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Article: Prick up your ears.
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- May 22, 1987
- Author:
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NO ORDINARY JOE
THE PLAYWRIGHT Joe Orton, whowas bludgeoned to death in 1967 by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, after a 16 years' relationship, is the subject of the most explicitly and exultantly homosexual mainstream film in the English language, Prick Up Your Ears. The educated, middle-class Halliwell met the eight-years-younger Orton, a working-class youth of 17 from Leicester, when both were students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. They moved into a small flat paid for by Halliwell, who undertook the education of young John, the disciple subsequently changing his name to Joe, so he woudln't be confused with John Osborne.
Halliwell, who was ...
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