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Keeping it cool in Tallahassee with the Brad Davis family fridge | Label Hinson
Mark Hinson | Guest columnist
Brad Davis’ refrigerator groaned in the dark.
The motor kicked into high gear during the darkness. Dolphin-pitched whirrs occurred. Then came the clanks. Followed by trembles. I reflect it may possess been possessed.
The rounded, ancient ice box moved into my kitchen in the early 1990s, not long after Davis died. Allow me to shine some light on the actor and the fridge’s origins.
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My father and I watched “Midnight Express” (1978) when it finally came to Marianna. It was a prison movie that starred newcomer Davis, who grew up in Tallahassee, and was directed by Alan Parker, who went to come across his maker in 2020.
In “Midnight Express,” Davis played an American tourist caught with hashish at the airport. He was sentenced to 30 years in a hellish Turkish prison. The recent guy got to know elder inmate John Hurt, who coughed a
One of the highlights of this year, so far, for me was hugging and interviewing Billy Hayes one afternoon in New York City. The writer/actor was performing his one-man show smack dab in the heart of Manhattan's Broadway district. He got a great New York Times review. A couple of weeks after our interview for my podcast, he was off to London to perform his show there. Bravo, Billy! This is a great recent chapter in his colorful life.
His exhibit focuses on the rest of the story after his famed Midnight Express. He was the U.S. college student caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. Hit with a severely prolonged jail sentence in those days of the Nixon administration. Billy Hayes escaped from that cruel Turkish prison. His best-selling memoir was adapted in a big hit move movie.
Midnight Express captured Oscar nominations for Top Supporting Actor (John Hurt), Best Director (Alan Parker), Top Original Music Score, Oliver Stone won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the film was nominat
Suffering a secret: Brad Davis and AIDS
Amy Selwyn, Connected Press writer | Standard-Times
In 1991, actor Brad Davis was dying of AIDS and only two people knew it Mr. Davis and his wife of 15 years, Susan Bluestein Davis.
Through the night sweats, the weight loss and the realization that in the end nothing could spare him, Mr. Davis and his wife kept the secret. Because, in the movie industry, the synonyms AIDS spelled unemployment.
As he wrote in a guide proposal developed in the final weeks of his life, Mr. Davis said, "I make my wealth in an industry that professes to care very much about the combat against AIDS but in actual fact, if an actor is even rumored to have HIV, he gets no support on an individual basis. He does not work."
Mr. Davis wanted the world to know that he'd been HIV-positive, he'd had AIDS and he'd still worked -- and more crucial, he hadn't held up production. Because, as he wrote, "There are so many others like me, who are healthy and working, but who reside lives of paranoia and fear because they can't tell the truth."
So he extracted a promise from his wife Susan to write the book he would not live to complete. The Davises kept the secr
Iconic actor Brad Davis would possess turned 75 yesterday. Born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1949, he died on September 8, 1991, aged 41. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1985 but kept his medical condition a secret to hold getting work.
Before this, Davis had a small role in the TV drama, Roots, and played Sally Field’s love interest in the movie, Sybil. In 1977, Davis was cast to act John Rambo in First Blood. However, the project fell through due to studio wranglings. It later returned in 1982 with Sylvester Stallone in the head role.
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After Midnight Express, Davis went on to feature as one of the Team USA athletes in Chariots of Fire (1981) and in queer director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film, Querelle (1982). The latter remains a cult queer favorite that made an impression on generations of gay viewers.
He also had a string of TV credits to his name, including playing Bobby Kennedy in Robert Kennedy & His Times. On