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Subscription rate: $29.00 for 12 Issues. (NOTE: Subscriber lists are never rented or sold .) mond Jim," discussed opposite; readings and dis­ cussions featuring Edmund White, John Rechy, Ned Rorem, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Howard; performances by the New York Gay Com­ munity Marching Band, comedy by Robin Tyler and Pat Bodn (the outspoken WAC from the film "Word is Out"), dance perfor­ mances by Mischief Mime and Two Men Dancing; a gay graphic arts exhibition, drawing and photography exhibits. One of the main events was a benefit for The Glines, a sponsor of the whole festival , which featured Marsha Malamet, Michael Pace and David MacDaniel from the group "Gotham" and very special guest star Eartha Kitt. There was also a series of 1------, motion pictures by and FABULOUSLY FUTURISTIC: This issue spotlights Star Warsy obsessions, from about gay men and women, fashion to an absolutely extraterrestrial centerfold. The outfit above, which wouldn't be including Shirley Clarke's inappropriate on Buck Rogers in the 25th century or on Luke Skywalker, is actually con- legendary "Portrait of temporary clothing designed by Larry Le Gaspi, whose silver lame Labelle costumes Jason." And this is only a provided them with an instantly sensational image. To check out today's very tomorrow taste of what happened designs by Le Gaspi, check out "Outer Limits" on page 24. For an icy interstellar art during the festival! Events work, see "Darker Demons" on page 57. And our special centerfold feature, "1980: Space were rounded off by the Oddity, " melds male nudity and a galaxy far, far away. Happy black holes, everyone. Gay Pride Day march. It >------~-t_o_d_e-le_t_e_..- .-st_a_t_e_m_e_n_t_s ____, was an exhilarating experi- enceforeveryoneandweat T HR OW ANOTHER which might directly or by Mandate would like to take inferencetendtounfairly FAGGOT ON THE FIRE discriminate against any this opportunity to say group or otherwise give "Thanks" for a job well Did you know that female assment of gays. Rising to academic credibility to done. Significantly, the arsonists tend to be les­ the occasion, co-executive National Council for the bians? And that a male ar­ directors of the National •co-nv•e•n•t•io• n• a•l•p•r•e•ju•d•i•c•e•s•."-1!1 Arts and the New York sonist who happens to be Gay Task Force Charles F. State Arts Council contrib­ gay sets fires-and will Brydon and Lucia F. GAY ARTS uted $10,000 toward the probably continue to do so Valeska filed a complaint 1-T-he-fi-r-st_G_a_y_A_m_e-ri_c_a_n_A_r-ts--1 festival's cost. Times do -because these acts are and, after being reviewed Festival was held in New change. " ... initiated by hatred, by White House officials, York City this past May and jealousy or other uncon­ the offending material was June. The festival, which trolled emotions ... "? These deleted from the fire we hope wi II become an an­ ERRATUM choice titbits of homo­ manual. Said Gordon nual event, featured the When excerpts from Ed­ phobic nonsense might Vickery, U.S. Fire Admini­ best from gay men and mund White's book States have been laughable had stration Administrator: women in all areas of the of Desire: Travels in Gay they notappeared in the "While those materials as­ arts. To get an idea of the America appeared (April National Fire Academy's sert that arson is in part as­ scope of the festival one 1980), the layout should arson manual. Given the sociated with only had to read the pro­ have included the following general anti-gay homosexuality, they are gram that included such di­ information: "Excerpted sentiments of America's not sufficiently versified events as from the book States of De­ uniformed pub I ic safety or­ documented to objectively productions of Robert Pat­ sire: Travels in Gay Amer­ ganizations, this type of support the assertion. Con­ rick's play, "T-Shirts" star­ ica by Edmund White, by "scapegoatism" sequently, I have instructed ring skin star Jack Wrang­ permission of the publisher perpetuates and promotes the Superintendent of the ler; Doric Wilson's new E.P. Dutton. Copyright © yet another myth aimed at National Fire Academy to play, "Forever After"; and 1980 by Edmund White." justifying heterosexual har- take those steps necessary Theatre Rhinoceros' "Rich- We regret the omission.

4 October 1980/MANDATE man from Virginia who relationships. The two_so- · 1------1 moves to New York to find ciologists interviewed 110 Cal Yeoman's play Richmond Jim moved from San Fran- l'f, e, I ove .. . an d I ea th er. subjects as the basis for cisco to New York. their study, which Charlie Hufford and Joe FUN concludes that gay men LEATH ER Cappetta who recreated and non-gay women can their original roles in a re- COUPLES complement each other 1---ON- STAGE------1 cent Theatre Rhinoceros 1------j emotionally and , at times, Heavy Leather is not just a revival of the play. After News has leaked out that sexually. The study shows way of I ife; it's the subject playing San Francisco on a gay men really aren't that quite often these of Cal Yeoman's play, double bill with Robert woman-haters. In their re- friendships are stronger Richmond Jim , which pre­ Chesley's, Hell, I Love You, cently published book, The and more open to each miered in 1979 at San Fran­ the troup moved on to The New Couple , Rebecca partner's needs than if a cisco's Theatre Glines in New York City for Nahas and Myra Turley ex- heterosexual man were in- Rhinoceros. Pictured a limited run . Richmond plore the intricacies of valved . While this subject above are Randy Bennett, Jim is the story of a young straight women/ gay men may not be to everyone's taste, in the light of both gay and women's liberation, it is certainly worth more attention than a passing nod. For those interested, The New Couple is published hard­ bound at $9 .95 by Seaview , Books. And, for those who

1 find that friendship with a woman does naturally lead to bed, a second book might help iron out some of the kinks this adds to a re- l lationship-especially if marriage is considered . Barry and A lice, Portrait of ' a Bisexual Marriage is an , upfront account of a loving marriage that also al lows each partner gay sexual .GAY FREEDOM IN AMERICA freedom. Authors Barry Kohn and Alice Matusow G'\.Y RIGHTS ADvOC'ArES-5'\N FRANCISCO advocate sexual honesty in this type of marriage and PRODUCED FOR GAY RIGHTS ADVOCATES BY LANGLEY-TACKES, REAL ESTATE, SF, AND DESIGNED BY ON SIGHT, SF 1980 they include suggestions about dealing effectively .___P_o_l_it-ic_a_l_g_a_y_p_o_s_t_e_r_a_rt_r_e_a_c_he_s_a_h_i_g_h_a_r-ti_s_ti_c_p....,ia_n_e_w_i-th-th_i_s_c_u_rr_e_n_t_o_n_e_f_r_o_m_G..,,.--a-y----1 with th e Pro bl ems facing a Rights Advocates. bisexual couple.

October 1980/MANDATE 5 Fire Island and Ft. Lauderdale ,-r Reviews by Michael Llewellyn

GAY THEATRE ALLIANCE DIRECTORY OF GAY PLAYS. Com­ piled and Edited with an Introduction by Terry Helbing. 122 pages. JH Press. Paper. $5.95 , A much needed reference book is this well-researched compendium of plays with gay themes and/or major gay characters. Mr. Helbing has compiled a listing of over 400 works by famous, infamous and obscure playwrights, and the reading is fascinating whether the reader's interest comes from being onstage, backstage or offstage. They're all there from Edward Albee, Mart Crowley, and Noel Coward to Doric Wilson, John Herbert and Albert lnnaurato. And even Mae West. The play listings are alphabetized by title with information on the author, type (musical, drama, etc.), number of • Tropical Disco • Outside Raw Bar acts, characters and sets, a synopsis • Pitts Western Bar • The Wiz Boutique and much more. There is also an Ap­ pendix of lost plays, an alphabetical • Cabana Cafe • The Loft: Male Shopp<2 index of playwrights and an interest­ • Cabaret Lounge • Oasis,A Private Club ing introduction by Helbing. This is the first book of its type and is a very practical, well-organized guide for anyone concerned with gay theatre, a EMPIRE MODELING valuable addition to any library of im­ & ESCORT SERVICE UNCENSORm DEVB.OPING portant homosexual works. Men (ages 23•33) Interested In Kodacolor 12Ex. 4.50, 24Ex. 8.10, 36Ex. 11 . 70 Joining our service, call the Ektachrome Slides 20E x. $3.00, 36Ex. 4.00 OLIVER BUTTON IS A SISSY. Story All 8mm Movies $3.50. Color Reprints .30 number below. Fi ve Color copies & neg. of Polaroid $2.35 and Pictures by Tomie de Paolo. A Voyager/HBJ Book. $2.45. "'h t P O Box 4958M Spectra ,-, .0 0 Syracuse, N Y 13221 It has never been Mandate's policy to review children's books, but we de­ cided to make an exception in the case of Oliver. It deserves mention for sev­ eral reasons, having an unusual sensi­ tivity toward a special problem: being different. It can be related to on a number of levels (most gay men and women will doubtless see something of themselves in Oliver's story), and children, whether or no.Ub.fil'_ share Oliver's dilemma, will be betterlltt+e ­ people having read the book. It should ---especiaHy-be considered by gay par­ ents who simply want to acquaint their son or daughter with what it means to a guest house be set apart from the crowd, for what­ pool ever reason, and manages to be influ­ ential without being preachy. Poig­ air conditioned nantly presented by gifted writer and room rate includes illustrator, Tamie de Paolo, Oliver will continental breakfast leave you with a warm feeling, adult and child alike, letting you know you're not alone in just wanting to be yourself.

