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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black Star, by Tom Joslin, is one such independent film, and I'm going to tell you something about it which will ruin it for you. I'm not telling you this because I want to put the film down as an independent work, but because it's the main issue of the movie, and I can't avoid it. It's about a homosexual. That, in itself, should not ruin the film for you, but the fact that you could have watched this movie for half an hour and not known it was about a homosexual could make...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Various and Sundry Self-Indulgences | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

...Black Star gets off to a mundane start (liketoomany other independent films), with family history and photo albums. Tom Joslin's family is very ordinary. His mother comes from a prominent Boston lawyer's family; his father still revels in his college football glories; together they run a tennis club and a summer camp. One brother is a tennis pro and the other races motorcycles. Then, all of a sudden, Joslin's lover appears on the screen, describing how a friend who later jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge married him and Tom. Who would have guessed that a homosexual...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Various and Sundry Self-Indulgences | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

Center Screen. George Griffin films at the Carpenter Center, Friday at 8. Rom Joslin films Saturday and Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...announcement, Gardner insisted that the "loss of saccharin will at worst be an inconvenience." Most diabetes specialists disagreed. They pointed out that many of the estimated 10 million Americans who suffer from diabetes find saccharin absolutely essential to fulfill their craving for sweets. At Boston's Joslin Diabetes Foundation, callers were urged to write strong letters of protest to their Congressmen. Exclaimed the foundation's president, Dr. Alexander Marble: "This ban is against common sense!" The American Diabetes Association was so concerned about how to deal with the saccharin crisis that it scheduled an emergency meeting. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Bitter Reaction to an FDA Ban | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...extent that the student committee recommendations are better than the administration's, they will be approved," Joslin said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Committee at Brown To Advise on Budget Priorities | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

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