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But Holfer doesn’t play favorites or weigh one work’s legacy against another. Not every effort from this swashbuckling span of years has withstood the test of time - for every enduring “Midnight Cowboy,” there are a dozen films that now seem dated and flat, like a cinematic leap that ended in a belly flop.

The origin stories of these and dozens of other similarly controversial works of this era compose most of this absorbing book.Īs a historical document, “Sexplosion” stands as an engrossing chronicle of artistic expansion - for good or ill. These days, we may take for granted the lurid ultra­violence of “A Clockwork Orange,” the hippie-dippie, sing-along idealism of “Hair” and the coming-of-age onanism of Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint.” But before these works found a place in the cultural canon, they had to travel bumpy roads. Veteran entertainment journalist and former Variety senior editor Robert Hofler has no shortage of bona fides or enthusiasm for detailing the brief span of entertainment history - 1968 to 1973 - that delivered so much groundbreaking film, theater and literature.

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The staggering shifts in mores may not have been beamed into the country’s living rooms (or bedrooms) very often, but a short walk to the local cinema brought a bracing and often graphic update on the evolution of the status quo.Īlthough its title may suggest hack work, “Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to a Clockwork Orange - How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos” was written by a true pop culture connoisseur.

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On his iconic 1970 album “Small Talk at 125th and Lenox,” poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron cautioned America that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Yet the sexual revolution of the late ’60s and early ’70s did manifest itself in multiple ways on the movie screen and the theater stage.