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The Life and Times of Terry Southern: A Texan Gone Hollywood
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October 6, 2009 |
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She is the librarian at the Alvarado, Texas library and I've come to ask her about any information she may have on the writer Terry Southern. He is the American short story, novel and screenwriter who gave us the novels The Magic Christian, Candy, Flash and Filigree, as well as the screenplays for the films Easy Rider and Dr. Strangelove among many others. Even though we are standing smack in the middle of the man's birthplace, even though Texas has become, over the years, notorious for praising and loudly advertising any celebrity major or minor with billboards, museums or festivals, she has never heard of him. She seems to find my interest both intrusive on her time and unusual in its request. I'm bemused at the idea of the former because the library is only the size of a meat locker.
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