6 October 1980/MANDATE Sometimes what you don't see can be more provocative than what you do see. An athletic tee shirt and a pair of jockey shorts on the right man often gives a tantalizing preview of what might be hidden underneath. If this photograph makes you wonder, turn the page to see if you were right!

Photograph by U.S. Studio

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In or out of clothing, the combination of handsome innocence and rugged masculinity 6_ make this U.S. male from U.S. Studio's Book of James a winner in anyone's book. &[1rn Photographs by U.S. Studio

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By George Haddad-Garcia

"I was very, very lucky in my career," Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII, said the always beautiful and still I was thrilled. After all, she was the beautiful Merle Oberon, in what may mother of Elizabeth I. But although have been her last interview, in Santa that was my first big break, I had a tiny Barbara, California, where she was part, and if you blinked twice, you being honored by the American Film could see the film and miss me. I was Institute during a gala evening. furious, I protested. The producer, of The exotic brunette was born in Tas­ course, was Korda, but he was mania, journeyed to England, married wrapped up with Charles Laughton at super-producer Sir Alexander Korda the time. and became a top star in movies like "Laughton was concerned with Elsa Wuthering Heights, The Dark Angel, Lanchester and also with another The Private Life of Henry VIII, These young English actress, Binnie Barnes. Three (the first screen version of The So no one paid me much attention. I Children's Hour), Desiree and Hotel. determined I would try and steal a The day after Thanksgiving, 1979, scene, but I was a beginner, and that she passed away unexpectedly, was hopeless .... " having spent the previous afternoon What about Laughton's alone, strolling on the beach at homosexuality? Was it privately Malibu, where her beach house neigh­ known at the time? bored that of old friend and co-star She revealed, "I had guessed at it, Laurence Olivier. During the exclusive and I noticed how extremely cordial interview, she joked, "Yes, it's still and attentive he was to younger, more possible to see Cathy and Heathcliffe attractive men. But he seemed torn on the beach together." between their company and being with Not too long before, Ms. Oberon had Lanchester and also doing his best, undergone open-heart surgery, but because he wasn't a huge star at the Merle Oberon played George Sand in A she recovered nicely and was planning time. So he was rather testy on the Song to Remember, above, after her to move to Montecito, a Santa Barbara set, and he was good at getting his Cathy opposite Laurence Olivier's · suburb, where her neighbor would own way. He was always a large man, Heathcliffe in Wuthering heights have been tired sex symbol Jane and rather intimidating. He knew, I launched her career. Russell (TV's "full-figured girl"). think, that he had huge talent." Oberon left behind a handsome 40ish Merle later worked with Laughton widower, her fourth husband, Dutch again in the aborted von Stroheim actor Robert Wolders, who co-starred movie version of I, Claudius. She in her last film, the made-in-Yucatan played Messalina and the Englishman In what was Interval, about a May-December ro­ was the stuttering, lame emperor. "By mance amid the Mayan pyramids. She comparison," she smiled, "he was a perhaps her last also is survived by a son and daughter, pussycat when we did Henry VIII. He interview, Merle who shared her legendary home in was better known, and he was intimi­ Acapulco, where she was hostess to dated by the role of Claudius. There Oberon discussed international VIPs, often commuting was an inner turmoil in him, and it had to other mansions in Mexico City and nothing to do with his homosexuality. Hollywood's Cuernavaca. He was a very private man, and friends Recalled the still-beautiful actress and co-stars couldn't get inside his legendary of 70, "I'd always wanted to be a star. mind easily." Naturally, I started at the bottom, and It was while making I, Claudius in denizens. when they gave me the role of Anne London that the actress was involved

12 October 1980/MANDATE in a terrible taxi accident which sent looked at me. I didn't know if he liked do unworthwhile things. After all, I her through the windshield and badly me or not, if I was good or not. At one don't need to work." mangled her face, so that Korda point in the death scene, he said, 'A Ms. Oberon, though reluctant to dis­ thought she would have to give up little more tears in the left eye.' I said, cuss her private life or family, was acting for good. Fortunately, 'Thank you very much. The first bit of fond of looking back at her career and extensive plastic surgery restored her direction you have given me in six co-stars, though she emphasized that unique looks, and she went on to weeks is a little more tears!' Thank she seldom saw her old movies and greater triumphs in America, where heavens everything was worth it, in didn't dwell in the past. In 1954, she producer Sam Goldwyn took her under the end. starred in Desiree, playing the his wing-and wanted to give her a "It's the one film everyone always Empress Josephine opposite Marlon part in his personal life, as well. asks me about. They all want to know Brando's mumbly Napoleon. She re­ "He chose everything I did, at the what Larry was really li,ke. They keep membered , "Brando was ill at ease time," Merle explained. "He had such saying he was so beautiful, and he and I got the impression he didn't even high quality standards and I was lucky really was. I used to be afraid that they want to do the film. He said the Na­ to be his protegee. But I nearly didn't would only look at him; he was prac­ poleon outfit was too tight and ridic­ get into my most famous film, Wuth­ tically the handsomest man I'd ever ulous, and he kept scratching himself. ering Heights, because they originally seen, and yet we were only friends. He was very funny and he could be wanted Bette Davis for the part, al­ But very good friends." charming, but he also had a very blue though she and Goldwyn never got The actress was vague about her vocabulary and he preferred the along. Larry (Olivier) was also a early life in Tasmania or in England, company of men to women. second thought for the role of and she never succumbed to the temp­ "While we were shooting, he occa­ Heathcliffe." tation to write an autobiography. Her sionally would do things like wink at first husband was Korda; then she me or smile strangely, trying to get me She remembered fondly, "Larry had married Lucien Ballard, a French cam­ to laugh. He was a very un-serious been brought to Hollywood to co-star eraman and a painter. Her third and young man, but the sort one could for­ with Garbo in Queen Christina, but longest union was with multi-million­ give almost anything. He could be dif­ she favored John Gilbert, her old aire Bruno Pagliai, who built her ficult on the director and technicians, friend and leading man, who had dream house in Acapulco, later sold to but he was always nice to the other ac­ fallen on hard times after talkies, the Shah of Iran. The world was tors, and I'm sorry we didn't have more because of his high voice. So Larry shocked when Merle left him for a scenes together. Like Larry, he was went back to London and the stage, much younger man, the ash blond extremely handsome, but in a more which he much preferred. Larry kept Wolders, with whom she moved to down to earth kind of way. I don't turning down the Americans' offers, California. think we had nearly as much in but he eventually agreed to do Wuther­ Of their marriage, she would only common as Larry and I did, however." ing Heights. I never did find out how say, "Love can come at any age, and if Merle Oberon was nominated once they persuaded him, either. one doesn't seize love and return it, for an Academy Award, for The Dark "In the first days of shooting, he was one is likely to feel the loss for the Angel, a part she said was closest to made up for the Old Vic, and he over­ rest of one's days. I love Bob and he her own personality. She mused, acted badly, perhaps as a prank. Larry loves me. Age doesn't even enter into "Oscar and I were never close. Wuth­ has a huge sense of humor, and it was our relationship. I couldn't help falling ering Heights came towards the be­ even greater in those days. He also in love with him." ginning of my career, and it was so had a bad case of athlete's foot and he Sadly, their lushly romantic film In- famous that I was never able to top myself. Maybe that kept me from ever getting an Oscar, I'm not sure. It "I have several friends who are homo­ would have been nice to have it, as a sexual men, but it must be their seal of approval, but the main thing was to keep working, and I did. I made decision if they wish to reveal the films I wanted, and then when everything changed, I stopped, for the that aspect of their lives." most part." She also co-starred in These Three hobbled around on crutches, though tervalflopped in the U.S., though it in 1936, which followed on the heels you can't notice the limp in the pic­ did fair business in Mexico and Eu­ of Lillian Hellman's success as a play­ ture. Goldwyn was appalled, and he rope. The lady lamented, "There is so wright with The Children's Hour. But decided not to use the first days' little romance in films today, and because of the Hays Office (of censor­ rushes. He would moan, 'Thees actor looks now count for more than genu­ ship}, lesbianism-the theme of the is the ogliest actor in peectures.' He ine talent. It's a pity when actresses play-was entirely omitted from the thought Larry would ruin the film. like Katharine Hepburn and Bette celluloid version, and the film became "So the make-up was removed and Davis can't get financing for a new pic­ a typical heterosexual triangle. Merle he downplayed his gestures. His foot ture." She added , "I haven't made stated, "I thought that was rather a improved, too. many movies lately because I fough·t cheat. It changed everything, so why, I "I also suffered," she laughed. hard to become a star, and I want to asked some studio executives, did "Goldwyn ordered take after take. In remain one. I don't want to play grand­ they bother to buy the play for a film? the end, Willie Wyler, the director, mothers and old ladies. That's not They said, 'Because it was a hit.' But was cutting little pieces of film to­ what I am, and I'd rather leave behind they didn't even keep the same title, gether. He was so busy he never memories of beautiful pictures than because they feared audiences would Continued to page 36

