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Man of steel
“This throwback to the golden age of opera—superhuman singing greeted with frenzied ovations—was a function of a perfect storm of excitement: a performance of Verdi’s 1853 spellbinder to rank with...
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“What gets me…!”
It is one of the most basic truths of the gay male experience that any life situation imaginable can be summed up with a line from All About Eve. And, as you see from the headline above, that’s how La...
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I used to think you were all sugar water
With all due respect to the splendid Susan Graham, you may not be a born Regina in The Little Foxes if you’re the sort of person who exclaims “Good gravy!” [New York Times]
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“I wish I could say I was sorry!”
Says the the New York Post, “James Levine is trying to discredit one of his alleged victims by dredging up a ‘love’ letter his teen accuser once wrote to him.” And if that sounds like the plot of a...
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Even her agony was a kind of joy
David Fox: Cameron, I think we would agree that what initially led us to W. Somerset Maugham’s torrid potboiler, The Letter, is its existence on film as a vehicle for three exceptional—and very...
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Going south
Cameron Kelsall: When we started thinking about a Bette Davis series, David, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte was among the first of her features to make the list. The 1964 Southern Gothic seemed a natural...
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Two sisters
David Fox: With What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?—which is surely among my top ten favorite movies ever, and my admiration only grows with the years—I will out myself. Not as a gay man (I think that’s a...
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Slow curtain
David Fox: Cameron, it was your inspired suggestion that we put together these two very different movies from more than half a century apart—Of Human Bondage (1934) and The Whales of August (1987)—and...
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To seek and find
Cameron Kelsall: David, I suspect most people know the famous last line of Now, Voyager even if they’ve never seen the movie. And in a way, that classic utterance nicely sums up my feelings toward the...
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A life in the theater
Cameron Kelsall: I guess it started back home. New Jersey, that is. The quiet, coastal part of the state, far from the glamorous shadow of New York City. As a child, I had an innate curiosity and...
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