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Lately, however, bisexuality has been hard to overlook. Bisexual characters are the newest twist in movies and TV shows, most notably Basic Instinct and L.A. Law. PBS recently broadcast a drama based on the lives of writers Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, both bisexuals. Authors Camille Paglia and the late John Cheever have confessed their sexual duality; recent biographies claim that Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt had affairs with both men and women...
...Carmen who dominates the stage, and Sharon Graham, a young American, scores high. With a fluid, supple mezzo, she revels in the gypsy girl's fatal craving for freedom and her dance toward death, but she avoids phony flourish. More will be heard from Graham, starting with a PBS broadcast of Cavalleria Rusticana on Sept...
...balance of life." His father Owen cries quietly. He too has a secret; he too is gay. Before THE LOST LANGUAGE OF CRANES plays out, Owen will reveal that secret, permanently altering the family's fragile balance. This BBC adaptation of David Leavitt's novel, airing June 24 on pbs, transposes the setting from New York City to London. Graced with intense, subtle performances, the tale remains compelling, but the change of locale distances already remote characters and undercuts the work's emotional force...
International TV programming is the great terra incognita for American viewers. The occasional British mini-series or Australian soap opera makes its way to these shores, via PBS or cable, and news sometimes filters back about the latest hit on Japanese TV or those funny foreign versions of Wheel of Fortune. But for most of the U.S. audience, TV in the non-English-speaking world remains trapped in the twilight zone...
Marlon Riggs may be the most notorious unknown filmmaker in America. A lecturer at the University of California's Graduate School of Journalism in Berkeley, he was the producer of Tongues Untied, a film about black homosexuals that aired on pbs last summer and became a cause celebre after being attacked by conservatives for its "offensive" material. The film -- an offbeat, heartfelt mix of documentary, poetry and performance art -- did not deserve the abuse. But the brouhaha may have the unintended benefit of alerting more viewers to Riggs' impressive new offering: Color Adjustment, a provocative look...