In a scene near Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue flagship, crowds step around a possibly dead body sprawled on the sidewalk. Due to a strike by sanitation workers, as Childers and Schlesinger arrived in the city to prep for filming, there were 70,000 tons of garbage piled on the streets.Īs recounted in the new book “Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Glenn Frankel, garbage fires were on the rise and people worried that typhoid, dysentery and hepatitis would spread.įilmed in some of Manhattan’s most crime-riddled sections - like West 42nd Street and the Lower East Side - “Midnight Cowboy” captured the going-broke city at its most coldhearted. It was primal.”Įven the nonhuman refuse shocked. There were junkies on doorsteps, and I saw one dead body in a garbage can. Michael Childers, who assisted his director boyfriend John Schlesinger on set, remembers the 1968 filming as “a colorful time in New York. “Midnight Cowboy” - the only X-rated movie to win Academy Awards (Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Director) - exposed the world to Manhattan’s underbelly. ‘E.T.’ at 40: Secrets of the Spielberg classic revealed How Susan Sarandon changed the ending of ‘Thelma & Louise’ at the last minuteĬan you spot the human legend behind E.T.’s iconic alien eyes?
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