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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Read This Story! | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...black British soldier (Forest Whitaker) wheedles a friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything but traditional. The Crying Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queuing For The Crying Game | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...DIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 16, 1966 | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

Statewide, Scranton's vote of 728,369 votes outstripped that of the Democratic nominee, former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dil worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Still Living | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...Dorius 6G was awarded the Winthrop Sargent Prize, while the first and second Susan Anthony Potter Prizes went to Walter Adolph Strauss 2G, and Aniel Phillippe Van Teslaar 2G in that order. Strauss wrote "Albert Camus 'Caligula: Ancient Sources and Modern Parallels," and Van Ecslaar submitted an essay entitled "Dil-they and the Theory of Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Prizes Presented to Five Students | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

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