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You Are What You Eat (1968)
My Name Is Jack
Jimisen (above) states: "Another part I vaguely remember was a song about a boy in his house. The song was silly/sweet and the camera followed a fiesty little three-year-old all over." Could this be "My Name Is Jack," the song John Simon wrote for the film? Manfred Mann's cover version, with some altered lyrics ("Here Comes Superspade" becomes "Here Comes Superman," e.g.), scraped the lower reaches of the Top 40 in 1968, here in NYC, anyway, and certainly had both those qualities. A YAWYE video release is long overdue, if for sheer time-capsule value alone. Bring it on!
Winter A-Go-Go (1965)
The "Citizen Kane" of Sixties Teen Flix!
My ten- and twelve-year-olds were in hysterics when "Winter A-Go-Go" ran on AMC a few years ago. They loved the dated, corny dialogue, the improbable plot twists and, especially, the repeated and ever-more-improbable confrontations with "The Man" -- the lame baddies who'll do just about anything to put a stop to the kids' ultra-low-fi rockin', ski-partyin' fun. Less like a time capsule these days than a visit to a strange, alternate teenage universe.