Early 70s feeling

People say "the sixties" ended at Altamont, but in fact the notes of the sixties echoed for several years. Today Flavorpill SF touted a showing of the 1970 Antonioni film Zabriskie Point and linked to two pieces of period material concerning the stars, Daria Halprin -- daughter of SF royalty, her father was (and still is) a famous architect, and her mother, dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin was famous for helping create the alternative arts scene of the 1970s in SF; the girl later briefly married Dennis Hopper -- and Mark Frechette, a gorgeous, "troubled" young man who died five years later in prison, where he was incarcerated after robbing a bank near the Boston commune where he lived.

This mind-blowing interview with Halprin and Frechette is from a 1970 one-issue zine called Pluto. It perfectly captures the post-Altamont mindframe: equally self-absorbed and self-important on the one hand, bratty and nihilistic on the other. It helps you understand why the heightened "consciousness" of the 60s never amounted to anything.

Where's Daria today? Following in her mother's footsteps as head of the Tamalpa Institute, apparently one of the last outposts of the New Age 70s:

Tamalpa Institute, founded in 1978, offers training programs and workshops in the Halprin Process, a movement-based healing arts approach that integrates movement/dance, visual arts, performance techniques and therapeutic practices. This approach supports personal, interpersonal and social transformation, teaching new models for health, psychology, art and communication.

Shudder.