The Pyramid (1976) - full transcript
A young TV news reporter grows tired of Commercial programming and decides to cover more positive stories. He is fired for his troubles, and goes on a personal search for truth and beauty in the media. A voyage in consciousness for the millenium.
(gentle music)
♪ The dawn is slowly breaking ♪
♪ A new day lies ahead ♪
♪ The saddest thing I do ♪
♪ Is leaving you
alone in that bed ♪
♪ As the day grows brighter ♪
♪ I'm sure you realize ♪
♪ Last night I was your lover ♪
♪ Today I'm just another
pilgrim in the skies ♪
♪ Some may call it destiny ♪
♪ Some may call it pride ♪
♪ Search alone for mysteries ♪
♪ That are buried deep inside ♪
♪ I must take the new road ♪
♪ And leave the old behind ♪
♪ Running to the gold ♪
♪ It leaves my heart
and soul unsatisfied ♪
(baby crying)
(gentle music)
(piano music)
(energetic music)
(cars crashing)
(kids screaming)
(ominous music)
(heartbeat pounding)
(siren blaring)
(kids screaming)
(siren blaring)
- Okay, we need to have
everybody please stand back.
Let the police and fire
men do their jobs.
Please stand back.
(people crying)
Move back.
Come on, move, move, move back.
(sirens blaring)
(intense music)
Come on, stand back, stand back.
- [Girl] I want my mother!
I want my mother!
I want my mother!
I want my mother!
No.
I want my mom.
(crying and screaming)
(tense music)
(sirens blaring)
(tense music)
- No, no, no!
Oh no!
Oh, oh!
(crying)
No, no, no, no.
Oh Jesus, no, no!
- [L.A.] What happened,
do you think?
- Well, it looks like the
guy driving the station wagon
had himself a heart attack.
There's no skid marks
so he didn't even get a
chance to apply his breaks.
(sirens blaring)
From the looks of the damage,
the guy had to be doing
at least 55 miles an hour
when he collided into the bus.
- [Camera Man] Okay,
L.A., we're ready.
- All right,
lieutenant, we're on.
We're speaking with
Lieutenant Calvin Buckert
of the Dallas Police.
Lieutenant
- Good afternoon,
I'm Larry Swain.
Tragedy struck at
an early hour today
when an automobile
collided with the north
Dallas elementary school bus.
Three children and the
driver of the car were killed
and at least a dozen
others seriously injured.
KSTX News reported Lamoine
Peabody was at the accident
scene
where he talked
with public information
officer Calvin Buckert.
- How many units do you
have here lieutenant?
- Well we've got six police
elements working traffic
and two fire ambulances that
are carrying the casualties.
- [L.A.] Are all the
children out of the bus?
- As far as we know they are
and this could very well
be the worst accident
in Dallas' history.
- Preliminary indications are
that Vanhees suffered
a heart attack,
lost control of his automobile,
ran a stop sign
and then crashed into the
side of the oncoming bus.
The official cause
of Vanhees death
will be verified by an autopsy
now underway at the
medical examiner's office.
A Dallas federal judge stepped
down from the bench today.
I'll be back with that
and other stories
right after these
few brief words.
- [Male] 59, this is 652.
- Go ahead 652.
- [Male] 59, they're
transferring the hitchhiker
killer.
Better get over there now.
- Okay we're going, ten four.
What's the chance of
getting an exclusive
with this kid, Jack?
- May have none, L.A..
He hasn't said a word
since he got here,
not even when they
showed him a pic.
(reporters shouting)
- Quiet, quiet please.
Now if you'll all just calm down
we're gonna bring
this man out of here.
I sure would appreciate it
if you'd make a path
clear through here.
You can take all the
pictures you want
but for now no questions please.
(reporters shouting)
- [Chris] Do you
know what's going on
back at the station about now?
Bubba's showing the boss man
that film we did on Komar.
- [L.A.] That's a mistake.
He'll hate it.
- [Chris] You got to be kidding.
A guy that actually
walks on fire?
He'll love it.
(grunts)
(tape rolling)
- [L.A.] When you're preparing
to do one of your feats,
what are you actually doing?
- [Komar] Well actually
I'm trying to throw myself
into an altered state
of consciousness.
In the testing that
has been going on on me
they did find
that I worked in altered
states of consciousness
and that's down in the alpha
and theta brain wave states.
And that while I'm in
these states of mind,
I do have control over the
autonomic nervous system
but when I go on the fire walk,
I'm not sure but when I don't
go down into the delta range
but this is still to
be tested to find out.
I'm walking around drinking pop
and possibly chain smoking
and pretty soon bing, I know
I'm in that state of mind
and I can go.
It's almost like a
trancelike state
but I'm fully conscious of
what I'm doing at all times.
- [L.A.] How 'bout using
your same methods
to cure an illness
such as cancer,
arthritis or whatever?
- [Komar] In myself, I've
been able to manage that
because I haven't been
sick in over 25 years.
- [L.A.] With anything?
- [Komar] Nothing.
- You've worked with
children, retarded children,
at the Kennedy Foundation?
- Yes, I did work with
Ted Kennedy, (mumbles)
and the Kennedy Foundation.
I was one of 19 people
who was called to
Washington by them
to help set up the
Special Olympics program
for the mentally retarded.
- [L.A.] Do you think you'll
ever teach your method
where they can come and
learn what you have to offer?
- [Cobar] Once science
has fully discovered
what it is that makes me click,
we may have some answers.
- What is that?
- Some footage Chris Lowe shot
on the guy that walks on fire.
- Get rid of it!
I said get it off, I don't
want that crap around here.
This is not a side
show, it's television.
- How you feeling L.A.?
Are you feeling okay?
- Super A1 cowboy.
How 'bout yourself?
- Tired.
Jesus, I get so tired
it's beginning to
get to me, buddy,
dealing with all this pain.
- [L.A.] What pain?
- [Chris] Everybody's,
yours, mine,
it's like a war going
on all the time.
(mysterious music)
- [L.A.] It is a war, man,
you can't change it.
Forget it.
Every mother's child's
gonna have to learn to
street fight, that's all.
- [Chris] Yeah, hi Eileen,
give me the newsroom,
will you hon?
Yeah Bubba, Chris.
Listen, I got some marks for you
on that bust thing, all right?
Nah, I doubt if we'll
be in till later.
Well tell her I'm busy.
Never mind, I'll call her later.
And Bubba, call Jack,
it's important.
My car is supposed to be
ready at three o'clock
and if it's not I'm
gonna kick some ass.
God damn.
Okay, thanks Emily, bye.
- [L.A.] What's the name
of this actress again?
- [Chris] Sugar, Candy,
something sweet like that.
- [L.A.] Come on, we got
to at least know her name.
- [Chris] Jesus, L.A.,
Honey, Honey Herald.
- [L.A.] Are you
putting me on or what?
- [Chris] No, I swear
to God, Honey Herald.
She's in Nicholson's
new picture.
- [L.A.] She any good?
- [Chris] I don't know.
I'm gonna find out
tonight I hope.
(laughs)
- Pull back from the statue
and zoom in on her
two shot, okay?
- I think there ought to be
more leading roles for women.
I'd like to play parts like
Bette Davis did years ago
or I can imagine playing a
character like Katherine
Hepburn.
I think it would be a great
challenge as an actress.
And also show--
- Show women as something
more than supporting players?
- Yes.
- Is this the first time
you've done a sex scene
in a motion picture?
How did you feel about it?
- I worried about it at first.
After all, I am a
serious actress
and that sort of thing is so
frequently done without taste,
especially in foreign films.
- Cut.
Chris.
- I want to go home,
I want to shower.
I haven't had--
- I'm gonna ask her once
more about that sex scene
and I want you to go
in tight on her face.
Okay?
- Okay.
- Kay.
- I'm tired.
I haven't slept
in three weeks.
- Let's get rid of the dogs.
- It's too much for anyone.
- Thank you very much,
thank you, thank you.
We're going to take that
last part over again.
- Nude scene, nude scene.
It is not a sex scene,
please get that straight.
- Nude scene.
And then you tighten
in man, okay?
(country music)
- Security has been tightened
at all federal
buildings in the area.
Stevie Wonder,
the foremost black
recording star of the '70s
has signed a contract with
Motown Records in Detroit today
that gives him the
highest guaranteed income
in the history of the
recording industry.
Motown officials announced
that the contract would
assure the singer $13 million
over the next seven years
breaking the previous
reported highs--
- [Iris] Lamoine,
it's one o'clock.
- [Reporter] By both Elton
John and Paul McCartney.
Right now, news reporter
Lamoine Peabody is standing by.
Lamoine?
- [Honey] I think there should
be more lead parts for women.
I'd like to do parts--
- There's a mirror
in the bathroom.
- Get off my case, will ya?
- Boy, aren't we tense?
Come on, relax.
- And show--
- Show women as something
more than supporting players?
- Yes.
- Is this the first
time you've ever done
a sex scene in a motion picture?
- You get off watching
yourself act like a puppy dog
in front of her?
- Don't start that now, Iris.
- Shit, can't get
through the day
without seeing
yourself on the tube
at least three, four times, huh?
- Shut up, you hear me?
- I won't shut up!
- Let me be alone.
- You are alone, Tom.
And who wants you anyway?
Because I have had
it, you understand?
I have had it.
- Really good.
Then get out.
- Get out?
This is my apartment, Lamoine,
my apartment
and besides I am tired of living
with some kind of a creep.
- What did you call me?
- [Iris] You figure
it out, bastard.
Go ahead and hit me.
(yelling)
(whip snapping)
(tense music)
- I got two mollies, a
quaaludes and some hash
all tucked into my sack.
Cena's got some
acid in her purse.
God damn, I'll tell ya.
Oh, then the cop in front goes,
"Let me hear you count
from one to 10 backwards,
"skip every other number."
And I go, "Huh?"
Then he looks at Ev and he says,
"What are you shaking for?"
And Ev goes, "I guess
'cause I'm cold."
He goes, "Well
boy, if I was you,
"I'd do something to get me warm
"'cause your teeth are
starting to rattle."
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
he was clean but I wasn't.
Yeah, I told ya,
I had two mollies, some hash
and Sandy had some (mumbles).
Of course, like I
told you, yeah.
He goes, "How well do you
girls know these two boys?"
And Sandy goes, " We
know 'em real well.
"He's Bubba and he's Everett."
Wait a minute, hold on a second.
Hey Chris, you looking for
that thing you submitted
about the old guy
living in the church?
- Yeah.
- Production turned it down,
I got it here somewhere.
- Oh, don't tell me that.
- Yeah I did, said it wasn't
relevant or something.
Hey, don't do that.
I'll find it,
when I do, I'll
bring it in to ya.
Just don't mess up
my desk like that.
- Kiss off
and tell Marin I think
he's got turkey shit taste.
- Don't use that kind
of language in here.
- Shit, shit, shit, shit!
He turned me down
again, God damn it.
- That figures,
the dude don't like you.
Nobody likes you.
You look funny
and your mama dresses you funny.
- You know I'm gonna
tell that old bastard
to go straight to hell.
Hi Pat, I was just
down to your office--
- L.A., Larry Swayne is going
to Washington for three days.
I want you to take
over the anchor spot.
- Dynamite.
- Oh listen, Pat, I wanted
to know how you liked
my little program
on the old man?
