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THE KHNER/SPIELBERG ADAPTATN OF ‘WT SI STORY’ IS SURE TO BE PRETTY, WTY AND GAY
Eastern, through Sunday (HBO Max ntent will be available to stream on-mand throughout that perd), and offers much of tert to LGBTQ+ dienc and to "anyone wh a pulse" who lov movi, as one TCM executive put Si Story, of urse, had a wealth of gay and bisexual talent among s creators, cludg book wrer Arthur Lrents, poser Leonard Bernste, director-choreographer Jerome Robbs, and a guy named Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics and went on to some succs as a poser as Monty Clift nnectn adds to that. Bisset said she felt like she really beme an actrs wh this movie, which she and Candice Bergen played rival thors (a remake of 1943's Old Acquatance, which starred Bette Davis and Miriam Hopks) had some issu wh the great director (no, the fact that he was gay wasn't one of them), but she thought he did an excellent job wh the film. Osborne was "grac and welg and kd and warm, " Tabh Ftival Highlights for LGBTQ+ Viewers (and Everyone Else)Dirk Bogar VictimHBO Max will stream Victim, a 1961 Brish film starrg Dirk Bogar as a closeted gay man tryg to expose a blackmailer.
It was one of the first mastream films to treat homosexualy wh sympathy. It will be acpanied by Osborne's tro, a documentary on the history of gay and lbian films, and a discsn between TCM host Dave Karger and former Advote edor Alonso Harris, a renowned film historian who happens to be gay, will discs his latt book, Mike Nichols: A Life, njunctn wh TCM's screeng of Nichols and May: Take Two, a documentary about the future film director's early edy act wh Elae May. HBO Max has two of Grant's bt films: Aled Hchck's North by Northwt (Mart Land sh as a gay villa) and Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday.
Another great Hchck film wh plenty of homoeroticism, Strangers on a Tra, is on TCM Sunday at 6:15 a.