6 May
One family fights to reopen the old community centre, and 16-year-old Candice’s baby is due – but will her boyfriend be there for her? In another family, Steven goes for a place at college while his brother struggles with drug addiction.
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4 May
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4 May
2012-04-25WED Nite Part3
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30 Apr
GREGORY CORSO and HERBERT HUNCKE Two lions of the Beat Generation filmed by Francois Bernadi Original Beats is a short documentary film by Francois Bernadi on Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke. Huncke was the original Beat. He coined the term, lived the life and was on the road long before Kerouac. Here he talks about his life as petty criminal, drug user and Beat writer. Corso believed the poet and his life are inseparable. It was a belief he held true, otherwise the poet couldn’t write like a lion, write truthfully. This is a fascinating and informative portrait on the eldest and the youngest of the original Beats, filmed shortly before Huncke’s death in 1996. Often overshadowed by the Beat triumvurate of Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac, Herbert Huncke and Gregory Corso were nonetheless integral to the Beat family and, on a personal level at least, often the most interesting. Both had been in jail (the same jail though not at the same time), both, in contrast to the Big Three who were all Columbia Grads, were self taught. I never read a lot of Corso because he mostly wrote poetry and I don’t read a lot of poetry. I still have my copy of Huncke’s ‘The Evening Sun Turned Crimson’, which, despite a relative lack of artlessness, is direct, honest, even charming. Huncke details his early life hustling, plumbing the depths of drug addiction (I still recall, even years after I read the book, Huncke describing walking into Alphabet City with open sores on his face after . . .
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28 Apr
HERES A CLIP OF SOME SQUATTERS IN CHICAGO THAT ARE ADDICTED TO HEROIN AND OTHER HARD DRUGS, PYRO AND CHYNA ARE THE STREET KIDS THAT ARE THE FOCUS OF THIS VIDEO.
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