October 1985

Gay Peoples Chronicle

page 13

Films

Kiss of the Spider Woman continues its run at the Cedar-Lee. Reaction in the local gay community seems to parallel those reported in other cities. One Chronicle staff member hated it for stereotyping the gay male character. Two had expected to hate it but found themselves unwillingly moved by the developing relationship between two men who were stigmatized by their society; but saw the gay male character as transsexual rather than gay. A friend of the Chronicle enthusias tically called it the ultimate gay film. So, repeating last month's advice, see it and decide for yourself.

The New Mayfield is devoting October to a cult film series without much gav rel-

by CHARLES CALLENDAR

evance. The exception; Lust in the Dust, includes Divine in the cast (speaking of stereotypes). A satire on Westerns, it has drawn good

reviews in part of the gay press. It will be shown Saturday, October 12.

The first part of the Cleveland International Film Festival runs Thursday evenings, October 10 through 31, at the Cedar-Lee. A retrospective of 14 films particularly well received in past Festival years, the most relevant for gay people is La Cage Aux Folles II, (speaking still of stereotypes). It plays Thursday, October 24, 9 p.m.

This being the month for stereotypes, the CWRU Film

Society is inevitably showing Some Like it Hot. The

plot is hoary: a couple of Aubrey

eyewitnesses to murder hide out from the mob in some unlikely place. I have a very faint memory of a 1950's film in which the leads were played by Betty Grable and someone named Sheree North, who took refuge in a univerLemmon and Tony Curtis join sity. In this case, Jack an all-female band whose members include Marilyn Monroe. It's the kind of "safe" film expected to attract gay males without turning off Wilder directed it, Jack any straights. Well, Billy Lemmon predictably turns in an excellent performance and the final scene isn't bad--not the expectable one between Curtis and Monroe, but that between Lemmon and Joe E. Brown.

Sylvester Schedualed for Chaps

Aubrey Wertheim

To Speak

at BWMT Anniversary

Aubrey Wertheim, former Cleveland resident now with the National Gay Task Force, will be the speaker at the Black and White Men Together Fifth Anniversary Banquet on Saturday, November 2.

All persons are welcome to attend the banquet and talk. Those interested should contact BWMT.

Popular singer Sylvester, one of whose hits was Do You Want to Funk, will appear at Chaps on Halloween night. One of the few entertainers who is openly gay, Sylvester has resisted commercial pressure to straighten out his act, to the point of changing his booking agents.

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Congress Declares Mule Appreciation Day

By SEBASTIAN MELMOTH

Dear Abby's September 28 column featured a letter_advocating a Bachelor's Day. The writer named a long list of men who never married: St. Paul, St. Luke, St.

Francis of Assisi St. Thomas Aquinas, both St. Augustines, Plató, Voltaire, Kant, Thomas Paine, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Marcel Proust, da Vinci, Raphael, El Greco, Beethov-

Modern Dance Assn.

Presents Paul Taylor

Cleveland Modern Dance Association opens its fourth Concert Series at Playhouse Square next month with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. The Association describes Taylor's unique brand of choreography as known for its vivid imagination and humor and its uniquely American athleticism. His works, numbering over 80, span the spectrum of human emotion from the lovely and lyrical to the comic to the dark and brooding. It says that Taylor's Dance Company thrills audiences with its virtuoso skill and bravura.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company will appear at the Ohio Theatre Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16 at 8:30 pm, with a 2:30 matinee on Saturday. Tickets for evening performances are $18 to $22; matinee tickets range from $14 to $18. Tickets are available at the Playhouse Square Center Box office or you may call 2416000. Special rates are available for students, senior citizens, and groups.

For further information, call the Cleveland Modern Dance Association at 8612213.

en, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, Schubert, Handel, Roger Bac-

Newton, Carnegie, Lawrence of Arabia, and J. Edgar Hoover. Agreeing that bachelor's deserved a day, Ms. Van Buren added Jesus Christ and the pope to the list.

Given the number of men in this list whose failure to marry lay in reasons we can all sympathize with, one wonders at first whether the writer could possibly be a But other names crypto-gal: And I would not

don't want to call St. Paul or the Bishop of Hippo a brother-God forbid, John Paul II--even if we may be stuck with J. Edgar Hoover.

nor,

Well, a Bachelor's Day would be a way to rival the breeders. Except why not a corresponding day for unmarried women? And a list of eminent unmarried women would turn up the same kind of reasons for remaining husbandless. So why not simply a Gay/Lesbian' Day? Except that Congress would never pass it, even though as Ms. Van Burnen points out it recently declared October 26 Mule Appreciation Day.

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