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Nov '98
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Sex Shocker!
By: Michael Bronski
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Critic Pauline Kael began her review of Stanley Kubrick's 1962
Lolita noting that the ads for that film read "How Did They Ever Make a Film of
Lolita For People Over 18 Years Old." |
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Oct '98
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54 Flops
By: Michael Bronski
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Hollywood has always traded on decadence-- well, the
idea of decadence-- to titillate audiences. But it's always couched this decadence in high moral purpose. |
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Sep '98
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Star Kissed
By: Michael Bronski
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There had to come a point where gay-themed films would descend into the dead-zone occupied by the bulk of American movies. |
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Jul '98
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Wilde for Middlebrows
By: Michael Bronski
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As we come up to the 100th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's death, the wit, playwright, and gay martyr is becoming a media celebrity all over again. |
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Jun '98
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One Dope Flick
By: Michael Bronski
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The plethora of gay films released over the past five years have-- with some exceptions (like
Safe, or All Over Me)-- been mild, inoffensive, and aimed for the mainstream. |
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May '98
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Fear of a Queer Planet
By: Michael Bronski
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One of the most tiresome avenues of queer film criticism has been the cataloguing and dismissing of "negative images" of gay people as either bad politics or bad art. |
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Apr '98
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Sex and Freedom
By: Michael Bronski
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After Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown became an international hit in 1988, gay Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar was fond of saying in interviews that he "made his movies as though Franco had
never lived." |
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Mar '98
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Save Kiddies
By: Michael Bronski
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It has been almost 20 years since exbeauty queen and orange juice flack Anita Bryant instigated her campaign to "Save Our Children" from the ruinous clutches of homosexual recruiters. |
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Feb '98
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Coverup!
By: Michael Bronski
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Suddenly, the advertising changed. When Gus Van Sant's new film
Good Will Hunting opened several weeks ago in selected theaters in major cities, the ad campaign was set and clear. |
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Jan '98
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Moral Anchors
By: Michael Bronski
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So, here it is the end of the year and time for those "year-in-re view wrap-ups." For gay audiences-- who have learned to expect so little after being promised so much-- these are tricky. |
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