Word: homoeroticism
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Under the direction of Noah Kupferberg, the three male convicts, provocatively, are played by women. This literal feminization of the script raises interesting questions about the construction of masculinity, but also presents many challenges to the complex male interactions, explicitly violent and implicitly homoerotic, which fuel Genet's script. To...
Still, like the good short-story writer he is, Sayles enjoys listening to people, picking up their quirks and cadences. These characters don't barge into Passion Fish, they just drop by. And they are worth the visit. The movie squirms to life when the subsidiary folk appear: Rennie (David...
On TV, the prime-time success of The Simpsons (the medium's best-written series, no question, no competition) and the cult appeal of Nickelodeon's gross-out, only slightly homoerotic Ren & Stimpy is matched in daytime slots by cartoon shows from Disney and Fox. In commercials and music videos...
The Fall began with "Justify My Love." The video sucked, frankly, no matter how much we were supposed to be impressed by homoerotic sadomasochism--or whatever it was. And then came your embarrassing performance on "Nightline." Who would have thought you could be so dumb? There you were, stumbling and...
The defender of "free speech," Rep. Henry Hyde, who sponsored legislation which would outlaw codes against hate speech at private universities, is the same right-winger who has worked for legislation to ban flag-burning, to deny federal funding for "homoerotic art," and to bar abortion counseling in federally funded...