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Butch and Sundance by Charlotte Frost (R)
Fandom: STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: 36k
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Charlotte Frost on the Me & Thee Archive
Why this must be read:
My last rec for the month. I've had a very good time browsing and discovering old favorites and new ones. I hope to play again in a few months! And on to the story.
Charlotte Frost has been recced time and again, but after the events of this past weekend, with the death of Paul Newman, who played Butch Cassidy in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I felt this story was worth a little recognition.
Starsky refers to this famous pair in the episode Shootout, robbing banks in Bolivia. From that has sprung many fics referencing and comparing these two partner pairings.
In this story, Starsky goes researching on the real Cassidy and Sundance, and discovers how different the truth is from the film's fictionalized account, yet still finds room for the romanticization of the duo, and how he can apply it to himself and Hutch, his lover.
Of course, as soon as they got home that evening, Starsky refused to put the book down.
"Guess I'm going to be a 'Butch and Sundance widow' for a few evenings," Hutch muttered, fixing a chicken salad sandwich for himself. He knew Starsky would fix his own when he got hungry enough.
Hutch was watering the plants when Starsky finally looked up. The other's expression was surprised. "Hutch, I think Butch Cassidy was gay!"
The blond paused. "What do you mean, you 'think'?" he asked, intrigued. "Doesn't it say?"
"No it doesn't come right out and say it," Starsky said. "I don't think the author really wanted to. Besides, that's not what this book is about. I mean, it's not like a biography. But listen. It says, Although his intense blue eyes, blond hair, and gallantry undoubtedly made him appealing, he was not known as a womanizer. Perhaps he avoided romantic entanglements because of his work. In any event, he was a loyal friend who genuinely enjoyed the company of men and loved to play practical jokes on his buddies."
Hutch started to speak, but Starsky quickly said, "And then," he turned back a page, "earlier it said when he was growing up he was a girlish young fellow, and his companions nicknamed him Sallie." He looked up. "Can you believe that?"
Hutch shrugged. "I didn't know Cassidy was blond."
"Well, you can't expect them to look like Paul Newman and Robert Redford." Starsky leafed through the book. "There's some pictures but they're all black and white so you can't really tell. Sundance doesn't even look blond." Starsky looked up again. "But doesn't that seem pretty incredible that Butch Cassidy may have been a homosexual?"
"May have been," Hutch stressed. "What you read there isn't exactly evidence."
"Right," the other relented, "and that's probably why the author didn't want to draw any conclusions, because there wasn't any real evidence. It wasn't her place to say."
"What does it say about Sundance?" Hutch asked.
"I don't know. I haven't gotten to the background about him yet."
The room fell silent as Starsky concentrated on the book.
Butch and Sundance
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: 36k
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Charlotte Frost on the Me & Thee Archive
Why this must be read:
My last rec for the month. I've had a very good time browsing and discovering old favorites and new ones. I hope to play again in a few months! And on to the story.
Charlotte Frost has been recced time and again, but after the events of this past weekend, with the death of Paul Newman, who played Butch Cassidy in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I felt this story was worth a little recognition.
Starsky refers to this famous pair in the episode Shootout, robbing banks in Bolivia. From that has sprung many fics referencing and comparing these two partner pairings.
In this story, Starsky goes researching on the real Cassidy and Sundance, and discovers how different the truth is from the film's fictionalized account, yet still finds room for the romanticization of the duo, and how he can apply it to himself and Hutch, his lover.
Of course, as soon as they got home that evening, Starsky refused to put the book down.
"Guess I'm going to be a 'Butch and Sundance widow' for a few evenings," Hutch muttered, fixing a chicken salad sandwich for himself. He knew Starsky would fix his own when he got hungry enough.
Hutch was watering the plants when Starsky finally looked up. The other's expression was surprised. "Hutch, I think Butch Cassidy was gay!"
The blond paused. "What do you mean, you 'think'?" he asked, intrigued. "Doesn't it say?"
"No it doesn't come right out and say it," Starsky said. "I don't think the author really wanted to. Besides, that's not what this book is about. I mean, it's not like a biography. But listen. It says, Although his intense blue eyes, blond hair, and gallantry undoubtedly made him appealing, he was not known as a womanizer. Perhaps he avoided romantic entanglements because of his work. In any event, he was a loyal friend who genuinely enjoyed the company of men and loved to play practical jokes on his buddies."
Hutch started to speak, but Starsky quickly said, "And then," he turned back a page, "earlier it said when he was growing up he was a girlish young fellow, and his companions nicknamed him Sallie." He looked up. "Can you believe that?"
Hutch shrugged. "I didn't know Cassidy was blond."
"Well, you can't expect them to look like Paul Newman and Robert Redford." Starsky leafed through the book. "There's some pictures but they're all black and white so you can't really tell. Sundance doesn't even look blond." Starsky looked up again. "But doesn't that seem pretty incredible that Butch Cassidy may have been a homosexual?"
"May have been," Hutch stressed. "What you read there isn't exactly evidence."
"Right," the other relented, "and that's probably why the author didn't want to draw any conclusions, because there wasn't any real evidence. It wasn't her place to say."
"What does it say about Sundance?" Hutch asked.
"I don't know. I haven't gotten to the background about him yet."
The room fell silent as Starsky concentrated on the book.
Butch and Sundance
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