For The Love of Dolly (Just Announced: On DVD July 8th)
FOR THE LOVE OF DOLLY takes you into the hearts and homes of Dolly Parton’s most devoted fans. With its uniquely queer perspective on fandom and obsession, this poignant and humorous portrait is finally coming to DVD after its successful tour of the film festival circuit.
Big Lesbian Movies Of 2008
On the horizon for 2008 we have lots of BIG stars playing lesbian characters in BIG new mainstream movies by BIG directors!
Julianne Moore will play a lesbian novelist in Rebecca Miller’s upcoming film, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE, which is set to start shooting this month. Woody Allen’s next picture, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, is in the can and headed for theaters before the end of the year. The film will feature Scarlett Johanssen and Penelope Cruz in a lesbian sex scene (the film also boasts a three-way scene involving Javier Bardem, thank you very much). And look for Mischa Barton playing a Russian teen who falls in love with an American girl at a t.A.T.u. concert in YOU AND I (FINDING TATU), directed by Roland Joffe! Bradley Rust Gray’s NYC teen lesbian love story JACK AND DIANE is not yet in production but still has Olivia Thirlby attached to star as Jack (her JUNO co-star Ellen Page was previously attached as Diane).
NCAA Supports Fan Diversity, Sort Of
With the NCAA Women’s Final Four basketball tournament unfolding this past weekend as the top lesbian party destination of the year next to Dinah Shore Weekend, the Tampa Tribune ran a story about the lesbian fan phenomenon last Friday on their website.
After the story ran, the NCAA released this essentially-homophobic-yet-trying-not-to-be statement:
“To say any NCAA championship appeals to a certain percentage of a particular segment of the population, especially without any scientific backing, is without merit. The truth is each tournament appeals to a core group of fans but that core is as diverse as the American population itself.”
“From our perspective, this weekend is about basketball, not about social issues,” said NCAA spokesperson Chuck Wynne in a Tampa Tribune follow-up story. “The arena will be sold out with a diverse crowd, most of whom are there because they love the game or follow a certain team.”
Basketball, schmasketball! About a thousand lesbians will be lining up at The Underground tonight (April 7th) for Wolfe’s 12th Annual Women’s Final Four Party. Now that’s what we call scientific backing!
Water Lilies (Opens in NYC, April 4th)
The award-winning French teen lesbo ensemble pic, WATER LILIES opens April 4th in New York. Manohla Dargis describes the action nicely in her mostly positive New York Times review: “There’s Anne (Louise Blachère), the sloppy, fat loner (more gently rounded than truly big), who pals around with Marie (Pauline Acquart), a reedy child-woman who, in turn, only has big hungry eyes for Floriane (Adèle Haenel), a ripe beauty whose suggestive smile portends trouble. The scope of that trouble slowly emerges as the girls circle one another at the local pool — they’re all involved in synchronized swimming, hence the title — at parties and, most provocatively, in one another’s bedrooms.”
ANT (queer comedian)
It’s a tie: ANOTHER GAY MOVIE. Or XANADU (anyone who’s seen it knows it’s the gayest movie ever made)!
You’ve seen him on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and Celebrity Fit Club! Check out ANT’s always entertaining blog!
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