Tom made a fortune four-walling the original Billy Jack, so he set up his own production/distribution company to make and market the sequel, The Trial of Billy Jack. I wrote all the publicity material for that movie in-house, c. 1974-5. It was crazy overreach to do it the way he did, but Tom was kind of crazy to begin with.
What an amazing time.
I think Sonny Bono was kind of like that. He just didn't know what the word "no" meant. It was all positivity, all the time, and he just powered through obstacles by persistence and imagination.
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