The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) articles from September 2002

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) archives from September 2002

Broken spirit. (reader forum).
September 3, 2002... Your article "The Dangerous Lives of Gay Priests" [July 23] is a sad statement on the inability of the Catholic Church to deal with human sexuality in a healthy way. Being a gay man and a priest, I have struggled not only with the issue of...

Reader comments from www.advocate.com. (The Advocate Poll).
September 3, 2002... * "I think it's a great idea, especially if someone had no family to turn to. That way they could be in a supportive environment." * "I might choose a gay/lesbian retirement village, but in another, warmer climate, such as California or...

Guilty parties. (reader forum).
September 3, 2002... People can't honestly believe that if it weren't for Father Paul Shanley's raping of young men and children, he would have been a pioneer for gay rights ["The Shame of Father Shanley," July 23]! His advocacy was a cover-up for crime. Had he...

The marrying kind. (reader forum).
September 3, 2002... Massachusetts candidate for governor Robert Reich should be applauded for his support of full marriage rights for same-sex couples [At Issue, July 23]. However, your statement "It's the furthest a gubernatorial candidate has ever gone in...

Shallow understanding. (my perspective).
September 3, 2002... In 1993 I was in my second year of working my way through college as a deputy sheriff in Cobb County, Ga. That summer the Cobb County board of commissioners passed its infamous antigay resolution condemning the "gay lifestyle" as being...

Rants & raves.
September 3, 2002... "I change my mind so much, I need two boyfriends and a girl. I need an East Coast guy, a West Coast guy, and a girl." --Pop star Pink "after beer 4," as quoted in the June-July issue of Blender magazine [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "[My...

An instant family: a Kentucky gay couple sets out to raise quadruplets, knowing the state recognizes only one of them as the father. (Parenting).
September 3, 2002... Since their three sons and daughter were born in Lexington, Ky., on July 26, partners Thomas Dysarz, 31, and Michael Meehan, 36, have been making daily trips to the hospital to hold the newborns to their chests while feeding them. "It lets the...

Holding back the homophobes. (Marriage).
September 3, 2002... It took a joint session of the Massachusetts legislature, but on July 17 lawmakers killed a proposed antigay ballot initiative. The initiative's aim would have been to amend the state constitution in order to ban recognition of same-sex...

Sodomy takes the stand. (Court).
September 3, 2002... Just 11 days after the Arkansas supreme court overturned that state's same-sex sodomy law, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund on July 16 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the "homosexual conduct" law in Texas. The law prohibits sex...

Untying the knot. (Civil Unions).
September 3, 2002... Glen Rosengarten and Peter Downes had their relationship legally recognized in Vermont on New Year's Eve, 2000. Now the men can't break up--at least not in the eyes of the law. Vermont allows any same-sex couple, regardless of their state of...

Rosie fights for Rosie. (People).
September 3, 2002... Known for her battles for gun control and gay adoption, Rosie O'Donnell may be picking a new fight--for more influence at her magazine, Rosie. O'Donnell, who shares ownership of the magazine with publisher Gruner & Jahr USA but does not have...

End of the road? (Aids Rides).
September 3, 2002... Beneficiaries called it quits for yet another AIDS Ride on July 26. This time it was the Heartland AIDS Ride, which for seven years has raised millions of dollars for charities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Representatives at the...

Closure at Gallaudet. (Murder).
September 3, 2002... Joseph Mesa Jr. will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing two of his former classmates at Gallaudet University--a Washington, D.C., school for the deaf and hard-of-hearing--in September 2000. One of Mesa's victims, 19-year-old Eric...

The battle over "I do". (Marriage).
September 3, 2002... Although the superior court in Ontario, Canada, ruled on July 12 that the province must recognize gay marriage, the Canadian government isn't quite ready to let gay people go down the aisle. The feds said July 29 that they would appeal the...

Out in parliament. (United Kingdom).
September 3, 2002... Alan Duncan has become the first Conservative member of the British parliament to come out of the closet. Duncan, who is foreign affairs spokesman for Britain's main opposition party, told The [London] Times newspaper on July 29 that...

