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...narrator. They describe having to forage for gay subtexts and innuendoes in old movies. Even within the range of this subject, we are presented with a wide variety of opinion: Arthur Laurents expresses a deeply felt, almost tearful anger at the movies' stereotypically effeminate caricatures of gay men, while Harvey Fierstein professes his fondness for and identification with these stereotypes. Susie Bright recalls with strong emotion the lesbian scenes and images in films that have moved her. Ron Nyswaner, the writer of "Philadelphia," recalls being gay-bashed in reponse to the horribly violent "Cruising." The power of the movies...
Well, there you have it. Stay tuned next Monday to see who wins. But remember, this year, anything goes. As Miramax head Harvey Weinstein said, "We're going to put the bookmakers out of business this year." So, dear reader, you ask, what did Yours Truly put down on her Harvard Dining Services Oscar ballot? Two words: multiple ballots...
...doesn't mean we are powerless. Last Monday, at a talk co-sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee and the Harvard Wilderness Alliance, a packed room of over 60 students and community members attended a slide-show on the endangered redrock canyon country of Southern Utah given by Mr. Harvey Halpern of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Letter writing campaigns have generated more than 450 letters and will continue until we defeat this bill. Students can make their voices heard by writing or calling their congressional representatives at (202) 224-3121, voicing opposition to H.R. 1745 and S.884, and supporting...
...Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) and read by Lily Tomlin, Celluloid Closet is by turns funny and poignant. It interlaces old clips (for instance, a peignoired Cary Grant declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, "I just went gay all of a sudden!") with cogent commentary by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein and others. It should be getting raves at Oscar time--except that, like Crumb and Hoop Dreams last year, Celluloid Closet was denied a nomination by the Academy's documentary committee...
...fictional director A. (Harvey Keitel) is wandering through the war-torn landscape of the presentday Balkans, Angelopoulos recalls the Homeric journey of Odysseus--a masterful blend of past and present suggesting the inseparability of the two. Fortunately, however, the film is not an exercise in "updating a myth": although many characters from the "Odyssey" are evoked, the film adopts a sufficiently individual identity and a notably different conclusion...