Today in History

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Weissmann
> >> > But forget good and evil. Is he a guy you might like to have a beer
> >>with?
> >> >
> >> > (to pose a pynchonian question)
> >>
> 
> I'm afraid he'd be a lot like the porno film makers I hung around with in
> the very early 1980s (long story, another time) -- keeping the "talent"
> (esp. the women) strung out on drugs and otherwise exploiting some very
> damaged people for their own profit and personal power trips, and
> justifying it all with high-falutin' talk of personal liberty and
> intellectual freedom and fighting censorship and overcoming society's
> repressions, etc. ...vampires.  Which is not to say they weren't
> interesting. It's just that I always felt like I needed a shower after
> spending a day on the set with them.
> 
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David Bromberg likes to tell the story of how Jerry Jeff
Walker met Mr. BoJangles in the parish tank, he says, Jerry
Jeff "wasn't there on a research project."