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I didn’t want to get lost in that and cut myself a piece of the big-time.” “I didn’t want to feel I was part of a system. Impatient with the world of cheerleaders, jocks and video heads, the son of scientists (his mother is a botanist, his father a biochemist) became a solitary outsider. Part Cherokee, part French-Norwegian, he would raise his hand in music class, requesting to sing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” “There was power and vision in that music,” he now says wistfully.īy high school, however, he had gone from a straight-A student and a patriot to a recalcitrant teen-ager who refused to stand up for the national anthem. His tale, he says, begins back in grade school in southern Indiana, where he grew up surrounded by hills and cornfields, far from the ocean. He alternates between the exhortatory rhetoric of a born-again environmentalist (“The extinction of a species is the ultimate sin!”) and laconic irony, occasionally ripping at a pack of matches and flicking a cigarette at the glittering facets of a crystal ashtray. Sitting on the patio, overlooking the swath of garden, LaBudde recounts his story. Currently a baker’s dozen of Hollywood producers is on the trail of a feature film treatment of his experience. Already the film has made most major news shows and a Congressional committee hearing. LaBudde will be a keynote speaker, showing his dolphin footage.

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Powerful environmentalists, the Mosses have spearheaded a night of consciousness-raising on the dolphin-killing issue, to be held next month at the A&M soundstage.įriends co-sponsoring the event are director Richard Donner (“Superman,” “Lethal Weapon” I & II), producer Lauren Schuler-Donner and “Batman” producer Peter (and Lynda) Guber, plus the media environmental groups, ECO and EMA, and a guest list that’s 2,500 strong-”Sigourney Weaver, Jack Nicholson, Henry Winkler, Sally Fields. “Hey,” he says of his new environs, “whatever works.”īut the alliance of the drifter and the socialite is serious business, one that Ann Moss and LaBudde recognize as a potent pact between courage and connections. Chez Moss, his bed is spread in a white eyelet coverlet he snacks on salmon, allows himself to be kneaded by the Moss’ masseur and pets the poodles. His new digs here is the Bel-Air mansion of Jerry and Ann Moss-the M in A&M Records.

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