Word: torch
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...perhaps merely the year's hot property. Many Hollywood studios are bidding for Torch Song Trilogy, which is a funny, sad, always touching story about homosexuals. Producers in more than half a dozen foreign countries have purchased the rights. Fierstein left the show last week to finish work in Boston on a musical version of La Cage aux Folles, for which he has written the book and which is scheduled to open on Broadway in August. Suddenly he is in demand. One producer even wants him to be the voice of the MX missile in a film comedy, which...
...previous night his friends gave him a party for his 29th birthday (the Moët is a reminder); the evening before that, he pulled off the equivalent of a grand slam at the Tony ceremonies: he won two awards, one for writing the year's best play, Torch Song Trilogy, and a second as best actor, for his starring role in the play. Says he, exultantly: "I feel like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland all rolled into...
Harvey Fierstein and Torch Song Trilogy win two big Tonys...
That directness has made Torch Song a commercial success when the anticipated failure of other plays with gay themes has sent Broadway producers fleeing. Homosexuals have long been a vital part of the theater, of course-Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Tennessee Williams come immediately to mind-and it can be argued that much of Broadway is infused with a gay sensibility. But never before has an out-of-the-closet play like Torch Song done so well with straight, middle-class audiences. For 3 hours and 40 minutes they enter into the life of Arnold Beckoff, who makes...
...career woman in the Rosalind Russell mold. Superman III expands on the humor and enriches the pathos by phasing out Lois and introducing a new love interest: Lana Lang (Annette O'Toole), the girl Clark left behind in Smallville. Lana respects Superman but carries a torch for Clark. And the man in question has trouble figuring out which one he is. Soon enough, he will have a more serious conflict to worry about: whether he is the ultimate good guy or the meanest dude in Metropolis...