- Answer that.
- I do not think it is necessary
for you to upset the
production office
by shouting obscenities
at my secretary.
- Well you see, sir,
I waited a whole
week for an answer
on the program--
- I am not really interested
in how long you
waited for anything.
- Yes, sir.
- You understand?
- Yes, sir.
- You have any complaints,
you come to me.
- Yes, sir, I appreciate that.
- Here's your little prospectus,
I don't think we
have any use for it.
- Yes, sir.
- Sorry.
- The ice man's really
down on you, cowboy.
(country music)
- So what I want you to do
is a little show that had
some kind of humility,
do you know what I mean?
I found this old guy
in this abandoned church
for years worshiping,
kind of conducting his
own services by himself.
Thanks.
Anyway, it would've
made a great story
and they turned it down.
I keep coming up with
these little ideas
and can't go anywhere with them.
- Why don't you just
blow 'em off, man?
- You know, I've
thought about it.
- Screw 'em, what do you care?
- Yeah, Trip, I'm
just about there.
Hey Jeanie, how are you?
- Oh Chris, listen,
you know Bradley.
- Sure do.
Who's this pretty
little thing over here?
- Carol, this is Chris Lowe.
- My pleasure.
(country music)
- You getting in shape
for a pie eating
contest or what?
- Iris is playing around on me.
- No she ain't
'cause I'd be the first
one to know if she was.
- How's that?
- 'Cause she'd be
playing around with me.
(laughs)
- It ain't funny, man.
- Get this one, will you, L.A.,
I'm a little short on cash.
(laughing)
Jesus was a Capricorn
but so is Nixon,
now how you figure that?
(country music)
- Do you believe you're
gonna go on after you die?
Have you ever thought about it?
- Yeah, I've thought about it.
I don't know.
- Do you want to hear my theory?
Do you want to
know what I think?
- Sure, go ahead.
- It's like there's
this building, see,
'bout 25 stories up.
- Okay.
- Well I figure
it's like at first
we fall off the top
of that building
and it takes us about 65
years to go splat, you know,
splat on the pavement?
That's what I believe in,
we're born falling
and years later
we finally hit the bottom
and that's it.
(gunfire blasting)
(sirens blaring)
(gunfire blasting)
(sirens blaring
(gunfire blasting)
(heartbeat pounding)
(gunfire blasting)
- Two men were killed today
in the aftermath of
a robbery attempt
at the Dallas Federal Savings
Branch near Love Field.
The two men fled to
a nearby warehouse
where both were
slain in a shootout
with several units
of the Dallas Police
who had responded to the
bank's silent alarm system.
(throwing up)
- Steve!
Hey L.A., what do you say?
- L.A. Ray.
- That's L.A..
- Come on man, let's play.
- This place reminds
me of church.
(gentle music)
- [L.A.] The way I was
feeling this afternoon, Chris,
I wondered I could run it off.
- Oh you mean at the shoot out?
Shit, all of a sudden we
were in the middle of it,
couldn't get out.
We tried but we
were pinned down.
They were shooting at you
like hail in a panhandle.
- Kid was killed right
in front of me.
- What?
- A little kid.
Couldn't have been more than 14.
Ran, saw daylight
and ran for it.
They shot him right through
the chest with a riot gun,
cut him in half.
- Jesus.
And killed him?
- Right in front of me,
five feet from me.
Saw his eyes when he got hit.
- And what did you see there
in his eyes?
- Terror.
- You saw nothing else?
- I saw terror, horror.
He knew he was going to die.
- but you must die before
you can live, you know that.
Hae you ever experienced
your own death, any of you?
- No.
- You should try it some time.
Once you do it,
you eliminate the fear of death,
the terror.
Imagine that you have died.
Let go of your body.
Your body is lifeless, useless.
You may cry if you feel
it or scream or curse.
Go with the feeling.
Follow it to the limit,
you no longer need to
hide your feelings.
Look at your body,
look at the unloved one,
the one that lies
cold and alone,
the one that has had no love.
This is your chance to
give warm and courage,
to one who feels only
cold, loneliness and death.
Let your tears flow
out from depth of you
and let your bitterness
flow out with dam
(gentle music)
♪ When the prophet of the Lord ♪
♪ Jumps in I shall be the lord ♪
♪ And the morning with
eternal pride and joy ♪
♪ When the (mumbling) ♪
- Arnold Wiggins is 73 now.
The church is 59 years older
but Arnold still attends
services every Sunday.
When they begin
promptly at 10 a.m.,
Arnold Wiggins is the only
person in the old church.
He keeps going back to
Canyon Church and worshiping
because of a feeling he
experienced in a vision.
KSTX reporter Larry Swayne
asks Arnold what
that feeling was.
- Well, the Lord, his word,
I guess I felt
called to stay here.
- [Larry] You thought that
you should stay and work--
- That's right, that's right.
- [Larry] And what were
the services like?
Did they shout a lot?
- Yes, they did
and lots of good singing,
good spurts of singing.
And on Saturday night,
they'd have regular
community singing
and people'd gather
quite well for that.
Heavenly father,
who art in heaven,
oh Lord Jesus Chris,
I come before thee
with humble wisdom
and thankful for the privilege
of prayer in the morning,
praying ground to
think and think safe.
Thanks.
- [Chris] Just a
God damn minute.
- I am simply trying
to help you see
the reality of the
situation, Lowe.
You were, how should I put it?
You're out of focus.
This station has
no further desire
to finance your
audiovisual masturbation.
- Listen, you son of a bitch,
I'm tired of being
talked down to
by a second rate news director
on his way down from New York.
I don't need your
bullshit editorial.
I know whose running
this station.
I work here, remember?
- Not anymore.
(sad music)
♪ Never know freedom
till you lose it ♪
♪ You'll never know
love until it's gone ♪
♪ And you'll never
know the right way ♪
♪ Till you choose it ♪
♪ You'll never see the
ending till it's gone ♪
♪ Listen to me, brother ♪
♪ I've come such a long way ♪
♪ 39 years down these
country roads ♪
♪ One more year to go ♪
♪ Listen to me, sisters ♪
♪ I don't know how
long we can stay ♪
♪ 200 years in America ♪
♪ Keeps us on the go ♪
♪ You'll never miss the water ♪
♪ Till the wells dry ♪
♪ You'll never miss the
fire till it grows cold ♪
♪ And you'll never notice
just how fast the time flies ♪
♪ Till you look around ♪
♪ You see you've gotten old ♪
♪ Yes, listen to me, brothers ♪
♪ I've come such a long way ♪
♪ 39 years down these
country roads ♪
♪ One more to go ♪
♪ Listen to me, sisters ♪
♪ I don't know how
long we can stay ♪
♪ 200 years in America ♪
♪ It's taught us all
we have to go ♪
♪ Oh, you'll never know
freedom till you lose it ♪
♪ You'll never know
love until it's gone ♪
♪ Gone ♪
♪ You'll never know the right
way till you choose it ♪
♪ Choose it, choose it ♪
♪ You'll never see the
ending till it's gone ♪
♪ Gone ♪
♪ You'll never see the
ending till it's gone ♪
♪ Never see the ending
till it's gone ♪
♪ Never see the ending
till it's gone ♪
(ringing)
- [Reporter] A third fatality
was confirmed Thursday in Ohio
officials are perplexed
over the cause of the
absurd and reported cases
of the once-epidemic disease
that has lain dormant
now for centuries.
High winds in the Dalton area
are expected to continue
throughout the week
keeping temperatures at
or near record high levels
for at least the next five days.
KSTX staff meteorologist
David Carwell
will give us all the details
after these messages.
(pig snorting)
(dog barking)
- Mr. Hogarty?
Mr. Hogarty, could I
speak to you for a minute?
Howdy, I'm Chris Lowe.
- Seems like every time we
get a good rain around here,
it brings all the trash
down from the city
and I got to go around
cleaning it up.
- Well, I'd like
to talk with you
for a few minutes if I may.
- Sun sure feels good today,
did you notice that?
What do you want to talk about?
- [Chris] Well, I
read where the city
wants to take you off your land
and put a freeway through here.
- I'm batting a stronger
and steadfast pitch
with the foam is all.
(laughing)
Hey old rat, ain't that right?
Yeah, you, you old hairy hyena.
Russell, who do you
feel like today, huh?
Russell feels like different
people on different days.
Here in the ravine,
those pigs,
these woods,
they're all part of
each other, you know?
- Mr. Hogarty, I make films
and I'd like to do a
little documentary on you
and your life here
at the hog haven.
- Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the Bushwider home.
I'm Madeline, here to bring
you a fashion fantasy of furs
from Merleen Levels.
Here we have beautiful Carol
in a US chinchilla.
It's a jacket and it's
double-breasted with jet
buttons.
You can wear that over gowns
and slacks and casual wear
and it's just luscious.
Here is Annie
looking like a dream
in her white mink coat
and you'd feel like a dream
too in a coat like that.
Elegant.
And here comes Barb
dressed in a beautiful
natural mink coat
and a ranch mink
collar and cuffs
that are brown to match
her beautiful brown eyes.
Love that.
The costume belt comes off
and the coat takes on a
different characteristic.
Here we have Harriet in her
full length natural mink
with a hat to match.
Oh, you look just
like a princess.
And here imported from
Germany just for today
is a high fashion model
in a sable-died fox
with leather inserts.
We love that look.
Belinda, you look breathtaking.
This is the peace de resistance.
This is a Norwegian--
- Hi Merleen.
- And again, it zips off
and becomes a stroller length.
So you have two coats in one.
And she is wearing
a Russian bonnet
thank you very much.
I hope you've enjoyed
our showing today.
Au revoir.
- You make it sound so
magic, making films.
- Well, it is kind of magic.
I take people out of reality
and give 'em their dream.
What do you do, Merleen?
- [Merleen] I'm a therapist.
- [Chris] A what?
- [Merleen] A
confrontation therapist.
- [Chris] Okay, but
what do you do?
- [Merleen] I take
people out of their dream
and put them back into reality.
(country music)
♪ No, I thought you'd
be around for awhile ♪
♪ And you thought I'd hold on ♪
♪ That's where you were wrong ♪
♪ So you don't know me ♪
♪ Very well ♪
♪ There's only one
thing I can say ♪
♪ Won't you walk away ♪
- [Chris] Hey, L.A.!
- Hey cowboy.
What'd you say?
So how you been man?
I haven't seen you in months.
You've been the invisible man.
- Ah well, around, you
know, freelancing
and making some shorts.
How 'bout yourself?
- You hear about my nomination?
- No, for president?
- (laughs) No, it's
a local award.
- Come on, shit.
- Swear to God.
It's just local but it
don't hurt nothing.
- [Chris] So you're
gonna be a star?
- Isn't that what I
been telling you?
- Yeah, all right.
So how's Iris?
- Okay.
She's okay.
- Well, let me buy you a
beer or something, huh?
- Gotta split, man.
Take care of yourself, cowboy.
- Oh come on man,
I haven't seen you
in four months.
- No really, take care.
- That was a talent
scout from MGM
and they're looking for
new sets in Hollywood.
- Oh really?
Well how much does it pay?
I just might be interested.
- I knew it, damn, I knew it.
