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[adorshki]

Aaaaaaaah. Thanks for the clarity Al. I knew the Drake story was something along those lines. Yeah big fan of Larry too. I have only read Lonesome Dove but I have enjoyed many a movie for which he was the screenwriter.

Did you know he was friends with Kesey?
They attended a writer's seminar at Stanford U at the same time from '60-'61.
LM wrote"Horseman Pass By", it wa****ting the big screen as Hud at about the same time Cuckoo's Nest got published.
McM moved back to Texas before Kesey formed the Pranksters but also recounts a visit to his old buddy in Moving On published in '70.
I've got a pet theory Kesey really liked McM's work too, because his only other "important" work after Cuckoos Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion is so thematically similar to Hud.
In fact, I just stumbled over the fact that he married Kesey's widow back in 2011.
Talk about life imitating art.... (think Nicholson and McLaine in Terms of Endearment and The Evening Star)
He's also responsible for The Last Picture Show and Texasville with Jeff Bridges, my favorite out of the movies mentioned here (after Lonesome Dove which would be a really long movie....)

 

[D30Man]

Did you know he was friends with Kesey?
They attended a writer's seminar at Stanford U at the same time from '60-'61.
LM wrote"Horseman Pass By", it wa****ting the big screen as Hud at about the same time Cuckoo's Nest got published.
McM moved back to Texas before Kesey formed the Pranksters but also recounts a visit to his old buddy in Moving On published in '70.
I've got a pet theory Kesey really liked McM's work too, because his only other "important" work after Cuckoos Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion is so thematically similar to Hud.
In fact, I just stumbled over the fact that he married Kesey's widow back in 2011.
Talk about life imitating art.... (think Nicholson and McLaine in Terms of Endearment and The Evening Star)
He's also responsible for The Last Picture Show and Texasville with Jeff Bridges, my favorite out of the movies mentioned here (after Lonesome Dove which would be a really long movie....)

Very familiar with the last few flix listed. The Last Picture Show is my favorite of all of those. Such a quiet desperation about the film. No one to this day has captured the essence of small town Texas quite like he did with that film. And man what a hell of a cast.

The one thing I recall about Kesey was his disdain for the film version of One Flew Over. In an interview when asked why he attended the premiere in light of his frustrations with the direction, he responded "even a mother has to be present for her abortion". Not sure I got the words exact on this but it was something along those lines.

 

[adorshki]

Very familiar with the last few flix listed. The Last Picture Show is my favorite of all of those. Such a quiet desperation about the film. No one to this day has captured the essence of small town Texas quite like he did with that film. And man what a hell of a cast.

If you liked Last Picture Show then I can pretty confidently guarantee you'll like all the rest of his early stuff, there's a lot of "Tejacana" there.
HIs Wiki page breaks down the different "categories".
Desert Rose (for which Sting composed that wonderful title track) is another favorite of mine, as well as another series about the "old west" the Berrybender series.
I still think my favorite line of his is “I won't say I did and I won't say I didn't, but I will say that a man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.”, though.
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The one thing I recall about Kesey was his disdain for the film version of One Flew Over. In an interview when asked why he attended the premiere in light of his frustrations with the direction, he responded "even a mother has to be present for her abortion". Not sure I got the words exact on this but it was something along those lines.

I'd forgotten about that.
I do recall being kinda disappointed in the flick the first I saw it but it's aged well.
I can see why Kesey might have been irritated with how some of the characters were portrayed and some of the other changes.
Over time I came to reverse my hero-worship of Kesey and came to realize McMurtry was the real literary giant of that pair, while Kesey was really only a part-time writer, kind of a one-hit wonder so to speak.
At least as a novelist.