Word: celluloidal
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...unveiled on celluloid last year in the James Bond flick Goldeneye. It's the first time a prop may have been as fetching as the star. BMW is adding a $35,900 six-cylinder model to give some American-style muscle to the pretty four-cylinder job now available...
Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," two homoerotic Hitchcock thrillers that were featured in the recent documentary The Celluloid Closet. Brattle Theatre, double-features...
...earned a respectable reputation as an essayist and novelist, but now he's irrationally determined to pass himself off as a screenwriter, particularly of the script for Ben-Hur. This past year his obsession has grown like crabgrass. Your story on homosexuals in film and the documentary The Celluloid Closet [CINEMA, March 11] said that in Ben-Hur, "writer Vidal got actor Stephen Boyd to suggest, sub rosa, a homoerotic tryst with Heston." That demands a response for the record. Vidal was in fact imported for a trial run on a script that needed work. Over three days, as recorded...
...movies, Superman would have been there to catch the falling Lois Lane. But this was not celluloid, and actress MARGOT KIDDER, left, in 1992, has crash-landed. Due in Phoenix to teach an acting class, the once fast-living co-star of the Superman movies inexplicably turned up in the backyard of a suburban L.A. home, bedraggled and hysterical. Police took her to a psychiatric hospital. For a time in the early '90s, the thrice-divorced Kidder had been wheelchair-bound after a car crash. Her career faded. Recently she's been holed up in Montana, writing her autobiography: Calamities...
KUDOS FOR YOUR STORY ON THE DOCUmentary The Celluloid Closet and your discussion of homosexual themes in film [CINEMA, March 11]. It was an exceptional piece on one of the most misunderstood subjects of our time. Fortunately for the men and women in the gay and lesbian community, things in Hollywood and the rest of the world are starting to turn around--not quickly, but at least now the subject of homosexuality can be discussed openly and, at times, without fear. My generation may not live to see the day when sexual orientation is a nonissue, but then again most...