♪ Singing sad songs ♪
♪ That give me the time
Lord to think of you ♪
♪ They're just sad enough
to bring you back ♪
♪ To the pleasure we knew ♪
- I just saw a therapy student
of mine in the ladies room.
- Oh yeah?
- [Clint] How's it going, Chris?
- Hey, Clint, what's
happening buddy?
- She hasn't been to
group in over three weeks
and that does kind of worry me.
- Well you know, Merleen,
I gotta be completely
honest with you,
I think that therapy group
thing of yours is really
- What?
- Oh, forget it.
- Come on, what do
you want to say?
- I think it's a real
pile of bullshit.
- Listen to me,
I need you.
I'm trying to get
through to you.
How many times do I
have to tell you?
- Leave me alone.
Leave me alone.
- Someone help me.
Someone listen to me.
♪ I couldn't stay
here if I tried ♪
♪ 'Cause you were
always disappointed ♪
♪ In me ♪
♪ I couldn't ever
do nothing right ♪
♪ You cut my heart like
cards on the table ♪
♪ It's so easy for you
to keep playing on ♪
♪ I'd give in if I were able ♪
♪ Looks like me
that's moving on ♪
- Chris.
Lunch is now being served.
(yawning)
- Nice.
Jesus, what time is it?
- [Merleen] Three
o'clock in the afternoon.
- Three o'clock?
Wow, I'm sorry.
- It's all right.
You were really tired.
We both were after last night.
- I don't think I can eat
with old L.A. for this one.
He ruined our whole night.
We could've been out having fun.
Instead...
- Raspberries?
- Mmm.
Instead we run all over
town looking for him.
He's cutting my time.
I could've been
making love to you.
(gentle music)
Damn, these are good berries.
You got any sugar?
- Sugar's bad for you,
I never use it.
- That's what L.A. says.
He says it's poison,
every time I see him
he's eating it.
- Because he wants
to poison himself.
- This is really a treat.
- Your friend doesn't
like himself.
- Are you kidding?
He worships the
ground he walks on.
Don't let that little
scene last night fool you.
- Do you like him?
- L.A.?
Yeah, sure, he's my
buddy, I love him.
What's this thing we're
under here, Merleen?
- Pyramid.
- Oh yeah, I heard a
guy on Johnny Carson
talking about pyramids.
- Pyramids are very,
well very strange objects.
- You're a very strange
object, Merleen.
(laughs)
- Hi, how are you?
- [Female] Hi, just fine.
- Hi Berla.
- Hi.
How you doing?
- [Female] Okay.
That guy has been shoplifting
since I can remember.
- Hi.
Hi.
- [Merleen] Everybody here?
Okay, Patricia.
- My name is Patricia
and I feel fine.
I really do.
I was aware of it all
the way to the meeting.
I couldn't believe it,
a whole week went by
without any pain.
Oh yeah, I just felt great.
And I had this talk with
my mother Wednesday night
and for once I didn't
let her get to me.
I kept my cool
and she had to go on my trip.
- [Merleen] Feels good
to feel good, doesn't it?
- You bet.
- [Phil] My name is
Phil and I feel fine.
- [Merleen] Wait a minute,
Phil, say that again.
- My name--
- Louder, can't hear you.
- My name is Phil, I feel fine.
- [Female] I don't believe it.
- [Female] Neither do I.
- [Male] Did your wife show
up at the attorney's office
like you expected?
- Yes.
- [Merleen] What?
- Yes, she was there.
It wasn't as bad as I thought.
- [Merleen] Did you
argue with each other?
- No, why should we argue?
We went to the lawyer's
office to sign papers,
that's all we were doing.
- [Merleen] You've got
everything shut off.
Look how you're sitting.
Uncross your arms.
Put your hands at your sides.
Uncross your legs.
- Come on, man, let it out.
Will you feel it and just
let it up and let it out?
- [Merleen] Tell your
wife you love her.
- I love you.
- [Merleen] Louder,
she can't hear you.
Do you love her?
Tell her you love her.
- I can't.
- [Merleen] Do you
love her, Phil?
- Yes.
- [Merleen] Then tell her.
- I can't.
- [Merleen] Let
those feelings out.
(sighs)
- Come on, Phil, let it all out.
We need to know how you feel.
- [Merleen] Show us how
much you love her.
- [Phil] She doesn't understand.
- [Merleen] Do you understand?
- Come on, Phil,
you're wasting our time.
- Then give it to us.
- [Female] Come on, let it out.
- [Male] Tell us man, Christ.
- [Male] It's all
right Phil, go ahead.
- [Merleen] Do you love her?
- Yes, I love her.
- [Merleen] Then say it.
- I love her.
- [Merleen] Tell
her you love her.
Why are you so helpless Phil?
Why are you acting
like such a baby?
Quit acting like a child.
Quit feeling sorry for yourself.
- I love her, I need her.
(crying)
I love my wife and I need,
and I can't go on alone.
(crying)
I can't go on, I can't.
God!
Somebody help me!
Doesn't anybody understand?
Don't you understand?
You just sit there
and you judge me.
Leave me alone!
- No one judges you.
- Yes you are.
- No.
We're trying to help you.
- Please help me.
- Phil, we'll help you.
- Oh please.
- I have you Phil.
- Oh I need help.
- You'll get it.
Let it out, let it
out, let it out.
- [Male] Most of us
have been taught
that there is only one sure way
to gain knowledge
of the universe
and that is the objective
methods of science,
impersonal observations
followed by logical deductions.
But for centuries,
people have been claiming
other ways of knowing
the universe.
- What do you mean you
played it for him?
What'd he say?
- [Marin] Just like
I tell you Chris,
because what is this?
It doesn't even make sense.
- [Chris] I don't
understand Meredith
He hasn't changed his
news format in five years.
- The wrong things, Chris.
You want my opinion.
But let me tell you,
you got to get something
more exciting,
something people are
used to getting off on,
like you're doing a
story on a pig farm,
what is that?
Who cares?
- I care.
- How 'bout a rapist?
Interview a rapist.
Get him to talk about the
crime, you understand,
in as much detail as possible.
Then interview the rapee,
you know, the one that gets it.
Get the neighbors in.
How many times did
the girl scream?
That always seems
to be in doubt,
you know, the number of screams.
- [Chris] Bubba the
world is falling apart.
I mean people are freaking
out on the streets.
- Yeah I know.
- I was at therapy
session, you know?
This guys goes bananas.
He falls apart right in class
and everybody, including
the therapist,
runs over and pats
the guy on the back
and says way to go buddy
and he's falling apart.
- Did you see Clockwork Orange?
- Yeah.
- That's the kind of
world it's gonna be.
No doubt about it,
it's here now.
I kind of like the
excitement of it myself.
- [Male] That has been
known to religious leaders
throughout the ages
and it's only now being
rediscovered by science,
the idea that all things
in the universe--
- Let's get out of here.
- [Male] Are interconnected
and interdependent.
(dogs barking)
(sad music)
- [Chris] What the
hell is going on?
Shit!
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obligation and no credit check
at Mr. T's Rental.
- I like Mr. T's no
obligation rental
because it doesn't tie me down.
- I like Mr. T's no credit check
because I don't have
any credit yet.
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a subsidiary of Remco
Enterprises Incorporated.
- O'Hare files suit in
federal court today
to have in God we trust
removed from all US currency.
Miss O'Hare citing
the first amendment
call for an end to
what she called
the official sanction
of superstition
and mumbo jumbo that has plagued
this nation for centuries.
The Rangers were in Boston today
and Garrett will have that
story for you in a moment.
Right now, news reporter
Lamoine Peabody
is standing by with a story on
Big Dee's newest night club.
Lamoine?
- This is Lamoine Peabody.
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(gunfire blasting)
- Oh no.
- Stop him.
- [Male] Get the
God damn thing up.
- [Female] Help me!
Somebody get a doctor.
Help!
(crying)
- [Reporter] Ladies
and gentlemen,
please stand by.
(Chris yelling)
♪ Your spirit is the
mirror to my soul ♪
♪ You are always with me ♪
♪ And your love will never end ♪
♪ And today I am with
you once again ♪
♪ You are my friend ♪
(sad music)
(gunfire blasting)
(sad music)
- I need help.
I won't lie.
I can't say I want love.
Right now I can only
say I need help.
I want help to make
me say I want love.
I need help from somebody.
I want help that will make me
will make me love,
that will make me see a
real need for other people.
I just need help.
I mean--
- [Merleen] You're gonna
get it, Margaret.
It's okay.
- [Male] It's gonna be okay.
- [Merleen] You
loved your parents?
- Very much.
I didn't get to see
much of my daddy
'cause he was a truck driver.
He was away from home a lot.
That gave me a little
resentment I think
'cause he wasn't around to
help me when I was growing up.
- [Merleen] And you missed that?
- Yeah, I missed that.
- [Merleen] Did you resent it?
- I did then.
- [Merleen] Did you
ever tell him?
- No, I didn't.
- [Merleen] Why?
- I never got a chance.
- [Merleen] If you
had the chance
to talk to him right now,
what would you say to him?
- I'd tell him how
much I loved him.
- [Merleen] Why
don't you tell him?
Why don't you talk to
your dad right now?
- I can't, he died.
- [Merleen] You can
still talk to him.
- [Male] Chris, you can
still tell him you loved him.
- [Merleen] Did you ever
tell him you loved him?
- Yeah, I did.
- [Merleen] Enough?
- He heard me.
- Did he ever say
it back to you?
- No.
Well yes, he did.
- But not like quite the
way you wanted it, right?
- I would've liked to
have told him in person.
See, I got back from Vietnam
and I got off the bus
and my mother was there
and she told me
that my father died
two weeks before I got home.
- [Merleen] Let it out.
Let it out.
(gentle music)
- L.A. said you can't
change anything.
But you can,
you can change yourself
and then things around
you begin to change
because you're seeing
them through new eyes,
you understand?
- I understand but to
change yourself, Bubba,
you've got to get into yourself.
You've got to know who you are
and where you're coming from.
- I don't care about
where I'm from.
I want to know where I'm going.
- Yeah.
Hey, you want to help me shoot
a little film about pyramids?
- Pyramids?
Far out.
(swing squeaking)
(gentle music)
- Howdy, which one of
you guys is Ken Russell?
- Inside up here.
- Thanks.
Hi, you must be Mr. Russell?
- [Ken] That's right.
- [Chris] Here's my card.
And this here's my
director of photography,
Bubba Lendberg.
- Hi Bubba.
- [Bubba] Hi.
- Is this a cosmic deal or what?
(banging)
You must be into films?
- That's right.
And I'm really interested
in what you do.
- Well I build pyramids.
You make films, I
build pyramids.
- Why are you building this one?
- [Ken] We're gonna have a
little gathering inside it,
have an afternoon of music,
watch the sun go down
from inside the pyramid
and have an evening meditation.
- [Chris] How do pyramids
affect human beings?
- That's a good question.
I hope you find out.
We're composed of some
of the same things
that the animals are.
We may be affected
by our chemistry.
It may in turn have an
effect on our consciousness.
- I see.
Well, one of the reasons
why I came down here
is I'd like to do a
documentary on it.
- Great.
What do you have in mind?
- Well, we could start
by filming this one.
- All right.
- Good.
(gentle music)
Dick Hogarty has worked this
small strip of bottom land
for 31 years.
