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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; gay interest</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/gay-interest/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Ben Gazzara: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE STRANGE ONE, THEY ALL LAUGHED</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-the-strange-one-they-all-laughed/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-the-strange-one-they-all-laughed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:40:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37069</guid> <description><![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, They All Laughed Ben Gazzara Dead Pt.1: ANATOMY OF A MURDER, HUSBANDS, AN EARLY FROST Long before An Early Frost, Ben Gazzara had already appeared in two (however veiled) gay-themed productions. On Broadway, he was the virile ex-football player pining for his &#34;best friend&#34; while ignoring wife Barbara Bel Geddes in the 1955 original staging of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-the-strange-one-they-all-laughed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ben Gazzara Dead at 81: ANATOMY OF A MURDER, HUSBANDS, AN EARLY FROST</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-anatomy-of-a-murder-husbands-an-early-frost/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-anatomy-of-a-murder-husbands-an-early-frost/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:40:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37068</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ben Gazzara, who was featured on Broadway in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in movies by the likes of John Cassavetes, Otto Preminger, and Peter Bogdanovich, died earlier today at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center as per the New York Times. Gazzara, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer, was 81. Although Gazzara (the son of Italian immigrants, born Aug. 28, 1930, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-anatomy-of-a-murder-husbands-an-early-frost/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer, Mark Ruffalo, Alec Baldwin Attached: Gay Drama THE NORMAL HEART</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/julia-roberts-matt-bomer-mark-ruffalo-the-normal-heart-gay/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/julia-roberts-matt-bomer-mark-ruffalo-the-normal-heart-gay/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:31:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36854</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's semi-autobiographical off-Broadway play about a New Yorker confronted with AIDS in the early years of the pandemic, has been a perennial &#34;movie project.&#34; In the last couple of decades, Oscar winners Barbra Streisand and John Schlesinger have at some point in time announced they were going to tackle it, but to date no film version of The Normal Heart has [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/julia-roberts-matt-bomer-mark-ruffalo-the-normal-heart-gay/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Steve James/THE INTERRUPTERS, Frederick Wiseman/Censored Classic TITICUT FOLLIES: Cinema Eye Honors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/steve-james-the-interrupters-frederick-wiseman-titicut-follies-cinema-eye-honors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/steve-james-the-interrupters-frederick-wiseman-titicut-follies-cinema-eye-honors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:34:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36582</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies Steve James' The Interrupters topped the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors announced earlier this evening. The Interrupters received honors as Best Nonfiction Film and for Best Director, a first in the organization's five-year history. [Full list of Cinema Eye Honors winners.] Despite generally positive reviews and several US-based critics' awards, The Interrupters is not in the running for the 2012 Oscars. Curiously, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/steve-james-the-interrupters-frederick-wiseman-titicut-follies-cinema-eye-honors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gay Romance WEEKEND, BREAKING DAWN, Woody Allen, Justin Bieber: Gay &amp; Lesbian Critics Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/weekend-breaking-dawn-justin-bieber-gay-lesbian-critics/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/weekend-breaking-dawn-justin-bieber-gay-lesbian-critics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36576</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tom Cullen, Chris New, Weekend The Gay &#38; Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association has announced its list of Dorian Award nominations for film, television, and pop figures in various categories. Though dominated by movies and characters featuring/playing gays/lesbians/bisexuals/etc., the Gay &#38; Lesbian Critics have made some eclectic choices. [Full list of Gay &#038; Lesbian Critics' nominations.] For Film of the Year, for instance, only Andrew Haigh's [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/weekend-breaking-dawn-justin-bieber-gay-lesbian-critics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, THE ARTIST, Meryl Streep, Rooney Mara: Gay &amp; Lesbian Critics Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lgbt-movie-critics-midnight-in-paris-dorian-awards/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lgbt-movie-critics-midnight-in-paris-dorian-awards/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:11:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36567</guid> <description><![CDATA[Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris Gay Romance WEEKEND, BREAKING DAWN, Woody Allen, Justin Bieber: Gay &#038; Lesbian Critics Nominations FILM OF THE YEAR Midnight in Paris / Sony Pictures Classics The Artist / The Weinstein Company The Descendants / Fox Searchlight The Skin I Live In / Sony Pictures Classics The Tree of Life / Fox Searchlight Weekend / IFC Films FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lgbt-movie-critics-midnight-in-paris-dorian-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Clint Eastwood to Make Cameos in Eastwood Family Reality Show?