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"I do not think of myself as awfully -and also romanced the late comic mistakes. These former relationships remarkable or terribly attractive. But if Lenny Bruce, director Jerry Schatz­ helped me; I learned how to avoid cer­ I'm going to put everything I have into berg and actor Harris Yulin. On tain precarious situations. My pre­ an acting job, whatever it may be-un­ the set of Three Days o~ the vious relationships were mainly with usual, cha I Ieng i ng or commercial­ Condor there was talk of an attraction actors. Perhaps I felt a special attrac­ then it has to be worthwhile for me between her and Redford-probably tion to them, or simply they were at and for the audience. In other words, untrue-but Lola Redford neverthe­ hand. remarkable. One way or another." less sent her two children to stay with "But a more plausible explanation is Faye Dunaway just finished filming daddy for the duration of the shooting. that actors are a darned sight more at­ The First Deadly Sin with Frank Sina­ In Florida, long ago, young Faye ad­ tractive than your average doctor or tra, a project shrouded in secrecy. Her mitted to having a thing for football lawyer. To say nothing of singers­ other recent films, very varied-The players and nearly married one. For they're really divine!" Champ, Eyes of Laura Mars, Voyage She admits that her liaison with of the Damned, Network, for which Mastroianni was, before Wolff, her she won an Oscar, Chinatown, Three most affecting romance. "When we Days of the Condor and Three/Four were filming A Place for Lovers to­ Musketeers-all demonstrate the care gether, I suppose I was merely fulfill­ with which she chooses her roles. In ing that old cliche about the actress one way or another, they are all re­ falling for her handsome leading man. markable. Sure, I'd had crushes before on some Dunaway is one of the few genuine of the actors with whom I'd female superstars in American worked-and vice versa, let me tell cinema, yet she works less often than you-but they were nothing compared hardly any other superstar, except per­ to this. I was convinced that Marcello haps Warren Beatty, her co-star in and I were on the same wavelength Bonnie and Clyde. For the past few right after we first met, but events years, she has struggled in a relation­ were to prove me wrong. ship with rock musician Peter Wolff of "It was my longest relationship with the J. Geile Band; rumors of divorce any man up to that point in my life. started almost from the first, and But I had a premonition that it though she said, shortly after the wed­ wouldn't last. Our natures and temper­ ding, that she wanted a baby soon, aments were too different. Shall we she is still childless, which suits her simply say that I am very American fine. She has had an alleged romance and Marcello is too Italian." The time with a handsome British photog­ came when the actress wanted more rapher, and there were rumors of an than a liaison, but the Italian was un­ affair with Omar Sharif (Faye likes her willing to divorce, for the wife is still men foreign or distinguished or both). sacred in Italian culture, although a Currently, she is co-owner of a man may play around with other southern California boutique/art Outspoken Faye Dunaway's next film, women, or men, for that matter. gallery. The First Deadly Sin, teams her with Faye made a clean break and soon Faye's other romances have in­ Frank Sinatra. found another man. "Harris (Yul in) is a cluded a long, passionate one with such a big star, she is surprisingly dear, good person. The trouble was Marcello Mastroianni-who said he frank and cooperative in discussing that I fell in love with him on the re­ loved the American more than any her personal life and attitudes: bound from Marcello. That often hap­ other woman, including his wife Flora "It's no secret that I also lived with a pens in life, even though people refuse and Catherine Deneuve, mother of his number of men before I met Peter. I'm to realize it. Eventually, we both came daughter Chiara. She had a reported a firm believer that you learn from ex­ to the conclusion that this sort of a re­ fling with Warren Beatty-who hasn't? perience and your cumulative lationship wasn't fair to either of us."

MANDATE/October 1980 15 "I don't just look for sex or love in a man; I also want comprehension, someone who understands my fears and dreams and longings, my moods."

But what about her once-undis­ ments was like being with a half-dozen cussed relationship with the late ordinary men. What was nice about Lenny Bruce? our relationship was that we accepted "I knew my relationship with Lenny each other for what we were, without wou Id never last," she states very so­ asking for any changes. We both knew berly, which isn't her typical manner, it couldn't last, so we weren't heart­ despite her ice-cold screen image. "He broken when it was over. But there was too self-destructive. When we was, on my part, more than just a met, I was just a struggling actress touch of regret." working with the Lincoln Center She continues with the saga of her company. I found his immensely at­ many loves, "I met Jerry Schatzberg tractive personality irresistible. He on my first film. It was for Sam was perhaps the wittiest man I'd ever Spiegel and called The. Happening. It met, funny in the most ironic sense of was not a good movie, but one cannot the word. always choose the initial opportunity. "To be with Lenny in his good mo- But I have nice feelings about the pic- ture for no other reason than because it provided the occasion for meeting Jerry. He was a photographer at the time, assigned to do special work on the film. We hit it off immediately. What more can I say?" Did she again feel the relationship could not last? She shrugs and joes, "I've always been inclined to Semitic-looking men with handlebar moustaches. "We were together two years, which was then my average tenancy with a man. Jerry was still married at the time. It was a very exciting period in both our lives. I landed Bonnie and Clyde and The Thomas Crown Affair; Jerry decided that he was through with / photography and he directed his first movie, Panic in Needle Park, with Al Pacino. Unfortunately, our individual work was so intense and demanding and it put a strain on our relationship, and before we realized it, we'd gone from being lovers to being good friends." On the topic of specific men, Ms. During her career, Dunaway has Dunaway is either very open or very starred opposite Redford, above, in close-mouthed. When asked about Three Days of the Condor, and with Jon Peters-he told the world that Steve McQueen, George C. Scott and Faye accepted the lead in Eyes of Marcello Mastroianni. Laura Mars after his former client

16 October 1980/MANDATE Streisand rejected it-she only grimaces; reports from that set had her scrapping almost daily with her producer, who was sometimes accom­ panied by his frizzle-haired girlfriend. Nor will she comment for publication on George C. Scott, with whom she did the expensive flop Oklahoma Crude. Queried about current leading man Frank Sinatra, she waves her hand negatively, not saying a word, although her eyes are alive and expressive. "I've said some things I shouldn't have, in the past, and I'm trying lately to be more discreet. At least about controversial men, or men I haven't had the best experiences with." One anonymous co-star cal led her a lunatic, and her press often paints her as semi-hysterical and difficult to work with. When she starred for TV in Sister Aimee with Bette Davis, the two women had only sarcastic comments about each other, ending up by not speaking to each other, except through intermediaries-and despite the younger star's regard for the living

Bonnie and Clyde, left, catapulted Dunaway to stardom; she won an Oscar for Network, above.

