Hofler, Robert

With 26 pages of notes, this is a detailed and well-researched biography of a popular film that avid fans and film students will likely find fascinating.

s and triumphed over the worst of them.

With personalities such as Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Oh! Calcutta! playwright Kenneth Tynan, the "sexplosion" seems more fueled by runaway egos than creative ferment. More background about the 1950s and early 1960s culture that the artists were trying to overturn would have been helpful. However, the volume is a readable review for those who lived through the madness and those who came later.