and the Stonewall Riots, 132
and West, 181–82
Crowther, Bosley, xv, 199
Cruise, Tom, 289
Cruising, 287
Crumb, Robert, 228, 250
Cukor, George, 75, 225–26, 256
Culp, Robert, 88, 90–91
Curry, Steve, 40
Curtis, Jackie, 76, 144, 243
Daily News, 154
Dallesandro, Joe, 3–4, 75–76, 146, 199, 225–26, 256, 265–66
Damiano, Gerard, 258–61, 263
The Damned, 168, 203–4, 221, 289
Danhakl, Haroldo Santiago (Holly Woodlawn), 145–47
D’Arbanville, Patti, 76
Darling, 19, 65, 71, 120, 172, 276
Darling, Candy, 76, 148–49, 243, 265–66
Davis, Bette, 24, 122
Davis, Lorrie, 40–41
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 65, 106
De Laurentiis, Dino, 17
De Niro, Robert, 243
Death in Venice, 202–5, 219, 289
The Decorator, 24
Deep Throat, 259, 262–64, 267, 277–79, 282–83, 285–87
Deliverance, 253
Dell Publishing, 224
Delon, Alain, xvii
Democratic National Convention, 57
Dempsey, Mark, 101–2, 114
Deneuve, Catherine, 17
Dennis, Sandy, 262
Dershowitz, Alan, 263, 264
Despair, 81
Detroit News, 251
The Devils, 171, 187–89, 205–8, 235–38, 288–89
The Devils of Loudun, 187–88
The Dick Cavett Show, 59, 169, 182, 274
The Dictionary of Witchcraft, 206
Dietrich, Marlene, 42, 152
Dinner Key Auditorium, 104–5
Directors Guild of America, 232
Donadio, Candida, 57
Donnet, Jacqueline, 241
Don’t Look Now, 290
the Doors, 61, 102, 103–5
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 177
Doty, Richard, 22
Dr. Doolittle, 154–55
Dr. Strangelove, 5, 183, 230
drag
and The Damned, 160
and Flesh, 76
and John Cabell Breckinridge, 15
and libel threats, 138
and The Maids, 35
and Performance, 84
and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 185
and Trash, 225
and Vain Victory, 243
See also transsexual and transgender persons
Drexler, Rosalyn, 233
Drive, He Said, 192–93, 231–32
drugs
and Cannon, 90
and Jagger, 84
and Morrissey, 77–78, 146
and Nicholson, 193, 233
and Sedgwick, 201, 247
Duke, Patty, 155
Dunaway, Faye, 29
Dundy, Elaine, 9
Dunleavy, Yvonne, 222, 224
Dunne, Dominick, 24–25, 26
Easy Rider, 88, 146, 163–64, 192, 193
Ebert, Roger, 155–56, 233
Ecstasy, 115–16
Eden, Anthony, 98
the Eden (theater), 98, 108, 112, 117
Ehrlichman, John, 217–18
Elkins, Hillard
and The Happy Hooker, 225
and Levy, 99
and Oh! Calcutta!, 73, 97, 100–102, 106–7, 112–13, 116–17
Ephron, Nora, 263
Esalen Institute, 89, 109
Esquire, 93, 183, 263
Evans, Robert, 166
Evening Standard, 236–37
Evergreen Review, 16
Every, Mary, 240
Everything in the Garden, 28
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), 169
“Exchanges,” 114
the Factory, 2–3, 59–64, 76, 146–47, 197–98
Faggots, 287
Fanny Hill, xviii
Far from the Madding Crowd, 19, 64, 65, 80, 173
Fassbender, Michael, 291
Fear of Flying, 284
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 2, 4, 5–6
Feiffer, Jules
and Carnal Knowledge, 44–46, 190–95, 232–35
on “fags” term, 202
and language censorship, 32
and Oh! Calcutta!, 1, 11, 99, 114–16
and Vietnam, 54–55
Feldman, Andrea (Andy Feldman), 265
Fellini, Federico, 149, 197
Fellini Satyricon, 149, 173
female artists, 282–83
The Female Eunuch, 235
feminism, 233–34, 263, 283–84, 286–87
Ferman, James, 236
Festival of Light, 237
Field, Todd, 289
