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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 2004)
▼ International Beauty School Men on a mission The director gets lost, hut the hoys of L a tte r D ays stumble upon heaven by L is a B r a d s h a w Competency Based School No Minimum Hours Required H air Design Nail Technology Facial Technology Barbering Some Classes Begin Weekly Modern Salon Atmosphere State of the Art Equipment Quality Education at a Reasonable Price Stop by anytime for service to sample the quality of our students and get more information on the program • Payment Plans Available Salon Services Tuesday-Saturday HairCutS Wed thru Fri $1.50 Perms starting at $ 2 5 . 0 0 Hair Color starting at $ 2 0 . 0 0 Manicures $ 6 .0 0 Pedicures $ 1 5 .0 0 Artificial Nails $ 1 0 .0 0 Facial $ 1 5 .0 0 Waxing starting at $ 5 . 0 0 Please visit our school for the complete menu of service Mormon boy Aaron (left) and party boy Christian fall in love in Latter D ays, playing April 3 0 to May 6 at Cinema 21 www.ibs-or.com 2215 SE Division Street ~ Portland, Oregon ~ www.ibs-or.com (a stop on the #4 bus line) 503 236-5600 - ALL RENTALS-5 D Arthouse ★ Foreign i t Cult Classics i t Gay & Lesbian Documentaries ★ Asian Cult i f The Latest Chart Busters The tool—hard to find movies! DVD/VHS Rental and Sales grcat N a t io n s ! 2640 NE Alberta - 503.288.4067 7 Days a week 8 AM - I I PM 2310 Lombard 8408 7 Days a week 10 AM - 12 AM NOW OPEN! NW Lo ve joy hen 1 first came to Los Angeles, it looked like just this mass of dots,” narrates the vulnerable hero at the very start of the film Latter Days. “All jumbled and disconnected.” Its a lovely way to begin, and it’s a metaphor that returns to great effect for several characters in this story of a gay Mormon who falls in love during his mission. Regrettably, jumbled and disconnected are also terms that describe most of this film. Writer C. Jay Cox (who also wrote Street Home Alabama, which explains a lot) makes his directorial dehut with Latter Days, an indie that has been making waves and getting a lot of press, particularly when its January premiere in Salt Lake City was canceled because of pressure from the Mormon church (the Mormons having learned quite well from Independence Day that when you infect the mother ship, you infect the whole fleet). It was screened several weeks later, thanks to the Salt Lake Film Society. Now opening April 30 in Portland, the setup for Latter Days is promising and beguil ing. Young and achingly cute Aaron, along with his goofy, shallow (and, of course, homo * ' ‘ *!i phobic) nxnrtmates, moves in to the apartment next to out-and-proud party boy Christian (who wears tiny gym shorts circa 1982 board walk roller skater, which is convenient because even sheltered Mormon boys from Idaho can immediately peg him as gay). Christian, a renowned player among his peers, bets his restaurant co-workers, including roommate Julie (Rebekah Jordan), that he can bed the cute Mormon. But how will he prove it.7 He’ll bring them his underwear!— a plot device that apparently hasn’t gotten old since we saw it 20 years ago in Sixteen Candles. Underwear aside, Aaron (played by Steve Sandvoss in his film debut) and Christian (played by Wes Ramsey, who co-stars in the T V sitcom Luis) steam up the screen— even in simple getting-to-know-you conversations. The sexual tension is manifest, touchable— you get turned on just thinking about what these boys should be doing to each other. Coupled with Aaron’s innocence and quiet explanations about his culture— “we’re not allowed to do a lot of things,” he confesses in a series of simple, humbled tones— and Christian’s realization that there might he more to life than Ouise Coqtrol PD\ The Prenyere Quick Dating Service fo r Lesbians E njoy art afternoon njeetirjg single wonjen o f a ll ages w ith in on “ 8-rninute d a tin g context, fle e t p o te n tia l frie n d s and possibly Ms. ty g h .ll " Sunday, April 25,\ 2 0 0 4 4PM a t Hobo's __________ 120 NW 3rd Are ____________ Advance tygtstmtnq is required. Vstour website and register opfinp. w w w xru is e c o q tro ip d x jc o rn
