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When movie gays are prominent, it is often as murderous villains or vixens -- in Cruising, in Basic Instinct and (though Demme denies the killer is gay) in The Silence of the Lambs. Philadelphia would say of gay men, No, they are / also victims. Perhaps gays are more endearing to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Gauntlet | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

The new production is not the most nuanced of the three but is surely the funniest -- and the most ambisexual. British director David Jones, a longtime collaborator with Pinter, does not mess with the text, but he does point up homosexual undertones, overtones and just plain tones in the relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Salon as Slaughterhouse | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

The other actors lend more weight to the production, particularly Jack Willis, whose Lopakhin is the perfect voice of reason in a household adrift. However, Lopakhin's business sense has left him no time for would-be wife Varya, played with appeal and sympathy by Miki Whittles. In her interpretation...

Author: By Rachel B. Tiven, | Title: Bloomin' Daniels' Budding Orchard | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

I met this wonderful woman last fall. This month we started dating. I care about her deeply, but there's one problem--I just found out she has three roommates. I think they are hesitant to accept me into their lives. These girls resent my presence in the common room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He's Searching for Abby | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

Yet, in the end, "Six Degrees" greatest asset remains John Guare's dazzling script. With humor and affection, it pokes fun at everything from marriage ("My wife is a dada manifesto"), to Cats ("Aeschylus did not invent theater to have it end with a bunch of chorus kids wondering which...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Cons, Cocktails and Kandinsky | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

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