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Easy Rider


Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper played two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. The success of "Easy Rider" helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination," "Easy Rider" explores the
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Dern in "The Wild Angels", Peter Fonda had the idea of a modern Western, involving two bikers travelling around the country and eventually getting shot by hillbillies. He called Dennis Hopper, and the two decided to turn that into a movie, "The Loners", with Hopper directing, Fonda producing, and both starring and writing. They brought in screenwriter Terry Southern, who came up with the title "Easy Rider". The film was mostly shot without a screenplay, with ad-libbed lines, and
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Peter Fonda


Jane and was directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim. For American television he appeared in a movie, "Certain Honorable Men" (1968) alongside Van Heflin, written by Rod Serling. In 1968, Fonda produced, co-wrote and starred in "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper. "Easy Rider" is about two long-haired bikers traveling through the southwest and southern United States where they encounter intolerance and violence. Fonda played "Captain America," a charismatic, laconic man whose motorcycle
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Hopper had recently appeared with in "Head" (along with another "Easy Rider" co-star, Toni Basil). In 1994, Jay Leno interviewed Hopper about "Easy Rider "on "The Tonight Show", and during the interview, Hopper alleged that Torn had pulled a knife on him during the altercation, prompting Torn to sue Hopper successfully for defamation. The filming budget of "Easy Rider" was $360,000 to $400,000. Peter Fonda said that on top of this, he personally paid for
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Dennis Hopper


in the 1960s. Hopper made his directorial film debut with "Easy Rider" (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for "Best First Work" and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (shared with Fonda and Southern). Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote: "With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, "Easy Rider" became the cinematic symbol of the
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engulfed in flames. Commune Jail Café House of Blue Lights Pickup Truck Hopper and Fonda's first collaboration was in "The Trip" (1967), written by Jack Nicholson, which had themes and characters similar to those of "Easy Rider". Peter Fonda had become "an icon of the counterculture" in "The Wild Angels" (1966), where he established "a persona he would develop further in "The Trip" and "Easy Rider"." "The Trip" also popularized LSD, while
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Ghost Rider (2007 film)


March 2005, actor Peter Fonda (who starred in "Easy Rider") was cast as the villain Mephistopheles. Johnson originally planned to film before an audience at the Telstra Dome, but instead opted to create a crowd using computer-generated imagery. The director also chose to film in the motorcycle district of Melbourne. By June 2005, principal photography had been completed for "Ghost Rider", which was set for a summer 2006 release. In April 2006, the cast and crew performed last-minute reshoots in Vancouver
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Peter Fonda


Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda (by first wife, Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich). Fonda was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Easy Rider" (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Ulee's Gold" (1997). For the
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Clifford Vaughs


, Vaughs interviewed Peter Fonda. Vaughs and Fonda shared an interest in motorcycles, and Fonda introduced Vaughs to Dennis Hopper, which led Vaughs to join a new film project as Associate Producer, a "Western type movie with motorcycles". Vaughs claims to have come up with the name for the film, 'Easy Rider', after the Mae West song, "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone"? Vaughs purchased four Harley-Davidson 'Panhead' motorcycles at an LA County Sherriff's auction in 1967,
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Ballad of Easy Rider


Hot 100 and was issued in most international territories, although it was not released in the United Kingdom. Senior editor for "Rolling Stone" magazine, David Fricke, has described the song as perfectly capturing the social mood of late 1969 and highlighting "the weary blues and dashed expectations of a decade's worth of social insurrection." The star and script writer of "Easy Rider", Peter Fonda, had initially intended to use Bob Dylan's song "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
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over $70 million worldwide by 1973. This initial successes paved the way for the studio to relinquish almost complete control to the film school generation and began what the media dubbed "New Hollywood." Dennis Hopper, the American actor, made his writing and directing debut with "Easy Rider" (1969). Along with his producer/co-star/co-writer Peter Fonda, Hopper was responsible for one of the first completely independent film of New Hollywood. "Easy Rider" debuted at Cannes and garnered the
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Ballad of Easy Rider (album)


actor of "Easy Rider", Peter Fonda, asked Bob Dylan to compose a theme song for the film. Dylan declined, but as a consolation he offered the lines - "The river flows, it flows to the sea/Wherever that river goes, that's where I want to be/Flow, river, flow" - which he hurriedly scribbled onto a napkin, before telling Fonda to "give that to McGuinn." The fragment was dutifully passed on to Roger McGuinn, the Byrds' lead guitarist,
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The Rain People


further complicated when Natalie gets involved with a handsome but lonely highway patrolman Gordon (Robert Duvall). The film served as a vehicle for Duvall and Caan, who at the time roomed with each other and were doing a few films together. Later, they and Coppola teamed for the film "The Godfather". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film four stars out of four and compared Natalie Ravenna's quest to that of the Peter Fonda character in "Easy Rider", and called them
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recording sessions for the Byrds' eighth studio album continued, interest in the band mounted as a result of their involvement with the "Easy Rider" film, leading McGuinn to announce in interviews that the band's next album would be titled "Captain America", in honor of Peter Fonda's character in the film. However, this idea was discarded and ultimately the song "Ballad of Easy Rider" gave the new Byrds' album its title. The B-side of the Byrds' single was the traditional song "
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Easy Rider


