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...Picture, John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" enjoyed considerable success despite its straightforward depiction of prostitution and homosexuality. The use of nudity and profanity, though shocking then, allows a frank portrayal of the seamier sides of city life as encountered by the story's protagonist, country boy Joe Buck (Jon Voight) looking to settle down with a rich city woman. Particularly offensive at the time were two scenes between Voight's character and homosexual johns, including a middle-aged man whom he physically assaults. But the most striking aspect of the film involves the relationship (somewhat reminiscent of Of Mice...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Screening the FORBIDDEN at the HFA | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

...Republicans in the senate, the victory for Democrat William Stinson gave his party control through the tie-breaking vote of the Democratic Lieutenant Governor. A victory by the Republican Bruce Marks would + have put his party in power. "This was never about Bruce Marks and Bill Stinson," says Frederick Voight, executive director of the Committee of Seventy, a political-watchdog group. "This was about who controls the state senate. The power and the money. The stakes don't get any higher than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Seat Stolen? | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...contrast, was perhaps the most realistic picture of the Old West TV has ever presented, its often shocking bursts of violence suffused with a lyrical stoicism. Return to Lonesome Dove, however, is less a sequel than a lazy recycling of scraps from older, blander westerns. Captain Woodrow Call (Jon Voight replacing Tommy Lee Jones) makes a second trek from Texas to | Montana, this time to drive a herd of horses, while his unacknowledged son (Rick Schroder) goes to work for a powerful cattle baron. In place of the hardscrabble poetry of the original is a meandering frontier soap opera, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back From Boot Hill | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...Voight, returning to Broadway for the first time in 25 years, gives an unshowy performance as the celebrity writer Trigorin that subtly conveys the character's lonely, inward-looking obsession with his craft. As the actress Arkadina, Tyne Daly stresses monstrous self-absorption. Not for Daly the customary dotty unawareness of how she puts down her son, a would-be avant- garde playwright; each belittling gesture is calculated cruelty. As the son, Ethan Hawke solves the play's pivotal problem, foreshadowing the youth's instability and making clear why he and not his at-wit's-end beloved, Nina, commits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making A Forward Leap | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...best, because it will prompt the children to leave and grow. Onstage he departs vowing to become the world's greatest teacher. In life he went on to grace the best-seller lists and the movies (The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides and 1974's Conrack, starring Jon Voight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To The Rescue | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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