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...Crowley's next play, opening next fall, is called Remote Asylum. He described it as being about "escapism-drugs, booze, sex, a passport or plane ticket that lets you think you can run away from yourself." The five characters include two heterosexual couples and Michael, a central (and homosexual) character of Boys. Like his first play, Asylum will be in the tradition of the "well-made" American play. But his third play, Crowley said, is "moving further along." All the characters are straight and the structure of the work is influenced by Pirandello, whom he admires greatly...
...conception of Boys, Crowley said, "I loved Virginia Woolf and it influenced me a lot-but the real inspiration was the Salinger story. 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.' And movies like All About Eve [Mankiewicz's melodrama about Hollywood stardom] and Hitchcock's Rope, which gave me the idea of using confined quarters as a dramatic device...
...Crowley likes the movies and would like eventually to write directly for the screen, directing his own screen play. He feels he is ready to do so now that he has gotten his feet wet producing the filmed Boys...
...Hollywood studios offered me a lot of money for Boys, " Crowley said, but he took a smaller offer from Cinema Center, so that he could retain artistic control and the original off-Broadway cast, all unknowns. "One studio," he explained, "wanted to use old stars in 'these great little cameo parts' to rev up their careers. Paramount kept talking about a title song-they wanted to sell the picture with a hit record...
...talked about The Damned, perhaps the only other major film this year to have a strong homosexual point of view. Crowley said he thought that film was "fabulous and terrible... Jack Lemmon calls it The Boys in the Bund...