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- GAY UNRCURRENT TRICKL THROUGH GREAT 'RED RIVER'
- QUEERG JOHN WAYNEWAS HE ‘MASCULE’—OR ACTG?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·10 M READ·JUL 6, 2021--9SHAREWHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN BY THE WORD “MASCULE” — AND WHY IS JOHN WAYNE IS SO OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH THIS TRA? THE HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WASN’T EVEN NAMED ‘JOHN WAYNE’.HE WAS MARN MORRISON, LLED ‘DE’. HE WAS A CHS-PLAYER, A DANCER, A B FEMME HIS BEARG. HE WAS AN ACTOR WHO PLAYED A PART OF A WBOY LARGELY CREATED BY JOHN FORD, A CLOSETED GAY DIRECTOR OM MAE.HE’S KNOWN AS AN IN OF “MASCULY.”MANY SEEM NOT TO KNOW WAS AN ILLN, MERE MOVIEMAKG. WE N FOLLOW A YOUNG ‘DE’ WHO GREW UP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—AN ATHLETE, PLAYG FOOTBALL, SURFG.IS HE ULTRA-MASCULE?HIS LOOKS N CHANGE VERY UNEXPECTEDLY.THIS SEEMS TO BE A MAN WHO SANK TO THE ROL HE PLAYED, A SHAPE-SHIFTG BEG, A CHAMELEON. AN ACTOR.DE MORRISON WAS A DANCER.IN A 1997 STUDY, JOHN WAYNE’S AMERI, GARRY WILLS LGERS ON THIS POT, AND C A FEW UNEXPECTED FACTS. NOTG HIS SMALL FEET, KATHARE HEPBURN SPOKE OF THE “DANCER’S STEPS HE TOOK WH THEM.” A WOMAN WHO KNEW WAYNE PARED HIM TO NUREYEV, THE GREAT (GAY) BALLET DANCER.RICHARD WIDMARK RELLED THE ACTOR JOHN WAYNE TELLG HIM ON THE SET OF THE ALAMO: “GODDAMM, BE GRACEFUL — LIKE ME!”IT MIGHT NOT BE AN EFFECT THE DIENCE WOULD PROCS. BUT AS MUCH AS NUREYEV ON STAGE, ‘JOHN WAYNE’ WAS A LEAPG FIGURE OUT OF A DREAM.RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHS RUDOLF NUREYEV 1961; JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMIC (FEBARY 1952)THE MERA WAS EVER WORKG TO BUTCH HIM UP.
- FILM REVIEW; GLIMPS OF THE GAY LIFE: A HOLLYWOOD PERSPECTIVE
GAY UNRCURRENT TRICKL THROUGH GREAT 'RED RIVER'
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QUEERG JOHN WAYNEWAS HE ‘MASCULE’—OR ACTG?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·10 M READ·JUL 6, 2021--9SHAREWHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN BY THE WORD “MASCULE” — AND WHY IS JOHN WAYNE IS SO OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH THIS TRA? THE HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WASN’T EVEN NAMED ‘JOHN WAYNE’.HE WAS MARN MORRISON, LLED ‘DE’. HE WAS A CHS-PLAYER, A DANCER, A B FEMME HIS BEARG. HE WAS AN ACTOR WHO PLAYED A PART OF A WBOY LARGELY CREATED BY JOHN FORD, A CLOSETED GAY DIRECTOR OM MAE.HE’S KNOWN AS AN IN OF “MASCULY.”MANY SEEM NOT TO KNOW WAS AN ILLN, MERE MOVIEMAKG. WE N FOLLOW A YOUNG ‘DE’ WHO GREW UP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—AN ATHLETE, PLAYG FOOTBALL, SURFG.IS HE ULTRA-MASCULE?HIS LOOKS N CHANGE VERY UNEXPECTEDLY.THIS SEEMS TO BE A MAN WHO SANK TO THE ROL HE PLAYED, A SHAPE-SHIFTG BEG, A CHAMELEON. AN ACTOR.DE MORRISON WAS A DANCER.IN A 1997 STUDY, JOHN WAYNE’S AMERI, GARRY WILLS LGERS ON THIS POT, AND C A FEW UNEXPECTED FACTS. NOTG HIS SMALL FEET, KATHARE HEPBURN SPOKE OF THE “DANCER’S STEPS HE TOOK WH THEM.” A WOMAN WHO KNEW WAYNE PARED HIM TO NUREYEV, THE GREAT (GAY) BALLET DANCER.RICHARD WIDMARK RELLED THE ACTOR JOHN WAYNE TELLG HIM ON THE SET OF THE ALAMO: “GODDAMM, BE GRACEFUL — LIKE ME!”IT MIGHT NOT BE AN EFFECT THE DIENCE WOULD PROCS. BUT AS MUCH AS NUREYEV ON STAGE, ‘JOHN WAYNE’ WAS A LEAPG FIGURE OUT OF A DREAM.RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHS RUDOLF NUREYEV 1961; JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMIC (FEBARY 1952)THE MERA WAS EVER WORKG TO BUTCH HIM UP.
