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

Nothing cures like time and love

Don't let the Devil fool you

Here comes a dove

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Nothing cures like time and love

Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

So Jesus wasn't angel

And mankind broke His wing

But Jesus gave His lifeline

So sacred bell could sing

Now, a woman is a fighter

Gather White or African

A woman is a woman, inside

Has miracles for men at night

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

Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

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Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

Love for the man if you please

If you think and if you can

...

Written by Laura Nyro.

Emmie

Laura Nyro

Ooh, la, la, la

Ooh, la, la, la

Ooh, la, la, la

Ooh, la, la, la

Emily

And her love to be

Carved in a heart

On a berry tree

But it's only, only

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a little farewell love spell

Time to design a woman

Touch me

Oh wake me

Emily you ornament the earth

For me

Emily

You're the natural snow

The unstudied sea

You're a cameo

And I swear, I swear you were born

A weaver's lover born for the loom's desire

Move me

Oh sway me

Emily you ornament the earth

For me, for me

Emmie your mama's been a-callin' you

Ooh

Who stole

Mama's heart

And cuddled

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In her garden?

Darlin' Emmie

La, la, la

Ooh, la, la, la

Ooh, la, la, la

Ooh, la, la, la

You're my friend

And I loved you

Emily

Emily

Emily

She got the way to move me, Emmie

She got the way to move me yeah

She got the way to move me, Emmie

She got the way to get up and move me

She got the way to move me, Emmie

She got the way to move me yeah

She got the way to move me, Emmie

She got the way to get up and move me

She got the way to move me, Emmie

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She got the way to move me yeah

She got the way to move me, Emmie

She got the way to move me yeah

Written by Laura Nyro.

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141 - The Trial of Billy Jack – Bosque Farms, New Mexico

The Trial of Billy Jack

Billy Jack goes to court facing an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from events in the earlier “Billy Jack” film. He is found guilty and sentenced to a prison term. Meanwhile, the kids at the Freedom School, an experimental school for runaways and troubled youth on a Native American reservation in Arizona, vow to rebuild the school. They raise funds and acquire a new building, eventually starting their own newspaper and television station.

Inspired by Nader's Raiders, they begin using the newspaper and TV station to conduct investigative reporting, angering several politicians and townspeople in the process with their exposés.

The school's activities range from having their own search and rescue team to artistic endeavors such as a marching band and belly dancing. The school hosts a large marching-band contest and arts festival, called "1984 Is Closer Than You Think," to raise money for the school.

Billy Jack is released from prison and, trying to reconnect with his spiritual beliefs, begins a series of lengthy vision quests,

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perhaps LSD induced. He becomes involved with a radical group on the reservation that opposes the federal effort to cease recognition of their tribe and the surrender of their tribal lands to local developers. When one of the tribal members is arrested for poaching deer on what was formerly tribal land, the school comes to his defense.

The school begins to hold hearings on the rights of the native people and child abuse. The school defies a court order to return a boy to his father who had abused the boy and cut off his hand. The FBI begins visiting the school and taps their phones.

As tensions mount between the school and the people in the nearby town, a mysterious explosion at the school knocks their television station off the air. The governor calls a state of emergency and mobilizes the National Guard, and a curfew is established in town. The students respond by holding a parade in the town in violation of the curfew. On the way back to the school, their bus breaks down and local townspeople confront the students and threaten to set their bus on fire.

One Tin Soldier

The Original Caste

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Listen children to a story

That was written long ago

About a kingdom on a mountain

And the valley folk below

On the mountian was a treasure

Burried deep beneath a stone

And the valley people swore

They'd have it for their very own

Go ahead and hate your neighbor

Go ahead and cheat a friend

Do it in the name of Heaven

You can justify it in the end

There won't be any trumpets blowing

Come the judgement day

On the bloody morning after

One tin soldier rides away

So the people of the valley

Sent a message up the hill

Asking for the buried treasure

Tons of gold for which they'd kill

Came an answer from the kingdom

With our brothers we will share

All the secrets of our mountain

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All the riches buried there

Now the valley cried with anger

Mount your horses, draw your sword

And they killed the mountain people

So they won their just reward

Now they stood beside the treasure

On the mountain dark and red

Turn the stone and which beneath it

Peace on earth was all it said

Go ahead and hate your neighbor

Go ahead and cheat a friend

Do it in the name of Heaven

You can justify it in the end

There won’t be any trumpets blowing

Come the judgement day

On the bloody morning after

One tin soldier rides away

Go ahead and hate your neighbor

Go ahead and cheat a friend

Do it in the name of Heaven

You can justify it in the end

There won’t be any trumpets blowing

Come the judgement day

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On the bloody morning after

One tin soldier rides away

Written by Brian Potter and Dennis Earle Lambert.

Billy Jack appears during the incident to protect the students and then comes to the attempted rescue of a tribal member who is being harassed and beaten to death at a local dance in town.

Surrounded by ominous followers of Boss Posner, he keeps walking away until he is confronted directly by Posner who he insults after being joked on. Billy manages to use his Karate on Posner, who gets killed by the kick to the throat. The rest of Posner’s gang attack and Billy puts them all away. However, the National Guard is stationed around the school and is ordered to open fire on the students, killing four and wounding hundreds more.

The entire story is told through flashbacks by teacher Jean Roberts from her hospital bed after the shooting. During Billy's trial, he mentions the 1968 My Lai massacre and recalls, in a flashback scene, witnessing a similar incident while serving in Vietnam.

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142 - Eight and One-Half – Venice, Italy Eight and One-Half

Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director, is suffering from

"director's block." Stalled on his new science fiction film that includes thinly veiled autobiographical references, he has lost interest amidst artistic and marital difficulties. While attempting to recover from his anxieties at a luxurious spa, Guido hires a well-known critic to review his ideas for his film, but the critic blasts them. Guido has recurring visions of an ideal woman, which he sees as key to his story. His mistress Carla comes to visit him, but Guido puts her in a separate hotel. The film production crew relocates to Guido's hotel in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to work on the film.

Guido admits to a Cardinal that he is not happy. The Cardinal offers little insight. Guido invites his estranged wife Luisa and her friends to join him. They dance, but Guido abandons her for his production crew. Guido confesses to his wife's best friend Rosella that he wanted to make a film that was pure and honest, but he is struggling with something honest to say. Carla surprises Guido, Luisa, and Rosella outside the hotel, and Guido claims that he and Carla ended their affair years earlier. Luisa and Rosella call him on the lie, and Guido slips into a fantasy

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world where he lords over a harem of women from his life, but a rejected showgirl starts a rebellion. The fantasy women attack Guido with harsh truths about himself and his sex life.

When Luisa sees how bitterly Guido represents her in the film, she declares that their marriage is over. Guido's ideal woman arrives in the form of an actress named Claudia. Guido explains that his film is about a burned out man who finds salvation in this ideal woman. Claudia concludes that the protagonist is unsympathetic because he is incapable of love. Broken, Guido calls off the film, but the producer and the film's staff announce a press conference. Guido attempts to escape from the journalists and eventually imagines shooting himself in the head. Guido realizes he was attempting to solve his personal confusion by creating a film to help others, when instead he needs to accept his life for what it is. He asks Luisa for her assistance in doing so. Carla tells him that she figured out what he was trying to say; that Guido cannot do without the people in his life. The men and women hold hands and run around the circle, Guido and Luisa joining them last.

Time Passes Slowly

Judy Collins

Time passes slowly up here in the mountains

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We sit beside bridges and walk beside fountains And catch the wild fishes that swim in the streams Time passes slow when you're lost in a dream

Once I had a sweetheart, he was fine and good lookin'

We sat in the kitchen while my mama was cookin'

And stared out the window to the stars high above Time passes slow when you're searchin' for love

Ain't no reason to go in a wagon to town Ain't no reason to go to the fair

Ain't no reason to go up, ain't no reason to go down Ain't no reason to go anywhere

Time passes slowly up here in the daylight We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right Like a cloud that passes and covers the day Time passes slow and then fades away

Written by Bob Dylan.

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143 - Mirror - Zavrathye, Russia, USSR

Mirror

“Mirror” is a 1975 Soviet drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky. The film features Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Tarkovsky's wife Larisa Tarkovskaya, and his mother Maria Vishnyakova. Innokenty Smoktunovsky provides voiceover and Eduard Artemyev the incidental music and sound effects.

“Mirror” is structured in the form of a nonlinear narrative, with its main concept dating back to 1964 and undergoing multiple scripted versions by Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Misharin.

It unfolds around memories recalled by a dying poet of key moments in his life and in Soviet culture. The film combines contemporary scenes with childhood memories, dreams, and newsreel footage. Its cinematography slips between color, black and white, and sepia. The film's loose flow of oneiric images has been compared with the stream of consciousness technique associated with modernist literature.

“Mirror” initially polarized critics and audiences, with many finding its narrative incomprehensible. Since its release, it

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has been reappraised as one of the greatest films of all time, as well as Tarkovsky's magnum opus. It has especially found favor with many Russians, for whom it remains their most beloved of Tarkovsky's works.

“Mirror” depicts the thoughts, emotions and memories of Aleksei, or Alyosha, and the world around him as a child, adolescent, and 40 year old. The adult Aleksei is only briefly glimpsed, but is present as a voice over in some scenes including substantial dialogue. The film's structure is discontinuous and non-chronological, without a conventional plot, and combines incidents, dreams, memories, and newsreel footage. The film switches among three different time frames; prewar 1935, wartime 1940s, and postwar 1960s and '70s.

“Mirror” draws heavily on Tarkovsky's own childhood. Memories such as the evacuation from Moscow to the countryside during the war, a withdrawn father and his own mother, who worked as a proofreader at a printing press, feature prominently.

The film opens with Aleksei's adolescent son Ignat switching on a television and watching the examination of a man with a stutter by a physician who finally manages to make her patient say without disruption; "I can talk." After the opening titles,

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a scene is set in the countryside during prewar times in which Aleksei's mother Maria, also called Masha and Marusya, speaks with a doctor who chances to be passing by. The exterior and interior of Aleksei's grandfather's country house are seen. The young Aleksei, his mother, and sister watch as the family barn burns down. In a dream sequence, Maria is washing her hair.

In the postwar time frame, Aleksei is heard talking with his mother on the phone while rooms of an apartment are seen.

Switching back to the prewar time frame, Maria is seen rushing frantically to her workplace as a proofreader at a printing press. She is worried about a mistake she may have overlooked, but is comforted by her colleague Liza, who then seemingly reduces her to tears with withering criticism. Back in the postwar period, Aleksei quarrels with his ex-wife, Natalia, who has divorced him and is living with their son Ignat. This is followed by newsreel scenes from the Spanish Civil War and of a balloon ascent in the USSR.

In the next scene, in Aleksei's apartment, Ignat meets with a strange woman sitting at a table. At her request, Ignat reads a passage from a letter by Pushkin and receives a telephone call from his father Aleksei. Ignat answers a knock at the door, which turns out to be a woman who says she has the wrong apartment. When Ignat returns to the woman at the table, she has

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vanished, though the condensation from her teacup momentarily remains. Switching to wartime, the adolescent Aleksei is seen undergoing rifle training with a dour instructor, intercut with newsreel footage of World War II and the Sino-Soviet border conflict. Before the war, Maria visits her neighbor with Aleksei to seek toiletries. The woman introduces Maria to her son and requests she slaughter a cockerel, which she does.

Aleksei and his sister reunite with their father at the war's end. The film then returns to the quarrel between Aleksei and his wife in the postwar sequence. Switching again to prewar time, vistas of the country house and surrounding countryside are followed by a dreamlike sequence showing a levitating Maria.

The film then moves to the postwar time, showing Aleksei apparently on his deathbed with a mysterious malady and holding a small bird. The final scene is in the prewar time frame, showing a pregnant Maria intercut with scenes showing Maria young and old.

Both Sides Now

Judy Collins

Bows and flows of angel hair

And ice cream castles in the air

And feather canyons everywhere

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I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun

They rain and snow on everyone

So many things I would have done

But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow

It's cloud's illusions, I recall

I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels

The dizzy dancing way you feel

When every fairy tale comes real

I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show

You leave 'em laughin' when you go

And if you care, don't let them know

Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow

It's love's illusions, I recall

I really don't know love at all

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Tears and fears and feeling proud

To say, "I love you" right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds

I've looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange

They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost but something's gained In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow

It's life's illusions, I recall

I really don't know life at all

Written by Joni Mitchell.

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144 - Our Idiot Brother – Redding, Connecticut Our Idiot Brother

Ned Rochlin, a biodynamic agriculture farmer who is living with his girlfriend, Janet, gets arrested for selling pot to a uniformed police officer.

Ned has three sisters; Miranda, a journalist hoping to get her first major article with Vanity Fair and harboring feelings for her neighbor, Jeremy; Natalie, a hipster living with her girlfriend Cindy and other roommates; and Liz, a housewife married to Dylan, a documentary filmmaker who is inattentive.

Liz and Dylan strictly control their son River, unable to express himself or choose his activities, putting him in interpretive dance class when he longs to take taekwondo.

Paroled, Ned discovers Janet has ditched him for mellow Billy, and no longer wishes him on the farm. Billy suggests he may be able to rent the goat barn out back. Initially staying at his mother's, Ned asks to stay with Liz. While he bunks in River's room, he is told to help with Dylan's documentary about Belarusian ballerina Tatiana.

