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Sexplosion

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by Robert Hofler


  “This’ll give”: Mazursky, Show Me the Magic, 159.

  “When you first start”: Weinraub, “Hollywood Reigns as Film Fete Opens.”

  “I feel nervous”: Ibid.

  “Mayor John Lindsay”: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.

  the phone rang: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.

  “It’s nice to be here”: Guy Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 1969, 18.

  doubled over with laughter: Colacello, Holy Terror, 5.

  Katharine Hepburn: Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva.”

  Warhol courted: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 156.

  They also arrested: Vincent Canby, “Warhol’s Red Hot and ‘Blue’ Movie,” New York Times, Aug. 10, 1969, 2.

  “cheap date”: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 154.

  Golightly/Woodlawn Cemetery: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 3.

  Holly Woodlawn in Gay: Watson, Factory Made, 339.

  “Intrigued by my boldness”: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 5.

  “Hi, Holly”: Ibid, 132.

  “If you were wearing”: Candy Darling documentary, 2009.

  “Morrissey was very”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.

  “Three days of love”: Ferguson, Little Joe, Superstar, 89.

  “Stop the Method”: Ibid., 97.

  “so humiliated”/Sylvia Miles: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 144.

  “forty commercials”: Steven Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, April 2001, 422.

  “I am convinced”: Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.

  “Oh, just leave”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies.”

  “well-thumbed page”: Ibid.

  “lacked that touch: Ibid., 420.

  “Perhaps because of”: Mark Goodman, “Myra/Raquel,” Time, Nov. 28, 1969, 86.

  Nero’s mother: “Fellini’s Faces,” After Dark, March 1969, 14.

  “I never could”/“too choice”: Chandler, She Always Knew How, 243.

  stars ranging from: Sandra Shevey, “I Think It’s Just Beginning,” After Dark, Feb. 1969, 53.

  “I was anointed”: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second documentary, 2003.

  “marvelously artificial”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 422.

  “old hack”: Rex Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” Playboy, August 1970, 80.

  “I was supposed: Ibid.

  “epicene Rex Reed”: Mark Goodman, “Myra/Raquel,” Time, Nov. 28, 1969, 88.

  David Brown broke out: Steven Daly; “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, 425; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.

  “boys’ night out”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 426.

  “She’s a sweet”: Ibid., 424.

  “Old Raccoon”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 80.

  “She looks like”: “Mae and Myra,” VLife, Nov. 2003, 47.

  “Darling, don’t you”: Daly, “Swinging in the Seventies,” 424.

  “wild frenzy dance”: Calvin Trillin, “Through the Muck with Myra,” Life, March 6, 1970, 52.

  One day, Head asked: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 425.

  “Oh, this must be”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 155.

  “The set was closed”: Ibid., 80.

  “Do you masturbate”: Ibid., 155.

  “We just disagree”/Tom O’Horgan: Joe Broady, “Sarne Stays as ‘Myra’ Director,” Variety, Oct. 1, 1969, 7.

  “today picture”/“Bullshit”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 155.

  I Am Curious account/quotes: Associated Press; also, “Jackie Puts Judo Hold on Newsman,” Temple of Schlock, Feb. 1, 2009.

  “Everyone has quit”: Joyce Haber, “Shell Shock on the ‘Myra’ Set,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 19, 1969.

  scent of burning marijuana: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 425.

  “teenage soap opera”: Bob Thomas, “Dolls Sequel for Meyer,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Sept. 29, 1969.

  “The previous film”: Ibid.

  “I’ve considered full”: Ebert, Life Itself, 22.

  “20th is letting”: Nat Freedland, “Russ Meyer Beyond Nudies,” Entertainment World, Jan. 30, 1970, 11.

  “The rushes look”: Ibid., 13.

  Altamont/Loud/Hoffman: Hoffman to author; Nov. 21, 2011.

  Mick Jagger, surrounded: Gimme Shelter documentary, 1970.

  “I have bad news”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 297.

