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69-582: First introduced in 1950 by Smith, Kline & French (SKF) , Dexamyl was marketed as an anorectic obesity medication as well as an anxiolytic and antidepressant medication that did not cause agitation. Racemic amphetamine had already been marketed over-the-counter (OTC) since 1933 as a nasal decongestant inhaler device sold under the brand name Benzedrine , and also as an oral tablet since 1938. Dexamyl utilized its enantiopure isomer of greater central nervous system (CNS) selectivity, dextroamphetamine, to elevate mood and suppress appetite, whereas

138-663: A "dirty book". André Deutsch accepted Flash and Filigree , Southern's first novel, early in 1957, and the short story "A South Summer Idyll" was published in Paris Review No. 15. The Southerns spent some time in Spain with Henry Green during the summer, and Southern interviewed him for the Paris Review . Several more short stories were published later that year, by which time he was finishing work on Candy . Southern and Gregory Corso helped convince Girodias to publish

207-448: A chaotic production, stitched together from segments variously directed or co-directed by a team that included Joseph McGrath , Robert Parrish , Val Guest , John Huston , Richard Talmadge , and Ken Hughes . Many planned scenes could not be filmed due to the feud between Orson Welles and star Peter Sellers, which climaxed with Sellers walking out during the filming of the casino scenes and refusing to return. Many writers contributed to

276-769: A fan and collector of modern art, later introduced Southern to British gallery owner and art dealer Robert Fraser . Not long after arriving in Los Angeles, Southern met Gail Gerber, a young Canadian-born actress and dancer, on the MGM backlot. Gerber, who used the stage name Gail Gilmore , was working as a dancer on an Elvis Presley movie, and she had a non-speaking role in The Loved One . Southern and Gerber soon began an affair. The relationship intensified during July/August 1964, and after Southern's wife and son went back to East Canaan, Southern and Gerber moved in together in

345-457: A general practitioner from Philadelphia who also conducted a study on the usage and effects of Dexamyl among his patients would pronounce the effectiveness of the drug with the quote “This is a Dexamyl age, an age of unrest; probably no other period in history has been dominated by a mood of uncertainty and disquiet.” The famous patient of Freuds, Sergei Pankejeff (also known as the Wolf-man)

414-609: A job with UNESCO , which supported them as Southern continued to write. The years in Geneva were a prolific period during which he prepared Flash and Filigree for publication, and worked on Candy and The Magic Christian as well as TV scripts and short stories. The couple made trips to Paris, where they visited Mason Hoffenberg, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs , and to London, where Southern met Henry Green and Kenneth Tynan . During his time in New York, Southern had written

483-484: A never-completed novel titled The Hipsters , which he had begun in Geneva. He became part of the New York artists and writers 'salon' of his old friend Plimpton—who had also moved back to New York— frequenting the Cedar Tavern , rubbing shoulders with writers James Jones , William Styron , Norman Mailer , Philip Roth , Harold "Doc" Humes, Jack Gelber , Jules Feiffer , Blair Fuller, Gore Vidal , Kenneth Tynan ,

552-484: A rural retreat close enough to New York to allow Terry to commute there. Southern met and became friendly with jazz musician and bandleader Artie Shaw , and they began looking for properties together. Shaw put down a deposit on a farm in East Canaan, Connecticut, but at the urging of a friend Southern convinced Shaw to let him buy the farm, which he purchased for $ 23,000. During 1959 and 1960, he continued working on

621-511: A screenwriter and script doctor, and allowed him to greatly increase his fee, from the reported $ 2,000 he received for Dr. Strangelove to as much as $ 100,000 thereafter. During the latter half of the 1960s, Southern worked on the screenplays of a string of "cult" films. His credits in this period include The Loved One (1965), The Collector (1965), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Casino Royale (1967), Barbarella (1968), Easy Rider (1969), The Magic Christian (1969), and End of

690-476: A short story "about a girl in Greenwich Village who got involved with a hunchback because she was such a good Samaritan" and this became the core of Candy , co-written with Mason Hoffenberg. On his return to Paris in late 1956, Southern showed the story to several people, including Hoffenberg, who thought the character should have more adventures. Southern encouraged Hoffenberg to write one; this became

