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).
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