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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015440)" |
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| The Six Dumbest Decisions of My Life |
| I'm talking here about seriously dumb decisions, not those minor |
| regrets like that time in 1970 when Esquire magazine assigned me to fly to |
| New Mexico where director Monte Hellman was filming Two-Lane |
| Blacktop, about street-racing. Among the actors was a pair of musicians, |
| James Taylor as a driver, and Dennis Wilson as a mechanic. They both |
| agreed to be interviewed, besides screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and others. |
| During a conversation with Taylor about not laughing at jokes, he |
| said, "My brother once told me a joke that made me laugh." |
| "Wait, don' t tell me now," I said. "Let's save it for the |
| interview." |
| However, I was supposed to reveal behind the scenes of making the |
| movie, but I learned that there were a couple of violations of law: A few |
| members of the cast had been tripping on magic mushrooms; and a 17- |
| year-old actress, Laurie Bird, who played "The Girl," had sex with two |
| members of the crew. Nine years later she would commit suicide. |
| Anyway, I decided not to write the article--I was a reporter, not a |
| snitch--and never did get a chance to do any interviews. Nor did I ever |
| hear the joke that James Taylor' s brother told him and made him laugh. I |
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