Book World: Gloom came naturally for the crew behind the camera of dark classic
James S. Hirsch, The Washington Post
April 1, 2021
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Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
By Glenn Frankel
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The director was an insecure taskmaster whose most recent movie had bombed. The producer was a lifelong depressive whose last film had also flopped. The screenwriter was a self-destructive alcoholic, the two lead actors relatively untested newcomers.
Collectively, they were to make a movie based on a bleak novel that had sold poorly and was mostly ignored by critics.