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Tom Weinberg, Executive Producer; Joel Cohen, ProducerThe 90's Pilot Episode - Bejing, Crack, Studs (1989)

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Excerpts from The 90's Pilot Episode including home video from Tiananmen Square 1989 and Crack Smoking in New York.

1) "Beijing Journal" by Pat Keeton. Tiananmen Square 1989. Footage of a political uprising of students in China and a discussion of the process of revolt.

2) "Crack Clouds Over Hell's Kitchen" by The Educational Video Center. Interview with crack addicts in New York City who actually demonstrate how to smoke crack onscreen and describe its effects as they feel them. Five seconds ago I was real tired. Right now Ive got energy. I could get up from here now and walk to the moon... The reason why Im doing this interview is, Im tired of this place Manhattan and Im leaving right now. Im outta here. If anybody sees this tape and knows me, you know I tried, you know what I came from, you know what I used to be and Im going to get it again.


This movie is part of the collection: Media Burn

Producer: Tom Weinberg, Executive Producer; Joel Cohen, Producer
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll
Contact Information: info@mediaburn.org, http://www.mediaburn.org

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Reviewer: hudgeliberal - - August 8, 2006
Subject: Seems like yesterday...
Wow,watching this vid takes me back to the late 80's and early 90's. Wonderful times in my life,but thats another story. A pretty good little documentary style vid. The interview with the crack addicts was especially revealing. Crack in the late 80's and early 90's was about at the same point,as far as its infiltration into society,as methamphetamine is today. Funny how each decade has its own drug,much like its own music and style. Drugs have always been with man and will always stay with man. I think we need to quit jailing people with addictions and start to treat them as people. I am not talking about the violent addicts,they deserve jail. The non-violent offenders are the ones who are filling up our correctional facilitites. That is why so many violent criminals are paroled to kill and rape again and again,because our jails and prisons are full of non-violent drug offenders,most are just addicts in need of treatment that were caught selling drugs to support their own habit. I wonder just how long we will continue the so-called war on drugs? What a failure..but as long as the government grant money goes to the police and other crime fighting groups..I guess the laws will stay the same. The U.S government has tried the same tactic of jailing everyone for 40 years now..guess what? It doesnt work,it isnt effective. Wake up.