Word: maupin
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Last summer, I didn't even pretend to start reading a classic. On a bookshelf in Barnes and Noble, I found the first book of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a series set in San Francisco about a group of strangely-paired friends. I was done with the sixth book a week later...
Hardly, as a spiffy new documentary, The Celluloid Closet, amply demonstrates. For nearly a century, Hollywood has done a shoddy, often slanderous job of showing what it is like to be homosexual. Adroitly assembled by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, with narration written by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) and read by Lily Tomlin, Celluloid Closet is by turns funny and poignant. It interlaces old clips (for instance, a peignoired Cary Grant declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, "I just went gay all of a sudden!") with cogent commentary by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein and others. It should be getting...
...households have incomes below $40,000, not much less than the national average of 59.9%. "Elitism" is really a code word for a more virulent complaint made by conservative critics: that PBS programming has a liberal bias. It is bad enough, say right-wingers, that Bill Moyers and Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City have to be on television; but why do taxpayers have to support them...
PRODUCTION: Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...
PRODUCTION: Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...