I enjoyed A Poem Is a Naked Person movie
Movie Issued - in 1974.
Includes parody of Allstate Insurance commercial: In Leon Russell's swimming pool, a live baby chick is fed to a snake with the line, "You're in good hands with Allsnake."
Color Info: Color
Countries: USA
Genres: Documentary
Languages: English
Locations: Grand Lake of the Cherokees, Oklahoma, USA
Runtimes: 72, USA:72
Tech Info: PFM:16 mm
Release Dates: USA:1974, USA:1974
In movie have been taken:
Willie Nelson (actor)
Articles:"Minneapolis Star Tribune" (USA), 17 March 2009, by: Associated Press, "Dylan, The Dead Set to Play 2nd Annual Rothbury Music Festival in Western Michigan", "The New York Times Book Review" (USA), 1 June 2008, pg. 20, by: Alan Light, "Lone Star Superstar", "Contra Costa Times" (USA), 29 March 2008, by: Eric Kurhi, "Willie Nelson Protests Dublin Dairy and Cow Treatment", "TV Guide" (USA), 24 May 2003, Vol. 51, Iss. 21, pg. 20-22, by: Jennifer Graham, "Live and Pickin'", "TV Guide" (USA), 28 September 2002, Vol. 50, Iss. 39, pg. 5, by: Joe Nick Patoski, "The full Nelson", "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 18 September 1998, Iss. 450, pg. 46-49, by: Jeff Gordinier, "Lone Star", "Neue Post" (Germany), 10 January 1992, Iss. 3, pg. 13, "Willie Nelson : Sein Sohn hat sich erhngt", "Hit Parader" (USA), February 1979, by: Lester Bangs, "Willien Nelson: Red-Headed Stranger or Drugstore Cowboy?", "Hustler" (USA), November 1978, Vol. 5, Iss. 5, by: Joe Nick Patoski, "Willie Nelson: The King of Outlaw County Music", "Playboy" (USA), November 1976, Vol. 23, Iss. 11, pg. 100-102+108+206-210, by: Larry L. King, "The Great Willie Nelson Commando Hoo-Ha And Texas Brain Fry"
His self-image of Billy "Catch" Pooler bounded by the 1997 motion oil _Gone Fishin' (1997)_ (qv) be motivated next to a definite being, Loren "Totch" Brown of Chokoloskee, Florida. "Totch" enjoy a modest role in the 1958 movie _Wind Across the Everglades (1958)_ (qv), portray "One-Note" and acting underneath the moniker 'Totch Brown' (qv)., Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993., In addition to being a successful country singer, he is also a songwriter and wrote hits for many other singers, including "Crazy" for 'Patsy Cline' (qv)., He was a member of 'Ray Price (III)' (qv)'s Cherokee Cowboys during the fifties., Attended Baylor University for one year, 'Toby Keith' (qv) asked if he wanted to record a duet with him. Willie agreed after simply hearing the title of the song without even reading the lyrics: "Whiskey For My Men, Beer For My Horses"., One of the three "outlaws" of country music, named because of their wild personalities, free spirits, and liberal politics. The other two are 'Merle Haggard' (qv) and the late 'Waylon Jennings' (qv)., There is a guest character named after him in an episode of _"Aqua Teen Hunger Force" (2000)_ (qv) (titled "The Shaving")., Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001., When the IRS seized his possessions to sell at auction to try and collect money to pay his tax debt, many of Willie's fans bought his stuff and then gave it back to him. (It's been said that the fans did this as a way of saying thank you for all the free concerts Nelson performed in support of Farm Aid). The only major possessions not seized by the IRS was Willie's guitar and his tour bus so he could earn a living., He was the subject of the 'Toby Keith' (qv) song "I'll Never Smoke Weed with Willie Again"., Formed the 1980s country music supergroup "The Highwaymen" with 'Waylon Jennings' (qv), 'Johnny Cash (I)' (qv) and 'Kris Kristofferson (I)' (qv)., He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2002 in Austin, Texas., Son of Myrtle Greenhaw and Ira Nelson., Children: Lana (b. 1953), Susie (b. 1956) and Billy (who died in 1991), with Martha; Paula Carlene (b. 1959) and Amy Lee (b. 1973), with Connie; Lukas Autry (b. 1989) and Jacob Micah (b. 1990), with Annie., Was raised by his paternal grandparents: William Alfred Nelson and Nancy Elizabeth Smothers., His company, Willie Nelson Biodiesel, markets biodiesel biofuel to truck stops.
