Word: caine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting gay people to read gay books and not just gay pornography. One of the largest groups of readers in America is probably gay men, but I think most of them have read books that everyone else was reading until now, I mean biographies of movie stars, or The Cain Mutiny or something--and then suddenly there's this new gay market. I think that has meant the development of a gay consciousness amongst gay people. That's really been the crossover, to cross gay people over to their own literature, because I don't think straight people are actually...
...close to being an Asian male role model? Why is it that an Asian man cannot be a heroic figure unless he stays within his cultural idiom, especially one so exaggerated as martial arts? Are we never to be seen as anything but strangers from another land, outsiders like Cain the Wanderer from the TV series Kung...
SERENADE (1956). James M. Cain's baroque novel featured an opera singer consumed by an obsessive relationship with a gay impresario. In the movie Mario Lanza is consumed by ... Joan Fontaine...
...last September at the Venice Film Festival at 1 a., with three of four people in the audience. And I loved the film, but ...as a matter of fact, I sat there watching it with Ban DePalma [his long-time friend and director of his most recent release, "Raising Cain"]. I smelled something, I though something was going on, but after Jaye Davidson's first scene. Brian leaned over to me and said (adopting a deep police), "Looks like a transvestite to me." And I was furious with him, because I didn't really get a chance to test whether...
...record is not an editorial, however. Baerwald is not interested in pointing fingers; he wants to nail a mood of corruptive malaise and the autoeroticism of power. One of the record's spookiest and loveliest songs, The Postman, takes a central image straight from the pages of James M. Cain, then expands it with a melody like a carbolic lullaby and with voice samplings from Jim Jones and George , Bush. As Triage closes, the focus narrows: to the shattered serenity of youth in China Lake and the tenuous promise of Born for Love, where a relationship...