Jimmy Buffett, who died Sept. 1 at 76, had planned to attend the screening of “All That Is Sacred,” a 34-minute documentary about life in Key West in the 1970s.
TELLURIDE, Colo. — Up until two weeks ago, Jimmy Buffett had plans to spend Labor Day weekend at the Telluride Film Festival, wandering this mountain town with his old friend and brother-in-law, acclaimed writer Tom McGuane, rollin’ with the punches, playin’ with all his hunches and regaling audiences at Q&As for director Scott Ballew’s 34-minute documentary about their chaotic, glorious, drug-fueled hippie-artist group of comrades in Key West in the 1970s.
When Ballew first conceived of his film, he imagined taking viewers on a ride through this makeshift community of outlaws, whom he saw as the last people who had been able to truly pursue being writers, in the literary rock-star tradition of another Key West resident, Ernest Hemingway.
From the reports McGuane had gotten from his wife and friends, Buffett never got depressed about his fate. “He stayed active until it was impossible to be active,” McGuane told The Post. “He was still humorous and warm almost to the hour that he died.” “He was definitely a Jimmy Buffett character, just breezed through the day. He was the guy with the flip-flop, stepping on a pop top, especially in that [‘Tarpon’] era,” recalled McGuane, quoting lyrics from Buffett’s megahit, “Margaritaville.” That song, he said, “was a pretty good self-portrait of when I first knew Jimmy. After that, he transformed into an extremely competent businessman.”
He thinks Buffett’s success has to do with that work ethic, of keeping on making music and touring when there were certainly times things weren’t going well and other people would have given up. He also didn’t worry about things that McGuane certainly thought he should worry about, such as bankruptcy, being overextended, being surrounded by only other world-famous people. Fame affected him.
Ballew spoke with him three weeks before Telluride. He had showed Buffett the poster for the movie, which he loved, and immediately asked whether Ballew could mail him two. Looking back, he should have realized something was wrong when he didn’t hear from Buffett that he’d gotten the posters. “He was the type who would send me pictures of how he framed them, where he put them, probably given me some ideas of how I could’ve made them better,” he said, laughing.
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