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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, a bubbly musical comedy romance that wowed 'em at Sundance, is as modest as it is beguiling; its director credit reads A TOMMY O'HAVER TRIFLE. But the trend it represents has some heft to it. There are more gay-theme independent films than ever--"an explosion hitting the marketplace," says Marcus Hu, co-president of Strand Releasing. And they aim to appeal to viewers of all sexual orientations. Gays have come out of the celluloid closet and into the movie mainstream...
...Love and Death on Long Island and, by year's end, a dozen more. Just as important is the attitude behind many of the new films. Instead of ghettoizing the gay experience, it integrates it into familiar Americana--gays and straights laughing, loving, misunderstanding one another. As O'Haver says of Kiss, "The idea was to set up these labels of straight and gay, and then by the end of the film forget that Billy is gay. The labels don't really mean that much." That is an aim of the new Gay Wave: to tear off the labels...
...painstaking reassembly, the original version that Cukor loved-all three hours of it-was shown publicly for the first time since its release 29 years ago. James Mason, 74, who played Norman Maine to Judy Garland's Esther Blodgett took a bow at intermission, but Film Historian Ronald Haver was the true star of the show. Combing musty film vaults in Brooklyn and Hollywood, Haver first found a copy of the original sound track, which he used as a guide when he began splicing in the bits and pieces of missing film that he found. The tale has many...
...Defense finally authorized its release. There are good soldiers in peacetime too: silver stars should be awarded to Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Ray Stark, producer of three later Huston films, who lobbied with the Government to liberate Let There Be Light; Ron Haver of the Los Angeles County Museum, who organized the film's first public showing; and Joseph Me Bride, whose barrage of articles in Variety cast light on the film's splendid achievements and sorry history. This week the hour-long documentary receives its theatrical premiere at Manhattan...
Princeton also fell victim to the overtime bite, losing its opener to Dartmouth, 3-2, in Hanover Spetember 17, then slipping once more in the extra period to Haver-ford, 2-1, September...