Contents:
- GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
- GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 21: CALIGULA, FRERICK THE GREAT, WSTON CHURCHILL AND SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
- GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
9) Makg a Man His WifeI'm not talkg about gay marriage here, at least not really.
GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 21: CALIGULA, FRERICK THE GREAT, WSTON CHURCHILL AND SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
Caligula is a big, heart-shaped box overstuffed wh ndy of all flavors, gay, straight, threom, foursom, btialy, sadomasochism, necrophilia, patn, evisceratn, rape, emasculatn (a man’s genals are tossed to some dogs who munch ‘em down like begg’ strips right on screen. He was paid $200, 000 for his script, which he wrote as a bched and homoerotic allegory about how absolute power rpts absolutely.
His attempt to ht the script at a prev gay attachment between Ben (Charlton Hton) and Msala (Stephen Boyd) did not nvce the director, William Wyler, or Hton. Years later, after Vidal reunted the story for the gay documentary The Celluloid Closet (1995), Hton wrote an dignant letter sayg that Gore's revisn of the script had been rejected by them all. Produced by The Sat at Large anizatn, The Black Party is nsired the father of all large gay circu events and remas unchallenged as the forbearer an ever-changg NYC nightlife environment.
GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
La actud los romanos hacia la homosexualidad era ambivalente. Durg the rewr, Vidal's screenplay was rewrten to tone down the homosexual ntent, at Guccne's sistence.