes kills him and, intrigued about the gold, also kills his own employer. Tuco is rescued from more bounty hunters by a drifter, whom he calls

"Blondie." Blondie delivers Tuco to a sheriff and collects his $2,000 bounty. As Tuco is about to be hanged, Blondie severs his noose by shooting it and setting him free. The two escape and split the bounty. They repeat the process in other towns until Blondie grows weary of Tuco's complaints and strands him in the desert.

Bent on revenge, and after one failed attempt with his gang, Tuco catches up with Blondie and force marches him across the desert until Blondie collapses from dehydration. A runaway ambulance arrives with several dead Confederate soldiers and a

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near death Bill Carson, who promises Tuco $200,000 in gold, buried in a grave in Sad Hill Cemetery, in exchange for help.

When Tuco returns with water, Carson has died. However, before dying, he revealed the name on the grave to Blondie. Despite being mortal enemies, Blondie and Tuco realize they need one another alive to find the gold since only Tuco knows the name of the cemetery and only Blondie knows which grave to dig.

What I Am

Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

I'm not aware of too many things

I know what I know, if you know what I mean I'm not aware of too many things

I know what I know, if you know what I mean

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box

Religion is the smile on a dog

I'm not aware of too many things

I know what I know, if you know what I mean, d-doo yeah

Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

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What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

Oh, I'm not aware of too many things

I know what I know, if you know what I mean Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks Religion is a light in the fog

I'm not aware of too many things

I know what I know, if you know what I mean, d-doo yeah

Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what you are? And What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

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Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

Choke me in the shallow water

Before I get too deep

Don't let me get too deep

Don't let me get too deep

Don't let me get too deep

Don't let me get too deep

What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what you are? And What I am is what I am

Are you what you are or what?

Written by Edie Arlisa Brickell, Brandon Aly, John Bradley Houser, John Walter Bush, and Kenneth Neil Withrow.

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Posing as a Confederate soldier, Tuco takes Blondie to a nearby mission to recover. There, Tuco reunites with his brother, Pablo, who left his family to become a priest when Tuco was a child. Their meeting does not go well and they quickly become hostile.

Tuco and Blondie continue their search for the gold. Tuco yells pro-Confederate statements to an approaching group of soldiers who turn out to be a Union patrol. The two are taken to a prison camp that Angel Eyes has infiltrated as a Union sergeant in his search for Bill Carson. Tuco poses as Carson and is taken away for questioning. He reveals the name of the cemetery under torture and is sent away to be hanged. Knowing Blondie would not reveal the name on the grave, Angel Eyes recruits him into his search. Tuco escapes hanging by killing a henchman working for Angel Eyes, then goes to an evacuated town where Blondie, Angel Eyes and his gang have arrived.

Blondie finds Tuco and together they kill the gang, but Angel Eyes manages to escape. En route to Sad Hill, the duo find themselves in a skirmish between the Union and the Confederacy over a strategic bridge. Blondie decides to destroy the bridge to disperse the two armies and clear their path. As they wire the bridge with explosives, Tuco suggests they share the location of the grave with each other in case either is killed.

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Tuco reveals the name of the cemetery while Blondie says "Arch Stanton" is the name on the grave. After the bridge is demolished, Tuco steals a horse and rides to Sad Hill to claim the gold for himself. Blondie and Angel Eyes catch up to him as he digs up the grave, which contains no gold. Blondie admits lying about the name, then places a rock in the middle of the cemetery's pavement on which he says the true name is written.

The men stand around the pavement in a Mexican standoff. Blondie kills Angel Eyes while Tuco discovers that Blondie unloaded his gun the night before. Blondie reveals that the gold is in the grave beside Arch Stanton's, marked "Unknown." Tuco is initially elated to find bags of gold, but Blondie holds him at gunpoint and orders him into a hangman's noose beneath a tree. With his hands bound, Tuco is forced to stand atop an unsteady grave marker while Blondie takes his half of the gold and rides away.

As Tuco screams for mercy, Blondie severs the rope with a rifle shot, dropping Tuco face first onto the gold. Tuco furiously curses Blondie as he disappears over the horizon.

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124 - Jules and Jim – Lienz, Austria

Jules and Jim

The film is set before, during, and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Frenchman Jim. They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. At a slide show, they become entranced with a bust of a goddess and her serene smile and travel to see the ancient statue on an island in the Adriatic Sea.

After encounters with several women, they meet the free spirited, capricious Catherine, a doppelgänger for the statue with the serene smile. The three become inseparable. Although she begins a relationship with Jules, both men are affected by her presence and her attitude toward life. Jim continues to be involved with his girlfriend Gilberte, usually seeing her apart from the others. A few days before war is declared, Jules and Catherine move to Austria to get married. Both men serve during the war, on opposing sides. Each fears throughout the conflict the potential for facing the other or learning that he might have killed his friend.

Triad

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Jefferson Airplane

You want to know how it will be

Me and him or you and me

You both stand there, your long hair flowing Your eyes alive, your mind still growing Saying to me - what can we do now that we both love you I love you too, I don't really see

Why can't we go on as three

You are afraid, embarrassed too

No one has ever said such a thing to you Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulder Face like ice, a little bit colder

Saying to you - you cannot do that, it breaks All the rules you learned in school

I don't really see

Why can't we go on as three

We love each other, it's plain to see

There's just one answer comes to me

Sister lovers, water brothers

And in time maybe others

So you see what we can do is to try something new

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If you're crazy too, I don't really see Why can't we go on as three

Written by David Crosby.

After the wartime separation, Jim visits, and later stays with, Jules and Catherine in their chalet in the Black Forest. Jules and Catherine by then have a young daughter, Sabine. Jules confides the tensions in their marriage. He tells Jim that Catherine torments and punishes him at times with numerous affairs, and she once left him and Sabine for three months.

She flirts with and attempts to seduce Jim, who has never forgotten her. Jules, fearful that Catherine might leave him forever, gives his blessing for Jim to marry Catherine so that he may continue to visit them and see her. For a while, the three live happily with Sabine in the chalet, until tensions between Jim and Catherine arise because of their inability to have a child.

Jim leaves Catherine and returns to Paris. After several exchanges of letters between Catherine and Jim, they resolve to reunite when she learns that she is pregnant. The reunion does not occur after Jules writes to tell Jim that Catherine suffered a miscarriage.

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After a time, Jim runs into Jules in Paris. He learns that Jules and Catherine have returned to France. Catherine tries to win Jim back, but he rebuffs her, saying he is going to marry Gilberte. Furious, she pulls a gun on him, but he wrestles it away and flees. He later encounters Jules and Catherine in a famous movie theater, the Studio des Ursulines.

The three of them stop at an outdoor cafe. Catherine asks Jim to get into her car, saying she has something to tell him. She asks Jules to watch them and drives the car off a damaged bridge into the river, killing herself and Jim. Jules is left to bury the ashes of his friends in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery columbarium; Catherine wanted her ashes to be scattered in the wind from a hilltop, but at the time it was not legal.

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125 - The Born Losers – Boise, Idaho

The Born Losers

Billy Jack is introduced as an enigmatic, half-Native American Vietnam veteran who shuns society, taking refuge in the peaceful solitude of the California Central Coast mountains. His troubles begin when he descends from this unspoiled setting and drives into a small beach town named Big Rock. A minor traffic accident in which a motorist hits a motorcyclist results in a savage beating by members of the Born Losers Motorcycle Club, led by Danny. The horrified bystanders are too afraid to help or be involved in any way. Billy Jack jumps into the fray and rescues the man by himself. At this point the police arrive and arrest Billy for using a rifle to stop the fight.

The police throw Billy in jail and the judge fines him $1,000

for discharging a rifle in public, which leads him to sell his jeep. The assaulters face a $150 fine or thirty days in jail. He is treated with suspicion and hostility by the police.

Meanwhile, the marauding bikers terrorize the town, rape four teenage girls, and threaten anyone slated to testify against them, with the kid brother of the leader being fingered as part of the rape. One of the girls later recants, saying she willingly gave herself to the biker gang after the gang goes to

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her house and turns the power off before breaking into the house to spook her. Despite the efforts of the police to get her to not recant, her mother defends her decision to not testify.

