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...LONGTIME COMPANION Directed by Norman Rene; Screenplay by Craig Lucas...
Still, you should listen up about Longtime Companion. For it is a splendidly bitchy comedy, The Women crossed with The Big Chill. Also a soap opera, a horror movie and a how-to manual on coping with catastrophe. On a small budget, writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (who teamed just as productively on the Broadway comedy Prelude to a Kiss) have created a beguiling panorama. It spans the '80s, a decade that, for gay men and those who love them, took a fatal tailspin from high camp to tragedy. The film is a juggling act -- of characters, attitudes...
...been told that the two corpses had been recovered from a fire in a trailer home. Without performing autopsies, he issued death certificates. He was wrong. The smaller body was that of a pet rabbit. The mistake was discovered a few weeks ago, when Gary Rotondo, Evans' live-in companion, returned to the burned-out trailer and found the remains of a baby boy, who was later identified...
...look. Likewise, those curious about "The Geographical Distribution of Insanity in the U.S." (1903) or "Pelican Profiles" (1943), or anyone "In Quest of the World's Largest Frog" (1967), had a handy reference guide. For most of its 102 years, National Geographic has been a colorful coffee-table companion for armchair explorers, roaming the world with rose-colored glasses and bringing back a cheery album of natives at play. But last week the abrupt firing of veteran editor Wilbur Garrett left staffers -- and readers -- wondering where the magazine might be headed next...
...Guildenstern, A. Woody Hill is a credible companion to Gunn, although his performance lacks Gunn's force. But he seems a bit stiff and calculated at first, and stumbles occasionally, though some of that is intrinsic in the part...