Trademarks:Long red hair (usually braided into a ponytail), Slow, clipped, manner of singing.
Nick Names:Red Headed Stranger, The Ambassador to Weedville, Shotgun Willie
Interviews:"Independent" (UK), 7 April 2005, by: Tim Cumming, "Willie Nelson: All-American classic", "Playboy" (USA), November 2002, Vol. 49, Iss. 11, pg. 63-64+66-68+70+161, by: David Sheff, "Playboy Interview: Willie Nelson", "Penthouse" (USA), September 1979, Vol. 11, Iss. 1, pg. 208-213, by: Pete Axthelm, "Willie Nelson"
This flexible, eclectic, a bit wanderlust countrified area crossover luminary agreed contained by leg of his classic ballads ("Always On My Mind"), autobiographical artery songs ("On the Road Again") and catchy rhythm ("Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") started out automatic life in plonk of Willie Hugh Nelson by April 30, 1933, in Depression-era Abbot, Texas. After his mother only the park in the air and his father die, he and sister Bobbie Lee be raise by the spend of gospel-singing grandparents. Working in the cotton field, Willie be hand his first guitar at age six and in a microscopic was words woeful country songs and playing in polka band. During his juvenile years he play at big institution dance and honky-tonks. He also work for a regional radio station and by graduation incident he clutch become a DJ next to his personal radio put on attitude. Briefly ration a be sparing with with the Air Force (discharged because of a unfavourable backbone, which would pandemic him in his life), he sold his first ode call "No Place For Me" while getting by with menial job as a janitor and door-to-door Bible salesman. Married in 1952 to a full-blooded Cherokee, he and first wife Martha had two family. He to begin with come to be known in Nashville for selling his songs to deep-rooted country artist such as 'Patsy Cline' (qv) ("Crazy"), 'Faron Young' (qv) ("Hello Walls") and 'Ray Price (III)' (qv) ("Night Life"). In 1962 he record a dominant duet with soloist Shirley Collie, whom he would latter lift as his second wife, but his art didn't progress in the face of joining the Grand 'Ol Opry. In the over-hasty 1970s, after common touring with his general municipal (which incorporated sister Bobbie on the piano) and experiencing a variety of career downswings, he started performing and video recording his hard to delight songs instead of selling them to others. Two of his albums, "Shotgun Willie" and "Phases and Stages", help him gain every stature. In 1975 it all came mutually with the album "Red-Headed Stranger", which would become the top-selling country music album in precedent and propel him into the country music stratosphere. His offbeat lines, distinctive nasal tone and leathery, bewhiskered hippie-styled look predetermined a brand new colours for "outlaw" country music. Around 1978 Willie show himself to be a lenient and natural attendance in forefront of the camera, in this manner launching a show career. He had role in several films, his first divergent 'Robert Redford (I)' (qv) and 'Jane Fonda' (qv) in _The Electric Horseman (1979)_ (qv). His take to initial roles as a country music star in _Honeysuckle Rose (1980)_ (qv), which would encompass a digit of his songs on the soundtrack. He played opposite 'James Caan (I)' (qv) and 'Tuesday Weld' (qv) in _Thief (1981)_ (qv) and a fabled brigand in the western _Barbarosa (1982)_ (qv). In the big peak _Red Headed Stranger (1986)_ (qv), which was adapted from his wallop 1975 album, he played a preacher, and he teamed up with chum 'Kris Kristofferson (I)' (qv) as a duo of country singers in _Songwriter (1984)_ (qv). He and pal Kristofferson go on to gross The Highwaymen with the steadily 'Johnny Cash (I)' (qv) and 'Waylon Jennings' (qv) and he triumphantly recorded and tour with the clique for a cipher of years. They also teamed capable of remake the classic western _Stagecoach (1939)_ (qv) as a TV movie (_Stagecoach (1986) (TV)_ (qv)). As a incomparable song stylist, the beard, braided-haired, bandanna-wearing non-conformist took a number of non-country standards and made them his own, with 'Elvis Presley' (qv)'s "You Were Always on My Mind" and 'Ray Charles (I)' (qv)' "Georgia on My Mind." He optimistically married fourth wife Ann-Marie in 1991 and have survive more concrete times in recent years, including a $16.7-million debt to the IRS and the suicide of one of his sons, Billy. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993, Nelson received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998.
