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Turn Back Time : when TV interviewing was a real art
You really have to search hard for “Face to Face” interviews on the University of YouTube as they were originally broadcast in the UK between 1959 and 1961, but if you are prepared to delve the rewards are enormous. A search will uncover interviews with some of the major world figures of the last…
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Stonewall & Woodstock : 50 years on
Generation Woodstock is an ABC 20/20 Documentary Event Special about the youth movements of 1969 that spurred the Woodstock festival and Stonewall riots. It was 50 years ago when two groups of young people who had become disillusioned by issues dividing the nation and all the violence surrounding them fought back and creating two…
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Lavender : when two is not enough
For his third short, Brooklyn based queer filmmaker Matthew Puccini tackled the delicate subject of when two is not enough in a relationship. Lavender is the tale of NY couple Arthur (Michael Urie) and Lucas (Ken Barnett) who embroil young Andy (Michael Hsu Rosen) into their nest without really ever thinking it through. There…
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My Sister is So Gay (and my mother is Loni Anderson)
As a generalization blonde bombshells/bimbos always seem to attract a very loyal following amongst gay men. Take Loni Anderson for example. She had aspirations to be a latter-day Jayne Mansfield (she even played her in a made-for-TV movie, but her acting career never really took off beyond playing character roles.. She made much more…
