Word: crowley
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...record was 19-7. In 1966. it was 22-5. In 1967. with only one American. Framingham's Andy Crowley on the roster, it was 27-1-1 and included the ECAC and NCAA titles...
...Crowley quit, making the roster fully Canadian, and Cornell went on to a 27-2 season. Last winter, again with no Americans, the Big Red won 27-of-29, took its fourth Ivy title. the ECAC championship, and second in the NCAA tournament...
...Broadway producers have found that homosexuals will flock to plays about themselves. Yet most dramas about deviates are written for heterosexual audiences. The New York stage currently offers John Osborne's A Patriot for Me, Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band and John Herbert's Fortune and Men's Eyes, a 1967 drama about prison life. Revived last week in a new production, it has been rewritten so that a scene of forcible sodomy that used to take place out of the audience's sight is now grimly visible (though simulated). In movies, too, homosexuality is the vogue...
...quality of these works ranges from excellent to nauseating. But it is a fact that treatment of the theme has changed. "Homosexuality used to be a sensational gimmick," says Playwright Crowley. "The big revelation in the third act was that the guy was homosexual, and then he had to go offstage and blow his brains out. It was associated with sin, and there had to be retribution." These days a movie or play can end, as Staircase does, with a homosexual couple still together or, as Boys in the Band winds up, with two squabbling male lovers trying desperately...
Having made some sort of homosexual breakthrough with Mart Crowley's gentle tragicomedy The Boys in the Band, off Broadway promises to go farther with a revamped version of Fortune and Men's Eyes. This is an angry, violent foray into prison homosexuality, staged by Sal Mineo to include a naked onstage rape sequence. Nothing so nude or erotically minded as Oh! Calcutta! is presently scheduled...