Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer. 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 Hollywood films of the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... “Beats” redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Swinging London is a catchall term applied to a variety of dynamic cultural trends in the United Kingdom (centred in London) in the second half of the 1960s. ... Woodstock: the iconic Sixties event The Sixties in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969 (see: 1960s), but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past 20 years. ... ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... NY redirects here. ...

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 Hollywood film studios. 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... Thomas Kennerly Wolfe (born March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia), known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling American author and journalist. ... New Journalism was the name given to a style of 1960s and 1970s news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. ... Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the hit 1987 single by Depeche Mode, see the album Music for the Masses Film poster for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick. ... The Loved One is a 1965 film based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles. ... The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 movie directed by Norman Jewison. ... Wyatt, Mary (Toni Basil), Billy and Karen wandering the streets of a parade filled New Orleans. ... The decade of the 1970s in film involved many significant films. ...

Biography

Born in Alvarado, Texas, Southern left Southern Methodist University to serve as a Lieutenant in the US Army during World War II, returning to the States to study at Northwestern University, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1948. Alvarado is a city located in Johnson County, Texas, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,288. ... Dallas Hall at Dedman College at SMU The Laura Lee Blanton Hall during a rare snow storm Southern Methodist University (also known as SMU) is a nationally recognized, private, coeducational university in University Park, Texas, (an enclave of Dallas). ... The United States Army is the largest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...

Paris, 1948-52

Southern left the USA September 1948, using a G.I. Bill grant to travel to France, where he studied at the Faculté Des Lettres of the Sorbonne. His four-year stint in Paris was a crucial formative influence, both on his development as a writer and on the evolution of his "hip" persona, and during this period he made many important friendships and social contacts as he became a central player in the expatriate American café society. He became close friends with Mason Hoffenberg (with whom he subsequently co-wrote Candy), Alexander Trocchi, John Marquand, Mordecai Richler, Aram Avakian (brother of Columbia Records jazz producer George Avakian) and jazz musician Allan Eager, and also met expatriate American poet James Baldwin and leading French intellectuals Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Satre and Albert Camus. The Servicemens Readjustment Act of 1944 (better known as the G.I. Bill) provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GIs or G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: ) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganised as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... Candy is a 1958 novel written by Maxwell Kenton (pseudonym of Terry Southern) in collaboration with Mason Hoffenberg published by Olympia Press. ... Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi (July 30, 1925 - April 15, 1984) was a Scottish novelist. ... John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 - July 16, 1960) was an American novelist. ... Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... George Avakian (born Armavir, Russia, March 15, 1919) is an Armenian-American record producer and executive known particularly for his work with Columbia Records, and his production of albums by Miles Davis and other notable jazz musicians. ... James Baldwin may refer to: James Baldwin (schoolbook editor and author) (1841–1925) James Baldwin (writer) (1924–1987) James Baldwin (baseball player) (born 1971) J. Baldwin (born 1934), industrial designer, author, educator James Mark Baldwin (1861–1934), philosopher and psychologist James Baldwin (abolitionist), early American Abolitionist This human name article... Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... Albert Camus (pronounced )( ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was an Algerian-French author and philosopher. ...

He frequented the Paris Cinematheque and saw jazz performances by leading bebop musicians including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. During this time he wrote some of his best short stories, including "The Automatic Gate" and "You're Too Hip, Baby". His story, "The Sun and the Still Born Stars" was the very first short story published in the Paris Review. Southern became closely identified with the Paris Review and its founders, Peter Matthiessen, H.L. "Doc" Humes and George Plimpton, and he formed a lifelong friendship with Plimpton. He met Pud Gadiot during 1952; a romance soon blossomed and the couple married just before they moved to New York City.^[1] Cinémathèque Française hosts the largest archive of films, movie documents, and film-related objects in the world. ... Bebop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. ... Charles Bird Parker, Jr. ... John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... The Amazing Bud Powell - early LP cover Earl Rudolph Bud Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966 in New York City) was one of the most influential pianists in the history of jazz. ... Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. ... Miles Dewey Davis III (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was one of the most influential musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. ... The Paris Review, which is actually based in New York, is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ... Peter Matthiessen (born May 22, 1927 in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction. ... Harold L. Humes, also known as Doc, was born in Douglas, Arizona in 1926, and died at St. ... George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Greenwich Village, 1953-56

In 1953 the Southern and Gadiot returned to the USA and settled in Greenwich Village in New York City. As he had in Paris, Southern quickly became a prominent figure in the artistic scene that flourished in the Village in the late 1950s. He met visual artists including Robert Frank, Annie Truxell and Larry Rivers, and through Mason Hoffenberg, who made occasional visits from Paris, he was introduced to leading writers including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Robert Franks noted book, The Americans (1958) Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924), born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. ... Larry Rivers (August 17, 1923 - August 14, 2002) was a Jewish American musician, artist and actor. ... Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet. ... Gregory Corso (illustration) Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, the fourth member of the canon of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs). ...

He frequented renowned jazz venues like the Five Spot, the San Remo and the Village Vanguard. It was in this period that Southern discovered and became obsessed with the work of British writer Henry Green. Green's writing exerted a strong influence on Southern's own work, and Green became one of Southern's most ardent early supporters. The Five Spot Cafe was located in New York City at the corner of Cooper Square and St. ... The Village Vanguard is a famous jazz club, located at 178 Seventh Avenue (just below W 11th St. ... Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (October 29, 1905-December 13, 1973) . He was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, of an educated family with successful business interests in Birmingham. ...