Fresh Air

Quicksilver Messenger Service

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Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh, what you do to me, babe?

Oh-oh, what you do to me, little girl?

Ooh, have another hit of sweet air.

In the morning.

Ooh, have another hit

I wanna know where you going

I wanna know, sweet mama,

where you gonna go, yeah

Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit of fresh air Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit

Oh, baby, what you gonna do?

I wanna know, honey,

what you gonna do, sweet thing

Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit of sweet love.

In the morning.

Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh

I love you, yes, I do, babe

And I love you, God knows I do, sweet thing Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit

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of sweet California sunshine

Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Take me home, take me home

Take me home with you

Take me home,

I wanna go home with you, little girl

Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit of fresh air Ooh-ooh-ooh, have another hit

Written by Julius L. Wechter.

One day, Ned is told to watch the car while Dylan interviews Tatiana. When a police officer asks him to move it, Ned runs upstairs for the keys and discovers Dylan naked with Tatiana.

Dylan claims that he was only making her "comfortable." He is later kicked out of Liz's after River announces Ned's legal trouble at an important school admission interview.

Miranda reluctantly asks Ned to chauffeur while she interviews Lady Arabella, but is legally unable to pry into her scandalous past, while he charms Arabella. At her benefit dinner, she shares personal details of her life with him.

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Staying with Miranda, Ned mentions Dylan's nude interview, and she deduces he is cheating on Liz. Realizing he has the details she needs about Arabella, she forces him to tell her. Ashamed, Ned returns to the farm. Janet does not let him rent the barn or leave with his dog, “Willie Nelson.”

Ned has lunch with Jeremy, who explains that Miranda is too bossy for him. She is hurt when he mentions the conversation and reveals her thoughts on Jeremy, leading to a fight between them.

Miranda and Nat try to tell Liz about Dylan's affair, which leads to an argument about all their personal lives. Liz confronts Dylan, then divorces him.

Miranda takes Ned to verify the details of her article, but he won't sign a release as Arabella spoke to him privately. The company lawyer deems the article unpublishable, and Miranda kicks Ned out.

Ned attends a self-help meeting with Natalie. Her friend Christian is attracted to her but holds back as he knows of her lesbian relationship. When Ned tells him she is bisexual, he makes a move and they are intimate. Natalie later confides to Ned that she is pregnant.

Ned asks Cindy, a lawyer, how to get custody of Willie Nelson, and she suggests they just take him back. At that point, Ned is

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staying with Nat, who lies about having told her about Christian and the pregnancy. As Cindy and Ned sneak onto the farm to retrieve his dog, when he mentions Nat's infidelity, she angrily calls her from inside the house. Janet catches them before they get Willie Nelson. Cindy, in midst of yelling at Nat over the phone, leaves without Ned.

Ned naively tells his parole officer, Omar, that he smoked marijuana recently. At the family dinner, Ned's sisters blame him for their troubles, driving Ned to angrily call them out for their selfishness. Omar arrives to reluctantly take Ned into custody. Although his family posts his bail, he opts to stay in to keep away from them. They go get Willie Nelson from Janet to cheer him up. Although she refuses, Billy freely gives them the dog. Reunited with his dog, Ned is motivated to leave prison.

A few weeks later, at lunch with Ned, his sisters all have improvements in their lives; Cindy plans to accompany Nat to her prenatal appointments; Miranda has started a relationship with Jeremy, and Liz is dating and letting River be himself. Ned and Billy have opened up a small homemade candle shop. When Ned finds Willie Nelson playing with another dog, her owner Amy, says she's "Dolly Parton." He tells her his dog is "Willie Nelson," and they both smile.

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145 - The Magician – Copenhagen, Sweden

The Magician

Albert Vogler is a magician who leads a troupe of performers, known as Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater, who claim to possess supernatural abilities. Among them are Albert's grandmother, Granny Vogler; his wife Manda, who performs in costume as a man under the alias Mr. Aman; his charismatic assistant, Tubal; and their driver, Simson. Albert proclaims to have discovered animal magnetism. After leaving a show in Copenhagen, the group travel by carriage through the wilderness into Sweden, and hear screams emanating from the woods. They find an ill man lying on the ground nearby, who introduces himself as Johan Spegel, a former vaudevillian. The troupe decide to bring him along with them, and he becomes progressively ill. Albert keenly observes Johan as he apparently dies in the carriage.

Atlantis

Donovan

The continent of Atlantis was an island Which lay before the Great Flood

In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean So great an area of land

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That from her western shores

Those beautiful sailors journeyed

To the South and the North Americas with ease In their ships with painted sails

To the East, Africa was a neighbor

Across a short strait of sea miles

The great Egyptian age is but a remnant Of The Atlantian culture

The antediluvian kings colonized the world All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas In all legends, from all lands, were from fair Atlantis Knowing her fate

Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth On board were the Twelve

The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician And the other so-called Gods of our legends

Though Gods they were

And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind Let us rejoice, and let us sing, and dance And ring in the new

Hail, Atlantis!

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Way down below the ocean

Where I wanna be, she may be

Way down below the ocean

Where I wanna be, she may be

Way down below the ocean

Where I wanna be, she may be

Way down below the ocean

Where I wanna be, she may be

Way down below the ocean

(She may, she may, she may)

Where I wanna be, she may be

My antediluvian baby

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I wanna see you someday

My antediluvian baby

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

My antediluvian baby

Way down below the ocean

Where I wanna be, she may be

My antediluvian baby, I love you, girl

I wanna see you someday

My antediluvian baby, oh, yeah

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I wanna see you someday

Oh, my antediluvian baby

Way down below the ocean

Where I wanna be, she may be

My antediluvian baby

I wanna see you

My antediluvian baby

Gotta tell me where she gone

I wanna see you someday

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh, yeah Oh, club, club, down, down, yeah

My antediluvian baby

Written by Donovan Phillips Leitch and Julien Hubert Bruyninx.

The troupe arrive in a village and are met by Consul Egerman who, along with his wife Ottilia, is interested in the occult.

Tubal informs Egerman and his associates that Albert is mute, and the townsmen question the nature of their magic show based on the advertisements promoting it. Dr. Vergerus, the Minister of Health, accuses Albert of practicing quackery and pseudoscience. The men privately plan to wager on Albert's abilities. Later, the troupe has dinner with Sara and Sanna, two

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servants who are enthralled by their presence, and Tubal peddles love potions made by Granny. The head cook, Sofia, is impervious to Tubal's bravado, but finds him attractive and solicits him for sex.

As a storm brews, Sanna grows frightened of the group after Granny tells her she is a witch who is 200 years old. Meanwhile, Simson flirts with Sara, and the two drink the aphrodisiac potions together before having sex. Ottilia approaches Albert and tells him that she believes in his powers, and that her husband and the other townsmen criticize him only because they do not understand him. She further explains that she hopes he can make contact with her deceased daughter. After Ottilia leaves, Albert is visited by Johan, who did not die. Johan laments his "unused" life to Albert before again dying in his arms. Albert conceals his body in a hidden compartment of a large trunk. Egerman observes the exchange from the shadows and is shaken by it, unsure if he has witnessed an apparition.

Dr. Vergerus approaches Manda in her room, her masculine disguise removed. She tells him the troupe is fleeing from the authorities, and admits that the group's entire act is a fraud.

Albert listens to their conversation before entering the room, and assaults Vergerus when he goads him. Albert removes his wig, and Manda comforts him, recounting their travails on the road,

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the home they left behind, and his decision to disguise himself as a mute.

The following morning, the troupe perform a magic show for the townspeople. Tubal asks Henrietta Starbeck, the wife of the Police Superintendent, to be a volunteer in the show. Apparently using magnets, Manda elicits cruel admissions from Henrietta about her husband, publicly humiliating him. Next, Engelson volunteers Antonsson, the stableman, for a trick in which Albert apparently manipulates his body. During the performance, Albert collapses and dies, and Antonsson flees in horror, later committing suicide. Albert's body is placed in his trunk, which, unbeknownst to Vergerus also contains Johan's body, and brought to the attic for an autopsy.

After Vergerus performs a full autopsy, he is terrified when Albert emerges from the shadows, alive. Vergerus demands to know whose body he has performed an autopsy on. Albert responds that it was a "poor actor," it was in fact Johan, who was also in the trunk. Angered, Vergerus remarks the troupe's performance as

"miserable," and contemptuously pays Albert with a single coin for the entertainment. Manda has Simson hitch their horses so the troupe can leave, but Tubal tells her he wishes to stay with Sofia. Granny also tells Manda she will no longer join them, and plans to live the remainder of her years with the funds she has

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saved by selling her potions. Upset over Simson's departure, Sara asks Albert and Manda if she can join them, to which they agree. Before they can depart, Albert and Manda are escorted back into the house by police officers. They initially believe they are to be charged with crimes, but, to their surprise, the Police Superintendent Starbeck notifies them that the king wishes to have them perform at the Royal Palace. Shortly afterward, Albert, Manda, Simson, and Sara depart for Stockholm.

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146 - Zardoz – Corinth, Mississippi

Zardoz

In the year 2293, the human population is divided into the immortal "Eternals" and mortal "Brutals." The Brutals live in an irradiated wasteland, growing food for the Eternals, who live apart in "the Vortex," leading a luxurious but aimless existence on the grounds of a country estate. The Brutal Exterminators kill and terrorize other "Brutals" at the orders of Zardoz, a flying stone head which supplies them with weapons in exchange for the food they collect. Zed, a Brutal Exterminator, hides aboard Zardoz during one trip, temporarily "killing" its Eternal operator-creator Arthur Frayn.

Landslide

Fleetwood Mac

I took my love, I took it down

I climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection

in the snow-covered hills

'Til the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky

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What is love?

Can the child within my heart rise above?

Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?

Can I handle the seasons of my life?

Well, I've been afraid of changin'

'Cause I've built my life around you

But time makes you bolder

Even children get older

And I'm getting older too

Well, I've been afraid of changin'

'Cause I've built my life around you

But time makes you bolder

Even children get older

And I'm getting older too

Oh! I'm getting older too

Oh-oh, take my love, take it down

Oh-oh, climb a mountain and you turn around And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills Well, the landslide brought it down

And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills Well, the landslide brought it down

Oh-ohh, the landslide brought it down

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Written by Stevie Nicks.

Arriving in the Vortex, Zed meets two Eternals; Consuella and her assistant May. Overcoming Zed with psychic powers, they make him a prisoner and menial worker within their community.

Consuella wants Zed destroyed so that the resistance cannot use him to start a revolution. Others, led by May and the subversive Eternal Friend, insist on keeping him alive for further study, while secretly planning to overthrow the government and end humanity's suffering.

In time, Zed learns the nature of the Vortex. The Eternals are overseen and protected from death by the Tabernacle, an artificial intelligence. Given their limitless lifespan, the Eternals have grown bored and corrupt, and are descending into madness. The needlessness of procreation has rendered the men impotent and meditation has replaced sleep. Others fall into catatonia, forming the social stratum the Eternals have named the "Apathetics." The Eternals spend their days stewarding humankind's vast knowledge, baking special bread from the grain deliveries and participating in communal meditation rituals. To give life more meaning and in a failed attempt to stop humanity from becoming permanently catatonic, the Vortex developed

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complex social rules whose violators are punished with artificial aging. The most extreme offenders are condemned to permanent old age. Eternals who have managed to die, usually by accident, are then reborn into another healthy, synthetically reproduced body that is identical to the one they lost.

Zed is less brutal and far more intelligent than the Eternals think he is. Genetic analysis reveals he is the ultimate result of long running eugenics experiments devised by Arthur Frayn, who controlled the outlands with the Exterminators. Zardoz's aim was to breed a superman who would penetrate the Vortex and save humankind from its hopelessly stagnant status quo. In the ruins of the old world, Arthur Frayn encouraged Zed to learn to read and led him to the book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

Understanding the origin of the name Zardoz; Wizard of Oz, brought Zed to a true awareness of Frayn as a manipulator.

Infuriated with this realization, Zed decided to further investigate the mystery of Zardoz.

As Zed divines the nature of the Vortex and its problems, the Eternals use him to fight their internecine quarrels. Led by Consuella, the Eternals decide to kill Zed and to age Friend.

Zed escapes and, aided by May and Friend, absorbs all the Eternals' knowledge, including that of the Vortex's origin, to destroy the Tabernacle. While absorbing their knowledge Zed

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impregnates May and a few of her followers as he is transformed from a revenge seeking Exterminator. Zed shuts down the Tabernacle, thus disabling the force fields and perception filters surrounding the Vortex. This helps the Exterminators invade the Vortex and kill most of the Eternals; who welcome death as a release from their boring existence. May and several of her followers escape the massacre, heading out to bear their offspring as enlightened but mortal beings among the Brutals.

Consuella, having fallen in love with Zed, gives birth within the remains of the stone head. The baby boy matures as his parents age. When the youth leaves his parents, they keep growing old and eventually die. Nothing remains in the space but painted handprints on the wall and Zed's revolver.

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147 - Giant – Austin, Texas

Giant

In the mid-1920s, wealthy Texas rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr. travels to Maryland on a horse-buying trip. He meets socialite Leslie Lynnton, who quickly ends a budding relationship with a British diplomat. After a whirlwind romance, Leslie and Bick marry and return to the Benedicts' Texas cattle ranch, Reata. Leslie has difficulty adjusting to her new life.