"Easy Rider" went on to "celebrate 60s counterculture" but does so "stripped of its innocence." Author Katie Mills wrote that "The Trip" is a way point along the "metamorphosis of the rebel road story from a Beat relic into its hippie reincarnation as "Easy Rider"", and connected Peter Fonda's characters in those two films, along with his character in "The Wild Angels", deviating from the "formulaic biker" persona and critiquing "commodity-oriented filmmakers appropriating avant-garde
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Easy Rider


of "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" wrote: "LSD did create a frame of mind that fractured experience and that LSD experience had an effect on films like "Easy Rider"." The motorcycles for the film, based on hardtail frames and panhead engines, were designed and built by two chopper builders — Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy — following ideas of Peter Fonda, and handled by Tex Hall and Dan Haggerty during shooting. In total, four former police bikes were used in the film. The 1949, 1950
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Vilmos Zsigmond


as he attempted to break into the film industry. Some of the films that he worked on during this period credited him as "William Zsigmond," including "The Sadist" and the classic horror B movie, "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies". Kovács, who shot the 1969 film "Easy Rider" for Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, recommended Zsigmond to Fonda for his 1971 Western film "The Hired Hand". Later that same year Zsigmond was hired by Robert Altman
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Bridget Fonda


. Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. Fonda became involved with the theatre when she was cast in a school production of "Harvey". She studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute as part of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts acting program and graduated from NYU in 1986. Earlier, she had made her film debut at the age of five in the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" as a child in the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit on their trek across
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Terry Southern


Spirits of the Dead", which co-starred Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda. It was during the making of this film that Peter Fonda told Southern of his desire to make a 'modern Western' in which motorbike riders substituted for cowboys, a concept that had been largely inspired by the success of Roger Corman's influential low-budget "exploitation" biker films "The Wild Angels" (1966) and its follow-ups, in which Fonda and his close friend Dennis Hopper had featured. Fonda pitched his idea
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. Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of "Ballad of Easy Rider" and told the filmmakers, "Give this to McGuinn, he’ll know what to do with it." McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film. Originally, Peter Fonda had intended the band Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young to write an entirely original soundtrack for the film, but this failed to materialize for two reasons. For one, cutter Donn
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It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)


Anniversary Concert Celebration" album. The studio recording was re-released on the 2008 compilation album "Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan '60s". A widely known cover of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is that performed by Roger McGuinn for the soundtrack of the 1969 film, "Easy Rider". One of the film's scriptwriters, the star, Peter Fonda, had originally intended to use Dylan's version of the song in the film but after failing to secure
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its placement right after the anti-military draft song "Draft Morning," suggesting that "the singer was not born to follow the sheep (draftees) into slaughter." While McGuinn was writing the theme song for the film "Easy Rider", its star and producer Peter Fonda also wanted to include two songs from "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" in the film ("Wasn't Born to Follow" and "Draft Morning"). In the end, only "Wasn't Born to Follow" was used
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Action Bronson


producer Party Supplies. On August 20, 2014, the music video for "Easy Rider", was released. The video for "Easy Rider", which was directed by Tom Gould, pays homage to the 1969 Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper film of the same name. Bronson officially released "Actin Crazy", via digital distribution on January 20. He released the full album on March 23, 2015. In October, 2015, Bronson was hospitalized in Anchorage, Alaska, for emergency surgery after a concert on October
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Mr. Wonderful (Action Bronson album)


's long time producer Party Supplies. On August 20, 2014, the music video for "Easy Rider", directed by Tom Gould, was released. The video pays homage to the 1969 Peter Fonda/Dennis Hopper film "Easy Rider". After premiering the song on January 7, 2015, Bronson officially released "Actin Crazy", via digital distribution, as the album's second single on January 20, 2015. On February 16, 2015, "Terry" was released as the third single alongside the pre
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song because "he didn't like the movie that much. He didn't like the ending. He wanted to see the truck blow up in order to get poetic justice. He didn't seem to understand Peter Fonda's anti-hero concept." Other critics have speculated that Dylan's reason for insisting his co-writing credit be removed was the belief that his name was being exploited to boost the film's street credibility. The version of "Ballad of Easy Rider" used in the film and included on the
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Easy Rider


Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1998. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) are freewheeling motorcyclists. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their haul and receive a large sum of money. With the cash stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-painted fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival. During their trip, Wyatt and Billy stop to repair
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Peter Fonda


Be Wild", Bob Dylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" sung by the Byrds' Roger McGuinn, and Robertson's own composition "The Weight" performed by The Band, among many other tracks. The film was released in 1969 to international success. Jack Nicholson was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Fonda, Hopper and Southern were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film grossed over $40 million. After the success of "Easy Rider",
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Harley-Davidson Museum