Fields, Freddie, 87, 88
Fifth Estate, 277
Fifty Shades of Grey, 289–90
Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, xv
Filmways, 69
Finch, Peter, 174, 176–77
Finkelstein, Mel, 154
Fire Island, 26, 28, 30, 66, 71, 134
Fisher, Jules, 40
Flaming Creatures, 22
Flavin, Dan, 197
Flesh, 8, 75–77, 146
Fonda, Jane, 1, 16–17, 93, 225, 282
Fonteyn, Margot, 42
Footlight Café, 141
Ford, John, 155
Forth, Jane, 76
Forwood, Anthony, 204
Foster, David, 192
Fox, James, 83–85, 164–65
Frank E. Campbell funeral chapel, 55
Frankenheimmer, John, 232
Frankovich, M. J., 88, 142
Free Store Theater, 105
Freedman, Gerald, 34–36, 38
The French Connection, 222–24
Frey, Leonard, 28, 29
Friday, Nancy, 283
Friedan, Betty, 235
Friedkin, William, 132–34, 286, 287
Fritz the Cat, 228–29, 250
Fryer, Robert, 148, 150, 153
Fuck, 3, 60–61, 79, 144
Fudakowski, Jan, 221
Funny Girl, 116, 132
Futz!, 35
Fyles, Lee, 207–8
G. P. Putnam’s, 5
the Gaiety (theater), 98
Gamet, Steve, 40
Gardner, Ava, 21
Garfunkle, Art, 190
Garland, Judy, 25, 131, 134
Garrick Theatre, 144, 199
Gay (newspaper), 145
gay marriage, 290
gay rights activism, 131–32, 182
Gazzara, Ben, 226, 262
Genet, Jean, 22, 35
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 115
George, Susan, 210, 213–14
Georgia Supreme Court, 95, 285
Georgiou, Paul, 106
Georgy Girl, 125
Gerber, Gail, 6, 92
Gershenson, David, 252
Get Smart, 7
Gielgud, John, 286
“The Gift,” 157
Gilbert, Craig, 241–43, 245, 269–70, 273
Gilbert, Selena, 208
Giler, David, 150, 152
Gilliatt, Penelope, 172, 174, 282
Gimme Shelter, 165
Ginsberg, Allen, xvi
Girodias, Maurice, 61
Glueck, Grace, 275
Godard, Jean-Luc, 141
The Godfather, 254, 255
Golden Boy, 106
Golden Globes, 168, 169, 171, 290–91
Golden Rainbow, 39
Goldstein, Al, 138
Gone with the Wind, 154–55, 221
Gorman, Cliff, 28–29, 32, 43, 133
Gorme, Eydie, 39
Gould, Elliott, 89–91, 142
The Graduate, xix, 7, 46, 69, 210
Graham, Billy, 102
Grant, Cary, 90
the Grateful Dead, 157–59
Green, Abel, 115
Green, Reuben, 29–30
The Green B
erets, 222–24
Greenwich Village, xv, 131, 287
Greer, Germaine, 235
Gregson, Richard, 25–26, 87, 89
Griffin, Trevor, 288
Grimaldi, Alberto, 254–55
group sex, 264–65
Grove Press, 144, 154
Guare, John, 27–28
Guccione, Bob, 262, 286
Guevara, Che, 102
Haber, Katy, 209
Hailey, Arthur, 49
Hair
banned in Boston, 139
and censorship, 106
and cultural legacy of the Sexplosion years, xi
and Keller, 173, 175
move to Broadway, 33–41
and nudity, 1–2, 33–34, 36, 40–41, 96, 112, 137, 290
venues for, 98–99
and women in the arts, 282
Haldeman, Bob, 217
The Happy Hooker, 221–25
A Hard Day’s Night, 80, 86
Harding, Olive, 173–74
Hardy, Thomas, 80
Harlow, Jean, 138
Harvey, Peter, 32
Haskell, Molly, 278
Hawaii, 55
Hayes, Peter Lind, 115
Head, Edith, 149, 152
Head, Murray, 175–76
Heat, 265, 266
Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit, 145
Hefner, Hugh, 44–45, 234
Heinemann, 21
Hell on Earth, 288–89
Hellman, Jerome, 19–20, 64, 65–66, 80
Hellman, Lillian, 54, 194
Hello, Dolly!, 87, 155
Hells Angels, 158, 163
Help!, 80
“Helter Skelter,” 163
Hemingway, Ernest, 19
Hemmings, David, xiii
Henry, Buck, 7, 8, 92
Hepburn, Katharine, 144
