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...Kesey and Cows. Jimmy Carter's septuagenarian mother, Miss Lillian, takes it as an appetizer before every meal. Atlanta's Mayor Maynard Jackson likes it for lunch. Author Ken Kesey raises his own cows in Oregon so he can control the yogurt making from start to finish...
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...think it is rather sad that with all the Oscars won by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [April 12], and all the thank-yous for the golden idols, not one of the recipients mentioned Ken Kesey, the author of the novel...
...least he was mentioned. The name heard hardly at all was Ken Kesey's. Unacknowledged and unhonored, Kesey maintains that he has also been ripped off. He has filed suit claiming that he is entitled to 5% of the film's gross receipts and a cool $869,000 for damages. He has received, he says, a $10,000 advance for a screenplay that was not used, and has become financially hard-pressed. Kesey, his wife Faye and some friends watched the Oscars on TV at their Oregon farm, noting that, save for a passing mention by Forman, nobody...
...Kesey has not yet seen the film made from his book, insisting that it cannot be "truly good until they've made good with me." Still, it caused him some anguish to watch the Oscars being raked in. "I really love the movies," he says. "When they can be turned around to break your heart like this, well, it's like something that you never thought would happen...