For Dick and the animals that
share the ravine with him
things are just
about the same now
as they were years ago.
However, this morning,
the commissioner's
court upheld a ruling
condemning the Hogarty hog haven
as an eye sore and a health
hazard to the community.
What this means is he has
slightly under 45 days
to close down the haven
and find another place to live
or face the possibility
of going to jail.
Did you expect you were
going to lose the decision
when you first decided
to fight the surrender
to your property?
- No, no, I,
they should see that this
place ain't no health hazard.
The kids come down
here after school,
they love it.
They pick wild berries
right off the vine.
That's the way we wanted it.
Everybody in the neighborhood
came down here one
time or another with,
like a park to 'em.
- [Chris] Primarily
it was the pigs.
Some people say there's
smell in the dirt.
- Oh, pigs ain't dirty any
more than any other animal,
humans included.
Just look at 'em over there.
They got feelings to, you know?
Some people just
don't know that.
(crying)
- [Chris] Do you have
any place in mind to go
after you close
down the hog haven?
- No, no, I ain't worried
much about that though.
Wherever it is, it'll be
the right place to be.
Everything happens for
a reason, you know?
Like this place,
it's been like a garden to me.
I learned a lot
about myself here.
Watching the seasons and
just sort of figure things
out for yourself, you know?
It's hard not to cry.
Something's over and
I really love this.
That hurts.
- That's horrible.
Old man crying, it's making
me ill for Christ'’s sake.
Shut it off.
Shut it off!
I'll tell you the truth,
I don't think people
are gonna like that.
- I do.
- People don't mind
seeing a broad cry
but it doesn't look right
to see a man cry like that.
- But it's real, don't you see?
It's more than just a movie,
it's like being asked into
another person's heart.
- Who cares?
I tell you it's a waste of time.
- Listen to me, Willy,
people want to see,
you know I know people right?
- Yeah, I know.
- Okay, people want to see--
- People want to see
stars screwing each other
and shooting each other.
I got to show a halfway
decent film four times a day
just to break even.
Distributors, they want 80%
of the God damn popcorn sale.
What else you got there?
- Nothing you'd be
interested in, Willy.
- Oh, I don't know,
let's take a look.
How 'bout something
with broads or music?
- Yeah.
- Well what's that one?
- That's a film about pyramids.
- That's not right.
I'd like to see something with
broads or music in that one.
- Okay.
Here amigo, throw that one
up for Mr. Easter here.
- You're gonna like this
one, Willy, I know that.
I know that for sure.
- Broads?
- Broads and music.
- Wonderful, wonderful.
- Okay Ed, let her roll anytime.
(upbeat music)
What the hell is this?
- All plants and
animals, they have life,
they also have soul,
just like humans.
We are also soul.
We are eternal soul.
(chanting and drumming)
- When you breath in,
let all this energy
flow into your body
and when you breath out,
let all your anger go with it.
- Okay.
- [Dr. Moss] What
you're looking at here
is what we call
kirlian photography.
That's a special system
of taking pictures
without a camera or lens
but sending an
electrical current
through, in this particular
case, a finger pad.
A finger pad belongs
to a patient at UCLA.
who's being treated by a healer
who uses interestingly enough
magnetic passes in his work.
- Well Dr. Moss,
you've been an actress,
a wife, a mother,
a psychologist, an author,
a parapsychologist,
now you're into
kirlian photography.
Can you tell us why that is?
- Kirlian Photography poses
a lot of challenge because
you know in the
esoteric literature,
and I'm interested
in parapsychology
and that involves esoterica,
they talk about an energy body
that we consist certainly
of physical stuff
but beyond the physical stuff,
there is something that
emits energy from us
and takes energy
from the atmosphere
and that this energy body
probably makes us well or ill,
certainly is used
in psychic healing
to give energy to
somebody who's sick,
make 'em better,
and if this is so
and kirlian photography
captures it,
it's going to revolutionize
our concepts
of physiology, medicine
and the nature of
the human being,
and that's pretty important.
I'm talking about a
certain kind of energy
that seems to be emitted
by certain people who call
themselves healers, and they
are,
to other people
and the illness will disappear.
Now with the psychic healer,
how much is the
belief in the patient
that this man is going
to make him better
is a big question that we
don't have any answer for.
But let's say that we're
working with belief
and that belief and
faith can heal.
That's all we're saying.
Faith healers have
done a very good job
since time immemorial.
And we have been
studying this phenomenon
using kirlian photography and
we see an interesting thing.
We see that the emanations
from the healer
go toward the patient,
the patient's
emanations get brighter
and the healer's get dimmer.
So we think we're looking
at an energy transfer.
This becomes very exciting.
I think most of science for
the past couple of 100 years
has been looking at
our bones and sinews
and all the material
parts of man.
I think all of the things
we've just talked about
are looking at the energetic
and psychic aspects of man
and I think that is
where the future lies.
- You know, there's
a world we can see
and a world we can't see,
a world we can only feel.
- [Edward] I believe
we will discover
that through consciousness,
feelings and thoughts
connect all living things.
Actually, there is much
work been done already
to explore these subtle
inner connections
by people ranging from
research scientists
and medical doctors
to ministers and students.
In fact, some of the more
interesting discoveries
have been made by a man who
is a lie detector expert.
- Back in 1966,
I attached one portion of
the conventional polygraph
to a plant leaf
and found, much to my amazement,
that I obtained a tracing
that in many respects
was similar to that
of the human subject.
This caused a lot
of work to be done,
as far as observations
are concerned
and structured experimentation
and to date, we seem to feel,
that a plant leaf has
a capability of showing
levels in the change
of well being
of other biological life
forms in the laboratory area.
It also seems to be
able to show indications
of changes as far as
thought process as humans
in the area of concern.
One of the things
I've constantly seen
as far as the continuity
of my research is concerned
in the laboratory
is an apparent oneness
among all living things,
whether it be the plants in
the pots in the laboratory,
the laboratory
animals, bacteria,
chicken eggs and so forth,
that cause me to
look a little bit
toward books in
Eastern philosophy
where apparently for
thousands of years
they've been talking
about the apparent
oneness in the universe.
- Did you ever read
any Don Juan books?
- Yes.
- Journey to Ixtlan?
- I believe there is
magic, real magic,
going on all the
time all around us.
I've been in places
of power before.
I felt vibrations
like in the woods
so strong I knew it was
a power place for me.
- I've felt that before.
(mystical music)
Did you feel that?
- [Merleen] Mmhmm.
- [Chris] I can feel
my body slipping away.
I'm free of my body.
- [Merleen] Come
on over, try this.
(mystical music)
(grunting)
(laughing)
Yes.
(mystical music)
(bell tolling)
(mystical music)
- Yeah, but we can
change things.
Things are changing anyway.
- They're changing, I agree
but they're getting worse.
- Uh uh, they're getting better.
- 20,000 years of
recorded history
and only 200 years of peace,
what does that tell ya?
- That we all ought to
get our heads together.
- It'll never happen.
Don't be naive.
- Don't be so sure.
It's not good to be
sure about anything.
- Chris, you're beginning
to sound like a--
- Shh, listen.
- [Male] How long
do you have to wait
before you can get
on the station?
- It takes about four hours to
go through your preparations
and then if you're going
to have some food
or maybe take a little rest
it might even take longer.
- Can we look through
the telescope?
- Yes, we have a good
object on, the planet Venus.
- Can I have your autograph?
- [Mitchell] Sure.
- Excuse me, Captain
Mitchell, hi Chris Lowe,
I'm the filmmaker that
got ahold of you.
- Yes, I remember.
- This is my assistant,
Bubba Lemberg.
- Hi Bubba.
- There's several subjects
I'd like to talk over with you
concerning the documentary.
- I'll be glad to
and I think we can
get some time here.
Let me finish up
with the children
and we'll see if we
can make some time,
perhaps go around
and have a talk.
- Okay great.
- Good, we'll see you
in a few minutes.
Oh I think most
scientists these days
have very much agreed
that there has to be
life on other planets
but certainly within the galaxy
or in other galaxies,
there has to be intelligent life
and even though we don't
know how to reach it
or contact it or how to even
receive messages from it
it certainly is there.
- Captain Mitchell,
Chris told me that during
your flight in space
you sent ESP messages
back to Earth.
Who received the messages?
- Well, we had four subjects
here in the United States
that we worked with.
It was a normal laboratory
type experiment
that's been conducted
for at least 30 years
but in this case, we
took it into space.
It's a very private--
- What's happening, captain?
- Oh, they're just
rotating the globe
in preparation for
tonight's astronomy.
I think perhaps
with all this noise
we ought to go outside.
- That'd be a good idea.
Captain, at the
Noetic Institute,
you experimented with a
man named Yuri Gulliver.
Was he one of the men
that you relayed messages to?
- No, no, we didn't work
with him on the space flight.
I didn't even know
him at that time.
We worked with him later
in the laboratory
doing remote perceptions
and telekinetic work
and he's real and that
but he also happens
to be a performer.
And that makes our job as
scientists exceedingly difficult
when he comes such a
controversial character
and is a performer as well.
(mysterious music)
- [Chris] Why do you put
so much faith in science?
- Science has always been
investigating the unknown
and providing new answers
but without a value system,
without the ethics,
the morality that go
with governing science,
it can never solve anything.
- Captain Mitchell,
in my documentary,
I'd like to show some kind
of hope for humankind.
- We like to think that
there is a value system
that we could all address
and we would like to think
that we could train people
to understand that value system
to agree upon it, to relate
to themselves better,
to relate to each other better
and to the world
in which we exist.
But the real thing we must
study is consciousness
because we don't know
what consciousness is.
We don't know what it is
that we human beings really are.
That's the enigmatic
question at the moment.
Some of our better scientists
seem to think that consciousness
is the basic mind stuff,
maybe the basic stuff
of the universe
behind all matter.
I don't really know
if that's true
but it's a good
assumption to start with.
The real question with the
dilemma of mankind at the moment
is do we have time to
evolve these things
and to understand them
and to utilize that information?
We have to start now
and we have to start
with each individual
working on himself to
become a better human being.
♪ There are some men
who see what is ♪
♪ And ask why and
what life brought ♪
♪ Then there are some men ♪
♪ Who see what's never been ♪
♪ And ask why not ♪
♪ History's course is changing ♪
♪ The story can be told ♪
♪ One of pioneers,
new frontiers ♪
♪ And the age of gold ♪
♪ Secrets of the pyramid ♪
♪ The little diamond sphinx ♪
♪ The magic of the crucifix ♪
♪ Tell 'em what you think ♪
♪ Come on all of you pilgrims ♪
♪ You strangers in this land ♪
♪ Made for every one of us ♪
♪ Come on, take a stand ♪
♪ Come on, pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on home now ♪
♪ Everybody come on home ♪
♪ Come on pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on home ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ Won't you come on home ♪
♪ Come on pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on home now ♪
♪ Everybody, everybody,
everybody won't you come on home
♪
♪ The secrets of the pyramids ♪
♪ Riddles of the sphinx ♪
♪ The magic of the crucifix ♪
♪ It's all in what you think ♪
♪ Come home ♪
♪ All of you pilgrims ♪
♪ You strangers in this land ♪
♪ The dawning of Aquarius ♪
♪ Is made for every one of us ♪
♪ Come on, take a stand ♪
♪ Come on, come on,
come on pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on, come on home now ♪
♪ Everybody, everybody
come on home ♪
♪ Come on ♪
♪ Come on pilgrims ♪
♪ The dawn is slowly breaking ♪
♪ A new day lies ahead ♪
♪ The saddest thing I do ♪
♪ Is leaving you
alone in that bed ♪
♪ As the day grows brighter ♪
♪ I'm sure you realize ♪
♪ Last night I was your lover ♪
♪ Today I'm just another
pilgrim in the skies ♪
♪ Some may call it destiny ♪
♪ Some may call it pride ♪
♪ Search alone for mysteries ♪
♪ That are buried deep inside ♪
♪ I must take the new road ♪
♪ And leave the old behind ♪
♪ Running to the gold ♪
♪ It leaves my heart
and soul unsatisfied ♪
(baby crying)
(gentle music)
(piano music)
(energetic music)
(cars crashing)
(kids screaming)
(ominous music)
(heartbeat pounding)
(siren blaring)
(kids screaming)
(siren blaring)
- Okay, we need to have
everybody please stand back.