759-679: A suite at the Chateau Marmont hotel. He and Kauffman were divorced in 1965. Working with Richardson and Isherwood, Southern turned Waugh's novel into "an all-out attack on Hollywood, consumerism, and the hypocrisies surrounding man's fear of death". Southern also wrote the text for a souvenir book, which featured photos by William Claxton . Work on the film continued through most of 1965, with Southern and Gerber spending much of their leisure time with their newfound film star friends in Malibu, California. Loved One co-producer John Calley

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828-630: Is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in February 1963. Southern's reputation was established with the publication of his comic novels Candy and The Magic Christian and through his gift for writing memorable film dialogue as evident in Dr. Strangelove , The Loved One , The Cincinnati Kid , and The Magic Christian . His work on Easy Rider helped create

897-540: Is no way you can make a movie of it. It deals with youthful incitement, which is illegal." As a result, Paramount put it into ' turnaround ' and it was eventually picked up by Kubrick three years later. During the frequent downtime during the filming of Casino Royale , Filmways hired Southern to do a "tightening and brightening" job on the screenplay of the occult thriller Eye of the Devil , which starred David Niven and featured Sharon Tate in her first film role. Through

966-529: The Pink Panther film series. Southern also helped Sellers with dialogue coaching. Originally slated to play four roles, including that of the Texan B-52 bomber pilot Major Kong, the actor had difficulty mastering the accent. Southern, a native Texan, taped himself speaking Kong's lines for Sellers to study. Sellers, who had never been comfortable in the role of Kong, was able to extricate himself from

1035-556: The Aga Khan , the cast of the British comedy stage revue Beyond The Fringe , Jackie Kennedy , British actress Jean Marsh , and Tynan's first wife, Elaine Dundy , through whom Southern met satirist Lenny Bruce . Flash and Filigree had been published in the U.S. by Coward McCann in the fall of 1958. Several fragments from The Hipsters were published as short stories during this period, including "Red-Dirt Marijuana" published, in

1104-583: The Beatles , the Rolling Stones , photographer Michael Cooper , interior designer Christopher Gibbs , model-actress Anita Pallenberg , filmmaker Nicolas Roeg , painter Francis Bacon , producer Sandy Lieberson , Guinness heir Tara Browne , and model Donyale Luna . Southern became close friends with photographer Michael Cooper, who was part of the Rolling Stones' inner circle and who shot

1173-621: The Cinémathèque Française in Paris and saw jazz performances by leading bebop musicians including Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , Bud Powell , Thelonious Monk , and Miles Davis , evoked in his classic "You're Too Hip, Baby". During the early 1950s he wrote some of his best short stories, including "The Butcher" and "The Automatic Gate", both published in David Burnett's New-Story magazine. His story "The Accident"

1242-557: The James Bond team of Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli . He also wrote an essay on John Fowles ' novel The Collector , which led to his work as a "script doctor" on the subsequent screen version. Southern's writing career took off in 1963. His essay "Twirlin' at Ole Miss" was published in Esquire in February 1963, and this work of satirical reportage is now acknowledged as one of the cornerstone works of New Journalism . This

1311-590: The Putnam company to reissue Candy under his and Hoffenberg's real names, and he hired Sterling Lord as his literary agent, . In the summer of 1962, Southern worked for two months as a relief editor at Esquire , and during this period, he had several stories published in the magazine, including "The Road to Axotle". Through Esquire , he interviewed rising filmmaker Stanley Kubrick , who had completed his controversial screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov 's novel Lolita . Although Southern knew little about Kubrick,

1380-514: The Smith, Kline and French Company . In 1932, SKF chemist Gordon Alles was awarded a patent for amphetamine . In 1968, the company acquired Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques in Belgium . SmithKline acquired Allergan in 1982, an eye and skincare business, and merged with Beckman Instruments, Inc. , a company specialising in diagnostics and measurement instruments and supplies. After

1449-642: The independent film movement of the 1970s . Southern was born in Alvarado, Texas . He graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas, Texas in 1941. He attended North Texas Agricultural College for a year as a pre-med major before transferring to Southern Methodist University , where he continued to cultivate his interest in literature. From 1943 to 1945, he served in the U.S. Army as a demolitions technician during World War II. Stationed in Reading, England with

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1518-618: The 435th Quartermaster Platoon (allowing for frequent forays to London), he earned a Bronze Star and a Good Conduct Medal . In the autumn of 1946, he resumed his studies at the University of Chicago before transferring to Northwestern University , where he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy in 1948. Southern left the United States in September 1948, using a G.I. Bill grant to travel to France, where he studied at

