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POT BREAK IS GAY
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I knew "Pot Break" was gay before I ever saw .
To be fair, even if I hadn't had the heads up, I would've ught onto the simmerg homoeroticism of "Pot Break" pretty quickly.
'POT BREAK' IS GAY
It stars a young Keanu Reev (who would star "My Own Private Idaho" two months later, but had already played gay by this pot) and Patrick Swayze (still a few years off om "To Wong Foo, " but already cshed-on by men and women aplenty), both radiatg full movie-star wattage. The movie's excellence is extrible om s homoeroticism. “Break Pot, ” executive-produced by Pl Mart and the Osr-wng filmmaker Jam Gay-Re, arrived this year as a gift to tennis fans, for whom splashy, well-produced and readily accsible documentari about the sport have been hard to e by.
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