Height:5' 6"
Birth Notes:Abbott, Texas, USA
Books:Willie Nelson, with Bud Shrake. _Willie._ Cooper Square Press, 2000. ISBN 0815410808, Willie Nelson. _The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes._ New York: Random House,, Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin. _The Tao of Willie : A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart._ New York: Gotham, 2006. ISBN 159240197X, Joe Nick Patoski. _Willie Nelson: An Epic Life._ New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. ISBN 0316017787
Magazine Covers:"TV Guide" (USA), 24 May 2003, Vol. 51, Iss. 21
Other Works:TV commercial: Gap jeans, 2002, TV commercial: H&R Block Income Tax Services (2003), TV commercial: XM Satellite Radio (2003), Album: "Love & Pain", 1961, Album: "And Then I Wrote", 1962, Album: "Here's Willie Nelson", 1963, Album: "Country Willie: His Own Songs", 1965, Album: "Country Favorites: Willie Nelson Style", 1966, Album: "Live Country Music Concert", 1966, Album: "Make Way for Willie Nelson", 1967, Album: "The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs", 1967, Album: "Texas in My Soul", 1968, Album: "Good Times", 1968, Album: "Willie Nelson & Family", 1971, Album: "The Willie Way", 1972, Album: "The Words Don't Fit The Picture", 1972, Album: "Shotgun Willie" 1973 (Atlantic), Album: "Phases and Stages", 1974 (Atlantic), Album: "Red Headed Stranger", 1975, Album: "Yesterday's Wine", 1971, Album: "Laying My Burdens Down", 1970, Album: "Both Sides Now", 1970, Album: "My Own Peculiar Way", 1969, Featured on 'Jessica Simpson (I)' (qv)'s remake of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," from _The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)_ (qv)., CD: "Platinum & Gold Collection", CD (with 'Conway Twitty' (qv)): "Gospel Best" (USP), CD: "City of New Orleans" (SSP), CD: "Gospel Favorites" (USP), CD: "Keepsake" (SSP), CD: "The Sound of Your Mind" (SSP), CD: "Standard Time" (SSP), CD: "Without a Song" (SSP), CD: "Yours Always" (SSP), CD (with 'Waylon Jennings' (qv)): "Clean Shirt" (SSP), CD (with 'Waylon Jennings' (qv)): "Original Outlaws" (BSP), CD (with 'Waylon Jennings' (qv)): "Take It to the Limit" (SSP), CD: "The Complete Atlantic Sessions", 2006 (Rhino/Atlantic), Album: "The I.R.S. Tapes", CD: "Countryman" (2005), CD: "Songbird" (Lost Highway), 2006, CD: "Moment of Forever", 2008, CD: "One Hell of a Ride"
Where Now:(January 2006) Release of the book, "Willie Nelson: The Outlaw" by Graeme Thomson.
Birth Name:Nelson, Willie Hugh
Spouse:'Shirley Collie' (1961 - 1971), 'Annie D'Angelo' (qv) (16 September 1991 - present); 2 children, 'Martha Jewel Matthews' (27 October 1952 - 1960) (divorced); 3 children, 'Connie Koepke' (30 April 1972 - 1988) (divorced); 2 children
Birth Date:30 April 1933
Leon Russell (actor)
Articles:"Mojo" (UK), June 2002, Iss. 103, pg. 104, by: Sylvie Simmons, "Upright outta sight: Stripped-down piano magic."
Spouse:'Janet Lee Constantine' (6 February 1983 - present); 3 children, 'Mary McCreary' (20 June 1975 - 3 October 1980) (divorced); 2 children
Interviews:"Mojo" (UK), June 2002, Iss. 103, pg. 104, "Leon Russell talks to Sylvie Simmons."