Herlihy, James Leo, 19, 62, 64, 118–19
Hill, George Roy, 83
Hilliard, David, 215
Hitchcock, Alfred, 225
Hitler, Adolf, 251, 252
Hoffenberg, Mason, 5, 92
Hoffman, Dustin
and Midnight Cowboy, 63, 67, 69–70, 73, 117
and The Nice Jewish Boy, 46
and Straw Dogs, 210–11, 213–14, 227
Hoffman, Kristian, 157–59, 239–40
Hoffmann, Janet Susan Mary (Viva), 2–4
Hogan’s Goat, 29
Hollander, Xaviera (Vera de Vries), 221–25
Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 168
The Hollywood Hallucination, 14
Holzer, Baby Jane, 145
homophobia, 29, 67–68, 79–80, 101, 272–73
Hompertz, Tom, 4
Hoover, J. Edgar, 2, 5–6, 18
Horner, Jackie, 246–47
Howl, xvi
Hudson, Rock, 287
Human Sexual Response, 44
Hunt, Helen, 291
Huston, John, xiii, 150, 152
Huxley, Aldous, 187, 237
I, A Man, 60, 61
I Am a Camera, 13
I Am Curious (Yellow), 152, 153–56
I Spy, 88
Ibbetson, Arthur, 210
If. . ., 94, 230
The Importance of Being Earnest, 83
Incest, from a Journal of Love, 14
Inge, William, 23
interracial marriage, xix
Inter/View magazine, 138–39. See also Andy Warhol’s Interview
Isherwood, Christopher, 13–14, 17
J. W. Butler Paper Company, 34
Jabara, Paul, 63
“Jack and Jill,” 114–15, 116
The Jackie Gleason Show, 166
Jackson, Glenda, 120, 127–28, 172, 188, 205–6
Jagger, Mick, 37, 80–86, 158–59, 163, 165–66, 197
James, E. L., 289–90
Janni, Joseph, 19, 65, 173–74
Jarrott, Charles, 171
Jeffrey, Howard, 24
Jennings, Billy “X,” 215
The Jewboy, 46
Joanna, 147, 148
John Paul II, Pope, 237
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 54
Johnson, Virginia, 44
Johnston, Jill, 235
Jong, Erica, 283–84
Jorgensen, Christine, 15
The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide, 264–65
Joyce, James, 45
Joyce, Paul, 288–89
Julian, 13, 18, 22
Kael, Pauline
on Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 143
on Deep Throat, 263
on Last Tango in Paris, 267–68, 274–75, 278
on Straw Dogs, 227–28
on Victim, 100
Kaiser, Charles, 22
Kaplan, Donald, 23
Karloff, Boris, 134
Kassner, Herbert, 264, 277
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 54–55
Kauffmann, Stanley, 23–24, 43
Keller, Hiram, 173, 175
Kelly, Katie, 135
Kennedy, Bobby, 138
Kennedy, Jackie, 42
Kennedy, Teddy, 134
The Killing of Sister George, 32, 121–23, 152
A Kind of Loving, 65, 172
The King of Hearts, 125
Kinney National Services, 163
The Kinsey Report, 18
Klute, 225
The Knack, 29
Knapp Commission, 224
Knopf, Inc., 1–2, 48
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 134
Kramer, Jonathan, 42
Kramer, Larry, 119–30, 125–26, 172, 286–87
Kray, Reggie, 80–81, 83
Kray, Ronnie, 80–81, 83
Krieger, Robby, 104
Kroll, Jack, xvi–xvii
Kubrick, Christiane, 284–85
Kubrick, Stanley
and A Clockwork Orange, 183–84, 186–87, 189–90, 228–30, 249–51, 284–86
and Dr. Strangelove, 5
and Lolita, 288
on sex scenes, 93
Kuumba Workshop, 216
La Cage aux Folles, 287
La MaMa, 99, 139, 243
La Tourneaux, Robert, 30
Lamarr, Hedy, 115–16
Lancaster, Burt, 202
Lansbury, Angela, 149
Last Tango in Paris, 253–58, 267–68, 274–77, 277–78, 282–83, 289
Lawrence, D. H., 48, 119, 122, 123, 234
Lawrence, Lawrence Shubert, Jr., 98
Lawrence, Steve, 39
Lear, Norman, 218–19
Leary, Timothy, 39
