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Moore, Robin, 222–23
More, Thomas, xiii, 172
Morris, Desmond, 108
Morrison, Jim, 61, 102, 103–5
Morrissey, Paul
and Chelsea Girls, xv–xvi, xvii
and Childers, 60–61
and Heat premier, 265–66
and Woodlawn, 145–46, 199
and libel threats, 138
and Lonesome Cowboys, 2–5, 75–77
and Midnight Cowboy, 63, 74
and Solanas, 60–61
and Trash, 225
Motel, 99–100
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
and Candy, 93
and A Clockwork Orange, 251
and cultural legacy, 291
and Drive, He Said, 231
and Midnight Cowboy, 118, 168
and Performance, 164
and Straw Dogs, 226
Motion Picture Production Code, xiv, xviii, 118, 287
Ms., 283–84
Munson, Ona, 221
Museum of Modern Art, 269
The Music Lovers, 188
My Fair Lady, 225
My Living Doll, 116
My Secret Garden, 283
Myra Breckinridge
and bestseller list, 49
and Blue Movie, 183
and cultural legacy, xii, 282
Eugene Vidal on, 17–19
film production, 147–53
financial success of, 117
inspiration for, 8
and Fonda, 16–17
and oral sex depictions, 166–67
and the political environment, 57–58
premier of, 181, 190
publication of, 1–2, 19–22, 30
Tynan’s influence on, 8–12
and Vidal’s career, 286
Vidal’s first draft of, 13–16, 24
and Warhol, 147–48
Nabokov, Vladimir, 81, 288
The Naked and the Dead, 14
The Naked Ape, 108–9
Naked Lunch, 48
Namath, Joe, 115
“Napoleon Symphony,” 230
National Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, 211–12
National Organization for Women, 195
National Theatre, 10, 171
Nederlander Organization, 98
Nelson, Kenneth, 28
New American Library, 284
New World theater, 262–64, 279
New York Film Critics’ Circle Awards, 249–50
New York Film Festival, 141, 267
New York magazine, 135, 264
New York Post, 43
New York Times
and An American Family, 271–73, 281
bestseller list, 117
on Blue Movie, 184
on Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 142–43
on The Boys in the Band, 43, 135
on Carnal Knowledge, 233
on Che!, 112
on Chelsea Girls, xv
on Cruising, 287
and homophobia, 22, 23–24, 290–91
on homosexual themes, 65
on Garland’s death, 131–33
on Last Tango in Paris, 276
on Midnight Cowboy, 119
on Morrissey/Warhol relationship, 266
on Myra Breckinridge, 18, 21–22
Nureyev interview, 114
on Oh! Calcutta!, 111
and Reed, xiv
on Trash, 199–200
on Updike, 54
New York Times Book Review, 263
New York Times Magazine, 272, 278, 287
The New Yorker
on Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 143
on Carnal Knowledge, 233
on Deep Throat, 263
on Fear of Flying, 284
on Last Tango in Paris, 267, 274–75
on Straw Dogs, 227–28
on Sunday Bloody Sunday, 172
and Updike, 48, 50–51
Newman, David, 110
Newman, Paul, xviii, 88
Newmar, Julie, 116
News Press, 240
Newsweek
on An American Family, 241, 272, 291
on Candy, 92
on Chelsea Girls, xvi, 2
on Couples, 52
on Myra Breckinridge, 21
on Oh! Calcutta!, 113
on Straw Dogs, 227
Newton, Huey P., 215–16
The Nice Jewish Boy, 46
Nichols, Mike
and Blue Movie, 285–86
and Carnal Knowledge, 45–46, 190–95, 232, 234, 285
on Deep Throat, 262–63
and The Graduate, xix
on homosexuality, 197
and Midnight Cowboy, 69
and Oh! Calcutta! opening, 114–15
