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 September 16th - Feral Cinema #8 presents: HEROIN SMACKTACULAR
THURSDAY, SEPT 16th to the United States Art Authority
7:30 PM
$5 Cover
Life is good when you're pulling in $7,000 a week, especially if you're a writer. That is, unless you've got a $6,000 a week smack habit. Amazingly, Hollywood screenwriter Jerry Stahl managed to crank out episodes for ALF, TWIN PEAKS, MOONLIGHTING and THIRTYSOMETHING by day, and achieve new lows in chemical self-sabotage throughout L.A.'s most dangerous neighborhoods by night. The resulting memoir, PERMANENT MIDNIGHT, was hailed as "an extraordinary accomplishment" by Hubert Selby, Jr. and earned Stahl the title of "America's hipster bard" by James Ellroy. And both these writers know a little about the underbelly of the American Dream, having penned REQUIEM FOR A DREAM and L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, respectively. An instant classic of junkie fiction, Permanent Midnight found a ready director in first-timer David Veloz, whose previous credit included co-writing NATURAL BORN KILLERS. Stahl's wicked, self-lacerating humor is portrayed surprisingly well in a critically-lauded performance by Ben Stiller (not that the reviews helped the box office - the film disappeared without a trace). Co-starring Owen Wilson, Maria Bello, Janeane Garofalo, and Elizabeth Hurley, Feral Cinema invites you to give this overlooked tale of addiction and redemption another chance, preceded by the Francis Ford Coppola-produced stop-motion short A JUNKY'S CHRISTMAS, featuring and based on the novel by William S. Burroughs. doors @ 8pm, show 8:30pm artwork by Caitlin Leach |
