Terry Southern – författare

This satire of Hollywood features King B, an Oscar-winning director who's seen (and filmed) everything, Sid Krassman, a producer who's made a fortune catering to the tastes of the American public, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who desperately wants to do something 'serious'.

This is a collection of the author's shorter pieces, two dozen humorous sketches which expose the hypocrisy of American social mores. Terry Southern is the author of "Candy", "Blue Movie", "The Magic Christian", "Flash & Filigree", and screenwriter for "Dr Strangelove" and "Easy Rider".

Before New Journalism, before the waggish cinema of Woody Allen, before the Gonzo World of Hunter S. Thompson,Saturday Night Live,andNational Lampoon,there was the legendary Terry Southern-author ofCandyandThe Magic Christianand the screenwriter ofDr. StrangeloveandEasy Rider.Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes,widely recognized as an underground classic, is a collection of Southern's short pieces, two dozen hilarious, well-observed, and devastating sketches that expose the hypocrisy of American social mores. This edition features an introduction by George Plimpton, one of Southern's longtime literary allies and former editor ofThe Paris Review."e;Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna St. Vincent Millay."e; -Kurt Vonnegut"e;Terry Southern writes a clean, mean, coolly deliberate, and murderous prose."e; -Norman Mailer"e;If there was a Mt. Rushmore of modern American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they carve it on."e;-Michale O'Donoghue"e;Impressive . . . He is both acutely aware of, and the absolute master of the nuances, the ludicrous snobbishness, the deliberate exclusivity of clique vocabulary. . . . With demoniacal cunning he masquerades as the guardian oftaste,ofresponsibility,and of common decency (Mr. Southern's italics, of course)."e; -New York Times

A satirical dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los AngelesDr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken private detective, a mad judge, a car crash, a game show called "What''s My Disease," and a hashish party, Treevly drives Eichner to madness and mayhem. It is through comedy and a strange blend of violence and poetic delicacy that the novel charms.  Southern''s first novel, Flash and Filigree was turned down by seventeen timorous American publishers. It was Southern''s mentor, the "genius" English novelist Henry Green, who brought the book to the attention of a leading British publishing house, which released it to high praise. A fast-paced dark comedy, Flash and Filigree established Terry Southern as one of the finest American prose stylists to emerge in Paris after the War. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

The New York Times–bestselling author''s cult classic skewers America''s obsession with money, fame, guns, and sex—"A satirical gem" (John Berendt). Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to "make it hot for people," Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom. Concocting deliciously perverse mayhem, he throws a million one-hundred-dollar bills into an enormous vat of steaming offal, proving just what people will do for money, and he promotes a new silky shampoo that turns hair to wire and a deodorant that becomes a time-released stench-bomb. He inserts subliminally suggestive and perverse images into well-loved classic films, takes a howitzer on safari, and brings a panther to a kennel club dog show. His most elaborate adventure is an ultra-exclusive cruise aboard the S.S. Magic Christian, where elite passengers are treated to a series of madcap indignities. The Magic Christian is a hilarious and savagely satiric view of American commercialism, rich in Southern''s deft handling of detail, dialogue, and delightful deviancy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

A darkly hilarious, wildly erotic satire of Hollywood from "the only author capable of handling mayhem on a gigantic scale" (Esquire). King B., the world''s most admired filmmaker—winner of a string of Oscars and awards from Cannes to Venice—takes on a new project: the most expensive, star-studded, high-quality, X-rated film ever made. He joins forces with producer Sid Krassman, who''s made a fortune with B movies, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who longs to do "serious" work. After convincing the principality of Liechtenstein to host the production in exchange for a distribution exclusive to boost tourism, King B. and Krassman arrive with cast and crew to make The Faces of Love. While keeping the nature of the film secret from American bankers, King B. lines up a host of European and American big-name stars. But word leaks out to the local religious groups and possibly even the Vatican. Between the Cardinal''s attempts to sabotage production and the big egos and even bigger libidos behind the scenes, the enterprise plummets into hilarious anarchy. Blue Movie is comic eroticism at its best—populated by over-the-top characters, memorable dialogue, and perverse vignettes, and colored by razor-sharp insights into the film industry. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

An evocative, poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Texas in the 1950s Through events small and large, thirteen-year-old Harold Stevens grows up during a pivotal summer in the red-dirt backcountry of West Texas. With his friend C.K. Crow, the black field hand who works for Harold''s father, he shoots deer and quail, fishes for catfish, mends fences, grows and learns about marijuana, and tests his emerging manhood against bullies, bulls, and the irresistible charms of his horse-riding older cousin. During a hysterical trip to a circus sideshow, Harold and a buddy sneak backstage to see "The Great Hermaphrodite" and the "funny little old Monkey Man," whom they try to buy a beer. But danger waits on the fringe of this innocent time. When C.K.''s brother, Big Nail, appears after escaping from a chain gang, an inevitable and violent confrontation between the brothers is set in motion—a confrontation that will mark the end of Harold''s childhood.   This insideview of Southern''s roots in Alvarado, Texas, where pastoral innocence belied an undercurrent of racism and violence, brings this novel of a boy''s transition to maturity vividly alive.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

The Magic Christian is a 1959 comic novel by American author Terry Southern (1924–1995) about an odd billionaire who spends most of his time playing elaborate practical jokes on people. It is known for bringing Southern to the attention of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who had received a copy as a gift from Peter Sellers, and subsequently hired him as co-writer for Dr. Strangelove (1964) when Kubrick decided to make that film a black comedy/satire, rather than a straightforward thriller. Guy Grand is an odd billionaire who spends most of his time playing elaborate practical jokes on people. A big spender, he does not mind losing large sums of money to complete strangers if he can have a good laugh. All his escapades are designed to prove his theory that everyone has their price—it just depends on the amount one is prepared to pay them.

Esta recopilación de escritos, artículos y entrevistas en torno a la droga, la música, la política exterior norteamericana, la CIA, el periodismo, la moral convencional, etc; nos revela una mente descarada, elegante y muy en la onda. A través de ellos se detecta con gran sagacidad la sensibilidad de la década de los setenta.Con esta obra Southern, conocido sobre todo por su guión de Dr. Strangelove, sorprende y deslumbra al público. Sus cuentos primerizos, como "Eres demasiado hip, tío" o el hilarante "La carretera que sale de Axotle", son un ejemplo del elegante oficio y el talento de su autor; y los escritos publicados en la revista Squire, como el célebre "Bastoneando en Ole Miss" (que aparentemente trata de una academia de majorettes, pero también de las relaciones raciales, del whisky y de Faulkner), lo convirtieron en el primer "periodista" que adoptó un enfoque personal a la hora de escribir artículos. El último relato, el famoso "La sangre de una peluca", es probablemente la mejor pieza que se ha escrito nunca sobre el consumo de drogas ilegales. Hasta los menos modernos lo disfrutarán.