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J. EDGAR: THE (GAY?) MAN BEHD THE MASK
Clt Eastwood’s latt drama didn’t set the box office on fire this weekend (though hey, crackg eight figur for a 147-mute bpic about a mean, gay historil figure a’t so bad), and crics gave a mere 40 percent h ratg on Rotten Tomato (one percent better than the proudly dumb Immortals, ouch), but there is plenty here to discs for those of who saw , so let’s dive right wh a uple of talkg pots to get you started. Gay Edgar HooverDid the bad romance of DiCapr and Hammer work for you? So beme credibly apparent that he wasn’t straight and I started to wonr, ‘Well, what did gay look like?
By terviewg gay men of the time – before Stonewall and the sexual revolutn, when homosexualy was so vague that gay people were lled “daffodils” – Black was able to piece together Hoover, who was never married and lived wh his mother (played by Judi Dench) until she died. How gay do Black go wh “J. “‘Milk’ was gay om head to toe.
“He never once asked about the love story or the gay relatnship, ” says Black. “As this is happeng, ” he ntu, “I was readg on the Inter that he was gayg the film. He speaks regularly on issu ncerng the gay muny and recently wrote “8, ” a play about the battle agast Proposn 8.