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"Because," she says, "I think women spend a long time thinking that their guidance, their love, their caring and their patience can fulfill and fix the most desperate need. I don't know a lot of men who would've stayed under those circumstances. How much more can I go to the wall for this person? If anything, he'd want to stand as an example of what bad judgment and bad choices can lead to."
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The Davises kept the secret until Brad's death in September 1991. Really, it was like a light went on. The phone stopped ringing. We started to grow together and work on our relationship.
People live with it, and people work with it."
Even in Hollywood.
Brad Davis died at home Sept. "Brad became a very mature and incredible man."
Yes, he was angry, she says, especially at Hollywood's hypocrisy. It brought out a side of him I don't think he even knew he had -- that capacity to stay and love somebody through a lot of ugliness.
His biggest success was in 1978 with the lead role in Midnight Express (1978) where he played Billy Hayes, a young American imprisoned in Turkey for drug smuggling. And he was trying to get back on his feet with his career."
Only weeks before, Rock Hudson had died of AIDS. What's going to be my return in the end?"
She says now she doesn't want anyone to think she was a martyr, or a modern-day Job.
"I was right down in the trenches," she says. "When Davis was portraying gays on the screen, drugs and promiscuity were less a threat than they are today," he says. It takes a long time to be able to step back and realize that you have to take care of your own needs."
Out of work, physically spent and in danger of losing his wife, Brad Davis decided to get sober.
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Then it was time for Susan to begin writing.
Last month, with the publication of "After Midnight The Life and Death of Brad Davis" (Pocket Books), the promise was fulfilled. He does not work."
Mr. Now, the balance shifted. In gay role after gay role, Davis teased us with possibilities: There was his homoerotic shower scene in a Turkish prison in Midnight Express (1978).
There would be no insurance forms. "We really didn't perceive the news as being a death sentence. So then this person comes in out of the blue. It won him a Golden Globe award.
Another memorable movie role in 1982 was playing the title character of Querelle (1982), a ruggedly lethal sailor who seduces and sets both men and women's hearts aflutter.
The bisexual actor, who also had a one-time addiction to cocaine, contracted AIDS in 1979.