Film historian Anthony Slide discusses his new anthology book The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second. Topics range from Lillian Gish to Betty White.
Gay Interest
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Llewelyn Davies brothers’ tragic fate & Michael’s mysterious death which nearly a century later remains a puzzle + what are the most famous Peter Pan quotes?
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Peter Pan author and the Llewelyn Davies brothers: ‘Sad end’ to complex and at times troubled four-decade relationship between J.M. Barrie and ‘his boys.’
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Magnificent Obsession Book: Movie fans’ outrageous history from Hollywood screenwriters + gay porn actors to coal miner’s sons + D.W. Griffith players.
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Jimmy Edwards: Conservative gay British comic known for spanking schoolboys with his cane in TV series + later outed is discussed with biographer Slide.
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Star Trek Beyond (2016) movie review: Justin Lin’s action sci-fier is the new series’ most satisfying movie, but John Cho’s gay Sulu is a major problem.
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John Nash gay life erased + passionate James Dean bromance + never-ending war pitting ‘Westerners’ vs dark-skinned natives: TCM Oscar Movies.
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David Bowie Movies: Ziggy Stardust pop icon excelled as ‘Starman,’ dying Vampire and Nikola Tesla plus dared to be openly gay (or bisexual).
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Charles Brackett Diaries: Gay Rumors re: Brackett and son-in-law quashed, troubled Billy Wilder Partnership and right-wing politics.
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Charles Brackett Diaries: Billy Wilder Forgotten Partner offers lots of Old Hollywood Ugly Politics and Juicy Gossip in diary entries.
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Robert Walker: Actor ran the gamut from amiable, heterosexual boy-next-door types to one memorable, murderous gay psychopath.
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Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
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Neil Patrick Harris: Oscar Host. Good Choice? The Tony and Emmy winner will be first openly gay (male) Academy Awards host ever.
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Dirk Bogarde. Dirk Bogarde: Victim star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde – one of the…
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Una Noche (2012) movie review: Lucy Mulloy proves herself a capable screenwriter-director with this mostly Havana-set refugee drama.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger bodybuilding & image building: Total Recall vs. selective recall Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger may be an inept actor and may have been an even more inept (Republican) governor of…
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Controversial ‘I Am’ Topics: From Anti-Gay Discrimination & Child Abuse to Abusive Cops & Sperm Donor Search “Why can’t the guy get AIDS from a popular Bollywood actress?” According to…
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Boom! movie: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton critical and box office disaster is rediscovered and receives some belated cult classic appreciation.
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Is Brüno Gay? Or anti-gay? Sacha Baron Cohen is seen above as the über-effeminate title character. Brook Barnes in the New York Times: “So it goes for Brüno, a movie…
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You Don’t Mess with the Zohan box office: Adam Sandler (not gay) comedy outperforms predecessor but fails to recover its cost.
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry box office: Starring a ‘gay’ Adam Sandler, Dennis Dugan’s lowbrow comedy topped the domestic chart.
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Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars + Keep the Home Fires Burning composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.
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Is Hollywood anti-Christian? Awards season indicates ‘Not so much’ as controversial and blood-soaked Jesus biopic has been shortlisted in several categories.
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Pedro Almodóvar is snubbed while Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia drama The Sea Inside has shattered the Goya Awards’ record.
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As a proudly evil Nazi, Laurence Olivier Is by far the best thing about the confusing and absurd 1976 political thriller Marathon Man. Dustin Hoffman stars.
Movie Buff: Author Anthony Slide discusses neglected area in film history - the humorous and/or tragic lives and times of film fanatics + collectors.
Ernst Lubitsch movies’ subtle touch now passé in our age of sledgehammer filmmaking but The Student Prince, The Merry Widow still delight.
Eye of the Tiger Lawsuit vs Christian Extremists Kim Davis, Mike Huckabee. Band Survivor has sued for unauthorized use of Rocky III song.
Whiplash (2014) movie review: Damien Chazelle directs a visually and aurally accomplished drama that gives J.K. Simmons a devil of a role.
Little Caesar (1931) movie review: Edward G. Robinson is an iconic all-American gangster in Mervyn LeRoy’s landmark but creaky crime drama.
Young People Fucking / YPF (2007) movie review: Martin Gero’s true-to-life sex romantic comedy-drama is funny, provocative and at times surprising.
Director James Ivory’s producing partner Ismail Merchant has died Ismail Merchant, longtime movie producer and sometime director, died today in London. The cause of death was not immediately made available.…
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