Vicky Barrington, a bikini clad, damsel in distress, is twice abducted and abused by the gang. The first time, she goes along with the idea of being a biker mama if she can get drugs from her bike to take as a way to sneak up on a biker to knock him out and flee. Her supposed plan of ditching her bike to flee on foot results in her being caught and raped to the point where she is put in hospital. The second time, the bikers steal a cop car and try to steal her from the hideout after she agrees to testify for the trial. Her attempted escape has her run into Billy, who takes a swing at the bikers and takes Vicky to his location on her bike. She is spooked enough to not testify. The gang comes back to his place when the two are out for lunch and steal his money. Little by little, the other victims are spooked out by the bikers and ineffective sheriffs.

In the night, Billy drives out to see the bikers to talk to their leader about his stolen money. He gives them until tomorrow to get it back before leaving. The next day, the bikers confront Billy and Vicky at a gas station. Billy fights Gangrene and beats him before getting some of the money back and taking one of their bikes. Danny offers Vicky to serve as the sexually

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compliant "biker mama" the easy way rather than being there by force, which she declines. The gang comes to the hideout to ask them to see Danny by their hideout, which reveals they have kidnapped one of the rape victims. The dad tries to intervene, but he fails. Billy is hit from behind with a tire iron and beaten after trying to distract them long enough for Vicky to escape, but each fail. It is then that Vicky agrees to be a biker mama to get them to let go of Billy.

At the police station, Billy is unable to get help from the police or the local residents and must return to the gang's lair to rescue Vicky by himself, particularly when the last victim recants. Billy, armed with a bolt action rifle, captures the gang, shoots the leader between the eyes in cold blood, and forces some of the others to take Vicky, who's been badly beaten, to the hospital. As the police finally arrive, Billy abruptly rides away on one of the gang's motorcycles.

Positively 4th Street

Bob Dylan

You got a lotta nerve to say

you are my friend

When I was down,

you just stood there grinning

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You got a lotta nerve

to say you got a helping hand to lend

You just want to be on the side

that's winning

You say I let you down,

you know it's not like that

If you're so hurt,

why then don't you show it?

You say you lost your faith,

but that's not where it's at

You had no faith to lose

and you know it

I know the reason

that you talk behind my back

I used to be among the crowd

you're in with

Do you take me for such a fool

to think I'd make contact

With the one who tries to hide

what he don't know to begin with?

You see me on the street,

you always act surprised

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You say, "How are you?", "Good luck", but you don't mean it

When you know, as well as me,

you'd rather see me paralyzed

Why don't you just come out once

and scream it?

No, I do not feel that good

when I see the heartbreaks you embrace

If I was a master thief,

perhaps I'd rob them

And now I know you're dissatisfied

with your position and your place

Don't you understand,

it's not my problem?

I wish that for just one time

you could stand inside my shoes

And just for that one moment I could be you Yes, I wish that for just one time

you could stand inside my shoes

You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Written by Bob Dylan.

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The anti-authority sentiment continues up to the end when a police deputy accidentally shoots Billy in the back, mistaking him for a fleeing gang member. He is later found, nearly dead, lying by the shore of a lake. He is placed on a stretcher and is flown to the hospital in a helicopter as Vicky and the sheriff give him a salute.

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126 - Wild Strawberries – Stockholm, Sweden Wild Strawberries

Grouchy, stubborn, and egotistical Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78 year old physician who specialized in bacteriology.

Before specializing, he served as a general practitioner in rural Sweden. He sets out on a long car ride from Stockholm to Lund to be awarded the degree of Doctor Jubilaris fifty years after he received his doctorate from Lund University. He is accompanied by his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne who does not much like her father-in-law and is planning to separate from her husband, Evald, Isak's only son. Evald does not want her to have the baby, their first.

The Late Show

Jackson Browne

Everyone I've ever known has wished me well Anyway, that's how it seems, it's hard to tell Maybe people only ask you how you're doing

'Cause that's easier than letting on

how little they could care

But when you know that

you've got a real friend somewhere

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Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear

Now, to see things clear it's hard enough, I know While you're waiting for reality to show Without dreamin' of the perfect love

And holding it so far above

If you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know (You'd never know)

You could be with somebody who is lonely too (Sometimes it doesn't show)

He might be trying to get across to you (Words can be so slow)

When your own emptiness is all that's gettin' through There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking

I passed that point long ago

(Long ago)

I'm so tired of all this circling

And all these glimpses of the end

(You know it's useless to pretend)

That's all the voices say,

you'll go right on circling

Until you've found some kind of friend

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Well, I saw you through the laughter and the noise You were talking with the soldiers and the boys While they scuffled for your weary smiles I thought of all the empty miles

And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes (Looking for your eyes)

Now I'm sitting here wondering what to say (That you might recognize)

Afraid that all these words might scare you away (Break through the disguise)

No one ever talks about their feelings anyway Without dressing them in dreams and laughter I guess it's just too painful otherwise

Look, it's like you're standing in the window Of a house nobody lives in

And I'm sitting in a car across the way (Let's just say)

It's an early model Chevrolet

(Let's just say)

It's a warm and windy day

You go and pack your sorrow

The trash man comes tomorrow

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Leave it at the curb and we'll just roll away

Written by Jackson Browne.

During the trip, Isak is forced by nightmares, daydreams, old age, and impending death to reevaluate his life. He meets a series of hitchhikers, each of whom sets off dreams or reveries into Borg's troubled past. The first group consists of two young men and their companion, a woman named Sara who is adored by both men. Sara is a double for the love of Isak's youth. He reminisces about his childhood at the seaside and his sweetheart Sara, with whom he remembered gathering strawberries, but who instead married his brother. The first group remains with him throughout his journey. Next Isak and Marianne pick up an embittered middle aged couple, the Almans, whose vehicle had nearly collided with theirs. The pair exchanges such terrible vitriol and venom that Marianne stops the car and demands that they leave. The couple reminds Isak of his own unhappy marriage.

In a dream sequence, Isak is asked by Sten Alman, now the examiner, to read "foreign" letters on the blackboard. He cannot. So, Alman reads it for him; "A doctor's first duty is to ask forgiveness," from which he concludes; "You are guilty of guilt."

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He is confronted by his loneliness and aloofness, recognizing these traits in both his elderly mother, whom they stop to visit, and in his middle aged physician son, and he gradually begins to accept himself, his past, his present, and his approaching death.

Borg finally arrives at his destination and is promoted to Doctor Jubilaris, but this proves to be an empty ritual. That night, he bids a loving goodbye to his young friends, to whom the once bitter old man whispers in response to a playful declaration of the young girl's love; "I'll remember." As he goes to his bed in his son's home, he is overcome by a sense of peace, and dreams of a family picnic by a lake. Closure and affirmation of life have finally come, and Borg's face radiates joy.

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127 - Contempt – Greenwich, Connecticut

Contempt

Paul Javal, a young French playwright who has found commercial success in Rome, accepts a lucrative offer from vulgar American producer Jeremy Prokosch to rework the script for German director Fritz Lang's screen adaptation of “The Odyssey.”

Paul's wife, Camille Javal, joins him on the first day of the project at Cinecittà. As the first discussions are completed, Prokosch invites the crew to join him at his villa, offering Camille a ride in his two seat sports car. Camille looks to Paul to decline the offer, but he submissively withdraws to follow by taxi, leaving Camille and Prokosch alone.

Just Like This Train

Joni Mitchell

I'm always running behind the time

Just like this train

Shaking into town

With the brakes complainin'

I used to count lovers like railroad cars I counted them on my side

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Lately I don't count on nothing

I just let things slide

The station master's shuffling cards

Boxcars are banging in the yards

Jealous lovin'll make you crazy

If you can't find your goodness

Cause you lost your heart

I went looking for a cause

Or a strong cat without claws

Or any reason to resume

And I found this empty seat

In this crowded waiting room

Everybody waiting

Old man sleeping on his bags

Women with that teased up kind of hair

Kids with the jitters in their legs

And those wide wide open stares

And the kids got cokes & chocolate bars There's a thin man smoking a fat cigar

Jealous lovin'll make you crazy

If you can't find your goodness

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Cause you've lost your heart

What are you going to do now

You've got no one to give your love to

Well I've got this berth and this roll down blind I've got this fold up sink

And these rocks

And these cactus going by

And a bottle of German wine to drink

Settle down into the clickety clack

With the clouds and the stars to read

Dreaming of the pleasure I'm gonna have Watching your hairline recede, my vain darling

Watching your hair and clouds and stars I'm rocking away in a sleeping car

Cause this jealous lovin's bound to make me Crazy

I can't find my goodness

I lost my heart

Oh sour grapes

Because I lost my heart

Written by Joni Mitchell.

