Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such trivia would hardly suffice for an 80-minute comedy, except that Godard uses story merely as a springboard into a series of gay, giddy improvisations. Filmed in 1961, Woman shows Godard's easy mastery of the style that was later used to antic effect in Tony Richardson's version of Tom Jones. Director Godard effortlessly bends his narrative into brightly colored free forms that glow with spontaneity. His three wistful misfits will not stay put as creatures of fiction. They keep popping in and out of it, sharing their secrets with the camera, affecting musical comedy poses...
...take care of you." At first they are happyl but soon she frivolously takes a lover. Though he hates to leave Paris, he hurries her away to a small town, where she is bored and makes his life hell. Determined to get back to the gay life, she disgraces him in public, and they have to leave town. Back in Paris, she wangles him a job with a notorious shyster. To escape the wifely routine, she goes to work for an ad agency. Several men pursue her hotly, and she accommodates all of them. Fortunately, he finds out what...
...freedom flame marking the rechristening of Northern Rhodesia as Zambia * and its proclamation as an independent republic within the British Commonwealth. President Kenneth Kaunda tooled around about town in his $11,000 Chrysler Imperial convertible, happily waving to the cheering citizenry. Said he: "At the moment, all is gay-but soon the problems will have to be faced...
...first 24 hours of the Texas tour are roses all the way, a gay and triumphal procession. There they stand on top of the world as though it were their wedding cake: Jack and Jackie the glass of feminine fashion and the mold of masculine form, the prince and princess of a political fairy tale that surely was not meant to have an unhappy ending. "Stop!" the spectator cries silently. "Stop before it's too late!" Impossible. They are in the car, and already it is turning into Elm Street, into the sunlit circle of Oswald's telescopic...
...selling memoirs of his years as a pioneer commercial pilot. After a vivid, horrific opening, Hunter flies straight into the soup of formula Hollywood fiction. To absolve buddy Taylor, Airline Executive Glenn Ford undertakes an investigation of his own. Needless to say, Flyboy Taylor turns out to have been gay, dashing and brave, a model pilot who survived such hazards as a wartime encounter with Jane Russell and an irreproachable idyl with a Eurasian ichthyologist (Nancy Kwan...