"Just one of the girls": how a 61-year-old transgendered woman got elected student body president of her Pennsylvania community college. (Behind the Headlines).
September 3, 2002... By the time Alberta Hamm had enrolled in Pennsylvania's Harrisburg Area Community College two years ago, she had been through several lifetimes: as a husband and father, an elder in her Protestant church, a salesman at a Montgomery Ward...

Domestic partners' ally in Congress. (Washington).
September 3, 2002... U.S. senator Mark Dayton, a Minnesota Democrat, presented a practical argument for domestic-partner benefits when on June 27 he introduced legislation that would extend health, retirement, and life insurance benefits to same-sex partners of...

Paying to look perfect. (Health).
September 3, 2002... Gay men have always had a reputation for being preoccupied with improving their looks, but data from a July survey released by marketing and research firms Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive suggest that more of them are taking...

Big Brothers on your side. (Far Right).
September 3, 2002... When word got out that Big Brothers Big Sisters of America was officially welcoming gay men and lesbians as youth mentors, conservative activists hit the roof. Since 1977 the organization has prohibited discrimination based on sexual...

Transitions. (The Advocate Report).
September 3, 2002... DIED: Robert Giard, 62, gay photographer known for taking portraits of famous gay and lesbian writers, of a heart attack, July 16, Giard lived in Amagansett, N.Y., but was traveling by bus from Minneapolis to a portrait session in Chicago when...

Out of site: "objectionable" content gets some gay groups booted offline. (On the Web).
September 3, 2002... Guerrilla Queer Bar is the latest online gay group to tussle with its Internet service provider after Yahoo! temporarily disabled the site in June for containing "objectionable" content. GuerrillaQueerBar.com, which serves as a message...

The first Gay Games: August 5, 1982. (From the Advocate Archives).
September 3, 2002... Gay Games VI hopes to have a record number of participants in Sydney this fall, but not long before the first Gay Games--called the Gay Olympic Games by organizers--in 1982, it wasn't clear if the event would even take place. For one...

Idol gossip. (The Buzz).
September 3, 2002... IS IT POSSIBLE FOR AN AMERICAN IDOL to be gay? When it comes to Fox's red-hot talent search series American Idol, it seems that issue is open to debate. One day after The Buzz became aware that 19-year-old contestant Jim Verraros was keeping an...

Murder most gay. (The Buzz).
September 3, 2002... IT WAS A REAL-LIFE GAY-ON-GAY crime of passion: In a San Diego gay bar, Thomas Mayta fired a gun at Peter Blasik, missing him and killing bystander Gregory Hisel. On September 8, Mayta's murder trial will hit prime time on NBC's Crime &...

Lights, camera, bridesmaids! (The Buzz).
September 3, 2002... AS FAR AS REALITY TV goes, cockroach eating and skydiving pale in comparison to the wedding-day jitters that plague the subjects of Bravo's deliciously gripping reality miniseries, Gay Weddings. Over the course of eight episodes (airing...

Miami-Dade ja vu: a quarter century after Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign, Miami-Dade voters are again squaring off over gay rights. (Politics).
September 3, 2002... The year was 1977, the place South Florida's Dade County. The world's attention was focused on gay rights, with singer and orange juice pitch-woman Anita Bryant leading a bizarre "Save Our Children" crusade to overturn a law protecting gay men...

White House AIDS shake-up: as one openly gay AIDS czar is replaced with another, activists are left to ask: What is Bush's AIDS strategy? (Health).
September 3, 2002... When President Bush tapped Scott Evertz to lead his the Office of National AIDS Policy just over one year ago, the political fallout was immediate. Right-wing groups scolded the White House for elevating an openly gay Republican to the...

The rite of refusal: among the Israelis who refuse to serve in Palestinian territories are gay soldiers who say they're taking a stand against oppression. (World).
September 3, 2002... During the 3 1/2 years he served in the Israel Defense Forces, beginning at age 18, Eshel Herzog was assigned to a tank artillery gun, serving in both southern Lebanon and in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Now 23 and no longer on...

Going Dutch: several U.S. colleges offer gay studies, but only one sends its students to Amsterdam for the course work. (Education).
September 3, 2002... As millions of students head back to colleges across the country this month, officials at some of their schools will be debating the merits of adding gay studies programs to their curriculums. Administrators at the University of North Carolina,...