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Paul does not catch up with them until 30 minutes later, explaining that he was delayed by a traffic accident. Camille grows uneasy, secretly doubting his honesty and suspecting that he is using her to cement his ties with Prokosch. Her misgivings are heightened when she sees Paul grope Prokosch's secretary, Francesca. Back at their apartment, Paul and Camille discuss the subtle uneasiness that has come between them in the first few hours of the project, and Camille suddenly announces to her bewildered husband that she no longer loves him.

Hoping to rekindle Camille's love, Paul convinces her to accept Prokosch's invitation to join them for filming in Capri.

Prokosch and Lang are locked in a conflict over the correct interpretation of Homer's work, an impasse exacerbated by the difficulty of communication between the German director, French script writer, and American producer. Francesca acts as interpreter, mediating all conversations. When Paul sides with Prokosch against Lang by suggesting that Odysseus actually left home because of his wife's infidelity, Camille's suspicions of her husband's servility are confirmed. She deliberately allows him to find her in Prokosch's embrace, and in the ensuing confrontation she implies that her respect for him has turned to contempt because he has bartered her to Prokosch. He denies this

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suggestion, offering to sever his connection with the film and leave Capri; but she will not recant and leaves for Rome with the producer. After a car crash in which Camille and Prokosch are killed, Paul prepares to leave Capri and return to the theater. Lang continues to work on the film.

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128 - Billy Jack – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Billy Jack

Billy Jack is a "mixed-race" Navajo, a Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, and a hapkido master.

Jack defends the hippie themed Freedom School, inspired by Prescott College, and students from townspeople who do not understand or like the counterculture students. The school is organized by its director, Jean Roberts. One of the troubled youths is a girl named Barbara, who became pregnant and was abused by her father.

A group of children of various races from the school go to town for ice cream and are refused service and then abused and humiliated by Bernard Posner, the son of the county's corrupt political boss Stuart Posner, and his gang. This prompts a violent outburst by Billy. Billy goes through a Navajo initiation where he is purposely bitten by a large rattlesnake, so that he would become the blood brother to the snake, and survives the ordeal. Meanwhile, Barbara loses her unborn child, when the horse she was riding stumbles on a rock, causing her to fall off the horse. Following an incident involving Jean, Billy gives Bernard a choice of either receiving a dislocated elbow, or driving his Corvette into the lake. Bernard does the latter.

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Later, Jean is kidnapped and raped by Bernard, who also murders a Native American student. Billy confronts Bernard, whom he catches in bed with a thirteen year old girl, and sustains a gunshot wound before killing him with a hand strike to the throat. After barricading himself following a climactic shootout with the police and pleading from Jean, Billy Jack surrenders to the authorities in exchange for a decade long guarantee that the school will be allowed to continue to run with Jean as its head.

As Billy is driven away in handcuffs, a large crowd of supporters raise their fists as a show of defiance and support.

One Way or Another

Blondie

One way, or another, I'm gonna find ya

I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya One way, or another, I'm gonna win ya

I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya One way, or another, I'm gonna see ya

I'm gonna meet ya, meet ya, meet ya, meet ya One day, maybe next week

I'm gonna meet ya, I'm gonna meet ya, I'll meet ya

I will drive past your house

And if the lights are all down

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I'll see who's around

One way, or another, I'm gonna find ya

I'm gonna meet ya, meet ya, meet ya, meet ya One way, or another, I'm gonna win ya, I'll get ya, I'll get ya One way, or another, I'm gonna see ya

I'm gonna meet ya, meet ya, meet ya, meet ya One day, maybe next week, I'm gonna meet ya I'll meet ya, ah

And if the lights are all out

I'll follow your bus downtown

See who's hanging out

One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya

I'm gonna give you the slip

A slip of the hip or another, I'm gonna lose ya I'm gonna trick ya, I'll trick ya

One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya

I'm wanna trick ya, trick ya, trick ya, trick ya One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya

I'm gonna give you the slip

I'll walk down the mall, stand over by the wall Where I can see it all, find out who you call Lead you to the supermarket checkout

Some specials and rat food, get lost in the crowd

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One way, or another, I'm wanna get ya

I'll get ya, I'll get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya (where I can see it all, find out who ya call) One way, or another, I'm wanna get ya

I'll get ya, I'll get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya (where I can see it all, find out who ya call) One way, or another, I'm wanna get ya

I'll get ya, I'll get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya (where I can see it all, find out who ya call) One way, or another, I'm wanna get ya

I'll get ya, I'll get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya (where I can see it all, find out who ya call) One way, or another, I'm wanna get ya

I'll get ya, I'll get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya (where I can see it all, find out who ya call) One way, or another, I'm wanna get ya

I'll get ya, I'll get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya (where I can see it all, find out who ya call) One way, or another

Written by Deborah Harry, Nigel Harrison, and Jay Hawkins.

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129 - The Hustler – Spring Valley, Nevada The Hustler

"Fast Eddie" Felson is accompanied by his partner Charlie, at a pool room in a small town. Pretending to be salesmen on their way to a convention, Eddie and Charlie convince onlookers that Eddie is a drunk blowhard, and induce them to bet on Eddie to lose a trick shot. He wins and takes their money.

Creeque Alley

The Mamas and The Papas

John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy Just to leave the folk music behind

Zal and Denny workin' for a penny

Tryin' to get a fish on the line

In a coffee house Sebastian sat

And after every number

They'd pass the hat

McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher In L.A., you know where that's at

And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

Zally said "Denny, you know there aren't many Who can sing a song the way that you do,

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let's go south"

Denny said "Zally, golly,

don't you think that I wish

I could play guitar like you"

Zal, Denny and Sebastian sat

At the Night Owl

And after every number they'd pass the hat McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin higher In L.A., you know where that's at

And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

When Cass was a sophomore,

planned to go to Swarthmore

But she changed her mind one day

Standin' on the turnpike,

thumb out to hitchhike

"Take me to New York right away"

When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps Called John and Zal and that was the Mugwumps McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher But that's what they were aimin' at

And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

Mugwumps, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps Don't you work as hard as you play

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Make up, break up, everything is shake up Guess it had to be that way

Sebastian and Zal formed the Spoonful

Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire In L.A., you know where that's at

And everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

Di-di-di-dit dit dit di-di-di-dit, whoa Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted And Mitchy wants to go to the sea

Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to fake it We knew she'd come eventually

Greasin' on American Express cards

It's low rent

But keeping out the heat's hard

Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations Can't go on indefinitely

And California dreamin' is becomin' a reality

Written by John Edmund Andrew Phillips and Michelle Gilliam Phillips.

Eddie and Charlie arrive in New York City, where Eddie challenges the legendary player Minnesota Fats to play straight

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pool for $200 a game. After initially falling behind, Eddie surges back to being $1,000 ahead and suggests raising the bet to $1,000 a game. Eddie gets ahead $11,000 and Charlie tries to convince him to quit, but Eddie insists the game will end only when Fats says it is over. Fats agrees to continue after a spectator, the professional gambler Bert Gordon, labels Eddie a

"loser." After 25 hours and an entire bottle of bourbon, Eddie is ahead over $18,000, but loses it all along with all but $200

of his original stake. Fats declares the game over. At their hotel later, Eddie leaves a sleeping Charlie without saying goodbye.

Eddie stashes his belongings in locker at a bus terminal, where he meets Sarah Packard, an alcoholic with a limp. They begin a relationship and he moves in with her. Charlie finds Eddie at Sarah's apartment and tries to persuade him to go back out on the road. Eddie refuses and Charlie realizes he plans to challenge Fats again. Eddie learns that Charlie had money he could have rebounded to beat Fats. Eddie dismisses Charlie as a scared old man and tells him to "lay down and die by yourself."

Eddie joins a poker game where Bert is playing. Afterward, Bert tells Eddie that he has talent as a pool player but no character. He figures that Eddie will need at least $3,000 to challenge Fats again. Bert calls him a "born loser" but

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nevertheless offers to stake him in return for 75% of his winnings. Eddie refuses.

Eddie goes back to hustling to get the money he needs to play Fats. At a pool room near the waterfront, Eddie is attacked by Bert's thugs after winning money and his thumbs are broken. When Eddie heals and is again ready to play, he agrees to Bert's terms, deciding that a "25% slice of something big is better than a 100% slice of nothing."

