QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Happythankyoumoreplease
Life always seems so relatively easy for attractive 20 & 30 year olds living in Manhattan and juggling love and friendship as they finally grow up. Sam, an aspiring writer, is on his way to an important meeting with an Editor when he becomes the temporary caretaker of a young African/American boy who has been…
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Been Rich All My Life
In my continuing quest to catch up with American Cultural Icons that never featured anywhere in my Brit upbringing, I discovered this wee gem of a documentary from 2006 about 5 octogenarian ex-chorus dancing girls from Harlem who are still dancing professional. The Silver Belles may be falling apart physically and ‘can’t remember shit’, but…
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PAGE ONE : A YEAR INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES
A wonderful insight behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest newspapers in a tumultuous period where it deals with its very own survival, as well as competing newspaper groups, in a rapidly evolving new world that has completely changed the landscape of the news media. The other major news story the movie focuses…
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Absolute Wilson
As part of my continuing process of brushing up on American Cultural Icons I viewed Katherina Otto-Bernstein’s 2006 documentary on ROBERT WILSON, who is arguably the pre-eminent avant-garde theater director/artist in the world. I shouldn’t have been quite so ignorant of Mr. Wilson as although he is American, most of his work has been in…
