Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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"He's a walkin' contradiction partly truth and partly fiction...Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home"
- Kris Kristofferson, The Pilgrim: Chapter 33
Harry Dean Stanton is a man of many roles. Maybe 200 of them.
There’s hardly a film genre of note in the past 50 years that his lean, wrinkle-seamed face hasn’t appeared in: "Cool Hand Luke," "Godfather Part 2," "Alien," "Missouri Breaks," "Pretty in Pink," "Rango," "Repo Man," and the list goes on and on.
Onscreen, he is the consummate character actor, appearing unmannered in his style but letter-perfect about the work. Offscreen, he is a man of few words.
In a new documentary called “Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction,” he lets his music do much of the talking about his life, as he explains it, sort of, to KPCC’s Patt Morrison.
The documentary “Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction” opens September 13 at the Nuart in Los Angeles.