Bert, Eddie, and Sarah travel to the Kentucky Derby, where Bert arranges a match for Eddie against a wealthy local socialite named Findley. The game turns out to be three cushion billiards, not straight pool. Though the terms are often used interchangeably and imprecisely, they precisely refer to different games. Findley states that he specified billiards.

Eddie plays, but has to learn the game as he goes along.

When Eddie loses badly, Bert refuses to keep staking him. Sarah pleads with Eddie to leave with her, saying that the world he is living in and its inhabitants are "perverted, twisted, and crippled." He refuses. Seeing Eddie's anger, Bert agrees to let the match continue at $1,000 a game. Eddie’s new knowledge of billiards added to his superior shooting skill allows him to come back to win $12,000. Findley gets increasingly disoriented

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and effeminate as he loses; evincing the characteristics of a loser and a sissy.

Eddie collects his $3,000 share and decides to walk back to the hotel where he discovers that Sarah has committed suicide, because of Bert's sadism.

Eddie returns to challenge Fats again, putting up his entire $3,000 stake on a single game. He wins game after game, beating Fats so badly that Fats is forced to quit. Bert demands half of Eddie's winnings and threatens to have him beaten again unless he pays. Eddie says he will come back to kill Bert if he survives, shaming Bert into giving up his claim by invoking Sarah's memory. Instead, Bert orders Eddie never to walk into a big time pool hall again. Eddie and Fats complement each other as players, and Eddie walks out.

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130 - Pierrot the Fool – Saint Emilion, France Pierrot the Fool

Ferdinand Griffon is unhappily married and has been recently fired from his job at a TV broadcasting company. After attending a mindless party full of shallow discussions in Paris, he feels a need to escape and decides to run away with ex-girlfriend Marianne Renoir, leaving his wife and children and bourgeois lifestyle. Following Marianne into her apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand soon discovers that Marianne is being chased by Organisation Armee Secrete (OAS) gangsters, a right wing French dissident paramilitary organization formed during the Algerian War, which supposedly no longer exists. The OAS carried out terrorist attacks, including bombings and assassinations, in an attempt to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule. Its motto was “L’Algérie est française et le restera;” "Algeria is French and will remain so."

The two of whom they barely escape. Marianne and Ferdinand, whom she calls Pierrot; an unwelcome nickname meaning "sad clown,"

go on a crime spree from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea in the dead man's car. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run, pursued by the police and by the OAS gangsters. When they settle down in the French Riviera after burning the dead man's car,

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which had been full of money unbeknownst to Marianne, and sinking a second car into the Mediterranean Sea, their relationship becomes strained. Ferdinand reads books, philosophizes, and writes a diary. They spend a few days on a desert island.

A dwarf, who is one of the gangsters, kidnaps Marianne. She kills him with a pair of scissors. Ferdinand finds him murdered and is caught and bludgeoned by two of the dwarf’s accomplices, who waterboard him to make him reveal Marianne’s whereabouts.

Marianne escapes, and she and Ferdinand are separated.

He settles in Toulon while she searches for him everywhere until she finds him. After their eventual reunion, Marianne uses Ferdinand to get a suitcase full of money before running away with her real boyfriend, Fred, to whom she had previously referred as her brother. Ferdinand shoots Marianne and Fred, then paints his face blue and decides to blow himself up by tying sticks of red and yellow dynamite to his head. He regrets this at the last second and tries to extinguish the fuse, but he fails and is blown up.

A Song for Europe

Roxy Music

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Here as I sit

At this empty cafe

Thinking of you

I remember

All those moments

Lost in wonder

That we'll never

Find again

Though the world

Is my oyster

It's only a shell

Full of memories

And here by the Seine

Notre-Dame casts

A long lonely shadow

Now only sorrow

No tomorrow

There's no today for us

Nothing is there

For us to share

But yesterday

These cities may change

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But they always remain

My obsession

Through silken waters

My gondola glides

And the bridge; it sighs ...

I remember

All those moments

Lost in wonder

That we'll never

Find again

There's no more time for us

Nothing is there

For us to share

But yesterdays

Ecce momenta

Illa mirabilia

Quae captabit

In aeternum

Memor

Modo dolores

Sunt in dies

Non est reliquum

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Vero tantum

Comminicamus

Perdita

Tous ces moments

Perdus de l'enchantement

Qui ne reviendront

Jamais

Pas d'aujourd'hui pour nous

Pour nous il n'y a rien

À partager

Sauf le passé

Tous ces moments

Perdus de l'enchantement

Qui ne reviendront

Jamais, jamais, jamais, jamais, jamais

Written by Bryan Ferry and Andrew Mc Kay.

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131 - The Appaloosa – Ojo Prieto, Mexico The Appaloosa

Based on the 1963 book by Robert MacLeod, the title character is a beautiful horse (a breed, the Appaloosa) belonging to Matt Fletcher, a Mexican-American buffalo hunter who returns home, only to have his beloved horse stolen by a powerful bandit, Chuy Medina with the help of the bandit's girlfriend Trini, in the border town of Ojo Prieto. Trini was sold to Chuy at the age of 15, but has been brutalized and effectively discarded.

Bitter Creek

Eagles

Once I was young, so unsure

I'd try any ill to find the cure

An old man told me

Tryin' to scold me

"Oh, son, don't wade too deep in Bitter Creek,"

(Bitter Creek)

Out where the desert meets the sky

Is where I go when I wanna hide

Oh, peyote (oh, peyote, ooh)

She tried to show me (tried to show me)

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You know there ain't no cause to weep

At Bitter Creek

(Bitter Creek)

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

We're gonna hit the road for one last time We can walk right in and steal 'em blind All that money (all that money, ooh)

No more runnin' (no more runnin')

I can't wait to see the old man's face

When I win the race

(Bitter Creek)

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

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Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Written by Bernie Leadon.

Fletcher begins to hunt down the bandit to recapture the horse, but finds matters more complicated than expected when he meets the bandit's girlfriend. Fletcher is subjected to torture and humiliation by Chuy and his minions.

A later foray into Medina's camp results in a brutal arm wrestling match in a bar between Fletcher and the bandido.

Fletcher loses and is stung on the arm by a scorpion. Again left to die, Fletcher is rescued by Trini, who despises her "lover,"

Chuy, and prefers Fletcher's company. She gets him assistance from a kindly old peasant, which later costs the old man his life.

During the violence laden climax, Fletcher is forced to choose between Trini and his beloved Appaloosa. Fletcher, realizing that Trini means more to him than the horse, sends out the Appaloosa to draw Chuy's fire. As the bandit prepares to aim for the horse, sunlight glints on his gun barrel, revealing his position. Fletcher fires and kills him. Fletcher and Trini then cross the border with the Appaloosa to start a new life.

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132 - Electra Glide in Blue – Bisbee, Arizona Electra Glide in Blue

John Wintergreen is a motorcycle cop who patrols the rural Arizona highways with his partner Zipper. Zipper hates hippies and he pulls over a long haired kid in a van. He searches it seeing comics and other stuff the kid is selling to head shops.

Zipper plants some pot on him which Wintergreen sees and objects to. But he gives up the argument when Zipper is insistent. They arrest the kid for the pot, which has a possible twenty year penalty.

Wintergreen is an experienced patrolman looking to be transferred to the Homicide unit. When he is informed by Crazy Willie of an apparent suicide by shotgun, Wintergreen believes the case is actually a murder as the victim has shot himself in the chest rather than the head, which is more usual. Detective Harvey Poole agrees it is a homicide, after a .22 bullet is found amongst the pellets in the man's chest during the autopsy, as well as hearing about a possible missing $5,000 from the man's home, and arranges for Wintergreen to be transferred to homicide to help with the case.

Wintergreen gets his wish, but his joy is short lived. He begins increasingly to identify with the hippies whom the other

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officers, including Detective Poole, are endlessly harassing.

The final straw comes when Poole discovers that Wintergreen has been sleeping with his girlfriend, Jolene. The hostile workplace politics cause him to be quickly demoted back to traffic enforcement.

While demoted, Wintergreen solves the murder. The killer is Willie, who confesses while Wintergreen goads him into talking about it. Wintergreen supposes that Crazy Willie did it because he was jealous of the old man he killed, who frequently had young people over to his house to buy drugs. Shortly after, it is discovered that Zipper stole the $5,000, which he used to buy a fully dressed Electra Glide motorcycle. Upon this discovery, Zipper becomes distressed and belligerent and shoots at Wintergreen, striking an innocent bystander. Wintergreen shoots him square in the chest.

