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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Happy 70th Birthday Brenda Blethyn
No disrespect to Frances McDormand but in 1996 the Academy Award for Best Actress should have gone to Brenda Blethyn for her superlative performance as Cynthia Rose Purley the unforgettable, big-hearted cockney heroine in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies. She had already picked up the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Cannes Best Actress Award for the role and in…
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Shane Wickes : A Hero
Although he will probably want to deny it, but Shane Wickes is a real hero. This young High School football Coach from Reno Nevada came out as gay to the world very publicly in a TED talk at the University of Nevada. His story about his own journey is powerful as he articulates about his experiences…
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Happy 87th Birthday Patricia Routledge
Beloved veteran British actress Patricia Routledge celebrates her 87th Birthday this week which is still very hard to believe. Most people in the US know her as the hilarious pretentious Hyacinth Bucket (it’s pronounced bouquet) in the smash hit TV series ‘Keeping Up The Appearances’, back across the Pond though we are aware that is…
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Meryl Streep Sings Very Badly for maybe another Oscar
We hope that for her performance in the title role of her latest movie Florence Foster Jenkins that Meryl Streep will for once sing really badly. Directed by Stephen Frears (‘The Queen’) from a script by Nicholas Martin(‘Big Bad World’) its the very true story of a tone deaf opera diva who was probably the worst…
