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Fasciniating, hilarious, and disturbing all at once
You can take this video how you wish. It can simply be a humorous documentary, full of bizarre places and quirky people. You can brush it off as mere idiosyncracies of our society at large. Or you can look closer. By doing this, you are granted a very unique view of America... and perhaps an accurate one. (Prisons across from Whitman's house, an interview with Ginsberg, religion of money... or on rollerskates) Tieing in history, popculture and many other themes in a "Supermarket in California" kind of way, Road Scholar is definitely worth watching.

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Codrescu manages to find the most wonderfully quirky places in America! His hilarious road trip is engaging. If I ever travel the U.S. by car, I hope to find the same type of characters that he did. You will love it!

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Are you on the bus? Or should I say, in the Caddy?
Roumanian-born poet and brand-new driver Andrei Codrescu hops in a mint red '68 Cadillac and journeys with film crew from Ellis Island to the Golden Gate, making stops in a ravaged and abandoned Detroit, a moving and shaking Chicago, the New Age and Survivalist supermarkets of the southwest, the neon kitsch of Vegas, and finally the odd peace and stability of San Francisco, where Codrescu notes, "From here on out there is nothing but ocean. You can't run any farther. You must turn around to face yourself." Made for PBS, this has a charming low-budget feel and dry high-brow wit. The documentary's main strength is that Codrescu never condescends to his subjects, remaining true to his observation that "what keeps us together is precisely the awed awareness of our differences...." The only disappointment is that the book's wonderful interview with City Lights Books' founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti ended up on the cutting room floor.END