From above left: Times Square, Larry Rey as Priest, Donald L. Brooks as Hippie, Arthur Williams as John, Charles Ludlam in Bloodbank with Don Kvares as Drag Queen, Donald
L. Brooks close-up, Charles Ludlam as Vendor, Bobby Kendall, close-up, Times Square, Donald L. Brooks, Harvey Yerkes (Andrew Starr) and Don Stephens in phone booth.
L. Brooks close-up, Charles Ludlam as Vendor, Bobby Kendall, close-up, Times Square, Donald L. Brooks, Harvey Yerkes (Andrew Starr) and Don Stephens in phone booth.
Sean Fredric Edgecomb in Bright Lights Film Journal, May 2006 interviewing Jim Bidgood:
How did you find all of the different boys that were featured in Pink Narcissus?
Bidgood: Well, there was a fellow that I know by the name of Don Brooks, who is in the movie,
actually he was the Angel … We’d be working there on the set and stuff, Don would go out,
sometimes at one or two in the morning, and sometimes would not be seen (I think he went home and
took a nap) because he was gone for hours, but he would go out on a “talent search.” It was the day
of the flower children, you know, and he would bring back sometimes a very large group of people
they found on the street. One guy, one night a gun fell out of his pants on the floor. I mean they
could have killed us all. And my God, they were straight, half of them had never done anything like
[that] … and they did it, they marched through it. Those were the days. I don’t want to be one of
those “those were the days” [people], but that was a very unique space and time … The ’60s and ’70s
were really an amazing time.
How did you find all of the different boys that were featured in Pink Narcissus?
Bidgood: Well, there was a fellow that I know by the name of Don Brooks, who is in the movie,
actually he was the Angel … We’d be working there on the set and stuff, Don would go out,
sometimes at one or two in the morning, and sometimes would not be seen (I think he went home and
took a nap) because he was gone for hours, but he would go out on a “talent search.” It was the day
of the flower children, you know, and he would bring back sometimes a very large group of people
they found on the street. One guy, one night a gun fell out of his pants on the floor. I mean they
could have killed us all. And my God, they were straight, half of them had never done anything like
[that] … and they did it, they marched through it. Those were the days. I don’t want to be one of
those “those were the days” [people], but that was a very unique space and time … The ’60s and ’70s
were really an amazing time.
