Fonda: “This reminds of the time when the studios tried to get Hopper blacklisted for allegedly doping his horse with LSD during the filming of True Grit. What happened was, Universal kinda leaked this bogus story to Variety to justify the lousy distribution they were going to give his The Last Movie—which the suits just didn’t feel, you know?—even though they knew from Warren Oates that the horse in question had his own dealer out in West LA (some Hispanic guy who did some contract wrangling for Paramount and who was later killed in a cactus accident, if I’m remembering correctly), and had been tripping on his own since at least 1967, when he worked in Hellman’s The Shooting and began eating peyote buttons out in the high desert.
“But that’s not even the biggest drag. The supreme irony is that, though Hopper was eventually ‘cleared,’ the studios still wanted him to seek counseling and enter a drug and alcohol rehab program.
“Which, of course, he desperately needed—but that’s really, like, beside the point, at least from the perspective of freedom, and the presumption of innocence and all. You know?”*
(h/t Terry Hastings)
That is my favorite movie of all time -True Grit-
I don’t think they have this right. Buy traditionally appointing the head of the World Bank, we’ve been providing cover for the multilateral elite at the World Bank. It’s time to let some Eurodipshit take the reigns, or better yet, some ambitious little Third Worlder, so that we can start laying the political groundwork for extricating ourselves from “engagement” with these losers.
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Oates said that snorting horse liked to snort horse and eat oats.
So pull the money out. Hell, we can redistribute it without them, can’t we?
With this congress? What are you waiting for?
Shaha Riza?
Not to slam Ms. Riza, but in the good old days..
“I can’t type, I can’t file, I can’t even answer the phone,†Elizabeth Ray told a Washington Post reporter in May 1976.
But she could do Wayne Hays, D-Ohio, chairman of the House Administration Committee, and that was good enough for her to be the committee’s secretary.
At least Hays swung for the fence.
I say we make Charlie Wilson (is he still alive?) the President of the World Bank… at least he’ll show up with Miss Texas
Warren Oates. Great actor. He made an excellent Dillinger in the same-named flick by the great John “WOLVERINES” Milius. Ben Johnson stole the show as Melvin Purvis, a two-gunned, stogie-smoking G-man. Watch it, learn it, love it. Test to follow.
Cactus accident~! If am not mistaken, and I’m not often…ly, YouTube was built for that exact situation.
FYI, Dennis Hopper is a closet Republican.