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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...
...near nudity with the mysterious charm of their grins and guitars. Such popularity is the personal creation of Founder, Leader and Guardian Randy Sparks, who at 29 has developed a keen ear for the lowest common denominator of public taste, uses it with the good sense of a born hustler. "What we try for," he says with conviction, "is middle-of-the-road fun music...
...default of dramatic momentum, Director Joshua Logan soups up the melodramatic attitudinizing-soulful head clutchings, venomous spittings-in-the-face, and caged-animal stage stalking. Only in the last act does one scene come alive with fury and clarity. Diana Sands, a cool, sexy hustler who has worn the body-and-soul-for-sale sign longer than the tiger, proposes marriage to him. Too sterile for love, too cynical for hope, she suggests only that they huddle together for animal warmth in their loneliness. In the psychic fatigue of her voice, there is a fox at bay, and one hears...
...quit building manned bombers. In Fort Worth, Texas, the Air Force recently took delivery of the last of 100 Convair B58 Hustler supersonic bombers it had ordered. Two days before, the last of 744 B-52H strategic bombers was turned over to the U.S.A.F. in Wichita, Kans., by Boeing. North American's 2,000-m.p.h. Valkyrie, once designated the B-70, is still under development, but its classification has been changed from bomber to ''reconnaissance-strike" plane...
Jackie Gleason. Yessiree, the monster is none other than that ton of fun from television who in The Hustler scored as Minnesota Fats, a pool shark who looked like a whale with a carnation. In Gigot he scores again as Gigot, a Parisian janitor whose name means leg of mutton but who looks more like leg of dinosaur...