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Thomas Pynchon (b.1937)
2010 ::: preview
Dinner With Henry (1979)
2009 ::: movie
Dinner With Henry (1979)
Director: Richard Young
Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog
It's a classic question: Name a famous person, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with. I imagine that a number of readers of this blog would say 'Henry Miller.' Indeed, he had a reputation for holding court at the dinner table, regaling his fellow eaters with opinions and reminiscences.
Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all. It may not be of much interest to a general audience, but is a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.
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Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
2009 ::: lyrics
"Anaïs Nin Reads," in which Nin recounts conversations with Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell.
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"The Dream" (1990), Norman Stone
2009 ::: movie
is a monologue concerning a utopian vision of heaven on earth and was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
Johnny Depp reading the letters he received from Hunter S. Thompson during his work on the Fear and Loathing Movie.
Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Sebastian Horsley (b.1962)
2009 ::: offart
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
2009 ::: lyrics
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
2009 ::: lyrics
A Conversation with Myself
A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind.
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind.
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Hildegard Knef (1925-2002)
2009 ::: music
Pirate Jenny - live
The original german version by Berthold Brecht / Music : Kurt Weill
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