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Reader Discretion Advised
By Bruce Bellingham
Reader Discretion Advised: Actress Maria Schneider died last month in Paris from cancer. She was only 58. Many will always remember how she, at 19, and Marlon Brando, 48, brought sodomy to mainstream cinema in "Last Tango In Paris." In 1972. The use of butter in the scene became legendary. For months, the film ran at the old Royal Theater on Polk Street. You have to recall that there was no Castro District in those days. "Polkstrasse" was the center of gay activity. The boys at the Gramophone record shop across the street from the Royal gleefully filled their front window with Gato Barbieri's soundtrack album of "Last Tango ..." and empty boxes of Challenge Butter. It's still outrageous. The movie brought Maria Schneider nothing but misery. Typecast as sex kitten, her career never got anywhere. She later made dreary films such as "Mamma Dracula." ...
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