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WIlHAI11HERIONS6PM•8:30PM 3923 Cedar SprinDS DalilS TeHas (912) 380-3808 [email protected] I. • _ .~. liRllnbaw allill aamplny Texas. # 1 Gay Dance Club Dallas' Best Dance Club 1996 Falcon Studios wimme Village Station and Alternatives/New FineArts presents Legendary adult video director Chi Chi laRue and superstar Bradshaw in person as part 01 1#"' the Falcon Talent Search , Friday, March 28th 3911 Cedar Springs, Dallas, 972.380.3808, [email protected] VOLUME 23, NUMBER 3 MARCH 21 - 27, 1997 16 MOVIES Director Leslie Smith Hits Mark with David Searching by Bruce Williams 20 VIEWPOINT Same-Sex Marriage Is Our Birthright by Elizabeth Birch 27 CLASSIC TWT Oscar Through the Years by Cody Young 39 CURRENT EVENTS 47 BACKSTAGE Dallas Theater Center Brings Back All's Well That Ends Well 50 ON OUR COVER Rick Ashe of EI Paso photos by Albert Tovar/Photo Shoots! 57 STARSCOPE The Sun Conjuncts Stern Old Saturn and Delightful Venus, Strewing Gold Among the Dreck 67 TEXAS SPORTS Oak Lawn Soccer Club Reports Results from Second Game 68 TEXAS NEWS "March in March" in Austin Pushes for Stronger Hate Crimes Law This Weekend 72 FRESH BEATS Erykah Badu and Grace Debut Albums, Joi Cardwell Promises Return, Nuyorican Soul Ends the Big Wait by Jimmy Smith 75 TEXAS TEA Miss Gay Houston USofA Pageant Tonight at Rich's 84 CLASSIFIEDS 93 GUIDE lWT (This Week In Texas) is published by Texas Weekly Times Newspaper Co., ot 3300 Reagan Street In DaUos, Texas 75219 and 811 Westhelmer in Houston, Texas 770C16.Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of TWT or 01 Its staff. 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THIS WEEK IN TEXAS MAGAZINE Texas' Leading Gay & Lesbian Publication Since 1975 • Weekly Circulation: 20,000 DALLAS OFFICE PUBLISHER HOUSTON OFFICE MOlY ALAN GELLMAN 3300 Reagan Street 811 Westheimer,Suite III Dallas, Texas 75219 EDITOR Houston, Texas 77006 Dallas Fax (214) 520-8948 RICHARD HEBERT Houston Fax (713) 527-8948 (214) 521-0622 COMPTROLLER (713) 527-9111 E-mail: [email protected] STEVE MILES E-mail: [email protected] ART DEPARTMENT Richard Bang, Chris Salza, Rick Smith CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Dannie Angelle, Dan Baker, Elizabeth Birch, Robert Bois, Mark Deaton, Phil Johnson, Gary Laird, C. Lichtenstein, Steven c. Lindsey, David Parnell, Jimmy Smith, Bruce Williams, Cody Young STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Robert Miller, Jerry Stevens, TiO,Albert Tovar NATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR. Steve Miles. (214)521-0622 • FAX 520- TWIT Advertising rates are available on request from the salesperson in your nearest city. 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Doors 7pm 2401 San Jacinto Houston 77002 HOUSTON 713.759.9606 §UINIDlAW $1.75 dumeSlic IUngneCMS,$1.75 well $1 well uUdMa,75C seleCled dran PinlS BE"";"",).11,,, ;'f__t'_,.,': !.'" ~,'" ,~,'~~"~1JDDm>,;,;(. 1rIHIEIBlAlR ~G_ COMPAN~Y , ~5 . 30 14 Ibrockrnorton. Dallas, Texas ~ (972) 380-3$08 [email protected] An Outstanding Cast Helps Leslie Smith Find His Mark In the Romantic Comedy DAVID SEARCIDNG ilmmakers have focused on AIDS with F widely acclaimed movies like Philadel- BY BRUCE WILLIAMS phia. They've done drag and female imper- sonators with The Adventures of Priscilla, discover themselves to be soulmates and Queen of the Desert and To Wong Foo, best friends, as each searches for the per- Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. fect man to round out his or her life. Seri- They've done gay men with Jeffrey and ous dating doesn't help; their lives are con- lesbians with Go Fish. They've even done trolled and directed more by lost jobs, documentaries, like Stonewall and The drunken strangers and visits to a men's Celluloid Closet. sex club. Along the way, David and Gwen In other words, movies with gay charac- find their paths crossed by a stand-up ters or focusing on gay orientation aren't comic (Julie Halston), a former tenant of as rare as they used to be. They're not their apartment (Joseph Fuqua) and a automatically "oh my!" shockers of the sort handsome stranger (David Courier). David, = ,,_,Eli S.-I once expected to be rejected by the gen- eral film community and audience. Leslie Smith hopes to take the genre another step down the road to general acceptance with David Searching, a tale of the search for their perfect men by a gay male and a straight female who share a New York City apartment. Some ideas and images in the nearly-two-hour movie may be strong, may talloutside the mainstream, Camryn Manheim and Anthony Rapp play best friends but the picture as a whole is a real, accu- looking for love in the romantic comedy David Searching. rate slice of life whose characters are searching for love, truth and acceptance. a documentary filmmaker, discovers that a Smith wrote, directed and produced the lot of talent and a lot more luck and perse- film, which was made on a budget of just verance are required to realize and bal- $22,500. He was in Austin as his movie ance your professional dreams (he's mak- made its U.S. premiere at the South by ing a film that asks people, "What is an Southwest Film Festival March 7-16, and absolute truth?") and your personal ones. he basked in the glow as his project was "We did the film's world premiere at well received by audiences. He also Mardi Gras in Sydney (Australia) two proudly explained to THIS WEEK IN TEXAS weeks ago," Smith said. Supporters told how this dream of his became a reality. him of SXSW and advised him it would "I first set out to write this script in June provide a perfect next step for his movie. "I of '94," Smith said. "I wound up with a fab- took them on faith, and I'm glad we came ulous cast. They were also hungry for here. This is a place where you come to these images, of positive people who were find what they (the world-renowned Sun- trying to deal with day-to-day life. And the dance Film Festival in Utah) were doing audiences have loved the film; it's great to ten years ago, in the way of discovering know that what I set out to do comes and giving opportunities to new talents and across to them. That is, to give a little bit of ideas." hope, to laugh and to feel good about their An Arkadelphia, Arkansas native who lives. That's what a movie does." attended Southern Methodist University for David (played by Anthony Rapp) finds a two years before moving to New York, new roommate in Gwen (Camryn Man- Smith noted that a homecoming of sorts is heim), who is divorcing her husband. They next in the plans for his movie. "We'll be at 1WT MARCH 21 - MARCH 271997 PAGE 16 "I tailored the role (of David) because the USA Festival in Dallas in April - April Anthony Rapp and I wanted to work to- 21 is our screening date," he said. "Then gether," Smith explained. "Everything I'd we'll possibly do a bunch of gay/lesbian HAPPY HOUR SILVERAND GOLD ever written before, Anthony had been sug- film festivals over the summer, then shoot gested as the lead in. We didn't know each to find major distribution in the fall. We've other that well, but we knew our talents tried with this film to hit mainstream festi- would be adapted well for each other." vals first. It's important to make this film ty~qH Whereas David is insecure, angst-ridden mostly a study of the relationship between and trampled upon by much of life and a gay man and a straight woman, the sim- those around him, uncertain of when to ilarities they had in their lives.