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| Ram Dass: Fierce Grace |
Dir. Mickey Lemle US 2001
In the 1960's, Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary were to spiritual
awareness what the Beatles and the Stones were to rock n roll. As Harvard
faculty members, they began experimenting with LSD and in 1963 were,
famously, expelled by the university. While Leary continued to tune
in, turn on and drop out, Alpert - whose father was a wealthy Jewish
attorney and President of the New York-New Haven Railroad - morphed
into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author
and lecturer. His 1971 best seller Be Here Now has been followed
up recently by Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying.
Filmmaker Mickey Lemle, who has known his subject for 25 years,
balances fascinating, often hilariously funny footage from the
hippie era, with contemporary material on Ram Dass, as he remakes
his life since suffering a stroke five years ago.(93m; 16mm)
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