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...GRETA SCACCHI has added a new twist to the phrase "in the family way." The actress, last seen on these shores in the movie Emma, is pregnant by her first cousin, according to the British press. She and Carlo Mantegazza, whose mother is the sister of Scacchi's father, have been living together since last year. To complicate matters further, when Mantegazza first moved in, his ex-wife of seven years, Sian Houston, was living with Scacchi as well. Houston has since moved out, but is overjoyed for the new parents. "I'm very happy for them," said Houston. "Greta...
...once existed behind the veil of secrecy. Haines knew everyone (and seems to have had affairs with many of them). Through his eyes, as reconstructed by Mann, we see the increasingly hidden world of early gay Hollywood: the actors--Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro--and the people behind the scenes, such as director George Cukor and jet-setting composer Cole Porter, the two focal points of gay male Hollywood society in the 1930s...
...operetta replaces Old Vienna with New York, and sets the story on the final day of Prohibition. Besides confirming the characters in their schnapps and vodka guzzling, this innovation allows for wittiness of reference: we got to see flappers onstage during the longer instrumental passages, and hear mention of Greta Garbo, Dillinger and Einstein. The evening's comedy embraced everything from metahumor and operatic in-jokes to puns, sight-gags and slapstick, and the freshness of the jokes kept the story lively through a potentially interminable second...
...marvelous moments in the film. The opening sequence, which captures the sensual decadence of a gay Berlin cabaret of the 1930s, is almost worth the admission price by itself. Titillating and visually gorgeous, it's heightened by an unexpected cameo: Mick Jagger, startlingly in his element as nightclub owner Greta (a.k.a. George), performs a throaty torch song in full drag whilst suspended on a platform from the ceiling, in a menacingly campy turn disturbingly reminiscent of Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter...
Leblanc said the Forum has brought other notables this year to speak including filmmaker Oliver Stone, former U.S. Representative Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.), and Greta van Susteren, co-host of a CNN show...