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Davidson plays Dil, a pert London hairdresser on the brink of an affair with Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA man who held Dil's British lover captive in Belfast. Fergus hasn't expected to fall in love. He surely hasn't expected to find -- as the viewer does, 69 minutes into the 112-minute film -- that Dil is a man. A gay black man, pining for a gay black British soldier, yet eerily enticing to an Irish heterosexual who now has the convulsive feeling he is on the lam from himself...
...school homecoming queen. Nonetheless, she won the ) student election at Memorial High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and thus seemed to have every right to the title. But school officials didn't see it that way; they denied the 17-year-old her crown and named the runner-up, pert and clean-cut Elizabeth Weld, as winner. Last week Eau Claire District superintendent Lee Hansen exposed a plot by principal Charles Zielin and three assistant principals to burn the original ballots and cover up their scam. Hansen announced disciplinary actions against the four administrators and a teacher who came forward...
...Ephron's first as a director -- is that it never turns into a single act. Even the minor characters are sharply written. Dottie's kids are fully her equals in its structure, always giving as good as they get. Erica's the silent, watchful one. Little Opal's the pert mistress of the wise-child zinger. In fact, the film's two best passages belong to them. When Erica takes as her first lover the squarest boy in school (that'll show Mom), their struggle with the logistics of lovemaking is a fresh, sweetly hilarious exploration of familiar territory...
...MOST HAPPY FELLA. Frank Loesser's Napa Valley fable, done along operatic lines well before Andrew Lloyd Webber came along, has been a cult icon since its 1956 Broadway production. New York City Opera has a new staging. It stars Louis Quilico as the middle-aged lover of a pert mail-order bride...
...Black City pictures dance lightly around searing social dilemmas. Bill Duke's A Rage in Harlem is an old-fashioned gangster movie, content to showcase Robin Givens' pert charms. And Michael Schultz's Livin' Large!, a kind of Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...