{"product_id":"9780692226308","title":"Gorgeous Insanity: -a life as tumultuous as the period itself; how a seminal feminist filmmaker, novelist and Merrie Prankster became a psychic and learned to survive in the REAL real world","description":"Someone said to me once, a friend from years ago - \"You were fantastic,\" he said, \"articulate, witty, I loved it, but at any minute it seemed like you might explode.\"\u003cbr\u003eIt's true. I knew it. I knew I was dangerous to myself and others. I'd known it since I was a little girl. There'd always been a crazy woman in my family, and I recognized that in my generation I was first in line for the job. But if I loaded myself with enough responsibility and accumulated enough honors maybe I could keep the lid on this dangerous thing simmering inside of me.\u003cbr\u003eOkay. . . there were a few explosions - I was locked up in the Bellevue Psychiatric Ward for the Criminally Insane, thrown in jail for grand larceny, almost died a couple of times - and yes,I did join Ken Kesey and the Merrie Pranksters on The Bus, who could say no to that? - the fabled trip that became a legend for all the young hippies-in-waiting.\u003cbr\u003eBut when I became a professor at the San Francisco Art Institute and started making good little movies that won big prizes, I thought I'd solved the problem. Maybe things had finally changed? My life was good now, wasn't it?' \u003cbr\u003eThen at thirty I met my first psychic.","brand":"REAL DREAMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49987678666992,"sku":"9780692226308","price":13.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692226308","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}