Let the police and fire
men do their jobs.
Please stand back.
(people crying)
Move back.
Come on, move, move, move back.
(sirens blaring)
(intense music)
Come on, stand back, stand back.
- [Girl] I want my mother!
I want my mother!
I want my mother!
I want my mother!
No.
I want my mom.
(crying and screaming)
(tense music)
(sirens blaring)
(tense music)
- No, no, no!
Oh no!
Oh, oh!
(crying)
No, no, no, no.
Oh Jesus, no, no!
- [L.A.] What happened,
do you think?
- Well, it looks like the
guy driving the station wagon
had himself a heart attack.
There's no skid marks
so he didn't even get a
chance to apply his breaks.
(sirens blaring)
From the looks of the damage,
the guy had to be doing
at least 55 miles an hour
when he collided into the bus.
- [Camera Man] Okay,
L.A., we're ready.
- All right,
lieutenant, we're on.
We're speaking with
Lieutenant Calvin Buckert
of the Dallas Police.
Lieutenant
- Good afternoon,
I'm Larry Swain.
Tragedy struck at
an early hour today
when an automobile
collided with the north
Dallas elementary school bus.
Three children and the
driver of the car were killed
and at least a dozen
others seriously injured.
KSTX News reported Lamoine
Peabody was at the accident
scene
where he talked
with public information
officer Calvin Buckert.
- How many units do you
have here lieutenant?
- Well we've got six police
elements working traffic
and two fire ambulances that
are carrying the casualties.
- [L.A.] Are all the
children out of the bus?
- As far as we know they are
and this could very well
be the worst accident
in Dallas' history.
- Preliminary indications are
that Vanhees suffered
a heart attack,
lost control of his automobile,
ran a stop sign
and then crashed into the
side of the oncoming bus.
The official cause
of Vanhees death
will be verified by an autopsy
now underway at the
medical examiner's office.
A Dallas federal judge stepped
down from the bench today.
I'll be back with that
and other stories
right after these
few brief words.
- [Male] 59, this is 652.
- Go ahead 652.
- [Male] 59, they're
transferring the hitchhiker
killer.
Better get over there now.
- Okay we're going, ten four.
What's the chance of
getting an exclusive
with this kid, Jack?
- May have none, L.A..
He hasn't said a word
since he got here,
not even when they
showed him a pic.
(reporters shouting)
- Quiet, quiet please.
Now if you'll all just calm down
we're gonna bring
this man out of here.
I sure would appreciate it
if you'd make a path
clear through here.
You can take all the
pictures you want
but for now no questions please.
(reporters shouting)
- [Chris] Do you
know what's going on
back at the station about now?
Bubba's showing the boss man
that film we did on Komar.
- [L.A.] That's a mistake.
He'll hate it.
- [Chris] You got to be kidding.
A guy that actually
walks on fire?
He'll love it.
(grunts)
(tape rolling)
- [L.A.] When you're preparing
to do one of your feats,
what are you actually doing?
- [Komar] Well actually
I'm trying to throw myself
into an altered state
of consciousness.
In the testing that
has been going on on me
they did find
that I worked in altered
states of consciousness
and that's down in the alpha
and theta brain wave states.
And that while I'm in
these states of mind,
I do have control over the
autonomic nervous system
but when I go on the fire walk,
I'm not sure but when I don't
go down into the delta range
but this is still to
be tested to find out.
I'm walking around drinking pop
and possibly chain smoking
and pretty soon bing, I know
I'm in that state of mind
and I can go.
It's almost like a
trancelike state
but I'm fully conscious of
what I'm doing at all times.
- [L.A.] How 'bout using
your same methods
to cure an illness
such as cancer,
arthritis or whatever?
- [Komar] In myself, I've
been able to manage that
because I haven't been
sick in over 25 years.
- [L.A.] With anything?
- [Komar] Nothing.
- You've worked with
children, retarded children,
at the Kennedy Foundation?
- Yes, I did work with
Ted Kennedy, (mumbles)
and the Kennedy Foundation.
I was one of 19 people
who was called to
Washington by them
to help set up the
Special Olympics program
for the mentally retarded.
- [L.A.] Do you think you'll
ever teach your method
where they can come and
learn what you have to offer?
- [Cobar] Once science
has fully discovered
what it is that makes me click,
we may have some answers.
- What is that?
- Some footage Chris Lowe shot
on the guy that walks on fire.
- Get rid of it!
I said get it off, I don't
want that crap around here.
This is not a side
show, it's television.
- How you feeling L.A.?
Are you feeling okay?
- Super A1 cowboy.
How 'bout yourself?
- Tired.
Jesus, I get so tired
it's beginning to
get to me, buddy,
dealing with all this pain.
- [L.A.] What pain?
- [Chris] Everybody's,
yours, mine,
it's like a war going
on all the time.
(mysterious music)
- [L.A.] It is a war, man,
you can't change it.
Forget it.
Every mother's child's
gonna have to learn to
street fight, that's all.
- [Chris] Yeah, hi Eileen,
give me the newsroom,
will you hon?
Yeah Bubba, Chris.
Listen, I got some marks for you
on that bust thing, all right?
Nah, I doubt if we'll
be in till later.
Well tell her I'm busy.
Never mind, I'll call her later.
And Bubba, call Jack,
it's important.
My car is supposed to be
ready at three o'clock
and if it's not I'm
gonna kick some ass.
God damn.
Okay, thanks Emily, bye.
- [L.A.] What's the name
of this actress again?
- [Chris] Sugar, Candy,
something sweet like that.
- [L.A.] Come on, we got
to at least know her name.
- [Chris] Jesus, L.A.,
Honey, Honey Herald.
- [L.A.] Are you
putting me on or what?
- [Chris] No, I swear
to God, Honey Herald.
She's in Nicholson's
new picture.
- [L.A.] She any good?
- [Chris] I don't know.
I'm gonna find out
tonight I hope.
(laughs)
- Pull back from the statue
and zoom in on her
two shot, okay?
- I think there ought to be
more leading roles for women.
I'd like to play parts like
Bette Davis did years ago
or I can imagine playing a
character like Katherine
Hepburn.
I think it would be a great
challenge as an actress.
And also show--
- Show women as something
more than supporting players?
- Yes.
- Is this the first time
you've done a sex scene
in a motion picture?
How did you feel about it?
- I worried about it at first.
After all, I am a
serious actress
and that sort of thing is so
frequently done without taste,
especially in foreign films.
- Cut.
Chris.
- I want to go home,
I want to shower.
I haven't had--
- I'm gonna ask her once
more about that sex scene
and I want you to go
in tight on her face.
Okay?
- Okay.
- Kay.
- I'm tired.
I haven't slept
in three weeks.
- Let's get rid of the dogs.
- It's too much for anyone.
- Thank you very much,
thank you, thank you.
We're going to take that
last part over again.
- Nude scene, nude scene.
It is not a sex scene,
please get that straight.
- Nude scene.
And then you tighten
in man, okay?
(country music)
- Security has been tightened
at all federal
buildings in the area.
Stevie Wonder,
the foremost black
recording star of the '70s
has signed a contract with
Motown Records in Detroit today
that gives him the
highest guaranteed income
in the history of the
recording industry.
Motown officials announced
that the contract would
assure the singer $13 million
over the next seven years
breaking the previous
reported highs--
- [Iris] Lamoine,
it's one o'clock.
- [Reporter] By both Elton
John and Paul McCartney.
Right now, news reporter
Lamoine Peabody is standing by.
Lamoine?
- [Honey] I think there should
be more lead parts for women.
I'd like to do parts--
- There's a mirror
in the bathroom.
- Get off my case, will ya?
- Boy, aren't we tense?
Come on, relax.
- And show--
- Show women as something
more than supporting players?
- Yes.
- Is this the first
time you've ever done
a sex scene in a motion picture?
- You get off watching
yourself act like a puppy dog
in front of her?
- Don't start that now, Iris.
- Shit, can't get
through the day
without seeing
yourself on the tube
at least three, four times, huh?
- Shut up, you hear me?
- I won't shut up!
- Let me be alone.
- You are alone, Tom.
And who wants you anyway?
Because I have had
it, you understand?
I have had it.
- Really good.
Then get out.
- Get out?
This is my apartment, Lamoine,
my apartment
and besides I am tired of living
with some kind of a creep.
- What did you call me?
- [Iris] You figure
it out, bastard.
Go ahead and hit me.
(yelling)
(whip snapping)
(tense music)
- I got two mollies, a
quaaludes and some hash
all tucked into my sack.
Cena's got some
acid in her purse.
God damn, I'll tell ya.
Oh, then the cop in front goes,
"Let me hear you count
from one to 10 backwards,
"skip every other number."
And I go, "Huh?"
Then he looks at Ev and he says,
"What are you shaking for?"
And Ev goes, "I guess
'cause I'm cold."
He goes, "Well
boy, if I was you,
"I'd do something to get me warm
"'cause your teeth are
starting to rattle."
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
he was clean but I wasn't.
Yeah, I told ya,
I had two mollies, some hash
and Sandy had some (mumbles).
Of course, like I
told you, yeah.
He goes, "How well do you
girls know these two boys?"
And Sandy goes, " We
know 'em real well.
"He's Bubba and he's Everett."
Wait a minute, hold on a second.
Hey Chris, you looking for
that thing you submitted
about the old guy
living in the church?
- Yeah.
- Production turned it down,
I got it here somewhere.
- Oh, don't tell me that.
- Yeah I did, said it wasn't
relevant or something.
Hey, don't do that.
I'll find it,
when I do, I'll
bring it in to ya.
Just don't mess up
my desk like that.
- Kiss off
and tell Marin I think
he's got turkey shit taste.
- Don't use that kind
of language in here.
- Shit, shit, shit, shit!
He turned me down
again, God damn it.
- That figures,
the dude don't like you.
Nobody likes you.
You look funny
and your mama dresses you funny.
- You know I'm gonna
tell that old bastard
to go straight to hell.
Hi Pat, I was just
down to your office--
- L.A., Larry Swayne is going
to Washington for three days.
I want you to take
over the anchor spot.
- Dynamite.
- Oh listen, Pat, I wanted
to know how you liked
my little program
on the old man?
- Answer that.
- I do not think it is necessary
for you to upset the
production office
by shouting obscenities
at my secretary.
