{"id":9216,"date":"2018-07-22T23:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2018-07-31T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T07:09:39","slug":"go-ask-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/22\/go-ask-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Ask Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonwire.com\/2018\/07\/19\/go-ask-alice-1973-offers-a-side-of-rock-n-roll-with-an-anti-drug-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from LEMONWIRE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d (1973) offers an anti-drug message with a side of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll<\/h1>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonwire.com\/author\/dgould\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dodie Miller-Gould<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CBxT53r2AlU\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now streaming on YouTube is a 1973 movie based on the once- alleged true story of a young drug addict named Alice. The movie is based on the book of the same name that was published in 1971. While the book\u2019s origin was once steeped in controversy, it is mostly forgotten now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d the movie is significant to fans of rock music and history by the way it contextualizes rock music of the late 1960s and attempts to show the means by which even a girl from a good family can fall into the trap of drugs and their attendant misadventures.<\/p>\n<h1>\u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d 45 years later<\/h1>\n<p>Watching the film version of the book is as close to watching a time capsule as some people will get. There is a bit of editorializing as the opening credits appear and what sounds like a cover version of Jefferson Airplane\u2019s \u201cWhite Rabbit\u201d plays. Viewers are shown \u201cexamples\u201d of kids of the time period. Kids with glasses, boys with long hair; moody-looking girls with very long hair; there were even two black students. The song \u201cWhite Rabbit\u201d contains the line from which the title \u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d derives.\u00a0 The fashions and the moods clue viewers in on what life was probably like 50 years ago. The movie is interesting on that basis alone.<\/p>\n<h1>\u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d and controversy<\/h1>\n<p>Years before James Frey and the \u201cMillion Little Pieces\u201d scandal, there was \u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d and the theories about who wrote the book. The author is listed as \u201cAnonymous.\u201d The book was purported to be the real journal of a 15-year-old girl who was the Alice of the title.<\/p>\n<p>Once thought to be nonfiction, \u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d is categorized as fiction now. The controversy about the book\u2019s authorship has done nothing to negatively impact the book\u2019s popularity. However, the American Library Association challenges the book\u2019s suitability for young audiences because of its language and depictions of sex and drug use.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonwire.com\/2018\/07\/19\/go-ask-alice-1973-offers-a-side-of-rock-n-roll-with-an-anti-drug-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at LEMONWIRE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LEMONWIRE \u201cGo Ask Alice\u201d (1973) offers an anti-drug message with a side of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll By Dodie Miller-Gould Now streaming on YouTube is a 1973 movie based on the once- alleged true story of a young drug addict named Alice. 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