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Briefly, in the early '30s, gays were familiar screen types: "pansies" (often played by Franklin Pangborn) for comic relief and, more heroically, bisexual heroines (incarnated by Garbo and Dietrich) who looked thrillingly glamorous in their tuxedos and bachelor togs. That was old Hollywood's highest compliment to a woman--that she acted and thought like a man--just as new Hollywood accepts films with transvestites, men who act and think like women. In the '50s, gayness could be viewed as a social disease (in Tea and Sympathy) or with oblique rapture (in the torrid gaze of Stephen Boyd's Messala...
Fortunately, there are still people with sales resistance. Sheriff Alan Pangborn is the one to watch here. He's capable of doing anything, even blowing up the town. The author puts a promise underneath Needful Things. He calls this "The Last Castle Rock Story." Not to give the whole show away or anything, but King isn't a man to exaggerate. Not about his talent or his subtitles...
...James conducted a simultaneous flirtation with and excoriation of the mass market, and seemed to be the very model of Hollywood's stereotypical fashion designer: compulsive, effeminate, occasionally hysterical, frequently hectoring, always demand-ling. Franklin Pangborn kissed by the furies. The exemplary catalogue for the show features an excellent introduction to James' life and creations by Curator Coleman, some reminiscences by James' clients and Photographer Bill Cunningham, and a long, detailed grouping of his work, including many pieces not in the exhibit. "The Genius of Charles James" tends to his more extravagant creations. It skimps...
...this is the way gays are going to be portrayed in films, it represents real progress from the prissy sissies played by the likes of Franklin Pangborn and Grady Sutton 40 or 50 years ago, and from the self-tortured gays of The Boys in the Band and the monsters of Cruising, among more recent characterizations. Some observers liken the new gay movies to the Sidney Poitier period pieces about blacks: necessary non-evils designed to disarm the middle-class public by stressing a minority group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic...
...both catechism and clericalism, is fast becoming a major subject in secular U.S. colleges and universities. Two decades ago, only a dozen state-supported campuses had full-fledged religion programs; elsewhere, religion was usually nothing more than the Bible as literature, taught by English professors. Now, says Cyrus Pangborn, head of Rutgers' religion department, "universities recognize that the study of religion is as respectable a discipline as philosophy or sociology...