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ALICE WALKER SPEAKS ON ANTI-GAY REMARKS OM ‘COLOR PURPLE’ ACTRS
'"Overripe, " the term The New York Tim' Ben Brantley recently ed to scribe the 1985 film The Color Purple, is a way of stavg off the emotnal power of Hollywood's greatt gay film. "Overripe" beltl the same way words like "sensive" and "severe" were once phemisms that stereotyped gay men and lbians. Its spirual and historil reclamatn was based on regnn of Celie's gay cred nied The Color Purple may be lked to the overpraise acrd such later films as Brokeback Mounta and this year's Carol, both startg wh ut, vert implitns of gayns reprented by whe characters--as if Spielberg and Walker had not already broken-through popular Doyle's new, mimalist stagg of the mil gets s license om The Color Purple's morn velopment of gay inty.