Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quickly, the National Gay Task Force, which paid some of the litigation costs, criticized the decision as a product of "homophobia." The ruling might also have application to large numbers of heterosexuals. The Virginia statute, like most sodomy laws, specifically prohibits not homosexuality but anal intercourse, fellatio and cunnilingus no matter the sex of those engaged in such acts. Various sex surveys report that perhaps 80% of all U.S. adults have engaged in at least one of those...
...movie was shot (the car was eventually driven out from New York), and kept communication with cast and crew to a minimum. Nicholson went for several weeks hardly speaking to Forman, largely by his own choice. Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, himself an Oscar winner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), groused about the way things were going and was replaced halfway through the filming. Fletcher fought with Forman through 17 takes of her first day's shooting. "Milos is very authoritarian," she says. "He doesn't want to discuss anything with his actors. He wanted us to surprise...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee
...plays that belong in the durable realm of dramatic art seem to predate their creation. They exercise a strange primordial authority and inevitability. Virginia Woolf is just that sort of invincible work...
Nonetheless, this revival is triumphant. In the theater there are, ultimately, two kinds of drama, the quick and the dead. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? belongs articulately and terrifyingly among the quick...