Two by two they came to Sundance.FOR GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FANS, it was the year of the couple at Utah's Sundance Film Festival. The most glamorous pair? Believe it or not, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner and RuPaul--the subject and narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. , respectively, of the wildly popular documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye, made by real-life gay couple Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey. "I don't label people," the once and future TV evangelist told the filmmakers, explaining her growing gay fan base. "We all just come from the same dirt. And God doesn't make junk." Nor do gay filmmakers, evidently: Two twosomes carried home the top documentary jury prizes at the festival's end. Best doc direction went to professional partners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Jeffrey Friedman is a libertarian-leaning political scientist and is the editor of Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society. Friedman graduated from Brown University in 1983 with a double major in History and Philosophy, and received an (who won the 1995 Freedom of Expression Award at Sundance with The Celluloid celluloid [from cellulose], transparent, colorless synthetic plastic made by treating cellulose nitrate with camphor and alcohol. Celluloid was the first important synthetic plastic and was widely used as a substitute for more expensive substances, such as Closet) for Paragraph 175, about survivors of antigay persecution by the Nazis, while life partners Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid Frances Reid (born on November 9 1914 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American actress, who's known to millions of younger audiences as matriarch and widow Alice Horton on took top documentary honors for Long Night's Journey Into Day. The film chronicles South Africa's weighing of amnesty for crimes committed under apartheid, including the Judy Shepard-like forgiveness of the Biehl family, Americans whose activist daughter Amy was killed in 1993. Of course, the real reward filmmakers want from Sundance is a theatrical distribution deal. Fine Line picked up Tammy Faye, but the hottest news was Artisan's grab of another quirky quirk n. 1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2. twist on gay couple-dom, Chuck and Buck--a dark comedy in which a childlike child·like adj. Like or befitting a child, as in innocence, trustfulness, or candor. childlike Adjective like a child, for example in being innocent or trustful Adj. 1. man tries to woo his boyhood buddy into more adult games. Said the film's screenwriter, Mike White: "I thought it would be interesting to [create] someone who has all the endearing traits of a childish personality--that sort of eternal innocence--but also has this intense sexual personality." Sounds like any number of gay men we know. |
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