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...good, dying gay man in Philadelphia--but no passionate kiss for your boyfriend, please. In the thriller Copycat, the gay character is not the serial killer, he is the heroine's best friend--but he still gets murdered. And gay baiting is still acceptable; "faggot" remains the epithet du jour of movie machismo. In Mel Gibson's Braveheart, early line favorite for the top Oscars, the English prince who will become Edward II dares to have a male lover at court. The King's response: he throws the lover out a high castle window, then contemptuously swats his whining...
...strategy. After the State of the Union, the Speaker talks less like a revolutionary than a dealmaker, eager to bank some quick accomplishments rather than send his colleagues to the stump empty-handed. Passing symbolic pieces of the G.O.P. agenda on a monthly installment plan is the strategy du jour, meant to offer voters a preview of what life under a Republican President might be like. While the Democrats may not go along with this, the irony for the G.O.P. agenda can't be lost. In the weeks ahead, Gingrich may be selling a "first big down payment" with less...
...Thank God for a bad haircut," says Greg Kinnear, 32, of his good fortune. But Sabrina was lucky too. Kinnear, host of NBC's Later and, before that, the E! channel's Talk Soup, swipes his scenes from Hollywood belle du jour Julia Ormond and nearly matches Harrison Ford for easy radiance. In his first major film role, Kinnear seems comfy-cozy on the big screen, humanizing a character--Ford's playboy brother--who could easily be a thin, tennis-anyone anachronism. "He has a lot of charm," says Sydney Pollack, who first sought Tom Cruise for the role...
BILL CLINTON Waffle du jour on 1993 taxes suggests there is no firm stand he isn't willing to shirk
Assuring members of the class of 1995 that they were "the cream in our coffee, the mint in our julep and the soup of our jour," Rudenstine reminisced about shared experiences during the hour-long service for the graduating seniors...