· The Magic Christian is the book that indirectly got Terry Southern the job of writing “Dr Strangelove” for Stanley Kubrick. Guy Grand is an eccentric billionaire who uses his money to make fools out of people. Everyone has their price. This short book consists of /5(). The Magic Christian by Southern, Terry. Publication date Publisher New York: Bantam Books Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Notes. There are 0 TOC pages. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate BookplateleafUser Interaction Count: · by Graham Pierrepoint. What would you do for the right amount of money? 50 years ago, Terry Southern brought his dark, subversively comic exploration of greed and vanity to the big screen – and in The Magic Christian, Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
From the album "Give Me Your Hump!" The Unspeakable Terry Southern Record, available on Paris Recordswww.doorway.ru by Terry SouthernRea. This essay is the introduction to the 60 th-anniversary reprint of Terry Southern's The Magic Christian, out now from Grove Press.. Recently in Books Being a Black Woman in the Workplace Can Be. Joseph McGrath's black comedy The Magic Christian is definitely a product of its times. Never a big hit due largely to its episodic structure and mean spirited feel the film is it times quirky and at others distasteful. The screenplay was written by the team of McGrath,Peter Sellers and then satiric hero Terry Southern.
Writers in Revolt. The Magic Christian is a comic novel by American author Terry Southern (–) about an odd billionaire who spends most of his time playing elaborate practical jokes on people. It is known for bringing Southern to the attention of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who had received a copy as a gift from Peter Sellers, and subsequently hired him as co-writer for Dr. Strangelove () when Kubrick decided to make that film a black comedy/satire, rather than a. One of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, The Magic Christian has been called Terry Southern's masterpiece. Guy Grand is an eccentric billionaire — the last of the big spenders — determined to create disorder in the material world and willing to spare no expense to do it. One of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, The Magic Christian has been called Terry Southern's masterpiece. Guy Grand is an eccentric.
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