From airplane to starship...

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Dennis Hopper's latest flick was the right-wing diatribe, American Carol, so I guess the counter-culture sheen's long gone.

Laura

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>From: bandwraith at aol.com
>Sent: Oct 23, 2008 7:15 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: From airplane to starship...
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>The only way I could see _Easy Rider_ being
>worth the price of admission, and it didn't
>occur to me until years later- maybe about
>the time Ginsberg went on ?Dick Cavitt?
>with a briefcase full of documents- was seeing
>Billy and Wyatt as figures for the CIA. The link
>begins at the beginning- raising huge amounts
>of off the books cash via SoCal drug sales. The
>vamping of traditional American archetypes and the
>"penetration" and destabilization  of "alien"
>cultures, followed by taking themselves too
>seriously, also came to mind. I don't think any of
>that is what Hopper had in mind, but with
>Southern on board, who knows?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: bandwraith at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Sent: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 9:56 am
>Subject: Re: From airplane to starship...
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>Call me a traditionalist. I prefer Butch and Sundance to Billy and 
>Wyatt. 
>Slim Pickens = Billy, Henry Green = Wyatt? I'm not familiar with Green. 
>Terry Southern- unique. 
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: malignd at aol.com 
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
>Sent: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 4:24 pm 
>Subject: Re: From airplane to starship... 
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>I seem to recall Crosby saying once that his relationship with McGuinn 
>was the model 
>for the relationship between Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy 
>Rider although, 
>as the screenplay was written by (wasn't it?) Terry Southern, more 
>likely the models 
>were Henry Green and Slim Pickens. 
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