adorshki
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Did you know he was friends with Kesey?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.
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....)
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