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Entries in Steven Weber (2)

Wednesday
May052021

Gay Best Friend: Sterling (Patrick Stewart) in "Jeffrey" (1995)

a series by Christopher James looking at the 'Gay Best Friend' trope    

The gay comedy "Jeffrey" features a refreshingly fun and unbridled sendup of the "gay best friend" character.Of the few gay-centric movies made in the 90s, a large number of them were dramas centered around the AIDS crisis. Movies like Philadelphia were very important in making straight America identify and care about those suffering with the disease. However, they were just that. They were made for straight America with the goal of educating them and generating empathy. Sure, that is a worthy cause and many of those movies were incredibly successful in that regard. However, these weren’t movies specifically made FOR members of the gay community. That’s where a movie like Jeffrey comes in.

Director Christopher Ashley and screenwriter Paul Rudnick created an ambitious, irreverent AIDS-themed comedy that never turns any of its bitchy queens into sympathetic martyrs. It’s a film made by and for a community ravaged by a disease that was tired of crying and wanted hope, laughter and happiness. The 1995 comedy, now on Amazon Prime, doesn’t pass by current politically correct standards, but has a thorniness and candor that is shocking, authentic and delicious...

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Monday
Aug312020

Introducing the Smackdown Panel for '38

Are you ready for the seventh episode in this super-sized Supporting Actress Smackdown season? Up next in 15 days is 1938. [UPDATE 09/16 - THE SMACKDOWN IS NOW PUBLISHED] That was only the third year of the Supporting categories at the Oscars but you can already see some tropes forming. Here's where you can watch the nominated performances/films.  

Let's meet the panelists

PLEASE WELCOME...  

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