Southern struggled to gain recognition in this period, during which he began work on his first solo novel, Flash and Filigree. Only a few of his short stories were accepted, and he was rejected by dozens of leading magazines and journals. Here, as in Paris, Southern was almost entirely supported by his wife Pud, but their relationship fell apart within a year of their arrival in New York and they were divorced in mid-1954. During 1954-55 Southern met two of his literary heroes, William Faulkner, and Nelson Algren, author of The Man With The Golden Arm. Southern interviewed Algren for the Paris Review in the autumn of 1955 and they became good friends; they remained in touch after the interview and Algren became another of Southern's early champions. William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. ... Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981) was a famous American writer. ... The Man With the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren dealing with drug addiction. ...

Southern's fortunes began to change after he was taken on by the Curtis-Brown Agency in mid-1954; through them he had three of his short stories accepted by Harper's Bazaar. They published both "The Sun and the Still-born Stars" and "The Panthers" in the same edition in late 1955, and "The Night the Bird Flew for Doctor Warner" was featured in the January 1956 edition. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Harpers & Queen. ...

In October 1955 Southern met model and aspiring actress Carol Kauffman; a romance soon developed and they were married on 14 July 1956. In December 1955 Southern attended the funeral of jazz legend Charlie Parker, who had died on 5 December, aged 35.^[2] Charles Bird Parker, Jr. ...

Geneva, 1956-59

Southern returned to Europe with his wife Carol in October 1956, stopping off in Paris before settling in Geneva, Switzerland, where they lived until 1959. Carol took up a job with UNESCO, which supported them as Terry continued to write. Although largely removed from the social whirl he had enjoyed in Paris and New York, the years in Geneva were a very productive period, during which he prepared Flash and Filigree for publication, and wrote both Candy and The Magic Christian, as well as TV scripts and short stories. The couple also made trips to Paris, where they visited Mason Hoffenberg, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, and to London, where Southern met both Henry Green and Kenneth Tynan. Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (October 29, 1905-December 13, 1973) . He was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, of an educated family with successful business interests in Birmingham. ... Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer. ...

In Paris, Maurice Girodias offered Southern $1000 to write a "dirty" novel for Olympia Press and he was advised by his agents to use a pseudonym, so that it would not affect his reputation and chances of future work. Southern began work on Candy in early 1957, but his enthusiasm for the project soon waned so he brought in his old friend Mason Hoffenberg as a collaborator, giving most of his attention to other work, especially The Magic Christian. Maurice Girodias was the founder of the The Olympia Press. ... Olympia Press was a Paris based publisher, best known for the first print of Nabokov s Lolita; this led to copyright issues, since Nabokov was not satisfied with the publisher and the reputation it had, since besides some serious literature, it published mostly erotic novels. ...

Andre Deutsch accepted his first novel, Flash and Filigree early in 1957, and the short story "South's Summer Idyll" was published in Paris Review #15. The Southerns spent some time in Spain with Henry Green during the summer and Southern interviewed him for Paris Review. Several more short stories were published later in the year, by which time he was finishing work on Candy. Southern and Gregory Corso also helped convince Girodias to publish the controversial novel The Naked Lunch by then-little-known author William S. Burroughs. Gregory Corso (illustration) Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, the fourth member of the canon of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs). ... Naked Lunch was the third novel by William S. Burroughs. ... William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) - August 2, 1997), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs (pronounced ), was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ...

In early 1958 Southern made his first foray into screen writing, working with Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, who had come to Britain to work for the newly established Associated TeleVision (ATV) company. Kotcheff directed Southern's TV adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, which was broadcast in the UK in March. This coincided with the publication of Flash and Filigree, which was well reviewed in the UK but coolly received in the USA. Ted Kotcheff (sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel- and four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. ... The Emperor Jones is a play by Eugene ONeill which tells the tale of an African-American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as its dictator and emperor. ...

The first major magazine interview with Southern, conducted by Elaine Dundy, was published in UK Harper's Bazaar in August 1958. In October Olypmpia published Candy under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton and it was immediately banned by the Paris vice squad. Southern finished The Magic Christian over the fall and winter of 1958-59 and it was published by Deutsch in spring 1959 to mixed reviews, although it soon gained an avid cult following. By this time the Southerns had decided to return to the USA and they left Geneva for New York in April 1959.^[3] Elaine Dundy Elaine Dundy (born Elaine Brimberg in 1927 in New York City, New York) is an American, actress, journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Harpers & Queen. ...

East Canaan, 1959-62

After moving back to the US the Southerns stayed with friends for several months until they were able to buy their own home. They were looking for a rural retreat close enough to New York to allow Terry to commute there. Southern had met and became friendly with famed jazz musician Artie Shaw and they began looking for properties together. Shaw put down a deposit on a farm in East Canaan, Connecticut but at the urging of a friend Southern convinced Shaw to let him buy the farm, which he purchased for $23,000 dollars. Artie Shaw (May 23, 1910, New York, New York – December 30, 2004, Thousand Oaks, California) is considered to be one of the best jazz musicians of his time jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader; he is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings. ...

