Skimpy “Breakfast”
BY DAVID KENNERLEY | Back in 1966, producer David Merrick famously pulled the plug on a Broadway musical version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” after just four previews. Not even the stellar team of Mary...
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BY DOUG IRELAND | If one asks male queers today who wrote the first serious modern American novel that was explicitly gay, nine out of 10 would answer Gore Vidal, for his 1948 book “The City and the...
View ArticleThe P Word: A Meditation Without an Emergency
BY DAVID EHRENSTEIN | “Mythical speech,” a wise old queen named Roland Barthes once wrote, “is made up of a material that has already been worked on so as to make it suitable for communication.” That’s...
View ArticleSusan Slept Here
BY DAVID EHRENSTEIN | I love being alive.” These are the first words we hear in Nancy D. Kates’ documentary “Regarding Susan Sontag.” And as the film goes on to show in considerable detail, that’s one...
View ArticleMake the Yuletide Gay
BY DAVID KENNERLEY | If you’ve had your fill of “Christmas Carols” and “Nutcrackers” for the holiday season, a cautionary advisory is in order for the option served up this year by Irish Repertory...
View ArticleFifty Years After Gays Demanded a Drink, Landmark Status Sought
BY ANDY HUMM | The push is on to make Julius’ bar in Greenwich Village the second New York City building landmarked because of its unique role in LGBT history — as the scene of a pre-Stonewall civil...
View ArticleAll About Andy
BY DAVID EHRENSTEIN | “I liked Andy immediately because I felt he was very accessible,” Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni recently said as she was promoting her new book “After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land,”...
View ArticleItaly Comes to the Village; Nellie Does Molinsky
BY DAVID NOH For the month of December, Film Forum is offering a selection of post-World War II movies shot in Italy, for its series “Roman Hollywood: American Movies go to Italy.” Those years were...
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Gore Vidal’s Forgotten Rival
BY DOUG IRELAND | If one asks male queers today who wrote the first serious modern American novel that was explicitly gay, nine out of 10 would answer Gore Vidal, for his 1948 book “The City and the...
View ArticleThe P Word: A Meditation Without an Emergency
BY DAVID EHRENSTEIN | “Mythical speech,” a wise old queen named Roland Barthes once wrote, “is made up of a material that has already been worked on so as to make it suitable for communication.” That’s...
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Susan Slept Here
Susan Sontag comes alive, in new persepctives, in Nancy D. Kates’ bio-documentary debuting on HBO on December 8. | WYATT COUNTS/COURTESY OF HBO I love being alive.” These are the first words we hear...
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Make the Yuletide Gay
Ashley Robinson, Silvano Spagnuolo, and Alice Ripley in Duane Poole’s adaptation of the Truman Capote story “A Christmas Memory.” | CAROL ROSEGG If you’ve had your fill of “Christmas Carols” and...
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Fifty Years After Gays Demanded a Drink, Landmark Status Sought
The New York Times reports on the sip-in by what the newspaper termed “3 deviates,” insultingly leaving out the fourth deviate. | NEW YORK TIMES BY ANDY HUMM | The push is on to make Julius’ bar in...
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All About Andy
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE “I liked Andy immediately because I felt he was very accessible,” Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni recently said as she was promoting her new book “After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land,”...
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Italy Comes to the Village; Nellie Does Molinsky
Katharine Hepburn in David Lean’s1955 “Summertime.” | FILM FORUM BY DAVID NOH For the month of December, Film Forum is offering a selection of post-World War II movies shot in Italy, for its series...
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Fifty Shades of Grey Gardens
Little Edie Beale and Lee Radziwill in Göran Hugo Olsson’s “That Summer.” | PETER BEARD It all began as a news item that were it not for the parties involved would have merited little attention In the...
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A Life of Genius and Jealousies
Selfies taken by Cecil Beaton in his late teens. | ZEITGEIST FILMS Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s “Love, Cecil” is an affectionate documentary portrait about the famous gay British author, designer,...
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Sleeping With a Celebrity
“Leading Men,” the acclaimed new novel by Christopher Castellani, is the author’s fourth. But, as he told an audience at his March 7 reading at the Calandra Italian American Institute in Manhattan, he...
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