Harry Heads Home from Hollywood

Beginning with his childhood in a small South Arkansas town during the 1940s and 50s, Thomason’s life has been a laboratory of story-collection. The characters he has met over the years—many of whom populate his new memoir—are story-worthy: Chuck Berry, Col. Tom Parker, a down-and-out Vietnam veteran, Colonel Sanders, and three presidents, for starters.

As a high school football coach dreaming of making movies, he sketched his visual ideas—crude storyboards—onto typing paper, as we call it in those days—and asked fellow coaches for affirmation. A few years later he produced television commercials, telling tear-jerking stories in that 30-second medium. On his introduction to Hollywood, Thomason drove the city in a rented Ford Pinto, just the ticket to intimidate studio executives and highpriced lawyers.

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