Midnight Cowboy

In 1969, recounts Kirkpatrick, Oh! Calcutta! brought nudity to Broadway. The Jets' Super Bowl win brought parity to pro football. Midnight Cowboy brought homosexuality to the movie screen. I Am Curious (Yellow) brought full-frontal...

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...then DGA will. Sometimes films get overlooked by other, early kudos and get launched Oscar bound by the directors' guild. A notable example is "Midnight Cowboy." Get Gold Derby on Twitter. Join the Gold Derby Group at Facebook. Become...

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...prostitution. Despite the seediness, they emerge unscathed, and the film is almost wholesome in mood, especially when compared with 1969's "Midnight Cowboy," which came out about the same time. "I think sexploitation has those two sides to...

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On the plus side, he was good in "Midnight Cowboy" Though they may rail against Hollywood personalities who become involved in politics when those personalities are on the left, conservatives have never turned down a little star power of...

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...ever since the New Hollywood renaissance of the 1970s. Before then, the vast majority of movies were made in Los Angeles. But by the time of Midnight Cowboy (1969) and The French Connection (1971), the streets of New York, with their squalor...

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...Dogs was an hour forty. Pulp was an hour longer than Dogs, but the story fit the frame. Citizen Kane was 119 minutes. The Graduate was 106. Midnight Cowboy was 113. Chinatown was two hours eleven. Sure, Once Upon a Time in the West is a...

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...movie will make it, the one that everyone sort of likes but no one is passionate about." For instance, he says, "In 1969, Z and Midnight Cowboy (the winner) represented the cutting edge, while Anne of the Thousand Days and Hello,...

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...- into the mix, we would have had a full house. The first X-film I ever snuck in to see wasn't anything groovy like Easy Rider or Midnight Cowboy. It was The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which I can only assume was rated adults-only because...

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...posted an interview I did with Jon Leaf, author of a new book on the Sixties, on Friday. Here's one e-mail in response: Subject: Midnight Cowboy and Rock K-Lo - I liked the interview with Jonathan Leaf and will definitely buy his book...

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...so he places an ad in the local newspaper. That's the basic scenario and this HBO series has a nicely wry take on Ray's woes and on his Midnight Cowboy aspirations. The performances by Thomas Jane, Anne Heche and Jane Adams are engagingly...

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