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The Celluloid Closet

The movie, narrated by Lily Tomlin, contains interviews with a lot of witnesses from the days when gays were in the Hollywood closet. The chat with Gore Vidal has already become famous. He recalls how he was hired by director William Wyler to do rewrites on ``Ben-Hur.'' One of the film's problems was that there was no plausible explanation for the hatred between the characters played by Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd.

Vidal's suggestion: They were lovers when they were teenagers, but now Ben-Hur (Heston) denies that time, and Boyd is resentful. Wyler agreed that would provide the motivation for a key scene, but decided to tell only Boyd, not Heston, who ``wouldn't be able to handle it.''The film shows the scene, which plays with an amusing subtext.

Sometimes directors deleted scenes with gay themes because of studio or censorship pressure. Tony Curtis is droll as he recalls a scene with Laurence Olivier in Stanley Kubrick's ``Spartacus,'' where the two men flirted in a hot bath. (The scene was restored when the movie was re-released in 1991.)

Is it because we know stars were gay that their scenes play differently this time around? There's a scene from ``Pillow Talk'' in which Rock Hudson plays a straight man pretending to be gay in order to avoid an entanglement with Doris Day. Does Hudson seem privately amused by the twist? It looks that way (and Mark Rappaport's ``Rock Hudson's Home Movies'' finds scenes all through Hudson's career where he seems aware of additional levels of possibilities). The Celluloid Closet :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews

Mister NRA never sued Vidal for slander. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

 

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hey, you ever watch gladiator movies?

 

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nice....they got me.... I didn't agree to a copyright.


hey, you ever watch gladiator movies?

Gladiator Movies and Hollywood Westerns. yep.

The Celluloid Closet is one funny movie.