Violence

Mott the Hoople

I'm a missing link, poolroom stink, I can't talk (Well that's too bad)

What's goin' on, somethings wrong, I can't work Can't go to school, the teacher's a fool, the preacher's a jerk (Well that's such a drag)

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Got nothin' to do, street corner blues, and nowhere to walk

Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense

Gotta fight, nothings right, livin' nowhere (That's so sad)

Watch out for the gun, snake on the run, hide in my hair You keep your mouth shut, or you'll get cut, I like to scare (Bet you're so mad)

I'm a battery louse, a superstar mouse, I don't care Get off my back or I'll attack

And I don't owe you nothin'

(Okay)

Head for your hole, you're sick and you're old And I'm here to tell you somethin'

Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense

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Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

It's the only thing that'll make you see sense Violence, violence

Written by Ian Hunter and Michael Geoffrey Ralphs .

Wintergreen, now alone and back on his old beat, runs into a hippie that Zipper was needlessly harassing earlier on a previous stop. Recognizing him, Wintergreen lets him off with a warning, but the hippie forgets his driver's license, and Wintergreen drives up behind his van to return it to him. The hippie's passenger points a shotgun out of the back window and shoots Wintergreen, killing him.

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133 - The Big Cube – Palm Springs, California The Big Cube

Adriana Roman, a successful stage actress, retires to marry Charles Winthrop, a wealthy tycoon. Winthrop's daughter, Lisa, is instantly distrustful of Adriana solely because she is "the other woman" taking her father's affection.

Charles is killed in a boating accident, which also leads to Adriana suffering from a concussion. Lisa's new boyfriend Johnny Allen, a womanizing, fortune hunting medical student, capitalizes on that distrust to persuade Lisa that her father's death was murder, a charge exacerbated by Adriana's threat; as per her late husband's instructions as laid out in his will, for which Adriana is executor, to disinherit Lisa if she marries Johnny.

Brain Damage

Pink Floyd

The lunatic is on the grass

The lunatic is on the grass

Remembering games

And daisy chains and laughs

Got to keep the loonies on the path

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The lunatic is in the hall

The lunatics are in my hall

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

The lunatic is in my head

The lunatic is in my head

You raise the blade

You make the change

You rearrange me 'til I'm sane

You lock the door

And throw away the key

There's someone in my head, but it's not me

And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear You shout and no one seems to hear

And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon I can't think of anything to say except, laughing is nice

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Written by George Roger Waters.

Johnny conspires with Lisa to lace Adriana's prescribed sedatives with enough LSD to drive her insane. During one of the episodes, Adriana hallucinates that Johnny and Lisa are attempting to throw her over a cliff side after taking her on a drive into the country. Later, while Adriana has further LSD

induced hallucinations at home, Johnny plays pre-recorded subliminal messages to further drive her crazy, one of which instructs Adriana to leap from a window. Lisa is unaware of this scheme. As Adriana is about to jump to her probable death, Lisa saves her. While still unaware of Johnny's true intent, Lisa continues with their plan and Adriana is committed to a mental hospital, where they have Adriana declared legally insane and thus unable to carry out her obligations in Charles' will.

After their wedding, Johnny demonstrates that he doesn't really love Lisa by openly seducing other women, most notably Lisa's free spirited best friend, Bibi. Johnny bribes Lisa to divorce him by providing a $100,000 settlement in return for keeping silent about what they did to Adriana. Lisa does divorce him, but instead of succumbing to Johnny's threats, she decides to come clean to Frederick Lansdale, a playwright friend of

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Adriana's who has always loved her himself, about what she and Johnny did. By this time, Adriana is suffering from amnesia, still believing that Charles is alive.

Frederick decides to write a play detailing Adriana's traumatic experiences and casts her in the lead role. He hopes that replaying her experience on stage will cure her. By the opening performance, Adriana has glimpses from her memory of what has happened, not fully realizing what those fleeting thoughts are.

By the climactic third act of the play, which details the tape recorded subliminal messages Lisa and Johnny played during Adriana's hallucinations, Frederick decides to play the actual recordings with Lisa and Johnny's voices. This brings Adriana back to reality. She recognizes the voices and the fact that Lisa and Johnny use her real name as opposed to her character's name in the play. Lisa rushes onto the stage, admitting to Adriana what she and Johnny did. In a rage, Adriana slaps Lisa in the face.

The play and Adriana's performance are a huge hit, Adriana and Frederick are about to be married, and Lisa has reconciled with Adriana. Meanwhile, Johnny has begun taking his own LSD while being shunned by his so called friends. He is last seen on the floor in the midst of an LSD trip.

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134 - Catch-22 – Pianosa, Italy

Catch-22

Captain John Yossarian, a US Army Air Force B-25 bombardier, is stationed on the Mediterranean base on Pianosa during World War II. Along with his squadron members, Yossarian is committed to flying dangerous missions, but after watching friends die, he seeks a means of escape.

Over Under Sideways Down

The Yardbirds

Hey! hey! hey! hey!

Cars and girls are easy come by in this day and age Laughing, joking, drinking, smoking

'Till I've spent my wage

When I was young people spoke of immorality All the things they said were wrong

Are what I want to be

Hey

Over under sideways down

Hey

Backwards forwards square and round

Hey

Over under sideways down

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Hey\

Backwards forwards square and round

When will it end (when will it end)

When will it end (when will it end)

Hey! hey! hey! hey!

I find comment 'bout my looks irrelativity Think I'll go and have some fun

'Cause it's all for free

I'm not searching for a reason to enjoy myself Seems it's better done

Than argued with somebody else

Hey

Over under sideways down

Hey

Backwards forwards square and round

Hey

Over under sideways down

Hey

Backwards forwards square and round

When will it end

When will it end

When will it end

When will it end

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Hey! hey! hey! hey!

Hey

Over under sideways down

Hey

Backwards forwards square and round

Hey

Over under sideways down

Hey

Backwards forwards square and round

Hey

Over under sideways down

Hey

Backwards forwards square and round

Hey

Over under sideways down

Hey

Backwards forwards square and round

Hey! hey! hey! hey!

Written by Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck, Keith Relf, Chris Dreja, and Paul Samwell-Smith.

While most crews are rotated out after 25 missions, his commanding officer, Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the minimum number of missions for this base before anyone can reach it,

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eventually to an unobtainable 80 missions; a figure resulting from Cathcart's craving for publicity, primarily a mention in the nationally syndicated Saturday Evening Post magazine.

Futilely appealing to Cathcart, Yossarian learns that even a mental breakdown is no release when Doc Daneeka explains the

"Catch-22" the Army Air Force employs. An airman would have to be crazy to fly more missions, and if he were crazy, he would be unfit to fly. Yet, if an airman were to refuse to fly more missions, this would indicate that he is sane, which would mean that he would be fit to fly the missions. The airman is thus in an impossible "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

Yossarian is haunted, in several recurring flashbacks during the film, by the bloody death of Snowden, the young turret gunner on his B-25. After Snowden's death, Yossarian temporarily refuses to wear his uniform, which Snowden bled on. He shows up at a medal ceremony naked, and later morosely sits naked in a tree, where he is visited by Lt. Milo Minderbinder, who rapidly progresses from squadron supply officer to a capitalistic tycoon involved in black market money making schemes. The bomber squadron is populated by many other comically strange characters. Major Major Major, the squadron's operations officer, is promoted to a squadron commander without ever having flown in a plane, and refuses to see anyone in his office while

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he is in, instructing Sergeant Towser that people can see him when he's out. The person has to wait in the waiting room until Major Major Major is gone, then can go right in.

Trapped by this convoluted logic, Yossarian watches as individuals in the squadron resort to unusual means to cope. Lt.

Milo Minderbinder concocts elaborate black market schemes while crazed Captain "Aarfy" Aardvark commits murder to silence a girl he has raped. Lieutenant Nately falls for a sex worker, Major Danby delivers goofy pep talks before every bomb run and Captain Orr keeps crashing at sea. Meanwhile, Nurse Duckett occasionally beds Yossarian.

Nately dies as a result of an agreement between Milo and the Germans, trading surplus cotton in exchange for the squadron bombing its own base. While on a pass, Yossarian shares this news with Nately's romantic partner, who then tries to kill him.

Because of Yossarian's constant complaints, Cathcart and Lt.

Colonel Korn eventually agree to send him home, promising him a promotion to major and awarding him a medal for the fictitious saving of Cathcart's life; the only requirement being that Yossarian agrees to "like" the colonels and praise them when he gets home.