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-family-reality-show-kardashians/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-family-reality-show-kardashians/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:39:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36231</guid> <description><![CDATA[After a couple of Best Director Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood has apparently decided his next goal in life is to be named one of Barbara Walters' &#34;most fascinating&#34; personalities of the year. Hence, as per various online reports, Eastwood may have cameos on a reality TV show starring his wife Dina Eastwood and two of his daughters, Francesca and Morgan. It gets better: the Eastwood [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-family-reality-show-kardashians/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>World War II-Set Gay Cryptographer Drama Tops Black List of Unproduced Screenplays</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alan-turing-gay-cryptographer-black-list-scripts/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alan-turing-gay-cryptographer-black-list-scripts/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:44:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36161</guid> <description><![CDATA[Based on the true story of British World War II cryptographer Alan Turing, Graham Moore's The Imitation Game topped &#8212; by a large margin (133 votes) &#8212; film executive Franklin Leonard’s Black List of best-liked unproduced screenplays as per (according to Black List compilers) 300 or so film executives/script readers. Whether or not this annual list is merely a ploy by agents and publicists to push [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alan-turing-gay-cryptographer-black-list-scripts/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Andrew Embiricos: Rita Hayworth Grandson Dies of Apparent Suicide</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rita-hayworth-grandson-andrew-embiricos-suicide/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rita-hayworth-grandson-andrew-embiricos-suicide/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:14:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36113</guid> <description><![CDATA[Andrew Embiricos, grandson of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, was found dead of an apparent suicide at his West 17th Street apartment in Chelsea, New York City, on Sunday, Dec. 4. Embiricos was 25. Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos was the son of economist and shipping heir Basil Embiricos and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. He was also the nephew of Prince Karim, Aga Khan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rita-hayworth-grandson-andrew-embiricos-suicide/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Provocative, Controversial Director Ken Russell Dead at 84: THE DEVILS, WOMEN IN LOVE, TOMMY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ken-russell-director-women-in-love-the-devils/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ken-russell-director-women-in-love-the-devils/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:33:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36018</guid> <description><![CDATA[Director Ken Russell, best known for his movies featuring sex-starved nuns, nude male wrestling, "offensive" religious symbolism, and kaleidoscopic musical numbers, died Sunday, Nov. 27, in the United Kingdom. Russell had suffered a series of strokes. He was 84. Now hardly as remembered or admired as, say, '70s Hollywood icons Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, or Martin Scorsese, Russell not only was &#8212; more than &#8212; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ken-russell-director-women-in-love-the-devils/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leonardo DiCaprio/Clint Eastwood/J. EDGAR Opens Modestly; Better Box-Office Chances Overseas?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-box-office-j-edgar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-box-office-j-edgar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:46:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35845</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar Adam Sandler in Drag/JACK AND JILL Below Sandler Box-Office Average; TOWER HEIST Down 45% At no. 5 on the domestic box-office chart this weekend, Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar raked in $11.47 million &#8212; at the very lower end of expectations &#8212; as per studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The J. Edgar Hoover biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover, Armie [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-box-office-j-edgar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Clint Eastwood/Leonardo DiCaprio J. EDGAR Unlikely to Reach Martin Scorsese/DiCaprio THE AVIATOR Success</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-the-aviator-box-office/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-the-aviator-box-office/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:53:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35830</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar Henry Cavill/Tarsem Singh IMMORTALS May Reach $38m: Box Office At no. 5 on the domestic box-office chart on Friday, Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar raked in $4.25 million as per Box Office Mojo. If the J. Edgar Hoover biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, and Naomi Watts reaches $12 million for the weekend, that means an acceptable &#8212; though not [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-the-aviator-box-office/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leonardo DiCaprio/Clint Eastwood J. EDGAR: Middling Box-Office Debut</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-armie-hammer-j-edgar-box-office/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-armie-hammer-j-edgar-box-office/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:19:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35823</guid> <description><![CDATA[Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, Judi Dench as Anne Marie Hoover, J. Edgar JACK AND JILL/Adam Sandler in Drag: Second-Lowest-Grossing Sandler Comedy in Past Five Years? According to unproven &#8212; and quite possibly unfounded &#8212; rumors, FBI emperor J. Edgar Hoover enjoyed wearing some nice-fitting dresses every now and then. Ironically, this weekend the all-powerful Hoover will surely be [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-armie-hammer-j-edgar-box-office/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Clint Eastwood/Leonardo DiCaprio J. EDGAR Has Okay Opening; Behind MILK: Box Office</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-box-office-milk/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-box-office-milk/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:07:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35799</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic J. Edgar grossed $52,645 according to Box Office Mojo. The Warner Bros. release starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the FBI honcho and Armie Hammer as his intimate &#34;friend&#34; Clyde Tolson is currently screening at seven locations. The film's average was a not-too-impressive $7,571 per theater. For comparison's sake: on November 26, 2008, Gus Van Sant's Milk, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/clint-eastwood-leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-box-office-milk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Eddie Murphy No Longer Oscar 2012 Host</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/eddie-murphy-oscar-2012-host-anti-gay-jokes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/eddie-murphy-oscar-2012-host-anti-gay-jokes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:32:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35780</guid> <description><![CDATA[Eddie Murphy is out as host of the 2012 Academy Awards telecast. After a terse announcement that Brett Ratner would no longer be co-producing the Oscar ceremony with Don Mischer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released another terse statement announcing Murphy's (not at all unexpected) departure. Ratner and Murphy worked together on Tower Heist, a box-office disappointment that opened this past [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/eddie-murphy-oscar-2012-host-anti-gay-jokes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rob Reiner: Proposition 8 Movie Project</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rob-reiner-proposition-8-movie/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rob-reiner-proposition-8-movie/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:44:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35763</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rob Reiner is developing a Proposition 8 movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Of course, Reiner's project is not for Proposition 8; in fact, it should feature legal challenges brought up against the California ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriages in the state. Prop. 8 was later found unconstitutional by a federal district court judge. &#34;We have been involved every step of the way. Right [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rob-reiner-proposition-8-movie/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Academy Issues Terse Statement, Unclear If Brett Ratner to Be Replaced</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-replacement-academy-awards-ceremony/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-replacement-academy-awards-ceremony/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:05:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35761</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued a terse statement regarding the official resignation of Oscar telecast co-producer and Rush Hour director Brett Ratner. See below: This morning, Brett Ratner submitted his resignation as a producer of the 84th annual Academy Awards to Academy President Tom Sherak. Ratner then issued an open letter to the entertainment industry in which he explained his [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-replacement-academy-awards-ceremony/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brett Ratner Open Letter to Hollywood</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-open-letter-oscar-resignation-film-industry/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-open-letter-oscar-resignation-film-industry/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:33:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35758</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dear Colleagues, Over the last few days, I’ve gotten a well-deserved earful from many of the people I admire most in this industry expressing their outrage and disappointment over the hurtful and stupid things I said in a number of recent media appearances. To them, and to everyone I’ve hurt and offended, I’d like to apologize publicly and unreservedly. As difficult as the last few [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-open-letter-oscar-resignation-film-industry/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brett Ratner Resigns as Oscar Producer?