  “demonic, insane”: Helmut Berger profile, Internet Movie Database.

  “Visconti wondered”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 298.

  “We were the hit”: Ibid., 305.

  Chapter Nine: Winter 1970, Outrage

  “Doors started opening”: Walker, Hollywood UK, 419.

  “Most of the audience”: R. Joseph Libin, “Don Cammell,” Interview, July 1972, 20.

  censors excised: Walker, Hollywood UK, 422.

  “brilliantly shot”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 163.

  in his coat pocket: Walker, Hollywood UK, 411.

  “I discovered that”: Libin, “Don Cammell,” 10.

  Paramount Pictures unveiled: Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, 171.

  Sarne’s idea/young Shirley Temple: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 426; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.

  Midnight Cowboy R-rating: Phillips, John Schlesinger, 129.

  “No way”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.

  “I am somewhat”: Ronnie Cowan, “Helmut Berger Outspoken Thespian,” Citizen News, July 27, 1970, 19.

  Chapter Ten: Spring 1970, Kisses

  “I had a very intense”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 68.

  “I don’t suppose”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 117.

  Keller/Schlesinger/Bannen exchange: Daimon Lawrence, “Hiram Keller,” Andy Warhol’s Interview, Vol. IV, No. 10, 1974, 31.

  “Ian wasn’t free”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.

  phoned her client/“I’m not a queer”: Faulkner, Peter Finch, 250.

  “Dear John”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.

  “That’s exactly”: Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch, 211.

  “we became like”: Phillips, John Schlesinger, 309.

  “I didn’t think”: Guy Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1971, 12.

  “The kiss!”: Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch, 310.

  “John, is this really”: Ibid.

  “I did it for England”: Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” 12.

  “You’re the hot”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.

  “To ask them”: Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” 12.

  “We screamed”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.

  “Oh, it’s a wonderful”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 118.

  “We’d filled the little theater”: Ibid., 116.

  Chapter Eleven: Summer 1970, Retreat

  “two men grabbed”: Steven Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, April 2001, 426.

  Crowley introduced himself: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.

  “The gay boys?”: Joseph Modzelewski, “1st Lady of Sex Speaks Out,” Daily News, June 25, 1970, 4.

  Brown recalled the scene: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 427; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.

  “Nobody can understand”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 242.

  “There’s no point: Ibid.

  “definitive blowjob”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 136.

  “pornography without”/refused all ads: Southern, The Candy Men, 329.

  “the great Stanley K”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 136.

  “The book itself”: Southern, The Candy Men, 329.

  “A janitor”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.

  “Of all the ways”: “Power to the Peeples,” Time, Aug. 16, 1971, 47.<
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  “Some of the actresses”/“clap”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.

  “Dad, is this”: Van Peebles to author, Aug. 20, 2012.

  “I did not altogether”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 247.

  “It was the most painful”: LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 336.

  Burgess had been here before: Ibid. 337.

  “It’s as though”: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.

  “That’s not the way”: Lanza, Phallic Frenzy, 109.

  “Look, I’ve got some bad”: Baxter, An Appalling Talent, 193.

  “Because we gave creative”: Picker to author, Aug. 29, 2011.

  “I landed on my ass”: Baxter, An Appalling Talent, 193.

  “Mr. Kubrick has”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 55.

  “I feared, justly”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 217.

  “Nothing was a difficult”: Nichols to author; June 13, 2011.

  “From the moment”: Bergen, Knock Wood, 222.

  Nichols had her do the scene: Crane and Fryer, Jack Nicholson, 80, 84; also, Ann-Margret, Ann-Margret, 205.

  to help Nicholson: McGilligan, Jack’s Life, 220, 224.

  “It was this wild”: Parker, Warren Beatty, 399.

  “Now, that’s what”: McGilligan, Jack’s Life, 223.

  “the pro”: McDouglas, Five Easy Decades, 128.

  “I was one of the first”: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” Playboy, April 1972, 72.

