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Again in 1993, the Beat author William S. Bur­roughs wrote and nar­rat­ed a 21-minute clay­ma­tion Christ­mas movie odd­ly professional­duced by Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la. And, as you’ll be able to properly imag­ine, it’s not your nor­mal hap­py Christ­mas flick. Nope, this movie – The Junky’s Christ­mas – is all about Dan­ny the Automobile­wiper, a junkie, who spends Christ­mas Day attempt­ing to attain a repair. Even­tu­al­ly he finds the Christ­mas spir­it when he shares some mor­phine with a younger man suf­fer­ing from child­ney stones, giv­ing him the “immac­u­late repair.” There you have got it. Hap­py hol­i­days.…

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