Best selling author and genre breaking journalist dies at 88. (NPR obit)<\/a> <\/p>\n Satire associates aspiration with fatuousness and newness with faddishness, and Tom Wolfe was skilled at making those reductions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n Satire is highbrow populism. (Hence Wolfe\u2019s diatribes against modernist art and architecture.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Sam Shepard played Chuck Y<\/a> ) <\/p>\n SF Gate obit<\/a> <\/p>\n Philip Kaufman, the San Francisco filmmaker who directed the adaptation of \u201cThe Right Stuff,\u201d also wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film. Tom W on Hunter (Youtube) <\/a><\/p>\n Tom Wolf wiki <\/a><\/p>\n Of particular influence was his professor Marshall Fishwick, a teacher of American studies, educated at Yale. More in the tradition of anthropology than literary scholarship, Fishwick taught his students to look at the whole of a culture, including those elements considered profane.[citation needed] Wolfe’s undergraduate thesis, entitled “A Zoo Full of Zebras: Anti-Intellectualism in America,” evinced his fondness for words and aspirations toward cultural criticism. Wolfe graduated cum laude in 1951.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"1aastTomWolfStyle\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1aastTomWolfStyle.jpg\")
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\n\u201cThe book was such a great piece of writing that in a way it could not be put into a film,\u201d Kaufman said. \u201cHe was going for a spirit of something that maybe all people have in common. That ineffable quality that can\u2019t even be mentioned. It took me five years to make the movie.
\n\u201cTom saw it at a private screening,\u201d Kaufman added. \u201cThere is a scene where Sam Shepard (as Chuck Yeager) is arriving by horseback in the high desert like a cowboy in a leather jacket. He sees this small test airplane sitting alone in the desert being fueled. Everyone who has tried to ride this plane has died, and now he is looking at this plane, the bronc that can\u2019t be broken. It is, in a way, the meeting of the Western in the movies with the future.
\n\u201cWhen Tom saw this he just started applauding, I am told. When the movie was over, he asked if he could see it again right now, all the way through. He loved it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a>
\n(Pictured in 1996 with the writer Hunter S Thompson<\/a> at the 25th anniversary party of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) <\/p>\n