Bick's older sister, Luz, runs the household and resents Leslie's intrusion. Leslie soon learns that she, like the other women, is expected to be subservient in the male dominated Texas culture.

Jett Rink, a ranch hand, becomes infatuated with Leslie. When Jett drives her around the ranch, Leslie observes the Hispanic workers' terrible living conditions. She presses Bick to help improve their situation, and oversees the treatment of Angel Obregon, the infant son of Bick's ranch hand. Bick, however, is not persuaded to change the status quo which views Hispanics as inferior.

Luz is killed while riding Leslie's horse, War Winds, being bucked off after digging in her spurs as a hostile act towards Leslie. Luz's will leaves a small piece of Benedict land to

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Jett. Bick, who despises Jett, offers to buy the property at twice its value, but Jett refuses to sell and names his land

“Little Reata.”

Time

Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine

Staying home to watch the rain

And you are young and life is long

And there is time to kill today

And then one day you find

Ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it's sinking

Racing around to come up behind you again

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The sun is the same in a relative way

But you're older

Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter

Never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught

Or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation

Is the English way

The time is gone, the song is over

Thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again

I like to be here when I can

When I come home cold and tired

It's good to warm my bones beside the fire

Far away, across the field

The tolling of the iron bell

Calls the faithful to their knees

To hear the softly spoken magic spells

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Written by Donald Dennis, Melbourne George Miller, Ingo Rheinbay, Paul Ellingston Crosdale, Raymond Wright, and Mitchum Khan Ivanhoe Chin.

Leslie and Bick have twins, Jordan III ("Jordy") and Judy, and later have another daughter, Luz II. Bick pushes Jordy into pursuits that will make Jordy a rancher, which he resists. The marriage becomes strained, and Leslie takes the children to her parents for an extended visit, which includes her sister wedding Leslie's former beau. Bick goes to Maryland, and he and Leslie reconcile at the wedding and return to Texas.

Jett continues working his land, eventually striking oil. Jett flaunts his new found fortune at the ranch house, insulting Bick and making a vulgar pass at Leslie. Jett prospers over the years. He tries to persuade Bick to let him drill for oil on Reata. Bick, determined to preserve his family's cattle ranching legacy, refuses.

The Punk and the Godfather

The Who

You declared you would be three inches taller You only became what we made you

Thought you were chasing a destiny calling You only earned what we gave you

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You fell and cried as our people were starving Now you know that we blame you

You tried to walk on the trail we were carving Now you know that we framed you

I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter

I'm the new president

And I grew and I bent

Don't you know, don't it show?

I'm the punk with the stutter

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

We tried to speak between lines of oration You could only repeat what we told you

Your axe belongs to a dying nation

They don't know that we own you

You're watching movies trying to find the feelers You only see what we show you

We're the slaves of the phony leaders

Breathe the air we have blown you

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I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter

I'm the new president

And I grew and I bent

Don't you know, don't it show?

I'm the punk with the stutter

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

I have to be careful not to preach

I can't pretend that I can teach

And yet I've lived your future out

By pounding stages like a clown

And on the dance floor broken glass

And bloody faces slowly pass

The numbered seats in empty rows

It all belongs to me, you know.

Okay!

You declared you would be three inches taller You only became what we made you

Thought you were chasing a destiny calling You only earned what we gave you

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You fell and cried as our people were starving Now you know that we blame you

You tried to walk on the trail we were carving Now you know that we framed you

I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter

I'm the new president

And I grew and I bent

Don't you know, don't it show?

I'm the punk with the stutter

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

Written by Pete Townshend.

Years later, in 1941, tensions arise regarding the now grown Benedict children. Bick intends that Jordy will succeed him and run the ranch, but Jordy wants to become a doctor. Leslie plans for Judy to attend finishing school in Switzerland, but she

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wants to study animal husbandry at Texas Tech. Each sibling successfully convinces one parent to persuade the other to allow them to pursue their own goals.

At the family Christmas party, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bick offers Judy's new husband, Bob Dace, the opportunity to work on the ranch after the war ends. Dace declines, wanting to build his own life with Judy. Realizing that his children will not take over the ranch when he retires, Bick finally accepts Jett's offer to allow drilling on Reata.

Once oil production starts on the ranch, the Benedicts grow wealthier and more powerful. The war ends with Bob's safe return. Angel Obregon, however, is killed in action. Jordy marries Juana, the daughter of the ranch's Hispanic doctor who treated Angel as a baby.

At his Austin hotel, Jett hosts a huge party in his own honor, and invites the Benedicts. Jett and Luz II have developed a flirtatious relationship which ends after Luz rejects Jett's awkward proposal. Jett becomes drunk. Jett prohibits his staff from serving Hispanics; consequently, Juana is ignored at the hotel beauty shop. Enraged, Jordy starts and loses a fight with Jett, who then has Jordy thrown out. Bick challenges Jett but, seeing that the drunken Jett is in no state to defend himself, he and the other Benedicts leave. Jett staggers into the banquet

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hall and sits in the seat of honor. He passes out as he attempts to give his speech in front of the packed ballroom. The guests leave with Jett unconscious. Later, Luz II hears the slumped over Jett bemoaning his unrequited love for Leslie and leaves heartbroken. Jett topples over in a stupor and falls onto the floor.

Driving home the next day, the Benedicts stop at a diner. Sarge, the owner, insults Juana and her and Jordy's young son with a racial slur. When Sarge tries to eject a Hispanic family from the diner, Bick intervenes and a fight ensues. Sarge prevails and then tosses a sign onto Bick which says the diner has the right to refuse service to anyone. Back at Reata, Bick laments failing to preserve the Benedict family legacy. Leslie replies that, after the diner fight, he was her hero for the first time.

She considers their own family legacy a success. They look at their two grandsons, one Caucasian and one Hispanic.

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148 - Carnival of Souls – Salt Lake City, Utah Carnival of Souls

In Kansas, Mary Henry is riding in a car with two other young women when two men challenge them to a road race.

Highway Star

Deep Purple

Nobody gonna take my car

I'm gonna race it to the ground

Nobody gonna beat my car

It's gonna break the speed of sound

Ooh, it's a killing machine

It's got everything

Like a driving power

Big fat tires and everything

I love it and I need it, I bleed it

Yeah, it's a wild hurricane

Alright, hold tight

I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my girl

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I'm gonna keep her to the end

Nobody gonna have my girl

She stays close on every bend

Ooh, she's a killing machine

She got everything

Like a moving mouth

Body control and everything

I love her, I need her, I seed her

Yeah, she turns me on

Alright, hold on tight

I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my head

I got speed inside my brain

Nobody gonna steal my head

Now that I'm on the road again

Ooh, I'm in Heaven again

I got everything

Like a moving ground

An open road and everything

I love it and I need it, I seed it

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Eight cylinders all mine

Alright, hold on tight

I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my car

I'm gonna race it to the ground

Nobody gonna beat my car

It's gonna break the speed of sound

Ooh, it's a killing machine

It's got everything

Like a driving power

Big fat tires and everything

I love it and I need it, I bleed it

Yeah, it's a wild hurricane

Alright, hold on tight

I'm a highway star

I'm a highway star

I'm a highway star

Written by Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, and Ian Paice.

During the race, the women's car is nudged by the boys’ and plunges off a bridge into a muddy river. Three hours after the

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police start dredging the water to look for them, Mary miraculously surfaces on the river bank, but cannot remember how she survived.

Mary moves to Salt Lake City, where she has been hired as a church organist. While driving near an abandoned pavilion on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, Mary begins experiencing visions of a ghoulish, pale faced figure, referred to as "The Man" in the credits. A gas station attendant tells her the pavilion was first a bathhouse, then a dance hall, and finally a carnival before it was abandoned. In town, Mary rents a room and visits the church where she will be playing the organ. Mary takes a ride out to the pavilion at the lake with the church's minister who stops her from entering, warning that it is against the law.

Mary continues experiencing visions of The Man and also rejects the repeated advances of John, a neighboring lodger. Mary goes to the pavilion by herself to investigate but does not find anything. Later, Mary begins experiencing terrifying interludes when she becomes invisible and inaudible to the rest of the world, as if she were not there. During one of these episodes, Mary meets Dr. Samuels who offers to help her while acknowledging he is not a psychiatrist. Mary returns to the church by herself to practice the organ and finds herself shifting from a hymn to eerie music. In a trance, she sees

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visions of The Man and other ghouls dancing at the pavilion. The minister, hearing the strange music, denounces it as sacrilege and insists that Mary resign.

I'm Eighteen

Alice Cooper

Lines form on my face and hands

Lines form from the ups and downs

I'm in the middle without any plans

I'm a boy and I'm a man

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want Eighteen, I just don't know what I want Eighteen, I gotta get away

I'll gotta get out of this place

I'll go runnin' in outer space, yeah

I got a baby's brain and an old man's heart Took eighteen years to get this far

Don't always know what I'm talkin' about Feels like I'm livin' in the middle of doubt

'Cause I'm eighteen, I get confused every day Eighteen, I just don't know what to say

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Eighteen, I gotta get away

Lines form on my face and my hands

Lines form on the left and right

I'm in the middle, the middle of life

I'm a boy and I'm a man

I'm eighteen and I like it

Yes, I like it

Oh, I like it

Love it, like it, love it

Eighteen, eighteen

Eighteen, eighteen and I like it

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

Smith, and Michael O. Bruce.

That night, Mary accompanies John to a bar. Terrified of being alone with her nightmares, Mary tells John she wants his company. When they return home, John tries to convince Mary to let him stay the night, however Mary becomes hysterical when she sees The Man in the mirror. John leaves, believing Mary to be insane. The following morning, Mary returns to the pavilion where she encounters The Man and his fellow ghouls. She tries frantically to escape, however the locals do not acknowledge her

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and she only encounters more ghouls until she wakes up, revealing the previous scene to be merely a nightmare. She is later drawn back to the pavilion once again, where she finds the ghouls dancing, with a ghoul version of herself paired with The Man. She tries to run away but is chased by the ghouls onto the beach, where she collapses as they close in.

The following day, Dr. Samuels, the minister, and the police go to the pavilion to look for Mary. They find her footprints but note that she has otherwise vanished. Back in Kansas, the submerged car is finally pulled from the river. Mary's body is seen in the front seat alongside the other two women.

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149 - Ocean’s Eleven – Lake Tahoe, Nevada Ocean’s Eleven

World War II veterans Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster recruit nine comrades from their unit in the 82nd Airborne Division to simultaneously rob five Las Vegas casinos; the Sahara, the Riviera, the Desert Inn, the Sands, and the Flamingo.

The gang plans the elaborate New Year's Eve heist with the precision of a military operation. Josh Howard takes a job as a sanitation worker driving a garbage truck while others get jobs at the various casinos. Sam Harmon entertains in one of the hotel's lounges. Demolition charges are planted on a local electric power transmission tower and the backup electrical systems are covertly rewired in each casino to open the cashier cages when the automatic generator kicks on. At midnight on New Year's Eve, the tower is blown up and the Las Vegas Strip goes dark, as the men sneak into the money cages, hold up the cashiers, and dump their collection bags into the hotels'

garbage bins. A garbage truck driven by Josh picks up the bags and passes through the police blockade. Everything appears to have gone off without a hitch.

Pretty Boy Floyd

The Byrds

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Well gather 'round me children

A story I will tell

About Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw

Oklahoma knew him well

It was in the town of Shawnee

On a Saturday afternoon

His wife beside him in a wagon

As into town they rode

And along come a deputy sheriff

In a manner rather rude

Using vulgar words of language

His wife, she overheard

And Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain

The deputy grabbed a gun

And in the fight that followed

He laid that deputy down

Then he ran through the trees and bushes And lived a life of shame

Every crime in Oklahoma

Was added to his name

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He ran through the trees and bushes

On the Canadian River shore

And many a-starving farmer

Opened up his door

It was in Oklahoma City

It was on a Christmas day

A whole carload of groceries

With a letter that did say

"You say that I'm an outlaw

You say that I'm a thief

Well, here's a Christmas dinner

For the families on relief"

As through this life you travel

You'll meet some funny men

Some'll rob you with a six-gun

And some with a fountain pen

As through this life you ramble

As through this life you roam

You'll never see an outlaw

Take a family from their home

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Written by Woody Guthrie.

The gang's electrician, Tony Bergdorf, drops dead of a heart attack in the middle of the Strip. This raises police suspicions, who wonder if there is any connection to the thefts.

Reformed mobster Duke Santos offers to recover the casino bosses' money for a percentage. As the robbery was well organized, he assumes that it was a Mafia operation until his underworld connections deny any involvement. Duke is engaged to Foster's mother, who casually mentions that Foster and Ocean, having fought together in the army, are both unexpectedly in Las Vegas. Duke also learns about Bergdorf's military record from the police. By the time that Bergdorf's body arrives at the mortuary, Duke has pieced it all together.

Duke confronts the thieves, demanding half of their take. In desperation, they hide the money in Bergdorf's coffin, setting aside $10,000 for his widow. The group plans to take back the rest, making no payoff to Duke, after the coffin is shipped to San Francisco. Their plan backfires when the funeral director talks Bergdorf's widow into having the funeral in Las Vegas. She has the body and coffin cremated along with all of the hidden cash.

