New York, New York, New York review: superb reflections on a city resurgent Charles Kaiser © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
This is a big book, 425 pages before the notes, about the big changes that transformed New York over the last five decades: spiritually, by making it “more like America and less like what it had always been”, and physically amid “the most dramatic peacetime transformation” of any city “since Haussmann rebuilt Paris”.
Thomas Dyja came to New York in 1980 to attend Columbia, fell in love with the city and stayed through five mayoral administrations, from Ed Koch to Bill DeBlasio.
Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
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Shooting Midnight Cowboy Turns An Eye To A Dark, Problematic Masterpiece
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How Dustin Hoffman refused to promote his 1969 blockbuster Midnight Cowboy for fear the X-rated film depicting gang rape, prostitution and drugs would ruin his career - but instead went on to win the Best Picture Oscar
The 1969 blockbuster Midnight Cowboy was the first X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture
The X-rating of the film starring Jon Voight as Joe Buck and Dustin Hoffman as Ratso didn t impact the movie s success and it soared at the box office
Most film studios refused to touch it due to its troubling content of hetero and homosexual sex, sadomasochism, gang rape, prostitution and drug use