MANDATE/October 1980 17 legend. in my life. I was in New York at the What about the rumor that John time. I learned that a young man Huston and she didn't get along on whom I respected and loved had ki I led Chinatown, and that in the final slap­ himself. Maybe that's how the idea ping scenes, he insisted on several re­ crept into my mind. I remember being takes, smacking her too hard on the awfully depressed. Anyhow, the knife kisser, over and over? "I don't talk slipped, thankfully, and fell on my leg, about rumors. Totally useless. It's a cutting it. I still have a scar, but it's no-win situation." difficult to find, now." But the talkative star will discuss her Somehow, that leads to the subject G&A past, with or without men. She recalls, of children: "I think every individual, 251 W. 42nd St "I was an army brat. My father was a no matter what their background or New York City · sergeant, a 30-year-man, and the fam­ preference, thinks about what it would ily drifted from base to base. I can see be like to have a child someday. And BOOK how this itinerant life affected my women have to naturally think about it CENTER younger brother; for years he has most, because we can actually con­ hardly budged from Washington, ceive and carry and deliver it. But I've INC. where he's a lawyer. Anyway, my always wanted to be ready, meaning 250 W. 42nd St. mother and father decided to divorce. psychologically prepared. New York City The court awarded us to her. I was "I don't know if I could devote so COURAGEOUS terribly hurt, even offended, because much of my time and life to another my father was leaving us. being, to a child. There are so many BOOKS "I loved my father very much, and I claims made upon a mother, including 250 W. 42nd St. ( I (. l New York City took the divorce very personally. Any complete devotion and patience, that --r_f amateur psychologist can tell you it's almost obsessive. Don't forget, it's . , :r~V·t>] I'\\ what a daddy means to a girl." Has the only been within the past few years rest of her life, in her opinion, been a that I've learned how to live with my­ search for a handsome surrogate self and look after myself. Then came . \ father? She shrugs. "I wouldn't say it, Peter. And I would not want a child to but you might-that I was looking for detract from my relationship. I know ~J\ a strong male image, possibly a father this may sound selfish but it's not, figure, in each of the men I met. There really. One has to work hard at build­ was no physical resemblance, ing what one has-like love, faith and however, between my father and any comprehension. I wouldn't ever want [m I· AV ROOIIMATI of my boyfriends." anything to hamper that." na SERVICE Of Peter Wolff, she notes, "Peter is In the '60s and early '?Os Dunaway strong within, strong enough for both made movies almost non-stop, here 580-7696 of us, if need be. I need a man to lean and abroad, many of them flops. But 12 NOON UNTIL 9 P.M. on, unfashionable though that may since her marriage in 1974, she has be . People don't believe that, due to • Free, low, and moderate rent worked less, sometimes to the point my image from motion pictures. I of ignoring her career and turning apartments to share in all parts of don't just look for sex and love in a down very choice roles taken by New York City. man; I also want comprehension, Fonda, Welch, Redgrave and other top • Lowest fee in New York City: $30 someone who understands my fears actresses. Why does she work so little • NO FEE if you already have an and dreams and longings, my lately? "I work just enough-for me," apartment and need a roommate. moods." she says almost mysteriously. "I • N. Y. 's only all-gay apartment Even if she and Wolff part for good, needed to work more before, but now I referral service. she's convinced they will remain don't." For one thing, she is more se­ • Licensed by the State of New York friends-which wasn't always the case lective now, and as a top-billed female with Faye and her men. "Peter helped star, she has a smaller selection of 3 me to discover and fully realize roles and projects. 900 S. Andr~\~~ WAYN ESART Ft Lauderda le, FL 33316 S C U L P T U R E myself. He brought me face to face "I still think the movies are magic, with my problems." Such as? "It even with all the reality," she explains. would be boring to go into that. .. l had "Glamour is something the public ex­ refused to consider them objectively, pects from actresses, and I, for one, before, but we discussed and analyzed am still very fashion-conscious. At them and sought ways of resolving least outside of the home. One of the them. That's why I simply couldn't let attractions of Laura Mars was the him go. clothes I wore, the fashion ambience "Well. .. for example, a suicidal im­ and the beautiful shoes I wore." What pulse that occurred several years ago will she not do in a film role? "Nudity. still remained in my mind. I find it Not that I did it before, but at this difficult now to believe that I could stage of things, I don't think a director have ever been tempted by the idea of has the right to ask me to strip. Nor 'SOLO' suicide, the willful destruction of my will I." Sculpture Brochure, two dollars life. But it was during a very low point On the set, Faye is known to be de­ continued to page 36

18 October 1980/MANDATE MOVING VIOLATION You're driving alone down a deserted street one night when suddenly you see a flashing red light behind you. You pull over to let the police car pass, but instead it stops. The cop gets out and asks to see your license. While he reads it you look at him, mesmerized, wondering just exactly what that uniform is hiding. If only you knew ....

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Onto a body-strewn battlefield, where a battered crucifix stands sil­ houetted against a grim grey sky, charges a berserk, shell-shocked horse. Whinnying, rearing, its hoofs beating a deadly tattoo, it attacks the only living thihg, one surviving sol­ dier. The image of this one horse of the apocalypse, without horseman, opens Samuel Fuller's magnificent war film The Big Red One, and its erra\ic, insane behavior becomes a symbol for bestial irrationality, the ab­ surdity of war, a universe running ram­ pantly wild. Add Fulle,r's scathing scrutiny of men at war to that handful of classic war films-A// Quiet on the Western Front, The Red Badge of Courage, Apocalypse Now-which go far be­ yond mere documentation to suggest the anxiety in men's minds, the moral ambiguity of wartime action, the sheer horror of apocalyptic destruction. Wisely, Fuller's camera sticks with a combat leader, Lee Marvin, and four young men who follow him through North Africa, Sicily, the invasion of Normandy, Belgium, and Czechoslo­ vakia. The war is seen exclusively through their eyes, never zooming back for an overview. This is battle on the nitty-gritty level, the do-or-die, moment-by-moment level, and Fuller, who both wrote and directed the film, has captured the ambiguities with Bobby Dicicco plays an initially naive soldier in Samuel Fuller's war film, The searing intensity. Big Red One, along with, from top, opposite, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine Every episode-French troops kill­ and Kelly Ward. Lee Marvin stars as their leader. Photographs: United Artists. ing their leader rather than fire on Americans in North Africa, Sicilian its most harrowing and most mean­ his creviced crows-feet the fissures women taking their scythes to over­ ingful. The audience realizes, at the eked by experience, his haunted eyes come occupying Nazis when they see same time the soldiers do, that their knowing, yet always capable of out­ help is near, a woman feigning mad­ final task is the liberation of a Czech rage at injustice. And as the four ness (Stephane Audran) in order to concentration camp. Mark Hamil l's young men who follow him, Mark cover up that she's part of the under­ eyes as he opens a skeleton-strewn Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di ground awaiting liberation-is so feel­ oven express the horror, the horror Cicco and Kelly Ward emerge as fully ingly realized that Fuller has man­ almost unbearably. And Lee Marvin's nuanced individuals. aged, in every instance, to penetrate final attachment to a young boy whose Dana Kaproff's music belongs beyond the mere surface of what's hap­ eyes mirror that horror is one of the among the great film scores, creating pening to suggest complex motives, most grippingly emotional confronta­ a sense of moment here, a hint of moral unrest, resignation to the inevi­ tions in the entire history of film. grandeur there, rising to peaks of tability of killing. There is tragedy Marvin has usually been cast in un­ sheer majesty, all the while suggest­ here, and grandeur. feelingly macho roles, but here he is ing undercurrents of instability. This The film's two closing episodes are, magnificent. His craggy bone struc­ is great movie music. simply, film-making at its greatest, at ture becomes some sort of moral icon, The Big Red One is so magnificently

