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...It’s not easy to play a self-described “stereotypical” gay men—not if you’re a straight guy from Ingram, Texas, a town so conservative that a high school production of “Les Miserables” caused a minor scandal...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building Character for 'Angels in America' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...real possibility. So is disappointing the members of the gay community for whom “Angels” is not just a play but a testimony to an incredibly painful era. “It’s so important that our actors—gay and straight alike—it’s very important that they’re not playing gay,” said Laura C. Hirschberg ’09, the director of the first part of “Angels,” “Millennium Approaches...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building Character for 'Angels in America' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Three of the four central characters are being played by straight actors. All four male leads said they put a lot of thought into what it meant to play a gay man in a play about gay identity. For all of them, the goal was to make their character seem real. Not a gay guy—just...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building Character for 'Angels in America' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...Well, it's not exactly straight from people who want to "protect marriage." The zombie-like figures in NOM storm ad are actually actors - whom in retrospect Gallagher might have some regret over hiring. Shortly after the NOM ad was released, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, got its hands on some of the characters' very watchable audition tapes. (The audition videos were a huge hit on YouTube, but were quickly removed due to copyright infringement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Storm Over Gay Marriage | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...Some aspects of China's glimmers of economic turnaround do seem as though they might offer hope to the country's trading partners. Take car sales, which rose in March for the third straight month, once again making China the largest market for automobiles in the world, ahead of the U.S. Those statistics, you'd think, would bring a smile to the faces of executives at beleaguered American carmaker GM, whose success in China in recent years has been about the only bright spot in its funereal performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Strong Enough To Save the World? | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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