Terry Southern

Terry Southern

Birthday: 1924-05-01

Place of Birth: Alvarado, Texas, USA

Biography: Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terry Southern, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

The Source
The Source

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to th...

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Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

In 1983 Dennis Hopper went to Rice University in Houston, Texas ostensibly to screen his latest film...

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Burroughs: The Movie
Burroughs: The Movie

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemp...

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End of the Road
End of the Road

Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead,...

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The Queen
The Queen

In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes ...

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