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Blue Movie

BLUE MOVIE web jacket

Blue Movie
Terry Southern

9780285638815
Format PB
£10

 

“Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation.” Gore Vidal

King B. is the Oscar winning director who has filmed everything, Sid Krassman is the producer has never underestimated the lowest tastes of the American public and Angela Sterling is the sex symbol who wants to do something ‘serious’. Together they are determined to film the dirtiest and most expensive pornographic movie ever.

Monstrous egos battle enormous libidos, the Vatican send in their flying God squad and production is moved to Liechtenstein.

Fuelled by drugs, monstrous egos and rampant libidos Blue Movie is hilarious, wildly erotic and a biting satire on Hollywood, Terry Southern’s revenge against the madness of Hollywood which he had already endured for a decade.

Terry Southern was one of the most famous writers of the 1960’s, as a screenwriter (of ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘Barbarella’ among others) as well as a novelist and counterculture legend. He died in 1995.

“An authentic artist, a true original.” Guardian

“The best Hollywood novel.”
Pauline Kael

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The Magic Christian

MAGIC CHRISTIAN web jacket

The Magic Christian
Terry Southern

9780285638792
Format PB
£10

“Terry Southern writes a mean, coolly deliberate, and murderous prose.” Norman Mailer

Guy Grand is the last of the big spenders, an eccentric billionaire determined to create disorder and willing to pay anything to prove his theory that there is nothing so degrading that someone won’t do it for money. Guy Grand leads a life full of madcap schemes and practical jokes, all showing that everyone has their price and that he is willing to pay it.

A satire of America’s obsession with money, TV, guns and sex, The Magic Christian is hilarious and wickedly original. One of the most cruelly revealing books about modern life ever written, this was Terry Southern’s masterpiece.

The Magic Christian was turned into one of the great cult movies starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr.

Terry Southern was one of the most famous writers of the 1960’s, as a screenwriter (of ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘Barbarella’ among others) as well as a novelist and counterculture legend. He died in 1995.

“An enormously funny and satisfying satire.” The Spectator

“An authentic artist, a true original.”
Guardian

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