40 years later, the hope and the hurt of 'St. Elmo’s Fire'
Opinion: Times were tough for me back then. So I made things up around the film’s characters Alec and Kevin, writes John Casey.
July 2, 2025
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Opinion: Times were tough for me back then. So I made things up around the film’s characters Alec and Kevin, writes John Casey.
The filmmaker operated in a time of intense homophobia and had mixed feelings about his place in Hollywood history.
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