On the Record: Eugene Walter

UAB's Tommy Wier is a documentary filmmaker who specializes in telling little-known stories about the colorful characters of his native Alabama. Here Wier recounts the cinematic life of Eugene Walter, a flamboyant writer, artist, and bon vivant whose life spread from Alabama's Gulf Coast, to the Greenwich Village art scene, to the glamorous streets of Paris and Rome.

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• Eugene Walter

[orionluckystar]

Almost anything is reason for a party.

Let's have another drink; we're not dead yet.

Thank you, Eugene!

[MoulfritProd]

People who think Eugene Walter was a fraud are shallow and insensitive. Eugene was a true renaissance man. An artist and a poet in many ways. There was an aura of magic around him and all who met and knew how to appreciate him will tell you so.

I had the honor of being part of his world. He was as mysterious as enchanting and I truly miss his stories, told in a light Southern drawl. I miss his presence each time I visit Rome and I'll never forget the grand time he made me spend once in Mobile.