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- TOM HANKS SAYS ‘PHILALPHIA’ WOULDN’T GET MA TODAY WH A STRAIGHT ACTOR A GAY ROLE
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
TOM HANKS SAYS ‘PHILALPHIA’ WOULDN’T GET MA TODAY WH A STRAIGHT ACTOR A GAY ROLE
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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Twenty-five years after Tom Hanks and Denzel Washgton headled the first stud movie about a gay man wh AIDS, screenwrer Ron Nyswaner talked wh BuzzFeed News about the film’s lastg impact — and what scene he still wish had ma the fal cut. * philadelphia gay movie *
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Tom Hanks, who won an Osr for his role as a gay man wh AIDS the film “Philalphia,” said that if the film were ma today, a straight actor wouldn’t be st that role, and “rightly so.” * philadelphia gay movie *
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