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150 - The Party – Hollywood, California

The Party

A film crew is making a Gunga Din-style costume epic. Unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi plays a bugler, but continues to play after repeatedly being shot and after the director yells

"cut." Hrundi then accidentally blows up an enormous fort set rigged with explosives, ruining the film. The director fires Hrundi immediately and calls the studio head, General Fred R.

Clutterbuck. Clutterbuck writes down Hrundi's name to blacklist him, but he inadvertently writes it on the guest list of his upcoming dinner party.

Fade Away and Radiate

Blondie

Ooh baby, I hear how you spend night-time Wrapped like candy in a pure blue neon glow Fade away and radiate

Fade away and radiate

Ooh baby, watchful lines

vibrate soft in brainwave time

Silver pictures move so slow

Golden tubes faintly glow

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Electric faces seem to merge

Hidden voices mock your words

Fade away and radiate

Fade away and radiate

Beams become my dream

My dream is on the screen

Oh, beams become my dream

My dream is on the screen

Dusty frames that still arrive

Die in 1955

Fade away and radiate

Fade away and radiate

The beam becomes my dream

My dream is on the screen

Fade away and radiate

Fade away and radiate

Fade away and radiate

Fade away and radiate

Written by Chris Stein.

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Hrundi receives his invitation and drives to the party. Upon parking his car, he steps into mud. Hrundi tries to rinse the mud off his shoe in a pool that flows through the house, but he loses his shoe. After many failures, he is reunited with his shoe served to him on a silver platter by one of the waiters.

Hrundi has awkward interactions with everyone at the party, including Clutterbuck's dog, Cookie. He meets famous Western movie actor "Wyoming Bill" Kelso, who gives Hrundi an autograph.

Hrundi later accidentally shoots Kelso with a toy gun, but Kelso doesn't see who did it. Hrundi feeds a caged macaw food from a container marked "Birdie Num Num" and drops the food on the floor. Hrundi at various times during the film activates a panel of electronics that control the intercom, a copy of the Manneken Pis soaking a guest, and a retractable bar, while Clutterbuck is sitting at it. After Kelso hurts Hrundi's hand while shaking it

"My goodness, I would have been disappointed if you hadn't crushed my hand," Hrundi sticks his hand into a bowl of crushed ice containing caviar. While waiting to wash his hand, he meets aspiring actress Michèle Monet), who came with producer C.S.

Divot. Hrundi shakes Divot's hand, and Divot then shakes hands with other guests, passing around the fishy odor, and back to Hrundi after he has washed his hand.

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At dinner, Hrundi's place setting by the kitchen door has a very low chair that puts his chin near the table. An increasingly drunk waiter, Levinson, tries to serve dinner and fights with the other staff. During the main course, Hrundi's roast chicken catapults off his fork and becomes impaled on a guest's tiara.

Hrundi asks Levinson to retrieve his meal, but the woman's wig comes off along with her tiara, as she obliviously engages in conversation. Levinson ends up brawling with other waiting staff, and dinner is disrupted.

Hrundi apologizes to his hosts; then needs to go to the bathroom. He wanders through the house, opening doors and barging in on various servants and guests in embarrassing situations. He ends up in the backyard, where he accidentally sets off the irrigation sprinklers. At Divot's insistence, Michèle gives an impromptu guitar performance of "Nothing to Lose" to impress the guests. Hrundi goes upstairs, where he saves Michèle from Divot's unwanted advances by dislodging Divot's toupee. Hrundi finally finds a bathroom, but he breaks the toilet, drops a painting in it, gets toilet paper everywhere, and floods the bathroom. To avoid being discovered Hrundi sneaks onto the roof and falls into the pool. Michèle leaps in to save him, but he's then coerced to drink alcohol to warm up. A Russian dance troupe arrives at the party. Upstairs,

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Hrundi finds Michèle crying in the next room and consoles her.

Divot bursts in and demands Michèle leave with him. Michèle says no, and Divot cancels her screen test the next day. Hrundi persuades her to stay and have a good time with him. They return to the party in borrowed clothes. The party gets wilder, and Hrundi offers to retract the bar to make room for dancing.

Instead, he opens a retractable floor with a pool underneath, causing guests to fall in the pool. Levinson makes more floors retract, and more guests fall in. Clutterbuck's daughter arrives with friends and a baby elephant painted with "THE WORLD IS

FLAT" on its forehead and hippie slogans over its body. Hrundi takes offense and asks them to wash the elephant. The entire house is soon filled with soap bubbles.

Back at his home, Divot suddenly realizes that Hrundi is the fired actor who blew up the set, and he races back to the party.

As the band plays on, Clutterbuck tries to save his suds covered paintings. The air conditioning blows suds everywhere as the guests dance to psychedelic music, and Clutterbuck's distraught wife falls into the pool three times. Divot pulls up as the police and fire department personnel work to resolve everything.

Hrundi apologizes one last time to Clutterbuck as Divot reveals who Hrundi is, but Clutterbuck accidentally chokes the headwaiter instead of Hrundi. Kelso gives Hrundi an autographed

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photo and Stetson hat as Hrundi and Michèle leave in Hrundi's Morgan three wheeler car. Outside her apartment, Hrundi and Michèle appear on the verge of admitting that they have fallen for each other. Hrundi gives Michèle the hat as a keepsake, and she says he can come get it any time. Hrundi suggests he could come by next week, and she readily agrees. Hrundi smiles and drives off as his car backfires.

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151 - Bad Pizza – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bad Pizza

Time had flown like the robins of last spring for Genevieve. In the lower right corner of the screen, she saw that it was already time for lunch. She closed down the addictive machine and made a veggie burger centered lunch. Rather than look out her window or turn her laptop back on, she opened a book she had once taken from the library’s dwindled free pile.

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When I was little, mom used to take me with her when she did her shopping on Broadway. On the way back she’d usually get me a Charlotte russe at the place on 21st Street. But, the Charlotte russe place closed up and in a few weeks the town’s first pizza parlor opened there. I had some trepidation at first about this new thing. But, I guess out of hunger one day I decided to try a

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slice. Joy. Joy. Joy. It was the greatest thing I’d ever eaten, and it became a regular thing.

Indeed, pizza was on its way to becoming a standard food item for all. It got so popular that it gave rise to the universal belief that there is no such thing as bad pizza. However unpopular it may be to say this, that is just plain wrong. No equivocations. No if’s, and’s or but’s. Wrong. Wrong. Period.

End of sentence. Case closed.

Admittedly it took me some time to figure this out. But after having come to that conclusion which now seems obvious, I’d have to respectfully say that anyone who believes in the myth must not have eaten a whole lot of pizza. It’s not like there is much of it. But there is definitely a tiny morsel, and if you get one of them, you will be sorrier than that mackerel with a passion for that croaker with the small evidence of a sharp thing sticking out.

Perhaps the story of my discovery day will illustrate this. I was at a party, and like every party, the attendees were all being merry and jovial. You know all that stuff you fake and the lucky ones one day find an acquired taste for. You can’t say anything negative without being called a party pooper. So you kind of stand there and say stuff like; “Hey bro,” “Lookin’

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good,” “Wassup’”, “Wild,” “Hey, babe,” and pretend that D4L’s blasting top 1,000,000 hit “Laffy Taffy” is the greatest thing anyone ever heard.

The grinning hostess approaches you with a gift of a slice of pizza. You’re not particularly hungry, but not wanting to be a downer, you take the slice and thank her. She doesn’t wait around and goes away offering slices to some other people.

The first thing you notice of your pizza is that the thing doesn’t bend and shows signs of terminal crusting. It’s in your hand with all of the elasticity of a horticultural tool and you think about wanting to keep the rest of your front teeth. Its

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shape is consistent with that same tool, and its rounded head appears as if someone may have taken a tentative tiny taste before returning it to its place. You muse that this round-headed pizza may ostensibly still be capable of flesh penetration, but of more significance, it has an uncanny similarity to that archaic gardening tool invented in timeless antiquity which necessitated kneeling or bending over, since replaced by the use of a simple hoe. In addition to the un-aesthetic physical appearance of the thingy, if you get it anywhere near your nose it smells like someone in desperate need of a shower sat on it.

In all fairness, I’d like to point out that this isn’t always the fault of the pizza. Most of the time it’s been sitting on the table with the other overlooked slices, and they’ve all been re-heated five or six times in the course of the last hour alone and freshness is something best not considered on the distinct risk of bringing something up.

However, that sympathetic reflection doesn’t change the fact that you have a bit of a problem in or on your hands. The first time I was in this situation my first thought was to try to sneak it into a garbage can when no one was looking. That’s not easy at most parties as it’s difficult to get any privacy, and even if you did someone would likely see it later and yell out;

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“Hey, wud jerk been chrowin’ da pizza in da gobbidge?” and everything would come out, resulting in you being called a party pooper and going uninvited to the next joyous affair. So, in my case I decided to pretend to “groove” to D4L’s “Laffy Taffy” and nonchalantly bop my way over to the table which held the other neglected slices and put it back there when no one was looking.

I mean people at these parties aren’t counting, and may not even know six from seven to begin with. It works.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

In a very unscientific anecdotal observation, I would strongly suggest that if the offering hostess says something about god screwing up the whole pizza thing, don’t ask for further elaboration and run like hell. Claim a sudden diarrhea attack.

Claim that you have to run because you had forgotten that your turtle must be fed at this time. Claim that your ear-receiver just got a text saying you’re your mother died. Whatever. With all haste get the hell out of the vicinity of the surely oncoming crime.

Back to the “party,” in my case, a sense of some sort of annoying morality soon overcame me, and I thought it might be incumbent upon me to tell my best friends; “Hey, don’t mess with that bad pizza.” Maybe I should have said something, but

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ultimately decided that I didn’t want to risk that party pooper charge, and quite frankly came to find it singularly funny when one of them did eat it.

I finally settled into a calm mental position, wherein I thought; “It’s not my job to tell anyone what to do, and if you want to eat hard, crusty pizza go ahead. I’d like to at least recommend watching out for the sharp end. Most have not been rounded by that tentative tiny taste. But when you come right down to it I really don’t care.”

In closing to you jaded modern sophisticates, up until the age of about 18, whenever I wanted some good pizza, I had to archaically walk all the way up to 21st Street. Your improvements are admirable and include ten minute delivery from Domino’s. But, I’ll tell ya a secret. They sometimes re-heat.

It’s a business and like all businesses some efficient planning is going on. Suffice to say that if it was me, I’d have second thoughts if the slice I picked up didn’t bend. Capiche?

Not the End of Bad Pizza

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Genevieve thought; “This book has got to be one of the oddest books I’ve ever seen. I had hoped it to be a review of various pizzas. ........ Well, I guess it is in a way; but there are no how-to or brand specifics. It only tells you to avoid a few; primarily the re-heated, hard ones. Even I knew that. No wonder the library gave it away and nobody even wanted it for free. I should have known. This is going right in the gobbidge, as they say. ....... No. I’m just going to put it back at the library. I just won’t give it to anyone I know in Poochville.”

She again thought of Raju and that it might be a good idea for Pacific Lane to host a carnival in the spring. She couldn’t do it all herself, so she intended to run it by the rest of the neighborhood as soon as she finished her veggie burger lunch.

Genevieve ate while admiring the silly snowman in her front yard, and felt proud that the kittens had made it just for her.

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Genevieve gobbled and was excited. Without regard to time, proper clothing, or the weather; when done with her veggie, she burst from her house anxious to get all of her friends on Pacific Lane involved in the coming spring carnival.

Pleasant Valley Sunday

The Monkees

Your local rock group down the street

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Is trying hard to learn this song

To serenade the weekend squire

Just came out to mow his lawn

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Charcoal burnin' everywhere

Rows of houses that are all the same

And no one seems to care

See Mrs. Gray she's proud today

Because her roses are in bloom

And Mr. Green he's so serene

He's got a TV in every room

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Here in status symbol land

Mothers complain about how hard life is And the kids just don't understand

Creature comfort goals they only numb my soul And make it hard for me to see

My thoughts all seem to stray to places far away I need a change of scenery

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

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Charcoal burning everywhere

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Here in status symbol land

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin.

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152 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Las Vegas, Nevada

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

In 1971, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo speed across the Nevada desert. Duke, under the influence of mescaline, complains of a swarm of giant bats, and inventories their drug stash. They pick up a young hitchhiker and explain their mission. Duke has been assigned by a magazine to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race in Las Vegas. They bought excessive drugs for the trip, and rented a red Chevrolet Impala convertible. The hitchhiker flees on foot at their behavior. Trying to reach Vegas before the hitchhiker can go to the police, Gonzo gives Duke part of a sheet of

"Sunshine Acid," ultra-purified LSD, then informs him that there is little chance of making it before the drug kicks in. By the time they reach the strip, Duke is in the full throes of his trip and barely makes it through the hotel check in, hallucinating that the clerk is a moray eel and that his fellow bar patrons are orgiastic lizards.

Show Biz Kids

Steely Dan

You go to Lost Wages

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Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

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After closing time

At the Guernsey fair

I detect the El Supremo

From the room at the top of the stairs

Well I've been around the world

And I've been in the Washington Zoo

And in all my travels as the facts unravel I've found this to be true

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

They got the house on the corner

With the rug inside

They got the booze they need

All that money can buy

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They got the shapely bodies

They got the Steely Dan T-Shirt

And for the coup de grace

They're outrageous

Honey, let the girl you

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

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You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Lost Wages

You go to Lost Wages

Show business kids making movies of themselves You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else

You know you go to

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Lost Wages

Lost Wages

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

Written by Walter Carl Becker and Donald Jay Fagen.

