Word: closetland
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...Aspen. As often happens, property triumphs over principle and convenience over conscience. In addition, the industry still cowers before America's perceived antipathy to gays. Though Hollywood's gay community is large and powerful, homosexuality is still the love that dare not speak its name. Hollywood is still Closetland...
...William Richert, a novice writerdirector, strode out of Closetland with a pair of black-comic fantasias on the lust for power: Winter Kills and Success. What happened next would fulfill a paranoid's darkest hopes. With all the good grace of a Mafia don consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East River, Hollywood offhandedly dumped Richert's films. Winter Kills, which twisted an assassination scenario into high-voltage satire, was pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults...
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