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Goddamn, why is it every time I go to find something people talk about here it's vanished?
Anyway, did your book have the Magic Christian tacked onto the end? It is pretty damn good too...
Terry was a great writer, all told. He also (apparently) wrote one of my rites of passage type films, which remains one of my favourite films of all time, Easy Rider.
However, there are different stories surrounding this. Terry claimed he was fucked over by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, while Hopper claims he wrote the film and all Terry did was come up with the title.
from Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls:
Southern always maintained that he wrote the entire script. Indeed, there exists a full script with Southern's name on it, covered in his handwriting... ...Southern also claimed, shortly before his death, that the famous ending was his as well.
If you want to read it quickly - say while hanging around your local bookshop - that's pages 67-69.
Terry also has an article, along with a whole host of other great writers, in Tom Wolfe's The New Journalism (pages 184-194)
Tom claims that Terry originated Hunter S Thompson's Gonzo style of Journalism, but personally, I think Tom talks a lot of crap...
Also, try:'The Terry Southern Website
where you can see him on the cover of Sgt Pepper by the Beatles. |
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