75 star players.POWER IS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE THINGS, AND THESE MOVERS AND SHAKERS--FROM STUDIO BIGWIGS TO OUR 9 UP-AND-COMERS--ARE WORKING TO DO JUST THAT JANE ANDERSON DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Resume: Wrote acclaimed Showtime film The Baby, Dance (also directed); HBO's ... Texas Cheer-leader-Murdering, Mom; feature Haw haw, common name for several plants, e.g., the hawthorn and the black haw (see honeysuckle). to Make an Next: American Quilt Next: HBO's third If These Walls' Could Talk, which will focus on lesbian lives Out in action: Active with the LA. Gay and Lesbian Center and her son's school >> CLIVE BARKER AUTHOR, FILMMAKER, PAINTER Resume: Latest novel Galilee; last directed Lord of Illusions; executive-produced Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters Next: The Essential Clive Barker, a definitive compendium of his literary work, due this fall; developing new film American Horror as a possible franchise for New Line Cinema Out in action: Enjoys teaching and mentoring other writers >> PARIS BARCLAY DIRECTOR Resume: Emmy-winning director for NYPD Blue; directed features including The Cherokee Kid, Don't Be a Menace..., and American Dream Next: Reportedly attached to long-in-development film adaptation of Larry Kramer's seminal AIDS-crisis play The Normal Heart Out in action: Has worked with gay and lesbian youth at the LA, Gay and Lesbian Center >> LESLIE BELZERBERG EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, ST. CLARE ENTERTAINMENT St. Clare Entertainment is a television production company owned by John Landis, Robert K. Weiss and Leslie Belzberg. The company was responsible for such television series as Sliders, Weird Science, , Campus Cops, Dream On and Resume: Won 1981 Oscar for documentary Genocide; produced hits such as Beverly Hills Cop III Beverly Hills Cop III is a 1994 Eddie Murphy motion picture that was directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on Trading Places and Coming to America. Judge Reinhold reprises his role as Det. William "Billy" Rosewood. Next: Developing several TV series Out in action: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) is a nonprofit organization that supports grassroots organizing and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights. Founded in 1973, NGLTF works to strengthen the gay and lesbian movement at the state and local levels while board member; active in ANGLE (Access Now to Gay and Lesbian Equality) >> JAN BERLINER TALENT AGENT, CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a talent and literary agency which represents a vast array of actors, musicians, writers, directors, and athletes, as well as a variety of companies and their products. Resume: Represented Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche through the trauma of coming out and seeing Ellen canceled Out in action: Speaks to youth about self-esteem and being out in the workplace; member of the education-focused CAA Caa See CCC. Foundation >> TAMMARA BILLIK PRESIDENT, TAMMARA BILLIK CASTING Resume: Won a casting award for years of work on TV series Ellen Next: Casting Disney TV film Smart House and feature East of A Out in action: Board member for Human Rights Campaign and for LA. Gay and Lesbian Center; four-year chairwoman of center's Women's Night, raising more than $1 million for women's services >> DAN BUTLER ACTOR, WRITER, DIRECTOR Resume: Between seasons of Frasier, acts in features such as Enemy of the State and The Fan; his one-person play The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me ... continues to be performed around the country--and the world Next: Short film Clowns (written and directed by Bruce Mason) debuted at Slamdance; guested on new Touched by an Angel episode Out in action: Onetime spokesman for HRC HRC Human Rights Campaign HRC Human Rights Council (UN) HRC Human Rights Commission HRC Hard Rock Cafe HRC Hillary Rodham Clinton (democratic senator/presidential candidate; former first lady) ; current spokesman for the Trevor Line, a toll-free help line for troubled gay and lesbian youth >> DOUG CHAPIN >> BARRY KROST (pictured) PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT TEAM Resume: Produced What's Love Got to Do With It and Love! Valour! Compassion! Next: Jackie's Back starting Jenifer Lewis, with cameos by Tom Hanks, Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Melissa Etheridge, RuPaul, Dolly Patton, and others Out in action: Promote gay and lesbian civil rights and AIDS awareness within film industry; Krost on Project Inform board of directors >> BRUCE COHEN cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. PRODUCING PARTNER, THE JINKS/COHEN COMPANY Resume: Produced films The Flintstones and Mouse Hunt; executive-produced To Wang Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar Next: Jinks/ Cohen's first feature American Beauty, with Annette Bening and Kevin Spacey