Notes on actor Rip Torn

by Rip Torn, Terry Southern

$1,850 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., circa 1973. Seven-page manuscript, executed in manuscript pencil with numerous corrections. An early rough draft of an essay by Southern regarding his first encounter with actor Rip Torn, which, oddly, is more an encounter with the concept of Rip Torn than Rip Torn himself though Torn would ultimately become one of Southern's closest friends and confidants . The piece was ultimately published as One of the Real...ah...Originals in the April 1973 issue

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