Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed. May. 31, 2023
7:30 pm PDT - 10:00 pm PDT
Location
Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90027
Instructor
Jimmy McDonough
Admission
$20 – $130 BUY TICKETS. Ticket types include options for attending the event in person or via Zoom, as well as ticket bundles including a copy of “The Exotic Ones” (FAB PresS) and/or entry to “The Films of the Ormond Family: IF FOOTMEN TIRE YOU, WHAT WILL HORSES DO? + THE BURNING HELL – with author Jimmy McDonough In-Person! screenings on June 1st.
You’ve read his warts-and-all biographies. You’ve reveled in their fiery prose and pulsating detail. Maybe you’ve even seen him in Tales from the Tour Bus, talking George Jones in cartoon form. But tonight you will see him in the flesh, and you will bear witness to the testimony of the mad biographer himself!
From art school to 42nd street, where he co-edited seminal Deuce chronicle Sleazoid Express, McDonough went on to fashion one of the most rich and colorful careers in pop culture history. He did time in the editing rooms of Radley Metzger and Brian DePalma before music writing for The Village Voice led to twin trajectories, penning definitive biographies of some of the biggest names in popular music – Neil Young, Tammy Wynette, Al Green – while also trawling the gutters of exploitation cinema to give voice to misunderstood iconoclasts like Russ Meyer and Andy Milligan.
We’ll head deep into Milligan country as we revisit anecdotes from McDonough’s groundbreaking and personal account, The Ghastly One (a perennial favorite of artists as varied as John Waters and Patton Oswalt). We’ll discuss the libido-igniting Ormond Family picture that sent McDonough on a 35-year mission to tell the story of vaudevillian, UFO enthusiast and shrewd no-budget producer June Ormond and her odd family of filmmakers. Maybe he’ll even share a taste of the Southern gothic tragedy next on his plate: a biography of honky-tonk singer Gary Stewart.
McDonough’s is a wild story full of lawsuits, betrayal, broken hearts, and most importantly for our purposes, MOVIES – from the swamps to Staten Island, from skid row to the Hollywood hills and straight up to heaven itself.
“Does anybody out there remember F. Lee Bailey’s Lie Detector show? That’s how I envision this interview. I hope Janisse will grill me unmercifully. For I intend to TELL ALL and let loose every bat in the belfry! Because I am KING of the Crazy Biographers! Hallelujah!” – Jimmy McDonough
Copies of Jimmy’s new book THE EXOTIC ONES – in a gorgeous, fully illustrated limited slipcover edition from FAB Press and ByNWR – will be available for purchase in the lobby alongside the paperback edition of THE GHASTLY ONE, or you can get a ticket bundle that includes a copy of THE EXOTIC ONES, to guarantee you have one waiting for you!
PLUS!! Ticket Bundles are available that include double bill screening The Films of the Ormond Family: IF FOOTMEN TIRE YOU, WHAT WILL HORSES DO? + THE BURNING HELL – with author Jimmy McDonough In-Person! Co-presented with the Philosophical Research Society on June 1st. Screening Details available HERE.
Please Note: Limited Supplies of “The Exotic Ones” will be available for walk-ups at the event due to the sheer girth of this epic masterpiece of exploitation eye-candy – if you want to be GUARANTEED a book (and trust me, you do!) you must select one of the ticket bundles offered, BEFORE the shipping cutoff date of May 15th. After that, you take your chances – but this is a rare chance to get the book domestically, and at a heavily discounted price!
