M&M: Peter Fonda Not Easy Rider Now
I remember the night that I took my youngest brother, Doug, to see “Easy Rider.” We sat through the entire film - the chopper-preening, the mustachio-grandstanding, the smoke-huffing - only to be faced with that ridiculous ending, which would become from that point on a point of movie vocabluary of its own. “Oh that movie?” I would say of something that ended in gunfire and bloodletting, literal or virtual. “It’s OK … if you like an ‘Easy Rider’ ending.” I was so pissed that I almost crashed my VW Bug driving out of the San Diego theater, and then I courted multiple tickets while speeding east on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard. I’d just returned from Vietnam, and I was still full of the kind of supressed rage that came so naturally to me then and for years afterward. It seems like … yesterday. Yet it was 1970. Forty years ago. Is such a thing possible?/Dan Webster, Movies & More. More here.
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Question: When did you last have one of those moments that starts ... "It seems like only yesterday ... "