the-mango-vol-1-issue-6

in a DIFFERENT country (France) that really sealed the deal. “Three weeks later they called me and said they wanted to feature me in this movie, Parrot Heads, and they wanted to film it at my restaurant!” Holly couldn’t say yes fast enough and hopped on the next flight to Costa Rica to meet with the film crew at his surfside Margaritaville restaurant. *Side note, did you know that “Margaritaville” is the most profitable song of all time? Like, in the history of the WORLD? Once the movie had finished the production stages, Jimmy himself would end up seeing it and he was totally on board … so much so that he wanted to use the footage of Holly hanging out at his own Margaritaville restaurant as a backdrop for his concerts for the entire 2016 year! “I didn’t tell my friends, so when we were all at the concert and the footage came up on the screen, they started recognizing Costa Rica, and Tamarindo (where the bar is located) and then my bar, and then lo and behold I come up riding a horse on the big screen and they were just blown away!” Parrot Heads premiered in 2017 and can be seen on Amazon Prime and Netflix. “I guess the takeaway is that if you work really hard, and love what you do, things will start to happen.” Presently, he is producing a movie with that same film crew. His favorite Jimmy Buffett song is “Last

Mango in Paris” because the end of the song truly speaks to him.

I ate the last mango in Paris Took the last plane out of Saigon Took the first fast boat to China And Jimmy, there’s still so much to be done.

“I still don’t know what I wanna do with my life,” Holly remarks, “but it’s pretty cool to think this crazy passion of mine has taken me all over the world.” Written by Emily Kathleen Alberts, who is still searchin’ for her lost shaker of salt. Where did the term Parrothead come from? On June 28, 1985, Mr. Buffett was playing a show at the Timberwolf Amphitheater at Kings Island. Local legend states that year the big giveaway item at the park’s carnival booths were giant inflatable parrots. The crowd, wearing Hawaiian shirts and carrying parrots was a sea of color to then Coral Reefer Band member, Timothy Schmit. He looked at the crowd and coined them Parrotheads, a play off the Grateful Dead’s fan base, the Deadheads.

The Mango

42

N o v / D e c

2021