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Interviews and clever use of still photographs illustrate the life of a talented but often controversial comic who died of cancer at age 32. There are people for whom world war z, or any book really, is an imposing and threatening intellectual mystery. The bill hicks story gives viewers a fairly compelling snapshot of these emotional highs and lows via hicks, a sort of comedic wunderkind turned philosophizing social. Often he had to sneak out of his house at night to bike over to the club he was performing at, knowing his parents would likely disapprove because, if for no other reason, it was a school night.
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