)Other serious mainstream Hollywood studio films in he early 1980s were beginning to portray gay partnerships and in-drag characters, includingCruising (1980),Making Love (1982),Partners (1982), andPersonal Best (1982).WhenManhattanwas released in the US, Allen was 43 and Hemingway was 17.[In real life, there were two other striking parallels:(1) Allen experienced a two-year romantic relationship with actress Stacey Nelkin, whom he first met as a 16 year-old extra on the set ofAnnie Hall (1977).He is listening as Raymond Pratt ("Tramp"), one of the "new meat" inmates, is tempted (in a set-up) by seasoned inmate Koko (Lou Antonio) that he can have his easier job of sweeping for $1.The credits continued.As a helicopter flew over the ree-tops of a dense green jungle, a subtitle appeared - the recruits had been assigned to an infantry platoon:September 1967 - Bravo Company, 25th Infantry somewhere near the Cambodian borderOn a March to Set Up BaseSunlight filtered through the thick canopy, as a column of young, dirty-faced and exhausted platoon members (armed and bearing heavy rucksacks) struggled through the steep terrain marked by impenetrable foliage.Crawford and Graham decided to risk publishing Lecter""s column.Using the numerical references and a book of recipes in Lecter""s cell, the code was solved: "Graham home, Marathon, Florida.