Mixed Company
Ed Halter
Tuesday, November 19th 2002
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You Can't Escape the Canvasser's Pitch 'Got a minute?' The young bleeding-heart carnivores who hunt you down on your lunch hour
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The Coen Brothers Make Another Mockery with Burn After Reading Remarkably consistent, there's nothing these boys can't hold up to ridicule
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No Witness Protection for Mobster Turned Snitch Joe Campy. PS: He's Hiding in Plain Sight. PPS: He has a web site.
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Mickey Rourke is The Wrestler The onetime Hollywood A-lister climbs back in the ring with Darren Aronofsky's latest
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Midway Through the Toronto Film Fest, and Things are Looking Bleak Oh, Canada
Retrospectives propose an alternative history of gay media; surveys of Tom Chomont, Matthias Müller, and ACT-UP revel in the heydays of raunchy underground liberation, New Queer Cinema elegance, and activist chic, respectively. The problem of pinning down what radical action could be in today's so-over-it climate haunts the best new work. In Duke & Battersby's twee trendoid quasi-spoof Being Fucked Up, a girly robot voice intones über-burnt epigrams: "I don't believe in art or socialism. I'm bitterly jealous of people who are good or successful."
A more earnestly touching heroism emerges in Scott Treleaven's The Salivation Army, a rantumentary about his wannabe-revolutionary homocore faux-gang. DIY grungy and surprisingly subtle, Salivation smartly links world-changing ambitions to perverse desires for purity and innocence. "I have seen the new face of radicalism," Treleaven narrates, "and it is cute." Like Dennis Cooper with a heart, he keeps outsider fires burning. In your face, Will & Grace.
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