Harley-Davidson bikes ridden by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in the 1969 American movie, "Easy Rider", including Fonda's "Captain America" chopper and Hopper's "Billy Bike". Two of each of the two choppers were created, and one "Captain America" was destroyed in the film's production. The Harley-Davidson Motor Company's corporate archives are also housed on the museum's grounds. The archives supplied more than 85% of the items on display in the museum. Since 1915, the
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Dennis Hopper


With the release of "True Grit" a month earlier, Hopper had starring roles in two major box office films that summer. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director for his improvisational methods and innovative editing for "Easy Rider". The production was plagued by creative differences and personal acrimony between Fonda and Hopper, the dissolution of Hopper's marriage to Hayward, his unwillingness to leave the editor's desk and his accelerating abuse of drugs and alcohol. Hopper said of "Easy Rider": "The cocaine problem in the
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John Phillip Law


of "" (1968), directed by Mario Bava and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Law eventually played the angel in "Barbarella" (1968), co starring with Jane Fonda and produced by De Laurentiis. He followed this with a small role in Preminger's "Skidoo" (1968), then had the lead in "The Sergeant" (1968), starring Rod Steiger as a soldier who lusts after Law. He turned down roles in "Midnight Cowboy" and "Easy Rider" and was replaced
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Luana Anders


as one of the hippie commune girls who go skinny-dipping with Hopper and Peter Fonda in "Easy Rider" (1969). Anders appeared in Robert Altman's "That Cold Day in the Park", which premiered in 1969 at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as being cast in several of her friend Jack Nicholson's films, including "The Trip" (1967), "The Last Detail" (1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (1976), "Goin' South" (1978)
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Ballad of Easy Rider (album)


their involvement with the "Easy Rider" film. This prompted McGuinn to announce that the title of the Byrds' forthcoming album would be "Captain America" (the name of Fonda's character in "Easy Rider"). Ultimately, this working title would not be used and the album was instead named after the film's theme song in an attempt to emphasize the connection with "Easy Rider". Following completion of the album, the Byrds' bass player, John York, was asked to leave the band in
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young


activity since mid-1966, CSNY found itself as the adopted standard bearers for the Woodstock Nation, serving an importance in society as counterculture figureheads equaled at the time in rock and roll only by The Rolling Stones or The Who. Producer Peter Fonda wanted CSN to create the soundtrack for "Easy Rider", but director Dennis Hopper nixed the idea. Stills' offering, "Find the Cost of Freedom" (on the flip side of "Ohio"), was the only song known to be offered for the soundtrack. An
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Haywire (book)


is considered to be a suicide. William (Bill) Hayward – Brooke’s younger brother. He, too, was in and out of mental institutions such as the Menninger Foundation. He produced "Easy Rider" in partnership with Peter Fonda and loved motorcycles for the rest of his life. He shot himself in the heart in 2008. Throughout "Haywire", Hayward uses snippets of oral history from interviews she conducted with people who knew her immediate family members (several of whom were "family friends") to provide
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The Good in Everyone


for "The Good In Everyone" was filmed at Toronto Pearson International Airport and directed by Mike Andringa, who would later direct several more music videos for Sloan. The video's introductory scene is a spoof of the 1969 film, "Easy Rider". In the scene, each band member plays a character from the film, with Andrew Scott playing Billy (Dennis Hopper), Chris Murphy playing Wyatt (Peter Fonda), Jay Ferguson playing Connection (Phil Spector) and Patrick Pentland playing the Bodyguard. The entire introductory
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The Wild Angels


had admissions in France of 531,240 people. The film holds a 61% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews. While promoting another of his 1960s counterculture movies, "The Trip", and autographing a movie still from "The Wild Angels" depicting Bruce Dern and him sharing one motorcycle, Fonda conceived the film "Easy Rider". "Easy Rider" was also about two men, but with each riding his own motorcycle. Edited samples of dialogue from the film, where Fonda's character Blues
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Alan Oakley (designer)


Alan Oakley (27 April 1927 – 18 May 2012) was a British bicycle designer from Nottingham who worked for the Raleigh Bicycle Company. As Raleigh's chief designer he designed the company's best selling Chopper bicycle. He drew the design for the Chopper on an envelope as he travelled home from the USA, in 1967, inspired to replicate the design of Peter Fonda's character's motorbike in the film "Easy Rider". He came up with his drawing as he flew home from the trip, set up for him
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Ben Hardy (motorcycle builder)


Benjamin F. "Ben" Hardy was an African-American custom motorcycle builder who made the Captain America and Billy choppers for the 1969 Peter Fonda road movie "Easy Rider". The Captain America bike, made from a then 20-year-old, heavily customized Harley-Davidson panhead is considered one of the most iconic motorcycles ever built, one which captured the zeitgeist of a generation and became an anti-establishment symbol. Working with another Black motorcycle builder, coordinator Cliff Vaughs, Hardy built two 'Billy' bikes and three
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Film industry in Louisiana


over the years, the first of which was "Tarzan of the Apes", completed in 1918. Other earlier film productions include "Jezebel", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Easy Rider", "Live and Let Die", and "The Big Easy". Louisiana has hosted a long list of major film and television stars over the years whose reputations and talents have likely played a role in the rise of state's film industry. Some of these actors and actresses include Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
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Ghost Rider (2007 film)


