Straight From the Horse's Mouth
The Chron's 1985 interview with Bud Shrake
By Kimberley Jones, 3:34PM, Mon. May 11, 2009
We'll have a proper tribute to Bud Shrake in our Thursday print issue, but in the meantime, we point you to our archives – most particularly to this interview conducted in 1985 by Chronicle Editor Louis Black. In it, a funny and forthcoming Bud Shrake talked about his career in the movies, from taking Hollywood actor Cliff Robertson to court in Travis County ("He showed up looking like somebody who had gotten dressed at the Salvation Army discard barrel") to Dennis Hopper's run-in with revolutionaries on the Mexico set of Kid Blue.
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Kimberley Jones, May 8, 2009
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Bud Shrake, Cliff Robertson, Kid Blue, Dennis Hopper
