TWO documentaries, Southern Comfort and Scout's Honour won the Freedom of Expression Award at the annual film festival celebrating independent American films.
Tomlin is ditzy in Orange County
Queer news from Tinseltown includes Mike White (the son of gay activist Rev. Mel White) writing
the screenplay for Orange, Dawson's Creek favorite son James Van Der Beek screwing
another young man hard from behind, Judy Garland's daughter picks another campy icon to immortalise on celluloid: gender-bending pioneer Candy Darling and TV series based on the queer-themed Kiss Me, Guido changes it's name to Me and Frankie Z
Truth and dare
Two women have made a prize-winning documentary about South Africa's truth commission. They spoke to Andrew Worsdale
Gibson shaves his legs
Get all the latest queer-related news from Tinseltown plus other titbits on your favourite stars like Mel Gibson in drag, Ertha Kitt in a TV series, big advertisers in the US runs scared of Queer As Folk - the good, the bad, the ugly.
Homo box office
HBO, the US cable television company, gives the go-ahead for a film based on the brutal slaying of Matthew Shepard, cross-dressing-themed film earmarked for low-budget film, CBS is developing Say
Uncle in which a gay yuppie inherits his teenage nephew and niece, Sharon Gless has joined the cast of US version of Queer as Folk and Luke Perry to appear in Oz. See what's up in Tinseltown
Depth charge
The wartime submarine drama U-571 has been accused, as was The Patriot, of distorting history. But its sins are nowhere near as pervasive or comprehensive as those of the Mel Gibson propaganda piece, writes Shaun de Waal in our Movie of the Week.
Winsome cowboys
Two men in stetsons on a dusty road ... but it's not your average western. Adrian Searle is seduced by Isaac Julien's The Long Road to Mazatlan This is not a cowboy movie. This is not a road movie that takes its cues more from Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys.
Spanish "piel"
Segundo Piel (Second Skin) is the new Spanish film that explores the intricacies of an old and familiar theme: the married (gay) man who falls in love with another man and then has to deal with the wife.
The out gay man VS the closet case
Deep Inside Hollywood
Clifton Collins plays the sexy gay assassin in a new big-screen thriller called Traffic
See the sexy assassin
Girl's best friend
First he was Julia Roberts' best friend in My Best Friend's Wedding, now Hollywood is trying to repeat that success this time with Madonna in The Next Best Thing Marina Cantacuzino chatted to him in London
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Work, jest and play
In The Perfect Storm, about to hit our screens, George Clooney, the self- deprecating, former ER doc is on the brink of the becoming the leading man of the new decade, says Mark Morris
Glad to be a gladiator
I had the best time at a gay porn movie the other day, or at least what I took to be a gay porn movie. Before people start writing in, ranting about impressionable young minds, maybe I should explain that I'm referring to Gladiator, the new Roman blockbuster, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe as Maximus. Barbara Ellen writes
Hail Spartacus
Pearson TV plans a new series about the gladiator-turned-rebel, Spartacus, Steve Martin the new American Gigolo (now 50) prized for his social rather than sexual services, Dorian Gray goes to Hollywood, and Paramount TV adapts Kiss Me, Guido for TV
US cable TV features more bisexuality
In The Perfect Storm, about to hit our screens, George Clooney, the self- deprecating, former ER doc is on the brink of the becoming the leading man of the new decade, says Mark Morris
Full Monty for Broadway
Hollywood's latest bit of genius camp casting puts Baywatch hunk Hasselhoff opposite Mike Myers in Dieter, The Full Monty becomes a Broadway musical and CBS orders six episodes of the gay-themed sitcom Kiss Me, Guido
Bette may get her own sitcom
Gay diva deluxue Bette Midler stands a good chance of getting her own comedy series on CBS simply called Bette while Tim Conway and out lesbian actress Ellen DeGeneres will star in a comedy series by the same TV company.
