Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

Thank you for joining me today as we're going to complete just a few more tiny investigatory bits about Mark Crowley in this episode before we move on for an extra special feature.

We have featured Mark Crowley in many of the stories over our last

few weeks. I got one more, one more waiting, and we're going to wrap this one up. Today it is to Mark

Crowley, his rise and fall, getting sober, and a little bit of Kay Thompson too. Let's investigate.

Oh y'all, what a week.

There is a great story that my trashy divorces people know was coming to Dun & because they heard me talk about it this weekend.

It is coming for everyone so, so soon.

We are going to be dipping into Robert Maplethorpe, the legendary artist. Dominic Dunn did

write one of the very last interviews with Robert Maplethorpe before his death in 1989. We are going to

be getting into that on the next story. However, before we go any further, let's go ahead and just do a

little bit of cleanup with

Mark Crowley. We left with the boys in the band and how much of a success it was and how it changed

the face of gay culture and the face of theater and was so forward-thinking. Mark Crowley

really influential. So the play comes out, boys in the band.

It's a hit. I'm going to go ahead and just talk about a few of his quotes here because, wow,

here he is, successful at 32. He has been doing a lot of stuff for a lot of time. Natalie Woods' assistant.

Kind of a drunk writer on the couch, right?

Betty Davis loves them.

Success at this age, 32, exhilarating for this little kid from the South who his whole

life has dreamed of making movies, film, writing.

Mark Crowley says, my history up to then had been nothing more than one flop or one false start after another.

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