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   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:24:35 -0600, super70s   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <9tverhdirbuucbk49c6unjmehfbgfun4cr@4ax.com>,   
   > Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 17:52:06 -0800 (PST), Edward Jackson   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 4:30:47 PM UTC-8, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   >> >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 18:58:18 -0500, moviePig    
   >> >> wrote:   
   >> >> >On 1/5/2023 6:29 PM, Edward Jackson wrote:   
   >> >> >> Over Fucking rated   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >It broke some Hollywood taboos. Doesn't have that punch today.   
   >> >> Very relatable to those who knew the time and place. 1960s-1970s NYC.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Times change, but it still has a certain intensity to it.   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> >Was NYC really like that then or was the writer and Hollywood just trying   
   to   
   >> >push the homosexual agenda   
   >>   
   >> I moved their in the early 1980s.  Taught in public schools, and a   
   >> business school very near Times Square.   
   >>   
   >> This was towards the end of the NYC scene you saw in "Midnight   
   >> Cowboy", but 42nd Street and Times Square were as squalid as you saw   
   >> in the film. I lived a fairly wild lifestyle in those days even   
   >> thought I was a teacher.  And I was young.   
   >>   
   >> Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became the mayor in 1994, and he started   
   >> cleaning the area up.  I had moved away in the late 1980s due to   
   >> burnout.   
   >>   
   >> I don't know anything about the "homosexual agenda", but you could   
   >> find whatever you wanted, and you didn't have to look too far.   
   >   
   >I think it's a fine film. I wasn't able to see it upon release, the X   
   >rating it had seems a little quaint nowadays. I think I remember seeing   
   >the preview for it when I saw Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the   
   >West" which ironically was probably more "adult" than "Midnight Cowboy."   
   >   
   >Director John Schlesinger was gay and the scene with Voight and John   
   >McGiver was probably as responsible for the X rating as the brief   
   >heterosexual scene with Voight and Sylvia Miles.   
      
   Motion Picture Association of America’s prudish ratings board gave it   
   an X-rating because of the scenes of fellatio, sodomy and   
   sadomasochism.   
      
   After it won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Board begged   
   Schlesinger to cut some of the scenes, but he adamantly refused.  They   
   changed the rating to "R" anyway.   
      
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