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Queer Film Blogathon&#;&#;Cabaret&#;
My good friend Caroline over at GARBO LAUGHS had the brilliant idea of putting together a blogathon, in which various film blogs are invited to participate in celebrating LGBT presence in films. As a longtime proponent of all things both film and gay, I have decided to have Backlots participate in this blogathon, and the film I have chosen to profile is that always classic, always relevant winner of &#;s Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor Oscars (along with 5 more for cinematography, editing, art direction, tune, and sound)&#;the immortal &#;Cabaret.&#;
If I could talk about &#;Cabaret&#; every week, I would. It is one of my favorite musicals (though as I will argue later, I call into interrogate its status as a legitimate musical), and it&#;s really no wonder why. Not only is it a brilliantly constructed production on every level&#;scenery, costumes, sound, visual effects, acting, singing, dancing, the list goes on and on&#;but it has the added bonus of having Liza Minnelli (gay icon, reason #1 for my choosing this movie),
Atthetime of its let go, “Cabaret” shattered the saccharine reputation of the movie musical with its edgy take on anti-Semitism, Nazism, abortion and even repressed homosexuality.
But as daring as the material was, actor Michael York says he wasn’t concerned about tackling the role of Brian Roberts, a reserved English academic with a secret fondness for men.
At a press event before a star-studded reunion screening at Unused York’s Ziegfeld Theater (where “Cabaret” had its original premiere), York recalled, “People did say to me afterward, 'Didn’t you think twice about what [playing a bisexual man] would do to your career?'”
Pointing to the fact that both the stage and film versions of “Cabaret” used gay author Christopher Isherwood’s book Goodbye To Berlin as their original origin material, York added, “The whole reason, of course, that Isherwood was in Berlin was for the sex, which was pretty obtainable … our occupation [as actors] is interpret life in every aspect, so no, it didn’t occur to me, frankly.”
To commemorate the 41st anniversary of “Cabaret,” a lovingly restor
By Scott Ross
Note: I realized recently that I am closing in on my th post since beginning this blog in December of , and while I have long intended to write something substantial about my five favorite movies, I have as yet done this for only two of them (Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws), and time is ticking. Or blog entries are. If blog entries tick. Anyway&#;
I recall seeing the newspaper ads for the film of Cabaret when it was released in but, still accustomed to Disney movies and their favor, or oddball items favor What&#;s Up, Doc? and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the latter of which was aimed largely at children, I was not yet acclimated to the strong swallow of more adult fare. Somehow this PG-rated show got stuck in my head as an &#;R,&#; and the idea of an R-rated musical unnerved me a little. Flash-forward a year, and after having my appetite for musical plays whetted by being in one, my periodic trips with my mother to the Olivia Rainey Library in Raleigh became consumed with perusing their original cast and soundtrack LP
Michael Y. Gay
Michael York Gay, 74, of Torrington, CT, died Monday, July 11, , at Litchfield Woods.
Mike was born March 12, , in Torrington, CT, son of the late Michael and Mary (York) Gay. He was a member of the Litchfield Steep School Class of In his early years, he was employed by Colonial Shell of Litchfield and his good confidant Ronald Fillippini. He later was a Litchfield Judicial Court Marshall with the Superior Court. He retired from the State of Connecticut, Department of Transportation after 23 years in As a young guy he was a member of the Masonic Lodge and also was a member of the Torrington Elk’s Lodge.
Mike is survived by one brother, Peter J. Lgbtq+ (Donna) of Litchfield, CT; two sisters, Cindy Schwartz and Karen DeLisle (J. Edward) both of Torrington; a sister-in-law, Ann Marie Gay, a Godson Edward M. DeLisle (Kelli) of Torrington, as well as several nieces and nephews, and his canine companion, a German Shepherd named Faith. He was preceded in death by his brother, Bruce Gay, a niece Jessica Schwartz and his German Shepherd Buddy.
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