30 October 1980/MANDATE conceived and so fully realized that it yet. And yet. should be seen by every movie-goer Can't Stop the Music is dynamite who cares about movies, whether or entertainment, if you check your mind not he's interested in war films per se. at the theatre door and just let it hap­ Samuel Fuller has made a bombs­ pen. It's gaudy, vulgar, snazzy and bursting-in-air masterpiece, both epic razz-ma-tazzy. You may not be able to and intensely personal, fleshing out resist it. men's valiance and vulnerabilities. The And it's uncannily canny in being film is a major document of one of the most double~edged films in humanism. the history of movies, gay-wise. In fact, it's perhaps the gayest film ever made, yet never explicitly so. When 'ROUGH CUT' Valerie Perrine mentions "two snow­ Rough Cut, contrary to what the title balls and a ding-dong," you'll get the might suggest, is not a film about a balls and dong, but the kids in the au­ sloppy circumcision; instead, it's a dience won't. And that "YMCA" num­ tongue-in-chic caper film showcasing ber. My God . .Homoeroticism runs the most effortlessly charming man in rampant, yet it's all so fucking healthy the movies, Burt Reynolds; lusciously that they should add genitals to the lovely Leslie Anne Down; still-dapper Oscar and give one to Allan Carr for David Niven; and a convoluted jewel sheer ballsiness! David Hodo's solo heist plot that will have you gnashing "Love You to Death," with those slinky your teeth by the end. The whole thing women in red, may fool everybody but is elegantly charming, one of those gay men; the women don't make it slickly entertaining films that's about straight, they in fact make it gay­ as memorable, yet as coolly refresh­ gayer-gayest. The only surprise is that ing, as last night's dinner mint. You'll the stylized, white-on-white "Milk remember it for about five minutes, Shake" number somehow doesn't have but during its running time you'll be spurting cream at the climax. delightfully entertained. The big surprise, by the way, i~ A word about Reynolds. The man is Bruce Jenner, whose comic timing, unbelievably charming. He is the whether naturally his or the result of closest thing to a contemporary Cary Nancy Walker's direction, is wonder­ Grant; he is the only possible Rhett fully right. He can act. Perrine and Butler in that Gone With The Wind, Steve Guttent>erg are perfectly cast. Part II that Zanuck-Brown is planning; Gee, wow, gosh. Paul Sand, Tammy his genuinely humane concern about Grimes, Barbara Rush, June Havoc are people somehow shows in everything right for their roles. Only Marilyn he does. Few of his films require him Sokol, who mugs so relentlessly that to reach a fuller potential as an actor, she tires your face muscles, seems to but that potential is there. He's very have strolled into the wrong movie. visual, capable of suggesting pre­ Actually, Arlene Phillips' cisely the contrary of what his lines choreography isn't very exciting (sort are saying. Why doesn't he play the of like that glitzy Jordache jeans com­ coach in The Front Runner? His repu­ mercial, where they all bump and tation is so secure it would do him no grind dully, dully). The "YMCA" push­ professional harm, and he'd be fab­ ups, dives, etc., really aren't coordi­ ulous. Now, that might win him an nated with the music very well, but Oscar! you probably won't notice. The overall effect is overwhelming. Can't Stop the Music is a glitzy bom­ 'CAN'T STOP bardment, Zap-Pop-Barn, that suc­ THE MUSIC' ceeds on precisely the level it's trying to, as Pop Corn, gaily, gaily. Where are the cartoon balloons above her head? Every time Valerie Perrine reacts to a Village People 'BREAKING GLASS' number in Can't Stop the Music, you expect a big white balloon saying Breaking Glass, a British import "Wow!" to appear, and the movie about making it in the rock music would be complete if one did. For Al­ business, has all the seriousness lan Carr's musical phantasmagoria is a Music lacks, as singer Hazel O'Connor Pop Art artifact. The script has the and her group fight their way to the profundity of bubble gum, the Village top, neurosis by neurosis, song by People have the acting ability of Shel­ song. For the first hour, an on-target ley Hack (perhaps they collectively intensity makes Breaking Glass mes- could play Charley's third angel), and continued to page 62

MANDATE/October 1980 31 FICTION: "THINGS LIKE THAT DON'T HAPPEN. NOT TO PEOPLE LIKE ME." By T.R. Witomski • Illustration by Richard Rosenfeld• Dedication: For Jack Ressel

Melvin and Robbie were having their ings. Whenever we walk in, I swear I house on Fire Island so they didn't two hundred and thirty-third Sunday can hear them thinking, 'Are those two need to phone, but simply rendez­ brunch together. The waiter at the still alive?"' voused at The Monster, fresh from a Eagle brought them their Bloody Their brunches were a ritual. At trick. Sometimes a Saturday night Marys without their asking. about noon each Sunday, one would partner accompanied one or both of "Looks like we're well known," call the other and they would decide them to Sunday's service. But gen­ Melvin said. where to go. It was almost always The erally it was just the two of them. "It "We're part of the fuckin' furnish- Eagle. In the summer they shared a seems," Robbie said one~. "that what

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left, when Robbie had thrown him out, Robbie swore, typically, "Never again ." But he managed never to "I'm not expecting the affair weaken , never to admit anyone into to go anywhere. I don't expect things. his life so deeply that living together became inevitable. There were I lost my romantic i II usions a long frequent night mates of varying de­ scriptions-tricks, fuck buddies, _time ago, so I just look on this semi-serious "things," but since Gerald's exit, no one had shared as a good time. It's the best sex Robbie's apartment. Robbie used to joke about his " quiet desperation." I've had in ages, but it can end here. But that had just been a phase Robbie had already gone through. He had sur­ I won't push either way." vived the bleak loneliness that came after Gerald, made it through years of compulsive tricking, passed through looks good at 3 a.m. doesn't look "I shudder to think. Just tell me. You " quiet desperation" and was resigned good at noon. It's that damn light." know I hate fuckin' guessing games." that his comfortable, but solitary, life "How was last night?" Melvin asked. "You're no fun today. So I'll tell you. was the way it was always going to be. "I stayed home. Got mildly ripped by You know those ads in the dirty All things considered, it wasn't a bad myself." papers, those infamous personal ads? life. It lacked any real emotional · "That's different." Well, I took one out." highs, but also, thank God, those "I just couldn't get myself together. "Why?" emotional lows as well. Thought I'd give my leather jacket a "To meet people." rest. Why do these Bloodies taste so "Robbie, you know more people Melvin and Robbie were friends. As good on Sundays when I can't stand than anyone." in just good. No innuendo. No compli­ them any othet time? Anyway, guess "Well, to meet new people." cations. Way back when, Robbie what $trange thing I did this week?" "There aren't any. You know them thought, maybe we should have been all." lovers. But that was in another world. "No, seriously, my tricks are not Now we know each other's history too what they used to be. So I thought I'd well. advertise." "Any results from your ad?" "What did you say?" "You wouldn't believe it. I used to "Well, I was going to be really far out wonder who in their right mind would and say I wanted only very large answer those stupid ads." cocks, hairy chests, and real men, but "Or who would place them." I figured that wouldn't include anyone. "Yes, bitch. Anyway, some of the • AT HOME And I couldn't say, like some of them cases who wrote to me shouldn't be do, you know, 'Let me drink your piss' allowed on the streets. I had two re­ • POOLSIDE of 'Whip me bloody.' Truth in advertis­ quests for my underwear, one for a ing and all that. So I just wrote that I dirty jock, and one gem who wanted to • DISCO was a thirtiesh tall blonde looking for buy used wing-tip shoes. Who owns friends and good times. I didn't add wing-tip shoes?" • QUICK WASH that I was jaded and going to see. "A guy in Des Moines told me to

• QUICK DRY What's to lose?" drop in if I was ever in the area. Of course that made me want to call the • NO IRON Robbie's Charles Street apartment airlines immediately. Three other New was the designer image of Village Yorkers, as bored as me, wanted to faggot chic. Bookcases built into get together. To compare anxieties, I most of the walls, quality modern art guess. But one tu med into a fun trick. prints, the obligatory signed Playbills, Oh yes, I got a letter from this Marine. and plants for days. Leather couch, di­ My fantasies worked overtime on that rector's chairs, lots of glass and one. He's stationed in Memphis. What chrome. Well stocked bar, silver con­ the fuck are the Marines doing in tainer for grass. And a waterbed left Memphis? Shouldn't they be out in­ Style #341. over from the sixties. vading some god-forsaken country?" Show off your manly physique in this silky, nylon jersey jumpsuit. Full front tipper with Robbie had lived in the apartment shirred waist gives you guaranteed sex appeal. since he'd moved to New York thirteen An article in a gay magazine advised ~11~~\,~~,'..'.~l or Blue . $l 999 years ago. The flaming queen of a that to "overcome the crisis of being Add $1.75 for postage & handling. 6% Sales rental agent who'd shown the place to past thirty, you should stand naked in lax. far C.O .D. enclose $5 .00 deposit. Al • low 2 to 6 weeks delivery . him had stated emphatically, "And it's front of a full-length mirror and list

