“Up Your Ass,” 60–61, 63
Updike, David, 50
Updike, John, 2, 48–56, 88, 284
Updike, Mary, 50
Updike, Michael, 50
Updike, Miranda, 50
U.S. Congress, 95
U.S. Supreme Court
and Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 67–68
and interracial marriage, xix
and obscenity cases, 144, 154, 264, 285
and privacy rights, 95
and Roe v. Wade, 281–82
Vaccaro, Brenda, 63, 71
Vadim, Roger, 1, 16–17
Vain Victory, 243
Valkyrie, 289
The Valley of the Dolls, 155, 156, 284
Van Peebles, Mario, 215–16, 288
Van Peebles, Melvin, 185–86, 214–17, 288
Van Runkle, Theadora, 151–52
Vanity Fair, 70
Varda, Agnès, 137–38, 143, 165
Variety, 87, 153, 263, 285
Velvet Underground, xvi, 157
Venice Film Festival, 237
Verrill, Addison, 263
Victim, 100
Vidal, Eugene Luther, 17–19, 22, 30
Vidal, Gore
and Caligula, 286
on Chelsea Girls, xvii
on Joanna, 147–48
and Myra Breckinridge, 1–2, 8–22, 24, 147–49, 150, 156
and the political environment, 57–59
on Portnoy’s Complaint, 117
and Suddenly, Last Summer, 128
Vietnam War, 54, 58–59, 78
A View from the Bridge, 72
Village Voice, 44, 55, 142, 235, 267, 278
Vineyard Gazette, 53, 55
Visconti, Luchino, 168, 202–5, 209, 219–21
Viva (Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann), 2–4, 62–63, 72–74, 79, 138, 143–45
Vixens, 154, 155
Voelpel, Fred, 115
Voight, Jon, 63, 66, 70–71, 73, 167, 169
Vries, Vera de (Xaviera Hollander), 221–25
Wagner, Robert, 89
Waite, Genevieve, 147
Waiting for Godot, 11
Waldon, Louis, 79
“Walk on the Wild Side,” 265–66
Walker, Alexander, 236
Wall Street Journal, 154–55
Walters, Barbara, 250
The Waltons, 281
Warhol, Andy
Antonioni on, xiv–xvii
and Bike Boy, 26
and Fuck, 79
and Heat premier, 265–66
and Woodlawn, 145–47, 197–200, 226
and inter/VIEW, 138–39
and Lance Loud, 59–60, 240, 242–43, 245, 246–47
and Lonesome Cowboys, 2–5, 75–77
and Myra Breckinridge, 145–47
and Sedgwick, 291
and Solanas, 60–63
and Viva, 144–45
Warner Brothers
and Blue Movie, 285–86
and The Damned, 160–61
and Death in Venice, 202–3, 220
and The Devils, 237–38, 288–89
and financial difficulties, 163
and Performance, 85–86, 164
and Portnoy’s Complaint, 183
Washington, D.C., 13, 20
Watermelon Man, 185
Watkin, David, 206
Wayne, John, 177
Wayne, Paula, 106
Welch, Raquel, 149–51, 166, 181–82
Wenner, Jann, 138
West, Mae, 149–51, 155, 167, 181–82, 216
West, Nathanael, 184
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 122
When She Was Good, 46, 55
White, Michael, 11, 30, 96–97, 99, 113
White, Peter, 133
Whitehouse, Mary, 237
Whiting, John, 187
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
and Barr, 27
and Chelsea Girls, xvi
controversy surrounding, xiii
and homophobia, 23
and language taboos, xviii
and treatment of homosexuality, 43
Wilder on, 31
The Wild Bunch, 209, 227
Wilde, Oscar, 197
Wilder, Clinton, 27, 31
“Will Answer All Sincere Replies,” 110
William Morris Agency, 148
Williams, Billy, 175
Williams, Gordon M., 209
Williams, Tennessee, xviii, 11, 23, 114, 128
Willis, Ellen, 263
Williwaw, 18
Wilson, Earl, 116
WNET, 240, 269–70, 271–72
Wode, Ed, 106
Wolper Company, 49, 88
Women in Love, 119–30, 187–89, 235, 278, 289
women’s rights activism, 195
Women’s Strike for Equality, 195
Wood, Ed, 15, 89–90
Wood, Natalie, 23–26, 87–91, 142–43, 282
Woodlawn, Holly (Haroldo Santiago Danhakl), 145–47, 197–200, 225–26, 243, 265–66
Woodstock, 146
Woodward, Joanne, 88, 226
Writers’ Workshop, 46
Wyler, William, 232
“X” ratings
and Blue Movie concept, 93
and Caligula, 286
and A Clockwork Orange, 184, 251
and Drive, He Said, 231
and Midnight Cowboy, 118, 164, 168
and Performance, 164
and Portnoy’s Complaint, 183
and Straw Dogs, 226, 251
and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 217
Yaddo artists’ retreat, 44–45, 56
Yale School of Drama, 30
Yale University, 103
York, Susannah, 121
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, 72
Zanuck, Darryl, 24, 167, 182–83
Zanuck, Richard, 148, 151, 155–56, 167, 182
“zipless fuck,” 284
About the Author
ROBERT HOFLER has spent more than forty years as an entertainment journalist, having worked as entertainment editor of Life and executive editor of Us magazine, and most recently at Variety, where he was a theater reporter and senior editor for fifteen years. His nonfiction works include the Henry Willson biography, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson, Variety’s “The Movie That Changed My Life,” and Party Animals, a biography of Allan Carr. Hofler is the theater critic for The Wrap and lives in New York City.
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