Nicholson, Jack, 190–94, 231–34, 262, 285
Nico, xvi, 61
The Night They Raided Minsky’s, 132–33
Nin, Anaïs, 14
Nixon, Richard M., 57, 167, 211–12, 217–19, 289
Noonan, Christine, 94, 230
The Normal Heart, 287
North American Theater Owners, 142
Nude Restaurant, 60
nudity
and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 91
and box office success, 65
and Candy, 7
and Carnal Knowledge, 191, 193–94
and changing attitudes, 290–91
and Che!, 106
and A Clockwork Orange, 189–90
and Dallesandro, 225
and The Damned, 160
and The Devils, 206, 236, 238
and Drive, He Said, 232
and Hair, 1–2, 33–34, 36, 40–41, 96, 137, 290
and If. . . , 94, 230
and Morrison, 104–5
and Last Tango in Paris, 255–58, 267–68, 278
and Lions Love, 138
and Lonesome Cowboys, 75
and Midnight Cowboy, 71, 118
and Myra Breckinridge, 153
and obscenity laws, 137
and Oh! Calcutta!, 96, 112–16
and Performance, 85
and Reynolds’s Cosmopolitan centerfold, 252–53
and Straw Dogs, 214
and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 186
and Viva, 144
and Women in Love, 121, 122, 124–25, 127, 129–30, 205, 235
Nureyev, Rudolph, 42, 114
Obama, Barack, 289
Obama, Michelle, 289–90
O’Brien, Edna, 11
obscenity laws
and The Boys in the Band, 134
and Carnal Knowledge, 285
and Che!, 96
and Deep Throat, 279
and Last Tango in Paris, 268, 274–77
and Bruce, 23
and Midnight Cowboy, 63
and Morrison, 103–5
and Myra Breckinridge, 20
and Nixon, 211–12
and Oh! Calcutta!, 137
and privacy rights, 95
and Sunday Bloody Sunday, 172
O’Connor, Carroll, 218–19
Off Broadway, 1, 35, 87, 117, 134–35, 145
Oh! Calcutta!
cultural legacy of, 282
and fears of arrest, 105–10
and Feiffer, 46
opening of, 111–17
origins of, 10–12
and Pinter, 209
production of, 95–102
reception of premiers, 136–39
skits for, 1
O’Horgan, Tom, xvii, 1, 34–36, 38–41, 100, 153, 243
Olivier, Laurence, 239
Onassis, Aristotle, 153–54
Onassis, Jackie, 153–54
Ondine (Robert Olivo), 74
100 Rifles, 149
One Million Years B.C., 149
O’Neal, Ryan, 214
Oracle, Arizona, 2, 3–4
oral sex depictions, 166–67, 184, 259–62
Ordeal, 287, 288
Osborne, John, 32, 165
Oscar Wilde Book Store, 287
O’Toole, Peter, 286
Our Town, 31
Out of Bondage, 287, 288
Owen, Rochelle, 35
Pacino, Al, 243, 287
Pallenberg, Anita, 82–85
Papp, Joseph, 33–36
Paradise Now, 102, 103
Paramount Pictures, 93, 255
Paris, Judith, 206–7
Partisan Review, 47
Paths of Glory, 230
A Patriot for Me, 32, 165
Peckinpah, Sam, 209–11, 213–14, 226–28
pedophilia, 288
Penn, Arthur, 73
Penn, Irving, 135
Penthouse, xi, 262, 286
Performance, xii, 80–86, 159, 163–66, 167, 205, 289–90
Periano, Lou (Lou Perry), 260, 263–64
Perls, Fritz, 89
Peyton Place, xviii–xix, 49, 284
The Philadelphia Story, 225
the Phoenix (theater), 98
Picker, David
and the Academy Awards, 177
and Chelsea Girls, xvii
and The Devils, 189, 237
and Last Tango in Paris, 255, 267
and Midnight Cowboy, 65–66, 117
and Sunday Bloody Sunday, 119
and Women in Love, 120
Pilley, W. Charles, 122
the Pines, 134
Pinter, Harold, 11, 25, 99, 209
Plan 9 from Outer Space, 15
Platt, Gregg, 107
Playboy
and cultural legacy, xi
and Feiffer, 44–45
on Myra Breckinridge, 153
and Newmar, 116
Nicholson interview, 233
