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...October 28, 1967, Oakland policeman John Frey tried to kill Hu?v Newton. Minister of Defense for the Black Panther Party. Immediately after Hu?v hit the ground, someone, from somewhere, shot and killed John Frey. Newton finally hailed a passing car, and asked to be driven to Kaiser Hospital. Now from Gene Marine's The Black Panthers...
...Greenwich Village, an edgy "queen" named Michael (Kenneth Nelson) throws a birthday party for his intimate enemy, Harold (Leonard Frey). The guests are all various shades of lavender. They range from muscular stud to the outrageously effeminate Emory (Cliff Gorman), who arrives with a "present": a $20-a-trick midnight cowboy* (Robert La Tourneaux). All of the people at the party bring hang-ups along with their gifts; one man has left his wife and children for a promiscuous partner; a Negro labeled "the queen of spades" suffers for his skin and his psyche; the host himself is a much...
Throughout the film is strengthened by the work of the cast, all of whom played their roles in the original off-Broadway production. These are all great character actors, but particularly outstanding are Cliff Gorman's Emory and Leonard Frey's incredible Harold, "the pock-marked Jewish fairy" birthday boy; Mr. Frey does more with a phrase like "Turning on" than you could possibly imagine...
...Frey even runs away with the film at times-although he is the last character to be introduced, not appearing until about an hour of the picture has elapsed. At one point he tells us (in a voice that could not only curdle blood but the contents of one's stomach as well) that "life is a goddamn laugh riot." He goes on, simpering now, "Life... you remember life," he says. We do, of course, and the power of The Boys in the Band is its ability to make us see that homosexuals, like everyone else, are victims of that...
...Defense Minister Pierre Messmer announced that the government was considering lowering compulsory military service from 16 months to twelve. The Ministry of Interior prepared 29 million pamphlets explaining the referendum-one for every voter in France. Applying what has always before been the clinching argument, Minister of State Roger Frey drew a frightening picture of a France without De Gaulle: "To vote no or to abstain is to vote for the Communist Party, to compromise France's economic recovery, and to sabotage the defense of the franc...