"Still, unlike Brokeback Mounta, whose claim to art and entertament rts on s gayns, the bety of a movie like Red River is that has somethg for everyone.
The gay ntent is like the Christian ntent The Chronicl of Narnia: The Ln, The Wch and the Wardrobe: proment a few scen, prent as an unrcurrent, but never allowed to swamp the exhilaratg mh of characters and epic sweep and be the Capta Queeg of ttle barons, shunng people who disagree wh him and shootg them for disloyalty. He was an actor who played a part of a wboy largely created by John Ford, a closeted gay director om ’s known as an in of “masculy. Movi|FILM REVIEW; Glimps of the Gay Life: A Hollywood Perspective ADVERTISEMENTFILM REVIEWThe Silver Screen: Color Me LavenrDirected by Mark RappaportDocumentary, HistoryNot Rated1h 40mJuly 17, 1998See the article s origal ntext om July 17, 1998, Sectn E, Page 22Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal and opns abound ''The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavenr, '' but genue sight and reportorial cursy are short supply this film about Hollywood's treatment of homosexualy durg s goln age, om the 1930's to the 60's.
FILM REVIEW; GLIMPS OF THE GAY LIFE: A HOLLYWOOD PERSPECTIVE
Wrten, directed and eded by Mark Rappaport, ''The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavenr'' is another of the so-lled cematic says by the filmmaker, whose prev works clu ''Rock Hudson's Home Movi'' (1992) and ''From the Journals of Jean Seberg'' (1995) a narratn by Dan Butler, who is scribed the publicy materials as an outspokenly gay actor and who plays the womanizer on the h s ''Frasier, '' Mr. Rappaport's film mak the unsurprisg pot that at a time when Amerin society at large preferred that homosexualy rema hidn, so did s Mr.
Butler, the old films are rich wh relatnships, dialogue, glanc and other bs of actn sceptible to terpretatn as beg eighted wh homosexualy.
Rappaport's film surveys the prissy ic character actors of the 30's like Eric Blore, Frankl Pangborn and Edward Everett Horton; fds and speculat on homosexual unrcurrents the Bob Hope-Bg Crosby movi, and spends an ordate amount of time on Walter Brennan's playg grizzled sikicks to macho stars like John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Humphrey por over the jealo rentment shown Lizabeth Stt by Wenll Corey the triangle pleted by John Hodiak ''Dert Fury'' (1945); tak a brief excursn to Europe to display the lgerg, lovg imag of beteo actors like Jean Marais and Ala Delon films by Jean Cocte and Lucho Visnti, and returns to the Uned Stat to pore over the womanls world the wterns of Randolph Stt, who was known to Hollywood to be Rappaport mak a tellg pot when he not a fleetg ment that the highly praised 1947 film ''Crossfire, '' about a bigoted Army sergeant who kills a Jew, was based on a novel which the victim was a homosexual. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn E, Page 22 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: FILM REVIEW; Glimps of the Gay Life: A Hollywood Perspective. Cotton did one of the more subtle gut-star rol of a homosexual man on "The Streets of San Francis" Anonymoreply 9March 29, 2021 6:00 AM.