Peter Gessner

“But that the white eye-lid of the screen reflects its proper light, the Universe would go up in flames.”

—Luis Bunuel

Crazed, incendiary film-makers like Bunuel are few; most of the time, the movie-screen only gives back to us the asbestos of a dream industry. Money and convention rule. The truly disturbing insight must be packaged and sold in the psychic space of the market place.

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Remember Bevo Francis, sports fans? Well, Abbie Hoffman does.

One of the least off-the-wall sections in “Woodstock Nation,” Abbie’s latest bildungsroman and advertisement for himself (the proceeds are pledged to the Motherfuckers who weren’t in on the Movement’s shakedown of hippie capitalist Woodstock Ventures, Inc.), deals with his visit to the one-horse college where fifteen years ago this Bevo Francis dude was the first human to score 100 points in a basketball game.

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