  “I appeared puffier”: Ann Margret, Ann-Margret, 209.

  “depressive stupor”: Ibid., 210.

  Nichols on nude scenes: Carnal Knowledge symposium, Walter Reade Theater, NYC, June 12, 2011.

  Nichols never stopped working: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 402.

  He recalled a conversation: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.

  Chapter Twelve: Autumn 1970, Arrests

  “vice that won’t”: “Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal,” Playboy, June 1969, 94.

  “I felt like Elizabeth”: Guy Flatley, “He Enjoys Being a Girl,” New York Times, Nov. 15, 1970, 15.

  apartment of Mme. Chardonet: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 11.

  “lift your dress”/“Finally, the police”: Flatley, “He Enjoys Being a Girl,” 2.

  “Holly only worked”: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 17.

  Lance approached her: Stein, Edie, 413–14; also Lance Loud to author.

  “If anyone had said”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.

  “it is about Mahler”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 298.

  “All the details”: Mann, Unwritten Memories, 152.

  the executives at Warners: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 305.

  Warsaw, Oslo, Helsinki: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 75.

  “girlfriend”/Berenson: Ronnie Cowan, “Helmut Berger Outspoken Thespian,” Citizen News, July 27, 1970, 19.

  “You don’t think”: Amy Collins, “The Lure of Visconti,” Vanity Fair, December 2001, 308.

  “healthy appetite”: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 76.

  “Hell, man, now”: Ibid., 79.

  “Of course it’s important,” Lanza, Phallic Frenzy, 109.

  Redgrave, Paris, Claire, Sutton, Fyles, Gilbert, Vernon, Baird quotes: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.

  “comfortable thing to do”: Hell on Earth (documentary), 2002.

  “These lessons often”: Russell, Altered States, 105.

  “shitty”: “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” Playboy, August 1972, 79.

  “nice Jewish girl”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 124.

  He even wrote: Fine, Bloody Sam, 193-94.

  “religious reasons”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 129.

  “What appealed to me”: Ibid., 125.

  “Lolita-ish girl”: Ibid., 126.

  “I do think of Sam”: Dan Yergin, “Peckinpah’s Progress,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 31, 1971, 16.

  “He was plastered”: Hoffman to author, Oct. 19, 2012.

  “I’m like a good whore”: Ibid.

  “Several weeks ago”: The American Presidency Project online.

  Chapter Thirteen: 1971, Fatigue

  “I shot that stag”: Dan Yergin, “Peckinpah’s Progress,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 31, 1971, 16.

  “Like a princess”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 200–1.

  Word of their talk: Ibid., 201–2.

  “There were only two”: Van Peebles to author, Aug. 20, 2012.

  “the [black] community comes”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.

  “When we arrived”: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company documentary, 2004.

  “Not only is he baptized”: Newton, To Die for the People, 118.

  “Sweetback grew into”: Ibid., 122.

  “Van Peebles pictures”: “Black Workshop Charges Racial Sabotage in ‘Sweet’,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 21, 1971, 22.

  “Hell, my father”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.

  “I stood a steroetype”: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company documentary, 2004.

  “cultural genocide”: ACLU press release, March 22, 1971.

  “They don’t have”: “Civil Liberties Union,” Hollywood Reporter, March 24, 1971.

  John Erlichman and Bob Haldeman were sitting: Nixon tapes, May 3, 1971; YouTube.

  “It’s gonna go”: “Playboy Interview: Norman Lear,” Playboy, March 1973, 62.

  “We’re going to be getting”: “Playboy Interview: Carroll O’Connor,” Playboy, Jan. 1973, 74.

  “fifty stations”: “Family Fun,” Newsweek, March 15, 1971, 68.

  contract guarantee him: “Playboy Interview: Carroll O’Connor,” 70.

  Visconti/Warners: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 73.

  “great scandal”: Ibid., 74.

  “Queen of England”: Ibid., 80.

  “ticket prices”: Adair, The Real Tadzio, 25.

