Norman Spinrad is the author of over twenty novels, including Bug Jack Barron, The Iron Dream and Child of Fortune. He has also published around 60 short stories collected in half a dozen volumes, and his work have been published in about 15 languages. He's written teleplays, including the classic Star Trek episode “The Doomsday Machine,” and two produced feature films Druids and La Sirene Rouge. He is a longtime literary critic, sometime film critic, perpetual political analyst, and sometime songwriter. He's also briefly been a radio phone show host, has appeared as a vocal artist on three albums, and occasionally performs live. He’s been a literary agent, and President of the Science Fiction Writers of America and World SF. His most recent novel, Mexica has just been published and he has just finished a new novel, Welcome to Your Dreamtime, portions of which have already been published.
This is a film about the Haight in the Summer of Love, directed by Richard Rush, a good unsung director, starring an unknown named Jack Nicholson, who also did some writing on it.
An almost unknown film about a naif's encounter with the Counterculture and drugs, infinitely deeper than the idiot title.
What can I say, other than it's the best film about the dark side of drugs, more or less introducing Al Pacino.
One pill makes you larger, etc. Yes, Disney. I ordered this up in a fancy hotel on an acid trip with my future wife. What would Walt say? Depends if he was sniffing coke at the time.
Probably the best film about the drug trade, or at least one of them.