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-no-longer-oscar-producer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-no-longer-oscar-producer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:04:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35756</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brett Ratner may be stepping down as Oscar producer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. THR mentions &#34;a source close to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#34; for this story. The Academy is supposed to &#34;make an announcement shortly.&#34; On Friday, during a q&#38;a for Tower Heist in Hollywood, Ratner said that &#34;rehearsal is for fags.&#34; He later apologized for his remark. Also a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-no-longer-oscar-producer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brett Ratner to Remain as Oscar Ceremony Producer Despite Gay Slur</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-oscar-producer-gay-slur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-oscar-producer-gay-slur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:22:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35735</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hasn't released an official statement about the Brett Ratner/gay slur fiasco. Yet, according to Deadline.com, Ratner will keep his job as Oscar telecast co-producer. Academy president Tom Sherak has told Deadline the following [read full text at Deadline]: The bottom line is, this won’t and can’t happen again. &#8230; I’ve known this man for a very long [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-oscar-producer-gay-slur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Academy Should Fire Brett Ratner, Some Say. But Will They?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/academy-should-fire-brett-ratner-oscar-producer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/academy-should-fire-brett-ratner-oscar-producer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:11:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35732</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brett Ratner: Oscar Producer &#038; Gay Slur, (Not) Banging Olivia Munn This is what Mark Harris quite eloquently has to say at Grantland: What I do care about is what the Academy does, which should be either to ask for and receive his resignation from the show or to drop him as the producer of a show that is supposed to represent the best the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/academy-should-fire-brett-ratner-oscar-producer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brett Ratner: Oscar Producer &amp; Gay Slur, (Not) Banging Olivia Munn</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-fag-gay-banging-olivia-munn/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-fag-gay-banging-olivia-munn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:10:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35730</guid> <description><![CDATA[When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Brett Ratner, best known for action flicks such as Rush Hour 3, After the Sunset, and X-Men: The Last Stand, would co-produce with Don Mischer the Oscar ceremony telecast, eyebrows were raised so high they reached some people's lower backs. Now they have gone round and are probably up to their belly button. A [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brett-ratner-fag-gay-banging-olivia-munn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Samuel-Novarro House for Sale: MGM Star Ramon Novarro Architectural Landmark First Owner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:26:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35671</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro swimming in his Los Feliz Hills house Lloyd Wright's Samuel-Novarro House is back in the market, as per Curbed Los Angeles. Located in the Los Feliz Hills, the eastern section of the Hollywood Hills, the house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's son Lloyd Wright in the late 1920s. In order to pay for Wright's services, personal secretary Louis Samuel embezzled money from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gilbert Cates Obit Pt.2: Oscar Nominations for Joanne Woodward, Sylvia Sidney, Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gilbert-cates-natalie-wood-joanne-woodward-sylvia-sidney/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gilbert-cates-natalie-wood-joanne-woodward-sylvia-sidney/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:32:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35634</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gilbert Cates Obit Pt.1: Oscar Ceremony Most Frequent Producer In fact, Gilbert Cates' best film-related work took place far from the Academy Awards ceremonies. Two of his '70s movies in particular, the family dramas I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), are notable both for Cates' quiet, subtle handling of the dramatic situations and for the generally masterful performances: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gilbert-cates-natalie-wood-joanne-woodward-sylvia-sidney/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY: Four British Independent Film Award Acting Nods</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-british-independent-film-awards-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-british-independent-film-awards-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:20:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35628</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy As expected, Steve McQueen's Shame, Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin are three of the top