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Then one day in New York's Greenwich Village he was introduced to the director of Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. With the help of the G.I. Bill, Steve won a scholarship to the Herbert Berghof Studio; later he went on to the Actors Studio. In 1956 he replaced Ben Gazzara in Broadway's Hatful of Rain...
Howard Russell Moody, senior minister of Greenwich Village's Judson Memorial Church...
Rechy's hero is a stud hustler who roams this world familiarly in Manhattan's Times Square and Greenwich Village, in Los Angeles' Pershing Square, and in the French Quarter in New Orleans (Mardi gras is Queersville, of course, because queens can wear their highest drag). It is a dreary world where the aberrant have made, and live by, their own conventions. Perhaps the dreariest part of it is not that so much of its business is transacted in the men's rooms of subway stations. It is that the homosexuals Rechy writes about...
...couple of years ago, he made a pilgrimage to New York to visit Woody Guthrie, his spiritual leader, lying ill of Huntington's chorea. Seeing Guthrie and sleeping in the subways became his twin pleasures, and he began to sing for money in Greenwich Village coffeehouses. "Man, I could whip anybody. I was at the high point of my life from seein' Woody. He ain't a folk singer?he's a genius genius genius genius...
...jail and selling its steel bars at a profit. Another is a courtly Southern tycoon who lives in a mansion in Yemassee, S.C. The third man once conducted his family business, the nation's biggest maker of toothpaste tubes, from a floating desk in the pool of his Greenwich, Conn., home until the pool became too small to contain his world. They make an unlikely trio, but together they have set out to be corporate conquerors in the style of Louis Wolfson and the late Robert Young. Last week the trio completed a major coup by taking control...