Terry Southern
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Coverage of Political Conventions in Esquire - Political Conventions in Esquire Archives - Esquire...Grooving in Chi, Nov. 1968 Esquire sent Terry Southern, William Burroughs, and French writer Jean Genet to Chicago to cover the 1968 Democratic convention, where Eugene McCarthy faced party-backed Hubert Humphrey. The event drew thousands of... In this article: Esquire, William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Ronald Reagan, God, Michael Cooper, and Terry Southern |
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Victor Bockris
...of artists, writers, and musicians. He has written about Lou Reed (and The Velvet Underground), Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Blondie , Patti Smith, and Muhammad Ali. He also helped write the...
In this article: Victor Bockris, Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, Interview, University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Wylie, Keith Richards, and The Velvet Underground
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Robert Fraser
...Michael Cooper, designer Christopher Gibbs, Marianne Faithfull, Dennis Hopper (who introduced Fraser to satirist Terry Southern), William Burroughs and Kenneth Anger. Because of this he was given the nickname "Groovy Bob". He is...
In this article: Richard Hamilton, Keith Richards, The Beatles, AIDS, Peter Blake, Rene Magritte, Jim Dine, and London
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S. Clay Wilson
...since he was 12, and needed little persuasion to contribute to Zap. His work was praised by such counterculture icons as William S. Burroughs and Terry Southern. According to Charles Plymell (an editor of Grist magazine), Wilson's...
In this article: S. Clay Wilson, Charles Plymell, San Francisco, Virgin of Guadalupe, Checkered Demon, Last Gasp, Aphasia, Stroke, University of Nebraska, and Robert Crumb
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Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes
...Franz Kafka receives an obscene crank call from Sigmund Freud. Beneath these strange juxtapositions, Southern explores themes of alienation , love, and truth. The collection has been widely praised by authors such as Norman Mailer,...
In this article: Twirlin', Evergreen Review, Chicago International Film Festival, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, The Realist, The Paris Review, and Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes
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Terry Southern
...by Penguin. In October 1985, Southern was appointed as one of the directors of "Hawkeye", a production company set up by his friend Harry Nilsson to oversee the various film and multimedia projects in which he was involved. Southern and...
In this article: Peter Sellers, Dennis Hopper, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Cooper, Candy, New York City, Easy Rider, Dr Strangelove, and The Magic Christian
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Terry Southern (1 May 1924 – 29 October 1995) was a highly influential American author, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for a distinctive satirical style. He was part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village; he was at the center of Swinging London in the sixties and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York.
Southern's dark and often absurdist style of broad yet biting satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of intelligent writers, readers, directors and film goers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in 1962, and his gift for writing memorable film dialogue was evident in Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid and Easy Rider. His work on Easy Rider helped create the independent film movement of the 1970s, in opposition to mainstream Hollywood.
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