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Immediately after agreeing to Cathcart's and Korn's plan, Yossarian survives an attempt on his life when stabbed by Nately's partner, who had disguised herself as a janitor. Once recovered, Yossarian learns from the chaplain and Major Danby that Captain Orr's supposed death was a hoax and that Orr's repeated "crash" landings had been a subterfuge for practicing and planning his own escape from the madness. Yossarian is informed that Orr ditched the plane and paddled a rescue raft all the way to Sweden on his last run.

Yossarian decides to abandon the deal with Cathcart, leaps out of the hospital window, takes a raft from a damaged plane and, while a marching band practices for the ceremony to award Yossarian the promotion and medal, he hops into the sea, climbs into the raft and starts paddling.

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135 - Seventies News

1970

The popular band "The Beatles" announce they have disbanded.

NASA's Apollo 13 Moon Mission returns to Earth successfully after abandoning its mission to the Moon after experiencing oxygen tank problems and an explosion.

Forty-three nations ratify the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The United States invades Cambodia.

The first jumbo-jet, the Boeing 747, makes its debut commercial flight from New York to London.

1971

The U.S. voting age is lowered from 21 to 18 years old when the 26th amendment is ratified.

The Walt Disney World Resort is opened in Orlando, Florida.

The Pentagon Papers are published by the New York Times.

Qatar and Sierra Leone become independent from England.

The first microprocessor, the 4004, is released by Intel.

1972

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The Watergate Scandal begins when White House operatives are caught burglarizing the Democratic National Committee PONG, the first video game to have commercial success, is released.

The first U.S. cable subscription service, HBO, is introduced.

Richard Nixon is elected as the President of the United States for his second term.

Bangladesh becomes independent from Pakistan.

1973

Secretariat wins the Triple Crown in horse racing.

The Mariner 10 space probe is launched by NASA and later becomes the first spacecraft to study Mercury.

The United States Supreme Court declares that abortion is a constitutional right in the landmark decision on the Roe v. Wade case.

Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes"

tennis match.

Belize and the Bahamas gain independence from the United Kingdom.

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1974

US President Richard Nixon resigns from office after being implicated in the Watergate Scandal.

The UPC Bar Code is introduced.

India becomes the sixth nuclear power when it successfully detonates a nuclear bomb.

The world's population is an estimated 4 billion people.

Gerald Ford becomes the United States president after Nixon resigns.

1975

The Vietnam War ends.

The movie "Jaws" opens in theaters and is considered to be one of the first block-buster films.

Sony introduces the Betamax video tape system.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen create Microsoft.

The popular late-night sketch show, Saturday Night Live, airs for the first time.

1976

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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the Apple Computer Company.

NASA introduces the first space shuttle, the Enterprise.

The Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter, defeats Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, to win the US Presidential race.

The first commercial Concorde flight takes place.

The CN Tower in Toronto is completed and becomes the world's tallest freestanding structure.

1977

Control of the Panama Canal is returned to Panama from the United States.

The Trans-Alaskan Pipeline is opened.

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Scanner is first tested.

The Canadian province of Quebec adopts French as an official language.

Amnesty International wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

1978

The very first "Garfield" comic strip debuts in 41 U.S.

newspapers.

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Louise Brown, the very first test tube baby, is born.

Israel and Egypt sign the Camp David Accords.

Pope Paul VI dies and is replaced by Pope John Paul I who also dies this year and is replaced by Pope John Paul II.

The computer video game Space Invaders is released.

1979

The Three Mile Island nuclear incident occurs in Pennsylvania.

After being exiled for fifteen years, Ayatollah Khomeini returns to power in Iran.

The Walkman is introduced by Sony.

The oil crisis in 1973 was caused when Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), during the Yom Kippur War, announced that they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt, to the United States and its allies in Western Europe. It was also announced that the price for Oil would increase drastically. The west was by now dependent on oil and together with prices quadrupling and measures for rationing the western world went into recession and suffered massive

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inflationary pressure. At that time the United States did have their own oil reserves and although they were affected the biggest impact was on European economies .

After nearly ten years of war in Vietnam 1973 was also the year that allied forces pulled out of Vietnam, a Nixon accomplishment.

Another significant factor in the 70's was the growth in women's rights and women's role in society including the ability to decide when where and if they wished to have children, partly through the availably of the contraceptive pill.

President Richard Nixon was forced to resign on August 8 as President of the United States due to imminent impeachment related to the Watergate scandal.

With the continuing Cold War between the East and West the arms race continued with each side trying to find the ultimate weapon Baseball players go on strike in 1972 the first players strike in sports history.

Players gain free agency after 6 years allowing them to demand higher wages.

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The ABA or American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association NBA agree to merger accepting four new teams into the NBA; Denver, New York, San Antonio and Indiana.

At the end of the 70's two major changes in the game happened -

1) ESPN, and 2) The three point line was added.

Progressive rock created a new generation of bands including Roxy Music, Genesis, Yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers Band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Pink Floyd. Many other singers and bands also started or strengthened their fan base including Fleetwood Mac, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Chicago Transit Authority, Blue Oyster Cult, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Queen, and Black Sabbath.

Otherwise in Europe, the music was not as progressive from bands like T-Rex, Gary Glitter, and David Bowie, and bands like Slade and the Sweet. Possibly the most successful in the 70's was ABBA.

The 70's produced many icons, one of those being the modern waterbed created by Charles Hall in 1968, This was fueled by the sexual revolution of the decade.

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136 - Escalation – Pensacola, Florida

Escalation

This short animated film was made independently from the Disney Studios and is notable for being the only animated cartoon made in this manner by one of Disney's core animators, Ward Kimball, one of the "Nine Old Men." Escalation originated from his anger of the "Battle Hymn" during the Vietnam War, a song he performed many times with Firehouse Five Plus Two, and a story from The Realist that suggested that Lyndon Johnson, who somehow had evolved from being the most anti-Vietnam Senator to the most hawkish Presidential supporter of it, was preoccupied with the size of his genitals. Kimball had a budget of 3,000 dollars and had to outsource the ink and painting to Celine Miles Ink and Paint, had a college choir sing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," had to pay an outside camera man to shoot the frames, and finished the film with the help of a friend.

He showed it at film festivals, college campuses during the US

presidential election year in 1968, and personally gave away copies of the film to whoever was interested. The first film festival it was screened at was a Los Angeles art house called the Cinema Theatre, and proved the film to be so popular that it

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was screened three times there. The film was a runner-up for the Academy Award, but was ultimately dropped due to its content.

In a 2000 interview shortly before his death, Kimball said that he thought that Escalation had not received the mainstream attention it deserved. In 2007, relatives of Kimball put the film online on YouTube.

The animation begins with a countdown from 10 and a drumbeat, skipping over the number 7 and with each numeral getting larger in size as the countdown progresses. A dove of peace flies upside down and backwards, with X marks over its eyes as if it were dead. Then a giant statue of the head of Lyndon B. Johnson is slowly wheeled into view, while the melody of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" plays. One of the statue's ears is shaped as a dollar sign. Actor Paul Frees imitates Johnson's cracker voice reading the lyrics, later joined by a choir, with each instance of the word "truth" being bleeped out with a cuckoo sound. As the song goes on, Johnson's nose slowly starts to rise in phallic fashion. When fully erect, the nose begins to shake and then violently explodes as images of the Playboy Bunny, bare breasts, hot dogs, copious amounts of meat, Billy Graham, John Wayne, Doris Day, Coca-Cola, beer, Aunt Jemima, Lassie, Superman, Little Orphan Annie, S&H Green Stamps and cigarettes flash on the screen in rapid succession amidst images and sounds

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of explosions, followed by a similarly rapid succession of military decoration, ending on the Purple Heart, the medal for those wounded or killed in combat, as a single clock chime is heard. The cartoon fades out by having the statue crack into pieces.

The gradual enlargement of Johnson's nose brings up images of Pinocchio, whose nose grew longer whenever he lied. Kimball worked on the 1940 Disney adaptation of Pinocchio.

Hurdy Gurdy Man

Donovan

Thrown like a star in my vast sleep

I opened my eyes to take a peek

To find that I was by the sea

Gazing with tranquility

'Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man

Came singing songs of love

Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man

Came singing songs of love

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

Histories of ages past

Unenlightened shadows cast

Down through all eternity

The crying of humanity

'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man

Comes singing songs of love

Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man

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Comes singing songs of love

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurd

Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

Here comes the Roly Poly Man

He's singing songs of love

"Roly poly, roly poly,

holy poly poly" he sang

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy,

hurdy gurdy gurdy" he sang

Written by Donovan Leitch.