- Well you see, sir,
I waited a whole
week for an answer
on the program--
- I am not really interested
in how long you
waited for anything.
- Yes, sir.
- You understand?
- Yes, sir.
- You have any complaints,
you come to me.
- Yes, sir, I appreciate that.
- Here's your little prospectus,
I don't think we
have any use for it.
- Yes, sir.
- Sorry.
- The ice man's really
down on you, cowboy.
(country music)
- So what I want you to do
is a little show that had
some kind of humility,
do you know what I mean?
I found this old guy
in this abandoned church
for years worshiping,
kind of conducting his
own services by himself.
Thanks.
Anyway, it would've
made a great story
and they turned it down.
I keep coming up with
these little ideas
and can't go anywhere with them.
- Why don't you just
blow 'em off, man?
- You know, I've
thought about it.
- Screw 'em, what do you care?
- Yeah, Trip, I'm
just about there.
Hey Jeanie, how are you?
- Oh Chris, listen,
you know Bradley.
- Sure do.
Who's this pretty
little thing over here?
- Carol, this is Chris Lowe.
- My pleasure.
(country music)
- You getting in shape
for a pie eating
contest or what?
- Iris is playing around on me.
- No she ain't
'cause I'd be the first
one to know if she was.
- How's that?
- 'Cause she'd be
playing around with me.
(laughs)
- It ain't funny, man.
- Get this one, will you, L.A.,
I'm a little short on cash.
(laughing)
Jesus was a Capricorn
but so is Nixon,
now how you figure that?
(country music)
- Do you believe you're
gonna go on after you die?
Have you ever thought about it?
- Yeah, I've thought about it.
I don't know.
- Do you want to hear my theory?
Do you want to
know what I think?
- Sure, go ahead.
- It's like there's
this building, see,
'bout 25 stories up.
- Okay.
- Well I figure
it's like at first
we fall off the top
of that building
and it takes us about 65
years to go splat, you know,
splat on the pavement?
That's what I believe in,
we're born falling
and years later
we finally hit the bottom
and that's it.
(gunfire blasting)
(sirens blaring)
(gunfire blasting)
(sirens blaring
(gunfire blasting)
(heartbeat pounding)
(gunfire blasting)
- Two men were killed today
in the aftermath of
a robbery attempt
at the Dallas Federal Savings
Branch near Love Field.
The two men fled to
a nearby warehouse
where both were
slain in a shootout
with several units
of the Dallas Police
who had responded to the
bank's silent alarm system.
(throwing up)
- Steve!
Hey L.A., what do you say?
- L.A. Ray.
- That's L.A..
- Come on man, let's play.
- This place reminds
me of church.
(gentle music)
- [L.A.] The way I was
feeling this afternoon, Chris,
I wondered I could run it off.
- Oh you mean at the shoot out?
Shit, all of a sudden we
were in the middle of it,
couldn't get out.
We tried but we
were pinned down.
They were shooting at you
like hail in a panhandle.
- Kid was killed right
in front of me.
- What?
- A little kid.
Couldn't have been more than 14.
Ran, saw daylight
and ran for it.
They shot him right through
the chest with a riot gun,
cut him in half.
- Jesus.
And killed him?
- Right in front of me,
five feet from me.
Saw his eyes when he got hit.
- And what did you see there
in his eyes?
- Terror.
- You saw nothing else?
- I saw terror, horror.
He knew he was going to die.
- but you must die before
you can live, you know that.
Hae you ever experienced
your own death, any of you?
- No.
- You should try it some time.
Once you do it,
you eliminate the fear of death,
the terror.
Imagine that you have died.
Let go of your body.
Your body is lifeless, useless.
You may cry if you feel
it or scream or curse.
Go with the feeling.
Follow it to the limit,
you no longer need to
hide your feelings.
Look at your body,
look at the unloved one,
the one that lies
cold and alone,
the one that has had no love.
This is your chance to
give warm and courage,
to one who feels only
cold, loneliness and death.
Let your tears flow
out from depth of you
and let your bitterness
flow out with dam
(gentle music)
♪ When the prophet of the Lord ♪
♪ Jumps in I shall be the lord ♪
♪ And the morning with
eternal pride and joy ♪
♪ When the (mumbling) ♪
- Arnold Wiggins is 73 now.
The church is 59 years older
but Arnold still attends
services every Sunday.
When they begin
promptly at 10 a.m.,
Arnold Wiggins is the only
person in the old church.
He keeps going back to
Canyon Church and worshiping
because of a feeling he
experienced in a vision.
KSTX reporter Larry Swayne
asks Arnold what
that feeling was.
- Well, the Lord, his word,
I guess I felt
called to stay here.
- [Larry] You thought that
you should stay and work--
- That's right, that's right.
- [Larry] And what were
the services like?
Did they shout a lot?
- Yes, they did
and lots of good singing,
good spurts of singing.
And on Saturday night,
they'd have regular
community singing
and people'd gather
quite well for that.
Heavenly father,
who art in heaven,
oh Lord Jesus Chris,
I come before thee
with humble wisdom
and thankful for the privilege
of prayer in the morning,
praying ground to
think and think safe.
Thanks.
- [Chris] Just a
God damn minute.
- I am simply trying
to help you see
the reality of the
situation, Lowe.
You were, how should I put it?
You're out of focus.
This station has
no further desire
to finance your
audiovisual masturbation.
- Listen, you son of a bitch,
I'm tired of being
talked down to
by a second rate news director
on his way down from New York.
I don't need your
bullshit editorial.
I know whose running
this station.
I work here, remember?
- Not anymore.
(sad music)
♪ Never know freedom
till you lose it ♪
♪ You'll never know
love until it's gone ♪
♪ And you'll never
know the right way ♪
♪ Till you choose it ♪
♪ You'll never see the
ending till it's gone ♪
♪ Listen to me, brother ♪
♪ I've come such a long way ♪
♪ 39 years down these
country roads ♪
♪ One more year to go ♪
♪ Listen to me, sisters ♪
♪ I don't know how
long we can stay ♪
♪ 200 years in America ♪
♪ Keeps us on the go ♪
♪ You'll never miss the water ♪
♪ Till the wells dry ♪
♪ You'll never miss the
fire till it grows cold ♪
♪ And you'll never notice
just how fast the time flies ♪
♪ Till you look around ♪
♪ You see you've gotten old ♪
♪ Yes, listen to me, brothers ♪
♪ I've come such a long way ♪
♪ 39 years down these
country roads ♪
♪ One more to go ♪
♪ Listen to me, sisters ♪
♪ I don't know how
long we can stay ♪
♪ 200 years in America ♪
♪ It's taught us all
we have to go ♪
♪ Oh, you'll never know
freedom till you lose it ♪
♪ You'll never know
love until it's gone ♪
♪ Gone ♪
♪ You'll never know the right
way till you choose it ♪
♪ Choose it, choose it ♪
♪ You'll never see the
ending till it's gone ♪
♪ Gone ♪
♪ You'll never see the
ending till it's gone ♪
♪ Never see the ending
till it's gone ♪
♪ Never see the ending
till it's gone ♪
(ringing)
- [Reporter] A third fatality
was confirmed Thursday in Ohio
officials are perplexed
over the cause of the
absurd and reported cases
of the once-epidemic disease
that has lain dormant
now for centuries.
High winds in the Dalton area
are expected to continue
throughout the week
keeping temperatures at
or near record high levels
for at least the next five days.
KSTX staff meteorologist
David Carwell
will give us all the details
after these messages.
(pig snorting)
(dog barking)
- Mr. Hogarty?
Mr. Hogarty, could I
speak to you for a minute?
Howdy, I'm Chris Lowe.
- Seems like every time we
get a good rain around here,
it brings all the trash
down from the city
and I got to go around
cleaning it up.
- Well, I'd like
to talk with you
for a few minutes if I may.
- Sun sure feels good today,
did you notice that?
What do you want to talk about?
- [Chris] Well, I
read where the city
wants to take you off your land
and put a freeway through here.
- I'm batting a stronger
and steadfast pitch
with the foam is all.
(laughing)
Hey old rat, ain't that right?
Yeah, you, you old hairy hyena.
Russell, who do you
feel like today, huh?
Russell feels like different
people on different days.
Here in the ravine,
those pigs,
these woods,
they're all part of
each other, you know?
- Mr. Hogarty, I make films
and I'd like to do a
little documentary on you
and your life here
at the hog haven.
- Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the Bushwider home.
I'm Madeline, here to bring
you a fashion fantasy of furs
from Merleen Levels.
Here we have beautiful Carol
in a US chinchilla.
It's a jacket and it's
double-breasted with jet
buttons.
You can wear that over gowns
and slacks and casual wear
and it's just luscious.
Here is Annie
looking like a dream
in her white mink coat
and you'd feel like a dream
too in a coat like that.
Elegant.
And here comes Barb
dressed in a beautiful
natural mink coat
and a ranch mink
collar and cuffs
that are brown to match
her beautiful brown eyes.
Love that.
The costume belt comes off
and the coat takes on a
different characteristic.
Here we have Harriet in her
full length natural mink
with a hat to match.
Oh, you look just
like a princess.
And here imported from
Germany just for today
is a high fashion model
in a sable-died fox
with leather inserts.
We love that look.
Belinda, you look breathtaking.
This is the peace de resistance.
This is a Norwegian--
- Hi Merleen.
- And again, it zips off
and becomes a stroller length.
So you have two coats in one.
And she is wearing
a Russian bonnet
thank you very much.
I hope you've enjoyed
our showing today.
Au revoir.
- You make it sound so
magic, making films.
- Well, it is kind of magic.
I take people out of reality
and give 'em their dream.
What do you do, Merleen?
- [Merleen] I'm a therapist.
- [Chris] A what?
- [Merleen] A
confrontation therapist.
- [Chris] Okay, but
what do you do?
- [Merleen] I take
people out of their dream
and put them back into reality.
(country music)
♪ No, I thought you'd
be around for awhile ♪
♪ And you thought I'd hold on ♪
♪ That's where you were wrong ♪
♪ So you don't know me ♪
♪ Very well ♪
♪ There's only one
thing I can say ♪
♪ Won't you walk away ♪
- [Chris] Hey, L.A.!
- Hey cowboy.
What'd you say?
So how you been man?
I haven't seen you in months.
You've been the invisible man.
- Ah well, around, you
know, freelancing
and making some shorts.
How 'bout yourself?
- You hear about my nomination?
- No, for president?
- (laughs) No, it's
a local award.
- Come on, shit.
- Swear to God.
It's just local but it
don't hurt nothing.
- [Chris] So you're
gonna be a star?
- Isn't that what I
been telling you?
- Yeah, all right.
So how's Iris?
- Okay.
She's okay.
- Well, let me buy you a
beer or something, huh?
- Gotta split, man.
Take care of yourself, cowboy.
- Oh come on man,
I haven't seen you
in four months.
- No really, take care.
- That was a talent
scout from MGM
and they're looking for
new sets in Hollywood.
- Oh really?
Well how much does it pay?
I just might be interested.
- I knew it, damn, I knew it.
♪ Singing sad songs ♪
♪ That give me the time
Lord to think of you ♪
♪ They're just sad enough
to bring you back ♪
♪ To the pleasure we knew ♪
- I just saw a therapy student
of mine in the ladies room.