They want u: a college fair in Boston helps connect gay and lesbian students with schools who want them on campus. (Education).
September 3, 2002... Applying for college is stressful enough without having to worry about whether you can be comfortable being out on campus. And addressing sexual orientation is seldom a part of a university recruiter's "come to our school" pitch. But that's...

Out to win: ten U.S. athletes heading to Gay Games IV in Sydney talk about why they compete. (Gay Games VI Sydney, Australia)(Cover Story).
September 3, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Ben Carrillo SPORT: Water polo; his first Gay Games STATS: 25; animator and bartender; single; native of Los Angeles ON THE GAMES: "It's great to be able to share being gay and also having the...

Life in Oz: how do gay rights in Australia measure up to those in the States? Right well, thanks, mate. (Gay Games VI Sydney, Australia).
September 3, 2002... Sydney is about to join the shortlist of aggressively gay-friendly cities that have hosted the Gay Games in its 20-year history. There's little question that the city, which throws the world-famous Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras every February,...

What is the Gay Games? A primer on the event's history and a peek at what's in store in Sydney. (Gay Games VI Sydney, Australia).
September 3, 2002... Where did the games come from? The Gay Games, founded by the late Olympic decathlete Tom Waddell, launched in San Francisco in 1982 and has taken place every four years since. According to the Federation of Gay Games, the purpose is "to...

Money games: the Sydney event follows two Gay Games that were financial disasters. In a post-9/11 world, Australian organizers' is just to break even. (Gay Games VI Sydney, Australia).
September 3, 2002... Producing a financially solvent Gay Games has long proved a monumental--if not impossible--task. The 1998 games in Amsterdam was a budgetary disaster, rescued from collapse after the opening ceremonies by a $2.5 million bailout from the city...

Breaking the taboo. (final cut).
September 3, 2002... So there I was in London, thumbing through the June issue of Gay Times, the closest thing the United Kingdom has to The Advocate, when I'm startled on page 29 by Luke Evans. Three-dimensionally handsome, the 23-year-old actor costars in Boy...

Capturing China's gay heart: Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan talks about Lan Yu, his lyrical gay love story set and filmed in supposedly repressive China. (film).
September 3, 2002... "The reason that I announced my sexuality was that I felt that as a creator at that, stage, it would be better for me if I became honest with the public rather than trying to hide. When you're young you might as well have a good time and not,...

Possesion recession: the lesbian subplot in this lush literary romance feels all too familiar, even if it's new territory for director Neil LaBute.
September 3, 2002... Possession * Written by Neil LaBute, David Henry Hwang, and Laura Jones * Directed by Neil LaBute * Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, and Jennifer Ehle * USA Films If you saw Possession minus its credit sequence, the...

Spy camp: the outrageously silly Modesty Blaise finally makes it to home video.
September 3, 2002... Modesty Blaise * Directed by Joseph Losey * Starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde * 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment With the Austin Powers series making '60s-era spy spoofs chic again, it was only a matter of time...

The tough cookie we love: now on Broadway, The Sopranos' Edie Falco takes the Fifth about her gay best friend and her lesbian fans. (theater).
September 3, 2002... To hear Edie Falco tell it, her rapid Sopranos-fueled rise to fame has been just a bit dizzying. When Meryl Streep casually complimented her work in a face-to-face encounter, Falco recalls, "I almost passed out. I was knock-kneed. I didn't...

The big queer '80s: a new boxed set brings back memories of gender-bending pop stars and postdisco fabulousness.
September 3, 2002... Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) * Various artists * Rhino Records For a moment, the transition of the '70s into the '80s sounded the death knell of gay sensibilities in mainstream popular music. The 1979 declaration of...

Forever Amber: her gay fans may dig her beats, says dance music queen Amber, but they also identify with her struggles. (arts & entertainment).
September 3, 2002... Amber loves to be surrounded by her "boys," standing center stage in a crowded gay club. Sometimes, there is no more safer or emotionally supportive a place in the world to be," she says. "It's like having a blanket of love wrapped around you."...

A little help from his friends: three decades after forming the Mumps with Lance Loud, Kristian Hoffman releases a CD of duets with the likes of Rufus Wainwright and Paul Reubens. (music).
September 3, 2002... It's 9 o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles the day after the release party for Kristian Hoffman's latest CD, a series of duets titled &, and the musician is just beginning to allow himself to revel in the previous night's success. "I was in...

