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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

January 10, 2003

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Chester

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Araki these days? Why is Todd Haynes the only putative survivor of that brief cultural explosion?

Chester offers speculation on the demise of the genre, and the popularity of more genial fare like Will and Grace: “People are fine with gay characters as long as they're making them laugh, doing their hair or decorating their homes.”

As the number of film and TV offers ebb, Chester has turned his energies to writing. Although a screenplay on gay conversion failed to find a studio, he is now shopping around Adam and Steve, a modern take on the '30s screwball comedy. Readings have taken place in Manhattan and Los Angeles, featuring a knock-out cast including Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Margot Kidder, Lea DeLaria and Edward Hibbert, who does double-duty as Chester's literary agent. At a recent Manhattan reading for investors, the audience, admittedly stacked with friends, roared through almost two hours of endearing improbabilities including a "meeting cute" scene involving drug-induced diarrhea.

Chester wrote the screenplay not only to give himself a plum role, but to offer the world a depiction of "gay couples out there who are nesting, not collapsing at circuit parties," he said.

Chester's work on Adam and Steve will be briefly waylaid by publicity for Why the Long Face? In late January, he'll sign copies at the Sundance Film festival, a homecoming of sorts since six of his films have been screened there.

Chester is already envisioning his next

Craig Chester

project: a script involving one weekend shared by actor Montgomery Clift, singer Libby Holman and writer Jane Bowles at Holman's Connecticut getaway, Treetops. All three were known for fluid sexualities and troubled genius. But Monty holds the most fascination for Chester, since their destinies are at odds: The beautiful Clift lost his looks in an automobile crash; thanks to surgery, Chester made the transition from disfigurement to beauty.

"The fact that I had a deformed face is relevant in a way to my acting," he admitted. To this day, Chester cannot bear to watch his own screen performances.

Jay Blotcher is a freelance writer living in High Falls, N.Y.

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