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pu Is m decant» 2 1.2001 nn mm 1 W 1 ..........▼ .......... GENITAL SNORTS Hedwig and the Angry Inch wins the award for Funniest Line of the Year. Actor/writer/director John Cameron Mitchell gets clinical while singing about the title char acter’s failed sex-change operation: “When 1 woke up.. .1 was bleeding from the gash between my legs. It’s my first day as a woman, already it’s that time of the month." NO-NONSENSE NONFICTION 2001 was a great year for documentaries. We learned all about anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum in Keep the River on Your Right, gay Jews in Trembling Before G-d and rural transsexuals in Southern Comfort. Hooray for Hollyweird Forget the Oscars—here, we present the 2001 Dubious Distinctions in Gay Cinema by J im content ended up on the cutting-room floor. FRENCH K ISSIN G Gay Paree lived up to its name by producing most of the year’s best queer cinema: The Adven tures of Felix, The Closet and Come Undone. R adosta AND YOU TN0UGNT RICHARD NATCH NAD IT RAD In Series 7, a reality televi sion satire, contestant Jeff (Glenn Fitzgerald) not only is struggling with his “ex-gay” sta tus, he has to decide whether to kill his former girlfriend in the pursuit of fame and fortune. DON’T MAKE ME ANGRY. YOU WOULDN’T LIKE ME WHEN I ’M ANGRY. Paul Walker learned not to upset homophobic truckers Who knew a popcorn thriller SK IN FLICK could serve as a cautionary tale about hate PITCHING A TENT Hannibal — without a Up-and-coming television actors Michael Ian crimes? In Joy Ride, a trucker flies off the doubt the worst film ever handle after two CB pranksters fool him Black (Ed) and Bradley Cooper (Alias) put the John Cameron Mitchell (left) described his “ Barbie doll crotch’ in made— taught us about the into hooking up with a sexy woman for a “wet” and “hot” into Wet Hot American Summer, a Hedtvig and the Angry Inch mating rituals of serial killers. motel room rendezvous. When a man broad spoof of early ’80s sex comedies. The guys In a grotesque flashback, Dr. Lecter (Anthony RI-CU RI0SITY KILLED TNE CAT answers the door instead, the killing spree shock their fellow counselors by coming out of Hopkins) dates Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), In Jay and Silent Bob Stnke Back, begins. the closet on their last day at camp. slips him some drugs, then suggests he start actor/writer/director Kevin Smith nearly goes mutilating his face. “It sounded like a good idea down on Jason Mewes in order to gain access to CONCENTRATION CAMPY TITLES WITH GREATEST at the time,” the disfigured freak laments. Miramax Studios. In American Pie 2, a couple of First we learn Adolf GAY PORN POTENTIAL women convince some homy guys to kiss each Riding in Boys with Cars, Harry Palmer and the Hitler might have been GET SNORT-EYES other in exchange for a demonstration of les gay, and now this. In Sorcerer's Bone, Ocean's Eleven Inches. This certainly wasn’t a good year to be bian love. Actor Seann William Scott (Dude, Zoolander, Mugatu seeks messing around with little boys. In L ./.E ., a Where’s My Car.7) seems to be making a habit of fashion industry domina — pedophile (Brian Cox) becomes a fractured making out with his male co-stars. Hmm.... tion by brainwashing a dumb male model into GOOD JILL HUNTING assassinating Malaysia’s Lili Taylor gave another award-worthy per president, who is cracking down on sweatshops. Will Ferrell formance as Julie Johnson, a married woman who develops a crush on her best friend Although the villain never played a flaming (Courtney Love) as she discovers her growing officially confirms his sexu- fashionista passion for mathematics. Unfortunately, ality, actor Will Ferrell’s fruity in Zoolander nobody saw the fall release, perhaps because of portrayal leaves little to the detrimental timing: The character’s prick of a imagination. husband (Noah Emmerich) also happens to be a New York City MORE POSITIVE firefighter. REPRESENTATIONS OF OUR COMMUNITY IF TNE SHOE FITS... This year, gay and lesbian celluloid careers ran the gamut Audiences were raui tveuDens aian t mow, out tne movie sure aia from hooker (From Hell ) to howling during Legally father figure to a juvenile delinquent but winds street thug (Our Lady of the Blonde when shrewd up dead. In The Deep End, sleazeball Darby Assassins), from junkie pom star law student Elle Reese (Josh Lucas) pursues a gay teen but gets (The Fluffer) to male hustler Woods (Reese Wither what’s coming to him. Meanwhile, Paul spoon) deduced a wit (Ufe as a House). The Score —at Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman) enjoyed a ness was lying about a least according to numerous short-lived comeback after portraying a bisexu heterosexual affair reports—featured a “homosexu al hairdresser in Blow but now is the subject of al crook” played by Marlon after he dissed her The Fluffer was put in an enviable position: getting Reese Witherspoon cracked the case Brando. 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