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Tom Wolfe: Chronicling Counterculture’s ‘Acid Test’
The new documentary Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place gathers never before seen footage shot during the Merry Pranskters’ LSD-fueled bus trip across America in 1964. Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was the ring leader. The bus was driven by Neal Cassady, who was the inspiration for [...]
Ken Kesey On Misconceptions Of Counterculture
The new documentary Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place gathers never before seen footage shot during the Merry Pranskters’ LSD-fueled bus trip across America in 1964. Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was the ring leader. The bus was driven by Neal Cassady, who was the inspiration for [...]
Writer Robert Stone Relives Counterculture Years
The new documentary Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place gathers never before seen footage shot during the Merry Pranskters’ LSD-fueled bus trip across America in 1964. Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was the ring leader. The bus was driven by Neal Cassady, who was the inspiration for [...]
’3-D Sex And Zen’: Hong Kong Action, With An Added Erotic Dimension
Reviving a 1990s Hong Kong softcore-porn/action-comedy series, 3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy adds comin’-at-ya visuals to a campy tale of an erotic quest. Anyone with a dirty mind — and you can hardly imagine the movie without one — will anticipate a certain part of the male anatomy seeming to jut from the screen. [...]
‘Senna’: The Fast-Paced Life Of A Champion Racer
With a little bit of talent and a little bit of fame, an early death can secure a kind of immortality. When someone dies young having already achieved massive fame through prodigious talent, their lost potential can be the source of endless speculation and debate. So it was with Formula One racecar driver Ayrton Senna, [...]
’30 Minutes Or Less’: Veggie Supreme, Hold The Bomb
At a mere 83 minutes, 30 Minutes or Less might seem able to deliver on the promise of its zippy title. Instead, this slackers-go-gangsta comedy demonstrates that less than 90 minutes can be a very long time. The story begins at full speed, as pizza-delivery guy Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) rushes to an address he knows [...]
Tourists Find Unlikely Destination In ‘Littlerock’
A lilting melancholy pervades Littlerock, Mike Ott’s gentle fish-out-of-water tale of accidental tourists and unexpected connections. When their rental car breaks down in the Southern California desert, Japanese siblings Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and his shy sister, Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka, who collaborated with Ott on the story), are stranded in the tiny town of Littlerock. Waiting [...]
A Kinder, Gentler ‘Doc Martin’ Clunes
Actor Martin Clunes is well known in his native U.K.; he’s played an undertaker, a rough-and-tumble lout in the comedy Men Behaving Badly and a man mired in a mid-life crisis in the sitcom Reggie Perrin. But American audiences know him best for his starring role in the British comedy series, Doc Martin. A brilliant [...]
Twenty Humble Suggestions For New Cable Network Slogans
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