Monday, July 12, 2010

Jr Johnson: The Last American Hero

Thomas Wolfe wrote this masterpiece 45 years ago for Esquire. It was turned into a movie in the early 70s titled "The Last American Hero", starring Jeff Bridges as Jr. I think it's the best movie ever made about stock car racing...I know, that's not saying much, but it's pretty decent.


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4 comments:

  1. klvalusJuly 13, 2010 at 8:50 AM

    Us non-FB folks cant see this link Gene...

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  2. Dwindy1July 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM

    Here's the link Kristen:

    http://www.esquire.com/features/life-of-junior-johnson-tom-wolfe-0365

    Wolfe certainly has an interesting writing style. I like it!

    Thanks for the heads up Gene. I downloaded and printed out the article.

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  3. Gene HaddockJuly 13, 2010 at 2:33 PM

    Sorry about that Kris. The link was going right to Esquire's site on FB.

    Dwindy.... how many pages did it print? That was a long story. The way Wolfe wrote Jr's dialog, you could hear the molasses in his mouth. It read exactly like Jr sounds.

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  4. Dwindy1July 13, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    I shrunk the font down to 10 point. It was going to be 23 pages under those circumstances so I added a couple of pictures to the article and got it up to 24 pages. I printed it out on both sides of each page (hate wasting paper!) LOL

    I read about half last night and will get to the other tonight.

    Thanks again Gene!

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