The next day, Duke arrives at the race and heads out with his photographer, Lacerda. Duke becomes irrational and believes that they are in the middle of a battlefield, so he fires Lacerda and returns to the hotel. After consuming more mescaline, as well as huffing diethyl ether, Duke and Gonzo arrive at the Bazooko Circus casino but leave shortly afterwards, the chaotic atmosphere frightening Gonzo. Back in the hotel room, Duke leaves Gonzo unattended, and tries his luck at Big Six. When

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Duke returns he finds that Gonzo, high on LSD, has trashed the room, and is in the bathtub clothed, attempting to pull the tape player in with him as he wants to hear the song better. He pleads with Duke to throw the machine into the water when the song "White Rabbit" peaks. Duke agrees, but instead throws a grapefruit at Gonzo's head before running outside and locking Gonzo in the bathroom. Duke attempts to type his reminisces on hippie culture, and flashes back to San Francisco where a hippie licks spilled LSD off his sleeve.

The next morning, Duke awakens to an exorbitant room service bill and no sign of Gonzo, who has returned to Los Angeles while Duke slept, and attempts to leave town. As he nears Baker, California, a patrolman stops him for speeding, and advises him to sleep at a nearby rest stop. Duke instead heads to a payphone and calls Gonzo, learning that he has a suite in his name at the Flamingo Las Vegas so he can cover a district attorney's convention on narcotics. Duke checks into his suite, only to be met by an LSD tripping Gonzo and a young girl called Lucy, who Gonzo explains has come to Las Vegas to meet Barbra Streisand, and that this was her first LSD trip. Duke convinces Gonzo to ditch Lucy in another hotel before her trip wears off.

Gonzo accompanies Duke to the convention, and the pair discreetly snort cocaine as the guest speaker delivers a

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comically out of touch speech about "marijuana addicts" before showing a brief film. Unable to take it, Duke and Gonzo flee back to their room, only to discover that Lucy has called. Their trips mostly over, Gonzo deals with Lucy over the phone, pretending that he is being savagely beaten by thugs, as Duke attempts to mellow out by trying some of Gonzo's stash of adrenochrome. However, Duke has a bad reaction to the drugs and is reduced to an incoherent mess before he blacks out.

After an unspecified amount of time passes, Duke wakes up to a complete ruin of the once pristine suite. After discovering his tape recorder, he attempts to remember what has happened. As he listens, he has brief memories of the general mayhem that has taken place, including Gonzo threatening a waitress at a diner, himself convincing a distraught cleaning woman that they are police officers investigating a drug ring, and attempting to buy an orangutan.

Duke drops Gonzo off at the airport, driving right up to the airplane, before returning to the hotel one last time to finish his article. He then speeds back to Los Angeles.

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153 - Butterflies are Free – Bolina, California Butterflies are Free

In the bohemian San Francisco of the early 1970s, Jill Tanner, a 19 year old free spirit, returns to her apartment one day to discover her new neighbor, 20 year old aspiring songwriter Don Baker, peering through a window. Through their paper thin walls, she overhears him arguing with his overprotective mother, Florence. Intrigued, Jill decides to take the initiative and introduces herself to Don.

Don explains that his frequent phone conversations with Florence revolve around a pact they made, allowing him to live independently for two months without her interference. Jill, candid about her own life experiences, including her early marriage at sixteen, reveals that she has sworn off commitments to avoid hurting people. She learns of Don's blindness after witnessing him drop his cigarette ash on the coffee table instead of the ashtray, prompting her to naively inquire about his daily life and how he manages his everyday tasks. Don explains his "shadow vision" and how he navigates the world.

Jill shares with Don that her favorite quote is from Dickens'

"Bleak House;" "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes

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to the butterflies." Don improvises a song and begins strumming

"Butterflies Are Free" on his guitar.

Jill continues to inquire about Don's life as a blind individual, and Don supports her in developing confidence in her inquiries. Together, they explore a unique bohemian clothing store on Union Street, where they receive assistance from the owner, Roy, in choosing free spirited and liberating fashion pieces. During this excursion, Don also showcases how he counts steps to navigate the city. In their conversation, Jill shares her upcoming audition with theater director Ralph Santore, who has romantic interests. Acting on Jill's suggestion, Don purchases a stylish ensemble to boost his self-assurance.

Go Your Own Way

Fleetwood Mac

Loving you

Isn't the right thing to do

How can I

Ever change things that I feel

If I could

Baby, I'd give you my world

How can I

When you won't take it from me

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You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it another lonely day

You can go your own way

Go your own way

Tell me why

Everything turned around

Packing up

Shacking up's all you wanna do

If I could

Baby, I'd give you my world

Open up

Everything's waiting for you

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it another lonely day

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it another lonely day

Another lonely day

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You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it another lonely day

You can go your own way

You can call it another lonely day

You can go your own way

Written by Lindsey Buckingham .

Back at their apartments, Don shares the story of Florence's children's books featuring the character "Donnie Dark," a young blind superhero. Despite his mother's intentions to inspire him, Don felt inadequate under her high expectations. Jill empathizes with Don's disappointment in love and suggests they open the door connecting their apartments as a gesture of friendship.

Attracted to Don, Jill offers for him to touch her face, allowing him to "see" her. However, an accidental mishap with her accessories leads to a passionate but ultimately misunderstood encounter.

The next day, Jill expresses her joy over their intimacy and shares her keepsake box's secrets with Don. Their moment is interrupted when Florence arrives unexpectedly, appalled by the living conditions and Jill's presence in her underwear. Florence

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berates Don and questions Jill's suitability. Florence decides to cut off financial support and begins packing Don's belongings to take him home.

Despite Don's objections, Florence extends an invitation to Jill for lunch, hoping to convince her to end her involvement with Don. However, Jill passionately defends her relationship with him, emphasizing that Florence tends to focus on the negative aspects. Jill conveys that while she might not be the perfect match for Don, her presence has not diminished his self-confidence.

Later that night, as Don and Florence await Jill's return, Florence admits to having spoken with Jill earlier. Don accuses Florence of attempting to push Jill away. When Jill eventually arrives, she is accompanied by Ralph, the director of the play she had auditioned for. Jill hesitates as she shares her decision to move in with Ralph, igniting rising tensions. Don questions the need for a nude scene in her upcoming play, and Ralph inadvertently offends Florence, who hails from a wealthy background.

Jill further embarrasses Don by suggesting that he touch Ralph's face to appreciate his handsomeness. After Jill and Ralph leave, a disheartened Don implores Florence to take him back home.

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However, she reminds him that sighted men also go through heartbreak. Florence then shares the inspiration behind the

"Donnie Dark" books as her way of helping him confront his fears, and she must now do the same for herself, albeit with sadness. They eventually come to terms with their evolving roles in life and make amends.

Jill rushes back in, revealing her apprehensions about hurting Don. A heated argument erupts between them regarding her departure, with Don insisting that she is the one emotionally handicapped. She eventually departs, but later has a change of heart and returns to Don. They share a moment of laughter and reconciliation, pledging to nurture a loving and dedicated relationship. As Don listens to "Butterflies Are Free," he sheds tears, a mixture of disappointment and relief.

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154 - Lady and the Tramp – Opelika, Alabama Lady and the Tramp

In 1909, in a small town, "Jim Dear" gives his wife "Darling," a cocker spaniel puppy as a Christmas present. The puppy, named Lady, grows up pampered by her doting owners, and befriends her neighbors' dogs Jock, a Scottie, and Trusty, an elderly Bloodhound. Meanwhile, across town, a stray terrier mix named Tramp feeds on scraps and handouts, and frees his friends Peg the Pekingese and Bull the Bulldog from the local dog catcher.

Sweet Home Alabama

Lynyrd Skynyrd

One, two, three

Turn it up

Big wheels keep on turnin'

Carry me home to see my kin

Singin' songs about the south-land

I miss Alabama once again and I think it's a sin, yes

Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down

Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

A southern man don't need him around anyhow

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Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet home Alabama

Lord, I'm comin' home to you

In Birmingham, they love the governor

(Boo-hoo-hoo)

Now we all did what we could do

Now Watergate does not bother me

Does your conscience bother you?

Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet home Alabama

(Oh yeah)

Lord, I'm comin' home to you

Here I come, Alabama

Oh, oh, oh

Alabama, oh, oh, oh

Alabama, oh, oh, oh

Alabama, oh, oh, oh

Alabama

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Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers

And they've been known to pick a song or two (Yes they do)

Lord, they get me off so much

They pick me up when I'm feelin' blue

Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet home Alabama

Lord, I'm comin' home to you

Sweet home Alabama

(Oh, sweet home)

Where the skies are so blue

And the governor's true

Sweet home Alabama

(Lordy)

Lord, I'm comin' home to you, yeah, yeah Montgomery's got the answer

Written by Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Robert Rossington, and Edward C. King.

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Fleeing the angry dog catcher, Tramp finds himself in Lady's neighborhood. He overhears a distraught Lady conversing with Jock and Trusty about her owners' suddenly distant behavior towards her. When Jock and Trusty deduce this is because Darling is pregnant, Tramp inserts himself into the conversation as the

"voice of experience," and warns Lady that "when a baby moves in, a dog moves out." Annoyed, Jock drives him from the yard.

Tramp's words cause Lady to fret throughout Darling's pregnancy, but when the baby boy arrives, she is allowed to meet and bond with him, dispelling her fears.

Later, Jim Dear and Darling take a short trip, leaving the house, Lady, and the baby in the care of Jim Dear's aunt Sarah, who brings along her two Siamese cats Si and Am. Sarah dislikes dogs, and prohibits Lady from seeing the baby. Later, the cats destroy the house, and pin the deed on Lady by pretending she injured them. Sarah takes Lady to the pet shop, and has a muzzle put on her. Lady panics and flees into the street, where she is pursued by three savage dogs, until Tramp intervenes to protect her.

Tramp takes Lady to the zoo to have the muzzle removed by a beaver. He then shows Lady his owner free lifestyle, and they explore the town. The kindly proprietor of Tony's Restaurant gives them a spaghetti dinner to share, before they end the

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evening with a walk in the park. The next day, Tramp tries to convince Lady to live "footloose and collar free" with him.

Despite liking Tramp, she decides her duty is to watch over the baby. As Tramp escorts Lady home, he stops to chase some chickens. The dogcatcher pursues them both, but only Lady is caught. At the pound, she meets Peg, Bull, and some other strays, who all know Tramp. They reveal he has had many girlfriends in the past, and claim that females are his weakness.

Sarah comes to claim Lady, and chains her in the backyard as punishment for running away. Jock and Trusty propose that Lady should marry and come live with one of them, to escape the abuse, but she gently refuses them. When Tramp arrives to apologize to Lady, she berates him for his many girlfriends and sends him away, too. Afterwards, Lady notices a large rat sneaking into the house through the baby's bedroom window. Her attempts to alert Sarah fail, but Tramp hears her barking, returns, and enters the house himself to save the baby. Lady breaks her chain and follows soon after. Tramp is wounded in the battle with the rat, but manages to kill it behind a curtain.

During the struggle, the baby's crib overturns, and he begins to cry. Sarah comes to investigate, and assumes the dogs attacked the baby.

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Jim Dear and Darling return home to find that Sarah has locked Lady in the cellar and handed Tramp over to the dog catcher to be euthanized. Disbelieving Sarah's story, Jim Dear frees Lady, who immediately shows them the dead rat. Overhearing the truth, Jock and Trusty pursue the dog catcher's cart and try to stop it. The horses spook, causing the cart to crash. Jim Dear and Darling arrive with Lady to rescue Tramp, but Trusty is badly injured in the wreck.

Later, at Christmas time, Tramp has become an official part of the family, and he and Lady have four little puppies of their own. Jock and a mostly healed Trusty visit the family. The puppies now provide Trusty a new audience for his old stories, but he has forgotten them, much to his and everyone else's amusement.

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155 - Lost in America – Morro Bay, California Lost in America

David and Linda Howard are typical 1970s yuppies in Los Angeles, dissatisfied with their bourgeois lifestyle. He works in an advertising agency and she for a department store, but after failing to receive an expected promotion and instead being asked to transfer to the firm's office in New York City, David angrily insults his boss, and he is fired. David coaxes his wife to quit her job as well and seek a new adventure.

I Am the Walrus

The Beatles

I am he as you are he as you are me

and we are all together

See how they run like pigs from a gun,

see how they fly

I'm crying

Sitting on a cornflake

Waiting for the van to come

Corporation teeshirt, stupid bloody Tuesday man You been a naughty boy you let your face grow long I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

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I am the walrus, goo goo goo job

Mister city policeman sitting,

pretty little policemen in a row

See how they fly like Lucy in the sky,

see how they run

I'm crying, I'm crying

I'm crying, I'm crying

Yellow matter custard

Dripping from a dead dog's eye

Crabalocker fishwife,

pornographic priestess

Boy you been a naughty girl,

you let your knickers down

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen

I am the walrus, goo goo goo job

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come

you get a tan from standing in the English rain I am the eggman, they are the eggmen

I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob goo goo goo goo job

Expert textpert choking smokers

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Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

Ha ha ha! he he he! ha ha ha!

