12-08-2011, 08:10 PM
Gary Severson Wrote:Back 73 I met Kesey in N.Dak. at a writer's conference and he told me this story. He said he made money off of the book but not a nickel off of the film, Cuckoo's Nest. He didn't see the small print in the contract that said if he was ever caught with as much as a marijuana seed he would forfeit all royalties to the film. He was stopped for a routine traffic stop and a seed was found in his ash tray that he hadn't used. Producer Michael Douglas is the one Kesey blamed for this scam.
As Gordon Gekko opined in Wall Street: "It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another."
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war