Gael García Bernal and Pedro Almodóvar Bad Education quotes: Mexican actor reveals his “inner transvestite” while the best-known Spanish filmmaker of the last two decades takes on the Catholic Church. Unsurprisingly, Bad Education, a daring comedy-drama/film noir mix about child sex abuse at the hands…
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Stage Beauty movie with Billy Crudup as “the prettiest woman in the whole house.” In British theatrical productions of the mid-17th century, boys were cast in female roles after the passing of a – literally – Puritanical law barring women from the stage. The last…
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Alfred Kinsey ca. 1950: Kinsey Scale creator. Criticized by some for his methodology and by others for daring to tackle the issue of human sexuality, Alfred Charles Kinsey became both one of the most admired and one of the most reviled personages of the first…
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Gay actor Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in Mata Hari: George Fitzmaurice-directed 1931 blockbuster. Gay actor Ramon Novarro bio ‘Beyond Paradise’ The tragic story of gay actor Ramon Novarro, the first Latin American Hollywood star, is told in Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro.…