See how they smile like pigs in a sty,

see how they snide

I'm crying

Semolina pilchard

Climbing up the Eiffel Tower

Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna Man you should have seen them

kicking Edgar Alan Poe

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen

I am the walrus,

Goo goo goo joob goo goo goo joob

Goo goo goo joob goo goo goo joob goo

Jooba jooba jooba

Jooba jooba jooba

Jooba jooba

Jooba jooba

Jooba jooba

Jooba jooba

Jooba jooba

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

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The Howards decide to sell their house, liquidate their assets, drop out of society, "like in Easy Rider," and travel the country in a Winnebago recreational vehicle, and David gets flipped off by a biker after extending greetings to him, while

“Born to be Wild” sarcastically plays. They leave Los Angeles with $100,000, but their plans change drastically when Linda loses all their savings playing roulette at the Desert Inn Casino in Las Vegas, where David desperately and unsuccessfully tries to persuade a casino manager to give the money back as a publicity gimmick.

With nowhere to go, the couple quarrels at Hoover Dam, eventually arriving in small town Safford, Arizona. David unsuccessfully applies for a delivery job at a local pharmacy and resorts to an employment agency. After a counselor obnoxiously reminds him that he was fired from his high paying job in advertising, David accepts the best position available; as a crossing guard. He is taunted by local schoolchildren. They pay no attention to him other than flipping him off, and in retaliation David encourages the cars to hit the kids, which they don’t. Linda, meanwhile, finds employment as the assistant manager at the local Der Wienerschnitzel, working under a person half her age.

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Only a few days after beginning their pursuit of the dream of dropping out of society, David and Linda are living in a trailer park, nearly broke, and working dead end jobs where they are accountable to brats. They decide that it is better to return to their old lifestyle as soon as possible. They point the Winnebago toward New York, where David begs for his old job back. An end card reveals he is rehired with a substantial 31%

pay cut, but better medical benefits. and that the two are now expecting their first child.

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156 - Dazed and Confused – Austin, Texas Dazed and Confused

It is May 28, 1976, the last day of school at Lee High School in Austin, Texas. The next year's group of seniors are preparing for the annual hazing of incoming freshmen. Randall "Pink"

Floyd, the school's star football player, is asked to sign a pledge promising not to take drugs during the summer or do anything that would "jeopardize the goal of a championship season." When classes end, the incoming freshman boys are hunted down by the seniors and paddled. The incoming freshman girls are also hazed. They are rounded up in the school parking lot by senior girls, covered in mustard, ketchup, flour and raw eggs and forced to propose to senior boys.

Dazed and Confused

Led Zeppelin

Been dazed and confused

For so long, it's not true

Wanted a woman, never bargained for you Lotsa people talkin'

Few of them know

Soul of a woman was created below, yeah

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You hurt and abuse

Tellin' all of your lies

Run 'round, sweet baby, lord, how they hypnotize Sweet little baby, I don't know where you been Gonna love you, baby, here I come again

Every day I work so hard, bringin' home my hard-earned pay Try to love you, baby, but you push me away Don't know where you're goin'

Only know just where you've been

Sweet little baby, I want you again

That's not my babe

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Did you ever look up my woman

Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true Wanted a woman, never bargained for you Take it easy, baby

Let them say what they will

Tongue wag so much when I send you the bill Oh, yeah, alright

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

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Written by Jimmy Page.

As day fades to night, freshman Mitch Kramer escapes the initial hazing with his best friend Carl Burnett, but is later cornered after a baseball game and violently paddled. Fred O'Bannion, a senior participating in the hazing tradition for a second year after failing to graduate, delights in punishing Mitch. Pink gives the injured Mitch a ride home and offers to take him cruising with friends that night. Plans for the evening are ruined when Kevin Pickford's parents discover his intention to host a keg party. Elsewhere, the intellectual trio of Cynthia Dunn, Tony Olson, and Mike Newhouse decide to participate in the evening's festivities. Pink and his friend David Wooderson, a man in his early twenties who still socializes with high school students, pick up Mitch and head for the Emporium, a pool hall frequented by teenagers.

As the night progresses, students loiter around the Emporium, listen to rock music, cruise the neighborhood and frequent a local drive through restaurant. Mitch is introduced to sophomore Julie Simms, with whom he shares a mutual attraction. While cruising again with Pink, Pickford and Don Dawson, Mitch drinks

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beer and smokes marijuana for the first time. After a game of mailbox baseball, a neighborhood resident brandishing a gun threatens to call the police. They barely escape after the resident fires at their car. After returning to the Emporium, Mitch runs into his middle school friends. They hatch a plan to exact revenge on O'Bannion. It culminates with them dumping paint on O'Bannion, who leaves in a fit of rage.

After the Emporium closes, an impromptu keg party is planned in a field under a moonlight tower. Cynthia, Tony, and Mike arrive at their first keg party, where Mike is threatened by tough guy Clint Bruno. Tony runs into freshman Sabrina Davis, whom he met earlier during the hazing and they begin hanging out together.

Cynthia likes Wooderson and exchanges phone numbers with him.

Mike, suffering from the humiliation of his confrontation with Clint, decides to make a stand by punching him. In return, he gets tackled by Clint and receives a beating from him. The fight is broken up by Pink and Wooderson. Football player Benny O'Donnell confronts Pink about his refusal to sign the pledge.

Pink, the only player not to have signed, believes it violates his individuality and beliefs. Mitch leaves the keg party with Julie. They drive to a nearby hill overlooking town to make out.

Tony gives Sabrina a ride home and they kiss goodnight.

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As night turns to dawn, Pink, Wooderson, Don, Ron Slater, and several other friends decide to smoke marijuana on the 50 yard line of the football field. The police arrive so they ditch the drugs. Recognizing Pink and Dawson, the police call Coach Conrad, his football coach. Conrad lectures Pink about hanging out with "losers" and insists that he sign the pledge. Pink says that he might play football, but he is not going to sign it.

Pink leaves with his friends to travel to Houston to obtain tickets to an Aerosmith concert. Mitch arrives home after sunrise to find his mother has waited up for him. She decides against punishment, but warns him about coming home late again.

Mitch goes to his bedroom, puts on headphones, and listens to

"Slow Ride" by Foghat, as Pink, Wooderson, Slater, and Simone Kerr travel down a highway to purchase their tickets.

Slow Ride

Foghat

Woo!

Alright

Slow ride, take it easy

Slow ride, take it easy

Slow ride, take it easy

Slow ride, take it easy

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I'm in the mood, yeah

The rhythm is right

Move to the music

We can roll all night

Ooh, slow ride

Ooh

Slow ride, take it easy

Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down, go down

Got to get your lovin' one more time

Hold me, roll me

Slow ridin' woman, you're so fine

Woo!

I'm in the mood

The rhythm is right

Move to the music, yeah

We can roll all night, yeah

Ooh-ooh

Slow ride, take it easy

Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down, go down

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Got to get your lovin' one more time

Hold me, roll me

Slow ridin' woman, you're so fine

Slow ride, easy

Slow ride, sleazy

Slow ride, easy

Slow ride, sleazy

Written by Andre Pessis, Larry Mcnally, and Bonnie Hayes.

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157 - Faster, Pussycat ... – Grand Junction, Colorado Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Three wild, uninhibited go-go dancers; Billie, Rosie, and Varlam dance at a club before racing their sports cars across the California desert. They play a high speed game of chicken on the salt flats and encounter a young couple, Tommy and Linda, out to run a time trial. After breaking Tommy's neck in a fight, Varla kidnaps and drugs Linda.

Revenge

Patti Smith Group

I feel upset.

Let's do some celebrating.

Come on honey, don't hesitate now.

Needed you, you withdrew, I was so forsaken.

Ah, but now the tables have turned, my move.

I believe I'll be taking my revenge.

Sweet revenge.

I thought you were some perfect read-out.

Some d-digital delay had obscured

And phased my view of the wicked hand you played.

Ah, the sands and hands of time have run out,

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Run out, ah you better face it.

Ah, this thing's run amok, this luck

I do know how to replace it with revenge.

Oh, sweet revenge.

I gave you a wristwatch, baby.

You wouldn't even give me the time of day.

You want to know what makes me tick.

Now it's me that's got precious little to say.

For the ghosts of our love have dried have died.

There's no use faking it.

Ah, the spirits gonna close in on you tonight.

High time I was taking my revenge.

Sweet revenge.

Revenge. Revenge.

All the gold and silver couldn't measure up My love for you. it's so immaterial.

I don't wait around for you.

Nobody gets anything.

Nobody gets nothing. no

Don't leave me no space in your little boat You ain't gonna need no

You ain't gonna need no little boat

You are living on my time my dear.

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Revenge. Sweet revenge. Sweet sweet revenge

Written by Patti Smith and Ivan Kral.

In a small desert town, they stop at a gas station where they see a wheelchair using old man and his muscular, dim witted son.

The gas station attendant tells the women that the old man was disabled in a railway accident, "going nuts" as a result, and that he received a large settlement of money that is hidden somewhere around his decrepit house in the desert. Intrigued, Varla hatches a scheme to rob the old man, and the three women follow him back to the ranch, with their captive in tow.

At the ranch they encounter the old man, his younger son, who they learn is called "The Vegetable" due to his feeblemindedness, and his elder son, Kirk. The group all have lunch together, and Billie taunts Rosie when Varla leaves with Kirk, hoping to seduce him into revealing the location of the money. Linda subsequently escapes the drunken Billie and runs away into the desert. The old man and the younger son pursue in their truck. The younger son catches Linda and seems about to assault her, but he collapses in tears as Varla and Kirk arrive.

Kirk finally acknowledges his father's lecherous nature and the old man's hold over his younger brother, and he vows to have his younger brother institutionalized. He tries to take the

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hysterical Linda into town in the truck, but the old man says that he has thrown away the keys, and Kirk and Linda set out across the desert on foot.

Varla drives back to the house and tells Billie and Rosie that they should kill the men and the girl to cover up Linda's kidnapping and the murder of her boyfriend. Billie refuses, but as she walks away, Varla throws a knife into her back just as the old man and his younger son arrive. Rosie and Varla hit the old man with their car, killing him and knocking over his wheelchair to reveal the money hidden inside. Rosie is stabbed and killed by the younger son while trying to retrieve the knife from Billie's body. Varla tries to ram him into a wall with her car, injuring him. She drives off in the truck and overtakes Kirk and Linda, chasing them into a gully. Varla and Kirk fight hand to hand. She gets the better of him until Linda hits her with the truck, and she dies. Kirk and Linda drive off together in the truck.

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158 - The Manchurian Candidate – Langfang, China The Manchurian Candidate

Soviet and Chinese soldiers capture a US Army platoon during the Korean War, taking them to communist China. Three days later, Sergeant Raymond Shaw and Captain Bennett "Ben" Marco return to UN lines. Upon Marco's recommendation, Shaw is awarded the Medal of Honor for saving his soldiers' lives in combat, though two men were killed. Shaw returns to the US, where his mother, Eleanor Iselin, exploits his heroism to further the political career of her husband, Senator John Iselin. When asked to describe Shaw, the soldiers in his unit uniformly respond that he is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being they have ever known. In fact, Shaw is a strict, cold, unsympathetic loner hated by his men.

White Room

Cream

In a white room with black curtains in the station Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes Dawn light smiles on you leaving, my contentment

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I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves

You said no strings could secure you at the station Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows I walked into, such a sad time, at the station As I walked out, felt my own need, just beginning

I'll wait in the queue when the trains come back Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves

At the party, she was kindness in the hard crowd Consolation for the old wound now forgotten Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings

I'll sleep in this place with the lo-onely crowd Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves

Written by James Francis Cauty and William Ernest Drummond.

After Marco is promoted to Major and assigned to Army Intelligence, he has a recurring nightmare; a hypnotized Shaw blithely murders two soldiers from his platoon before an assembly of communist military leaders to demonstrate their

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revolutionary brainwashing technique. Marco learns that Allen Melvin, a fellow soldier, has the same nightmare. When Melvin and Marco separately identify identical photos of the two male communist leaders from their dreams, Army Intelligence agrees to investigate.

During captivity, Shaw was programmed as a sleeper agent, who obeys orders to kill and immediately forgets having done so. His heroism is a false memory implanted during the brainwashing.

Agents trigger Shaw by suggesting he play solitaire; the queen of diamonds activates him. Meanwhile, Eleanor is masterminding John's political ascent with his claims that communists work at the Defense Department. To spite his mother and stepfather, Shaw takes a job at a newspaper published by Holborn Gaines, Iselin's harshest critic. Communist agents later have Shaw murder Gaines to confirm that his brainwashing still works.

Chunjin, a Korean agent who posed as a guide for Shaw's platoon, arrives at Shaw's apartment asking for work. The unsuspecting Shaw hires him as a valet and cook. Marco recognizes Chunjin when he visits Shaw and he violently attacks him and demands to know what happened during the platoon's captivity. After Marco is arrested for assault, Eugenie "Rosie" Cheyney, an attractive young woman he met on the train, posts his bail.

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Shaw rekindles a romance with Jocelyn Jordan, the daughter of liberal Senator Thomas Jordan, the Iselins' chief political foe.

Eleanor wants to garner Senator Jordan's support for Iselin's Vice Presidential bid. Unswayed, Jordan insists he will oppose the nomination. After Jocelyn inadvertently triggers Shaw's programming by wearing a Queen of Diamonds costume at the Iselins' party, they elope. Furious at Senator Jordan's rebuff, Eleanor, who is Shaw's American handler, sends him to kill Senator Jordan at his home. Shaw also kills Jocelyn when she inadvertently happens upon the murder scene. Having no memory of the killing, Shaw is grief stricken upon learning they are dead.

