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The Man Who Hated Moms: Looking Back on Philip Wylie’s “Generation of Vipers”
Wylie’s moms were middle-aged and menopausal Cinderellas, hirsute and devoid of sex appeal....
Peter L. Winkler
Peter L. Winkler is the author of Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel (Barricade Books, 2011) and the editor of The Real James Dean: Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best (Chicago Review Press, 2016).
Articles
Southern Discomfort: Erasing the Real Author of “Easy Rider”
With movie credits, what you see is not always what you get....
Hell Down in Hollywood: On Duke Haney’s “Death Valley Superstars”
Peter L. Winkler plumbs the depths of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland” by Duke Haney....
Tripping Toward Stardom: The Life and Career of Dennis Hopper
Peter L. Winkler on "Along for the Ride" and the making of Dennis Hopper's "The Last Movie."...
Nicholas Ray Couldn’t Go Home Again: On the DVD Release of His Final Film
You can’t go back home to your family, […] back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time — back home to the ...
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