Ghost Rider is a 2007 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The film was written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson, and stars Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider, with Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue, Matt Long, and Peter Fonda in supporting roles. "Ghost Rider" was released on February 16, 2007 in the United States. The film was met with negative reviews from critics, but was a box office success, earning $228.7
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Dennis Hopper


United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. After Easy Rider, it was everywhere". Besides showing drug use on film, it was the first film to portray the new hippie lifestyle. Hopper became a stereotype for some male youths who rejected traditional jobs and traditional American culture, partly exemplified by Fonda's long sideburns and Hopper wearing shoulder-length hair and a long mustache. They were denied rooms in motels and proper service in restaurants as a result of their radical
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Born to Be Wild


but it was subsequently included in many compilation albums and soundtracks. The first of these was the soundtrack for the movie "Easy Rider", released in 1969. Unlike the album or single version, the song on this soundtrack is accompanied by the sounds of motorcycles as an introduction (another Steppenwolf song from their first album, "The Pusher", was also used in the film). When the movie was in production, "Born to Be Wild" was used simply as a placeholder, since Peter Fonda had wanted
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Peter Fonda


1998, Peter Fonda starred in a TV movie version of "The Tempest", based in part on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was directed by Jack Bender and starred Fonda, John Glover, Harold Perrineau, and Katherine Heigl. Although not available on DVD, it is available on VHS tape. He was in "The Passion of Ayn Rand" (1998), then appeared in the crime film "The Limey" (1999) as Terry Valentine, a rock music producer who murders a young
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Warren Finnerty


role from the stage production. He continued to work steadily in the 60s and early 70s, making appearances on television in "Bonanza" and "Banacek", and in films such as "The Pawnbroker" (1964), "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "Easy Rider" (1969) in which Finnerty plays a rancher whose lifestyle draws the admiration of Wyatt aka "Captain America," the character played by Peter Fonda, "The Panic in Needle Park" (1971), "Kid Blue
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls


Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood is a book written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon & Schuster in 1998. "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" is about the 1970s Hollywood, a period of American film known for the production of such films such as "The Godfather," "The Godfather Part II," "Chinatown," "Taxi Driver," "Jaws," "Star Wars," "The Exorcist," and
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Karen Black


), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Beginning in 1967, she appeared in guest roles in several television series, including "The F.B.I.", "Run for Your Life", "The Big Valley", "The Iron Horse", The Invaders, "Mannix" and "Adam-12". Her feature film career expanded in 1969, playing the role of an acid-tripping prostitute opposite Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in the iconic counterculture movie "Easy Rider". In 1970, Black appeared as Rayette, the
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Types of motorcycles


Choppers are a type of cruiser, so called because they are a "chopped", or cut-down, version of a production cruiser. Choppers are usually custom projects that result in a bike modified to suit the owner's ideals, and, as such, are a source of pride and accomplishment. Stereotypically, a chopper may have raked-out forks, small fuel tanks and high handlebars. Choppers were popularised in the Peter Fonda film "Easy Rider". Being designed primarily for visual effect, choppers will not
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Terry Southern


himself) have asserted that most of these scenes were fully scripted and primarily written by him. Although the basic concept for the film was Fonda's, the title "Easy Rider" was provided by Southern (it is slang term from the American South for a prostitute’s lover who lives off her) and Southern wrote several early drafts of the screenplay. During the production, Southern became concerned at Hopper and Fonda's replacement of his writing by what he described as "dumb-bell dialogue", and more of the
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Dude


in surfer and "bro" culture, is generally used informally to address someone ("Dude, I'm glad you finally called") or refer to another person ("I've seen that dude around here before"). One of the first known references to the word in American film was in the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" where Captain America (portrayed by Peter Fonda) explains to his cellmate lawyer (portrayed by Jack Nicholson) the definition of "dude": "Dude means nice guy; Dude
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The Great Silence


Film", Corbucci revealed that he had dedicated "The Great Silence" to the memories of Martin Luther King, Che Guevara and Robert F. Kennedy, as he believed that their assassinations served to further their causes and resulted in widespread condemnations of violence.Alex Cox elaborates: In contrast to the deaths of leading characters in similarly countercultural films of the time, such of Ben, Duane Jones' character in "Night of the Living Dead", and Wyatt and Billy (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) in "Easy Rider
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Dennis Hopper


"True Grit" (1969), and during its production he became well acquainted with Wayne. In both of the films with Wayne, Hopper's character is killed in the presence of Wayne's character, to whom he utters his dying words. Hopper had a supporting role as the bet-taker, "Babalugats", in "Cool Hand Luke" (1967). In 1968, Hopper teamed with Peter Fonda, Terry Southern and Jack Nicholson to make "Easy Rider", which premiered in July 1969.
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Hearts in Atlantis


Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are about the Baby Boomer Generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of "Easy Rider": "We blew it." All of the stories
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Terry Southern


death. In 1992 he collaborated with Joseph McGrath on a screenplay "Starlets" (later retitled "Festival"), which satirized the Cannes Film Festival. During the year Peter Fonda reportedly tried to prevail on Southern to give up any claim on "Easy Rider" in exchange for a payment of $30,000, but Southern refused. Southern also assisted Perry Richardson with another book based around Michael Cooper's photography, "The Early Stones", which was published late in the year. Southern's health deteriorated in the last
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Raybert Productions


Raybert Productions was a production company that operated in the 1960s, founded by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider. Its principal works were the situation comedy "The Monkees" (and the group of the same name), and the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" (co-produced with Peter Fonda's Pando Company). Raybert was also the predecessor to BBS Productions, a New Hollywood production company founded by Rafelson, Schneider, and Schneider’s childhood friend Stephen Blauner. BBS Productions' best known film is "The Last Picture
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Easy Rider


movie, so I'm gonna have to say no to this, and if you guys try to get in the studio again, I may have to cause you some bodily harm." The film was released by The Criterion Collection in November 2010 as part of the box set "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story". It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other with Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis; two documentaries
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Ballarat, California


closed and all that remained were a few diehard prospectors and desert rats. In the 1960s, Charles Manson and the "Manson Family" of killers moved into a ranch south of Ballarat, and left graffiti in the town. The 1969 movie "Easy Rider" has a scene filmed in Ballarat. After arriving in the town, Peter Fonda's character, Wyatt, removes his Rolex watch and throws it away before he and Dennis Hopper's character, Billy, head east on their motorcycles towards New Orleans. On Easter weekend
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Spirits of the Dead


Southern's biographer Lee Hill, it was during the making of this segment that Peter Fonda told Southern of his idea to make a 'modern Western' movie. Southern was enthusiastic about the idea and agreed to work on the project, which eventually became the renowned independent film "Easy Rider". The segment was filmed in Roscoff, a small town in Brittany. Louis Malle accepted the job of directing the segment "William Wilson" in order to raise money for his next film "Murmur of the Heart". The
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Ballad of Easy Rider


in the film, but after failing to license the track, Fonda asked Roger McGuinn of the Byrds to record a cover version of the song instead. Fonda also wanted Dylan to write the film's theme song, but Dylan declined, quickly scribbling the lines - "The river flows, it flows to the sea/Wherever that river goes, that's where I want to be/Flow, river, flow" - on to a napkin, before telling Fonda to "give this to McGuinn. He'll know what
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Luke Askew


and Walter F. Jay School of Law. Askew served in the United States Air Force during his college years in intelligence. He made his film debut in "Hurry Sundown" (1967), but was first noticed as an actor for his role in the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke". The following year he worked with John Wayne in "The Green Berets" (with his hair cut short). The following year he worked with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in "Easy Rider", a film that set
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Boulder International Film Festival


to local students; through Schmoozers, networking events which provide a venue for people involved or interested in the film arts and industry to mix and mingle, and through the CFS Community Resource Program, which provides various forms of no-cost support, resources and mentorship to many arts organizations in Boulder County. The Festival has hosted and celebrated many award-winning film figures, including Shirley MacLaine ("Terms of Endearment," "Sweet Charity," "The Apartment"), Peter Fonda ("Easy Rider,"
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Easy Rider


men, Hopper told them the characters of Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped and killed a girl outside of town. The scene in which Billy and Wyatt were shot was filmed on Louisiana Highway 105 North, just outside Krotz Springs, and the two other men in the scene—Johnny David and D.C. Billodeau—were Krotz Springs locals. While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother (who had committed suicide when he was
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Terry Southern


by the refusal of the "New York Times" to run ads for the book. Southern worked on a variety of screenplays in the immediate aftermath "Easy Rider", including "God Is Love", "DJ" (based on a book by Norman Mailer), "Hand-Painted Hearts" (based on a story by Thomas Baum), and "Drift" with Tony Goodstone. While Fonda and Hopper continued to assert that much of "Easy Rider" had been improvised, Southern remained largely silent about
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Easy Rider


about the making and history of the film, "Born to Be Wild" (1995) and "Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage" (1999); television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival; and a new video interview with BBS co-founder Stephen Blauner. In 2012, a sequel to the movie was released titled "", directed by Dustin Rikert. The film is about the family of Wyatt "Captain America" Williams from the 1940s to the present day. No members of the
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Easy Rider