After discovering the queen of diamonds card's role in Shaw's conditioning, Marco uses a forced deck to deprogram him, hoping to learn Shaw's next assignment. Eleanor primes Shaw to assassinate their party's Presidential nominee during the convention so that Iselin, as the Vice Presidential candidate, will become the nominee by default. In the uproar, he will seek emergency powers to establish a strict authoritarian regime.

Eleanor tells Shaw that she had requested a programmed assassin, never knowing it would be her own son. When taking power, she vows revenge upon her superiors for choosing him.

Disguised as a priest, Shaw enters Madison Square Garden, taking a sniper's position in a vacant overhead spotlight booth. Marco

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and his supervisor, Colonel Milt, race to the convention to stop Shaw. At the last moment, Shaw aims away from the Presidential nominee and instead kills Senator Iselin and Eleanor. When Marco bursts into the booth, Shaw, wearing the Medal of Honor, says he was the only one who could stop his mother and stepfather, then kills himself. Later that evening with Rosie, Marco mourns Shaw's death.

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159 - The Big Chill – Beaufort, South Carolina The Big Chill

After Alex Marshall dies by suicide, his fellow University of Michigan alumni and close friends attend his funeral at the Tidalholm plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the visit, everyone stays with Sarah and Harold Cooper.

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo

Grateful Dead

On the day when I was born

daddy sat down and cried

I had the mark just as plain as day,

it could not be denied

They say that Cain caught Abel

rollin' loaded dice

Ace of spades behind his ear

and him not thinkin' twice

Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo

Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye

Half a cup of rock and rye

Farewell to you old southern skies

I'm on my way, on my way

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If all you've got to live for

is what you left behind

Get yourself a powder charge

and seal that silver mine

Lost my boots in transit, baby,

pile of smokin' leather

An ill retread to my feet

and prayed for better weather

Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo

Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye

Half a cup of rock and rye

Farewell to you old southern skies

I'm on my way, on my way

They say that when your ship comes in

the first man takes the sails

Second takes the afterdeck,

the third, the planks and rails

What's the point of callin' shots,

this cue ain't straight in line

Cue ball's made of styrofoam

and no one's got the time

Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo

Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye

Half a cup of rock and rye

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Farewell to you old southern skies

I'm on my way, on my way

On my way

Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river

Written by Robert Hunter and Jerome Garcia.

His other friends include Sam Weber, a television actor; Meg Jones, once a public defender and now a real estate attorney; Michael Gold, a journalist for People magazine; former talk radio psychologist Nick Carlton, now an impotent Vietnam vet with both a drug addiction and drug sales occupation; and Karen Bowen, an unfulfilled writer unhappily married to Richard, a conservative advertising executive. Also present is Chloe, Alex's younger girlfriend of four months.

While out jogging early the next morning, Harold, violating SEC

rules, tells Nick that a large corporation is about to buy his small sneaker company, which will make him rich and triple the

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value of the stock. He told Alex, making it possible for him to buy property in the area. Harold suggests Nick use the tip to get into a new line of work. During their conversation, it is revealed that Sarah and Alex had a brief affair five years earlier, which all the friends knew about. Nick comforts Harold by saying she did not marry Alex. Harold, Sarah, and Alex moved past it, but Sarah tells Karen her friendship with Alex was harmed by the affair.

Richard goes home the next day, but Karen stays. Harold, Nick, Michael, and Chloe drive out to see the old house that Chloe and Alex were renovating. Meanwhile, Meg tells Sarah she is fed up with failed relationships and intends to have a child on her own. Believing she is ovulating, she plans to ask Sam to be the father of her child. She approaches Nick first, thus becoming the last to know about his impotency. Michael, who continually flirts with Chloe, needs investors for a New York nightclub. At dinner, Sarah becomes tearful and wonders if their fervent '60s idealism was "just fashion." Later that night, Meg approaches Sam, but he declines, feeling fatherhood is too great a responsibility as he already has an estranged child. Nick shares his drugs, with varying effects.

The next day, Harold, a running shoe entrepreneur, gives everyone running shoes. Nick goes to the old house and sits on

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the porch for hours, missing the Michigan football game. Michael offers to sire Meg's child, alluding to their one time encounter in college.

During a halftime game of touch football, a local police officer escorts a sullen Nick back to the house after he runs a red light and becomes belligerent. Recognizing Sam, the officer offers to drop charges if he will hop into Nick's Porsche 911

the way his J. T. Lancer character does on TV. Sam tries and fails, injuring himself slightly. Nick angers Harold by accusing him of being friendly with cops. Harold chastises Nick, reminding him that this is his home, that cop had saved it from being ripped off, and Nick's recklessness could put his reputation in danger.

Nick gives everyone the drug of their choice. Meg, after smoking pot, is sitting at the kitchen table, and is asked why she quit being a public defender. She says; “I never imagined they’d be so .......... guilty.”

Karen tells a surprised Sam that she is in love with him and wants to leave Richard. He tells her his first marriage failed because of boredom and he does not want her to make the same mistake. Feeling led on, Karen angrily stomps off.

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Meg tells Sarah that Michael is the wrong choice. Sarah observes the warm phone conversation between her young daughter and Meg.

Later, the group, confused over Alex's death, regrets losing touch with him. To everyone but Sam, it seems that Alex withdrew deliberately. Nick is particularly cynical and bitter about life, love, and friendship. Karen follows Sam outside to mollify him, and they have sex. Sarah pulls Harold aside, embracing him, telling him she has a favor to ask: "It's about Meg ... " Meg goes to him and they make love, tenderly. Chloe asks Nick to spend the night in the room she shared with Alex.

The next morning, Harold announces that Nick and Chloe will stay on to renovate the old house. Karen packs to return home to Richard. Michael ditches his nightclub plans. Nick shows everyone an old column that Michael wrote about Alex declining a prestigious fellowship. As the friends prepare to depart, Michael jokingly tells the Coopers they have taken a secret vote and that they are never leaving.

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160 - Shampoo – Beverly Hills, California Shampoo

On the eve of the 1968 United States Presidential election, successful Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy meets with Felicia, one of his several clients/sexual partners, at his apartment. During sex, he receives a phone call from Jill, his naive, younger, up and coming actress girlfriend, who is suffering a panic attack, paranoid that an intruder is in her home. George rushes from his house to calm Jill, which frustrates Felicia.

Ballad of a Thin Man

Bob Dylan

You walk into the room

With your pencil in your hand

You see somebody naked and you

You say, "Who is that man?"

You try so hard, but you don't understand Just what you will say when you get home Because something is happening here

But you don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

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You raise up your head

And you ask, "Is this where it is?"

And somebody points to you and says, "It's his"

And you say, "What's mine?"

And somebody else says, "Well, what is?"

And you say, "Oh, my God, am I here all alone?"

But something is happening

And ya don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

You hand in your ticket

And you go watch the geek

Who immediately walks up to you

When he hears you speak

And says, "How does it feel to be such a freak?"

And you say, "Impossible," as he hands you a bone And something is happening here

But you don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

You have many contacts among the lumberjacks To get you facts when someone attacks your imagination But nobody has any respect

Anyway, they already expect you

To all give a check to tax-deductible charity organizations

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Ah, you've been with the professors

And they've all liked your looks

With great lawyers, you have discussed lepers and crooks You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books You're very well read, it's well known

But something is happening here

And ya don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you And then he kneels

He crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels And without further notice, he asks you how it feels And he says, "Here is your throat back, thanks for the loan"

And you know something is happening

But you don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

Now, you see this one-eyed midget

Shouting the word "now"

And you say, "For what reason?"

And he says, "How?"

And you say, "What does this mean?"

And he screams back, "You're a cow

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Give me some milk or else go home"

And you know something's happening

But you don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

Well, you walk into the room

Like a camel and then you frown

You put your eyes in your pocket

And your nose on the ground

There oughta be a law against you comin' around You should be made to wear earphones

'Cause something is happening

And ya don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

Written by Bob Dylan.

George's occupation and charisma have provided him the perfect platform from which to meet and have sex with beautiful women, including his current girlfriend. Despite this, 34 year old George is dissatisfied with his professional life. He is the creative star of the salon in which he works, but has to play second fiddle to Norman, the "nickel-and-diming" mediocre hairdresser who owns the business.

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George dreams of setting up his own salon business, but cannot convince any bank to lend him the capital he needs. He seeks out Felicia and her unsuspecting husband Lester to bankroll him.

George's meeting with Lester supplies a second secret for him to keep from his would be benefactor. Lester's current mistress, Jackie, is George's former girlfriend, perhaps the most serious relationship he has ever had. Jackie is also best friends with Jill, making the situation even more complicated.

Jackie arranges for George to style her hair, which he fashions nearly identically to Felicia's. Sexual tension arises between the two, and George attempts to kiss Jackie. At first, Jackie rebuffs George, but then kisses him back. They are about to have sex in the bathroom when they hear Lester announce his arrival.

As Lester comes into the room, they pretend for his benefit that George is finishing styling Jackie's hair.

Lester, who assumes George is gay because of his profession, asks George to escort Jackie to a Republican Party election night soiree. Upon arriving, George finds himself in the same room as a number of present and former sexual partners, including Jill, who came with Johnny Pope, a film director considering her for a role in his next film, and Felicia. Jackie becomes upset, drinks too much, and behaves outrageously, so Lester asks George to take her home, but she refuses to go.

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All the principals except Felicia adjourn to a posh counterculture party at a Beverly Hills mansion, where guests indulge in alcohol, other drugs, and sexual pursuits. Lester, followed moments later by Jill and Johnny, happen upon a couple having vigorous sex in the dark on the kitchen floor. Lester comments admiringly on this tryst to Jill and Johnny, who look on through the window in stunned silence. Suddenly, the refrigerator door George had failed to properly close comes open, illuminating Jackie and him. Lester, shocked, abruptly leaves. An enraged Jill throws a chair, breaking the window, and swears at George. Jackie flees as George tries to placate Jill with an obvious lie, but Jill, un-mollified, runs off to spend the night with Johnny.

The following morning Jill confronts George at her home with one of Felicia's earrings, which she found in his bed. When she asks about his dalliances, George admits he sought a career in the beauty industry as a means to pursue beautiful women, and that his promiscuity, while making him feel like he will live forever, may mean he does not love her. Upon returning to his home, George is met by Lester and some intimidating men. George and Lester soon find mutual understanding. Lester calls Jackie a whore and mentions he is fed up with her. Lester promises George a business deal and he and the men leave.

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George subsequently goes to Jackie's house, but she worriedly flees in her car, claiming she does not want Lester to find them together. George pursues her on his motorcycle, and the two arrive on a hilltop overlook above her house. George proposes to Jackie, but she tells him it is too late. She has arranged to go to Acapulco with Lester, who has said he will divorce Felicia and marry her. Jackie leaves George alone on the overlook, from where he sadly watches her depart with Lester.

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161 - South Pacific – Maui, Hawaii

South Pacific

On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lieutenant Joseph Cable, USMC.

While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.

It is 1943 and the United States Navy has established several bases in the Solomon Islands, in preparation for an invasion towards New Guinea and the Central Pacific. On one such island lives a French planter named Emile de Becque, whom the Navy wishes to employ as a scout to nearby Japanese held islands. To accomplish this task, de Becque is approached by a US Navy nurse

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named Nellie Forbush. Amidst an outstanding musical score, and breathtaking scenery, the drama of "South Pacific" unfolds.

The plot centers on an American nurse stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II, who falls in love with a middle aged expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his children. A secondary romance, between a US Marine Lieutenant and a young Tonkinese woman, explores his fears of the social consequences should he marry his Asian sweetheart.

("You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"). Supporting characters, including a comic petty officer and the Tonkinese girl's mother, help to tie the stories together.

The original Broadway production enjoyed immense critical and box office success, became the second longest running Broadway musical to that point, behind Rodgers and Hammerstein's earlier

“Oklahoma!” - 1943, and has remained popular ever since. After they signed Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin as the leads, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote several of the songs with the particular talents of their stars in mind. The piece won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. Several of its songs, including "Bali Ha'I,"

"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair," "Some Enchanted Evening," "There Is Nothing Like a Dame," "Happy Talk," "Younger Than Springtime," and "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" have become popular standards.

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Domino

Van Morrison

Don't wanna discuss it

Think it's time for a change

You may get disgusted

Start thinkin' that I'm strange

In that case, I'll go underground

Get some heavy rest

Never have to worry

About what is worse or what is best

Oh, oh Domino

It's all right

Roll me over, Romeo

There you go

Lord, have mercy

I said oh-oh, Domino

Roll me over, Romeo, there you go

Say it again

I said, oh-oh-oh, Domino

I said, oh-oh-oh-oh, Domino

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Dig it

There's no need for argument

There's no argument at all

And if you never hear from him

That just means he didn't call

Or vice versa

That depends on where ever you're at

All right

And if you never hear from me

That just means I would rather not

Hit it

Oh, oh, Domino

All right

Roll me over Romeo, there you go

Lord, have mercy

I said, oh-oh, Domino

Roll me over Romeo, there you go

Hey, all right

Say it again

Oh-oh-oh-oh, Domino

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Hey, hit it

I said oh-oh-oh, Domino

Well, Mr. DJ, I just wanna hear

Some rhythm and blues music

On the radio

On the radio

On the radio

Uh-uh, all right

Uh-uh, all right

Uh-uh, all right

Uh-uh

Hear the band

One more time

Written by Gene Simmons.

