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Gordon attended the University of Wisconsin. In 1968 , he produced a version of '' Peter Pan '' that got him and his wife arrested for obscenity. As Gordon desribed it in a 2001 interview:

"I had been protesting against the war in Viet Nam , and got tear-gassed by the Chicago police, and it suddenly struck me that you could take ''Peter Pan'' and turn it into a political cartoon about the whole situation. So, Peter Pan became the leader of the Hippie s and Yippies , Captain Hook became Mayor Daley , and the pirates became the Chicago police. We left all of the James Barrie dialogue intact, so when they all went off to Neverland they sprinkled Pixie Dust on themselves and think lovely thoughts, and up they go. That was an Acid Trip , which was visualized by a Psychedelic light show that was projected onto the bodies of seven naked young ladies..." {Link without Title}


Gordon is married to Carolyn Purdy-Gordon , whom he frequently casts in his movies. Together in 1970 , they founded the Chicago Organic Theater Company , for which Gordon also served as artistic director. With the company, he did several plays, such as '' Warp! '', ''Sexual Perversity In Chicago'', ''Bleacher Bums'', ''ER'', ''Bloody Bess''. ''Warp!'' was later adapted into a Comic Book by First Comics .


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