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'Shooting Midnight Cowboy' Book Excerpt: Glenn Frankel Gives Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Classic Film (Exclusive)
In 1970, director John Schlesinger’s film Midnight Cowboytook home the Oscar for best picture at the 42ndAcademy Awards, beating bigbox office winner Butch Cassidy andbecoming the first X-rated film to win the covetedaward. Two years ago the film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight celebrated its 50th anniversary andnowPulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author Glenn Frankel is ready to examine "the story of a modern classic that, by all accounts, should never have become one in the first place" inhis new book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy:Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic(Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