Leg Show, 288
The Leopard, 202
Levine, Joseph E., 190
Levy, Jacques, 99, 100–101, 107–9, 111–12
libel lawsuits, 138
Liberman, Bill, 97–99, 107, 113, 115
License to Kill, 287
Lichtenstein, Roy, 147
Lichtenstein, Stuart, 144
Lieberson, Sandy, 81, 85, 163, 165
Life, 165, 227–28
Lindbergh, Charles, 18
Linden, Jennie, 127
Lindsay, John, 59, 139, 142, 224, 264
The Lion in Winter, 144
Lions Love, 138, 143–45, 165
LiPari, Marjorie, 39
Little Big Man, 210
Little, Brown and Company, 1, 19, 21
Little Children, 289
Little Murders, 32, 45
Living Theatre, 102–3, 105, 112
Lolita, 93, 230, 288
Lollipop, 5
London International, 25–26, 87
Lonesome Cowboys, 3–5, 75, 77, 79
Look, 135
Loos, Anita, 115
Los Angeles Times, 119, 216
Losey, Joseph, 83
Loud, Bill, 200, 240–41, 244–45, 268–69, 272–73
Loud, Delilah, 245
Loud, Grant, 269
Loud, Kevin, 274
Loud, Lance
and Altamont Free Festival, 157–59
and An American Family,
239–47, 269–70, 271–74, 281
and Cinema Verite, 291
and Sedgwick meeting, 200–1
and Warhol, 2, 59
Loud, Michelle, 245
Loud, Pat, 241–45, 268–70, 272
Love Story, 214–15
Lovelace, Linda (Linda Boreman), 258–62, 287, 288
Loy, Myrna, 30, 177
Luce, Henry R., 18
Luckinbill, Laurence, 28–29, 132–33, 136
Lyne, Adrian, 288
Lynn, Diana, 24, 27
MacDermot, Galt, 33–34, 36–37, 39–40
MacGraw, Ali, 214
MacLaine, Shirley, 116, 221
Magic and Myth of the Movies, 14
Mahler, Gustav, 202, 220
The Maids, 35
Mailer, Norman, 14, 54–55, 234–35, 275, 277–78
Malina, Judith, 103
The Maltese Falcon, 150
A Man for All Seasons, xiii–xiv, xviii, 28, 172
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 155
Mann, Katia, 202
Mann, Thomas, 202, 219–21
Manson, Charles, 156, 163
Manzarek, Ray, 103, 104
Marchak, Alice, 256
Marcus, Frank, 32
Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 239
Margotta, Michael, 232
Marquand, Christian, 6
Marquand, John, 55
Martha’s Vineyard, 53, 54
Martinson, Margaret, 47, 55
Marx, Groucho, 42
Mason, James, 25
Masters, William, 44
masturbation, 46–47, 50
Mattachine Society, 182
Matthau, Walter, 7
Max’s Kansas City, 144, 197, 265
Maysles brothers, 165
Mazursky, Paul, 87–91, 141, 142–43
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 192–93
McCarthy, Joe, 108
McClure, Michael, 138, 165–66
McDowell, Malcolm, 94, 229–30, 249–50, 286
McKechnie, Donna, 97
McNally, Terrence, 27–28
McNamara, Robert, 54–55
Mead, Taylor, 138
Melnick, Daniel, 213–14, 226–27
Menninger Clinic, 99, 108, 109
Metalious, Grace, xviii–xix, 284
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), xiv, 15, 64–65, 217
Meyer, Russ, 154–55, 182
Michener, James, 55
Midnight Cowboy
and the Academy Awards, 177–79
casting and filming, 42, 62–69
and censorship issues, 153
critical success of, 119, 168, 171, 177–79, 239
and cultural legacy, xi–xii, 289
and Hoffman, 210
opening of, 117–19
party scene, 109
production green lit, 1
studio screening of, 79–80
and Vidal, 19
and Viva, 143–44
and Warhol, 62, 74–75
Miles, Sylvia, 146–47, 265, 266
Miller, Geri, 76, 77
Miller, Henry, 48, 166
Millett, Kate, 234–35
Mirren, Helen, 286
Modern Family, 289
Moes, Wladyslaw, 221
Monroe, Eason, 217
Moore, Liz, 229
Moore, Robert, 27–28, 30, 132