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Hector Bloom is a laconic, libidinous college basketball star distracted by obligations and current events: the misadventures of his volatile roommate Gabriel, a potential pro career, the draft, campus unrest, and a turbulent affair with Olive, the wife of Richard, a professor and friend.
The lyrics describe a car ride with the windows up and the air conditioning on high, creating a sense of detachment from the outside world. The protagonist of the song is driving, seeking solace and healing after a difficult time.
In “Drive, He Said,” the paranoic student is afraid of the draft, the System, and They, whoever They are. The other student is a star basketball player, or, as his friends tell him, “You stay after school to run around in your underwear.”
Drive, He Said. Fresh off of his Five Easy Pieces success, Jack Nicholson mounted his enormously irreverent directorial debut. Based on the best-selling novel by Jeremy Larner, Drive, He Said, free-spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player (William Tepper) and his increasingly radical ...
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Drive, He Said Lyrics. On a desert road that steamed the sky. With the windows up and the air on high. I was off the stage, I was on the mend. With a solo drive to a holiday weekend.
A snapshot document of "the disillusion of an American jock" as the tagline wryly noted, Drive, He Said is one of only three films that Jack Nicholson directed himself. Exhibiting a strong assurance…
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Drive, He Said: Directed by Jack Nicholson. With William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern. The star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft.