Peckinpah interview, 228
Reynolds on, 262
Playwright’s Unit, 27, 29, 31
politics, 57, 136–37, 286
Pontecorvo, Gillo, 141
pornography, 95, 288. See also Deep Throat
Portnoy’s Complaint
and Blue Movie, 183
and censorship, 46
cultural legacy of, xii, 282
and death of Roth’s wife, 55–56
derailed by Zanuck, 183
Jong on, 284
Vidal on, 117
“Whacking Off,” 47
Portrait of the Artist, 46
Potts, Nancy, 40
Premier Productions, xiv
Prentice, Keith, 28, 136
Presley, Elvis, 65
Prince, Reg, 125
The Prisoner of Sex, 234–35
privacy rights, 95
“Prologue,” 110
Promises, Promises, 96, 97
prostitution, 221–25
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2, 281
Publishers Weekly, 5
Purcell, William, 277
Rabbit, Run, 48, 50
Rado, James, 33–38, 137–39, 290
Ragni, Gerome, 33–38, 40, 137–39, 290
ratings. See censorship; “X” ratings
Raymond, Alan, 242, 245–46
Raymond, Susan, 242, 245–46
Reagan, Ronald, xix, 287
Reasoner, Harry, 275
Red Cross, 99–100
Redgrave, Vanessa, 205–7, 235–36
Reed, Lou, 157, 265–66
Reed, Oliver, 124–29, 188, 236, 278
Reed, Rex, xiv, 134, 150–51, 152–53, 166
Reems, Harry (Herbert Streicher), 261–62, 278, 285–86
“The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography,” 95, 211–12
reproductive rights, 281–82
Reuben, David, 169
Reynolds, Burt, 252–53
Richards, Keith, 82–83, 86
Roberts, Janet, 26–27, 29
“Rock Garden,” 110
Roe v. Wade, 281–82
Roeg, Nicolas, 80–81, 83, 85–86, 164–65, 187, 290
Roiphe, Anne, 272–73, 281
Rolling Stone, 138, 164
the Rolling Stones, 80–86, 156–59, 163, 187, 199
Rondo, George, 27
Rosenberger, Ernst, 264
Rosenthal, A. M., 22, 290
Roth, Ann, 71
Roth, Philip, 44–47, 54–55, 57, 117, 183, 284
Roud, Richard, 141
Roundtree, Richard, 217
Royal Court Theatre, 165
Royal Shakespeare Company, 173
Russell, Ken
and A Clockwork Orange, 187–89
and The Devils, 188–89, 205–8, 235–38, 289
and Women in Love, 119, 121–22, 124–27, 129–30, 278
Russell, Shirley, 208
Russom, Leon, 113
Salt, Waldo, 62–63, 66, 72–73, 118, 177
Sam Whiskey, 252
same-sex marriage, 290
Sandstone retreat, 264
Santorum, Joe, 72
Sappington, Margo, 95–97, 113–15, 282
Sarne, Michael, 147–50, 152, 166, 181
Sarris, Andrew, 142, 267, 278–79
Saturday Review, 42, 227
Scavullo, Francesco, 253
Schechner, Richard, 103
Schickel, Richard, 165, 227–28
Schlesinger, John
and the Academy Awards, 167, 171, 177–78
on Chelsea Girls, xvii
and Hair, 40–41
and Midnight Cowboy, 1, 19–20, 62, 64–65, 68, 70, 72–73, 74–75, 77, 79–80, 117–18
and Myra Breckinridge, 181
and Oh! Calcutta!, 97
and Sunday Bloody Sunday, 172–79, 238–39, 282
and Women in Love, 120
Schneider, Maria, 255–58, 267–68, 274–76
Scofield, Paul, 172
Scorpio Rising, xiv–xv, 22
Screw magazine, 93, 138
Sedgwick, Edie, 3, 59, 145, 200–201, 246–47, 291
The Servant, 83
The Sessions, 291
Seven Arts, 86
Sex and the Single Girl, 252
Sexual Offences Act, 172
Sexual Politics, 234–35
Shaft, 217
Shame, 289, 291
Shawn, William, 263
Sheed, Wilfrid, 43
Shelley, Mary Anne, 106
Shepard, Sam, 27, 99–100, 110
Sherman, Paul, 223
Sheybal, Vladek, 128
Shore, Dinah, 253
Shubert Organization, 98
The Siege of Trencher’s Farm, 209
Silent Majority, xix
Simmons, Charles, 263
