Word: pangborn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Briefly, in the early '30s, gays were familiar screen types: "pansies" (often played by Franklin Pangborn) for comic relief and, more heroically, bisexual heroines (incarnated by Garbo and Dietrich) who looked thrillingly glamorous in their tuxedos and bachelor togs. That was old Hollywood's highest compliment to a woman--that she acted and thought like a man--just as new Hollywood accepts films with transvestites, men who act and think like women. In the '50s, gayness could be viewed as a social disease (in Tea and Sympathy) or with oblique rapture (in the torrid gaze of Stephen Boyd's Messala...
Fortunately, there are still people with sales resistance. Sheriff Alan Pangborn is the one to watch here. He's capable of doing anything, even blowing up the town. The author puts a promise underneath Needful Things. He calls this "The Last Castle Rock Story." Not to give the whole show away or anything, but King isn't a man to exaggerate. Not about his talent or his subtitles...