Patricia Rozema's queer and poetic lens gets a Los Angeles retrospective
The films of Patricia Rozema, a progenitor of the Toronto New Wave, are screening across Los Angeles, including the lesbian classic When Night Is Falling.
APRIL 26, 2024
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The films of Patricia Rozema, a progenitor of the Toronto New Wave, are screening across Los Angeles, including the lesbian classic When Night Is Falling.
He got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a prestigious retrospective of his work opens this week.
On The Daily Show Tuesday night, Jon Stewart took a retrospective look at the major news networks' coverage of President Obama's second inauguration, including the collective conservative conniption over the president's mention of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Sunday that he will not run from his statement 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated. Huckabee acknowledged the prevailing scientific view then and since that the virus that causes AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but he said that was not certain. He cited revelations in 1991 that a dentist had infected a patient in an extraordinary case that highlighted the risk of infection through contact with blood or bodily fluids. ''I still believe this today,'' he said in a broadcast interview, that ''we were acting more out of political correctness'' in responding to the AIDS crisis. ''I don't run from it, I don't recant it,'' he said of his position in 1992. Yet he said he would state his view differently in retrospect.
With a retrospective currently at the de Young Museum in San Francisco and a tour slated for later this year, the controversial art team Gilbert and George are about to remind America of the beauty of bad taste.
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