, by George, he manages to do it every time." According to Southern, Fonda was under contract to produce a motorcycle film with A.I.P., which Fonda had agreed to allow Hopper to direct. According to Southern, Fonda and Hopper didn't seek screenplay credit until after the first screenings of the film, which required Southern's agreement due to writers guild policies. Southern says he agreed out of a sense of camaraderie, and that Hopper later took credit for the entire script. According to Terry Southern's biographer,
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Dutch Americans


was famous for the television show "Eight is Enough". Three generations of Fondas from Fonda, New York have graced the stage and screen for almost a century, including Henry Fonda, son Peter Fonda, daughter Jane Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda and grandson Troy Garity. The "X-Men" trilogy starred Dutch actress Famke Janssen and Dutch-descended Rebecca Romijn who is perhaps best known for her TV roles on such comedies as "Ugly Betty". Anneliese van der Pol, a singer and actress, is a
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a great film. However, he was disappointed with how the film turned out and blamed the editing which turned it into a "predictable" film and said so publicly. "I was livid", he recalls. Nicholson also co-wrote, with Bob Rafelson, the movie "Head", which starred The Monkees. He also arranged the movie's soundtrack. After a spot opened up in Fonda and Hopper's "Easy Rider" (1969), it led to his first big acting break. Nicholson played
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Ballad of Easy Rider (album)


the United Kingdom. To emphasize the connection between the album and "Easy Rider", the back cover of the LP featured liner notes written by Fonda. His musings were written in a free-form, stream of consciousness style and optimistically opined (in a manner reminiscent of the chorus of "Jesus Is Just Alright") that "whoever the Byrds are is just alright. OH YEAH!" The album peaked at number 36 on the "Billboard" Top LPs chart, during a chart stay of seventeen weeks,
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Bodies, Rest & Motion


Bodies, Rest & Motion is a 1993 American drama film written by Roger Hedden based on his play, and directed by Michael Steinberg. The film stars Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, and Eric Stoltz: they play four friends who are interested in the relationships they have and changing their own lives, but along the way their interests in life and each other start to change. The film also stars Bridget Fonda's real life father, Peter Fonda, as a motorcyclist. "Bodies, Rest & Motion"
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Wanda Nevada


Wanda Nevada is a 1979 American western comedy film starring Peter Fonda and Brooke Shields as the title character. It was also directed by Peter Fonda. Henry Fonda makes a cameo appearance as an Arizona prospector, making it the only film to feature the father and son together. Peter Fonda reportedly paid his father Henry $1000 () for one day's work on the film after receiving a call from his father that he was out of work. Set in 1950s Arizona, the story follows a drifter and gambler named Beaudray Demerille
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both Hopper and Fonda were sought for film projects. Hopper made the drug-addled jungle epic "The Last Movie" (in which Fonda co-starred along with singer Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas). Fonda directed and starred in the Western film, "The Hired Hand" (1971). Fonda took the lead role in a cast that also featured Warren Oates, Verna Bloom and Beat poet Michael McClure. The film received mixed reviews and failed commercially upon its initial release, but many years later
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of "Bang the Drum Slowly" but then Rossen passed away. Fonda graduated to starring roles in "The Young Lovers" (1964), about out-of-wedlock pregnancy, the sole directorial effort of Samuel Goldwyn Jr., and not very popular. By the mid-1960s, Peter Fonda was not a conventional "leading man" in Hollywood. As "Playboy" magazine reported, Fonda had established a "solid reputation as a dropout". He had become outwardly nonconformist and grew his hair long and took LSD regularly
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Easy Rider


10 years old) and ask her why she left him. Although Fonda was reluctant, he eventually complied. Later, Fonda used the inclusion of this scene as leverage to persuade Roger McGuinn to allow the use of his cover of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)." Despite being filmed in the first half of 1968, roughly between Mardi Gras and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with production starting on February 22, the film did not have a U.S. premiere until July
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Can't Say No" (2018); and "Boundaries" (2018) with Christopher Plummer. He was an executive producer of the documentary "The Big Fix" (2012). Fonda wrote an autobiography, "Don't Tell Dad" (1998). In 2000, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. Fonda has had a permanent home in Paradise Valley, Montana since 1975. In 2011, Fonda and Tim Robbins produced "The Big Fix
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Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole


The original production starred Peter Fonda and Darren McGavin and was directed by Jerome Chodorov. It ran for 84 performances. James Caan appeared in the cast. The production was budgeted for $100,000 and brought in at $85,000. show was launched with "two-for" tickets at certain matinees. It was the New York stage debut for Peter Fonda, who was selected over 200 other actors. Screen rights were sold to the America Corporation for $125,000 with a ceiling of $125,000. They also invested $45,000 in
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where he played a Vietnam deserter. In 1974, Fonda starred alongside Susan George in the film "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" (1974), a film about two NASCAR hopefuls who execute a supermarket heist to finance their jump into big-time auto racing. The film was a notable box-office hit that year, and it would go on to become a cult classic. It led to Fonda making a series of action movies: "Open Season" (1974), with William Holden; "Race with
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that Cooper played. However it did not become a series. Fonda next played the male lead in Corman's popular film "The Trip" (1967), a take on the experience and "consequences" of consuming LSD which was written by Jack Nicholson. His co stars included Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson. The movie was another big hit. Fonda then travelled to France to appear in the portmanteau horror movie "Spirits of the Dead" (1968). His segment co-starred Fonda's sister
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Enemy (1990 film)