P-town's ups and dunes: is Provincetown a peaceful gay haven or a once-charmed village looted by gay tourists? As two new books suggest, it all depends on whom you ask.
September 3, 2002... Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape * Peter Manso * Scribner * $25 Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown * Michael Cunningham * Crown Journeys * $16 Twelve years ago I took a boat from Boston on my first trip to Provincetown....

Come out, father. (last word).
September 3, 2002... Gay men are nasty, filthy child molesters, right? Well, actually, way, way wrong. But that's the conclusion a lot of people are drawing from the ongoing scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. And sadly, among those contributing to the revival of...

Leading man. (reader forum).
September 17, 2002... I'm sure there will be readers who will say that Robert Gant's coming-out interview was no big deal, that it didn't require courage, and that it doesn't change anything ["Robert Gant Works It Out," August 20]. Hogwash! It's a very big...

Word games. (reader forum).
September 17, 2002... The word ephebophilia is not "newly invented," as Richard Goldstein claims ["The Double Standard," August 20], because nearly a century ago Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld defined it as homosexuals "who are attracted to youths from puberty to the early...

Bear market. (reader forum).
September 17, 2002... Thank you for your article "Daring to Be Bears" [August 20]. I'm 6 foot 2, 195 pounds, smooth by genetics, pretty attractive--and a big fan of bears! Give me a hairy-chested, bearded "real" man over some gym-rat shaved twink any day of the...

Reign of Tara. (reader forum).
September 17, 2002... I was disappointed with Andy Mangels's article "Lesbian Sex = Death?" [August 20]. He got many quotes from the creators of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but failed to adequately express the viewpoints of many of the fans who were dismayed by the...

Reader comments from www.advocate.com. (The Advocate Poll).
September 17, 2002... * "The question should be, Have I ever met a straight Catholic priest?" * "While in the Air Force serving in Okinawa, I met someone I thought was my perfect partner. A month later he broke the news to me that he was a priest. I was...

Myth quote. (reader forum).
September 17, 2002... I enjoyed Norah Vincent's column [Last Word, August 20], but there was a minor error. She quotes Plato as theorizing about the two sexes looking for their other half, when in truth Plato was talking about a banquet that the Athenian poet...

Bush's baby steps. (my perspective).
September 17, 2002... When I was 12, I passed a young mother on the street who was pushing a stroller with her 2-year-old daughter inside. The child was Vietnamese, the mother Caucasian, and together they looked so joyful that I decided then and there that that was...

Rants & raves.
September 17, 2002... "The new gay icon? Whatever makes people happy, mate. I don't care." --Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel, on his gay male admirers, as quoted by George Wayne in the September issue of Vanity Fair "Every female has been called gay at one...

September 11 one year later: gays and straights come together to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks. (At Issue).
September 17, 2002... When thousands of Americans lost their lives in the terrorist attacks last year, it didn't matter if they were straight or gay. And in many ways it still doesn't. In memorial services marking the one-year anniversary of the September 11...

Corporate support--even to the altar. (People).
September 17, 2002... Not long before August 13, when the gay group Human Rights Campaign released its ratings of major U.S. companies on their gay-friendliness, the CEO of one of the top companies--FleetBoston--was showing just how close to home his company's...

Safer schools out West. (Education).
September 17, 2002... That thunderous roar in central California on August 13 wasn't an earthquake--it was the reaction of happy activists to the Visalia school district's agreeing to one of the nation's strongest programs to fight antigay harassment. The deal...

In the name the father. (Parenting).
September 17, 2002... An increasing number of courtrooms across the country are tackling the issue of gay parenting. Now the Idaho supreme court can be added to that list. The state's top court announced in early August that it will review an eastern Idaho...

Voices of Providence. (Politics).
September 17, 2002... The August 12 announcement from a Providence, R.I., gay group that it is endorsing a straight candidate for mayor over an openly gay candidate has prompted some in the city to ask, "Just where did this group come from?" State...

