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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. Thankfully, the gay
a child pom investigation.
dated Pradas.
paid
to arouse buff Bayw atch babe Scott Gurney
in Legally Blonde
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