Cruising with Al Pacino- Scarf Choice

[jemapenny1993]

I'm assuming Bruce Springsteen wasn't aware of the Hankerchief Code... Born in the USA anyone?

[badbrains272]

Had to watch 3 times in a row but I finally have the rules down. Can't wait to go out tonite!

[1100HondaCB]

The scarf scene: Too much information!

[NoRulesInNam]

HAHA

[CitySkin09]

Make sure you don't wear the wrong color in South Central...you might be looking for a blow job or looking to give one and you might wind up with a bullet in your ocular cavity...

[goldenrod2]

The brown scarf wasn't mentioned. The brown scarf meant that one liked to smell the farts of a goodlooking puerto-rican/hispanic dude.

[TracyAndersonFoxhunt]

sound!

[billthestinker]

when the world goes green we will all be taking golden showers

[katethegreat91]

"I'm sure you'll make the right choice" hahaha

[cdftaurus]

no, noone really does that hanky stuff anymore. The whole hanky thing started way back when gay bars were being raided and gay people couldnt meet as freely as they do now, and men would go to parks and what not to pick up other guys and a hanky sticking out of your pocket meant you were there to meet a dude or whatever. The whole color thing just branched off from there.

[pduty]

what movie is this???

[comradevinyl]

"Cruising"

[sunclov]

Al pacino is sexy as a Mother fo

[TexasLeatherCock]

Sometimes when I go out I will take a "hanky" out to see whos interested.

[kitasshit]

now Burnt umber or Orange theres some colors for you ........

YIKES!!!!

[FervidSmoker]

don't knock it til you try it :D

[sunclov]

thats true

[kitasshit]

Red Fisting

[lcpbeto]

whats red color for

[alfriendo2008]

Google "hanky codes" and all will be revealed!

[tb160714]

Hanky codes are a real codes, but today they are less needed than they where in 1980's. google *hanky code* and you can see a chart explaining the meanings of the colors.

[lakevubud]

Ah the good ol days when there were a half doz scarves. Now there are a hundred.

[Chapsxo]

I love this film, but i love Al Pacino more ^o^

[Blacknight8850]

I don't know if this is still used, but the Gay Hankerchief Code was a real system used when being Gay was still an underground thing, and it worked pretty much as described here.

[trecejoyas]

al pacino films

[PartySized]

Oh my god. I just realize I give golden showers!

[osvaldoe]

Why the hell is he putting on make up? What does that have to do with being gay? Only drag performers do that!

[clemdane]

Love this film, love Powers Boothe. Where the hell is my DVD? I ordered it before 9/18.

[carezzza]

Another noteworthy thing about this clip is that it shows Stephen Steinlauf. Stephen was the co-producer of "Bent", on Broadway, starring Richard Gere, which was considered groundbreaking at that time. He strongly disagreed with the protestors and made this appearance as a political statement.

[jmucci]

Where is Steve Steinlauf now? Does anyone know?

[carezzza]

He moved to Israel years ago.

[carezzza]

Hmmm I look so young in this clip.

I probably shouldn't bother, but the store he's in, in this scene, was a real S&M shop that was on West Street, next to the Ramrod. They were one of many gay establishments that disagreed with the protest and refused to be pressured out of participating in the movie.

[JohnKoroly]

And that young actor playing the sales clerk is Powers Boothe. I THINK the next year he won the Emmy for playing Jim Jones.

[mpho3]

most recently, Boothe portrayed Cy Tolliver on HBO's Deadwood

[filmfan70]

FINALLY !!! 'Cruising' was finally released on DVD today, Tuesday, September 18th.

[dksf]

This is worth repeating:

"Ed Gonzalez(1) On 08/29/2007 Slant dot com

On one level, Friedkin is trivially getting off on correlating two different types of penetration (the stabby kind and the sexy kind); on another, he's equating violence with the act of gay sex, which is essentially in line with right-wingers linking homosexuality to rape, pedophilia, and 9/11..."

[carezzza]

Well praise the LORD

[BERSERKERpoetry]

Give me a break. He's equating violence with violent sex, not violence with gay sex overall.

[carezzza]

wow

[alfiees]

goods songs from willy de ville!.

[SistaSofija]

I have the movie soundtrack on vinyl, I LOVE Willy De Ville, finally someone who recognises the genuis.

[tiegs]

Love these clips Sista -

I am not familiar w willy de ville.

Does he sing "Spy Boy" - the song that is playing when Pacino is crusing Central Park at night?

GREAT tune - especially for that scene

[tiegs]

great clip -

how about the scene where the sargeant (Paul Sorvino)

recruits him for the role and asks if he ever had his "pole smoked" by a man.

great scene.

That & his neighbor saying he only eats seafood or he "blows up like Shelly Winters"

LOL!