1587-468: The Eon series, Feldman then decided to shoot the film as a parody, not only of James Bond but of the entire spy fiction genre. The casino segment featuring Peter Sellers and Orson Welles is the only portion based upon the novel. Southern and Gail Gerber moved to London in early 1966, when Southern was hired to work on the screenplay of Casino Royale . The episodic "quasi-psychedelic burlesque" proved to be

1656-553: The Faculté Des Lettres of the Sorbonne . His four-year stint in Paris was a crucial formative influence, both on his development as a writer and on the evolution of his "hip" persona. During this period he made many important friendships and social contacts as he became a central figure in the expatriate American café society of the 1950s. He became close friends with Mason Hoffenberg (with whom he subsequently co-wrote

1725-558: The Frederick Fall company. The editing process took much longer than expected: A drug bust led Trocchi to flee to the UK via Canada, leaving Southern and Seaver to finish the book, and editor Stephen Levine was recruited to assist. Terry and Carol's son and only child Nile Southern was born on December 29, 1960. Around this time, Southern began writing for Maurice Girodias' new periodical Olympia Review . He began negotiations with

1794-598: The January–February 1960 edition of Evergreen Review ; and "Razor Fight", published in Glamour magazine. He had an essay on Lotte Lenya published in Esquire . In early 1960, he began writing book reviews for The Nation , which were published over the next two years. During the year, he collaborated with his old Paris friends Trocchi and Richard Seaver , compiling "Writers in Revolt," an anthology of modern fiction for

1863-537: 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 briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s. Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors, and filmgoers. He

1932-511: The Road (1970). In early 1964, Southern was hired to collaborate with British author Christopher Isherwood on a screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's satirical novel The Loved One , directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson . When filming was postponed in the spring of 1964, Southern returned to East Canaan and continued work on a rewrite of the script for the film version of John Fowles ' The Collector but he eventually withdrew from

2001-554: The album's front-cover collage, which was photographed by Cooper. Soon after, a collection of his short writing Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes , was published in the US. It received favorable reviews from critics, and the cover blurb featured a highly complimentary quote from Gore Vidal , who described Southern as "the most profoundly witty writer of our generation". Work on Barbarella continued through to late 1967, and Southern convinced Vadim to cast his friend Anita Pallenberg in

2070-541: The chagrin of Cooper and the Stones—and the director's chair was initially offered to Richard Lester , who turned it down. Southern's old friend Ted Kotcheff was then approached, but at this point, the project stalled – under the British censorship regulations of the time, the treatment had to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain , who returned it, unread, with a note attached that said: "I know this book and there

2139-459: The company, as a bookkeeper. In 1875, he took on additional responsibilities as a salesman and added many new and large accounts, as a reward the company, Mahlon K Smith and Company, was renamed into Smith, Kline and Company. In 1891, Smith, Kline and Company acquired French, Richards and Company, founded in 1844 by Clayton French and William Richards, which provided the company with a greater portfolio of consumer brands. The combined business became

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2208-412: The concomitant barbiturate was included to broadly counteract potential adverse effects from dextroamphetamine. Its name is a portmanteau of dextro - amphetamine and amyl - barbitone. Dexamyl was discontinued in 1982 by SKF in favor of monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) which were recently developed and shared treatment indications with Dexamyl yet lacked

2277-476: The controversial novel Naked Lunch by then-little-known author Burroughs. In early 1958, Southern made his first foray into screenwriting, working with Canadian director Ted Kotcheff , who had come to Britain to work for the newly established ABC Weekend TV company. Kotcheff directed Southern's TV adaptation of Eugene O'Neill 's The Emperor Jones , which was broadcast in the UK in March. This coincided with

2346-665: The corrupting effects of money. He finished the book in Geneva over the fall and winter of 1958–1959. and it was published by André Deutsch in Spring 1959 to mixed reviews; however, it soon gained an avid cult following. By the time it had been published, the Southerns had decided to return to the U.S.; they left Geneva for New York in April 1959. After moving back to the U.S., the Southerns stayed with friends for several months until they were able to buy their own home. They were looking for

2415-550: The couple married just before they moved to New York City. In 1953, Southern and Gadiot returned to the US and settled in Greenwich Village in New York City. As he had in Paris, Southern quickly became a prominent figure on the artistic scene that flourished in the Village in the late 1950s. He met visual artists such as Robert Frank and Larry Rivers . Through Mason Hoffenberg, who made occasional visits from Paris, he