- Oh yeah?
- [Clint] How's it going, Chris?
- Hey, Clint, what's
happening buddy?
- She hasn't been to
group in over three weeks
and that does kind of worry me.
- Well you know, Merleen,
I gotta be completely
honest with you,
I think that therapy group
thing of yours is really
- What?
- Oh, forget it.
- Come on, what do
you want to say?
- I think it's a real
pile of bullshit.
- Listen to me,
I need you.
I'm trying to get
through to you.
How many times do I
have to tell you?
- Leave me alone.
Leave me alone.
- Someone help me.
Someone listen to me.
♪ I couldn't stay
here if I tried ♪
♪ 'Cause you were
always disappointed ♪
♪ In me ♪
♪ I couldn't ever
do nothing right ♪
♪ You cut my heart like
cards on the table ♪
♪ It's so easy for you
to keep playing on ♪
♪ I'd give in if I were able ♪
♪ Looks like me
that's moving on ♪
- Chris.
Lunch is now being served.
(yawning)
- Nice.
Jesus, what time is it?
- [Merleen] Three
o'clock in the afternoon.
- Three o'clock?
Wow, I'm sorry.
- It's all right.
You were really tired.
We both were after last night.
- I don't think I can eat
with old L.A. for this one.
He ruined our whole night.
We could've been out having fun.
Instead...
- Raspberries?
- Mmm.
Instead we run all over
town looking for him.
He's cutting my time.
I could've been
making love to you.
(gentle music)
Damn, these are good berries.
You got any sugar?
- Sugar's bad for you,
I never use it.
- That's what L.A. says.
He says it's poison,
every time I see him
he's eating it.
- Because he wants
to poison himself.
- This is really a treat.
- Your friend doesn't
like himself.
- Are you kidding?
He worships the
ground he walks on.
Don't let that little
scene last night fool you.
- Do you like him?
- L.A.?
Yeah, sure, he's my
buddy, I love him.
What's this thing we're
under here, Merleen?
- Pyramid.
- Oh yeah, I heard a
guy on Johnny Carson
talking about pyramids.
- Pyramids are very,
well very strange objects.
- You're a very strange
object, Merleen.
(laughs)
- Hi, how are you?
- [Female] Hi, just fine.
- Hi Berla.
- Hi.
How you doing?
- [Female] Okay.
That guy has been shoplifting
since I can remember.
- Hi.
Hi.
- [Merleen] Everybody here?
Okay, Patricia.
- My name is Patricia
and I feel fine.
I really do.
I was aware of it all
the way to the meeting.
I couldn't believe it,
a whole week went by
without any pain.
Oh yeah, I just felt great.
And I had this talk with
my mother Wednesday night
and for once I didn't
let her get to me.
I kept my cool
and she had to go on my trip.
- [Merleen] Feels good
to feel good, doesn't it?
- You bet.
- [Phil] My name is
Phil and I feel fine.
- [Merleen] Wait a minute,
Phil, say that again.
- My name--
- Louder, can't hear you.
- My name is Phil, I feel fine.
- [Female] I don't believe it.
- [Female] Neither do I.
- [Male] Did your wife show
up at the attorney's office
like you expected?
- Yes.
- [Merleen] What?
- Yes, she was there.
It wasn't as bad as I thought.
- [Merleen] Did you
argue with each other?
- No, why should we argue?
We went to the lawyer's
office to sign papers,
that's all we were doing.
- [Merleen] You've got
everything shut off.
Look how you're sitting.
Uncross your arms.
Put your hands at your sides.
Uncross your legs.
- Come on, man, let it out.
Will you feel it and just
let it up and let it out?
- [Merleen] Tell your
wife you love her.
- I love you.
- [Merleen] Louder,
she can't hear you.
Do you love her?
Tell her you love her.
- I can't.
- [Merleen] Do you
love her, Phil?
- Yes.
- [Merleen] Then tell her.
- I can't.
- [Merleen] Let
those feelings out.
(sighs)
- Come on, Phil, let it all out.
We need to know how you feel.
- [Merleen] Show us how
much you love her.
- [Phil] She doesn't understand.
- [Merleen] Do you understand?
- Come on, Phil,
you're wasting our time.
- Then give it to us.
- [Female] Come on, let it out.
- [Male] Tell us man, Christ.
- [Male] It's all
right Phil, go ahead.
- [Merleen] Do you love her?
- Yes, I love her.
- [Merleen] Then say it.
- I love her.
- [Merleen] Tell
her you love her.
Why are you so helpless Phil?
Why are you acting
like such a baby?
Quit acting like a child.
Quit feeling sorry for yourself.
- I love her, I need her.
(crying)
I love my wife and I need,
and I can't go on alone.
(crying)
I can't go on, I can't.
God!
Somebody help me!
Doesn't anybody understand?
Don't you understand?
You just sit there
and you judge me.
Leave me alone!
- No one judges you.
- Yes you are.
- No.
We're trying to help you.
- Please help me.
- Phil, we'll help you.
- Oh please.
- I have you Phil.
- Oh I need help.
- You'll get it.
Let it out, let it
out, let it out.
- [Male] Most of us
have been taught
that there is only one sure way
to gain knowledge
of the universe
and that is the objective
methods of science,
impersonal observations
followed by logical deductions.
But for centuries,
people have been claiming
other ways of knowing
the universe.
- What do you mean you
played it for him?
What'd he say?
- [Marin] Just like
I tell you Chris,
because what is this?
It doesn't even make sense.
- [Chris] I don't
understand Meredith
He hasn't changed his
news format in five years.
- The wrong things, Chris.
You want my opinion.
But let me tell you,
you got to get something
more exciting,
something people are
used to getting off on,
like you're doing a
story on a pig farm,
what is that?
Who cares?
- I care.
- How 'bout a rapist?
Interview a rapist.
Get him to talk about the
crime, you understand,
in as much detail as possible.
Then interview the rapee,
you know, the one that gets it.
Get the neighbors in.
How many times did
the girl scream?
That always seems
to be in doubt,
you know, the number of screams.
- [Chris] Bubba the
world is falling apart.
I mean people are freaking
out on the streets.
- Yeah I know.
- I was at therapy
session, you know?
This guys goes bananas.
He falls apart right in class
and everybody, including
the therapist,
runs over and pats
the guy on the back
and says way to go buddy
and he's falling apart.
- Did you see Clockwork Orange?
- Yeah.
- That's the kind of
world it's gonna be.
No doubt about it,
it's here now.
I kind of like the
excitement of it myself.
- [Male] That has been
known to religious leaders
throughout the ages
and it's only now being
rediscovered by science,
the idea that all things
in the universe--
- Let's get out of here.
- [Male] Are interconnected
and interdependent.
(dogs barking)
(sad music)
- [Chris] What the
hell is going on?
Shit!
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obligation and no credit check
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- I like Mr. T's no
obligation rental
because it doesn't tie me down.
- I like Mr. T's no credit check
because I don't have
any credit yet.
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- O'Hare files suit in
federal court today
to have in God we trust
removed from all US currency.
Miss O'Hare citing
the first amendment
call for an end to
what she called
the official sanction
of superstition
and mumbo jumbo that has plagued
this nation for centuries.
The Rangers were in Boston today
and Garrett will have that
story for you in a moment.
Right now, news reporter
Lamoine Peabody
is standing by with a story on
Big Dee's newest night club.
Lamoine?
- This is Lamoine Peabody.
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(gunfire blasting)
- Oh no.
- Stop him.
- [Male] Get the
God damn thing up.
- [Female] Help me!
Somebody get a doctor.
Help!
(crying)
- [Reporter] Ladies
and gentlemen,
please stand by.
(Chris yelling)
♪ Your spirit is the
mirror to my soul ♪
♪ You are always with me ♪
♪ And your love will never end ♪
♪ And today I am with
you once again ♪
♪ You are my friend ♪
(sad music)
(gunfire blasting)
(sad music)
- I need help.
I won't lie.
I can't say I want love.
Right now I can only
say I need help.
I want help to make
me say I want love.
I need help from somebody.
I want help that will make me
will make me love,
that will make me see a
real need for other people.
I just need help.
I mean--
- [Merleen] You're gonna
get it, Margaret.
It's okay.
- [Male] It's gonna be okay.
- [Merleen] You
loved your parents?
- Very much.
I didn't get to see
much of my daddy
'cause he was a truck driver.
He was away from home a lot.
That gave me a little
resentment I think
'cause he wasn't around to
help me when I was growing up.
- [Merleen] And you missed that?
- Yeah, I missed that.
- [Merleen] Did you resent it?
- I did then.
- [Merleen] Did you
ever tell him?
- No, I didn't.
- [Merleen] Why?
- I never got a chance.
- [Merleen] If you
had the chance
to talk to him right now,
what would you say to him?
- I'd tell him how
much I loved him.
- [Merleen] Why
don't you tell him?
Why don't you talk to
your dad right now?
- I can't, he died.
- [Merleen] You can
still talk to him.
- [Male] Chris, you can
still tell him you loved him.
- [Merleen] Did you ever
tell him you loved him?
- Yeah, I did.
- [Merleen] Enough?
- He heard me.
- Did he ever say
it back to you?
- No.
Well yes, he did.
- But not like quite the
way you wanted it, right?
- I would've liked to
have told him in person.
See, I got back from Vietnam
and I got off the bus
and my mother was there
and she told me
that my father died
two weeks before I got home.
- [Merleen] Let it out.
Let it out.
(gentle music)
- L.A. said you can't
change anything.
But you can,
you can change yourself
and then things around
you begin to change
because you're seeing
them through new eyes,
you understand?
- I understand but to
change yourself, Bubba,
you've got to get into yourself.
You've got to know who you are
and where you're coming from.
- I don't care about
where I'm from.
I want to know where I'm going.
- Yeah.
Hey, you want to help me shoot
a little film about pyramids?
- Pyramids?
Far out.
(swing squeaking)
(gentle music)
- Howdy, which one of
you guys is Ken Russell?
- Inside up here.
- Thanks.
Hi, you must be Mr. Russell?
- [Ken] That's right.
- [Chris] Here's my card.
And this here's my
director of photography,
Bubba Lendberg.
- Hi Bubba.
- [Bubba] Hi.
- Is this a cosmic deal or what?
(banging)
You must be into films?
- That's right.
And I'm really interested
in what you do.
- Well I build pyramids.
You make films, I
build pyramids.
- Why are you building this one?
- [Ken] We're gonna have a
little gathering inside it,
have an afternoon of music,
watch the sun go down
from inside the pyramid
and have an evening meditation.
- [Chris] How do pyramids
affect human beings?
- That's a good question.
I hope you find out.
We're composed of some
of the same things
that the animals are.
We may be affected
by our chemistry.
It may in turn have an
effect on our consciousness.
- I see.
Well, one of the reasons
why I came down here
is I'd like to do a
documentary on it.
- Great.
What do you have in mind?
- Well, we could start
by filming this one.
- All right.
- Good.
(gentle music)
Dick Hogarty has worked this
small strip of bottom land
for 31 years.
For Dick and the animals that
share the ravine with him
things are just
about the same now
as they were years ago.
However, this morning,
the commissioner's
court upheld a ruling
condemning the Hogarty hog haven
as an eye sore and a health
hazard to the community.