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THE - CLUBBATFIS 24 First Aven·ue New York, New York (212)673·3283 I NO "F" train at corner myself in England. Sam Goldwyn also looked after me, and so nobody tried MERLE OBERON to cross me, although I don't think I FAYE DUNAWAY Continued from page 14 ever threw my weight around. Continued from page 18 be misled. " I was spared the casting couch tached, less than warm, very pro­ "Yes, I did see the more recent film, route in Hollywood, which was very, fessional and a perfectionist who can with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley very active. A majority of famous ac­ antagonize co-workers with her de­ MacLaine. I thought it was outstand­ tresses had to compromise them­ tailed suggestions and requirements. ing, very dramatic but not sensation­ selves at one point or another, and the Her ego is known to be healthy-sized, alized. However, the ending was un­ studio chiefs and the great producers and she is supposed not to get along realistic-with one woman hanging had very large sexual appetites. It was with other actresses, although she has herself because of her feelings. Ap­ unfair, really, because a girl had to do been mentioned in conjunction with a parently, the cinema hadn't come that some unsavory things, simply to get a possible remake of the all-female far ahead. I never met Miss Hellman, man to even consider her for a small classic The Women. A former so I don't know what her opinion was." role. Remember, those girls didn't co-worker anonymously notes, "It was Another actor with whom Merle want to do those things; it wasn 't like my experience on two pictures that Oberon became close friends was today, and the men were often brutal Faye shows up happy as a puppy, David Niven, who she married in about forcing them. They were ruth­ bubbling with enthusiasm and rela­ Wuthering Heights. "He and Larry less, more so in sex than in business, tively friendly. went in totally different directions, but because the profits weren't quite as "But by the end of a picture's shoot­ I think David wanted to originally be a essential as today, for some reason. " ing schedule, she had withdrawn serious actor. When we were shooting What of gay Hollywood, and specifi­ almost totally into herself. She the film, we kept discussing the inter­ cally male homosexual stars and bi­ seemed not to be the happiest person, pretations of our characters, but Larry sexuals like Tyrone Power? She nor the most patient woman I've ever never did, and yet he turned out to be paused for a while, then continued met. Her work is stunning, even when the classical actor. David always puts delicately. " During his lifetime, it's a virtual walk-through, but I don't on a cheerful, amusing face, but he Laughton never announced he was ho­ happen to think making movies is the has a serious side to him, too, and he mosexual , and that fact has only come most important or satisfying thing in has had his personal and professional out because of Miss Lanchester. Re­ her life." disappointments. I was so glad for member, tt)ere was a tremendous Just how important is film-making him when his two books-The Moon's stigma to that in those days-today, to Ms. Dunaway? She shrugs once a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses you can't begin to imagine. I think who more. "When I do something now, I - became huge best-sellers.'" a man sleeps with is his own busi­ want it to be good, to be notable and Besides movie stars, Merle knew ness; the one thing I'm against is to be worth my getting up that early many of the world's leaders, including cheating and promiscuity. each morning and putting myself several American presidents, who "But it's rather pathetic to me that through sue~ an emotionally draining stayed at her home while visiting Aca­ these men who hid their real sexuality experience. This is my profession, but pulco. She was loath to tell intimate so carefully are now being raked up for there's no denying I'm not a worka­ details about any of her celebrated public consumption, as dirty gossip. holic; I think if you do a film and then guests, but when questioned about They write today about dead actors another and then another, it gets less the Shah , she said in a grim tone, "He who were bisexual or homosexual, but enjoyable. Maybe I do stay away can be charming , but he has an ex­ there are even more nowadays. Today longer than some people feel is wise, tremely dark side. His wife (Empress no one hides it, at least not among but I've achieved most of my goals. Farah) is a woman of courage and pa­ themselves. I have several friends who "The Oscar was a beautiful affirma­ tience. We got along well, but she are homosexual men, famous men . tion of my worth in my chosen pro­ would never ever talk about her hus­ I'm not going to tell you their names fession, and beyond that, beyond dif­ band, as though she were afraid of because it must be their decision if ferent and remarkable roles in things him." they want to reveal that aspect of their lik Network, there isn't terribly much The hostess was more protective of lives. They deserve dignity, not whis­ more to reach for. I don't want to re­ other guests, although she noted that pers and commercial exploitation." peat myself or just play girlfriends. I LBJ "had his eye on every female in As for the infamous Hollywood considered playing the title role in the house who was under 40. " Of her orgies and night life, Merle Oberon Vicky, about the first woman candi­ relationship with ex-husband Pagliai, said, "I was sheltered , all of my life. date for President, but it didn't mate­ she said softly, "We are still friends. Until I met Bob and then married him, rialize. The things that materialize are He understood that I did what I had to which was one of the few things/ initi­ often the more commercial things, do. I considered all my husbands my ated and chose to do. I was very and I'm not necessarily interested. friends, both before and after young, I had a husband or protector all "I guess the next stage will be marriage. If you've loved someone, of the time, and all I was really in­ moving into older, character-type you don't stop loving them because terested in was working and doing roles. The sad thing is that costume you're no longer bound together." lovely pictures. I wanted to know what pictures and historical dramas are just What about early Hollywood; was it made my leading men tick, not to not getting made nowadays, largely as golden and idyllic as one pictures it jump into bed with them . because of the cost. Science fiction today? " I didn't want to write a book, isn't my bag , nor disaster films. I like She shook her head vigorously. "It because I think if you add up all my to play outstanding women, not wall­ was wildly competitive, and I didn't movie roles, there you have my autobi­ flowers. If I have to have a trademark, I have to go through that, thanks ography, and those films say it much want to be known for remarkable heavens, because I had established better than I could have .. .. " women."

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Exploring the last frontier for now voyaging, Mandate focuses on something that continues to fascinate and to beguile mankind. The Empire may strike back from here to eternity, but here's our erotic look into the icy reaches of that nebulous territory, outer space, our sensual salute to Star Wars, a sensual skywalk without Luke.

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and caviar dip and rehearsing what to happened in bars, the plays he'd seen , FICTION say and he gets here and, holy shit, '!'hat Melvin said about Renata Continued from page 34 bells and fireworks. We really got it Scotto's recital. Robbie didn't allow nice ass and dynamite legs, but the on . This one is a real stud. It was fuck, himself many emotions. He didn't stomach was showing the effects of fuck, fuck. Loved it." want to fuck himself up . the years of beer. And, Lord knows, "Is dinner still on tonight?" his cock wasn't big enough. Nobody's "I'm having sexual raptures and all "He's coming in for a weekend . I am is . I look like I'm thirty-seven, he you think about is food . Yes , dinner's going to end it. I am going to tell him thought, because I am thirty-seven. on . Eight o'clock at Uncle Charlie's. that he's taking it too seriously, that Why can't fags just grow old like Formal leather optional. Oh get this: we should only be friends. He has got straight people? Why do we worry so he saw the marks on my ass and asked to stop writing those letters." much about how we look? All the what they were from . When I told him " He got to you . A young , hunky worrying does is make us look older. they were from some S/M games, he Marine got to Robbie Marshall. Re­ Why is each birthday such a fuckin' asked why I let someone do that to member your nickname? What Gerald trauma? Why is it that when Melvin me. Do you love it?" used to call you. The Ice Queen." found his first gray hair, both of us " Fuck you , Melvin. You want went into mourning? Brunch #247 , the first one after Ste­ Steven . I'll give him to you. I'll tell him ven 's visit, the first chance for Robbie to fuck your mind up. Let him put you "Remember my Marine?" and Melvin to really trash over the visit through thoughts that you never "The number you were cruising last that had been so successful. thought you could have anymore. night at Ty's?" " I was impressed . You did connect Anyway, what brought Gerald up?" "No, that was an ersatz Marine. I with a live one. I was surprised he was "Steven rem inded me of Gerald . A mean my real Marine. The one who an­ so smart. I guess I had pictured him as lost country boy in the big city who swered my dirty ad a couple of months a dumb number with a big cock." encounters a prototypical fag and ago." "Well, his cock was rather nice." finds true love." "And?" "And what's next?" "You're cute today. Who pissed in "Well, we've been writing to each "What?" your Bloody?" other and he's coming to see me next "Where do you think you'll go from "I don't buy your stoic l-can't-love­ week. Going to stay a week. He's here?" and-1-can 't-feel posture. It's all bull­ never been to New York so I can play "I'm not expecting to go anywhere. shit." tourist guide. You know. The usual­ You know I don't expect things. I've "You don't have to tell me it's bull­ the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State lost my romantic illusions. I look on sh it. I know it's bullshit. But it's bull­ Building, Chinatown, the Mine Shaft." this as a past good time. It was mar­ shit I can live with." "You seem to like this guy." velous, exciting, the best sex I've had "Yeah. I guess. Well, I'm just going in ages. But it can end here. Perhaps Robbie didn't end it. He couldn't. In­ to show him a nice time. Be a real New we will see each other again. I'd like stead he did what was unthinkable. York queen." to. But I won't push for it." Maybe he was a little drunk when he "How old?" "YoLJ know when you were with him, did it, but he knew what he was say­ "What?" you glowed." ing. After Robbie and Steven had had "Robbie, how old is he?" "I have never glowed." sex, they were sitting up, in yoga po­ "Oh. Keep this a secret, will you? "You did last week. You were happy. sitions facing each other and rocking Twenty." It showed ." on the waterbed . Robbie touched Ste­ "Jesus H. Christ." "I always look like that after a good ven 's face, bowed his head , closed his "What kind of language is that for a fuck. Fucks. But it would be foolish of eyes, and said, " I think I'm in love with nice Jewish boy?" me to think that last week was some you." And Robbie even cried a little. " I didn't know you'd become a sort Qf major event. I look on it as an chicken hawk. Next you'll be taking up award. You know, after putting up Robbie would see Steven whenever residence at The Ninth Circle." with so much shit, once in a while the he could. There were many times "Twenty isn't that young. I was fuck­ good fairy smiles on you and you get when Robbie would fly to Memphis to ing around when I was twenty. And so to have a nice week. But then the evil spend a night, a weekend , with were you. This is not the seduction of queen announces, O.K., fun's over, Steven . And Robbie had never done the innocent virgin." back with your head in shit." anything like that before. Going to the "When's he arriving?" East Side for a trick was even some­ "Thursday." Steven's letters to Robbie after the times too much traveling. On the " You bringing him to brunch Sunday?" New York week were the only letters plane to Memphis, he'd th ink, these "Let's all have dinner Friday. Just in that Robbie had ever received that things don't happen. Not to people case I cause him to panic and leave could possibly be typed love letterse. like me . This is all so silly. before Sunday." They were written with obvious sincerity, with all of Steven's longing " He gets out of the Marines this " Melvin, I swear to God, it was a and innocence and feeling . And they week. He's going to move in with me. 'zip less fuck. ' It was just as Erica Jong deeply moved Robbie. You must be We're going to try to make a go of it." said it would be. Should I write her a tough, he told himself. You must not " I hope it works." thank you note? He got here about ten reply in kind . You must not encourage "Christ, Melvin, it's so fuckin' im­ and I'd been going frantic for hours. It this boy. Instead of writing what he possible. In real life these things don't was tension city. I'm burning incense felt , Robbie wrote what he did. The happen. So of course it's going to and playing Mozart and making onion tricks he'd had, the funny things that work. "