contenders for the Raindance Institute's 2011 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), the British version of the United States' Spirit Awards (West Coast) and Gotham Awards (East Coast) &#8212; apart from the fact that British [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-british-independent-film-awards-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Pt.3: Gay Love Affairs Novarro/Valentino/Ingram Unfounded Rumors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, Trifling Women Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blames Catholicism Ramon Novarro's extant films for Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), in which he plays the sly villain Rupert of Hentzau, and Scaramouche (1923), in the heroic title role, are also well worth a look. I haven't watched The Arab (1924), which has been recently brought back to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blamed Catholicism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35616</guid> <description><![CDATA[Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968 Paul Ferguson, in a letter he wrote me at the time I was working on Beyond Paradise, blamed his Catholic background for Ramon Novarro's death: &#34;When [Novarro] kissed me, I reacted like a Catholic, what they call homosexual panic. Some old guy in the desert says, 'Kill homosexuals.' It's inbred. . . . I was too [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:05:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35620</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro Earlier today, after sharing on Facebook a photo of Greta Garbo dressed in Balinese costume in the 1931 blockbuster Mata Hari, I began thinking about 1920s and 1930s Mexican-born MGM star Ramon Novarro (photo), the subject of the biography I wrote several years back, Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. Mata Hari was one of the biggest box-office hits in the careers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pedro Almodóvar Selects Four Classics, LAW OF DESIRE Screening: AFI FEST 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pedro-almodovar-afi-fest-2011-law-of-desire/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pedro-almodovar-afi-fest-2011-law-of-desire/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:44:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35551</guid> <description><![CDATA[AFI FEST 2011 Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar has selected the following classic thrillers to be presented at the festival: Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle rouge, Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley, and Robert Siodmak's The Killers. Why this particular quartet? &#34;Because in some way, albeit tangentially, they have a relationship with my present.&#34; Eyes Without a Face, in which a doctor [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pedro-almodovar-afi-fest-2011-law-of-desire/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Zachary Quinto: Jamey Rodemeyer Anti-Gay Bullying Text</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zachary-quinto-jamey-rodemeyer-anti-gay-bullying/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zachary-quinto-jamey-rodemeyer-anti-gay-bullying/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:48:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35497</guid> <description><![CDATA[At ZacharyQuinto.com, Star Trek's Zachary Quinto explains (all in lower case) that the suicide of a gay 14-year-old, Jamey Rodemeyer, in a Buffalo suburb last September prompted him to go public about his sexual orientation. See below. (I've added paragraph breaks to facilitate reading Quinto's text.) [See also Zachary Quinto: &#34;As a Gay Man&#34;.] &#34;when i found out that jamey rodemeyer killed himself &#8211; i [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zachary-quinto-jamey-rodemeyer-anti-gay-bullying/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Zachary Quinto As a Gay Man</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zachary-quinto-gay-man-comes-out-closet/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zachary-quinto-gay-man-comes-out-closet/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:32:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35495</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zachary Quinto, Chris W. King before passionate gay kiss in So NoTORIous Star Trek's Dr. Spock, Zachary Quinto, 34, also known for his roles in the television series Heroes and So NoTORIous, has come out &#34;as a gay man.&#34; I have that in quotes because he refers to himself that way &#8212; &#34;as a gay man&#34; &#8212; at least twice in an interview published in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zachary-quinto-gay-man-comes-out-closet/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Michael Douglas as Liberace; Matt Damon as Lover Scott Thorson in HBO Movie BEHIND THE CANDELABRA</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michael-douglas-liberace-movie-matt-damon-scott-thorson-behind-the-candelabra/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michael-douglas-liberace-movie-matt-damon-scott-thorson-behind-the-candelabra/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:02:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35453</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michael Douglas and Matt Damon will play, respectively, Liberace and lover Scott Thorson in the HBO production Behind the Candelabra. With Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh at the helm of the Liberace movie, filming should begin in the summer of 2012. Richard LaGravenese, whose latest credit was the Reese Witherspoon-Robert Pattinson effort Water for Elephants, is the project's screenwriter. The Wisconsin-born Liberace &#8212; a