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From: allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck)
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 05:15:29 EDT
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Oh, yes, and the movie that was playing with "Head" at the UC was a classic
of anachronistic film, "Psych Out" with Jack Nicholson as a hippy guitarist
(all too obviously ripping off Jimi in one concert scene).  Rack dialogue,
pat views toward drugs, Bruce Dern as a freaked-out artist confronted by
Jack stealing his own work from the communal gallery ("*He* guided my hands
when I made this" - 'this' being a rather nondescript lump of metal).
Susan Strasberg as a deaf newcomer to the Haight-Ashbury - her reaction to
the drug STP is a terrific filmic strain to represent a bad trip.

Directed by Richard Rush, later to do "The Stunt Man", produced by -

wait for it - 

DICK CLARK.

Probably regarded as an earnest, hard-hitting film on release, now a highly
dated, and enjoyable, film.