2484-588: The cover photos for the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP. Southern attended the Cannes Film Festival in the spring of 1966, where he met Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga , and he remained in touch with Malanga for many years. On his return to London, he continued work on the Casino Royale screenplay and a screen adaptation of The Magic Christian for Peter Sellers, who

2553-453: The director was well aware of Southern's work, having been given a copy of The Magic Christian by Peter Sellers during the making of Lolita . Southern's life and career changed irrevocably on November 2, 1962, when he received a telegram inviting him to come to London to work on the screenplay of Kubrick's new film, which was then in pre-production. Partly on the recommendation of Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick asked Southern to help revise

2622-466: The drug was taken by "tired housewives", and was also abused by youths who took excessively large doses and nicknamed the triangular blue tablets "purple hearts" or "blues." This became a celebrated part of the Mod subculture. Dexamyl is the recreational drug of choice for the main character of the film Quadrophenia , who eventually suffers from amphetamine psychosis . They were widely abused. Henry Grahn,

2691-457: The film adaptations of Ian Fleming 's James Bond series, produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman , had become a successful and popular film franchise. However, the rights to Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale had been secured by rival producer Charles K. Feldman . He had attempted to get Casino Royale made as an Eon Productions James Bond film, but Broccoli and Saltzman turned him down. Believing he could not compete with

2760-526: The high dependence potential and abuse liability which characterized long-term Dexamyl usage. British prime minister Anthony Eden was prescribed Dexamyl; he was using it to treat abdominal pain. It has been suggested that the drug impaired his judgment during the Suez Crisis . The failure of his Suez policies led to his ousting while he was recovering in Jamaica . In Britain during the early 1960s

2829-439: The merger the company was renamed SmithKline Beckman . SmithKline Beckman and Beecham Group merged in 1989 to form SmithKline Beecham plc. In 2000, SmithKline Beecham merged with Glaxo Wellcome to form GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Terry Southern Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of

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2898-766: The mid-1950s. He also writes that he stopped taking the drug after his friend Vandi Haygood died from "steady doses of Dexamyl". Dr. George C. Nichopoulos was indicted in May 1980 for having improperly prescribed Dexamyl and phenmetrazine (Preludin) to the singer Jerry Lee Lewis , despite knowing he was addicted to them. Dr. Patrick A. Mazza, team physician for the Reading Phillies , said he prescribed Dexamyl, Eskatrol , Dexedrine , and Preludin for Steve Carlton , Larry Christenson , Tim McCarver , Pete Rose , Larry Bowa , and Greg Luzinski . The charges against Mazza were dropped after he contended that he had provided

2967-411: The novel Candy ), Alexander Trocchi , John Marquand , Mordecai Richler , Aram Avakian (filmmaker, photographer and brother of Columbia Records jazz producer George Avakian ), and jazz musician and motorsport enthusiast Allen Eager . He also met expatriate American writer James Baldwin and leading French intellectuals Jean Cocteau , Jean-Paul Sartre , and Albert Camus . Southern frequented

3036-406: The novel, to star Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones as Alex and his gang of droogs. Through Si Litvinoff , Southern optioned the book for the bargain price of $ 1,000 (against a final price of $ 10,000), and Lieberson and David Puttnam set up a development deal with Paramount , who underwrote a draft by Southern and Cooper. Actor David Hemmings was briefly considered for the role of Alex—much to

3105-525: The part after allegedly fracturing his ankle, forcing Kubrick to re-cast. The part eventually went to actor Slim Pickens, who Kubrick met during his brief stint working on Marlon Brando 's One-Eyed Jacks . After the film went into wider release in January 1964, Southern was the subject of considerable media coverage, and erroneously was given primary credit for the screenplay, a misperception he did little to correct. This reportedly angered both Kubrick—who

3174-611: The plot of Red Alert was situated as a film-within-a-film made by an alien intelligence. Southern's work on the project was brief but intense; he officially worked on the script from November 16 to December 28, 1962. Southern began to rely on the amphetamine - barbiturate "diet pill" Dexamyl to keep him going through the frantic rewriting process; in later years, he developed a long-term amphetamine dependency. His amphetamine abuse, combined with his heavy intake of alcohol and other drugs, contributed significantly to health problems in later life. The major change Southern and Kubrick made

