![]() Maybe it's that he's a reclusive crank maybe he's just a control freak. He agreed to field questions lobbed in over the internet and returned answers honed to an off-handed perfection. Loves rayon shirts, Casino and Eyes Without a Face. ![]() ![]() I requested an interview and got a "yes." Learned he lives in Portland. Russell and Tammy Wynette, Tragic Country Queen, a bittersweet, evenhanded appreciation of a singular talent most simply worship, deride or ignore? Who was this Jimmy McDonough, who had bushwhacked a course through the night traps and neon thickets of America's postwar counterculture? I had to know. What kind of gutter-dwelling genius would write not only The Ghastly One, but Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, a vast, fevered journey through the life, times and music of the infuriating icon Big Bosoms and Square Jaws, the tragicomic biography of sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer, soon to be a major motion picture from David O. I sought out his other three books and they were all funny, compulsively readable, staggeringly well researched and ragingly well written. ![]() I knew enough about Milligan's awfulness to be intrigued and found Jimmy McDonough's paperback unforgettable, moving, and brilliantly put together. Found his book, The Ghastly One, on sale at Skylight Books a whole volume on Andy Milligan, the Staten Island schlockmeister usually referred to as the more prolific, "worse" Ed Wood. ![]()
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