Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take your enemies and your allies alike one by one," says Ray Mungo in the collection's best essay. "Absolutely Exclusive to Asylum." That's a big change for Mungo, who once took on the whole administration of B. U. as editor of the B. U. News. who founded and then tried to bust up Liberation News Service, who for a long time was the ideal Radical Voice for your TV show or street corner rally. He's still a newsman, but the news has changed: "Strong personal generators can be had for under $35... there is free music...
...Arlo Guthrie, Ray and Alice Brock and the others who are at the center of Alice's Restaurant are a different kind of misfit in a different kind of misfit in a different kind of America. They are potent, generous people with good minds and uncluttered hearts. They know how to love. And the America they find themselves in is not one of depression but one of abundance...
...anything you want at Alice's Restaurant..." goes Arlo's now legendary song, which is both the inspiration and structural framework of the film. And you can. Alice and Ray, the couple that sets up home in a Stockbridge, Massachusetts church as the film begins, have everything: shelter and food and grass aplenty. And when Arlo and his friends, the misplaced and the homeless of American kids, come up to Stockbridge, they know there will be a home, sustenance, and love waiting for them...
...that doesn't make life any better for Ray and Alice's friends, even though it should. They set up a restaurant for Alice in the middle of Stockbridge, but it collapses in a marital spat between the Brocks. Shelly, a guy in the group who likes motorcycles, art and heroin, kicks the smack habit only to revert to it later on when he discovers that he can't have Alice for his very own. Arlo beats the draft only to realize that "the good things in [his] life seem to come out of not doing what [he] doesn...
...restaurant belongs to Alice (Pat Quinn) and she must remain central to the film's aciton. At the movie's end, her husband Ray (James Broderick) tells her that they will find salvation up in Vermont, on acres and acres of farmland. She stands in front of their church, in the growing New England afternoon darkness, wanting to believe him. But he has gone and she is not sure. The camera moves around her, approaching her face from every vantage point, trying to show us what Alice's face has to say about it all. And what is her expression...