What this means is he has
slightly under 45 days
to close down the haven
and find another place to live
or face the possibility
of going to jail.
Did you expect you were
going to lose the decision
when you first decided
to fight the surrender
to your property?
- No, no, I,
they should see that this
place ain't no health hazard.
The kids come down
here after school,
they love it.
They pick wild berries
right off the vine.
That's the way we wanted it.
Everybody in the neighborhood
came down here one
time or another with,
like a park to 'em.
- [Chris] Primarily
it was the pigs.
Some people say there's
smell in the dirt.
- Oh, pigs ain't dirty any
more than any other animal,
humans included.
Just look at 'em over there.
They got feelings to, you know?
Some people just
don't know that.
(crying)
- [Chris] Do you have
any place in mind to go
after you close
down the hog haven?
- No, no, I ain't worried
much about that though.
Wherever it is, it'll be
the right place to be.
Everything happens for
a reason, you know?
Like this place,
it's been like a garden to me.
I learned a lot
about myself here.
Watching the seasons and
just sort of figure things
out for yourself, you know?
It's hard not to cry.
Something's over and
I really love this.
That hurts.
- That's horrible.
Old man crying, it's making
me ill for Christ'’s sake.
Shut it off.
Shut it off!
I'll tell you the truth,
I don't think people
are gonna like that.
- I do.
- People don't mind
seeing a broad cry
but it doesn't look right
to see a man cry like that.
- But it's real, don't you see?
It's more than just a movie,
it's like being asked into
another person's heart.
- Who cares?
I tell you it's a waste of time.
- Listen to me, Willy,
people want to see,
you know I know people right?
- Yeah, I know.
- Okay, people want to see--
- People want to see
stars screwing each other
and shooting each other.
I got to show a halfway
decent film four times a day
just to break even.
Distributors, they want 80%
of the God damn popcorn sale.
What else you got there?
- Nothing you'd be
interested in, Willy.
- Oh, I don't know,
let's take a look.
How 'bout something
with broads or music?
- Yeah.
- Well what's that one?
- That's a film about pyramids.
- That's not right.
I'd like to see something with
broads or music in that one.
- Okay.
Here amigo, throw that one
up for Mr. Easter here.
- You're gonna like this
one, Willy, I know that.
I know that for sure.
- Broads?
- Broads and music.
- Wonderful, wonderful.
- Okay Ed, let her roll anytime.
(upbeat music)
What the hell is this?
- All plants and
animals, they have life,
they also have soul,
just like humans.
We are also soul.
We are eternal soul.
(chanting and drumming)
- When you breath in,
let all this energy
flow into your body
and when you breath out,
let all your anger go with it.
- Okay.
- [Dr. Moss] What
you're looking at here
is what we call
kirlian photography.
That's a special system
of taking pictures
without a camera or lens
but sending an
electrical current
through, in this particular
case, a finger pad.
A finger pad belongs
to a patient at UCLA.
who's being treated by a healer
who uses interestingly enough
magnetic passes in his work.
- Well Dr. Moss,
you've been an actress,
a wife, a mother,
a psychologist, an author,
a parapsychologist,
now you're into
kirlian photography.
Can you tell us why that is?
- Kirlian Photography poses
a lot of challenge because
you know in the
esoteric literature,
and I'm interested
in parapsychology
and that involves esoterica,
they talk about an energy body
that we consist certainly
of physical stuff
but beyond the physical stuff,
there is something that
emits energy from us
and takes energy
from the atmosphere
and that this energy body
probably makes us well or ill,
certainly is used
in psychic healing
to give energy to
somebody who's sick,
make 'em better,
and if this is so
and kirlian photography
captures it,
it's going to revolutionize
our concepts
of physiology, medicine
and the nature of
the human being,
and that's pretty important.
I'm talking about a
certain kind of energy
that seems to be emitted
by certain people who call
themselves healers, and they
are,
to other people
and the illness will disappear.
Now with the psychic healer,
how much is the
belief in the patient
that this man is going
to make him better
is a big question that we
don't have any answer for.
But let's say that we're
working with belief
and that belief and
faith can heal.
That's all we're saying.
Faith healers have
done a very good job
since time immemorial.
And we have been
studying this phenomenon
using kirlian photography and
we see an interesting thing.
We see that the emanations
from the healer
go toward the patient,
the patient's
emanations get brighter
and the healer's get dimmer.
So we think we're looking
at an energy transfer.
This becomes very exciting.
I think most of science for
the past couple of 100 years
has been looking at
our bones and sinews
and all the material
parts of man.
I think all of the things
we've just talked about
are looking at the energetic
and psychic aspects of man
and I think that is
where the future lies.
- You know, there's
a world we can see
and a world we can't see,
a world we can only feel.
- [Edward] I believe
we will discover
that through consciousness,
feelings and thoughts
connect all living things.
Actually, there is much
work been done already
to explore these subtle
inner connections
by people ranging from
research scientists
and medical doctors
to ministers and students.
In fact, some of the more
interesting discoveries
have been made by a man who
is a lie detector expert.
- Back in 1966,
I attached one portion of
the conventional polygraph
to a plant leaf
and found, much to my amazement,
that I obtained a tracing
that in many respects
was similar to that
of the human subject.
This caused a lot
of work to be done,
as far as observations
are concerned
and structured experimentation
and to date, we seem to feel,
that a plant leaf has
a capability of showing
levels in the change
of well being
of other biological life
forms in the laboratory area.
It also seems to be
able to show indications
of changes as far as
thought process as humans
in the area of concern.
One of the things
I've constantly seen
as far as the continuity
of my research is concerned
in the laboratory
is an apparent oneness
among all living things,
whether it be the plants in
the pots in the laboratory,
the laboratory
animals, bacteria,
chicken eggs and so forth,
that cause me to
look a little bit
toward books in
Eastern philosophy
where apparently for
thousands of years
they've been talking
about the apparent
oneness in the universe.
- Did you ever read
any Don Juan books?
- Yes.
- Journey to Ixtlan?
- I believe there is
magic, real magic,
going on all the
time all around us.
I've been in places
of power before.
I felt vibrations
like in the woods
so strong I knew it was
a power place for me.
- I've felt that before.
(mystical music)
Did you feel that?
- [Merleen] Mmhmm.
- [Chris] I can feel
my body slipping away.
I'm free of my body.
- [Merleen] Come
on over, try this.
(mystical music)
(grunting)
(laughing)
Yes.
(mystical music)
(bell tolling)
(mystical music)
- Yeah, but we can
change things.
Things are changing anyway.
- They're changing, I agree
but they're getting worse.
- Uh uh, they're getting better.
- 20,000 years of
recorded history
and only 200 years of peace,
what does that tell ya?
- That we all ought to
get our heads together.
- It'll never happen.
Don't be naive.
- Don't be so sure.
It's not good to be
sure about anything.
- Chris, you're beginning
to sound like a--
- Shh, listen.
- [Male] How long
do you have to wait
before you can get
on the station?
- It takes about four hours to
go through your preparations
and then if you're going
to have some food
or maybe take a little rest
it might even take longer.
- Can we look through
the telescope?
- Yes, we have a good
object on, the planet Venus.
- Can I have your autograph?
- [Mitchell] Sure.
- Excuse me, Captain
Mitchell, hi Chris Lowe,
I'm the filmmaker that
got ahold of you.
- Yes, I remember.
- This is my assistant,
Bubba Lemberg.
- Hi Bubba.
- There's several subjects
I'd like to talk over with you
concerning the documentary.
- I'll be glad to
and I think we can
get some time here.
Let me finish up
with the children
and we'll see if we
can make some time,
perhaps go around
and have a talk.
- Okay great.
- Good, we'll see you
in a few minutes.
Oh I think most
scientists these days
have very much agreed
that there has to be
life on other planets
but certainly within the galaxy
or in other galaxies,
there has to be intelligent life
and even though we don't
know how to reach it
or contact it or how to even
receive messages from it
it certainly is there.
- Captain Mitchell,
Chris told me that during
your flight in space
you sent ESP messages
back to Earth.
Who received the messages?
- Well, we had four subjects
here in the United States
that we worked with.
It was a normal laboratory
type experiment
that's been conducted
for at least 30 years
but in this case, we
took it into space.
It's a very private--
- What's happening, captain?
- Oh, they're just
rotating the globe
in preparation for
tonight's astronomy.
I think perhaps
with all this noise
we ought to go outside.
- That'd be a good idea.
Captain, at the
Noetic Institute,
you experimented with a
man named Yuri Gulliver.
Was he one of the men
that you relayed messages to?
- No, no, we didn't work
with him on the space flight.
I didn't even know
him at that time.
We worked with him later
in the laboratory
doing remote perceptions
and telekinetic work
and he's real and that
but he also happens
to be a performer.
And that makes our job as
scientists exceedingly difficult
when he comes such a
controversial character
and is a performer as well.
(mysterious music)
- [Chris] Why do you put
so much faith in science?
- Science has always been
investigating the unknown
and providing new answers
but without a value system,
without the ethics,
the morality that go
with governing science,
it can never solve anything.
- Captain Mitchell,
in my documentary,
I'd like to show some kind
of hope for humankind.
- We like to think that
there is a value system
that we could all address
and we would like to think
that we could train people
to understand that value system
to agree upon it, to relate
to themselves better,
to relate to each other better
and to the world
in which we exist.
But the real thing we must
study is consciousness
because we don't know
what consciousness is.
We don't know what it is
that we human beings really are.
That's the enigmatic
question at the moment.
Some of our better scientists
seem to think that consciousness
is the basic mind stuff,
maybe the basic stuff
of the universe
behind all matter.
I don't really know
if that's true
but it's a good
assumption to start with.
The real question with the
dilemma of mankind at the moment
is do we have time to
evolve these things
and to understand them
and to utilize that information?
We have to start now
and we have to start
with each individual
working on himself to
become a better human being.
♪ There are some men
who see what is ♪
♪ And ask why and
what life brought ♪
♪ Then there are some men ♪
♪ Who see what's never been ♪
♪ And ask why not ♪
♪ History's course is changing ♪
♪ The story can be told ♪
♪ One of pioneers,
new frontiers ♪
♪ And the age of gold ♪
♪ Secrets of the pyramid ♪
♪ The little diamond sphinx ♪
♪ The magic of the crucifix ♪
♪ Tell 'em what you think ♪
♪ Come on all of you pilgrims ♪
♪ You strangers in this land ♪
♪ Made for every one of us ♪
♪ Come on, take a stand ♪
♪ Come on, pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on home now ♪
♪ Everybody come on home ♪
♪ Come on pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on home ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ Won't you come on home ♪
♪ Come on pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on home now ♪
♪ Everybody, everybody,
everybody won't you come on home
♪
♪ The secrets of the pyramids ♪
♪ Riddles of the sphinx ♪
♪ The magic of the crucifix ♪
♪ It's all in what you think ♪
♪ Come home ♪
♪ All of you pilgrims ♪
♪ You strangers in this land ♪
♪ The dawning of Aquarius ♪
♪ Is made for every one of us ♪
♪ Come on, take a stand ♪
♪ Come on, come on,
come on pilgrims ♪
♪ Come on, come on home now ♪
♪ Everybody, everybody
come on home ♪
♪ Come on ♪
♪ Come on pilgrims ♪