  “would have been detrimental”: Ibid., 27.

  Xaviera Hollander account: Hollander to author; May 30, 2012; also, Hollander, The Happy Hooker, 12, 159, 162, 114, 117, 195, 284, 11.

  “I’d never negotiated”: The Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary documentary, 2010.

  “she was blatant”/“Bob Abel wanted”/“It brought sex”: Dunleavy to author, May 31, 2012.

  Oscar campaign to get: Woodlawn to author; May 2, 2011.

  “If you watch”: Ferguson, Little Joe, Superstar, 98.

  He even got Ben Gazzarra: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 159.

  “I’ve made my statement”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 206.

  “very different animal”: Ibid., 207.

  R, rather than: Simmons, Peckinpah, 137.

  “this venerable member”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 207.

  “dubious in its intention”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 137.

  “immediately doubled the queues”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 217.

  “I hoped people”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 208.

  “Shall I discuss this”: Ibid., 210.

  “There are two kinds”: “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” 73.

  “They were animals”: Gibson and McDonnell, Unfiltered, 82.

  “Sometimes I’d have to”: Jon Stewart, “Fritz the Cat: America’s First X-rated Cartoon,” Ramparts, March 1972, 46.

  Malcolm McDowell inquired if: McDowell to author; Oct. 4, 2011.

  assistant director quit: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.

  “Lolita could not”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 244.

  “Napoleon Symphony”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick 258.

  I thought I was Stravinsky”: McDougal, Five Easy Decades, 137.

  forty-five cuts/R rating: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” Playboy, April 1972, 84.

  “The orgasm is audible”: Ibid.

  “unattractive”: Ibid.

  Frankenheimer/Wyler reviews: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 403.

  “It was assaulted”: Ibid.

  “But what do we learn”: Rosalyn Dexter, “Do Men Really Hate Women?,” New York
Times, July 2, 1971, 1.

  “I’ve balled all”: Thompson, Jack Nicholson, 108.

  “chicks dig it”: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” 76.

  “Men don’t like”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.

  “going with Gloria Steinem”: Nichols to author, June 13, 2011.

  “very tough faggots”: Mailer, Prisoner of Sex, 27.

  “ego-tripping”: Manso, Mailer, 523.

  sometime after: Ibid., 522.

  That spring, Sir John Trevelyan: Mark Kermode, “The Devil Himself,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 54.

  “There’s nothing too subtle”: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.

  “masturbation fantasies”: Ibid.

  “excesses never seen”: Phillips, Ken Russell, 106.

  “When one reads”: Ibid.

  More problematic than: Kermode, “The Devil Himself,” 55–56.

  “Ashley cut”: Russell, Altered States, 198.

  Sunday Bloody Sunday made it to premiere night: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.

  “I make no personal”: Guy Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1971, 13.

  “Americans are taught”: Paul Jabara, “A Visit with Gore Vidal,” After Dark, July 1972, 52.

  “Lance had this sense”: Hoffman to author.

  would be “fun”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.

  “the first ones”: Loud, Pat Loud, 90–91.

  “This documentary will”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.

  “no one ever looked”: Ruoff, An American Family, xv.

  “That was flattering”: Loud, Pat Loud, 94.

  “They were to live”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.

  “a nice, quaint”: Loud, Pat Loud, 96.

  Alan Raymond, the cinematographer, was receiving: Ruoff, An American Family, 24.

  “I was like a deer”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.

  “I love it”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.

  De Niro, Al Pacino: Candy Darling documentary, 2009.

  Loud Before Pat: Loud, Pat Loud, 98.

  “thickening of the atmosphere”: Ibid., 121.

  “Almost a million”: Ibid., 129.

  “I was so influenced”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.

  Raymonds/“terribly avant-garde”: Ibid.

  Edie Sedgwick materialized: Stein, Edie, 413–14.

  Chapter Fourteen: 1972, Frenzy

  Burgess consented to join: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.

  “Kubrick went on”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 257.

 

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