In 1971 Arnold works in the gay theater as Virginia Hamm, a female impersonator in a drag revue where he’s a gravel-voiced torch singer. In 1952, the youngster Arnold, in his Brooklyn home, shocks his caring mom by dressing as a girl. Director Paul Bogart (“The Three Sisters”/”Marlowe”) covers three of the important events in Fierstein’s life, as he has an ongoing conflicting relationship with his nagging and disapproving stereotyped Jewish mother (Anne Bancroft) and challenging relationships with his lovers. The positive imaged gay family value rom/com/musical is based on an autobiography of Harvey Fierstein. It’s set in the 1970s, before the AIDS epidemic. Tony Award-winning actor and playwright in 1983 Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the insufferable gay Jewish drag queen Arnold Beckoff, It’s a solid film adaptation of the smash Broadway play. “ A pleasant and sincere straightforward gay love story that is captivating and tender even if soppy in spots. (director: Paul Bogart screenwriter: Harvey Fierstein/from the play by Harvey Fierstein cinematographer: Mikael Saloman editor: Nicholas Smith music: Peter Matz cast: Harvey Fierstein (Arnold Beckoff), Anne Bancroft (Ma), Matthew Broderick (Alan Simon), Charles Pierce (Bertha Venation), Brian Kerwin (Ed Reese), Lorry Goldman (Phil Beckoff), Edgar Small (Jacob Beckoff), Ken Page (Murray), Karen Young (Laurel ), Axel Vera (Marina Del Rey), Eddie Castrodad (David) Runtime: 117 MPAA Rating: R producer: Howard Gottfried New Line Cinema 1988)
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For years, it was the perfect arrangement-Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with their weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. No one knew more about casinos than Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best friend and partner, Anthony Spilotro, virtually ran Las Vegas for the mob. the shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the neon money-making machine it created: the multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry of Las Vegas. From Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy -the #1 bestseller that became Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award–winning film GoodFellas-comes the brilliantly told true story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge, Mafia-style. At the wolves’ Circle Rock Council, Mowgli's right to be a member of the pack is questioned by Shere Khan, who still feels that the boy belongs to him. 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Lovesickness is one of Junji Ito’s lesser-known titles - Tomie and Uzamaki are the most famous - but Lovesickness certainly rivals them in terms of storytelling. Albers spent many years of his life teaching, alongside his work as an artist. It was a similar approach to that of other great colourists: Georges Seurat restricted his palette to monochrome for two or three years in the 1880s and Henri Matisse focused on using black around 1918. Albers’ self-imposed restriction to monochrome allowed him to approach the full spectrum with remarkable confidence. Albers was one of the first modern artists to explore the psychological effects of colour and space, and to question the nature of perception. Although Albers disavowed style category labels, he is credited with influencing the movements of Geometric Abstraction and Minimalism. Josef Albers interaction of colour would go on to influence Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Kenneth Noland. Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally). “Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”- The Washington Post Book Worldįacing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.Īmong Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now) and Marvin, the moody android. Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! Unger’s bracing, readable text is a remedy. The longer answer is that American history is so badly taught these days that it seems surprising that anyone remembers Washington, much less Millard Fillmore. So why is he not better known? The short answer is that he didn’t trumpet his own accomplishments. On top of that, his father was the nation’s second president. He ate with Charles Dickens, ended the War of 1812, shaped the ever-so-slightly misnamed Monroe Doctrine, taught at Harvard, and was one of the most prominent abolitionist leaders in the years preceding the Civil War. John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), writes Unger ( American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution, 2011, etc.), bridged the years between George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. A neglected president receives his due as a statesman and practical politician. |