Mark griffin rock hudson5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead, he sets conflicting memories and opinions about Hudson and the life he led side-by-side, sometimes inclining towards a particular view, but, more often than not, holding back, allowing that the truth about any human being is destined to remain elusive. Sensibly, he doesn't try to be definitive in his account, eschewing the affectations of biographers who should know better. His canvas is broad, incorporating the way the movie business worked, the sexual politics of the time, and the codes of conduct that ruled in Hollywood's gay underworld. The most impressive aspect of Griffin's approach is his attempt to provide a context that illuminates what it was that made Hudson tick. ![]() At the same time, though, his extensively researched portrait of Hudson doesn't simply cast the actor as Mr Goody Two Shoes, making his way through the movie business untarnished, like the white-suited Tony Curtis striding through a pie fight in The Great Race (1965) and coming out spotless. ![]()
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