Restless, globetrotting auteur Bob Rafelson escaped his middle-class Jewish home on NYC's Upper West Side at age 14, hitchhiking and riding boxcars to Arizona where he worked as a cowboy until breaking his back in a rodeo put an end to that pursuit. He played in a jazz combo in Acapulco, Mexico, and his Army service took the former tramp seaman to Japan where he worked as a disc jockey for…
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