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...Jaye Davidson has been "outed" by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The novice, who startled and seduced moviegoers as the enigmatic femme fatale of Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, earned a two-edged prize last week: an Oscar nomination...
...unexpected citation -- for a tender acting turn by a first-time performer in an inexpensive ($5 million) foreign movie -- thrilled Davidson. The minimoguls at Miramax, the film's U.S. distributor, might have been tickled too, since The Crying Game received five other important nominations (for best picture, actor, director, screenplay and editing), which promises that the film's domestic gross, a robust $16 million so far, could double or better. But the Miramaxers were spooked. They had helped make Davidson's identity the best-kept open secret in recent movie history. Would the ingenue's Oscar bid spoil their hiding...
...Davidson plays Dil, a pert London hairdresser on the brink of an affair with Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA man who held Dil's British lover captive in Belfast. Fergus hasn't expected to fall in love. He surely hasn't expected to find -- as the viewer does, 69 minutes into the 112-minute film -- that Dil is a man. A gay black man, pining for a gay black British soldier, yet eerily enticing to an Irish heterosexual who now has the convulsive feeling he is on the lam from himself...
...marry the role of Dil with the proper actor, Jordan says, "I needed a man with a very particular kind of femininity." Davidson, who was spotted by a casting assistant at a wrap party for Derek Jarman's gay-toned Edward II, had a sad, elfin, ambiguous, direct, unique screen charisma ideal for Dil. "The only thing nonactors have to work with is themselves," says the director. "What the movie camera sees is a person's spirit. You can't hide that...
...balcony seats. If you are so inclined, you can visit with the announcers between periods, who are unfailingly accommodating to their fans. At earlier Bruin games this year, I had already met some of the great voices in hockey: Mike Emrick and Bill Clement (Flyers) Sam Rosen and John Davidson (Rangers), and Pat Foley and Dale Tallon (Blackhawks). So during the first break in the Beanpot final, it was up to the booth again, this time to meet Sean McDonough...