By Grover Lewis
'Grover was once, in spite of everything, the main stone impressive author that no-one ever heard of...His task used to be to hammer the detritus of fugitive cultural encounters into stylish sentences, lapidary paragraphs, and knowable fact; and, truthfully, the loveliness and lucidity of Grover's writing constantly rose to the triviality of the celebration' - Dave Hickey, from the foreword.Grover Lewis was once one of many defining voices of the hot Journalism of the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies. His wry, acutely saw, fluently written essays for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice set a customary for different writers of the time, together with Hunter S. Thompson, Joe Eszterhas, Timothy Ferris, Chet Flippo, and Tim Cahill, who stated of Lewis, 'He was once the easiest of us'. Pioneering the 'on situation' reportage that has turn into a fixture of positive factors approximately motion picture making and stay tune, Lewis reduce throughout the megastar hype and captured the true spirit of the counterculture, together with its artificiality and dazzling banality. Even at the present time, his articles on Woody Guthrie, the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones live performance at Altamont, administrators Sam Peckinpah and Sam Houston, and the filming of "The final photo express" and "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" stay a number of the best writing ever performed on renowned culture.To introduce Grover Lewis to a brand new iteration of readers and gather his most sensible paintings below one disguise, this anthology includes articles he wrote for "Rolling Stone", "Village Voice", "Playboy", "Texas Monthly", and "New West", in addition to excerpts from his unfinished novel "The Code of the West" and his incomplete memoir "Goodbye should you name That long past" and poems from the quantity "I'll Be There within the Morning If I Live".Jan Reid and W. okay. Stratton have chosen and organized the cloth round topics that preoccupied Lewis all through his lifestyles - video clips, song, and loss. The editors' biographical creation, the foreword by way of Dave Hickey, and a remembrance by way of Robert Draper talk about how Lewis' early struggles to flee his working-class, anti-intellectual Texas roots for the area of rules in books and films made him a ordinary proponent of the counterculture that he chronicled so brilliantly. in addition they pay tribute to Lewis' groundbreaking expertise as a stylist, whose distinct voice merits to be extra widely recognized by way of cutting-edge readers.
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My swan,” she marvels in remembrance, “it took four big drovers to pull me a-loose. ” “Listen, can I git your autograph, dumplin’? ” Looking stricken, Pam signs a paper napkin, then quickly scratches off her home phone number on a sliver of envelope and hands it to me. “If you happen to see the rushes I’m in,” she blurts, “call and let me know what you think, would you? ” Hugging Polly good-bye, she hurries off after a driver who’ll take her the first leg of the way back to Dallas. Loyd watches Pam leave, then turns to Polly: “She say she don’t wanna be in no more movies?
Let’s have some lunch,” he sighs quietly. 24 MOVIES With manic zest, Gulager titillates the townspeople dining at the Golden Rooster, Archer City’s lone indoor eatery, by pasting pats of butter on his cheeks and forehead. “It wouldn’t melt in your mouth, honey,” Cloris observes acidly. Cybill Shepherd, who plays “Lacy,” the film’s teenaged sexpot, looks pained at the buzzing commotion Gulager is causing among the diners; wordlessly, she picks up her book—Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain—and leaves before the meal is served.
I miss my baby girls to the point of pain— they’re with Peter’s family out in Phoenix—but I’m elated about the way the movie’s coming along. . Of course, part of the agony is that Peter is no longer my friend or lover or companion; Peter is making a movie. . He has a terrific nostalgia for his teenage years in the Fifties—Holden Caulfield ice-skating at Rockefeller Plaza with wholesome young girls in knee socks, like that. . Somehow, he’s managed to transfer those feelings about his own adolescence to the totally different experience of the kids in the film.