walking, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michael-douglas-liberace-movie-matt-damon-scott-thorson-behind-the-candelabra/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Andrew Haigh-Directed Gay Romance WEEKEND Beats Box-Office Estimates</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-romance-weekend-andrew-haigh-awards-box-office/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-romance-weekend-andrew-haigh-awards-box-office/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:38:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35254</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tom Cullen, Chris New, Weekend Writer-director Andrew Haigh's gay love story Weekend brought in $27,245 &#8212; about 8% above Sunday estimates &#8212; at the North American box office according to actuals found at Box Office Mojo. Currently screening at one single New York City location, the Sundance Selects-distributed Weekend scored by far the highest box-office average per theater this past weekend (Sept. 23-25). Set in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-romance-weekend-andrew-haigh-awards-box-office/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gay Love Story WEEKEND Tops North American Per-Theater Average: Box Office</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-love-story-weekend-andrew-haigh-box-office/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-love-story-weekend-andrew-haigh-box-office/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:25:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35241</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tom Cullen and Chris New spend the weekend together in Andrew Haigh's Weekend Writer-director Andrew Haigh's gay love story Weekend scored the highest per-theater average this weekend (Sept. 23-25) at the North American box office according to Box Office Mojo. Screening at one New York City theater, the Sundance Selects-distributed Weekend &#8212; which, by the way, has nothing to do with Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-love-story-weekend-andrew-haigh-box-office/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Underground Filmmaker George Kuchar Dead at 69: THE NAKED AND THE NUDE, LUST FOR ECSTASY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-kuchar-gay-underground-filmmaker-thundercrack/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-kuchar-gay-underground-filmmaker-thundercrack/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:18:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35120</guid> <description><![CDATA[The name George Kuchar (right, with Marion Eaton in Thundercrack!) will probably not ring a bell to the vast majority of moviegoers anywhere in the world. Yet, Kuchar, who died of cancer last night, September 6, directed more than 200 movies &#8212; mostly shorts and video productions &#8212; from the mid-1950s to the late 2000s. The New York-born (Aug. 31, 1942) Kuchar brothers' penchant for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-kuchar-gay-underground-filmmaker-thundercrack/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, Naomi Watts as Helen Gandy: J. EDGAR Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-hoover-naomi-watts-j-edgar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-hoover-naomi-watts-j-edgar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:45:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27597</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, Naomi Watts as Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar As J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's notoriously corrupt, rabidly power-hungry topdog, Leonardo DiCaprio looks very much like Leonardo DiCaprio in the above still from Clint Eastwood's Hoover biopic J. Edgar. As Hoover's secretary Helen Gandy, Naomi Watts looks like Nicole Kidman without makeup. Watts certainly looks nothing at all [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-hoover-naomi-watts-j-edgar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudette Colbert: Author James Robert Parish Discusses the Paramount Star</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claudette-colbert-parish/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claudette-colbert-parish/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:31:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/03/28/claudette-colbert-james-robert-parish-interview/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claudette Colbert, Paramount star Those who remember Claudette Colbert, Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; featured player today, will likely picture a woman raising her skirt so as to hitch a ride in Frank Capra's 1934 Academy Award-winning comedy It Happened One Night. After all, Colbert's left leg immediately succeeds where Clark Gable's left thumb failed. [Claudette Colbert Movie Schedule.] Colbert, however, could get [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claudette-colbert-parish/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>16</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tab Hunter Turns 80: RIDE THE WILD SURF, BATTLE CRY on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tab-hunter-ride-the-wild-surf-battle-cry/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tab-hunter-ride-the-wild-surf-battle-cry/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:07:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27378</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tab Hunter turns 80 today. In his honor, Turner Classic Movies is showing five of his films. The first of the batch, Phil Karlson's Western Gunman's Walk, is on right now. Hunter and The Time Tunnel's James Darren play rancher Van Heflin's sons. Next is Ride the Wild Surf, starring Hunter and teen idol Fabian as a couple of dudes riding waves in Hawaii. Featuring [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tab-hunter-ride-the-wild-surf-battle-cry/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rock Hudson Documentary Synopsis</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rock-hudson-gay-documentary-synopsis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rock-hudson-gay-documentary-synopsis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:24:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27315</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rock Hudson ROCK HUDSON: DARK AND HANDSOME STRANGER Documentary The synopsis below of Andrew Davies and Andre Shafer's Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger is from the Berlin Film Festival website: Rock Hudson was a dream of a man; the epitome of masculinity: tall, slim and muscular, with a deep, mellifluous voice. His glossy black hair, sparkling eyes, high cheek bones and sensuous lips made [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rock-hudson-gay-documentary-synopsis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ROCK HUDSON: DARK AND HANDSOME STRANGER Documentary</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/rock-hudson-dark-and-handsome-stranger-berlin-43443/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/rock-hudson-dark-and-handsome-stranger-berlin-43443/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:23:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22142</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rock Hudson Andrew Davies and Andre Shafer's Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger was screened in the 2010 Berlin Film Festival's Panorama sidebar. [Rock Hudson documentary synopsis.] Universal star Rock Hudson, one of the top box-office attractions in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s, died of AIDS complications in his Beverly Hills home in 1985. Hudson, who was gay, lived a closeted [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/rock-hudson-dark-and-handsome-stranger-berlin-43443/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rock Hudson Was Not, Regardless of What People Say</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/rock-hudson-was-not/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/rock-hudson-was-not/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:50:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4722</guid> <description><![CDATA[I find it surprising that some people were surprised when the fact that Rock Hudson was gay was publicly revealed back in the mid-1980s, as the actor became the best-known person with AIDS in the world. After all, even my mother knew about that. Anyhow, today's jaded crowd, looking at the above photograph, will surely assert that it's so obvious that Rock Hudson was gay. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/rock-hudson-was-not/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gay Marriage in QUEENS &#8211; Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes d: Manuel Gómez Pereira</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/queens-manuel-gomez-pereira/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/queens-manuel-gomez-pereira/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:42:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/08/25/reinas-queens-opens-in-the-us/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reinas / Queens (2005) Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira. Screenplay: Yolanda García Serrano, Joaquín Oristrell, and Manuel Gómez Pereira. Cast: Betiana Blum, Carmen Maura, Verónica Forqué, Marisa Paredes, Mercedes Sampietro, Gustavo Salmerón, Unax Ugalde, Hugo Silva, Daniel Hendler, Paco León, Raúl Jiménez, Tito Valverde, Lluís Homar Reinas / Queens is Manuel Gómez Pereira's dramatic comedy about five mothers (Verónica Forqué, Carmen Maura, Betiana Blum, Mercedes Sampietro, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/queens-manuel-gomez-pereira/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ewan McGregor-Christopher Plummer&#039;s BEGINNERS Up 72%: Box Office</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ewan-mcgregor-christopher-plummer-beginners-box-office/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ewan-mcgregor-christopher-plummer-beginners-box-office/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:25:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27239</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ewan McGregor, Mélanie Laurent, Beginners Starring Ewan McGregor, veteran Christopher Plummer, and Inglourious Basterds' Mélanie Laurent, writer-director Mike Mills' dramatic comedy Beginners offers a portrayal of various personal relationships, both romantic and familial. Plummer is the older man who, in his mid-70s, comes out to his son (McGregor) and embarks on a relationship with a younger man (Goran Visnjic). Illness, however, interferes with his newfound [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ewan-mcgregor-christopher-plummer-beginners-box-office/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gay Sex and Blackmail on TCM: VICTIM, ADVISE &amp; CONSENT, THE BEST MAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-sex-blackmail-victim-the-best-man/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-sex-blackmail-victim-the-best-man/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:23:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27227</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden's Victim 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in Tennessee, a state where gays and lesbians have seen their civil rights attacked by right-wing Christians/Republicans on various fronts. Coincidentally, Turner Classic Movies is showing three movies about a time decades ago when gays were [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-sex-blackmail-victim-the-best-man/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PRIMARY