Alice's Restaurant November 16, 2009

Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 film directed by Arthur Penn, with Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger. Following their Thanksgiving dinner feast, Arlo and his friends end up on the wrong side of the law when they are caught dumping trash illegally. After discovering that the character Officer Obie was modeled after him, actual Stockbridge, Massachusetts Sheriff William Obanhein demanded that he play the role himself. His reason: "If anyone is going to make a fool out of me, it might as well be me!"