3243-546: The prescriptions in good faith to the baseball players at their request. The pill was writer Terry Southern 's drug of choice for many years. Smith, Kline %26 French Smith, Kline & French ( SKF ) was an American pharmaceutical company that is now a part of the British group GSK plc . In 1830, John K. Smith opened a drugstore in Philadelphia , and his younger brother, George, joined him in 1841 to form John K Smith & Co. In 1865, Mahlon Kline joined

3312-528: The project because he disagreed with the change to the story's ending. In August 1964, the Southerns moved to Los Angeles, where Terry began work on the screenplay of The Loved One , for which MGM / Filmways paid him $ 3,000 per month. Southern's work and his networking and socializing brought him into contact with many Hollywood stars, including Ben Gazzara , Jennifer Jones , Janice Rule , George Segal , Richard Benjamin , James Coburn , Peter Fonda , and Dennis Hopper and his wife Brooke Hayward . Hopper,

3381-557: The publication of Flash and Filigree , which was well-reviewed in the UK but coolly received in the U.S. The first major magazine interview with Southern, conducted by Elaine Dundy , was published in UK Harper's Bazaar in August 1958. In October, Olympia published Candy under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton, and it immediately was banned by the Paris vice squad. The Magic Christian , Southern's first solo novel, satirically explores

3450-483: The re-published version of Candy was the turning point in Southern's career, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his day. In the words of biographer Lee Hill , Southern spent the next six years in "an Olympian realm of glamour, money, constant motion and excitement", mixing and working with international literary, film, music, and TV stars. His work on Dr. Strangelove opened the doors to lucrative work as

3519-516: The role of the Black Queen. In December 1967 the film version of Candy began shooting in Rome with director Christian Marquand . It starred newcomer Ewa Aulin in the title role and like Casino Royale it featured a host of stars in cameo roles, including Richard Burton , Marlon Brando , John Astin , Ringo Starr, Walter Matthau , and Anita Pallenberg . The original screenplay by Southern

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3588-536: The scene was shot, Pickens spoke the scripted line ("Dallas"), but the word " Vegas" was overdubbed during post-production because the film was released not long after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963. According to Miller, Peter Sellers quietly paid Southern tens of thousands of dollars to create some of the best-known comedy bits for Sellers' character Inspector Clouseau in

3657-500: The screenplay for a never-completed comic film about the bumbling Watergate burglars, Southern told him that the best example of his writing in Dr. Strangelove was the scene in which B-52 pilot T.J. "King" Kong, played by Slim Pickens , reads off a list of the contents of a survival kit to his crew, concluding that a man could have "a pretty nice weekend in Vegas" with some of the items. When

3726-569: The screenplay of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). The film was based on the Cold War thriller Red Alert (1958) by Peter George , the rights to which Kubrick had secured for $ 3,000. Kubrick and George's original screenplay (which was to be called Edge of Doom ) was a straight political thriller. They then reworked it into a satirical format (provisionally titled The Delicate Balance of Terror ) in which

3795-431: The screenplay, including Paddy Chayefsky , George Good , and Ring Lardner Jr. Original director Sam Peckinpah was fired one week into shooting, allegedly because he shot unauthorized nude scenes. (He did not make another film until 1969's The Wild Bunch .) He was replaced by Norman Jewison , and during his work on this production, Southern formed a close and enduring friendship with cast member Rip Torn . By 1966,

3864-402: The screenplay, including Southern (who wrote most of the dialogue for Sellers), Woody Allen , Wolf Mankowitz , Michael Sayers , Frank Buxton , Joseph Heller , Ben Hecht , Mickey Rose , and Billy Wilder . Southern had been introduced to Robert Fraser by Dennis Hopper, and when he went to London to work on Casino Royale he and Gail became part of Fraser's " jet-set " salon that included

3933-505: The script for 10 months, whereas Southern was only "briefly employed (November 16–December 28, 1962) to do some additional writing." Toward the end of his work on Dr. Strangelove , Southern began canvassing for more film work. Jobs he considered included a proposed John Schlesinger screen adaptation of the Iris Murdoch novel A Severed Head , and a project called The Marriage Game , to be directed by Peter Yates and produced by

4002-402: The sequence where Candy goes to the hospital to see Dr. Krankheit. The pair began alternately creating chapters, working together regularly on visits to Tourrettes-sur-Loup over the spring and summer of 1957. The book was introduced to publisher Maurice Girodias , probably by Marilyn Meeske (later Marilyn Meeske Sorel) who, according to Southern, thought Girodias would be interested in it as