COLORS: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 5</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/primary-colors-john-travolta-bill-clinton-sex/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/primary-colors-john-travolta-bill-clinton-sex/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:45:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27205</guid> <description><![CDATA[Emma Thompson, John Travolta, Primary Colors Primary Colors (1998) Antonio Capuano's PIANESE NUNZIO: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 4 Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Elaine May, adapting Newsweek political columnist Joe Klein's novel, Primary Colors is a surprisingly effective fictionalized account of Bill Clinton's run for the White House. In the film, Southern senator Jack Stanton (John Travolta) is an [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/primary-colors-john-travolta-bill-clinton-sex/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PIANESE NUNZIO: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 4</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pianese-nunzio-gay-priest-sex-scandal-teenager/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pianese-nunzio-gay-priest-sex-scandal-teenager/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:43:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27204</guid> <description><![CDATA[Emanuele Gargiulo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Pianese Nunzio Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (2006) Franklin J. Schaffner-Gore Vidal's THE BEST MAN: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 3 Writer-director Antonio Capuano's Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May focuses not on a political figure, but on a politically active religious one. Set in Naples, Pianese Nunzio chronicles the anti-mafia crusade waged by Don Lorenzo Borrelli (Fabrizio Bentivoglio). [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pianese-nunzio-gay-priest-sex-scandal-teenager/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BEST MAN: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 3</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-best-man-sex-cliff-robertson-homosexuality/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-best-man-sex-cliff-robertson-homosexuality/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27203</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cliff Robertson, The Best Man The Best Man (1964) Otto Preminger's ADVISE &#38; CONSENT: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 2 Adapted by Gore Vidal from his own play, The Best Man has more dirty politics, more homoerotic activity in the distant past, and more Henry Fonda. The &#34;Best Man&#34; of the title refers to the guy who shall eventually win the presidency [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-best-man-sex-cliff-robertson-homosexuality/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ADVISE &amp; CONSENT: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/advise-and-consent-don-murray-gay-blackmail/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/advise-and-consent-don-murray-gay-blackmail/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:41:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27201</guid> <description><![CDATA[Don Murray, Charles Laughton, Advise &#38; Consent Advise &#38; Consent (1962) Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies: Introduction Especially after his departure from 20th Century Fox in the early 1950s, Otto Preminger set out to break one taboo after another. He took on the Production Code Administration when he released the 1953 sex comedy The Moon Is Blue without a seal of approval, cast [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/advise-and-consent-don-murray-gay-blackmail/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ECLIPSE, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart: MTV Movie Award Winners, Best Moment</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/eclipse-robert-pattinson-kristen-stewart-mtv-movie-award-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/eclipse-robert-pattinson-kristen-stewart-mtv-movie-award-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:40:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27186</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Pattinson, MTV Movie Awards &#34;Go get him,&#34; Kristen Stewart told fellow Best Kiss winner Robert Pattinson, who immediately left both her and presenter Ryan Reynolds kiss-less onstage (Reynolds looks a little dejected, see above) to go smooch it up with fellow The Twilight Saga: Eclipse player Taylor Lautner sitting in the audience at the MTV Movie Awards, held this evening [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/eclipse-robert-pattinson-kristen-stewart-mtv-movie-award-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Outfest 2011: GUN HILL ROAD, THE PERFECT FAMILY, Tom Tykwer&#039;s 3</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/outfest-2011-3-devid-striesow-gun-hill-road/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/outfest-2011-3-devid-striesow-gun-hill-road/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 20:24:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27133</guid> <description><![CDATA[Devid Striesow, Sebastian Schipper in Tom Tykwer's 3 Outfest 2011: Patty Schemel Documentary HIT SO HARD, Andrew Haigh's WEEKEND Schedule and film information from the Outfest 2011 press release. U.S. Dramatic Centerpiece – Circumstance (July 12 at 8:00pm – DGA 1) In a vibrant contemporary Tehran, two beautiful teenage girls struggle for their personal freedom. Atafeh and her best friend Shireen are full of youthful [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/outfest-2011-3-devid-striesow-gun-hill-road/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
