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Wide screen Dreams LIVING OUT Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies Joan Larkin and David Bergman GENERAL EDITORS Midlife Qy,eer: Autobiography of a Decade, 1971-1981 Martin Duberman Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Muvies Patrick E. Horrigan Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me Jaime Manrique Taboo Boyer Rickel Widescreen Dreams Growing Up Gay at the Movies Patrick E. Horrigan The University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E SLU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright© 1999 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Horrigan, Patrick E. Widescreen dreams: growing up gay at the movies I Patrick E. Horrigan. 250 pp. cm.-(Living out) Based on author's dissertation (Columbia University). Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-16160-9 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Horrigan, Patrick E. 2. Gay men-United States-Biography. 8. Gay men-United States-Psychology-Case studies. 4. Motion pictures-United States-Psychological aspects-Case studies. I. TItle. II. Series. HQ75.S.H67A!1 1999 805.8S'9664-dc21 9S-1752S [B] Song excerpts on pp. 9S-100 are from ''You'll Never Know" by Harry Warren and M,ack Gordon @ 1948 (Renewed) WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission ofWamerBros. Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL 88014. ISBN 918-0-299-16164-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 918-0-299-16163-7 (e-book) in memory of Gary Lucek Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xv 1 The Happiest Family in All the World! 3 Outtakes I / 48 2 LoveBarbra 54 Outtakes II / 101 3 The Wreck of the Family 106 Outtakes III / 135 4 Like Home 139 Outtakes IV /177 5 Coming Out, with AI Pacino 180 Outtakes V / 215 Notes 221 Works Cited 225 vii Illustrations 1 Four years old,july 1967 6 2 The Sound oj Music storybook 8 3 The Horrigan children, Christmas 1967 9 4 Father Mike and me,june 1970 16 5 Poster for The Sound oj Music 19 6 Leicester Square, London, spring 1984 55 7 The Harmonia Gardens Restaurant in Hello, DoUy! 64 8 Carol Channing as Dolly Levi 65 9 Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi 66 10 Mom and me, April 1966 98 11 Barbra Streisand and son,jason Gould 99 12 Robin and Susan Shelby in The Poseidon Adventure 108 13 My sister Karen and me, September 1970 110 14 Poster for The Poseidon Adventure 114 15 The Horrigan children, fall 1972 115 16 The survivors in The Poseidon Adventure 116 17 The house I grew up in, january 1987 142 18 The train-yard, ca. 1976 155 19 The Emerald City in The Wiz 174 20 The World Trade Center 175 21 Thirteen years old, spring 1977 182 22 Al Padno in Dog Day Afternoon 187 23 My brother john and me, ca. 1975 199 24 Barbra Streisand in the 1976 version of A Star Is Born 207 ix
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