Word: manness
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...also wary of becoming a stereotype. “I didn’t want to be, you know, that man is clearly gay,” he said...
...Both Breaux and Priour said the awareness of playing a gay character soon faded into the larger challenges of their roles. Priour had to wrestle with the emotional weight of playing a man with AIDS who’s been deserted by his lover. Breaux had to negotiate a deeply flawed relationship with the wife his character deserts...
...West and Žižek in her line-up of all-star thinkers, and they do not disappoint. West is the only figure who appears more than once in the film, and his musings are dispersed throughout. “I’m a jazz man in the world of ideas,” he says, sitting in the back seat of a car driving through New York City, his astounding breadth of knowledge and poetic name-dropping engaging, if not inspiring. Žižek stands in front of a garbage dump wearing a bright...
...only reason to read literature? That there is, ultimately, no social good to be derived from it? That Harold Bloom’s cantankerous—I think you use the word “imperious”—nature, that he is a grumpy old man, proves that the routine of reading does not make one a better person? To thus write off the whole endeavor as merely a pleasurable exercise seems wholly precipitous, even ignorant. (Though, of course, the fact that I’m writing you rather indignantly, and perhaps rather imperiously myself, having nurtured...
...Gambler”; he penned the screenplay for “Bugsy”—the Oscar-winning 1991 film about celebrity gangster Bugsy Siegel’s ventures in Vegas—and he wrote and directed “The Harvard Man,” a semi-autobiographical account of an epic sophomore year LSD trip. According to Toback, when Tyson first met him, he recognized him as “that white guy in the middle of the orgies at Jim Brown’s house.” Somewhat ironically, Toback awards Tyson...