The doctor is out. (People).
September 17, 2002... It's hard enough for most people to understand why Boston physician David Arndt left the hospital in the middle of a surgery he was performing in order to cash a check. But it might be an even tougher pill for gay people to swallow now that the...

Bad blood? (Canada).
September 17, 2002... The Canadian Blood Services' ban on donations from sexually active gay men has at least one man's blood boiling. And he's not afraid to let them know--through anonymous E-mails. The man sent two messages to blood officials this summer. "I...

This week on Advocate.com. (On the Web).
September 17, 2002... Q&A Queer as Folk face-to-face Once you've read Randy Harrison's Q&A, check out our past one-on-one interviews with QAF stars Robert Gant, Peter Paige, and Gale Harold. now available only on Advocate.com. COMMENTARY ...

Is Bean off base? Fans go dotcom over Billy's gig on HBO. (On the Web).
September 17, 2002... Out former major league baseball player Billy Bean sent gay sports fans running for home--or at least the home page of Outsports.com--after a July 21 cameo on HBO's Arli$$. And the folks on the Web site's discussion board cried foul about...

September 28, 1999: Wilson Cruz in control. (From the Advocate Archives).
September 17, 2002... As current cover boy Randy Harrison ponders the next step in his career, he might look for inspiration to Wilson Cruz, who appeared on the cover of The Advocate's 1999 fall preview issue. Like Harrison, Cruz made his television debut playing a...

Condom commandos. (On the Web).
September 17, 2002... Safer-sex education gets a fun digital twist with Catch the Sperm 2, a computer game available for download free of charge at the Swiss AIDS Federation's Stop AIDS Web site, www.stopaids.ch/e/index. html. It's you against a flood of sperm...

The Rocker files: it was just an ordinary day for Dallas restaurant manager Andy Allison--then antigay ballplayer John Rocker came in to eat. (Behind the Headlines).
September 17, 2002... When Andy Allison, a manager of Bread Winners Cafe and Bakery in Dallas, saw John Rocker and his girlfriend walk into his restaurant on August 4, he barely suppressed a cringe. He knew of the Texas Rangers relief pitcher's antigay reputation...

Lube love. (Community).
September 17, 2002... AIDS service organizations around the country will get a boost this fall from the company that produces K-Y Liquid, a water-based lubricant often used with condoms. K-Y will donate more than 2 million of its single-use packets to 23...

Stop AIDS gets green light. (Government).
September 17, 2002... San Francisco's Stop AIDS Project, known for its provocative HIV prevention workshops, appears to have gotten a thumbs-up from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC on August 13 wrapped up a brief inquiry into such Stop AIDS...

Excuse me, doc. (Checkup).
September 17, 2002... Ten things gay men and lesbians should discuss with their doctors, according to a July report from the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association: For gay men: HIV/AIDS and safer sex; substance use; depression and anxiety; hepatitis...

Veterans welcome gay chaplains. (Religion).
September 17, 2002... Though "don't ask, don't tell" is still in effect, veterans will soon be able to ask for a gay chaplain in Veterans Administration hospitals and other government facilities. Metropolitan Community Churches, the country's only predominantly gay...

Transitions.
September 17, 2002... DIED: Robert Barnes, 42, of complications from Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological disease, in San Francisco, August 9. Barnes was an openly gay political consultant who helped dozens of gay candidates. APPOINTED: Kim Anderson, as the...

Who's afraid of Nicole Kidman? (the Buzz).
September 17, 2002... IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY TO TALK Oscars, especially with an A-list project like the long-delayed movie version of out novelist Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize--winning The Hours. The stellar cast--Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, Julianne Moore...

Target: Madonna. (the Buzz).
September 17, 2002... WHY IS IT THAT ANY FILM with Madonna on the marquee has to run the gauntlet of ugly rumors before making it to the multiplex? Case in point: Sony's October release Swept Away, which finds the material mom stranded on a desert island with a...

The American gigolo comes out. (the Buzz).
September 17, 2002... ANY REMAINING DOUBT about the sexual orientation of narcissistic Julian Kaye, the title character in the 1980 hit film American Gigolo (played by Richard Gere), can now be put to rest. These days ex-gigolo Julian is in his 50s, openly gay, and...