spac·ey adj. Slang Variant of spacy. Adj. 1. spacey - stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug spaced-out, spacy unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles" Out in action: Board member and past president of Outfest, the Los Angeles gay and lesbian film festival; cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found and former cochairman of Out There, a group of gay and lesbian entertainment industry activists >> BILL CONDON DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Resume: Screenwriter who debuted as director on Sister, Sister; directed Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh in 1995 and met Clive Barker, who backed Gods and Monsters, which garnered Oscar nominations for Condon's adapted screenplay and for actors Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave Next: Vicki Oberjeune, a tribute to a child actress who turns to TV (and drugs) in her later years Out in action: Always out; risked his directing career with Gods, a movie about an aging gay man, and won widespread acclaim >> ELLEN DEGENERES ACTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER Resume: Made history by coming out as both actress and character through TV series Ellen; costars in just-released Ron Howard film EDtv Next: Goodbye, Lover, due in April; upcoming feature The Love Letter; coproducing HBO's third If These Walls Could Talk, focusing on lesbian lives Out in action: Endured the most public voluntary coming-out in the history of entertainment; seen regularly at gay and HIV-related fundraising events >> ROB EPSTEIN >> JEFFREY FRIEDMAN DIRECTORS Resume: Epstein won Oscar for The Times of Harvey Milk; duo shared Oscar for Common Threads. Tales From the Quilt and directed The Celluloid Closet Next: At work on The Pink Triangle, documentary about gay survivors of the Holocaust; developing first fiction feature, Save Me, a gay romantic comedy set amid ex-gay ministry Out in action: Have devoted their careers to documenting and increasing visibility of gay and lesbian lives >> ANDREW FLEMING DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Resume: Wrote and directed groundbreaking campus comedy Threesome and cult favorite The Craft Next: Dick, a comedy set during Watergate Out in action: Supports local gay and lesbian political candidates >> LIZ FRIEDMAN PRESIDENT, TELEVISION FOR RENAISSANCE PICTURES Resume: Co-executive producer of Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules, and Young Hercules Next: Can big-screen versions of these syndicated hits be far behind? Out in action: Vocally supportive of Xena's countless lesbian fans >> SUSAN GLATZER VICE PRESIDENT OF ACQUISITIONS AND PRODUCTION, OCTOBER RELEASING Resume: Lesbian love story High Art; Robert Duvall's The Apostle; The Celebration; Oscar contenders Hilary and Jackie and The Last Days Next: Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune; Allison Anders's and Kurt Voss's Sugar Town; Maria Maggenti's Us, Them, and Me Out in action: Founding member, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Women's Film Festival >> DANA GOLDBERG VICE PRESIDENT, CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT, VILLAGE ROADSHOW PICTURES Resume: Worked for past three years with Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog, Home Fries, Donnie Brasco) Next: Taking Lives, a thriller; Amanda's Wedding, a comedy; and a remake of Sleuth, a thriller and a comedy Out in action: Outfest board member >> TODD HAYNES WRITER AND DIRECTOR Resume: Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine (with Toni Collette, pictured below), and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (with Barbie dolls) Out in action: First filmmaker to suggest that Oscar Wilde descended from heaven >> ALAN HERGOTT PARTNER, BLOOM, HERGOTT, COOK, DIEMER, AND KLEIN Resume: One of Hollywood's most respected and powerful attorneys, with clients such as Brad Pitt Out in action: Visible at nearly every Los Angeles-area black-tie event for gay and lesbian and HIV-related causes >> MARCUS HU COPRESIDENT, STRAND RELEASING Resume: Producer and/or distributor of landmark gay films including Grief, Wild Reeds, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Steam, and Love Is the Devil Next: Hot coming-out-in-the-'80s film Edge of Seventeen Out in action: Backs gay movies others won't risk; on the advisory board for the San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival >> NICHOLAS HYTNER DIRECTOR Resume: Long a leading stage director (Miss Saigon), Hytner moved into films with The Madness of King George and The Crucible Next: Reportedly will direct film version of musical Chicago, starring Madonna Out in action: Used cachet cachet /ca·chet/ (ka-sha´) a disk-shaped wafer or capsule enclosing a dose of medicine. ca·chet n. An edible wafer capsule used for enclosing an unpleasant-tasting drug. from his first two critical successes to get The Object of My Affection made >> NINA JACOBSON EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION, WALT DISNEY PICTURES Resume: Highly sought-after production executive formerly at Universal and DreamWorks, where she shepherded Antz Next: Disney's Mission to Mars Out in action: Founding member of Out There >> LORETHA JONES PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR Resume: Executive producer and director for Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . TV show The Parent 'Hood Next: Producer of Price of Glory with Jimmy Smits for New Line Cinema; set to direct film adaptations of E. Lynn Harris E. Lynn Harris is an Black American author, (b. June 20, 1955). Harris writes primarily about African American men on the down low or in the closet; Harris confirmed that he is a homosexual. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and Atlanta, Georgia. novels Invisible Life and Just As I Am Out in action: Board member, LA. Gay and Lesbian Center >> NATHAN LANE ACTOR Resume: Broadway star (Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); braved many gay film roles (Frankie and Johnny, Jeffrey, The Birdcage); starred in hit Mouse Hunt; voiced Timon in The Lion King Next: The Best Man, Popcorn, and Love's Labour's Lost, all due out this year, as is Isn't She Great the Jacqueline Susann biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] starring Bette Midler Out in action: Came out publicly in The Advocate in February >> MAXINE LAPIDUSS PRODUCER, WRITER, PERFORMER Resume: As a producer-writer on Roseanne, introduced gay Martin Mull and Sandra Bernhard characters; on Ellen's last season, introduced Ellen's girlfriend and their first kiss; winner of 14 Dramalogue awards and nominated for Ovation Award for best new musical for Situation Tragedy: Observations on 10 Years in Hollywood ... With Bongos, at L.A.'s Globe Playhouse last year Next: Producing half-hour pilot for CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ; developing first feature film, Me & Mrs. Jones Out in action: Works with the Aviva Center, which serves abused girls in the Los Angeles area, and the Preservation Committee of the Museum of Television and Radio Museum of Television and Radio, American museum that chronicles the evolution of radio and television; opened in New York City as the Museum of Broadcasting in 1976. It is in effect the first public library devoted to the electronic media. >> CHRIS LEE PRODUCER, CHRIS LEE PRODUCTIONS Resume: Philadelphia, Jerry Maguire, As Good as It Gets, The Mask of Zorro zorro: see fox. Zorro masked swordsman, defender of weak and oppressed. [Am. Lit.: comic strip (1919); Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 794; TV: Terrace, II, 461–462] See : Disguise , and the gay-themed comedy Go, due March 26 Next: SWAT, Doom, Final Fantasy Out in action: Bought a pitch from Rupert Everett; active in the Gay Asian Pacific Support Network and East-West Players >> RICK LEED PRESIDENT, WIND DANDER dander /dan·der/ (dan´der) small scales from the hair or feathers of animals, which may be a cause of allergy in sensitive persons. dan·der n. PRODUCTION GROUP Resume: Wind Dancer produces ABC's Home Improvement Next: Coming up are Firelight and Company Man, with Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, and Ryan Phillippe; in development are film bio of Evelyn Hooker (pioneer researcher on sexual orientation), film adaptation of Billie Letts novel Where the Heart Is, plus other film and stage projects Out in action: Involved with LA. Gay and Lesbian Center; Kol Ami, Los Angeles gay synagogue; Family Pride Coalition, San Diego group for families with gay parents or children >> LAURENCE MARK PRESIDENT, LAURENCE MARK PRODUCTIONS Resume: Produced Jerry Maguire, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion High School Reunion
>> ANNIE ANNIE Application of Neural Networks for Industry in Europe MEREDITH SCREENWRITER Resume: Fought to keep lesbian material in film adaptation of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, which wound up on Showtime after Ted Turner refused to release through Fine Line Features Next: Plans to start directing her own scripts Out in action: Addressed issue of married women discovering lesbian love in feature Losing Chase >> SARAH Sarah or Sarai: see Sara. Sarah (flourished early 2nd millennium BC) In the Hebrew scriptures, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. She was childless until age 90. PETTIT ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, NEWSWEEK Resume: Cocreated Out magazine and served as editor in chief; now arts gatekeeper for Newsweek's 19.3 million readers Out in action: Lifelong activist, from ACT UP street demos and OutWeek exposes to countless op-ed pieces, talk show appearances, and university lectures >> ALLAN POUL POUL Politecnico Open Unix Labs (student association) PRODUCER Resume: Armistead Maupin More Tales of the City for Showtime as well as original Tales of the City miniseries on PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, ; theatrical feature Thursday; muchlauded TV series My So-Called Life My So-Called Life is an American television teen drama created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz that aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. Next: Woman on Top, a sexy romantic comedy with Spanish star Penelope Cruz; Epstein and Friedman's Save Me; and Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story Out in action: Copresident of Outfest; former board member for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation >> CHRIS PULA Pula (p  `lä), Ital. Pola, city (1991 pop. 62,378), W Croatia, on the Adriatic and at the southern tip of the Istrian peninsula. PRESIDENT, THEATRICAL MARKETING, BUENA VISTA PICTURES Resume: Marketing whiz behind New Line's early blockbusters; after stint at Warner Bros., now overseeing Disney's theatrical marketing behemoth behemoth (bē`hĭmŏth, bĭhē`–) [Heb.,=plural of beast], large, fanciful primeval monster, like Leviathan, evoking the hippopotamus mentioned in the Book of Job. Next: Outside his day job, is "often held captive by his two Jack Russell terriers and hoping one day to outwit out·wit tr.v. out·wit·ted, out·wit·ting, out·wits 1. To surpass in cleverness or cunning; outsmart. 2. Archaic To surpass in intelligence. them" Out in action: On February 14, celebrated 20 years with boyfriend Thom Biggert >> HOWARD Z. ROSENMAN PRODUCER Resume: Buffy the Vampire Slayer feature, hit remake Father of the Bride, and Oscar-winning Common Threads Next: Family Man, with John Travolta; Whispers in Bedlam' three features for Fox 2000 Out in action: Co-founded Project Angel Food; used his connections to help secure rights to film clips needed for documentary The Celluloid Closet, which he executive-produced >> SCOTT RUDIN PRODUCER Resume: Blockbusters from The Addams Family and The Firm to The First Wives Club and The Truman Show; Broadway hits such as The Blue Room, with Nicole Kidman, and Forum, with Nathan Lane Next: Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; Angela's Ashes, with Emily Watson; Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 English language motion picture. It is a dark drama about paramedics shot mostly at night in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan a neighborhood in New York City, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, and Tom Out in action: Saw commercial potential of Patti Rudnick's In & Out; helping shepherd Gus Van Sant's cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain >> PAUL RUDNICK SCREENWRITER, PLAYWRIGHT Resume: Long a successful playwright (I Hate Hamlet I Hate Hamlet is a dramatic comedy written in 1992 by Paul Rudnick. Set in John Barrymore's old apartment in New York City, the play follows successful television actor Andrew Rally as he struggles with taking on the dream role of Hamlet, dealing with a girlfriend who is keeping a , Jeffrey), his unattributed un·at·trib·ut·ed adj. Not attributed to a source, creator, or possessor: an unattributed opinion. rewrite on The Addams Family is widely credited with that movie's success; his own scripts for Addams Family Values and In & Out launched him as an A-list screenwriter Next: His off-Broadway hit play, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told--a Biblical romp beginning with Adam and Steve--is settling in for a long run Out in action: Works with the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a New York advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth >> BARRY SANDLER SCREENWRITER Resumes: Crimes of Passion, The Mirror Crack'd, the groundbreaking gay love story Making Love Next: With Patricia Nell Warren Patricia Nell Warren (b. 1936) is a lesbian[1] American author. Primarily known as an author, Warren is also commonly known as "the mother of Frontrunners" - the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender running/walking clubs that have been started in Los Angeles , film adaptation of her classic novel The Front Runner Out in action: First major screenwriter to come out publicly, in 1982 >> JOHN SCHLESINGER DIRECTOR AND ACTOR Resume: 1969 Oscar winner for Midnight Cowboy; recent films include Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. and Eye for an Eye; also directed Sweeney Todd for Showtime Next: The Next Best Thing, with Rupert Everett and Madonna Out in action: Has never shied from gay projects, from directing 1971's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, featuring mainstream cinema's first romantic gay kiss, to acting in TV's The Lost Language of Cranes, playing a gay man >> THOMAS SCHUMACHER PRESIDENT, WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION AND WALT DISNEY THEATRICAL Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, informally known as Walt Disney Theatrical, is the stageplay and musical production arm of The Walt Disney Company. It advertises as