I just saw a film called “Gypsy 83,†which is wonderful and available on DVD. At the Toronto Film Festival, I heard people comparing my film, “Bam Bam and Celeste†to it, and so I was really curious. Who knew there was another fag/fag-hag road picture?! Where have I been? True, I am not always […]
Imagine being Anna May Wong at the premiere of your film, “Thief of Baghdad,” title apropos to these times, as a Chinese American at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre, then in its Chinarama phase, chock-a-block with faux orientalism, a chinkee apocalypse in plastic and red paper. And you, surrounded by an extraction of your own culture, are […]
Talking to my imaginary friends while watching the Oscars in South Carolina… I never watch the Academy Awards, but I am doing so right now. It’s a strangely political night, with Billy Crystal taking tiny potshots at Bush, careful and subtle support for gay marriage, an early win for longtime liberal Tim Robbins, Michael Moore […]
I just saw “The Passion of the Christ,” and it was a lovely film. I know how it ends, so it wasn’t really suspenseful, but the way that it completely bowls you over is pretty scary. Being raised as a born again Christian and Buddhist, the story of the crucifixion was always somewhat glossed over. […]
Remember the uproar amongst Batman fans when Michael Keaton was set to play the role of the Dark Knight? It was a moral outrage akin to what happened at the Superbowl. Geeks, freaks and sci-fi comic book moles – I am going to say that because I am one – were talking about boycotting the […]
Today, the paper says “Hispanics finally break the TV barrier.” Is that kind of like the sound barrier? Do they go really fast or something? What is the TV barrier? “I can’t see the screen, move your head fool.” Or does it point to something more. I guess that it is true, that we are […]
This show harkens back to the time honored tradition of ‘fixing a straight man’. I mean really, when have you been able to take a heterosexual male right off the rack, prêt-à-porter? Straight women have long relied on their gay male consorts for their expertise in the transformative arts, from elocution to chambray, we leave […]