[filmfan70]

Sister Sofija, THIS IS GREAT !!! Please keep the 'Cruising' clips comin'. I need my fix until the DVD is released on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 :):):)

[EmpressofthisWorld]

Why is Al Pacino putting on make-up? is that to make him seem gay b/c only drag queens do that.

[dooples]

Sweet!...the mighty Powers Boothe.

I doubt I'd want to know what the red hanky is for either!

[billthestinker]

if you don't like this movie, it's because you are afraid of what you might be.

[drainfunk]

or " y**'re a f** " ))) no, a lot of people don't like it because it's very rough at the edges, since the crew was sabotaged during the shoot and they couldn't afford to finish the film properly.

[BeatBuddy]

This movie is one of the worst pieces of junk to come out of the 80s.

[SistaSofija]

We could have a mass debate over it?

[BeatBuddy]

I suppose we could, but the damage is done. The movie is made.

If you belong to Netflix, you can write a review of it. It comes out on DVD next month.

[scottvandeman]

That was the assessment by gay activists at the time. I never bought it. It depicts something very real that gay men didn't want revealed, and to some extent, still don't. I'm gay -- I've been a part of that scene, but that was a long time ago. The movie is an accurate portrayal of a subset of behavior, with a murder mystery attached. If it were made today, I doubt it would draw as much venom because of the counterbalancing depictions we see in movies and on television with regularity.

[BeatBuddy]

It is indeed a subset of the gay world, but when this subset becomes the only portrayals that Hollywood is willing to show, then it's time to get militant. There used to be a southern pressure group who grew tired of southerners portrayed as decandant, barflies and rednecks. I can understand their point.

[scottvandeman]

Thus my comment that the movie wouldn't draw as much venom today because of counterbalancing depictions. In other words, it's NOT the only portrayal that Hollywood is willing to show.  Neverhtheless, it was the most "real" depiction of its time, showing the hypermasculine world of leather and Levis (more)

[BeatBuddy]

It's worth noting that only 9 years later, the gay press critically acclaimed Last Exit to Brooklyn, based on Hubert Selby's novel about urban degeneracy and violence. It seems that a type of queen is dying, those who pursue only straight men because gay men are not "up to par" on the masculinity scale. Besides, the straight characters are mean, stupid, and violent. The gay characters are only mean and stupid.

[dksf]

I certainly understand the nostalgia for the pre-Aids sexual abandon that underlies the leaning towards this mess of a film. It's true that the film works as a time capsule now.

But it WAS virtually the only portrayal that Hollywood WAS willing to show at that time.

This was long before "Philadelphia", Will and Grace, certainly long b4 Brokeback. It wasn't venom! but action of defense!

[scottvandeman]

rather than effeminate, limp-wristed homosexuals who were nothing but laughing stocks. If I have to choose, I'll take the gritty and real over the one-dimensional stereotype any time. I also never really thought of the film as judgmental; it just was what it was -- ahead of its time.

[BeatBuddy]

I hated the movie regardless of the sexual orientation of its characters. It found it to be a sloppy script with sloppy directing. Perhaps it's because I'm a big fan of crime fiction. (Check my profile: Patricia Highsmith...The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train)

[SWSimpson]

I think you may have found it too dark and you didn't understand a lot of it. Guess what, its okay. I saw it when I was about 16 years old and thought it was too dark. I love leather now- leather bars, men in leather, but have never seen anything like what we saw in Cruising. I wouldn't put myself in any place that "dark."

[BeatBuddy]

I don't think darkness is the issue. I love the book 1984 and movies like TAXI DRIVER. Even if the film were lighthearted fare, there was something about the execution I hated.

As for the leather scene, I see it as a form of image projection. It's like all other forms of dress, a form of self-expression. A lot of these leather guys are kind and gentle and wouldn't kill a cockroach.

[dksf]

Your curious sexism disappoints me; it was DRAG QUEENS who started the Stonewll Riot!! And you don't have to choose. Everybody's God's creation who deserves a dignified representation in the media. The film might not have been intentionally judgmental, as Friedkin sings, but it was certainly EXPLOITATIVE.

[BeatBuddy]

Today there is a lucrative market in independent gay filmmaking. The obligatory endings have gone from one extreme to the other. The two leads are always stunningly beautiful, prince charming meets prince charming, and they live happily ever after in ecstatic domestic bliss. But I suppose that's an understandable reaction against previous times.

[megadeth25]

what´s the name of the movie????

[SistaSofija]

"Cruising"

[billthestinker]

this movie is an orginal classic

never fails to get me up

[SistaSofija]

I watch with envy and lust.

Its not fair that women dont cruise as much as the men, shame, im game.

[yellohcard]

Thanks for posting this vid it looks like an interesting movie

[SistaSofija]

Sharing is caring, I think everyone should watch this movie.

[dksf]

"everyone",sis? How about watching it w/ ur 75 yrs old nana next 2 u? ;-D