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New Books About Show Business to Entertain You This Summer

Showbiz Books for Summer New titles about Lorraine Hansberry, “Midnight Cowboy” and more get to the heart of our enduring obsessions with Hollywood and the performing arts. Credit.Ryan Gillett May 27, 2021 Long before he became the celebrated filmmaker of “Sunset Boulevard,” “Some Like It Hot” and “The Apartment,” a young Billy Wilder worked briefly as a dancer for hire in the ballroom of a fashionable Berlin hotel. As he described the endeavor one that called for a certain amount of imagination and role-playing in its own right for a German newspaper in 1927, “This is no easy way to earn your daily bread, nor is it the kind that sentimental, softhearted types can stomach. But others can live from it.”

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Rough Trade, Big City: The Legacy of Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy, 1969. (Photo by United Artists / Courtesy of Getty Images) With Shooting “Midnight Cowboy”, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and film historian Glenn Frankel completes a trilogy of behind-the-scenes accounts of cinematic cowboy ballads. Of course, technically speaking, John Schlesinger’s 1969 Best Picture winner isn’t a western like High Noon or The Searchers; its 10-gallon-hat hero Joe Buck styles himself after Gary Cooper and John Wayne, but he’s shooting blanks. Played behind blue eyes by a 29-year-old Jon Voigt, Joe is a rootless dreamer, decamping from Texas to the East Coast via Greyhound. Arriving in New York to try his luck as a hustler, he’s quickly reduced to a face in the crowd. From there,

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The Enduring Beauty Of Midnight Cowboy And A Partnership Forged Out Of Despair

/ Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) sells Joe Buck (Jon Voight) on contacting a would-be pimp in Midnight Cowboy. In 1969, an X-rated movie filmed in Texas and New York shocked the world when it became a sensation, capturing the number three spot at the year’s box office, and eventually winning an Oscar as Best Picture. “Midnight Cowboy” stars Jon Voight as Joe Buck, a naïve Texan who leaves his home in Big Spring to seek fortune in the Big Apple as a male hustler catering to affluent women. Things don’t go as planned. The hapless Joe strikes out time and again, winding up broke, turning small-time tricks on 42nd street. Along the way, he befriends a low-life named Ratso Rizzo, played by Dustin Hoffman, fresh off his successful debut in “The Graduate.” The two form an unlikely friendship that helps them survive the harsh reality of the big city.

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Shooting Midnight Cowboy Doc in the Works from Nancy Buirski

‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy’ Doc in the Works From Nancy Buirski Based on New Book “This is a film about a masterpiece and the moment and the much wider sociological, political and human canvas on which it takes place,” Buirski said Umberto Gonzalez | May 6, 2021 @ 10:07 AM Getty Images Nancy Buirski and her documentary production company Augusta Films, have acquired the film rights to adapt Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author Glenn Frankel’s latest behind-the-scenes exploration “Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic.” “This is a film about a masterpiece and the moment and the much wider sociological, political and human canvas on which it takes place. As dark as it is at times, it is laced with humor and hope,” Buirski stated Thursday, adding, “Re-watching the film I was reminded how beautifully it holds up after 50+ years. I’d forgotten how tender it is.”

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The 92 films to win Best Picture at the Oscars, from Wings to Parasite

The 92 films to win Best Picture at the Oscars, from Wings to Parasite
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