Enemy (also known as Fatal Mission) is a 1990 American action/adventure film directed by George Rowe and starring Peter Fonda, who also co-wrote the screenplay. A CIA agent posing as a journalist (Peter Fonda) assassinates a North Vietnamese official then escapes into the jungle, where he comes across a beautiful female spy (Tia Carrere). At first they're enemies, but come to the realization that they must work together if they want to get out alive. "Enemy" was filmed in the Philippines
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the movie "On Golden Pond", his final film role. Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999 he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Born in Grand Island, Nebraska on May 16, 1905, Henry Jaynes Fonda was the son of printer William Brace Fonda, and his wife
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released by a major studio. The project was first taken by one of its cocreators, Peter Fonda, to American International. Fonda had become AIP's top star in the Corman–directed "The Wild Angels" (1966), a biker movie, and "The Trip", as in LSD. The idea Fonda pitched would combine those two proven themes. AIP was intrigued but balked at giving his collaborator, Dennis Hopper—who had appeared in "The Trip" and several other AIP opuses—free directorial rein
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drama, with Fonda playing a musician opposite Susan St. James. After some more action with "High-Ballin'" (1978), Fonda returned to directing, with the controversial drama "Wanda Nevada" (1979) where the 39 year old Fonda starred as the "love" interest of the then 13 year old Brooke Shields. His father Henry Fonda made a brief appearance as well, and it is the only film in which they performed together. Fonda was top billed in "The Hostage Tower" (1980
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance


him of his safety. The angelic blue flaming Ghost Rider rides off on his motorcycle, saying: "My name is Johnny Blaze. I'm the Ghost Rider." On February 9, 2007, Marvel producer Avi Arad announced the development of "Ghost Rider 2" at a press event. Peter Fonda had also expressed a desire to return as Mephistopheles. In early December, 2007, Nicolas Cage also expressed interest to return in the lead role as Ghost Rider. Shortly after, in another interview he went on further
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Easy Rider


hoc crew for control. At one point he entered into a physical confrontation with photographer Barry Feinstein, who was one of the camera operators for the shoot. After this turmoil, Hopper and Fonda decided to assemble a proper crew for the rest of the film. Allegedly, the characters of Wyatt and Billy were respectively based on Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of The Byrds. The hippie commune was recreated from pictures and shot at a site overlooking Malibu Canyon, since the New Buffalo commune in Arroyo Hondo near Taos, New Mexico
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reviews from critics. He also appeared in the last scenes of the biker comedy "Wild Hogs" as Damien Blade, founder of the biker gang Del Fuegos and father of Jack, played by Ray Liotta. Fonda also portrayed Mephistopheles, one of two main villains in the 2007 film "Ghost Rider." Although he wanted to play the character in , he was replaced by Ciarán Hinds. He was in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (2008), "Japan" (2008), and "
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Peter Fonda


to Westminster School, a Connecticut boarding school in Simsbury where he graduated in 1958. Fonda performed at the Cecilwood Theatre in New York in 1960. Fonda found work on Broadway and gained notice in "Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole", written by James and William Goldman which ran for 84 performances in 1961. Fonda began guest starring on TV shows like "Naked City", "The New Breed", "Wagon Train", and "The Defenders". Fonda's first film came when producer Ross Hunter was
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Easy Rider


Cambern edited the footage much more closely to what were only meant as temporary tracks than was customary at the time, which led to everyone involved finding them much more suited to the material than they had originally thought. On the other hand, Hopper increasingly got control over every aspect over the course of the project and decided to throw CSNY out behind Fonda's back, telling the band as an excuse, "Look, you guys are really good musicians, but honestly, anybody who rides in a limo can't comprehend my
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Sharon Tate


, Joan Collins, Mia Farrow, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Steve McQueen, Joanna Pettet and Peter Sellers; older film stars like Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda and Danny Kaye; musicians such as Jim Morrison and The Mamas & the Papas; and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend, actress Candice Bergen. Jay Sebring remained one of the couple's more frequent companions. Polanski's circle of friends included people he had known since his youth in Poland such as Wojciech Frykowski and Frykowski's
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looking for a new male actor to romance Sandra Dee in "Tammy and the Doctor" (1963). Fonda was cast in the role, in what was a minor hit. He followed this with a support part in "The Victors" (1963), a bleak look at American soldiers in World War Two, directed by Carl Foreman. Fonda's performance won him a Golden Globe Award for most promising newcomer. Fonda continued to work in television, guest starring in "Channing", "Arrest and Trial"
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"Jack the TAB" LP (1988). It was later sampled in the Primal Scream recording "Loaded" (1991), and in other rock songs. The movie was a massive hit at the box office, screened at the Venice Film Festival, launched the biker movie genre, and established Fonda as a movie name. Fonda made a TV pilot, "High Noon: The Clock Strikes Noon Again" , filmed in December 1965. It was based on the film starring Gary Cooper with Fonda in the role
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Ken Lauber


