Arlo Guthrie's rambling, spoken-word tune “Alice's Restaurant” is a Thanksgiving Day tradition on radio stations across the country. Over the course of about 18 minutes, the folk singer unfurls a true tale involving himself and his hippie friends in 1960s Western Massachusetts.
“It's really true,” Alice confirmed. When the real officer asked if she tossed the garbage illegally Alice replied,"No," then added, “but I know who did.” In the end, Alice said she took home about $12,000 after haggling with director Arthur Penn about her compensation for participating in the production.After the movie and closing her diner, Alice opened a larger restaurant called Alice’s at Avaloch in 1976. It was located near Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Lenox.
Alice grew up in Brooklyn and her family spent summers in Provincetown where her father ran a shop. As a kid, Alice fell in love with living on the water. “There are all these pictures of me happy, happy, happy just wearing a pair of underpants,” Alice recalled smiling. “I think I didn't wear a bathing suit until I was about 12. But that's the way it was here.”
But about two years ago — right after she hunted for and found a year-round rental — Alice was hospitalized with heart disease. She also suffers from the irreversible lung condition COPD and was diagnosed with emphysema from smoking decades ago. Now, Lamot lives in Sarasota and Portland, Maine with Windle Davis who was also in Human Sexual Response. The former bandmates have been life partners for 46 years.
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