Gay perestroika: a movement succeeds when so much has changed that there's no going back.(Last Word)(Brief Article)(Column)

From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: December 23, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

IN & OUT, THE MOST RECENT OF THE RECENT CROP OF HOMO-friendly box-office hits (and the best by far), marks a paradigm shift. Written by "Paul Rudnick"--which everybody knows is Libby Gelman-Waxner's nom de stage and cinema--the film is a modest, graceful, self-effacing comedy, replete with the divine, divine, divine Joan Cusack and Tom Selleck (who's never done anything for me before but here smooches with Kevin Kline and makes my eyeteeth throb with desire). I enjoyed the movie a lot, but unlike the unimpeachable Libby I am no critic. I want instead to discuss the film's historic ...

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