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| Video Discription | (25 Jul 2003) SHOTLIST APTN-New York March 2000 -' Next Best Thing Premiere' 1. CU John Schlesinger. OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR JOHN SCHLESINGER DIES IN PALM SPRINGS HOSPITAL. John Schlesinger, whose Oscar-winning "Midnight Cowboy" and thrillers like "The Falcon and the Snowman" explored lonely underdogs in modern society, died Friday. He was 77. The British-born filmmaker had a debilitating stroke in December 2000, and his condition deteriorated significantly in recent weeks. He was taken off life support at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs on Thursday and died early Friday, hospital spokeswoman Eva Saltonstall said. "He did pass this morning," she said, declining any further information. Schlesinger broke ground with 1969's "Midnight Cowboy," which starred Jon Voight as a naive Texan who turns to prostitution to survive in New York and Dustin Hoffman as the scuzzy, ailing vagrant Ratso Rizzo. The film's homosexual theme was regarded as scandalous, but the tale of underdogs trying to survive in a merciless metropolis was embraced by critics and Hollywood despite its shocking sequences. Based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, "Midnight Cowboy" was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won three _ best director, best picture and best adapted screenplay. It was the only X-rated film ever to win the Oscar for best picture; reflecting changing standards, the rating was later lowered to an "R." The stocky, baldheaded filmmaker _ who was gay _ said in 1970: "I'm only interested in one thing _ that is tolerance. I'm terribly concerned about people and the limitation of freedom. It's important to get people to care a little for someone else. That's why I'm more interested in the failures of this world than the successes." After "Midnight Cowboy" he explored homosexuality again in his next project with 1971's "Sunday Bloody Sunday," which starred Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson as acquaintances who each reluctantly share a love for the same young man. The director received another Oscar nomination for the film. The characters in Schlesinger's films often struggled with their place in the world, and he depicted them as lonely, disenchanted and sometimes forgotten. In 1975, he directed an adaptation of the Nathanael West novel "The Day of the Locust," about young wannabe-stars who find only disappointment in Hollywood. Schlesinger himself felt an estrangement from his own success. "If I've ever had any commercial success, it's been a total fluke. I wouldn't have known 'Midnight Cowboy' would have done so well," Schlesinger said in 1990. But he wasn't above directing commercial films, like his 1975 thriller "Marathon Man." That teamed him again with Hoffman, who played an innocent man tortured for information by Laurence Olivier, a hiding Nazi war criminal with a penchant for drilling teeth. That turned Schlesinger toward more thrillers, including the 1985 tale of true-life spy skullduggery "The Falcon and the Snowman," starring Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton as two young Americans convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Schlesinger said he thought the movie was in some ways "a black farce about American security." Both protagonists _ one a seminary dropout, the other a drug dealer _ were depicted as depressed and isolated. "It's kind of pathetic. ... Both of them are," Schlesinger said in 1994. "It's one of the things, also, that appealed to me." His last film was the 2000 comedy "The Next Best Thing" _ about a straight woman (Madonna) who decides to have a child with her gay friend (Rupert Everett). Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/cd90f31b5627b08db611e68f99fc82a7 [MohLWofSEVQ] |
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