Disney on Broadway in New York City, and Disney on Stage in London and Melbourne. PRODUCTIONS Resume: Has overseen all Disney's recent $100-million-plus animated hits, including Oscar-nominated Mulan, and Broadway hits The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in Next: On film: Tarzan, Toy Story 2, Fantasia fantasia (făntā`zhə) [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent. 2000; on the stage: Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida; The Hunchback hunchback, abnormal outward curvature of the spine in the thoracic region. It is also known as kyphosis and humpback, and in its severe form a noticeable hump is evident on the back. of Notre Dame, in Berlin; The Lion King, in London Out in action: Active in numerous charitable organizations with his partner of 17 years, interior designer Matthew White >> RUTH SCOVILL HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY FOR FEATURE ANIMATION, DREAMWORKS SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global Resume: Behind the scenes for the holiday hit The Prince of Egypt Next: DreamWorks animated film El Dorado due in March 2000 Out in action: Works with HIV-affected infants and with organizations that deliver food to people with AIDS The People With AIDS (PWA) Self-Empowerment Movement was a movement of those diagnosed with AIDS and grew out of San Francisco. The PWA Self-Empowerment Movement believes that those diagnosed as having AIDS should "take charge of their own life, illness, and care, and to minimize >> MARC SHAIMAN COMPOSER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR Resume: Four times Oscar-nominated, this year for Patch Adams; scored countless hits, including In & Out, A Few Good Men, and Sister Act; two Grammy nominations; an Emmy for cowriting Billy Crystal's Oscar medleys; contributed to longtime collaborator Bette Midler's Emmy-winning appearance on the final Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Next: The Out-of-Towners, the South Park movie, and Rob Reiner's The Story of Us Out in action: Most proud to have directed music for AIDS Project Los Angeles's Commitment to Life VII, featuring Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Whitney Houston, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, and Bruce Springsteen, which raised $5 million >> ARNOLD STIEFEL CHAIRMAN, STIEFEL ENTERTAINMENT Resume: Longtime manager to clients such as Rod Stewart; produced films Stop Making Sense and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Next: Film of Dominick Dunne's O.J. Simpson novel-memoir Another City, Not My Own.; stage musical versions of Lady Chablis's Hiding My Candy and Dunne's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles Out in action: Arranged for 25 cents from every ticket sold on latest Rod Stewart tour to go to LifeBeat, the music industry's AIDS foundation; active with AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by HIV disease, reducing the incidence of HIV infection, and advocating for fair and effective HIV-related public policy. , Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, City of Hope, and other AIDS-service and activist groups; sponsors a day of Outfest >> MICHAEL STIPE PRODUCER, ACTOR, SINGER Resume: Executive-produced Velvet Goldmine for his production company, Single Cell Pictures Next: Being John Malkovich; Showtime film Freak City Out in action: Supports gay filmmakers such as Christopher Munch, in whose Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day Stipe made his acting debut (in a gay role) >> BRIAN SWARDSTROM TALENT AGENT, ENDEAVOR Resume: Helped make Endeavor a leading agency, representing Oscar contender Edward Norton, director-screenwriter Don Roos, TV superproducer David E. Kelley, among others Out in action: Early member of Out There; one of the few out voices in a notoriously reticent side of the business >> BRUCE VILANCH WRITER AND HUMORIST hu·mor·ist n. 1. A person with a good sense of humor. 2. A performer or writer of humorous material. humorist Noun a person who speaks or writes in a humorous way Resume: Vilanch has helped write every leading awards show, gags for every top celebrity, and much of Bette Midler's onstage schtick schtick n. Variant of shtick. Noun 1. schtick - (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven" schtik, shtick, shtik ; he's now gaining celebrity of his own as the "gay square" on TV's Hollywood Squares Nell:. The feature documentary Get Bruce/from Miramax Out in action: Has cohosted and/or cowritten every major gay or AIDS fundraiser in Los Angeles >> KATHY WOLFE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, WOLFE VIDEO Resume: Latest video-only releases include lesbian films Some Prefer Cake, It's in the Water, and Thin Ice Next: Gay male titles Lilies, Together Alone, and Green Plaid Shirt Out in action: Pioneering video distributor, via catalog and Web site, malting small lesbian and gay movies available to gays and