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137 - Rebel Without a Cause – Avalon, California Rebel Without a Cause

In Los Angeles during the mid-1950s, teenager Jim Stark is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of a police station for public intoxication. At the station he crosses paths with John "Plato" Crawford, who was brought in for killing a litter of puppies, and Judy, who was brought in for curfew violation.

The three separately reveal their innermost frustrations to the officers. All three of them suffer from problems at home: Jim feels anguished by his constantly bickering parents, Frank and Carol, but even more so by his timid father's failure to stand up to Carol; the issues are further complicated by Frank's interfering mother. His frustrations are made manifest to officer Ray Fremick when Jim is released to their custody. Judy is convinced that her father ignores her because she is no longer a little girl, so she dresses up in racy clothes to get attention, which only causes her father to call her a "dirty tramp." Plato's father abandoned his family when he was a toddler, and his mother is often away from home, leaving Plato in the care of his housekeeper.

Deserted Cities of the Heart

Cream

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Upon this street where time has died

The golden treat you never tried

In times of old, in days gone by

If I could catch your dancing eye

It was on the way

On the road to dreams, yeah

Now my heart's drowned

in no love streams, yeah

The street is cold, its trees are gone

The story's told the dark has won

Once we set sail to catch a star

We had to fail, it was too far

It was on the way

On the road to dreams, yeah

Now my heart's drowned

in no love streams

I felt the wind shout like a drum

You said, "My friend, love's end has come"

It couldn't last, had to stop

You drained it all to the last drop

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It was on the way

On the road to dreams, yeah

Now my heart's drowned in no love streams Now my heart's drowned

in no love streams, yeah

On this dark street, the sun is black

The winter life is coming back

On this dark street, it's cold inside

There's no retreat from time that's died

It was on the way

On the road to dreams

Now my heart's drowned

in no love streams

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now my heart's drowned

in no love streams, yeah

Now my heart's drowned

in no love

Written by Jack Bruce and Peter Constantine Brown.

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On the way to his first day at Dawson High, Jim again meets Judy and offers her a ride. Seemingly unimpressed by Jim, she declines and is instead picked up by her "friends," a gang of delinquents led by Buzz Gunderson. Jim is shunned by the rest of the student body but is befriended by Plato, who comes to idolize Jim as a father figure.

After a field trip to Griffith Observatory, Buzz provokes and challenges Jim to a knife fight. Jim bests Buzz by knocking his switchblade out of his hand, then throws his own blade away. To preserve his status as gang leader, Buzz suggests stealing some cars to have a "Chickie Run" at a seaside cliff. At home, Jim ambiguously asks his father about defending one's honor in a dangerous situation, but Frank advises him against confrontation of any kind. That night, during the chickie run, Buzz plunges to his death when the strap on his jacket sleeve becomes entangled with his door latch lever, preventing him from exiting the car.

As police approach, the gang flees, leaving Judy behind, but Jim persuades her to leave with him and Plato.

Jim later confides to his parents his involvement in the crash and considers turning himself in. When Carol declares they are moving again, Jim pleads with his father Frank to stand up for him. When Frank refuses, Jim attacks him in frustration, then

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storms off to the police station to confess, only to be turned away by the desk sergeant. Jim drives back home, finding Judy waiting for him. She apologizes for her prior treatment of him due to peer pressure, and the two begin to fall in love.

Agreeing to never return to their respective homes, Jim suggests they visit an old deserted mansion Plato told him about.

Meanwhile, Plato is intercepted by three members of Buzz's gang, who are convinced that Jim betrayed them to the police. They steal Plato's address book and pursue Jim. Plato retrieves his mother's gun and leaves to warn Jim and Judy, finding them at the mansion. The three new friends act out a fantasy as a family. Plato then falls asleep, and Jim and Judy leave to explore the mansion, where they share their first kiss. Buzz's gang find and wake up Plato, who, frightened and distraught, shoots and wounds one of the gang. When Jim returns, he attempts to restrain Plato, who flees, accusing Jim of abandoning him.

Plato runs to the observatory and barricades himself inside as more police converge including Fremick who, with Frank and Carol, have been searching for Jim. Jim and Judy follow Plato into the observatory, where Jim persuades Plato to trade the gun for his red jacket. Jim quietly removes the ammunition before returning it, and then convinces Plato to come outside. But when the police notice that Plato still has the gun they shoot Plato

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dead as he charges them, unaware that Jim had removed the bullets. Frank comforts his grieving son, vowing to be a stronger father. Now reconciled with his parents, Jim introduces them to Judy.

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138 - Doctor No – Kingston, Jamaica

Doctor No

John Strangways, the Station Chief of MI6 in Jamaica, is murdered, along with his secretary Mary, by a trio of assassins before his home is ransacked. When news of Strangways' death reaches M, the head of MI6, he assigns intelligence officer James Bond to investigate the matter, and determine if it is related to Strangways' cooperation with the CIA on a case involving the disruption of rocket launches from Cape Canaveral by radio jamming. When Bond arrives in Jamaica, he is accosted by a man claiming to be a chauffeur sent to collect him, but is really an enemy agent sent to kill him. Bond turns the tables on the agent, but before he can interrogate him, the agent kills himself by biting into a cyanide laced cigarette. After visiting government headquarters, Bond asks principal secretary Pleydell Smith to set up a meeting with those who saw Strangways last, which includes Professor Dent. Later visiting Strangways' house Bond finds a receipt from Dent and a picture of Strangways and Quarrel, a man whom tailed Bond from the airport earlier. When Bond confronts Quarrel it is revealed that he is aiding the CIA and he introduces Bond to their agent Felix Leiter, who is also investigating Strangways' death.

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Strange Days

The Doors

Strange days have found us

Strange days have tracked us down

They're going to destroy

Our casual joys

We shall go on playing

Or find a new town

Yeah!

Strange eyes fill strange rooms

Voices will signal their tired end

The hostess is grinning

Her guests sleep from sinning

Hear me talk of sin

And you know this is it

Yeah!

Strange days have found us

And through their strange hours

We linger alone

Bodies confused

Memories misused

As we run from the day

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To a strange night of stone

Written by Matthew Good and Dave Genn.

Bond learns from Felix that the CIA traced the radio jamming signal to Jamaica, which was a British colony until 1962, and that Strangways was helping to pinpoint its exact origin.

Quarrel reveals that before Strangways died, the pair collected mineral samples from an island called Crab Key, where people are forbidden to go. Bond visits Dent, inquiring about the samples and Crab Key, but is suspicious of his answers when he claims the samples checked out as normal. Following the meeting, Dent travels to Crab Key to meet its reclusive owner, for whom he works, to inform him of Bond's visit. Under strict instructions, Dent attempts to have Bond killed with a tarantula. However, Bond kills the spider and sets a trap for Dent. Bond turns the tables on the three blind mice assassins, then has Pleydell Smith's corrupt secretary Miss Taro arrested as well. When the geologist arrives, Bond holds him at gunpoint, revealing Dent lied about the samples being radioactive and his involvement in Strangways’ murder, then kills him.

After checking Quarrel's boat with a Geiger counter, Bond determines that Strangways must have suspected that the radio jamming was coming from Crab Key, and so persuades Quarrel to

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take him out there. The following day, after arriving, Bond meets Honey Ryder, a shell diver. When armed guards arrive in a boat, Bond and Quarrel take Ryder with them and escape into the swamp. At nightfall, the group encounter a flame tank disguised as a dragon to deter locals, which kills Quarrel. Bond and Ryder are captured and taken to a hidden base, whereupon they are swiftly put into decontamination due to the swamp being contaminated with radioactivity. After being led to private quarters set up for them, they are rendered unconscious with drugged coffee.

Upon awakening, the pair are escorted to dine with the base's owner, Dr. Julius No; a Chinese-German criminal scientist who has prosthetic metal hands due to radiation exposure. Bond learns that No was a former member of a Chinese crime organization tong, until he stole $10 million in gold, and now works for the secret organization SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion). The radio jamming being conducted by No is being planned to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch at Cape Canaveral using a radio beam, which he states will be a demonstration of SPECTRE's power. When Bond refuses to join SPECTRE, No has Ryder taken away and Bond beaten and imprisoned. However, Bond manages to

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escape his cell through an air vent and disguises himself as a worker, before infiltrating the base's control center.

