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TCM presenting films exploring lesbian and gay themes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No one is more shocked by Turner Classic Movies’ month-long commitment to gay and lesbian images in film than “Screened Out” author Richard Barrios.
“I’m honestly beside myself in gratitude,” he says about the Atlanta-based cable channel’s film festival selections, which begin running at 8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday nights all month. The dozens of films in the series encompass everything from the fascinating 1912 silent short “Algie the Miner,” about a westward-bound effete city boy, to the gritty 1950 women-in-prison flick “Caged,” to tonight’s 1935 drama “Sylvia Scarlett” featuring a cross-dressing Katharine Hepburn.
Barrios, whose 2003 book forms the basis for the festival, helped to select the films in the series and co-hosts with esteemed TCM film historian Robert Osborne. Throughout the pair’s intros for each selection, it’s sometimes obvious they don’t share the same opinion regarding a character’s sexual orientation. On Monday night’s intro for the 1944 horror film “The Uninvited,” for example, the co-hosts debated whether Miss Holloway, the film’s sinister rest-home head mistress, was indeed a lesbian.
“In the end, it was a good discussion,” Barrios explains. “Regardless, it’s been documented that when the film came out, groups of similarly dressed women would show up at theaters at odd hours. They obviously responded to this character, and this grapevine-like word had spread about it within the lesbian community.”
Still, Barrios concedes that some selections in the series, like next Monday’s seldom-seem 1969 camp fest “Staircase” starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, aren’t exactly stellar films.
” ‘Staircase’ on almost every level is a terrible movie,” Barrios says, laughing. “But the fact that here were these two huge actors doing a mainstream film playing homosexuals in 1969 is worth noting.”
“Still,” Barrios notes, “it’s a jaw-dropper. You might want to have a drink beforehand!”
VERN, SHIRLEY DEBUT
Leave it to Zoo Atlanta to organize a vine-cutting ceremony for a mob. And for once, we’re not referring to those digital camera-clutching Mei Lan fans who dutifully turn up each morning. At 9:30 a.m. today, Zoo Atlanta President Dennis Kelly and Georgia Power customer-service executive vice president Mickey Brown will introduce zoo- goers to the tourist attraction’s newest residents: a mob of nine meerkats from southern Africa and a pair of warthogs named Vern (pictured) and Shirley from the same region. The animals will reside in the zoo’s new Kalahari Connections habitat, made possible by Georgia Power. We’re told that while Vern and Shirley could have a future romantic coupling, the meerkats have been far more high maintenance. Apparently, during the journey to Atlanta, two of the meerkats in the mob (headed by sister-brother team Scurry and Big Flinch) acted up and had to be transported separately. Perhaps inspired by this, the zoo has enlisted Constance Babbleon, a fictional gossip columnist, to contribute a weekly blog on the new critters at zooatlanta.org. Zoo reps tell us that efforts are under way to restore peace in the mob. There was no immediate word if Jerry Springer had, as yet, been called in to assist. …
‘SWAMP ROMP’ BREAKS RECORD
Fernbank Museum of Natural History reps informed us Tuesday that the facility’s recent “Swamp Romp: Lost Oasis” netted a record-breaking $138,000 this month. The 13th annual fund-raiser, attended by nearly 600 revelers, will benefit BONES for Kids (Building on Experiences in Science), a fund established by the Artemis Guild to enrich children’s programming at Fernbank.
HIGH FIVE
Television
Top downloaded TV shows:
1. “Hour Four,” “The Starter Wife,” USA Network
2. “Dominion,” “Stargate SG-1,” SciFi
3. “Iraq/First Kiss,” “Lil Bush,” Comedy Central
4. “The Job,” “The Office,” NBC
5. “K+R, Part 2,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” NBC
Source: iTunes
STORK REPORT
It’s a boy!
It’s a girl!
“Waitress” actress Keri Russell is a mom. The 31-year-old actress welcomed her first child, a boy named River Russell Deary, on June 9 in New York, says her publicist, Jill Fritzo. Russell is married to Shane Deary.
Russell stars as a woman grappling with an unexpected pregnancy in the independent romantic comedy “Waitress.”
And it’s another girl for “The King of Queens” star Kevin James and his wife.
Shea Joelle James was born last week in Los Angeles, says the actor’s publicist, Jennifer Allen. James and his wife, Steffiana, also have an older child, Sienna, who was born in 2005.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actress Olympia Dukakis is 76. Actor Danny Aiello is 74. Actor John Mahoney (“Frasier”) is 67. Musician Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is 65. Home repair show host Bob Vila is 61. Singer Lionel Richie is 58. Actor John Goodman is 55. Bassist Michael Anthony of Van Halen is 53. Bassist John Taylor of Duran Duran is 47. Actress Nicole Kidman is 40. Actor Josh Lucas (“Sweet Home Alabama”) is 36.
Contributing: news services
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