Born on this day – Gail Sheehy:

Gail Sheehy

Writer

November 27, 1936 – August 24, 2020

Credits:

Books:

Character: America's Search for Leadership (1991); Daring: My Passages: A Memoir (2014); Hillary's Choice (1999); Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society (1973); Lovesounds (1970); Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope (2003); New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time (1995); Panthermania: The Clash of Black Against Black in One American City (1971); Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence (2010); Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (1976); Pathfinders: Overcoming the Crises of Adult Life (1983); Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life (2007); Speed is of the Essence (1971); Spirit of Survival (1987); The Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1991); The Silent Passage: Menopause (1993); Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives (1998).

Movies and television:

Delorean: Back from the Future (2021); First Ladies (2020); Frontline (2016); Good Morning America (1976–2016); Hustling (1975); IFC News: 2008 Uncut (2008); Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean (2021); New Passages (1996); Radical Wolfe (2023); Slow Burn (2018); Tavis Smiley (2014); The Bob Braun Show (1977); The Factor (2007); The Last Editor (2002); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); Traveling Hopefully (1982).

On this day in movie history – Hustling (1975 movie & book):

Hustling

directed by Joseph Sargent,

written by Fay Kanin,

based on the 1971 series Redpants and Sugarman, published in New York Magazine, and the book by Gail Sheehy,

was released in the United States on February 22, 1975.
Music by Jerry Fielding.

Cast:

Lee Remick, Monte Markham, Jill Clayburgh, Alex Rocco, Melanie Mayron, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Dick O'Neill, Burt Young, Paul Benedict, John Sylvester White, Allan Miller, Burke Byrnes, James Andronica, Howard Hesseman, Clifford A. Pellow, Stephen Nathan, Alex Colon, Richard Keith, Lisa Daniels, Bernie McInerney, Edward Colmans, Kathryn Janssen, Bruce Kirby, Lauren Simon, Tim Thomerson, Garry Walberg, Buck Young.

Recommended reading:

Hustling

By Gail Sheehy.

Filmed as Hustling (1975), directed by Joseph Sargent.

Mass Market Paperback.

Published by Dell.

First published 1974.

ISBN 13: 9780440138006

ISBN 10: 0440138000

ASIN: 0440138000

Description:

Hustling. Hell’s bedrooms. The blindingly real inside story of the netherworld of prostitution, the whole sordid subculture of brutal pimps, Mafia businessmen, profit-mad landlords, venal lawyers – and the women, from ghettos and suburbs, who sell their bodies on the street, at cheap hotels and expensive brothels, in the tawdry whirl of the world’s oldest profession.

“It took guts to write this book … there is a street toughness to the writing that is gripping.” – Newsday.

“A kind of Times Square peep show tour …” – Washington Post.

“realistic … brings the world of the prostitute to life, real life.” – Sacramento Bee.