Between 1973 and 1983, in Los Angeles, Lauber settled into composing for film and television. He scored both original music and adapted period music to the film Hearts of the West, starring Jeff Bridges and original music for the feature films "Chilly Scenes of Winter", Peter Fonda’s "Wanda Nevada" starring Brooke Shields and Fonda, and additional music to "Goin' South" with Jack Nicholson and Fonda, Emmy Award winning "Studs Lonigan" and "Kent State" and contributed dramatic music for multiple episodes of the
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company was certainly a studio. Likewise, Zoetrope was another "independent studio" which worked within the system to make a space for independent directors who needed funding. George Lucas would leave Zoetrope in 1971 to create his own independent studio, Lucasfilm, which would produce the blockbuster "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises. In fact, the only two movies of the movement which can be described as uncompromisingly independent are "Easy Rider" at the beginning, and Peter Bogdanovich's "They All Laughed", at
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(1996). He also guest starred on "In the Heat of the Night". After years of films of varying success, Fonda received high-profile critical recognition and universal praise for his performance in "Ulee's Gold" (1997). He portrayed a stoic North Florida beekeeper who tries to save his son and granddaughter from a life of drug abuse. For his performance, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He had the lead in "Painted Hero" (1997). In
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Roger Vadim


in a science fiction sex comedy, "Barbarella" (1968) and she agreed provided Vadim could direct. Following this he directed Fonda in a segment of the omnibus horror film "Spirits of the Dead" (1968) along with her brother Peter Fonda. During his marriage to Fonda, Vadim would accompany her back to the US periodically while she made movies there. He and Fonda broke up and Vadim directed "Pretty Maids All in a Row" (1971) for MGM, starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson.
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Peter Biskind


Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist and former executive editor of "Premiere" magazine from 1986 to 1996. He wrote several books depicting life in Hollywood, including "Seeing Is Believing," "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls," "Down and Dirty Pictures," and "Gods and Monsters," some of which were bestsellers. In 2010 he published a biography of director and actor Warren Beatty, entitled "Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America." Biskind is a contributing editor at
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Race with the Devil


Race with the Devil is a 1975 American action horror film directed by Jack Starrett, written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost, and starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, and Lara Parker. This was the second of three films Fonda and Oates would star in together ("The Hired Hand" (1971) was their first, and "92 in the Shade" (1975) was their third). "Race with the Devil" is a hybrid of the horror, action, and car chase genres
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Bianca Chiminello


made an independent feature film, "Japan", starring Peter Fonda, Shane Brolly and herself. Synopsis: Code name "Japan" is a contract killer on a job. Accustomed to staying in hotels, Japan (Shane Brolly) finds himself jet-lagged in the middle of the night and forced to eat in the hotel restaurant, room service being closed. There, he meets a man, Alfred (Peter Fonda). Alfred was recently evicted from their marital home by his now ex-wife (Bianca Chiminello
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by a major studio. The project was first taken by one of its cocreators, Peter Fonda, to American International. Fonda had become AIP's top star in the Corman-directed "The Wild Angels" (1966), a biker movie, and "The Trip", as in taking LSD. The idea Fonda pitched would combine those two proven themes. AIP was intrigued but balked at giving his collaborator, Dennis Hopper, also a studio alumnus, free directorial rein. Eventually they arranged a financing and distribution deal
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Spasms


Spasms is a 1983 Canadian horror film directed by William Fruet and starring Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, and Kerrie Keane. Jason Kincaid (Oliver Reed) has a massive serpent captured in a remote island. He brought it to the US because it killed his brother, and he now shares some kind of psychic link with it. He enlists the help of psychologist Tom Brazilian (Peter Fonda) to study the animal and the mental connection, but they do not count on a group of snake worshiping Satanists to complicate matters by
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The Young Lovers (1964 film)


The Young Lovers is a 1964 black-and-white American romantic drama film. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in November 1964. The sole directorial effort of its producer, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., it stars Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny, with second leads Nick Adams and Deborah Walley. Scripted by George Garrett from a 1955 novel by Julian Halevy, the film was shot in September–October 1963 and released a year later. While attending college, Eddie (Peter Fonda) shares an apartment with another
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Spirits of the Dead


Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, and Terence Stamp are among the stars. The English-language version features narration by Vincent Price. At the age of 22, Countess Frederique (Jane Fonda) inherits the Metzengerstein estate and lives a life of promiscuity and debauchery. While in the forest, her leg is caught in a trap and she is freed by her cousin and neighbor Baron Wilhelm (Peter Fonda), whom she has never met because of a long-standing family feud. She becomes enamored with Wilhelm, but he rejects
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in 2001 a fully restored version was shown at various film festivals gaining critical praise, and was re-released by the Sundance Channel on DVD that same year. Fonda later directed the science fiction film "Idaho Transfer" (1973). Fonda did not appear in the film, and the film received mixed reviews upon its limited release. It has since become a cult classic with science fiction fans. That same year he co-starred with Lindsay Wagner in "Two People" (1973) for director Robert Wise,
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