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42 jUSt, OUt FtBBUABV W Wil It’s Our Job Making Dreams Come True! NSW GLBT friendly onice & Staff! -y -w- I ■ Put our dedicated GLBT agents and community friendly staff to work for you! A LENDING OPPORTUNITY Rick Raymen Mortgage Consultant • Complimentary Pre-Approval •Quick Turnaround • New Home & Equity Loans • Investment Properties • Debt Consolidation - Refinance • First Time Home Buyers • New 40, 45, 50 Year Terms & More! •All Types of Credit - We Understand Deborah Stopper Mortgage Consultant 800-947-1393 877-834-3863 13232 SE Stark Street Suite 7 - Portland. OR 97233 - (503) 408-0806 BRING THIS AD to our party and use it to enter a raffle to WIN a weeks accomodations in RIO! accommodation steeps 4 • airfare not included • most be present to wini GRAND OPENING PARTY For Your Consideration Lost your faith in the little gold men? Here are my alterna-statuettes. s HollywcxxJ tired of us already? Just one year after the queerest Oscars of all time— Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Trans- america —onetime Best Picture frontrunner Dreamgirls and gay director Bill Condon couldn’t even get nominated. And 1 am telling you: I’m not going to enjoy this year’s ceremony as much. At least the dykes will he happy. Ellen DeGeneres is hosting, and Melissa Etheridge is performing Best Song nominee “1 Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth. But forget about the official awards. In continu ing a six-year tradition, I’d like to bestow some dubious distinctions that you won’t find anywhere near the red carpet. GET SHORT-EYES Although Little Children didn’t contain any queer content, former Portlander Todd Field aimed his piercing lens at familiar subject matter: the hys terical reaction of a paranoid suburb when a sex offender moves into the neighborhood. The big screen version of Tom Perrotta’s novel was, without a doubt, the year’s best film. HEAD OF THE CLASS Two other smart adaptations, The History Boys (based on Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning play) and Notes on a Scandal (based on Zoë Heller’s novel), presented sharply differing observations on the edu cation system, with each story involving a teacher’s inappropriate advances on a student. History took a hopeful tone about one gay man’s lifelong impact on his pupils, while Scandal featured a bitter, psychotic lesbian who considered her job little more than “crowd control." LOST IN TRANSLATION L_ Jim's Closet BY JIM RADOSTA J hunky hoy toy in 1998’s Love Is the Devil and a straight man stalked by a gay maniac in 2OO4’s Enduring Love, the 38-year-old actor portrayed a murderer who kxzked lips with the Infamous Truman Capote. HERE WE GO AGAIN First it was Tinky-Winky. Then it was SpongeBob SquarePants. This year’s animated enemy of the Bible bangers? Penguins. “As in so many other recent films, there’s a sub text that appears to plead for endorsement of gay identity,” sniffed right-wing blogger Michael Medved. “Mumbles (the voice of Elijah WrxxJ) displeases his parents and the leaders of his community because he’s him different, and makes an impassioned plea that he can’t possibly change—and they should accept him as he is.... Consider yourself warned: Happy Feet deserves designation as Crappy Feet.” Touché, good sir! MINORITY WITHIN A MINORITY Several films shined the spotlight on queers who break the mold: heroic rugby players (United 93), Mexican thugs (Quinceanera), cross-dressing Filipino boys (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros) and even self-fellating swingers (Shortbus). It’s about time! Sadly, what could’ve been the year’s biggest lit-to- flick transfer ended up being the year’s biggest dis appointment. Running with Scissors took Augusten Burroughs’ too-good-to-be-true life story—about ! FULL-FRONTAL ASSAULT a gay teen whose nutty mom sends him off to live Shortbus may have had 2006’s most memorable with her unorthodox shrink—and turned it into display of male genitalia, but this year we also got a too-annoying-to-be-watchable bomb. a glimpse at the goods of Gael García Bernal (The Science of Sleep), Stephen Dorff (Shadowboxer) and THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland) along Are they just pals, or friends with benefits? with, unfortunately, the balls of Ken Davitian That’s what audiences were wondering when homo (Borat). erotic subtext revealed itself in the chummy rela tionships among two spinsters in Miss Potter, two TITLES WITH GREATEST camping buddies in Old Joy and two bored Mexican GAY PORN POTENTIAL teenagers in Duck Season. Fags of Our Fathers, Thank You for Smoking Pole, Bi-Curious George, A Guide to Recognising Your BETTER OFF DEAD Taint, Factscrotum, The Pursuit of a Penis Blue was the new black in '06, with morbid queens gracing screens throughout the year. Richard TITLES THAT ALREADY Dreyfuss played a suicidal gay man in the overbudget SOUND DIRTY Poseidon, while Steve Carell did the same in the All the King’s Men, The Queen, Stick It, Kinky overrated Little Miss Sunshine. Meanwhile, the latest Boots, Fur, TristTam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Inside Man © film from reliable French auteur François Ozon focused on a misanthropic dying protagonist who knew it was his Time to Leave. The 79th annual A cademy A wards air 5 p.m. Feb. 25 on ABC. See Page 17 for details on an YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE Oscar Night America benefit for the historic Daniel Craig resurrected the James Bond fran Hollywood Theatre. chise with his thrilling debut as the most fuckable 007 ever in Casino Royale. He continued to w<x> queer Arts and Culture Editor JlM RADOSTA needs your audiences, too. After starring as Francis Bacon’s feedback. Write to jim@justout.com.