4071-425: The winter of 1966–67 he also began work on the screenplay for Roger Vadim 's Barbarella , and he contributed to a TV version of The Desperate Hours directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring George Segal and Yvette Mimieux . The June 1, 1967, release of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band gave Southern pop-culture immortality, thanks to his photograph being included (on the recommendation of Ringo Starr ) on

4140-411: Was a frequent visitor to Southern's Chateau Marmont suite, and he hired Southern to work on several subsequent Filmways projects, including The Cincinnati Kid and Don't Make Waves . Soon after the principal shooting on The Loved One was concluded, Southern began work on the script of The Cincinnati Kid , which starred Steve McQueen . He was one of several writers who had worked on versions of

4209-494: Was almost entirely supported by his wife Pud, but their relationship fell apart within a year of their arrival in New York and they were divorced in mid-1954. During 1954 and 1955. Southern met two of his literary heroes, William Faulkner and Nelson Algren . Southern interviewed Algren for the Paris Review in the autumn of 1955. They kept in touch after the interview, and Algren became another of Southern's early friends and champions. Southern's fortunes began to change after he

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4278-877: Was introduced to leading beat writers including Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso . He frequented renowned New York jazz venues such as the Five Spot , the San Remo, and the Village Vanguard . It was in this period that Southern read and became obsessed with the work of British writer Henry Green . Green's writing exerted a strong influence on Southern's early work, and Green became one of Southern's most ardent early supporters. Southern struggled to gain recognition during this period, writing short stories as he worked on Flash and Filigree , his first solo novel. Most of these stories were rejected by leading magazines and journals. Here, as in Paris, Southern

4347-426: Was notorious for his unwillingness to share writing credits —and Peter George, who penned a complaint to Life magazine in response to a lavish photo essay on Southern published in the May 8, 1964 edition. Stung by the article's assertion that Southern was responsible for turning the formerly "serious script" into an "original irreverent satirical film", George pointed out that he and Kubrick had been working together on

4416-512: Was planning his film version. Sandy Lieberson optioned Southern's first novel Flash and Filigree and United Artists optioned Candy . Michael Cooper also introduced Southern to the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange , and Southern later encouraged Stanley Kubrick to make his film version of the book after MGM refused to back Kubrick's planned film on Napoleon . Southern and Cooper then began to plan their own film adaptation of

4485-517: Was quickly followed by the publication of several other essays, including the Bay of Pigs -themed "Recruiting for the Big Parade", and one of his best Paris stories, "You're Too Hip, Baby". The fiction anthology Writers In Revolt was published in the spring, soon followed by the U.S. publication of Candy , which became the #2 American fiction best-seller of 1963. The success of Dr. Strangelove and

4554-465: Was supplied with these by Muriel Gardiner from the United States which he, himself, felt was the only method for treating his depressive episodes. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dexamyl spansules—a clear and green capsule containing green and white "beads"—became popular as a street-drug upper nicknamed "Christmas trees", a reference to its appearance. In his autobiography My Life of Absurdity , author Chester Himes writes of his use of Dexamyl in

4623-804: Was taken on by the Curtis-Brown Agency in mid-1954; through them he had three of his short stories accepted by Harper's Magazine . It published "The Sun and the Still-born Stars" and "The Panthers" in the same edition in late 1955, and "The Night Bird Blew for Doctor Warner" was featured in the January 1956 edition. In October 1955, Southern met model, aspiring actress, and editor Carol Kauffman. They were married on July 14, 1956. Southern returned to Europe with Kauffman in October 1956, stopping off in Paris and then settling in Geneva, Switzerland, where they lived until 1959. Kauffman took

4692-482: Was the first short story published in the Paris Review in its founding issue (1953); it was followed by "The Sun and the Still-born Stars" in issue #4. Southern became closely identified with the Paris Review and its founders, Peter Matthiessen , Harold L. "Doc" Humes , and George Plimpton , and he formed a lifelong friendship with Plimpton. He met French model Pud Gadiot in 1952; a romance soon blossomed and

4761-622: Was to recast the script as a black comedy , jettisoning the "film within a film" structure. Kubrick, George, and Southern shared the screenplay credits, but competing claims about who contributed what led to confusion and some conflict among the three men after the film's release. The credit question was confused by Sellers' numerous ad libbed contributions—he often improvised wildly on set, so Kubrick made sure that Sellers had as much camera 'coverage' as possible during his scenes in order to capture these spontaneous inspirations. According to Art Miller, an independent producer who hired Southern to write

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