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| Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie's most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant," a talking blues song that lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds (in its orignal recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up. For a short period in he late 1960's, "Alice's Restaurant" was in nearly constant rotation on nearly every college and counter-culture-oriented radio station in the country — quite an accomplishment for a 18:20 song (albeit in an era not adverse to extended jams). A 1969 film, directed and co-written by Arthur Penn, was based on the story. In addition to acting in this film, also called Alice's Restaurant, Guthrie has had minor roles in several movies and television series. |
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