lesbians everywhere RUPERT EVERETT ACTOR WRITER Resume: Another Country, The Comfort of Strangers; The Madness of King George, My Best Friend's Wedding, Shakespeare in Love Next: Plays Oberon, king of the fairies, in new film of A Mid. summer Night's Dream and the villain in Disney's summer release Inspector Gadget; developing Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband as well as The Next Best Thing with Madonna Out in action: Has been out since the '80s and has never shied away from discussing his personal life and taking gay roles; wants to star as Hollywood's first gay secret agent DAVID GEFFEN COFOUNDER AND COHEAD OF DREAMWORKS SKG Resume: As a manager, molded California rock music in the '70s (Jackson Browne, Eagles); produced hot films such as Risky. Business in the '80s; brought alt-rock into the mainstream at Geffen Records in the '90s (Hole, Veruca Salt); cocreated multibillion-dollar studio from scratch, resulting in Oscar favorite Saving. Private Ryan; continuing to launch new music careers through DreamWorks Records (Rufus Wainwright) Next: Ellen DeGeneres movie The Love Letter (spring); Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (fall) Out in action: David Geffen Foundation donates millions to HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. service organizations ANNE HECHE ACTOR Resume: Award-winner for Donnie Brasco and Wag. the Dog; also starred in Six Days, Seven Nights; Psycho; Return to Paradise; Volcano Next: Trixie and The Third Miracle Out in action: Endured the second most public voluntary coming out in the history of entertainment; recently honored by LA. Gay and Lesbian Center at major fund-raiser IAN McKELLEN ACTOR Resume: One of England's most respected stage actors; films include Scandal, Six Degrees of Separation, Richard III, Apt Pupil, and Gods and Monsters, which brought him an Oscar nomination Next: After Oscars, planning first vacation in five years; also will reportedly costar in Mission: Impossible 2 Out in action: First major actor to both come out and work tirelessly and publicly for gay rights; the first openly gay man knighted in the United Kingdom; member of Stonewall stone·wall v. stone·walled, stone·wall·ing, stone·walls v.intr. 1. Informal a. , U.K. group working for full legal and social equality for gay men and lesbians NEIL NEIL Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited NEIL Network Engineering and Integration Lab MERON CRAIG ZADAN PRODUCERS AND CO-OWNERS, STORYLINE ENTERTAINMENT Resume: Reinvigorated the filmed musical with TV hits Gypsy and Cinderella; coproduced Emmy-winning Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Stray with Barbra Streisand; produced feature My Fellow Americans Next: Double Platinum, an original television movie with Diana Ross and Brandy; Wonderful World of Disney musicals Annie and Mame; Stephen Sondheim's Assassins for HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy ; upcoming feature Fahrenheit 451 Out in action: Developing HBO biopic of Harvey Milk--The Mayor of Castro Street--and lesbian child-custody drama What Makes a Family DON ROOS SCREENWRITER AND DIRECTOR Resume: Wrote Boys on the Side and Single White Female; wrote and directed The Opposite of Sex, earning a Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America is a term often referring to the joint efforts of the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west. Jointly, the two guilds act as the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and nomination for best original screenplay Next: NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. pilot M.Y.O.B.; directing his script Bounce for Miramax Out in action: Active with GLAAD GLAAD Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ; the Van Ness House, residential alcoholism recovery program for gays; and Project Hope, residential program for at-risk girls in Pittsburgh GUS VAN SANT DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Resume: One of the few openly gay directors nominated for an Academy Award, for Good Will Hunting Next: Standing. Room Only, with John Travolta; using his Hunting good will to develop cowboys-in-love flick Brokeback Mountain Out In action: Put his career on the line with gay-themed My Own Private Idaho and lesbian comedy-romance Even Cowgirls Get the Blues CHRISTINE VACHON PRODUCER, KILLER FILMS Resume: Gay-themed pictures, from Swoon, Poison, and Go Fish to I Shot Andy Warhol and Velvet Goldmine--not to mention other groundbreaking movies such as Kids and Happiness Next: Take It Like a Man, the Brandon Teena biopic recently picked up by Fox Searchlight; Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, that was first published in the in High School, directed by Rob Schmidt Out in action: No single producer has done more to increase and diversify gay and lesbian images in American film Find more on this topic at www.advocate.com |
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