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Cleveland film festival

sets attendance record

by Tamara Murphy

It's nearly three weeks since the 20th Cleveland International Film Festival ended, and I've just about made a full recovery. My pupils have returned to their normal size, and my head no longer aches when I turn on a light. Even the three pounds I gained from all that buttered popcorn was worth it.

The festival, which closed on March 31. broke a record with over 25,000 attending. That's 10 percent more than in 1995, and an 81 percent increase since the Festival's move from the Cedar Lee Theater in Cleveland Heights to Hoyts Tower City downtown in 1991. Twenty-six of the films were sold out. Three of the films featured in the lesbian-

Pay Ten Percent Cinema series. Stonewat Late Bloomers, and Cesta Brava, were ame the top ten contenders for the Roxanne ! Mueller Award for Best Feature Film the "people's choice" award was taken by the documentary Fiddlefest, an Academy Award nominee by Allan Miller

Among the film makers present at the Festival were Late Bloomers director Julia Dyer and writer Gretchen Dyer. The sisters shared with audience members their collaborative approach to the film making process. as well as some of the inspiration behind the film.

Watch for these and other Festival films in national release over the coming year.

College life is a drag for

1,500 well-dressed students

by Jacquelyn Fischer

and Ruby McEntire

One of the largest events of its kind, the Annual Oberlin College Drag Ball took place on Saturday, April 6. And these two divas made the trek to witness and be a part of this virtual plethora of cosmetic wizardry.

Presented by the Oberlin College LesBiGay Alumni, the ball took place once again in Wilder Hall on Oberlin's campus. As promised and proven every year since the first, the event was fun and exciting--a kickup-your-heels good time plus a bag of chips! Complete with runway competition, two dance floors, free draft beer, a special guest star drag show, and over 1,500 cross-dressing students on three floors of Wilder Hall, this was truly the most fun these two queens have had all year-well, since last year's drag ball.

The special guest stars for the evening were the hostess Ruby McEntire, the incomparable Jackie Fischer, the fun-loving Priscilla Powers, and Ms. Mona-Lotte, who

made yet another appearance this year. While the show may never ascend to the ranks of ar MIM production, it was a a great success with better than half the Ball attendees in the audience. As we took our final bow, we really had to thank the students, the staff the 1GB Alumni, and of course, all those who gave up their fun time to volunteer at the door, the bar, and all the security and campus police who kept us in line for the night they think! And we really must not forget the man who made the music, DJ Bopp. All these people really do deserve a big round of ap plause.

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The hard studying, hard working Oberlin students took then hair down and put it on and partied hard for a good cause, the Iesbian Gay and Bisexual Student Union. We believe the annual Oberlin College Drag Ball will be around for many years to come, as will the hole in the ozone from all the hair spray used that night! See you all again next year! Long live the queens!

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