Correction: From the Bedroom to the Bijou: American Gay Sex CinemaAuthor(s): Jack StevensonSource: Film Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Winter, 1997-1998), p. 20Published by: University of California PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3697137 .

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(1955), another American expressionist film, in which the psychotic minister (Robert Mitchum) has "love" and "hate" tattooed on his hands.

34. Lee, p. 103. 35. The collaborators of Do the Right Thing include both the

people from the neighborhood depicted and the varied group of actors and technicians who gathered in the neigh- borhood to shoot the film.

36. That Lee's production process was meant to model an an- swer to the problem his characters and plot dramatize was evident in a variety of specific ways during Lee's concep- tualization of Do the Right Thing and remains evident, at least implicitly, in the finished film. In his "Production Notes," Lee mentions that he "wanted to cast white actors who feel comfortable around Black people. A white actor nervous about setting foot in Bed-Stuy wasn't gonna work for this film. The fact that Danny Aiello grew, up in the South Bronx, and John Turturro in a Black neighborhood in Queens, made them ideal choices" (p. 109).

37. As a result of his exploration of the American underclass, Danish artist Jacob Holdt concluded that the fear of African-American neighborhoods that seems so natural to European-Americans is racism, since it is virtually never based on any first-hand experiences in such neighbor- hoods, but merely on stereotype. See Holdt's American Pictures (Copenhagen: American Pictures Foundation, 1985), the book version of Holdt's epic slide show re- counting his travels across America.

38. Lee, pp. 108-109.

(Cover picture from N. Y, N. Y by permission of the Museum of Modem Art Film Stills Archives.)

Correction

In ascertaining Kenneth Anger's date of birth for

my article in FQ vol. 51, no. 1, "From the Bedroom to the Bijou-American Gay Sex Cinema," I unfortu-

nately consulted a flawed source, Anger-The Unau- thorized Biography of Kenneth Anger (1995), by Bill Landis. Anger was born in 1930, and made Fireworks in 1947, at the age of 17, not at the age of 20, as Lan- dis erroneously contends in a book that offers up a number of other basic factual errors as well. Addition-

ally, Kenneth chose his stage name at the age of four and has been known as Kenneth Anger ever since.

Jack Stevenson Ebeltoft, Demark

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