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This short has seldom aired on American television due to prominent Native American stereotypes.
For whatever reason the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been thinking about David Bowie a great deal this week. For Poetry Day, we used the Tracy K. Smith poem, Don't You Just Wonder Sometimes? Traveling further down the intraweb, we found this wonderful cover by Bowie of the Simon and Garfunkel classic, America .
Something we never realized before - there are no rhymes in this song, which is quite a feat of songwriting.
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1989 drama Drugstore Cowboy, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham and a special appearance by William S. Burroughs. Based on the unpublished novel of prison inmate James Fogle, who was convicted of pharmaceutical robberies, Drugstore Cowboy is a deep dive into the myths and cultural patterns of addiction subculture seen from the inside, neither glamorizing nor imposing outside values on it.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this cult classic: Drugstore Cowboy.
One thing that can be said for the script is that the drug lingo is accurate. Bobby's conversation with Father Murphy (William Burroughs, who really was a notorious junkie in his day) gives us: being "sick", which is the immediate craving the drug, "holding" means you have some, "stepping" on a drug means diluting it, "scoring" is obtaining dope, a "croaker" is a doctor, and "writing" refers to doctors who are willing to give out prescriptions to addicts.
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