Movies

July, 1971

A recent work "discovered" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has won its wings for theatrical release. The young producing-directing team of Joel L. Freedman and Philip F. Messina lucked into Skezag through a chance meeting with a drug hustler on an East Village street corner. Skezag (the title is a form of skag, the word for heroin) is about a handsome 21-year-old black hustler named Wayne Shirley who got into drugs during his service in Vietnam. "I know I got the...