# Terry Southern
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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. He briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s.
1969 - July: The Easy Rider Motion Picture Soundtrack
The cult classic film Easy Rider was released this month. A landmark counter culture movie, the film traces the journey of Wyatt and Billy as they make their way on motorcycles from a successful drug deal in Los Angeles to the Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Te…
Easy Rider
This week we review the 1969 American road drama film Easy Rider written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper.
Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal wit…
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) w/ Dan Borus | Ep. 46
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Van and Lyle are joined by historian Dan Borus, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, a film that continues to define political satire as much as it mocks the…
How to Write Well – and Why
By Francis X. Maier.
Remember the fabulous 1970s? The decade of Watergate, recession, gas lines, defeat in Vietnam, unemployment, inflation, and a failed Iranian hostage rescue? Add to that the advent of "whole language" theory in education. Whoever came up with that idea needs a one-way ticket to …
Our Precious Bodily Fluids (Dr. Strangelove)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) was co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern. Financed and released by Colum…
Barbarella: Sci-Fi, Striptease & Orgasms Against the Machine
Two intimacy coordinators break down the sci-fi striptease and sex scenes in Barbarella and how 1968's most famous erotic sci-fi film staged them.
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Jane Fonda strips out of a spacesuit in zero gravity. Later, she defeats a villain using an orgasm machine. Yes. Really.
Barbarella (1…
Dr. Strangelove
Heather hasn’t seen Dr. Strangelove
…or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb. That’s right, we sit down to watch the 1964 black and white dark comedy about the cold war and mutually assured destruction from Stanley Kubrick starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott. Is the movie rel…
Stump the Staff! First Anniversary Episode
Frank celebrates one year of "For for All Ages" with a special all-trivia show, featuring the creative team behind the podcast: producer Andrew Capone, social media directors Josh Chambers, Michele Mantynen and Dino Proserpio and webmaster John Seals.
In this episode, listeners grill the FFAA staf…
Barbarella 1968: Pop Art, Sex & Space Opera
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