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| Catalog #: | 491184 | |
| Clip Number: | 491184-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 1730 | |
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| Location: | NYC | |
| Year Shot: | 1969 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | DRUGS: Illicit | |
| Description: | ON PREVIEW CASSETTE # 202001B Using an antique method of scaring teenagers straight, FLORY FISHER, a loquacious former junkie in her late 40's, talks to a room of high school students about the hells she endured while under illicit influences, grandly retelling the trials and tribulations she deliberately put herself through because of her dependencies. And though the intentions are admirable, Ms. Fisher comes across as a better storyteller (and historian) than a hardline case study. Her soliloquy is intercut with MS's and CU's of the audience, a cross section of well-dressed races and genders, none of whom look like they need to worry about drug problems. Ms. Fisher is very frank and somewhat animated about her dealings with marijuana and horse (heroin), and about her descent into prostitution. Some great quotes about zoot suit fellas, 18K PIMPS, DOPE STREET, BEING FLY, and so on. Many descriptive stories about drugs, jail, whoring, and being a 50 YEAR OLD HIPPIE (likening her life to that of the then-modern lovers, the young lotus-eaters). She also talks about RAT FINKS, THE CODE OF THE STREET, DROPPING A DIME, GETTING BUSTED, taking a shot in a public park in front of children, and the story of a college girl who freaked out on LSD and broke her spine while trying to escape from a mental hospital (A RAVING MANIAC AND HER PROGNOSIS IS NIL). At one point she begins crying and then retells her road to recovery. Later still she fields questions from the audience, and talks about the definition of hippies, the psychology of drugs, yellow jaundice (caused by a dirty needle), and being a brother's keeper. At the conclusion, in a closed interview format, she talks about her return to New York City, about the run-down friends she ran into on Broadway. | |
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