Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Though established somewhat in rivalry with the Paris Review, George Plimpton also had served on Merlin's editorial board.

Cohen, Feldman, and Plimpton were also nominated for awards for their performances in The Goonies.

Plimpton has also developed and established a very successful career in stage productions.

Plimpton also narrates audiobooks, notably the novels Diary by Chuck Palahniuk and Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh.

George Plimpton was also part of the press corps, covering the fight for Sports Illustrated.

Adelbert Ames was also the great-grandfather of George Plimpton.

Plimpton was also associated with the literary magazine in Paris, Merlin, which folded because the State Department withdrew its support.

Plimpton also appeared in a number of feature films as an extra and in cameo appearances.

Plimpton also appeared in the closing credits of the 2006 film " Factory Girl ".

Plimpton is also the protagonist of the semi-fictional George Plimpton's Video Falconry, a 1983 ColecoVision game postulated by humorist John Hodgman and recreated by video game auteur Tom Fulp.

He is also the uncle of actress Martha Plimpton.

George Plimpton, the author, also wore number 00 as he was researching his book about his experience playing goalie for the Boston Bruins.

The Lampoon has also graduated many noted authors such as George Plimpton, George Santayana, John Updike, and William Gaddis.

He became part of the New York ' salon ' of his old friend George Plimpton — who had also moved back to New York — rubbing shoulders with James Jones, William Styron, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, H. L.

Carter's grandfather, John Truman Carter, Sr. ( portrayed by George Plimpton ), is the most disappointed by Carter's career choice, and though Carter respects him, he also resents him for that.

In The New Journalism, Johnson and Wolfe, also includes George Plimpton for his Paper Lion, Life writer James Mills, Robert Christgau and a few others.

The clipped English of George Plimpton and William F. Buckley, Jr. may also serve as examples.

The 2011 Revel also featured Ann Beattie presenting the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and Fran Lebowitz presenting the inaugural Terry Southern Prize for Humor.

Two weeks after David P. Jacobsen was abducted, Sutherland was also kidnapped while using the limousine of University President Calvin Plimpton.

While he pushes Danny to audition for Juilliard, Danny also falls in love with Lorna ( Plimpton ), the teacher's teenage daughter.

She is also the editor at large of the quarterly magazine A Public Space and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for sixteen years, under George Plimpton.

Throughout her career Plimpton has appeared in many feature films including critically successful films Running on Empty ( 1988 ), Parenthood ( 1989 ), Eye of God ( 1997 ), The Sleepy Time Gal ( 2001 ), Hair High ( 2004 ) and Small Town Murder Songs ( 2011 ).

Plimpton has appeared in many television roles throughout her career.

Plimpton appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix ( then credited as Leaf Phoenix ), the younger brother of her former boyfriend, River, who portrayed her on-screen brother.

In 1991, Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role.

In 1992, Plimpton appeared as a lesbian terrorist in the independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland.

Plimpton became involved with The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where she appeared in Hedda Gabler ( 2001 ) among others.

Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of " The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz.

Plimpton appeared in the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings about the " Rumble in the Jungle " Ali-Foreman Championship fight opposite Norman Mailer crediting Muhammad Ali as a poet who composed the world's shortest poem: " Me-We ".

He served as Director of Research for the George Plimpton interview series, The Writer in Society, which appeared on the Channel 8 PBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, and featured interviews with Maya Angelou, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Bobbie Anne Mason.

After one year at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he transferred to Harvard University, joining the later famous group of writers who were undergraduates at that time, including Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Koch, Frank O ' Hara, John Ashbery, Harold Brodkey, George Plimpton and John Hawkes.

Plimpton continued to make appearances in featured roles in both independent films and mainstream movies from 1994 through 1997, most notably as a close friend of radical feminist Valerie Solanas in the film I Shot Andy Warhol.

Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American film directed by Ted Demme and starring Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O ' Donnell, Martha Plimpton, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, and Uma Thurman.

This would begin a trend of Plimpton being typecast in the role of a rebellious tomboy for several years, beginning with her critically lauded performance as the Reverend Spellgood ( Andre Gregory )' s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford.

In 1997, the Showtime Network cast Plimpton as the female lead in a television film called The Defenders: Payback.

Plimpton was the voice of Miss Crumbles in the 2004 animated film Hair High by Bill Plympton.

In 2003, film director Woody Allen, actor Robert De Niro, jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and writer George Plimpton joined a pro-French tourism campaign as a direct response to anti-French sentiment in the U. S. related to the Iraq invasion.

However, Wilson did star in the film as Bill Murray's would-be son, Ned Plimpton ; a role written specifically for Wilson.

The film stars Lili Taylor as Valerie, Jared Harris as Andy Warhol and Martha Plimpton as Valerie's friend Stevie.

The successful screenings continued in London, Germany, France, San Diego, Denver and Tempe, Arizona, but then the film essentially disappeared for nearly a decade until interest in Edie Sedgwick was sparked again by the best-selling book Edie: An American Biography by George Plimpton and Jean Stein in 1982.

After the crossover success of the original film version of Hairspray, Waters's films began featuring familiar actors and celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Edward Furlong, Melanie Griffith, Chris Isaak, Johnny Knoxville, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Kathleen Turner, John Travolta, and Tracey Ullman.

200 Cigarettes is a 1999 comedy-drama film starring Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Angela Featherstone, Janeane Garofalo, Gaby Hoffman, Kate Hudson, Courtney Love, Jay Mohr, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricci and Paul Rudd.

Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee, Malick Bowens and Thomas Hauser gave interviews for the film, describing their impressions of Zaire, the fight itself, and particularly their impressions of Ali.

Prior to Paper Lion, Plimpton had pitched to major league baseball players and sparred with boxing great Archie Moore, but the success of this book, which was later adapted into a 1968 film starring Alan Alda as Plimpton, helped launch a kind of second career for Plimpton as an everyman athlete.

Parenthood is a 1989 comedy-drama film with an ensemble cast that includes Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, and Dianne Wiest.

Running on Empty is a 1988 film featuring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Martha Plimpton, directed by Sidney Lumet, and was produced by Lorimar.

The film marked the second time Phoenix and Plimpton would play one another's romantic interest, having co-starred in the film The Mosquito Coast two years earlier.

Starring Hollywood actors like Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Martha Plimpton, and Lili Taylor, the film depicted a very elaborate & fictional view of Hampden and a young Hampden resident's dream to escape it.

Writer and reporter George Plimpton was cast in a minor role in this film ( 4th Gunman ).