Trippin' with Terry Southern

The late Gail Gerber was a former ballet dancer and actress who co-starred in such films as The Loved One, Beach Ball, Harum Scarum, and Lucky Days. She was the secretary of the Terry Southern Literary Trust and lived in New York. Tom Lisanti is the award-winning author of multiple books about 1960s and 1970s film and television history. He has appeared as a cohost on Turner Classic Movies and has written for Cinema Retro, Films of the Golden Age, Cinema of the '70s, and Scary Monsters.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      1. The Loved Ones      2. A Straight Flush Beats a Full House Every Time      3. Paging Dr. Southern      4. Eastward Ho!      5. Uneasy Rider      6. Hippies, Yippies, and a Girl Named Candy      7. All Aboard the London/New York/Berkshires Express      8. Move Over, Eva Gabor—Farm Living Is the Life for Me      9. The IRS Blues      10. Hollywood Shuffle      11. New York, New York      12. That’s Prof. Southern to You!      13. A Grand Guy Comes to the End of the Road      Epilogue      Bibliography      Index

“fascinating...laced with star-studded anecdotes...about one of the most wickedly funny writers of our time...full of illuminating stories about Terry’s closest friends...Gerber paints a loving portrait of a wildly creative, destructively naive genius”—Shock Cinema.