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162 - The Valley – Bismarck, North Dakota The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)

“La Vallée,” also known as “Obscured by Clouds,” is a 1972

French film written and directed by Barbet Schroeder. The film stars Bulle Ogier as Viviane, a woman who goes on a strange and accidental voyage of self-discovery through the New Guinea bush.

Pink Floyd recorded an album, Obscured by Clouds, as the soundtrack to the film. After recording had finished, the band fell out with the film company, prompting them to release the soundtrack album as Obscured by Clouds, rather than La Vallée.

In response, the film was retitled La Vallée (Obscured by Clouds) on its release.

Wots ... uh the Deal

Pink Floyd

Heaven sent the promised land

Looks alright from where I stand

Cause I'm the man on the outside looking in

Waiting on the first step

Show where the key is kept

Point me down the right line because it's time

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To let me in from the cold

Turn my lead into gold

Cause there's chill wind blowing in my soul And I think I'm growing old

Flash the readies

Wot's ... uh the deal?

Got to make it to the next meal

Try to keep up with the turning of the wheel.

Mile after mile

Stone after stone

Turn to speak but you're alone

Million mile from home you're on your own

So let me in from the cold

Turn my lead into gold

Cause there's chill wind blowing in my soul And I think I'm growing old

Fire bright by candlelight

And her by my side

And if she prefers we will never stir again

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Someone said the promised land

And I grabbed it with both hands

Now I'm the man on the inside looking out

Hear me shout "Come on in,

What's the news and where you been?"

Cause there's no wind left in my soul

And I've grown old

Written by Pink Floyd.

The actress credit "Monique Giraudy" is actually an alias of Miquette Giraudy, at the time a film editor and, later on, vocalist and synthesizer player with the progressive rock/space rock band Gong with her partner Steve Hillage. They later formed the electronic group System 7.

Viviane (Ogier), the wife of the French consul in Melbourne, joins a group of explorers in search of a mysterious hidden valley in the bush of New Guinea, where she hopes to find the feathers of an extremely rare exotic bird. Along the way through the dense jungles of Papua New Guinea and on the peak of Mount Giluwe, she and the small group of explorers make contact with a native tribe called the "Mapuga," portrayed as one of the most isolated groups of human beings on earth, who inspire them to

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explore their own humanity, unfettered by their own subjective ideas of "civilization." The search becomes a search for a paradise said to exist within a valley marked as "obscured by cloud" on the only map of the area available dated as surveyed in 1969.

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163 - The Magic Garden ... – Topanga Canyon, California The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart

Stanley Sweetheart is an aspiring filmmaker and junior at Columbia University who moved to New York City from Beverly Hills. His father is dead, he is not close to his mother, and his family is running out of money. He lives alone in a Manhattan apartment on the Upper West Side across from a noisy construction site, and seems to have no friends. Bored with his classes and seeking a sexual outlet, he fantasizes about a beautiful blonde classmate. Later, he visits a local bar where he runs into a talkative hippie acquaintance, Barbara, who has recently changed her name to Shayne. He has a one night stand with Barbara, and in the night he sees and is attracted to her beautiful roommate, Andrea. On a later visit to the bar, he meets their friend Danny, an older and more sophisticated underground musician.

On the Road Again

Canned Heat

Well, I'm so tired of crying

But I'm out on the road again

I'm on the road again

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Well, I'm so tired of crying

But I'm out on the road again

I'm on the road again

I ain't got no woman

Just to call my special friend

You know the first time I traveled

Out in the rain and snow

In the rain and snow

You know the first time I traveled

Out in the rain and snow

In the rain and snow

I didn't have no payroll

Not even no place to go

And my dear mother left me

When I was quite young

When I was quite young

And my dear mother left me

When I was quite young

When I was quite young

She said, "Lord, have mercy on my wicked son."

Take a hint from me, mama

Please don't you cry no more

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Don't you cry no more

Take a hint from me, mama

Please don't you cry no more

Don't you cry no more

'Cause it's soon one morning

Down the road I'm going

But I ain't going down

That long old lonesome road

All by myself

But I ain't going down

That long old lonesome road

All by myself

I can't carry you, baby

Gonna carry somebody else

Written by Floyd Jones and Alan Wilson.

Back on campus, Stanley finally meets and dates the classmate who is the object of his fantasies, Cathy. Cathy and Stanley fall in love, but she is a virgin and initially refuses his sexual advances, leaving him frustrated. Finally she agrees to sleep with him and the two settle into happy domestic life for a time, but Stanley soon becomes bored with the relationship and fantasizes about Andrea. When Cathy expresses concern about the

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promiscuous behavior of her chubby roommate Fran, Stanley invites Fran over under the pretext of filming her for an underground movie called “Masturbation.” He gets Fran drunk and films her in a variety of sexual positions, culminating with her masturbating in a bathtub, after which Stanley and Fran have sex. He initially feels guilty, but Fran comes to his apartment when Cathy is away and entices him into continuing the affair behind Cathy's back.

Stanley, who by now has dropped out of college, accompanies Danny, who relates that he himself "used to go to Juilliard," to a psychedelic rock concert/happening in a loft performance space. Soon after, Danny, Barbara and Andrea drop by Stanley's apartment while he is home with Cathy. They all smoke pot together and Stanley finally gets to talk with Andrea, while Cathy is attracted to Danny. Later, Cathy breaks up with Stanley, saying that they haven't loved each other for a long time and she wants to see Danny instead. Stanley gets mad and throws her out of his apartment, but afterwards misses her and unsuccessfully looks for her. He confronts Danny, who admits that he doesn't really care about Cathy, but won't tell her to stop coming around.

Stanley visits Andrea's apartment, where they smoke pot and eventually make love, joined later by Barbara. Stanley moves in

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with the girls and they form a makeshift family with Stanley as

"big daddy," Andrea as "mama," and Barbara as "little sister,"

and spend their time together getting high, having group sex and exploring Greenwich Village. At first Stanley is the happiest he has ever been in his life, but soon finds himself again losing interest. When he finally sees Cathy at another psychedelic event, he is so high he can't respond to her efforts to talk to him.

Danny shoots himself behind his mother's house. Stanley wakes up at Andrea and Barbara's apartment and tells Andrea he's going uptown to change his clothes. Andrea asks him to please come back, because she needs him. Stanley says he will come back, but as he leaves, it's unclear whether he will actually keep that promise.

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164 - The Deer Hunter – Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Deer Hunter

In late 1968, three friends in a tight knit Slavic American community in Western Pennsylvania’ Mike, Steven and Nick, work in a steel mill and hunt for deer with their co-workers Axel, Stan and John. Mike, Steven and Nick are preparing to leave for military service in Vietnam. Steven is engaged to Angela, who was secretly impregnated by another man. Mike and Nick are close friends who live together and both love Linda, who will be moving into their home to escape from her alcoholic father.

While dancing at Steven and Angela's wedding, Linda accepts Nick's spontaneous marriage proposal. Nick implores Mike to ensure he returns from Vietnam. Mike, Nick and their friends take a final deer hunt. Mike kills a deer with a single shot.

In Vietnam in early 1969, Mike, a member of Special Forces, happens upon Nick and Steven in a village, but the three are imprisoned by the Viet Cong in a cage along a river and forced to participate in games of Russian roulette while the jailers bet. Steven fires his round at the ceiling and is forced into a cage with dead men and rats. Mike convinces his captors to put three bullets in the revolver's cylinder. Nick and Mike then use

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the pistol to overpower their captors and escape, rescuing Steven in the process.

The trio floats down the river but Nick's leg is shot. They are rescued by an American helicopter, but Steven falls back into the river. Mike drops down to help Steven while Nick is flown away. Steven's legs were broken in the fall, so Mike carries him until they meet refugees fleeing to Saigon.

Nick is treated at a US military hospital. Once released, Nick now suffering from PTSD, wanders into a gambling den. French businessman Julien persuades him to come inside. Upset, Nick interrupts a game of Russian roulette, pulling the trigger on himself. Mike is present as a spectator, but Nick and Julien hurriedly leave.

In 1970, Mike returns home, but cannot integrate back into civilian life. He avoids a welcome home party, opting to stay alone in a hotel. He visits Linda and learns that Nick has deserted. Mike then visits Angela, who is now the mother of a child, but has slipped into catatonia following the return of Steven, who has lost both of his legs in the war. Stan, Axel and John understand nothing of war or what Mike has gone through.

Linda and Mike find comfort in each other's company. Mike is unable to shoot a deer during a hunting trip and is outraged

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when Stan cavalierly threatens Axel with his pistol. Mike chambers only one round, and triggers an empty chamber at Stan's head.

Mike visits Steven at a veterans' hospital. Both of Steven's legs have been amputated, and he has lost the use of an arm.

Steven refuses to come home, saying he no longer fits in. He tells Mike that he has been regularly receiving large sums of money from Vietnam. Mike intuits that Nick is the source of these payments, and forces Steven home to Angela. Mike returns to Vietnam in search of Nick. Wandering around Saigon, which is now in a state of chaos shortly before its fall, Mike finds Julien and persuades him to take him to the gambling den. Mike finds himself facing Nick, who has become a professional in the macabre game and fails to recognize Mike. Mike attempts to bring Nick back to reason, but Nick, who is now a heroin addict, is indifferent. During a game of Russian roulette, Mike invokes memories of their hunting trips. Nick recalls Mike's "one shot"

method and smiles before pulling the trigger, killing himself.

Stink Foot

Frank Zappa

In the dark

Where all the fevers grow

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Under the water

Where the shark bubbles blow

In the mornin'

By your radio

Do the walls close in to suffocate ya

You ain't got no friends...

An' all the others they hate ya?

There's the life you been leadin' gotta go Well, lemme straighten you out

About a place I know...

Get your shoes 'n socks on people

because it's right aroun' the corner!

Out through the night an' the whispering breezes To the place where they keep the Imaginary Diseases Out through the night an' the whispering breezes To the place where they keep the Imaginary Diseases This must be the disease for you

Now scientists call this disease Bromhidrosis But us regular folks who might wear tennis shoe Or an occasional python boot

Know this exquisite little inconvenience by the name of stinkfoot

Y'know, my python boot was too tight

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I couldn't get it off last night

A week went by, an' now it's July

I finally got that sucker off an' my girl-friend cried

"You got stinkfoot

Stinkfoot, darlin'

Your stink foot puts a hurt on my nose!

Stinkfoot, stinkfoot

I ain't lyin'

Can you rinse it off, d'you suppose?"

Here Fido, Fido

Come here little puppy, bring the slippers

"Arf, arf, arf!"

Sick

Well, then Fido got up off the floor an' he rolled over An' he looked me straight in the eye

An' you know what he said?

"Once upon a time"

"Somebody say to me," this is a dog talkin' now

"What is your Conceptual Continuity?"

"Well, I told him right then," Fido said It should be easy to see

The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe

Well, you know

The man who was talkin' to the dog

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Looked at the dog an' he said:

sort of staring in disbelief

"You can't say that!"

He said, "It doesn't, 'n you can't!

I won't, 'n it don't!

It hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't

'N it shouldn't

It couldn't!"

He told me no, no, no!

I told him yes yes yes!

I said, "I do it all the time

Ain't this boogie a mess!"

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

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The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites

The poodle chews it

The poodle by-ee-ites ...

Written by Frank Zappa .

Mike and his friends attend Nick's funeral, and the atmosphere at their local bar is dim and silent. Moved by emotion, John begins to sing "God Bless America" in honor of Nick, as everyone joins in.

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165 - The Silence – Timoka, Austria

The Silence

Two emotionally estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's son, Johan, a boy of 10, are on a night train journey back home.

Ester, the older sister and a literary translator, is seriously ill. Anna coldly assists her, seemingly resenting the burden.

They decide to interrupt the journey in the next town called

"Timoka," located in a Central European country on the brink of war. Although Ester is a professional translator, neither she nor her relatives speak the language of this country.

Hotel California

Eagles

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night

There she stood in the doorway

I heard the mission bell

And I was thinking to myself

"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"

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Then she lit up a candle

And she showed me the way

There were voices down the corridor

I thought I heard them say

"Welcome to the Hotel California

Such a lovely place (such a lovely place) Such a lovely face

Plenty of room at the Hotel California

Any time of year (any time of year)

You can find it here"

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted,

she got the Mercedes-Benz, uh

She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys

she calls friends

How they dance in the courtyard,

sweet summer sweat

Some dance to remember,

some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain,

"Please bring me my wine"

He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"

And still those voices are calling

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from far away

Wake you up in the middle of the night

Just to hear them say

"Welcome to the Hotel California

Such a lovely place (such a lovely place) Such a lovely face

They’re livin' it up at the Hotel California What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise) Bring your alibis"

Mirrors on the ceiling,

the pink champagne on ice

And she said, "We are all just prisoners here of our own device"

And in the master's chambers

they gathered for the feast

They stab it with their steely knives,

but they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember,

I was running for the door

I had to find the passage back

to the place I was before

"Relax," said the night man,

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"We are programmed to receive

You can check out any time you like,

but you can never leave"

Written by Glenn Lewis Frey, Don Felder, and Donald Hugh Henley.

The sisters rent a two room apartment in a once grand hotel.