sex for the whole family
In this excerpt from “The Way They Were,” about filming “The Way We Were,” we learn why the sex scenes were so tame and why Redford refused to say, “It’ll be better this time.”
Robert Hofler is the lead theater critic for TheWrap. He is also author of Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to ‘A Clockwork Orange’–How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson, and Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne, among other books.
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