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...most out of acting gay have been those who have played camp roles. No one confused Robert Preston with his outrageous queen in Victor/Victoria, Tom Courtenay with his prissy, mincing backstage assistant in The Dresser, or William Hurt with his flamboyant spinner of dreams in Kiss of the Spider Woman. All three were thought to be brave, tour de force performances...
Dukakis has found child care a big help in humanizing his rather aloof image. On the eve of the Ohio primary last week, he visited a center in Cincinnati and led children in a rousing chorus of Itsy Bitsy Spider. Though he has not spelled out a detailed policy, he points to the state-sponsored program he developed as Governor of Massachusetts, the most comprehensive in the nation. Over the past three years, it has increased placements in state- licensed centers by 20%, to 117,000 Bay State youngsters...
...Oscar night, "then Hollywood is the Big Nipple." He meant that American movies have nurtured filmmakers worldwide, even those who view it with reservations. The director always had a Hollywood-size appetite for the epic, with Gone With the Wind as the main course. His tidiest, loveliest film, The Spider's Stratagem (1970), is set in an Italian town called Tara; his most ambitious work, 1900 (1976), is a folk epic spanning 70 years of Italian history -- a Gone With the Wind gone red. Red ink too: the film, cut from 5 1/2 to 4 hours, sank quickly. It took...
...then took a course in the psychology of women in 1981, separated from her Pakistani husband and, looking timidly through the help-wanteds, got her first job in ten years -- at the Mercer Children's Center. "This is my calling," she says during a break in the Itsy Bitsy Spider's Sisyphean labors. "This is my chance to grow...
Liotta: Yeah. I'm reading something now about this tango dancer in Argentina. That's kind of different. So hopefully, that will work out. It's by the people who did Kiss of the Spider Woman, so it's with a good group of people. To me, the most important thing is the story. If it's a nice part and a good story, [the part] doesn't have to be that large. It doesn't have to be the lead. What I'm saying is that there aren't a lot of good writers out there...