Cinema: Straight Shooters

Dusty and Sweets pass a good part of the weekend in the Studio City Motel shooting dope. At one point, lying on the grass in one of those vacant Los Angeles parks, Dusty says that if they just had ten pounds of dope their problems would be solved. "Sure," says Sweets. "We could sleep forever." Larry and Pam, still not past high school, live together. They spend most of their time getting loaded. Larry scores off Dusty. He helps Pam shoot under the tongue for the first time.

Kit Ryder calls himself "a 20th century...

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