Word: marts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse." That line is the summing up of the hero and the film, The Boys in the Band. Adapted from Mart Crowley's off-Broadway hit, the movie suffers slightly from its exposure to air-from the process of "opening up" the work to include exteriors and reaction shots. The play took place in a single, narrow set that seemed like a down elevator to hell. Onscreen, the claustrophobic atmosphere has been dissipated. But the cast and, more important, the lines remain brilliantly bitchy and incisive...
...first thing one notices about Mart Crowley, the man who wrote the very funny and very sad play about homosexuality called The Boys in the Band, is his uncanny resemblance in appearance and manner to Woody Allen. Like Allen, Crowley is small, boyish (age: 34), and balding. His speech comes fast and sharp. He cocks his head slightly after he has told a joke, in anticipation of the listener's laugh. And, like Allen, Crowley wears glasses. However, the glasses are not horn-rimmed, but wire-rimmed, like Peter Fonda...
...BOYS IN THE BAND...is not a musical." says the ad for the film version of Mart Crowley's 1967 off Broadway play about homosexuals. That, of course is true right now, but I wouldn't be surprised it a musical Boys did turn up a few years hence. Crowley's work as a play has already done more to legitimize homosexuality as a topic for popular culture than anything else before it. As a movie, it will help open up such remaining bastions of heterosexual chauvinism as pop music and the musical theatre to candid expression by homosexual artists...
...regular reviews of erotic art shows, sex books, records and nightclub acts. Peeping into the future, a layout in one recent issue suggests that self-service Sexomats, patterned after Automats and offering a wide variety of dishes, could be available in the year 2000. There are also interminable "marriage mart" columns. Typical item: "Handsome businessman is looking for green widow, prepared for all manner of shameful deeds...