Terry Southern
August, 1964
In tandem with Stanley Kubrick in Dr. Strangelove and Mason Hoffenberg in the sex-spoofy, sweetest-selling Candy, Terry Southern's writing has won kudos from film and literary critics here and abroad. His offbeat genius for fetching far-out belly laughs stems from an irreverent, satiric imagination--perhaps the most potent of his generation. As a solo satirist, his work has been equally brilliant, but less well known: His comic novels, Flash and Filigree (1958) and The Magic Christian (1959), re...
