Alison E wrote: > and "steal this book" is also great, but if you're > overloaded with books at this point, rent > Steal this Movie, an excellent adaptation of the book > starring Vincent D'Onofrio (sp?) as Abby and Janeane > Garafolo as his wife Anita and a whole bunch of other > great people.
I found this movie enjoyable, too, not just because I'm a Janeane Garafolo fan. I would add that Ashara's original quest was for books that would help her understand the hippies, not the 60's per se. I prefer the term counterculture-'hippy' like 'beatnik' seems to me more a media term, and in most places a term of derision akin to 'white trash', a stereotype often predicated by 'dirty'. I'm sure there are good books on this phenom, just don't know what they are. Would recommend "The Last Whole Earth Catalog" and old issues of the "Whole Earth Review" (which became "The Coevolution Quarterly" , one issue of which carried a Joni Mitchell interview (probably in the jm.com database (?) ). RR
