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You Are What You Eat
A montage of the weird, a freak-out film that appeared when the expression was in fashion and in flower, along with the flower people. The film was one of the first exponents of the mobile camera-rock track-optical effect school of filmmaking, and it is much a document as it is a documentary. A repellent and fascinating depiction of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, along with Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and the East Village in New York. Tiny Tim amounts to something resembling a recurring motif and narrator.
Top Billed Cast
Paul Butterfield Self
David Crosby Self
Luana Anders 
Del Close 
Rick Danko Bonnie Dewberry Dave Dixon Carl Franzoni John Giles Chet Helms John Herald 
Garth Hudson 
Jerry Leiber Sharmagne Leland-St. John Super Nun Sister Immaculata Baby!
Peter Yarrow Marilyn Salisbury Freak-Out Dancer
Tiny Tim Self
Frank Zappa 
Carol Wayne Ted Templeman Self
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