Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vandalism comes in the wake of a rash of homophobic incidents in Mather House and in other Houses. In October, Winthrop House residents found homophobic graffiti on their doors, and posters advertising the Mather House Queer Film Series and the BGLTSA Safe Zone were torn down about the same time...
...addition to writing several humorous novels, Franken spoke at the 1994 and 1996 White House Correspondents Dinners and co-wrote the 1994 film When a Man Loves A Woman...
...film's heart is the forced relationship between two dramatically different residents of the same New York apartment complex. Robert De Niro is Walt Koontz, a bigoted former cop, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is Rusty, a drag queen desperate for a sex change. When Walt suffers a stroke while trying to foil a robbery, he reluctantly turns to Rusty for singing lessons as therapy. Needless to say, the one-time enemies learn there's more to each other than meets...
...Flawless intends to be something of a comedy, and while it does elicit some chuckles, the screenplay has precious few original moments, comedic or otherwise. At one point, Rusty says: "Theres no romance without finance." It's a joke of "Golden Girls"-caliber at best, but the film tries to pass it off as a piercing one-liner. Meanwhile, the story about Walt and Rusty is further marred by a useless and laborious subplot about a gangster trying to find out who has his money...
...Ultimately, however, Hoffman and De Niro are stymied by the limitations of the film's concept. Flawless just doesn't have enough to say. Because it never ventures beyond the audiences expectations, it fails to challenge. And so it fails to truly entertain. Flawless preaches that we should look beneath the surface. Too bad the film didn't take its own advice...