Terry Southern

Oscars 1965 Winners (My Version) (26 items)
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Terry Southern was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. He wrote comic novels "Candy" and "The Magic Christian" and the screenplays for "Dr. Strangelove", "The Loved One", "The Cincinnati Kid" and "Easy Rider".