Bond discovers that the radio beam being prepared to disrupt the launch is powered by a nuclear pool reactor, and overloads it as the launch commences. Dr. No attempts to stop him, but falls into the reactor pool and is boiled to death. As the base's personnel evacuate, Bond frees Ryder before the two escape the island by boat, moments before the base is destroyed. Felix finds the pair adrift at sea after their boat runs out of fuel, and has them towed to safety by a Royal Navy ship. However, as Ryder passionately kisses him, Bond lets go of the tow rope to embrace her.

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139 - Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – Tucson, Arizona Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

In Socorro, New Mexico, Alice Hyatt's husband, Donald, a Coca Cola delivery driver, is killed on the job in a trucking accident. Alice, a former singer, decides to sell the majority of her belongings and take her son Tommy to her childhood home of Monterey, California, where she hopes to pursue a singing career, which she had abandoned when she married Donald.

Their financial situation forces them to take temporary lodgings in Phoenix, Arizona, where she finds work as a lounge singer.

She meets Ben, a younger married man who charms her into a sexual relationship that comes to a sudden end when his wife, Rita, confronts Alice. Ben breaks into Alice's apartment while Rita is there and physically assaults Rita in front of Alice; he also threatens Alice and smashes up her apartment. Fearing for their safety, Alice and Tommy quickly leave town.

Having spent most of what little money they had on their escape, Alice is forced to accept a job as a waitress in Tucson, Arizona, at a local diner owned by Mel, where she bonds with her fellow servers; independent, no-nonsense, outspoken Flo and quiet, timid, incompetent Vera, and meets divorced local rancher David. David quickly becomes enamored with Alice, who is wary of

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pursuing another relationship. However, she begins to warm to him as he establishes a paternal relationship with Tommy.

Their relationship is threatened when David uses physical force to discipline Tommy. Although Alice still dreams of going to Monterey, they reconcile. David offers to sell his ranch and move to Monterey, but in the end, Alice decides to stay in Tucson with him.

It's All In the Game

Van Morrison

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Many a tear has to fall

Oh, but it's all,

it's all in the game, child

It's all in the wonderful game

Alright

That we know as love

ooh, yeah

You had words with him

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And your future's looking dim

But these things,

your heart can rise above

Once in a while he won't call, he won't call But I heard you, it's all in the game

Soon he, soon he'll be there

With a small, a small bouquet, he will

And he will kiss your lips

And caress you, just like that, touch you Yeah, and your heart will, yeah

Fly away

You had words, words with him

And your future was looking,

don't you worry about it

These things your heart,

these things, can rise above

Once in a while he won't, he won't,

he won't call

But you gotta be patient

Soon he'll be there

With a small, with a small bouquet

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And he'll kiss your lips

And caress your waiting fingertips

Just like that

And your heart will fly away

Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen

He will kiss

Your lips, and touch you

And you will feel, you will feel

like you're gonna fly

Fly

Written by Carl Sigman and Charles Dawes.

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140 - Georgy Girl – Great Missenden, England, UK

Georgy Girl

The opening credits show the title character walking through the streets of London and being tempted into a hairdressers where she has her hair set in a far more contemporary style. She immediately changes her mind, and runs through the streets until she reaches a public lavatory. Once there, she submerges her hair in a sink-full of water, happy to return to her previously unkempt hairstyle.

Georgy Girl

The Seekers

Hey there, Georgy girl

Swingin' down the street so fancy-free

Nobody you meet could ever see

The loneliness there

Inside you

Hey there, Georgy girl

Why do all the boys just pass you by?

Could it be you just don't try

Or is it the clothes you wear?

You're always window-shopping

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But never stopping to buy

So shed those dowdy feathers and fly

A little bit

Hey there, Georgy girl

There's another Georgy deep inside

Bring out all the love you hide

And, oh, what a change there'd be

The world would see

A new Georgy girl

Hey there, Georgy girl

Dreamin' of the someone you could be

Life is a reality

You can't always run away

Don't be so scared of changing

And rearranging yourself

It's time for jumping down from the shelf A little bit

Hey there, Georgy girl

There's another Georgy deep inside

Bring out all the love you hide

And, oh, what a change there'd be

The world would see

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A new Georgy girl

(Hey there, Georgy girl)

Wake up, Georgy girl

(Hey there, Georgy girl)

Come on, Georgy girl

(Hey there, Georgy girl)

Wake up, Georgy girl

(Hey there, Georgy girl)

Come on, Georgy girl

(Hey there, Georgy girl)

Written by Tom Springfield, Dennis Charles, Jim Dale, and Rohan Wilson.

Georgina ("Georgy") Parkin is a 22 year old Londoner who has considerable musical talent, is well educated, and has an engaging, unpretentious character. At the same time, she believes herself to be plain and slightly overweight, she dresses haphazardly, and she is incredibly naïve on the subjects of love and flirtation. She has never had a boyfriend. She has an inventive imagination and loves children.

Her parents are live in employees of successful businessman James Leamington, who runs a children's home. Leamington is 49

and has a loveless, childless marriage with Ellen. He watched

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Georgy grew up and treated her as if he were her second father.

He provided for her private education at a Swiss finishing school and for a studio in his home, where she teaches dance to children. Leamington thinks Georgy "owes him" for all he has done.

As Georgy has become a young woman, his feelings for her have become more than fatherly. James offers Georgy a legal contract, proposing to supply her with the luxuries of life in return for her becoming his mistress. Georgy sidesteps his proposal by never giving him a direct response. Leamington's business like language and manner, and awkward inability to express any affection for her, leave her cold.

Georgy's flatmate is the beautiful Meredith, who is a violinist in an orchestra, but is otherwise a shallow woman who lives for her own pleasures. She treats the meekly compliant Georgy like an unpaid servant. Georgy has a crush on Meredith's boyfriend Jos Jones and is happy to accommodate Meredith in order to spend time with Jos. She cooks for him and they play Scrabble together.

When Meredith discovers that she is pregnant by Jos, they get married. She tells him bluntly that she has aborted two of his children, but she wants to marry because she is "bored." Jos

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moves in with the two young women. He becomes disillusioned with Meredith and begins to find himself attracted to Georgy, who convinces Leamington to buy several expensive items for the baby's care.

While in the midst of an argument with Meredith over her cavalier attitude to her pregnancy, Jos suddenly kisses Georgy and tells her that he loves her. Georgy flees the apartment onto the streets of London, where Jos follows her, screaming over and over again that he loves her as he pursues her.

The two return to the flat, where they have sex, after which there is a knock at the door by Peggy, a friend of Meredith, who tells Jos that Meredith has gone to the hospital to give birth.

Jos and Georgy go to the hospital, where Georgy tries to comfort Meredith while she is in labor. Jos and Georgy's secret love affair continues.

Meredith gives birth to a daughter they name Emily. Because she has no interest in the baby and has tired of Jos, she announces that she plans to put the child up for adoption and divorce him.

Georgy and Jos set up home together in the flat, caring for baby Emily and living as a common law married couple. It becomes clear that Georgy cares more for the baby than for having an adult relationship with Jos. Their relationship ends when Jos

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tires of a father's responsibilities. He abandons her and his baby. Now that Georgy is the sole caregiver of a baby to whom she has no blood ties, Social Services wishes to remove baby Sara from her care.

In the recent past, Mr Leamington's wife suddenly died.

Leamington, who was unable to express his true feelings for Georgy while his wife was alive, now finds himself free to express his love for her, so he proposes marriage. Georgy accepts because this will allow her to keep Emily. The two marry despite the difference in their backgrounds and ages. They officially adopt Sara, making Georgy a mother. As the newlyweds are chauffeured away from their wedding, Georgy ignores her new husband, devoting all her attention to baby Emmie.

Time and Love

Laura Nyro

So winter froze the river

And winter birds don't sing

So winter makes you shiver

So time is gonna bring you spring

So he swears, he'll never marry

Says that cuddles are a curse

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Just tell him plain you're on the next train If our love don't get there first

Time and love everybody, time and love

Nothing cures like time and love

Don't let the Devil fool you

Here comes a dove

Nothing cures like time and love

Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

So winter froze the river

And winter birds don't sing

So winter makes you shiver

So time is gonna bring you spring

You've been running, you've been rambling And you don't know what to do

A holly golden wager says

That love will see you through

Time and love everybody, time and love