During 1959-60 he continued working on a new novel called The Hipsters, which he began in Geneva but never completed. He became part of the New York 'salon' of his old friend George Plimpton, who had moved back to New York, and here he rubbed shoulders luminaries such as James Jones, William Styron, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, H.L. Humes, Jack Gelber, the Aga Khan, Blair Fuller, the cast of Beyond The Fringe, Jules Feiffer, Jackie Kennedy, British actress Jean Marsh, Gore Vidal, and Kenneth Tynan and his first wife Elaine Dundy, through whom Southern met satirist Lenny Bruce. Notable people by the name of James Jones: James Jones, 20th century American novelist James Warren Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple religious movement during its infamous mass suicide James Earl Jones, actor James Jones, former US Ambassador to Mexico James L. Jones, American General and Supreme Allied... William Clark Styron, Jr. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. ... Philip Roth Goodbye Columbus (1959), 2006 Vintage paperback edition Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... The Āgā Khān IV, or His Highness Prince Karīm al-Hussaynī Āgā Khān IV, KBE, CC, GCC, (Arabic: سمو الأمیر شاہ کریم الحسیني آغا خان الرابع) -- (born December 13, 1936) is the current (49th) Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. ... Album of Beyond the Fringe Published by EMI in 1996 Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. ... Jules Feiffer (1958) Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. ... First official White House portrait. ... Jean Lyndsay Torren Marsh (born 1 July 1934) is a Golden Globe-nominated English actress and writer, who is best known for co-creating the British period drama Upstairs, Downstairs with Eileen Atkins. ... Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) (pronounced , occasionally , , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. ... Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer. ... Elaine Dundy Elaine Dundy (born Elaine Brimberg in 1927 in New York City, New York) is an American, actress, journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright. ... Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. ...

Flash and Filigree had been published in the USA by Coward McCann in the fall of 1958. Several fragments from The Hipsters were published in this period, including "Red Dirt Marijuana" (published in the January-February 1960 edition of Evergreen Review and later the title story of a popular anthology of his short stories) and "Razor Fight", published in Glamour magazine. He had an essay on Lotte Lenya published in Esquire and in early 1960 he began writing book reviews for Nation, which were published over the next two years. During the year he also collaborated with his old Paris friends, Alexander Trocchi and Richard Seaver, compiling an anthology of modern fiction for the Frederick Fall company. The editing process took much longer than expected, due to a drug bust that forced Trocchi to flee to the UK via Canada, leaving Southern and Seaver to finish the book. Evergreen Review was a literary magazine published by Grove Press in the late 1950s and 1960s. ... Glamour is a womens magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. ... Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981), singer and actor, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. ...

Terry and Carol's son and only child, Nile, was born on 29 December 1960. Around this time Southern began writing for Maurice Girodias' new periodical Olympia Review, he began negotiations with the Putnam company to reissue Candy under his and Mason Hoffenberg's real names, and he hired a new literary agent, Sterling Lord. Putnam is a surname. ...

In the summer of 1962 Southern worked for two months as a relief editor at Esquire, and during this period he had several stories published in the magazine, including "The Road to Axotle". The Esquire gig also enabled him to interview rising filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who had just completed his controversial screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. Although Southern knew little about Kubrick, the director was already well aware of Southern's work, having been given a copy of The Magic Christian by Peter Sellers during the making of Lolita. “Kubrick” redirects here. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899, Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American author. ... Lolita (1962) is a film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. ...

Southern's life and career changed forever on November 2, 1962, when he received a telegram inviting him to come to London to work on the screenplay of Kubrick's new film, which was then in pre-production.^[4]

Dr Strangelove

Partly on the recommendation of Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick asked Southern to help revise the screenplay of Dr. Strangelove (1964). Kubrick's first draft of the script was based on the novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, the rights to which Kubrick had secured for US$3000. Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ... “Kubrick” redirects here. ... For the hit 1987 single by Depeche Mode, see the album Music for the Masses Film poster for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Bryan George (March 24, 1924 - June 11, 1966) was a British author, most famous for the Cold War thriller novel Red Alert. ...

Kubrick and George's original screenplay was built around a meta-satirical device which placed the plot of Red Alert as a film-within-a-film made by an alien intelligence. Southern's work on the project was brief but intense; he officially worked on the script from November 16 to December 28 1962. Southern began to rely on the amphetamine "diet pill" Dexamyl to keep him going through the frantic rewriting process; in later years he became increasingly reliant on the drug and he developed a long-term dependency. His amphetamine abuse, combined with his heavy intake of alcohol and other drugs, contributed significantly to his health problems in later life. Dexamyl is the brand name of a combination drug composed of dextroamphetamine and amylbarbitone (amobarbital). ...

The major change Southern and Kubrick made was to jettison the "film within a film" structure and recast the script as a black comedy. Kubrick, George and Southern shared the screenplay credits, but competing claims about who contributed what led to confusion and some conflict between the three after the film's release. The credit question was further confused by Sellers' numerous ab-libbed contributions -- he would often improvise wildly on set, so Kubrick made sure that Sellers had as much camera 'coverage' as possible during his scenes, in order to capture these spontaneous inspirations.

It is claimed that most of the dark and satiric dialogue was written by Southern. According to Art Miller, an independent producer who hired Southern to write the screenplay for a never-completed comic film about the bumbling Watergate burglars, Southern told him that the best example of his writing in "Dr. Strangelove" was the classic scene in which B-52 pilot T.J. "King" Kong, played by Slim Pickens, reads off a list of the contents of a survival kit to his crew, concluding that a man could have "a great weekend in Vegas" with some of the items (condoms). When the scene was shot, Pickens actually named the scripted city "Dallas", but the word "Vegas" was overdubbed during post-production because the film was released not long after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. According to Miller, Peter Sellers quietly paid Southern tens of thousands of dollars to create some of the best-known comedy bits for Sellers' beloved character Inspector Clouseau in the "Pink Panther" film series. For the hit 1987 single by Depeche Mode, see the album Music for the Masses Film poster for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick. ... Nickname: Motto: Live Large. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the 35th President of the United States. ... The Pink Panther cartoon character. ...

