Word: weirdo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could have been reproduced, everyone thought, by a dozen actors. Everyone but Peter Fonda. He persuaded Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) to collaborate on the Easy Rider script, and talked American International Pictures, creators of the beach and motorcycle placebos, into producing a film starring nobodies and directed by a weirdo. When A.I.P. refused to put up enough money to launch the project, Fonda made the ultimate rich boy's sacrifice: he took a loan on his trust fund...
Back home in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis' mother and father (a cannery executive) are mildly astonished at her success, but also relieved. For a long time, she admits, they thought she was "a goner." By her own description, Janis in her Port Arthur days was a weirdo among fools. She painted, read poetry, and listened to Odetta and Leadbelly records. "Everybody else was going to drive-ins and drinking Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik...
...Caligari and Disneyland. Is it art? Directors of museums and owners of art galleries insist that it, and similar installations, are. The general term for them is "environments"; their aim is to box the spectator within a micro-universe and bombard him from all sides with wacky sights, weirdo sounds and otherworldly sensations, ranging from the feeling of weightlessness to hopped-up, psychedelic hallucinations. So popular with the general public have they become that dozens of contemporary museums and galleries feel obligated to display at least one major environment a year...
...performances. The other, Wise Child, has already closed in London, despite a strong cast headed by Sir Alec Guinness. A kinky, comic and slightly sinister play by Simon Gray, Wise Child presented Guinness as a criminal on the lam, disguised as a woman. He is being blackmailed by a weirdo youth who carries out the pretense of being his son; the boy, in turn, is being pursued by a homosexual hotel manager. "Very murky waters indeed," said the Times...
...Broadway potboiler, Leary's new show ought to be socko box office, as Variety might put it, although nabes in the sticks will be better off running Tarzan instead. For acid heads and the impressionable, however, Leary provides all the right production values: religiose gimmicks, weirdo music, sexo fantasy, all boffo. Following a run of twelve weekly performances in Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer...