dvr this This absurdly funny Blake Edwards musical comedy about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman is one of Julie Andrews’ greatest roles. In order to get a job singing at a nightclub in Paris, she passes herself off as a gay female impersonator. Wackiness ensues. James Garner is…
dvr this George Cukor directed Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in one of their better romantic comedies, and one of the gayest, in hindsight. Hepburn and Tracy perfected the I-hate-you, I-love-you, We’re-Really-Smart-and-Funny genre, and their chemistry was not just great acting, since they were also in love and having an illicit affair. In Pat and…
dvr this I have no idea how this will turn out, but in the season premiere of Made, MTV’s long-running show about wish fulfillment, a gay teenager is turned into a rapper. Knowing that MTV has long been the most progressive voice for gay rights on TV for 25 years, this episode could be amazing….
dvr this Inarguably one of the great American films of the 1950s, Sweet Smell of Success is also one of the meanest, with zingers as pointed as anything in the other great 1950s films about the desire for fame, All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Burt Lancaster plays the malevolent newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker and…
dvr this The film version of Michael Cunningham’s lyrical, moving 1990 novel about a bisexual love triangle set among AIDS and 1980s New York is not nearly as good as the book, but it’s still a damn fine movie. Dallas Roberts, who is now playing the gay brother on The Good Wife, is in love…
dvr this Flix, 8 p.m., Oct. 31 In arguably Tim Burton’s best movie, Johnny Depp plays the worst director of all time, Ed Wood, whose insanely bad, low-budget schlock often starred Bela Lugosi and various other has-beens. Martin Landau won an Oscar playing Lugosi, who can’t seem to believe he’s still playing Dracula after all…
dvr this I’d rather prep for Halloween with a witchy comedy than silly horror film. So, thanks to TCM, we can see the 1959 movie, Bell, Book and Candle, that was the inspiration for Bewitched. The film is a delightful romantic comedy featuring Jimmy Stewart (in the role that would be Darren in the TV…
dvr this There are three gay things about The Playboy Club that have flown under the radar: 1) The lead bunny, blonde bombshell Amber Heard, is an out lesbian. 2) A major subplot involves funneling tips to the Mattachine Society, the 1960s gay rights group. 3) Eddie Cibrian seems to be contractually obliged to take…
dvr this There are three gay things about The Playboy Club that have flown under the radar: 1) The lead bunny, blonde bombshell Amber Heard, is an out lesbian. 2) A major subplot involves funneling tips to the Mattachine Society, the 1960s gay rights group. 3) Eddie Cibrian seems to be contractually obliged to take…
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s documentary about the infuriating anti-gay military policy known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell examines, as HBO writes, “The consequences of the policy and the fight to overturn it, a battle that would last 17 years, span three presidents and result in the discharge of 13,368 active servicemembers.” The film’s perfectly…
