TINA LIVES is a raw and engaging, street-smart story about growing up hippie, growing up hard and coming of age while living a life that mirrors the collapse and burnout of the hippie movement by the early eighties. Recorded at Cambridge Community Television.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 16: The Insidious Stress of Second Chances
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This is the final episode of Tina Lives! Thank you so much for listening! MUSIC CREDITS: Quivvver, Kevin MacLeod-incompetect.com, Drama Club Romance/Julian Berosh, Johnny Berosh, Musopen.org, Komiku@freepd.com, Michael Tarbox/Tarbox Ramblers, Melatonin, Jesse S. Gallagher@nightimegallagher, Migk Ware, Ronald Fulton, DÆphne, Mobygratis.com, Jeff Kaa…
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 15: 1986, Bad Girls Go To Jail
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This is the second to last episode of Tina Lives. It is not the prettiest of pictures, but it is The Smallest Mountain Yet.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 14: For Real Love, Won’t Cure Addiction
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They say when you are least looking for it that’s when it arrives: love, magic, destiny all better when they arrive together.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 13: Unfinished Business
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Love is a dirty and manipulative business, and Kris loves Lill & Gary, so once again she tags along for a new adventure on the darker side of, dark and destructive.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 12: 1983 Twenty-One and Pregnant
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A respite in self-destructive behavior is a welcome change when Kris discovers she is pregnant.
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Tina Lives Act III Episode 11: T’s & Blues & A Dark and Dangerous Love
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Kris’ proclivity for falling in love takes her down some of the most perilous streets of Little Rock.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 10: Beauty is a Dirty Business
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When there is no more money & no more dirty heads, Kris reaches out to Mick Jagger, falls in love (again), and begins a dark and dangerous chapter of life.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 9: 1980 - When I was Seventeen
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Martha & Sue exit stage left. 1980 has its JFK moment, and Quaaludes erase the nation’s pain and Kris’ financial well-being.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 8: Sixteen: New Girlfriend, New Guardian
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“Like sands through the hour glass,” Andy’s out and Sue B. is in. Kris and Martha take it to the next level, and relocate to Boston for a New York minute.
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Act III, Episode 7: Sexy, Sultry Sweet Sixteen
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The long awaited “R" rated episode of life takes Kris for a ride in a silver Camero.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 6: Fall, 1977 Therapy & Glen King
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Kris gets rowdy with a therapist, and “Disco Sucks” for some people, but not for Kris and her new gay friends.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 5: Dead Flowers
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Kris/Tina deals, more or less with Gorton’s death, discovers her fate, while the foreshadowing of her future rests heavy on her mind, spirit, and body.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 4: Radical Changes & Lillian
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Tina, now known as Kris, lives a life that mirrors the ethos of the hippies, “Radical Change.” Pivotal people present themselves, while cornerstones of the past, crumble.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 3: The Heartbreak Hotel
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At The Heartbreak Hotel, Tina discovers the essence of Gorton, touches the fleeting tendrils of tenderness, and morphs her twinkling naivety into what she hopes will be a harder, sturdier version of herself.
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Tina Lives! Act III Episode 2: Me and Fayetteville Lose Our Innocence
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Thai Stick is not food, grown-ups are not always responsible, and Kathy and Tony end up on television.
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Tina Lives! ACT III Episode 1: Oak Street House
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Gorton cleans up his act, Tina puts her adolescence down for a nap, and Dinah Shore hosts David Bowie on her daytime chat show.
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Tina Lives! Act II Episode 6: The Long Way Home
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While the daffodils bloom, the winds of change come to Fayetteville, and Tina and Billy take the long way home for the very last time.This is the end of Act II.
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Tina Lives! Act II Episode 5: Hillbillies Kill Animals, Not Hippies
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Tina has sticky fingers, Gorton has blood on his hands, and A Family Called Us does a naked ritual.# Episode Notes Notes go here
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Tina Lives! Act II Episode 4: Some Kind of in-betweener
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Tina pushes Bob Tarlow right over the edge, checks out the “straight life,” and crumbles to pieces under the weight of Tea for the Tillerman.
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Tina Lives! Act II Episode 3: Pot Parties - Not Really
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Tina sees one too many naked people, gets a best friend, and learns about magic brownies, all while her shyness sheds and the consequences of her previous life becomes uncomfortably self-evident.
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Tina Lives! Act II Episode 2 Gorton's Gatekeeper
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Tina goes on a matchmaking mission to unite Gorton and her chosen surrogate mother, and a Family Called Us moves into a new home of communal living.
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Tina Lives! Act II Episode 1 Storer Street House
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Tina has no memory of traveling from Massachusetts to Arkansas. She only remembers her first impressions of the basement apartment, which will become her new home in Fayetteville, Arkansas with Gorton Darling Hitte.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 11 END OF ACT I Wheels of Internment – Exiled
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Tina receives an unexpected phone call that changes the course of a lifetime. This is the end of Act 1. Act 2 will begin on October 19.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 10: If I Could Remember Rainbows, Then I Would Describe Them
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The family moves to a spooky house on a hill. Tina plays “school” in school, and then regrets ever having, what she considered, “the best idea ever.”
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 9: Evasive, Mendacious Glimmer of Hope
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Tina loves foster care! But alas, that residence also comes to an end. In New Bedford, Mass, Tina finds beauty in a neighbor and sometimes even in her mother.
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For no apparent reason, the state of Massachusetts was pulled out of a hat and the family hits the road for the East Coast. Along the way, Tina notices her mother’s beauty had faded and her demeanor had become menacing. Tina is blindsided by a pit stop on their journey.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 7: Far Fucking Out
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The family heads to Northwest Arkansas to investigate living on a commune, but instead takes up residence in a house in Fayetteville. Tina is sent to the attic for weeks as punishment for an unknown crime.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 6: No Paul, No Money, No Christmas
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The family finally makes it to a commune in Oregon, but bus-living in the winter is no fun, so they move to a house in the nearest town. Diana finds a new boyfriend; Paul leaves, but returns when Tina gets a hernia. Diana says goodbye to her boyfriend and the family heads to Sacramento, CA.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 5 Everyday People & The Washed Out Colors of the Rainbow
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After a bit of a respite in Cleveland, the family once again takes off for the West Coast. En route, they find themselves in the middle of a violent riot that took place in Grant Park, Chicago, Ill on July 27, 1970.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 4: Berkeley or Bust
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Episode Notes The family’s travel adventure is often marred by Diana’s erratic and violent episodes, but the majesty of America has the power to soothe the otherwise rough road to becoming “hippies.”
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 3: A New Kind of People Called "the Hippies"
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Episode Notes Diana marries a social worker named Paul. They save their pennies and buy an old Vietnamese Army bus converted into a camper and the family sets off to California to join the counter-culture movement.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 2: My Father Did Have that Hot Rod Car
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Episode Notes Tina’s parent’s Jim and Diana were “hip” not “square,” but also violent. The house that Tina burnt down was a refuge home after Jim broke Diana’s nose for the last time.
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Tina Lives! Act I Episode 1: Burnin' Down the House
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Episode Notes Tina, a six year old working class kid from Cleveland, burns down the house where she and her family live.
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