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Most people don't pause to remember that Angelina Jolie's uncle Wes Voight, using the alias of Chip Taylor, composed The Troggs' hit "Wild Thing," in 1966 1969, before Angelina was even born.
Her dad Jon Voight had his great breakthrough with "Midnight Cowboy" in 1966. In the movie, he plays a male prostitute, who has a special relationship with Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, played by Dustin Hoffman. Recently, Voight himself acknowledged that the relationship as shown in the movie was not realistic. He said: "In most ways it was a damn good picture. But if we remade Midnight Cowboy today, the whole relationship between Buck and Ratso would have to be sexualized or at least made, you know, like in love...to be sexually or erotically honest."
Now that Voight is busy in Rome, playing John Paul II for an upcoming CBS mini-series of the life of the super-pope, we wonder how sexually or erotically honest that project is going to be. Will it show John Paul gaining knowledge of and then ignoring instances of Catholic priests sexually abusing pre-pubescent youngsters? (By Scott Rose)
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