Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burst of exasperation, Falconer, sounding like much of America these days, says to Gantry: "Tell me a good strong lie that I'll believe. And then kiss me!" Then they...
...stretches back for what seems like miles--into the past, into the fantastic topography of Shakespeare's Illyria, into a delicious dreamworld. A last perfect touch: the carpet is flanked by two small pools, suitable for bathing and wallowing, where villains can be dunked and lovers share a kiss. The set is the playgoer's first cue to enchantment; before a word is spoken in this rapturous revival of Twelfth Night, designer Bob Crowley has alerted you to expect wonders. He has already provided...
...course it's O.K. Kiss and its siblings, including Victor Mignatti's Broadway Damage and Brian Sloan's Big Chill-ish I Think I Do, are as geezer friendly as a sappy sitcom. Like the ruck of hetero indie films, many in the Gay Wave have ambitions no higher than a Friends rerun. They are comedies of courtship manners...
...Kiss and Broadway have identical plots: a smart guy falls for a hunky guy and spends the whole movie waiting to be kissed by him. Even the supporting characters are similar. Whereas straight film romances may feature a wisecracking gay neighbor, the gay movies are about two guys and a chirpy-cynical woman friend--Eve Arden on Fire Island. With their bright colors and show-tune overlay, these films are unapologetically romantic. They're at their most endearing when they attend to the crucial, clumsy negotiations at the beginning of any relationship, and to that old-fashioned movie wallop...
...Gene Kelly musicals--and, even earlier, to the studied innocence of MGM's teen tuners starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, but with a little sex. And even that is so sweet it's tweet. (In Broadway Damage two young lovers climb up a tree for their first kiss. No kidding.) It makes sense that O'Haver, who evokes the retro spirit with such expert elan, has signed with Universal Pictures to direct a movie of the Archie comic book. We can't wait to see if Archie gets to pining over Jughead...