Southern also helped Peter Sellers with dialogue coaching. Sellers had originally been slated to play four roles, including that of the crazed bomber pilot, but he had difficulty mastering the accent. Southern, a native Texan, made a tape of his own voice for Sellers, who was then able to 'nail' the accent in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, Sellers injured his ankle during the filming of the scenes inside the bomber, he was forbidden by his doctors to continue working on those scenes, and Kubrick was forced to re-cast the part. It had originally been written with Western star John Wayne in mind, and it was offered to him after Sellers was forced to drop out, but the ultra-conservative Wayne turned it down immediately. Kubrick then remembered Texan actor Slim Pickens, whom he had met during his brief stint working on Marlon Brando's One Eyed Jacks. John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. ... Slim Pickens riding the bomb in the movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. ... Marlon Brando, Jr. ... One-Eyed Jacks, a western movie released in 1961, is the only film directed by Marlon Brando, who replaced the original director, Stanley Kubrick. ...

After the film went into wider release in January 1964 Southern was the subject of considerable media coverage, and was erroneously given primary credit for the screenplay^[5], a misperception he apparently did little to correct. This reportedly angered both Kubrick -- who was notorious for his unwillingness to share writing credits^[6] -- and Peter George, who was moved to pen a complaint to Life magazine in response to a lavish photo essay on Southern published in the 8 May 1964 edition. Stung by the article's assertion that Southern was responsible for turning the formerly "serious script" into an "original irreverent satirical film", a rightly aggrieved George pointed out that he and Kubrick had been worked together on the script for ten months, whereas Southern was only "briefly employed (November 16 to December 28, 1962) to do some additional writing".^[7]. For other uses, see Life (disambiguation). ...

Towards the end of his work on Dr Strangelove, Southern began canvassing for more film work. Jobs he considered included a proposed John Schlesinger screen adaptation of the Iris Murdoch novel A Severed Head, and a project called The Marriage Game, to be directed by Peter Yates and produced by the James Bond team of Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli. He also wrote an essay on John Fowles' novel The Collector, which led to his work as a "script doctor" on the subsequent screen version. John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926–July 25, 2003) was a British film director. ... Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Irish-born British writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... Severed Head cover A Severed Head (1961) is a satirical, in places almost farcical novel by Iris Murdoch about marriage, adultery and incest amongst a group of civilized and educated people who, the author implies, really should know better. ... Peter Yates (born 24 July 1929 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English film director and producer. ... Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Harry Saltzman (October 27, 1915 - September 28, 1994) was a film producer best known for co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli until selling his share of the franchise to United Artists in 1975. ... Albert Romolo Broccoli (April 5, 1909–June 27, 1996) known to millions of movie fans as Cubby Broccoli (a nickname used by a cousin), produced more than forty movies, but will be remembered by most for his contribution to one of the most successful film franchises in history, James... John Robert Fowles John Robert Fowles (March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005) was an English novelist and essayist. ... The Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. ...

Boosted by the attention he gained through Dr Strangelove, Southern's writing career took off during 1963. His landmark essay "Twirlin' At Ole Miss" was published in Esquire in Feb. 1963, and this famous work of satirical reportage is now acknowledged as one of the cornerstone works of "New Journalism". This was quickly followed by the publication of several other important essays, including the Bay of Pigs themed "Recruiting for the Big Parade", "I Am Mike Hammer" and one of his best Paris stories, "You're Too Hip, Baby". The fiction anthology Writers In Revolt was published in the spring, soon followed by the U.S. publication of Candy, which went on to become the #2 American fiction best-seller of 1963. New Journalism was the name given to a style of 1960s and 1970s news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. ... Map showing the location of the Bay of Pigs. ...

"The Big Time", 1964-70

The success of Dr Strangelove and the re-published version of Candy was the turning point in Southern's career. They made him one of the most celebrated writers of his day and, in the words of biographer Lee Hill, Southern spent the next six years in "an Olympian realm of glamour, money, constant motion and excitement", mixing and working with the biggest literary, film, music and TV stars in the world.

Most importantly, his work on Dr Strangelove opened the doors to lucrative work as a screenplay writer and "script doctor" and it also allowed him to greatly increase his fee, from the reported $2000 he received for Dr Strangelove to as much as $100,000 thereafter^[8].

During the mid-Sixties Southern worked on the screenplays of several 'cult' films including The Loved One (film) (1965) The Collector (1965) The Cincinnati Kid (1966) Casino Royale (1967) and Barbarella (1967). Woodstock: the iconic Sixties event The Sixties in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969 (see: 1960s), but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past 20 years. ... The Loved One is a 1965 film based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 movie directed by Norman Jewison. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... This article contains a trivia section. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Barbarella, also known as Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy is a 1968 erotic science fiction film, based on the French Barbarella comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

The Loved One

In early 1964 Southern was hired to collaborate with noted British author Christopher Isherwood on a screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel The Loved One, directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson. When filming was postponed in spring of '64, Southern returned to East Canaan and continued work on a rewrite of the script for The Collector but he eventually dropped out of the project because he disagreed with the change to the ending of the story. Christopher Isherwood (left) and W.H. Auden (right), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986), Anglo-American novelist, was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, in the north west of... The Loved One was also a short movie directed by wrestler Mick Foley chronicling the rise to success of his character Dude Love. ... Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 - November 14, 1991) was a British theatre and film director and producer. ...

