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Uploaded by on Aug 15, 2008

"American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince" is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, best known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in Taxi Driver. Prince is a raconteur telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family. When talking of his years as a heroin addict, Prince tells a story about injecting adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, with the help of a medical dictionary and a Magic Marker. This story was re-enacted by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction.

The Neil Young song "Time Fades Away" is featured during the film's opening credits.

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  • An INCREDIBLE story teller

  • thanks for posting! I've been wanting to see this for years! God bless YouTube!

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  • @frank19593

    Yes, sir.

  • @NeverMind9132

    If it's a guy on speed, unexpecting of the gun, who knows?

  • It strikes me as so deceptive that Scorsese would make him retell the last bit, but then again, he showed himself telling him to retell it, so.... Just makes me wonder how many other takes were recreations.

  • jaw-dropping stories...one of the greatest docs ever...this man is one hell of a charismatic raconteur. Don't ya know that times fades away...

  • @NeverMind9132 this was before mythbusters when you could get away with big-fish-like story additions

  • Wow, never even heard of this! Thanks!

  • Bullets would not blow a person across a gas station, or any significant distance at that matter. I think he's lying about where he shot the guy.

  • @kezza10mail oh yeah? who's the best storyteller? dont hold back on us

  • Thats Easy Andy from Taxi Driver isn't it?

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