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Today in counterculture history (02/23) 2
#14012228 - 02/23/11 07:46 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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- 1940: Peter Fonda is born
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Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s. Fonda 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 latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999).
Career
Fonda found work on Broadway where he gained notice in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole, before going to Hollywood to make films. He started his film career in romantic leading roles. He debuted in Tammy and the Doctor (1963), which he called "Tammy and the Schmuckface". But Fonda's intensity impressed Robert Rossen, the director of Lilith (1964). Rossen envisioned a Jewish actor in the role of Stephen Evshevsky, a mental patient. Fonda earned the role after removing his boss's glasses from his face and putting them on so as to look more "Jewish". He also was in The Victors (1964), an "anti-war war movie" and played the male lead in The Young Lovers (1964), about out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
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, alienating the "establishment" film industry. Desirable acting work became scarce. In the 1963-1964 season, he appeared in an episode of the ABC drama about college life, Channing.
Through his friendships with members of the Byrds, Fonda visited The Beatles in their rented house in Benedict Canyon in Los Angeles in August, 1965. While John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Fonda himself were under the influence of LSD, Lennon heard Fonda say, "I know what it's like to be dead". This phrase became the tag line for Lennon's song, "She Said She Said", which appeared on the Revolver (1966) album. In 1966, Fonda was arrested in the anti-war Sunset Strip riot which the police ended forcefully. The band Buffalo Springfield protested the department's handling of the incident in their song "For What It's Worth". Fonda would take a stab at being a singer himself in 1968, recording a 45 for the Chisa label: "November Night" (written by Gram Parsons) b/w "Catch The Wind" (the Donovan song), produced by Hugh Masakela.
Fonda's first counterculture-oriented film role was the lead character Heavenly Blues, a Hells Angels chapter president, in the Roger Corman directed film The Wild Angels (1966). The Wild Angels is still remembered for Fonda's "eulogy" delivered at the fiasco of a fallen Angel's funeral service, which was sampled in the Primal Scream recording "Loaded" (1991), and in other rock songs. Then Fonda played the male lead character in Corman's film The Trip (1967), a take on the experience and consequences of consuming LSD.
Easy Rider
In 1968, Fonda produced and starred in Easy Rider, the classic film for which he is best known. Easy Rider is about two long-haired bikers traveling through the southwest and southern United States in a world of intolerance and violence. The Fonda character was the charismatic, laconic "Captain America" whose motorcycle jacket bore a large American flag across the back. Dennis Hopper played the garrulous "Billy". Jack Nicholson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as George Hanson, an alcoholic civil rights lawyer who rides along. Fonda co-wrote Easy Rider with Terry Southern and Hopper, who directed.
Hopper filmed the cross-country road trip depicted in Easy Rider almost entirely on location. Fonda had secured funding in the neighborhood of $360,000 - (largely based on the fact he knew that was the budget Roger Corman needed to make The Wild Angels), and the film was released in 1969 to international success. Robbie Robertson was so moved by an advance screening that he approached Fonda and tried to convince him to let him write a complete score, even though the film was nearly due for wide release. Fonda refused, using the Byrds' song "Ballad of Easy Rider", Dylan's "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" sung by the Byrds' Roger McGuinn among many other tracks. Fonda, Hopper and Southern were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) *DELETED* [Re: Learyfan]
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#14014876 - 02/23/11 04:38 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding. Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.
I was gonna post up this song just because I like it. But I figured you'd post the whole album like the Leary you are.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: ifoundwaldo]
#14015110 - 02/23/11 05:19 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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You know me too well. And I love those lyrics. 
Happy 71st Birthday Peter Fonda!

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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#14015534 - 02/23/11 06:30 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Is this a different thread than the Today in Psychedelic History or was it just renamed? In any event, thanks.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: samspade]
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samspade said: Is this a different thread than the Today in Psychedelic History or was it just renamed? In any event, thanks.
Yeah, it's different. "Today in Counterculture" for The Pub and "Today in Psychedelic" for The Psychedelic Experience. Glad you enjoy it.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: samspade]
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#17851443 - 02/23/13 07:40 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Happy Birthday Peter Fonda. Here's the movie The Trip in full.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: Learyfan]
#21316096 - 02/23/15 05:45 AM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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Happy 75th Birthday to Peter Fonda today!

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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: Learyfan]
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Happy 80th Birthday Peter Fonda!

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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#26499632 - 02/23/20 09:27 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019)
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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/23) [Re: Crazy_Horse]
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Yep.
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