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, Charles Ludlam as Vendor, Bobby Kendall, close-up, Donald L. Brooks close-up,
Times Square, Donald L. Brooks, Harvey Yerkes (Andrew Starr) and Don Stephens in phone booth.
Bloodbank with Don Kvares as Drag Queen, Charles Ludlam as Vendor, Bobby Kendall, close-up, Donald L. Brooks 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.
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.