Simon, Neil, 68–69
Sinatra, Frank, 225
A Single Man, 17
Sjöman, Vilgot, 153–54
Skullduggery, 252
Smith, Geraldine, 76
Smith, Howard K., 57–58
Smith, Jack, 22
Smith, Judy, 177
Snowdon, Tony, 239
sodomy scenes, 257–58
Solanas, Valerie, 60–63, 74, 265
Sondheim, Stephen, 96
Sontag, Susan, 14
Southern, Nile, 8, 184
Southern, Terry
and Barbarella, 16–17
and Blue Movie, 183–85, 186, 285–86
on breaking taboos, xix
and Candy, 1, 5–6, 8, 91–93
and A Clockwork Orange, 80, 183–87, 189
and the FBI, 5–6
Spottiswoode, Roger, 226
Stanley, Robert Eli, 95
A Star Is Born, 25
Stark, Ray, 132
Starr, Ringo, 7, 285
A State of Change, 172
Steiger, Anna, 107
Steinem, Gloria, 234, 283, 287
Stewart, Ellen, 139
Sticky Fingers, 199
Stone, Sharon, 290
Stonewall Riots, 131–32, 134
The Story of O, 50
Straw Dogs, 209–10, 213–14, 226–30, 231
Streicher, Herbert (Harry Reems), 261–62, 278, 285–86
Stre
isand, Barbra, 90
Strick, Joseph, xviii, 45
Styne, Jule, 116
Suddenly, Last Summer, 128
Sullivan, Ed, 115
Sumner, Bob, 262
Sunday Bloody Sunday, 119–20, 171–79, 282, 289
Susann, Jacqueline, 156, 284
Sutherland, Donald, 290
Sutton, Dudley, 207–8
Sweet Bird of Youth, xviii
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 185–86, 214–17, 250, 288
“Sympathy for the Devil,” 86
Tarbox, Massachusetts, 52
Tate, Sharon, 137, 156
Taylor, Elizabeth, xiii, xviii, 101, 149, 177, 239
Temple, Shirley, 167–68
Tepper, William, 231
Theater Four, 42
Thornhill, Arthur, 20
Thoroughly Modern Millie, 83
Time magazine
on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, 155–56
on The Boys in the Band, 42
on Candy, 92
on Chelsea Girls, xvii, 2
on Couples, 50–51, 52
on the Esalen Institute, 89
on Myra Breckinridge, 21, 148–49, 151
on Straw Dogs, 227
and Updike, 49
on Warhol, 59
Time, Inc., 20, 49
Times (London), 227
Times Square, 19–20, 101–2, 262, 264
Times Square Development Council, 264
Today show, 250
Todd, Mike, 101
The Tonight Show, 169, 252
Tony Awards, 40
Torn, Rip, 166
Transformer, 266
transsexual and transgender persons, 8, 12–22, 15, 84, 149–50
tranvestites, 145–47, 149. See also drag
Trash, 8, 145–46, 197–200, 225
Traynor, Chuck, 259–60
Trevelyan, John, 93–94, 120–21, 128–29, 164, 227, 235
Tribush, Nancy, 114
Tropic of Cancer, xviii, 48, 50, 144, 166
Trouille, Clovis, 11–12
True Grit, 177
Tucker, Larry, 87, 89
Tulane Drama Review, 23, 103
Tuner, Lana, 14
Twentieth Century Fox, 147, 154–55, 163, 166, 182
2001: A Space Odyssey, 185–86, 230
Tyler, Joel J., 277, 279
Tyler, Parker, 14
Tynan, Kathleen, 100, 109
Tynan, Kenneth
and The Boys in the Band, 44
and Childers, 171
and Midnight Cowboy, 73
and Myra Breckinridge, 8–12
and Oh! Calcutta!, 1, 95–102, 106, 109, 111–13, 115–17, 136, 209
and Roth’s slide show project, 46–47
Ultra Violet, 63
Ulysses, xviii, 50
“Underground in Hell,” xvi
Unitas, Johnny, 283
United Artists (UA)
and the Academy Awards, 177, 178
and cultural legacy, 289
and The Devils, 188
and Last Tango in Paris, 255, 267, 268
and Midnight Cowboy, 65–66, 67, 79–80, 117–18
and Sunday Bloody Sunday, 174, 238–39
and Women in Love, 119, 128–29
University of Southern California, 102
Up the Sandbox, 272