Listen "Harry Dean Stanton, Monte Hellman, and Alex Cox"
Episode Synopsis
TVC 702.6: Joseph Atkins, author of Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel, talks to Ed how director Monte Hellman cast Stanton frequently in his movies, yet never saw him as a lead; how Stanton and Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, did not always see eye to eye during the early production of that movie; and how the soundtrack of Repo Man kept the film in the public eye. Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel is available through University Press of Kentucky as well as Amazon.com.
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