MANDATE/October 1980 45 A ·sudden surge of absolutely professional gay plays, perhaps destined to penetrate beyond the ghetto, heralds a breakthrough for UNCLOSETED Tl1EATEA By Joseph Arsenault

Openly gay artists who address Katz, John Rechy and Ned Rorem. themselves to homosexual reality are Such opportunities to speak undis­ alive and thriving, no longer needing guisedly to one's audience are indis­ to subvert or disguise their sensibility. pensable; as the performer eyes his At one time, homosexual poets, play­ public and his public eyes him, an es­ wrights and novelists masqueraded sential dialogue is established. their message into acceptable straight The homosexual theatre showcased terms. Without cultural icons to iden­ during the Festival demonstrated that tify with, they re-interpreted an al­ gay playwrights must define their es­ ready warped canvass to suit an alien thetics in terms of traditional theatre public's needs. The material they forms. In the past, unfortunately, too foisted on their unsuspecting public many gay plays seemed guided by was accepted as long as the real inspi­ soap opera or tv sit-com formats. If a ration remained camouflaged. Today, gay play is about, for example, the dif­ the sudden proliferation of avant­ ficulty of sustaining a one-to-one rela­ garde, overtly homosexual subject tionship in promiscuous times, that's matter-be it in the theatre, in dance, soap opera; if it's about disguising art or in films-ls reversing all the for­ one's sexual identity from curious mer patterns, a vital sign that our cul­ neighbors, that's tv sit-com. There's ture is genuinely emerging from sex­ certainly a place for gay soap opera ual dark ages. As homosexual voices and for gay tv sit-corns, but the play­ express self-worth with authenticity, wrights discussed below either try to they speak to us directly, without explore and exploit the format bril­ camouflage. The result is exhilarating. liantly or go beyond these traditional America's first gay arts festival, par­ forms, with marked success. If they all tially funded by the National Endow­ have something in common, it's the fi­ ment for the Arts and New York's nesse with which they've set up situa­ Council on the Arts, produced by The tions and characters, their genuinely Glines, recently offered a forum to sophisticated structure, the profes­ some of our most outstanding voices, sionalism of the overall endeavor. This people like Edmund White, Pulitzer is no longer "experimental" theatre, Prize poet Richard Howard, Doric Wil­ lurking beyond the fringes of profes­ son, Harvey Feinstein, Johnathan sional viability. The gay playwrights

46 October 1980/ MANDATE In Doric Wilson 's play For­ ever After, two Christopher Street clones (Hunt Block and Anthony Errinson, foreground) parody soap opera/tv sitcom situations in the gay mode, until the muses of comedy and trag­ edy (Bill Blackwell and Casey Wayne) descend from niches above the proscenium to begin a tug of war for the two charac­ ters ' psychologies. Wil­ son's play was part of the first Gay American Arts Festival in New York . Photograph by Roy Blakey.

47 opera denizens, destined to live to­ gether happily forever after. Until the muses of Comedy and Tragedy hike up their skirts and descend onstage from UNCLOSETED their niches above the proscenium, to engage in a clever tug-of-war over the lovers' fate. Wilson's very concept is delightfully ingenious. Literary critic Armand Hoog once pointed out that in Tl1EATEA Euripides' Hippolytus , the goddesses Aphrodite and Artemis were actually onstage, one pushing Phedre toward have arrived . play itself successfully sexual exp I icitness, the other restrain­ Originating at Minneapolis' Out-and­ metamorphoses from belly-laugh ing Hippolytus. Hoog pointed out that About Theatre and imported to Man­ comedy into genuinely serious scenes modern drama was born when Racine, hattan for the Festival, Lane Bate­ of confrontation, especially when the revamping the myth in the French 17th man's Lying in State tells the story of mother of one of the lesbians is on­ Century, internalized the gods, two couples, one lesbian and one gay stage. Kathy Lyles is very funny in­ creating modern psychological drama. male, who are trying to deceive their deed , fending off her gargantuan In a funny reversal, Doric Wilson has parents, neighbors, even their college straight boyfriend, and emotionally decided to re-externalize the fates that housing office about their sexual riveting when she learns of her daugh­ weave our tangled webs, but only in predilections; we are definitely in tv ter's lesbianism. This moving scene is order to redefine both gay theatre and sit-com territory here. The playwright, the parent/child confrontation we gay sensibility. As Comedy and Lane Bateman, who wrote the play as have al/ fantasized ; its touching reso­ Tragedy war, tuggingly, Wilson part of his PhD thesis at Southern Illi­ lution is tender and provocative and cannily, cleverly parodies gay ghetto nois University, suggests, "The play right. This play in three acts opens a theatre, explicitly showing its soap deals with lies, the need for them and Pandora's box of questions and invites opera and sit-com origins, suggesting the greater need to get rid of them ." the audience to think while it laughs. that if Comedy wins, gay theatre may Usmg comedy staples such as mis­ And the ending-a mature homo­ be merely trivial , but that if Tragedy taken identity, staples as old as As sexual onstage alone, his relationship wins, we may be back in Boys in the You Like It and as new as/ Love Lucy, ended , as Barbra Streisand sings Band, pre-Gay Lib territory. What's a Bateman has given some funny old "What are you doing the rest of your poor playwright to do? (God help the screws some bold new twists. He uses life?"-gives an extra and poignant gay playwright who doesn't concoct a standard sit-com esthetics master­ turn to the screw. Lying in State is, happy ending these days! The gay fully,· and much more consequentially basically, tv sit-com fare , bukt so well militants would stone him! In fact, than the usual tv writer. Bateman's structured , its characters so feelingly Wilson's theatre has sometimes not theme is itself sexual disguise, so the fleshed out, that it transcends the been very popular with official gay game-playing is not just for fun , but genre. With more professional spokesmen , precisely because Wilson relates directly to his characters' need casting, it could make it out of the gay is interested in writing plays that re­ for sexual masks. His form is his con- ghetto and onto Broadway. (Which verberate with truth, not with expected propaganda, the ritual party line.) In short, Comedy and Tragedy vie to de­ fine gay theatre, and vie, perhaps more consequentially, within each Gay playwrights are struggling character. The comic influence, which insinuates itself into gay sensibility to define what a gay play can be, disguised as irony or camp, keeps us going, in spite of the constant prob­ in terms of soap opera and tv sitcom lems Tragedy wishes to foist upon us. Wilson's structure, his goddesses, formulas. A new theatre is emerging. may be too literary for many theatre­ goers' taste and his topical references to other playwrights and to Broadway may date the play immediately, but his tent, since the mistaken identity brings us to the question: Who are puns and innuendoes and literary ref­ punchlines are not ends in them­ these plays intended for? Are they gay erences make the play a cornucopia of selves, but derive from his very theme, mirrors, intended to reflect gay wit and sensibility. Forever After suc­ sexual masquerade. As the lesbian images back to gays alone? Or are ceeds because it plays with theatrical couple, Sue Harrington and Vicki they reaching for a wider audience?) conventions, parodies the very gay Goldish have both gusto and sensitiv­ Doric Wi I son's Forever After attacks ghetto approach to theatre it itself de­ ity, fleshing out magnificently the the gay subculture from a different rives from , and continues talking rich, subversive content of the play; point of view. Tom and David are per­ about the meaning of the Comedy/ their male counterparts unfortunately fectly matched Christopher St. clones; Tragedy dichotomy both in gay theatre fail to find a consistent acting style, their macho self-centeredness, lithe and in gay lives, long after it has ex­ and don't quite know how to veer from athletic bodies and levis-and-work­ hausted its " homosexual plot." If it comic mugging into seriousness. The shirt lifestyle define them as gay soap begins as soap opera, it is only in

