Subject: Future gay movies & TV series
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 00:17:27 -0400

Hi, folks!  This is a special note about some upcoming
movies and TV series with gay, lesbian, other sexual
minority, and gay/straight AIDS themes and/or characters.

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The following items come from the 5/25/95 and 6/2/95
issues of Entertainment Weekly:

From 5/26/95, Pg. 42 (on July Movies):

>> "AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE:  A darkly comic drama about
a teenage girl in a 1940s Liverpool theater troupe,
ADVENTURE is not what you'd expect from FOUR WEDDINGS AND
A FUNERAL directory Mike Newell and star Hugh Grant.  This
time, Grant is the bad guy - a nasty gay director making
life miserable for his young charge (Georgina Cates) and
old nemesis (Alan Rickman)."  Due out July 21.

>> "DR. JEKYLL AND MS. HYDE:  Tim Daly is the unsuspecting
perfumer who finds himself being taken over by Sean
Young's ornery character, who strews chaos wherever she/he
goes.  Special effects and prosthetics helped the
transmformation - and hid Young's pregnancy, which
director David Price learned of only two weeks before
filming began.  'It WAS a little bit of a surprise,' he
admits."  Due out July 28.

>> "POSTCARDS FROM AMERICA, woven together from the
writings of the late artist David Wojnarowicz, explores a
young gay man's life"

From 5/26/95, pg. 56 (on August Movies):

>> "JEFFREY:  The film adaptation of Paul Rudnick's Off
Broadway hit dares to make a comedy about, in Rudnick's
words, 'how AIDS has become a part fo these characters'
lives on a day-to-day bais.' The cast includes Steven
Weber as Jeffrey, Sigourney Weaver as a New Age
evangelist, and, as an interior designer, Patrick Stewart,
who read the script while shooting STAR TREK: GENERATIONS
and began 'weeping all over my Star Trek uniform - it had
to be repaired before I could go back in front of the
camera.' "

From 6/2/95, pg 47 (FOX Fall TV preview):

" CABIN PRESSURE (tentative title; Thursdays, 8:30-9:00
pm.)  The FIVE MRS. BUCHANANS team produces this lowbrow
farce about flight attendants, including a cranky New
Yorker (Rose Jackson) and a snide homosexual (David
Burke)."

From 5/26/95, pg. 71 (NBC Fall TV preview):

" PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (Tuesdays, 9:30 - 10:00 pm).  From
the creators of FRASIER comes a comedy about a Chicago
attorney (THE UNTOUCHABLES' Tom Amandes) with a gay
partner (Brad Garrett) and a buttinsky brother-in-law
(Larry Miller)."

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Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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