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That's roughly the jagged, frenetic feel of Dusty and Sweets McGee, a kaleidoscopic semidocumentary about the L.A. subculture. Writer-Director Floyd Mutrux has made a good small film about a large and imposing subject. Dusty and Sweets McGee is not even so much a movie about dope as it is about a lifestyle; it is a lamentation for part of a generation crazily enamored of slow narcotic suicide...
Pioneers in the Gaslight Square venture are the Mutrux brothers, Dick and Paul. In the early '50s, they bought the old Musical Arts Building (here Miss Bess Morse once operated an "expression school," where Tennessee Williams and William Inge put on some of their first plays) and opened up a colorful saloon called the Gaslight. The neighborhood then was a collection of seedy secondhand stores and a community of couldn't-care-less flat dwellers. Following the Mutrux brothers was self-styled "Environmental Engineer" Jimmy Massucci, who opened up another saloon, the Golden Eagle, near by; then...