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Mar 06, 2008
Popcorn & Candy: Death of the Cool
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Let’s Get Lost Viewing director and photographer Bruce Weber’s footage of Chet Baker just a year before his death, it’s hard not to be reminded of William S. Burroughs. Baker’s face, ravaged by years of heroin addiction, had that same quality of gaunt and sagging flesh as Burroughs’. Both artists aged prematurely thanks to the junk…