Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the Southwest to New Orleans. The travelers are two young hip types, Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) who have managed to smuggle in a large quantity of cocaine, and, having bought two Harleys, are heading for Mardi Gras to celebrate. The two meet up with George Hanson (Jack Richardson), a drunken Southern lawyer, while in a Deep South Jail. Hanson, yearning for some legendary whorehouse and dominated unto middle-age by his Daddy, decides to accompany them to New Orleans. But camped out one night they are set upon by Mississippi rednecks and Hanson is bludgeoned...
...Billy calls him Captain America. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that the rent's come roun'--it's lost. In the classic Western, the main character searches for a long-gone past; in Easy Rider America searches for itself, also long-gone. (Hanson: "This is used to be a hell of good country.") 'And he couldn't find it anywhere...
...guys, the yahoos of the South and over-thirty America in general. The good guys are warding off the yahoos (a young commune member prays to God "Thank you for a place to make a stand.") Billy and Wyatt die because they are free, like all good guys. (Hanson says: "They're scared of what you represent to them--freedom.") But free of what? Certainly not of American yahoo aspirations--Billy intends to buy a home in Florida with his share of the loot. This is what Hopper insists on in his interviews: that when Wyatt says to Billy...
...course of this alternately acute and naive odyssey, Wyatt and Billy carom from ranch to hippie commune to jail to the New Orleans Mardi Gras. En route, they pick up a Civil Liberties lawyer named George Hanson. As it emerges in the film, the lawyer's part is only a mug shot of a wry, wistful boozer. But in his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that he knows far more about acting than either of his costars. His elegies for a vanished life are melancholy without being bathetic; his marijuana-flavored description of a UFO takeover...
Other lettermen expected to be strong contributers this season are Captain Marty Chalfie, John Bragg, and Buzz Cummins, all seniors. Chalfie performs in the butterfly, while Bragg is a freestyler and Cummins is a breaststroker. Bob Hughes, a senior, and juniors Terry Flannigan and Eric Hanson also lettered on last year's team...