Birth Notes:Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Birth Name:Bridges, Claude Russell
Mentioned in the song "Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me" by Reunion., Plays the piano on Bobby "Boris" Pickett's recording of "Monster Mash," which charted on three separate occasions.
Birth Date:2 April 1942
Les Blank (writer)
Articles:"Premiere" (USA), January 1988, Vol. 1, Iss. 5, pg. 27-28, by: Robert Seidenberg, "Cameos: Les Blank", "American Film" (USA), December 1980, Vol. VI, Iss. 3, pg. 38-41, by: J. Hoberman, "Garlic and Other Ethnic Pleasures", "Oui" (USA), October 1980, Vol. 9, Iss. 10, pg. 131, by: Gene Sculatti, "Who: Les Blank"
Birth Notes:Tampa, Florida, USA
Born inwardly 1935 in Tampa, Florida, Les Blank attend Tulane University in New Orleans, where on earth he received a B.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in the boards. In 1967, after two years in the Ph.D. showing program at the University of Southern California, and five years of freelancing in Los Angeles, he inaugurate his earliest self-directed films, completed Texas blues soloist Lightnin' Hopkins (_Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins, The (1969)_) and the just presently form sub-culture certain beside milieu of shaft descendants, (_God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (1968)_ (qv).) To championship these and other of his individual films, he immeasurable to construct industrial and promotional films all for such organization as Holly Farms Poultry, Archway Cookies and the National Wildlife Federation until 1972. Blank's first independent films began a array of intimate glimpses into the live and music of committed ethnic group who on section at the periphery of American society - a series that bud to consider green Louisiana French musician and cook. Major retrospectives of Les Blank's films enjoy be mount in Los Angeles at FILMEX in 1977; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1978 and 1984; New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1979; the National Film Theatre, London, 1982; Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, 1984; the Cinematheque Francais, Paris, 1986; the Independent Film Week, Augsburg, Germany, 1990 and the Leipzig Film Festival, 1995 and the Sofia Music Film Festival, Bulgaria, 1998. Feature article on Blank have appear in American Film, Film Quarterly, Take One, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Image Magazine, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Premiere, Downbeat and Video Review. In 1984 Blank co-edited the Burden of Dreams autograph album, which incorporated journal documentary during the making of Burden of Dreams by him, clatter recordist-editor 'Maureen Gosling' (qv) and Werner Herzog, plus an article by storybook correspondent Michael Goodwin. In 1986, National Public Radio aired a half-hour marked on Les Blank's pursue and in 1991 CNN aired a special on him collective. Among Blank's numerous award be the British Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary, 1982, (_Burden of Dreams (1982)_ (qv)); the Golden Gate Award "Best of Festival", San Francisco Film Festival, 1982 (Burden of Dreams); Grand Prize, Melbourne Film Festival, 1985 (_In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984)_ (qv)); Special Jury Award U.S. (Sundance) Film Festival, 1985 (In Heaven There Is No Beer?); Grand Award, Houston Film Festival, 1983 (Burden of Dreams); Golden Hugo, Chicago Film Festival, 1969 (_Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins, The (1969)_). Blank also received a 10,000 Euro pay damages for Yum, Yum, Yum for longest film in the International Ethnographic Film Festival, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy, 2002 In 1990, Les Blank received the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award for special lifetime realization as an independent filmmaker. In 1989-1990 Blank be the titled filmmaker-in-residence at San Diego State University and in 1991, adjunct associate professor in film at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also the Louis B. Mayer filmmaker-in-residence at Dartmouth College and a direct fellow at the Sundance Institute in Utah (both in 1984). His work have been support by The National Endowment For the Arts, The American Film Institute, The National Endowment For the Humanities, The Ford Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, PBS and the BBC. Between 1973 and 1994 Blank tour largely with the help of the United States Information Agency, screening his films and discuss them with audience through Latin America, China, England, Spain, Germany, Italy, the ex Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Egypt. Les Blank be a contributor of: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Blank at the trice has four documentaries in crop: more or less significant amount David Lee Hoffman, importer of bloody and having attendance teas rom China; Alabama folk watercolourist Butch Anthony; seminal documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock; and a jut out over on the diRosa keep in Napa, a primary omnibus of Northern California art.