Capital murders: two transgendered teenagers are gunned down in Washington, D.C., leaving their families reeling and police searching for clues. (Crime).
September 17, 2002... Stephanie Thomas may have been born a male, but she always acted like a lady. Named Wilbur at birth, the child was fond of mom's handbags and shoes and at age 14 began dressing as a girl, adopting the name of a pretty cousin, Stephanie. "On the...

Northern enlightenment: Canada has something to teach the U.S. when it comes to equal recognition of gay and lesbian relationships. (Marriage).
September 17, 2002... It wasn't exactly a scientific poll. When Quebec justice minister Paul Begin huddled with advisers about a sweeping civil union bill that would allow same-sex couples in the Canadian province all the legal protections of marriage, he turned to...

September 11: are all survivors equal? One year after the terrorist attacks, new laws have broadened the definition of legal partnership--but the laws might not be broad enough to help all September 11 survivors.
September 17, 2002... John Winter is a little nervous about an upcoming visit with the sister of his late life partner, Tony Karnes. Prior to September 11, when Karnes was killed while working on the 97th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, he and...

Good work, fairies: it hasn't been easy for us in the Gay Mafia to dress up as straight people and drive to Denny's just to have a quiet place to plan Mike Ovitz's downfall. (notes from a blond).
September 17, 2002... Will this meeting of the Gay Mafia please come to order? Thank you. As the minutes of the last meeting have been shredded, salted, and fed to the Fire Island blowfish, we will proceed to the treasurer's report. It seems that we are now the...

Randy gets real: out actor Randy Harrison talks about freeing himself from Justin, playing a gun-toting straight teen in an upcoming Showtime movie, and preparing for life after Queer as Folk. (Cover Story).
September 17, 2002... You might never notice him on the street, and Randy Harrison likes it that way. Walking into a restaurant for an interview, Harrison is camouflaged with glasses and a baseball cap. Once seated safely at a discreet table, the specs and hat come...

ESPN's out player: Julian Bryce invades cable's butchest network on the reality game show Beg, Borrow & Deal. (Television).
September 17, 2002... As the stereotype goes, queer men aren't supposed to play or follow competitive sports. Openly gay entertainment reporter Julian Bryce hopes to break this image as a competitor in ESPN's first reality-based game show, Beg, Borrow & Deal,...

Bill O'Reilly really likes you: the conservative, argumentative host of Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor favors gay rights laws and gay adoption but does wish that gays would shut up already. (Television).
September 17, 2002... Bill O'Reilly is a brash, aggressive man who, at 6 foot 4, towers over everyone around him and exudes the no-nonsense working-class Irish Catholic background he proudly claims as a native of Levittown, N.Y. The nuns at his school had O'Reilly...

Not just girl talk: fresh from The Laramie Project, out actor Kelli Simpkins tackles gender stereotypes in I Think I Like Girls. (Theater).
September 17, 2002... At 6 foot 1 with close-cropped hair, Kelli Simpkins has what she calls "a masculine presence." That's what got her cast in the original stage production of The Laramie Project as, among other roles, teenager Aaron Kreifels, the bicyclist who...

Theater listings.
September 17, 2002... September Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang. San Diego enjoys a welcome revival of this sunny 1981 satire of urban neurosis and our dependence on psychotherapy. (Old Globe, September 8-October 20) Burning Blue by D.M.W. Greer. The...

Alexander the gay? A great battle is unfolding in Hollywood between rival versions of the life of Greek conqueror Alexander the Great--and whether either will depict his gay loves. (Film).
September 17, 2002... We've seen Hollywood studios compete to produce two movies about volcanic eruptions, missions to Mars, asteroids hurtling toward Earth, even two computer-animated movies about ants--but this year the grandest race of all is being fought in...

Fall review film listings.
September 17, 2002... September 8 Women. A who's who of French divas--including Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, and Fanny Ardant--is brought together by gay director Francois Ozon (Criminal Lovers, Under the Sand) for this comedic murder mystery-musical...

A post-screwball comedy: Igby Goes Down tries to wed the "zany rich" romps of the '30s to a jaundiced view of today. (Film).
September 17, 2002... Igby Goes Down * Written and directed by Burr Steers * Starring Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Peet, Jared Harris, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum * UA/Atlantic Streamline It would be interesting to ask...