Word: weirdoes
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...developed another dynamite notion for the film that'll really make it move. There's some kind of weirdo relationship between the Cort character and the Kellerman character, and she seems to have this thing about birds, they're all in her power or something. Anyway, these birds are gonna be flying around for the whole picture. When people get bird-do on them-this is the fantastic part-that marks them for death...
...rowing on the Saigon River while a Navy lieutenant. He extolled crew as a way to learn the virtues of "discipline, sacrifice, teamwork and sportsmanship in an atmosphere of men." At Columbia, he said, crew should be a refuge for "white-hat" fugitives from the creeping culture of "cruddy weirdo slobs...
...television broadcasters who have busted out with beards got mixed responses. Dave Marash of New York's WPIX, who has been sporting a full growth since September, reports that he gets regular "bearded weirdo" letters, "but most people seem quite willing to talk with me, I guess because they recognize me so quickly." When Bob Whitten of KCRA in Sacramento wore a vacation-grown beard his first day back on the tube, the vibrations were almost wholly negative. Says a station executive: "We got more telephone calls on Whitten's beard than anything since Robert Kennedy was shot...
...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...