In August 1964 the Southerns moved to Los Angeles, where Terry began work on the screenplay of The Loved One, for which MGM/Filmways paid him $3000 per month. Southern's work and his tireless networking and socialising brought him into contact with many Hollywood stars including Ben Gazzara, Jennifer Jones, Janice Rule, George Segal, Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper and his wife Brooke Hayward. Hopper a passionate fan of modern art, later introduced Southern to British gallery owner Robert Fraser. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ben Gazzara (born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on August 28, 1930, in New York City) is an American actor in television and motion pictures. ... Jennie Jones (born March 2, 1919) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actress. ... Janice Rule (Norwood, Ohio, 15 August 1931 - New York, New York, 17 October 2003) was an American actress. ... George Segal George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known Jewish American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. ... Richard Benjamin in July 1986. ... James Coburn in Sam Peckinpahs Cross of Iron (1977). ... Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker, known for his roles in Blue Velvet, 24 and Easy Rider. ... Robert Fraser (1937-1986) was a noted London art dealer of the 1960s and beyond. ...

Not long after arriving in L.A. Southern met a beautiful young Canadian-born actress and dancer, Gail Gerber on the MGM backlot. Gerber was working as a dancer on an Elvis Presley movie being made at the time, and she also had a non-speaking role in The Loved One. Southern and Gerber soon began an affair, which Gerber tried to end after a few dates, but she was pushed into continuing it by Jennifer Jones. The relationship intensified during July-August '64, and after Southern's wife and son went back to East Canaan, Southern and Gerber moved in together in a suite at the famous Chateau Marmont hotel. MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... The Chateau Marmont is a hotel on the Sunset Strip which has served as the backdrop for a number of events in the lives of well_known rock stars and actors. ...

Working with Richardson and Isherwood, Southern turned Waugh's novel into "an all-out attack on Hollywood, consumerism and the hypocrisies surrounding man's fear of death"^[9]. Southern also wrote the text for a souvenir book, which featured photos by Willliam Claxton.

Work on the film continued through most of 1965, with Southen and Gerber spending much of their "down time" hanging out with their newfound film star friends in Malibu. Loved One co-producer John Calley was a frequent visitor to Southern's Chateau Marmont suite and he hired Southern to work on several subsequent Filmways projects including The Cincinatti Kid and Don't Make Waves. Location of MAlibu in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1991-03-28 [2] Government  - Mayor Ken Kearsley [1] Area  - City  100. ... The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 movie directed by Norman Jewison. ... Sharon Tate (foreground) with Claudia Cardinale and Tony Curtis (background) Dont Make Waves (1967) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy film which starred Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, and Sharon Tate. ...

The Cincinnati Kid

Soon after principal shooting on The Loved One was concluded, Southern began work on the script of The Cincinatti Kid, which starred Steve McQueen, , although he was one of several noted writers who worked on versions of the screenplay, including Paddy Chayevsky, George Good and Ring Lardner Jr. Original director Sam Peckinpah was fired only one week into shooting, allegedly because he shot unauthorised nude scenes, and he would not make another film until 1969's The Wild Bunch. He was replaced by Norman Jewison. During production Southern formed a close and enduring friendship with cast member Rip Torn. Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated American movie actor, nicknamed The King of Cool.[1] He was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s due to a popular anti-hero persona. ... Sidney Paddy Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 - August 1, 1981) was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood. ... Ring Lardner, Jr. ... David Samuel Sam Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director. ... The Wild Bunch is a 1969 English language western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, in which an aging group of outlaws hope to have one final score while the West is turning into a modern society. ... Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, BA, LL.D (born July 21, 1926) is a Canadian film director, producer, and actor. ... Rip Torn as Chief Zed in the film Men in Black. ...

Casino Royale / Barbarella

By 1966 the film adaptations of Ian Fleming's James Bond series had become one of the most successful and popular franchises in film history. However, the rights to Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale had been secured by producer Charles K. Feldman. He had attempted to get Casino Royale made as an official James Bond movie (i.e. one made by EON Productions) but the producers of the official series, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, turned him down. Believing he couldn't compete with the official series, Feldman then decided to shoot the film as a spoof of not only James Bond, but also the entire spy fiction genre; the casino segment featuring Peter Sellers and Orson Welles is the only portion based upon the novel. Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Naval Officer. ... Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Casino Royale by Ian Fleming was the first James Bond novel. ... Charles K. Feldman (April 26, 1904 - May 25, 1968) was a film producer born in New York City. ... Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE (Hon) (April 5, 1909 – June 27, 1996) nicknamed Cubby, was an American film producer who produced more than 40 movies, most of them produced in the United Kingdom, and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. ... Harry Saltzman (October 27, 1915 - September 28, 1994) was a film producer best known for co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli until selling his share of the franchise to United Artists in 1975. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

Southern and Gerber moved to London in early 1966, after Southern was hired to work on the screenplay of Casino Royale. This episodic "quasi-psychedelic burlesque" proved to be a chaotic production, stitched together from segments variously directed or co-directed by a team that included Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Val Guest, John Huston, Richard Talmadge and Ken Hughes. Many planned scenes could not be filmed due to the feud between Orson Welles and Peter Sellers, which climaxed with Sellers walking out during the filming of the casino scenes and refusing to return. Many writers contributed to the screenplay; they included Southern (who wrote most of the dialogue for star Peter Sellers), Woody Allen, Wolf Mankowitz, Michael Sayers, Frank Buxton, Joseph Heller, Ben Hecht, Mickey Rose and Billy Wilder. This article contains a trivia section. ... Joseph McGrath (1887-1966) was a senior Irish politician. ... American film editor and director Robert Parrish (1916 - 1995) started off as a child actor from the late 1920s, making his film debut in John Fords Four Sons in 1928. ... Val Guest signing autographs. ... John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ... Richard Talmadge (December 3, 1892 - January 25, 1981) was an American actor of Swiss origin; his birth name was Ricardo Metezzeti. ... Ken Hughes (born Janurary 19, 1922; died April 28, 2001) was a director, writer, and producer. ... Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Wolf Mankowitz (born November 7, 1924 - May 20, 1998) was an English writer, playwright and screenwriter. ... Frank Buxton (born February 13, 1930 in Wellesley, Massachusetts) [1] is an American actor, television writer and director. ... Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist and playwright. ... Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry. ... Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ...

Southern had been introduced to Robert Fraser by Dennis Hopper, and when he went to London to work on Casino Royale he and Gail became part of Fraser's "jet-set" salon that included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, photographer Michael Cooper, designer Christopher Gibbs, model-actress Anita Pallenberg, filmmaker Nicolas Roeg, painter Francis Bacon, producer Sandy Lieberson, Guinness heir Tara Browne (whose subsequent death in a car accident was woven into John Lennon's "A Day in the Life") and model Donya Luna. Southern became very close friends with photographer Michael Cooper, who shoot the cover photo for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP. Robert Fraser (1937-1986) was a noted London art dealer of the 1960s and beyond. ... Jet set is a term used to describe an international social group of wealthy people, who organize and participate in social activities all around the world which are unreachable to ordinary people. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... “Rolling Stones” redirects here. ... Michael Jerome Cooper (born April 15, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is currently the head coach of the Womens National Basketball Associations Los Angeles Sparks. ... Anita Pallenberg (born January 25, 1944 in Rome, Italy) is a model, actress and fashion designer. ... Nicolas Jack Roeg, born on August 15, 1928 in London, is an internationally-known cinematographer and film director. ... Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ... Guinness logo World War II era advert. ... Tara Browne (March 4, 1945 – December 18, 1966) was a young London socialite and issue of peerage as a member of the Irish aristocratic family of Oranmore & Browne, whose untimely death in 1966 was immortalized in song by John Lennon of The Beatles. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... A Day in the Life is a song composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by The Beatles for their album Sgt. ... Sgt. ...

Southern attended the Cannes Film Festival in the spring of 1966, where he met Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga, and he remained in touch with Malanga for many years. On his return to London he continued work on the Casino Royale screenplay and a screen adaptation of The Magic Christian for Peter Sellers, who planned to make a film of it. Sandy Lieberson optioned Southern's first novel Flash and Filigree and United Artists optioned Candy. Michael Cooper also introduced Southern to Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and Southern later convinced Stanley Kubrick to make his film version after MGM refused to back Kubrick's planned film on Napoleon. Southern and Cooper then began to talk up a film adaptation of the novel, to star Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones as Alex and his gang of droogs. Cannes Film Festival logo. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. ... Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is a North American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was an English novelist, critic and composer. ... Clockwork Orange redirects here. ... “Kubrick” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... Droog has multiple meanings: Droog is a term in Nadsat, a made-up language in A Clockwork Orange. ...

Through Si Litvinoff, Southern optioned the book for the bargain price of US$1000 (against a final price of $10,000) and Lieberson and David Puttnam set up a development deal with Paramount, who underwrote a draft by Southern and Cooper. Actor David Hemmings was briefly considered for the role of Alex -- much to the chagrin of Cooper and the Stones -- and the director's chair was initially offered to Richard Lester, who turned it down. Southern's old friend Ted Kotcheff was then approached, but at the project stalled after treatment was sent to the British Lord Chamberlain, who returned it to unread with a note attached that said: "I know this book and there is no way you can make a movie of it. It deals with youthful incitement, which is illegal." As a result, Paramount put it into "turnaround" and it was eventually picked up by Kubrick three years later. David Puttnam receiving his BAFTA Fellowship, 19 February 2006 David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE is a film producer and politician. ... Look up Paramount on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Paramount can refer to: Paramount, California, a city in Los Angeles County Paramount Pictures, a motion picture company Paramount Records, a record label United Paramount Network (UPN), a television network in the United States, owned by Viacom Inc. ... David Hemmings in the late 1960s David Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was a British movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonionis Blowup in 1966 (opposite Vanessa Redgrave), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. ... Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a UK based film director famous for his work with The Beatles. ... The Lord Chamberlain or Lord Chamberlain of the Household is one of the chief officers of the Royal Household in the United Kingdom, and is to be distinguished from the Lord Great Chamberlain, one of the Great Officers of State. ... Jargon used in the chemical manufacturing and petroleum refining industries. ...

During the frequent downtime periods in the filming of Casino Royale, Filmways hired Southern to do a "tightening and brightening" job on the screenplay of the supernatural thriller Eye of the Devil, which starred David Niven and featured Sharon Tate. Through the winter of 1966-67 he also began work on the screenplay of Roger Vadim's Barbarella and he also contributed to a TV version of The Desperate Hours directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring George Segal and Yvette Mimuiex. Sharon Tate as Odile de Caray in Eye of the Devil Eye of the Devil (1967) is a film with occult and supernatural themes, but which stops short of being a conventional horror film. ... David Niven (March 1, 1910 – July 29, 1983) was an Academy Award-winning British actor. ... Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. ... Roger Vadim (born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov, Paris, France, January 26, 1928; died February 11, 2000), was a journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardots career in the film And God Created Woman. ... Barbarella, also known as Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy is a 1968 erotic science fiction film, based on the French Barbarella comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. ... The Desperate Hours is a 1955 film from Paramount Pictures starring Humphrey Bogart. ... George Segal George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known Jewish American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. ...

