Where Class At, String? How Do I Get To Class? • Harvard University is going to be offering a class about The Wire as a study in American poverty. As if that's going to help anyone take back the towers.

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Billy The Kid Finally Came Out On DVD Today

I missed the acclaimed documentary Billy The Kid during its short run in theaters, thinking that, like most indie docs, it would be on Netflix in a few weeks. But then it wasn't, for a really really long time (with the dreaded-yet-rare "unknown" under "release date"), and all my fellow documentary-geek friends kept talking about it, and giving me fake-sad/actually-smug looks when I complained about missing the movie that's been called the best documentary since The King Of Kong. The movie follows a unique teenager from Maine named Billy whom the director, Jennifer Venditti, met by chance while working on another project. I finally saw it (it had a short run on Cinemax), and I can add my praise to the cacophony: Billy The Kid is like Freaks And Geeks meets 14 Up, and I loved it.

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TV Funhouse The Series Is Finally On DVD

I used to work at Comedy Central in a job that involved reading the emails that people sent in. There were three main types of emails: 1. Crazy, 2. Stop Showing MadTV Reruns All Day, and 3. Why Isn't TV Funhouse On DVD Yet? The MadTV reruns keep buttering the daytime programming bread, but this week the short-lived but beloved 2000 series TV Funhouse is finally available on DVD, including such sacred-cow-slaying gems as the adventures of Stedman Graham:

Years later, we still know no more about Stedman Graham. (Via Aziz Ansari's blog.) TV Funhouse the series (not to be confused with Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse SNL shorts) became both Neflixable and buyable yesterday.

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Netflix It: Frisbee: The Life And Death Of A Hippie Preacher

Among today's Netflix new releases is some prime documentary nerd bait: Frisbee: The Life And Death Of A Hippie Preacher is a 2005 doc, unavailable until today, about the life of Lonnie Frisbee, a hippie who found Jesus through an acid trip and went on to become the quintessential Jesus Hippie. Before being banished from his own church for homosexuality, Frisbee founded the Jesus Movement of the 1970s, which eventually became the megachurch movement we read about constantly today. Told through archival footage, news stories, and the reminiscence of those who knew Frisbee, the movie tries to explain why someone with so much influence on American religion could be so entirely forgotten.

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Tags: Cults | Jesus | Lonnie Frisbee

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