48 October 1980/MANDATE order to line up gay soap opera in its ri fle sights. Forever After starts shoot­ in g, it hits every target in sight, fun­ nily. If homosexual playwrights must reinvent theatre to express their own reality, to get beyond the standard formats of soap opera and tv sit-corns, Doric Wilson is on the right track. For­ ever After playfully parodies, but it gets right to the heart of the issue: What is gay sensibility? And, given that sensibility, what sort of theatre is possible? Shortly before the Festival, two other playwrights gave us some an­ swers to those questions. A few weeks before the Festival began, Arch Brown's Newsboy opened. Perhaps the slickest, most professional production this side of Broadway's Bent, thanks to Brown's slick writing and Kevin Han Ion's fast-paced direc­ tion, Newsboy tells of a politician's son who tries to cover up his homo­ sexuality for the sake of his father's upcoming election. After his gay mili­ tant friends leak the story to the press accidentally, he is forced to deny his gayness or to acknowledge it. The final confrontation between father and son is perhaps predictable in its sturm und drang. (We are back in soap opera/sit-com territory again.) How­ ever, the play's appeal stems from its humor and honesty, its mix of gloss and sensitivity. The slick stagecraft of the genuinely professional production gave Newsboy a credibility most other gay plays have sorely needed. Even if, however, this season saw the arrival of an unprecedented array of gay theatrical offerings, after all is said and done, they almost all recede into one's memory, with few sharp contours remaining. Even though the performances were very entertaining on the spot, and often well-staged indeed, almost all lacked an essential ingredient, brilliant acting. Until casting improves, most of these plays will simply come and go, never reach­ ing their audience potential in the gay ghetto, much less in a larger arena. After all this effort, if it's forgotten the day after it's seen, something's In the Bill Russell/Ronald Melrose musical Fourtune, Ken Arthur, ambig­ wrong. uously "straight," is eventually seduced by Justin Ross. The musical is a For instance, there's Harvey Fein­ freewheeling, fabulous look at gay theatre folk both backstage and in bed. stein's Fugue in a Nursery, in which two couples share a house for the for the most jaded. Feinstein offers ography of our lifestyles-it proves weekend. One's straight, one's gay, more than just one-liners; beneath the that gay theatre is genuinely un­ although one gay man once had an af­ banter are some searing truths. closeted at last. Playwrights, like fair with the straight man. Straight out The season's been rich . From Tony­ Bateman, Wilson , Feinstein and of Sondheim, the complexities and nominated Bent on Broadway, to a Brown , are converting their life experi­ situations almost cry out for a musical cluster of plays off-Broadway, to the ence into art and giving us back mirror rendering. The wit is quick and easy, Glines Festival , the proliferation of images of ourselves to contemplate, in suggesting that promiscuity is no homosexual characters, the images constructed with wit, imagina­ bed of roses; it creates pitfalls even unmasking of our psyches, the icon- tion and compassion.

MANDATE/October 1980 49 lF-IE TOt4L M4N Whether Joe confronts you totally naked (below) or in a muscle-hugging torso sh irt (right) there's no disguising the aggressive, masculine good looks that make Joe Antoin a total man.

Photographs by Len Tavares

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ulond hair and icy blue eyes that were SAY IT LOUD! surprisingly friendly. He was hung like Continued from page 64 Don always envisioned powerful men could give for not being a part of this; would be and when they were together at least no reason he wanted to ver­ he hadn't been able to keep his eyes or balize. How could he tell the director his hands off Bill's penis and the that in his second year of law school heavy sac that hung underneath. he had sucked Bill Connelly's penis But that wasn't being gay. No way. late one night after they had dropped The several times Bill and Don had off their double dates at Garland Ju­ fooled around with each other was just nior College? How could he tell him a phase. They had never kissed, nor that he had preferred the feeling of had they ever had anal intercourse. Bill's rod in his mouth to the arden Shit, it was just a phase. Don snubbed kisses of the equestrian major from out his cigarette with a vengeance, Garland? flipped open the folder on the march Don returned to his desk, this time and two hours later was back in the di­ lighting a forbidden cigarette. All that rector's office giving him ideas about was in the past. Christ, what could coverage, an outline for a speech he you expect from a couple of guys might make, if asked and, in general, who'd had too many pitchers of beers returning to his old self-the self who and whose teasing twenty-year-old had existed one second before he had dates had simpered something about thought of Bill Connolly.

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being "nice girls." It was just a Don couldn't believe the scene in fluke ... the first time. Don dragged Penn Station. Sure there were the heavily on the Camel and tried to usual crowds of families, singles and nudge the memories from his mind; couples waiting with consummately they remained. The second time with bored expressions for the arrival of Bill they had also been drunk, but their trains, but there was something there were no women involved, just else, something unique and exciting. the two of them. They'd blown each There was what appeared to be several other in the sixty-nine position on the hundred gay men and women-men rumpled double bed in Don's apart­ mostly-gathered near the gates, buy­ ment. And this time they had come in ing newspapers, buying snacks for the each other's mouths, had swallowed it trip to Washington. They were and had spent the night together. animated, excited. Their features and Bill wasn't as good a student as Don their eyes glowed with pure pleasure had been, but he was better looking. and expectation. From what Don had He spent his free time playing squash read in the releases, this march was and rowing on the Charles River. His the culmination of years of work to body was slender and sinewy and his free gays from the stereotyped nelly legs, ass, and crotch were covered faggot and the truck driving lesbian with a thick coating of fine, blond hair; image. They were here, in the open, the rest of his body was as smooth as proudly displaying not just their gay­ a baby's. The memories of Bill became ness, but their humanity. There was more insistent and, unexpectedly an electricity in the air that was filled him with a strange sense of con­ tangible. tentment. Bill had unwieldy, long Don had planned to drive down to

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They THIRD WORLD STUDIO'S listened with awe as a gay choir sang , and laughed when they sang " Blow PETER MOLD I BLACK KNIGHTS the Man Down" and " Stouthearted Men. " There were marching bands, new friends, dancing at night and FUN wonderful dinners in Washington res­ taurants. They explored the city of Exci t ing • Creative Washington , were awed by its grace ADULT and beauty, by the immense sense of ENTERTAINMENT KIT history they felt at the Lincoln Memo­ PETER MOLD Kit suppl ies all of the rial , the Jefferson Memorial, the White necessary materials to create an exact m old House, the Capitol. They saw leather­ of your favor iteliiH·• men silhouetted against monuments, G UARANTEED to provide a f un-filled, lesbians holding hands at the National sexua ll y exhil arating experience with lots of Gallery, men kissing men, women fun for the two of you, an d will provide kissing women in the streets. 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