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Goodbye Jerry : the legendary Broadway composer of Hello Dolly & La Cage Aux Folles has died.
Six time Tony Award winner songwriter-composer JERRY HERMAN died here in Miami Beach yesterday aged 88 years old. This legendary Broadway figure who created such camp hot musicals such as Hello Dolly, Mame and the first ever ‘gay’ musical La Cage Aux Folles (the latter he wrote with Harvey Fierstein) In his long career Herman…
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The First Temptation of Christ: not for anyone remotely religious
It’s only natural that the more people complain that a film is greatly offensive, the more we get intrigued enough to want to see it. Even more so when the whiners are the ultra-conservative religious who are up in arms about a comedy satire group that put their spin on celebrating the Baby Jesus’s…
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Get back into the Pool with THE DARE PROJECT
Who ever dared to say that most gay relationships are usually just a flash in the pan have never set eyes on the remarkable DARE PROJECT. It all started some 16 years when two classmates in the Graduate Film Program at Columbia University in New York paired up for their first-year assignment to create…
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Who Will Write Our History : the real story of the Warsaw Ghetto
In WW2 when the German Governor of Warsaw in Occupied Poland the city into three areas : one for Germans. another for Poles, and the third for Jews, the infamous Ghetto was born.. It was October 1940 and because the Nazis had also been rounding up all the Jews in surrounding areas, the initial …