The June 1, 1967 release of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band gave Southern pop-culture immortality, thanks to his photograph being included (on the recommendation of Ringo Starr) on the album's famous front-cover collage, which was photographed by his friend Michael Cooper. Soon after, a collection of his short writing Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, was published in the USA. It received strongly favourable reviews from critics and the cover 'blurb' featured a highly complimentary quote from Gore Vidal, who described Southern as "the most profoundly witty writer of our generation". Sgt. ... Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. ... Look up blurb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) (pronounced , occasionally , , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. ...

Work on Barbarella continued through late 1967, and Southern convinced Vadim to cast his friend Anita Pallenberg in the role of the Black Queen. Anita Pallenberg (born January 25, 1944 in Rome, Italy) is a model, actress and fashion designer. ...

Candy

In December 1967 a film version of Candy began shooting in Rome with director Christian Marquand. It starred newcomer Ewa Aulin in the title role and like Casino Royale it featured a host of stars in cameo roles, including Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, John Astin, Ringo Starr and Walter Matthau; Southern's friend Anita Pallenberg also appears. The original screenplay by Southern was rewritten by Buck Henry (who also has an uncredited cameo in the film). Like Casino Royale it too proved to be a chaotic production; it failed to live up to expectations and was generally panned by critics on its release in December 1968. This article is on the 1968 film. ... Christian Marquand, born March 15, 1927 in Marseille, died November 22, 2000 was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. ... Ewa Aulin in Candy Ewa Aulin (born 13 February 1950 Landskrona, Skåne län, Sweden) is a Swedish actress and one time winner of Miss Teen Sweden. ... Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ... Marlon Brando, Jr. ... John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an Oscar nominated American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, but is best known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family television series and similarly eccentric comedic characters. ... Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. ... Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best-known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon. ... Anita Pallenberg (born January 25, 1944 in Rome, Italy) is a model, actress and fashion designer. ... Buck Henry Zuckerman (born December 9, 1930 in New York, New York) is an American actor, writer and director, best known for his work in television, film, comedy, and satire. ...

Easy Rider

As production on Barbarella wound down in October 1967, director Roger Vadim began shooting an episode for the omnibus film Spirits of the Dead, which co-starred Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda. It was at this time that Peter Fonda told Southern of his idea for a 'modern Western'. Fonda pitched his idea to his friend Dennis Hopper on his return to America, and Southern added his weight to the project by agreeing to work on the script for scale ($350 per week). Roger Vadim (born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov, Paris, France, January 26, 1928; died February 11, 2000), was a journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardots career in the film And God Created Woman. ... American International Pictures distributed this horror anthology film featuring three stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by European directors including Louis Malle and Federico Fellini. ... Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. ...

Southern, Fonda and Hopper met in New York City during November 1967 to develop their ideas and these brainstorming sessions formed the basis of the treatment that Southern subsequently wrote over the period from December 1967 to April 1968. On the basis of Southern's treatment, Raybert Productions, which had produced the hugely successful TV series The Monkees and the Monkees movie Head, agreed to finance the film with a budget of US$350,000 (in return to one-third of the profits) with Columbia Pictures agreeing to distribute the film. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Raybert Productions was a 1960s production company, founded by Robert (Bob) Rafelson and Bert Schneider. ... The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. ... Movie poster for The Monkees 1968 feature film HEAD. Head is a motion picture released in 1968, starring TV rock group The Monkees (in credit order: Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith), and distributed by Columbia Pictures. ... The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ...

Southern would eventually share the writing credit with Hopper and Fonda, but there has been considerable dispute over the credit for the screenplay. Hopper and Fonda later tried to downplay Southern's considerable contributions, claiming that many sections of the film (such as the graveyard scene) were largely improvised, whereas others involved in the production (including Southern himself) have asserted that most of these scenes were fully scripted and primarily written by Southern. Although the basic idea for the film, was Fonda's, the title "Easy Rider" was provided by Southern (it is an American slang term for a man who lives off the earnings of a prostitute) and it is thought Southern wrote the bulk of the original screenplay, although much of the dialogue was cut out by Hopper and Fonda during the editing process.

The character of the small-town lawyer played by Jack Nicholson was originally written by Southern for his friend Rip Torn but Torn dropped out of the project after an altercation with Hopper in a New York restaurant, in which the two actors almost came to blows. Nicholson as Wilbur Force in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). ... Rip Torn as Chief Zed in the film Men in Black. ...

The Magic Christian

The film of The Magic Christian came out in 1969 starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with guest stars: Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch, Roman Polanski, Yul Brynner, et al. John Cleese and Graham Chapman of Monty Python's Flying Circus also appeared and contributed, as did Sellers, to Southern's script. The Magic Christian is a 1969 film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. ...

