Word: dil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't, it won't be for want of conniving. The Rugrats Movie, in which Tommy Pickles finally gets a little brother (Dylan--"Dil"--Pickles) and goes on an arduous adventure with his pals Chuckie, Lil and Phil, has been focus-grouped and marketed to contain hooks for consumers of all ages; you need only be old enough to shout, "Mommy, I gotta see it!" and young enough to work your walker...
...HORNS OF A DIL-EMMY...
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...
...graphic unveiling of Dil's manhood elicits gasps from some moviegoers. Others -- cannier judges of such subtleties as voice timbre and wrist circumference -- smile sagely at the validation of their perspicacity. Stephen Woolley, the film's producer, theorizes that perhaps a quarter of the audience knows Dil's gender at once, another quarter suspects it, and at least half are completely in the dark. "Many," he says, "still insist that Jaye is a girl...
...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...