![]() ![]() ![]() Though many books from the 1950s have gone out of print, ‘From Here to Eternity’ has escaped that fate. In one, Private Maggio (the character played in the film by Sinatra) mentions having oral sex with a man for money - the kind of detail that must have been very difficult for an author to let go. In addition to the four-letter words, scenes that explicitly mention gay sex have been restored to the text. The publisher was concerned about getting through the censors.’ “My father fought bitterly to hold on to every four-letter word in the manuscript. ‘It’s been on my mind for quite a few years, and the right moment just hadn’t come up yet,’ Kaylie Jones told the New York Times. ![]()
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