Later works

Southern later covered the infamous Rolling Stones 1972 American Tour for Saturday Review. Hired by Michael O'Donoghue to write for Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s, Southern taught screenwriting at New York University and Columbia University from the late 80s until his death in 1995 at the age of 71. His final novel, Texas Summer, was published in 1992 by Richard Seaver. The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, often referred the S.T.P. Tour (for Stones Touring Party), was a much-publicized and much-written-about concert tour of The United States and Canada in June and July 1972 by The Rolling Stones. ... Saturday Review is a UK publication for which Winston Churchill reported. ... Michael ODonoghue (born January 5, 1940, Sauquoit, New York, United States; died November 8, 1994) was a 20th century writer and performer noted for his dark and destructive style of comedy, and as the first head writer of the highly influential American television program Saturday Night Live. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

In early 2003 Southern's archives of manuscripts, correspondence and photographs were acquired by the New York Public Library. The archives include correspondence and other items from George Plimpton, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, William Styron, V. S. Pritchett, Gore Vidal, Abbie Hoffman, and Edmund Wilson, as well as John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and the Rolling Stones. Fittingly, the announcement of this acquisition was made on April 1. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. ... Francis Russell OHara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. ... Larry Rivers (August 17, 1923 - August 14, 2002) was a Jewish American musician, artist and actor. ... William Clark Styron, Jr. ... Victor Sawdon Pritchett (December 16, 1900 - March 20, 1997), was a British writer and critic. ... Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) (pronounced , occasionally , , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. ... Abbott Howard Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a self-identified communo-anarchist,[1] social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing... Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, noted chiefly for his literary criticism. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. ... This article is about the rock band. ... April Fools Day or All Fools Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. ...

A film adaptation of Southern's 1970 novel Blue Movie is currently in production from director Michael Dowse and producer Marc Toberoff, to be released by Vertigo Films. Blue Movie is a novel by Terry Southern that satirizes a Hollywood studio that is making a pornographic film. ... Michael Dowse is a Canadian film director. ... Vertigo Films is a British film production and film distribution company. ...

Works

Books

• 1958 – Flash and Filigree
• 1958 – Candy (with Mason Hoffenberg)
• 1959 – The Magic Christian
• 1960 – Writers in Revolt (co-editor with Alexander Trocchi and Richard Seaver)
• 1965 – Journal of The Loved One (with photographs by William Claxton)
• 1967 – Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (essays and short fiction)
• 1970 – Blue Movie
• 1992 – Texas Summer

Candy is a 1958 novel written by Maxwell Kenton (pseudonym of Terry Southern) in collaboration with Mason Hoffenberg published by Olympia Press. ... The Magic Christian is a 1959 comic novel by U.S. author Terry Southern. ... Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi (July 30, 1925 - April 15, 1984) was a Scottish novelist. ... (Disambiguation: you may be looking for William Claxton (photographer), who worked for three decades with fashion designer Rudi Gernreich. ... Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (ISBN 0-8065-1167-2) is a short story anthology by Terry Southern, first published in 1967. ... Blue Movie is a novel by Terry Southern that satirizes a Hollywood studio that is making a pornographic film. ...

Screenplays

• 1964 – Dr. Strangelove (with Stanley Kubrick and Peter George) (Academy Award nomination for screenwriting)
• 1965 – The Loved One (film) (with Christopher Isherwood)
• 1965 – The Collector (rewrite; uncredited)
• 1966 – The Cincinnati Kid (dialogue rewrite of Ring Lardner Jr. script)
• 1967 – Barbarella
• 1968 – Easy Rider (Academy Award nomination for screenwriting)
• 1969 – End Of The Road
• 1969 – The Magic Christian
• 1975 – Stop Thief! (teleplay; with William Claxton)
• 1986 – The Telephone (with Harry Nilsson)

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Film appearances

• The Man Who Fell to Earth (journalist at launchpad)
• Burroughs (in orgone box with William S. Burroughs)
• Cocksucker Blues documentary with the Rolling Stones

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Album cover photo

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (man in sunglasses)

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Quotes

• "I started reading The Magic Christian and I thought I was going to go insane... it was an incredible influence on me." — Hunter S. Thompson
• "Terry Southern writes a mean, coolly deliberate, and murderous prose..." — Norman Mailer
• "I know you - you're the guy who showed me how to do it - who showed me how you can make a half-million dollar picture - without a studio - and make a lot of money! I know you!" - Sylvester Stallone, on meeting Terry Southern for the first time in 1980 at Harry Nilsson's home
• "Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna St. Vincent Millay." - Kurt Vonnegut
• "In this world [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant." - William S. Burroughs
• "Terry Southern was one of the first and best of the new wave of American writers, defining the cutting edge of black comedy." - Joseph Heller
• "Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation and in The Magic Christian he surpasses Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet, a work similarly inspired by conventional wisdom's serene idiocy." - Gore Vidal
• "If there were a Mount Rushmore of American satire, Terry Southern would be the mountain they’d carve it from." - Michael O'Donoghue
• "Don't worry, I brought up the white wine with the fish" - Terry Southern, on being chastised by a society hostess for being sick after drinking

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References

1. ^ Lee Hill: A Grand Guy: The Life and Art of Terry Southern (Bloombsury, 2001), pp.27-49
2. ^ Hill, pp.51-67
3. ^ Hill, pp.69-91
4. ^ Hill, pp.93-108
5. ^ Hill, p.124
6. ^ Hill, p.126
7. ^ Hill, p.124-125
8. ^ Hill, p.127
9. ^ Hill, p.134

External links

• Terry Southern - The Official Site
• "Grooving in Chi" - Terry Southern's Esquire magazine article about covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention with William Burroughs and Jean Genet
• Detailed interview with Southern by Lee Hill, who later wrote Southern's biography A Grand Guy