24 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE NOVEMBER 25, 1994

ON WITH THE SHOW

The Front Runner still running in circles; may be on stage

by Jerry Semas

Harlan's Race, Patricia Nell Warren's sequel to The Front Runner, was released a few months ago and is selling steadily. The story picks up after the murder of Billy Sive at the Olympics and follows coach Harlan Brown over the ensuing years as he finds another romance and is also pursued by an assassin.

Perhaps the sequel will help build new interest in the long-planned film version of The Front Runner. Many people in the entertainment business have called this venture the film industry's biggest failure to bring a gaythemed project to the screen. The project, first announced in 1976, was bounced around from director Frank Perry, to the late Jerry Wheeler, and is now tied up in litigation over Wheeler's estate. Author Warren is a bit jaded when it comes to talk of a film. She's more excited by the prospect of a theatrical version of the story.

Composer and lyricist Jerry Herman is creating and original musical for television to star Angela Lansbury. Titled Mrs. Santa Claus, Herman is teaming with writer Mark Saltzman on the holiday project which is scheduled to air near Christmas of 1995. Herman and Lansbury worked previously on the Broadway productin of Mame.

Nicky Silver, the author of Pterodactyls, has a new play opening called The Food Chain. The work premiered in Washington D.C. earlier this year and looks at a group of characters confronted by such immutable laws of nature as one which says fat people must suffer so that thin people can be happy. Among the characters in the place are a woman who chases the man she lost, a man pursuing another man and

a mother tracking her son. The play will open at an off-Broadway location in New York.

The late singer-writer and Flirtations member Michael Callen's music lives on in Tim Miller's new solo show Naked Breath which operns this month at P.S. 122 in New York. The performance takes Miller on a voyage along New York's East Side streets, across many beds and confronting personal fears while on a search for connection.

Christmas can be a drag for some but even more so when Greater Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears return to Broadway in A Tuna Christmas. The two actors portray all the citizens of a small Texas town, both male and female, bringing hilarity with the holiday spirit.

The film Immortal Beloved opens in December and is described as a mystery whose plot was taken from a letter written by Beethoven (played by Gary Oldman) to his true yet un-named love. The three prospective woman who may hold that title in the film are Valeria Golino, Isabella Rosselini and Johanna Ter Steege (The Vanishing). Bernard Rose wrote and directed the project which was shot in Prague. Barry Humphries (a.k.a. Dame Edna Everidge) co-stars in a straight role playing male-drag for a change.

The movie Bar Girls, featuring Chastity Bono in a small part, is hitting the art house circuit after a September premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The film is described as a seriocomic look at eight lesbians who frequent the same bar. The group are shown through experiences of coutship, attraction, jelousy, separation, and reconciliation. the cast includes Nancy Allison Wolfe, Lisa D'Agostino and

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Hunk alert! Jason Scott Lee (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) plays Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in Disney's new live action version of The Jungle Book. Opening at Christmas, this could make the loin-cloth the fashion trend of 1995. Talk about fashion, fans of haute couture are looking forward to director Robert Altman's Pret-A-Porter opening on Dec. 21. Filmed during the spring collection shows in Paris earlier in the year, the movie features Lauren Bacall, Rupert Everett, Tim Robbins, Tracey Ullman, Kim Basinger, Julia Roberts and husband Lyle Lovett plus cameos by some of the fashion industry's best known super models and designers.

Watch for Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) to play a transvestite in the movie Sons directed by her husband Alexander Rockwell. She also appears in the current release Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle about Dorothy Parker and the members of the Algonquin round table. Co-starring with Beals are Jennifer Jason Leigh (as Dorothy), Matthew Broderick, and Campbell Scott (Longtime Companion).

Frisk, Dennis Cooper's novel set in San Francisco in the 70's and 80's has been filmed by director Todd Verow with a script by writer Jim Dwyer. The plot centers on a gay serial killer whose victims are bar queens and the sexually promiscuous. The cast features Michael Gunther and Craig Swoon (Swoon).

Saturday Night Live alumni and Simpsons vocal resource Harry Shearer has co-written a musical on the life of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The show, called J. Edgar, is expected to make its New York debut next spring and will star Kelsey Grammer (Frasier)

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and John Goodman (Roseanne). If Goodman plays Hoover, the fresses will cost a fortune in yardage alone.

Now appearing in the hit film Stargate, Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game) contributed to some difficulty on the set, and I don't mean petulant tantrums. Davidson was the cause of great anxiety to costume designer Joseph Porro, when it was learned that just before filming began, the actor had both of his nipples pierced and had to keep the rings in for at least two months. Porro had to go back to the drawing board and create a corset-type accessory that would cover the actor's chest while not detracting from finished extravagant cos-

tumes.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The Sum of Us were two of the most nominated films for the 36th Australian Film Institute awards. Priscilla came out with nine nominations including best film and best director while The Sum of Us received six nominations giving nods to John Polson for best supporting actor and Deborah Kennedy for best supporting actress. Priscilla star Guy Pearce made a recent appearance on the Aussieproduced series Snowy River: The Macgregor Saga which airs here in the States on the Family Channel. Such a far cry from lipstick and taffeta to rawhide and horse sweat.

Sir John Gielgud has become the only living actor to have a London theater named in his honor. The 90 year-old British actor attended a ceremony in the West End in which the former Globe Theater was renamed the John Gielgud Theater. An earlier suggested name, the Old Poofter Palace, obviously didn't make the final cut.

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