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Tim Hall's FULL OF IT - Available now
Submitted by petercole on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 13:00.
Full Of It
The Birth, Death, and Life of an Underground Newspaper
$14.95
REVIEWS:
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Time Out Chicago
SYNOPSIS:
In the mid-1990s in New York's gritty East Village, a group of artists, activists, and dreamers come together to create the Troglodyte,
a freewheeling, anarchic newspaper in the spirit of the underground
press of the 1960s. There's Jack, the sensitive poet with a troubled
past; Ross, the fiery ex-hippie fighting to save his beloved
neighborhood from greedy landlords and "yuppie scum"; and Buzzy, a fast-talking dilettante with big plans for the Troglodyte—if she can ever stop her manic socializing long enough to actually do anything.
Creative
tensions turn into rivalries, and a battle for control of
the newspaper. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, long-simmering
tensions explode into outright hostility, as two camps form and fight
for the hearts and minds of the neighborhood.
Based on a true story, Full Of It
crackles with alternating currents of humor and poignancy as it charts
the rise and fall of a small alternative newspaper at the beginning of
the Internet Age, with feuds that become so intense only because "the
stakes are so low."
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