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Fox to develop film on Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling
A representative for Fox confirmed Tuesday the studio has acquired the life rights to Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that last month became a landmark in the gay rights movement.
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Review: ‘Tangerine’ a vital peek into unseen LA street lives
Shot entirely with iPhones, writer-director Sean Baker’s fifth feature is an urgent, intimate look at a day in the lives of two transgender prostitutes. It illuminates Los Angeles’ fringe-living, often unseen characters: the hookers and dope fiends, the late-night cab drivers.
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GLAAD study finds studio movies lagging in LGBT roles
An annual study by GLAAD has found that Hollywood studios continue to lag in producing films representing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, despite a slight improvement over the last year.
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Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart defend ‘Get Hard’ after critics label it racist, homophobic
In the annals of film festival flops – from unexpected boos to red-carpet gaffes – the premiere of the Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart comedy “Get Hard” will go down as a doozy.
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Graham Moore’s Oscar‑worthy acceptance speech for ‘Imitation Game’ – #StayWeird
Graham Moore, who on Sunday won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Imitation Game,” took the opportunity to give a powerful acceptance speech calling awareness to teen suicide and depression, recalling his own attempt at suicide at age 16.
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‘Birdman’ takes flight at an Oscars ceremony punctuated by politics
The long take of “Birdman” has stretched all the way to the Academy Awards, where the jazzy, surreal comedy about an actor fleeing his superhero past, took Hollywood’s top honor in a ceremony punctuated by passionate pleas for equality.
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Easy chemistry between James Franco, Zachary Quinto in ‘I am Michael’
The film, which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, is a sensitive, complicated and provocative story about a prominent gay activist who, in just a few years, denounces his homosexuality.
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Annie Proulx: ‘I wish I’d never written’ ‘Brokeback Mountain’
Proulx says that ever since her 1997 short story was adapted into a film, too many people misunderstand its message.
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Eminem ‘comes out’ as gay in controversial new film ‘The Interview’
“When I say things about gay people, or people think my lyrics are homophobic — it’s because I’m gay,” he says while appearing as himself in a scripted interview in “The Interview.”
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Review: Cumberbatch shines as gay wartime codebreaker Alan Turing
‘Tis clearly the season for Oscar-worthy performances by British actors playing mathematical geniuses facing daunting personal odds. Sound overly specific? Consider: A few weeks ago we had “The Theory of Everything,” starring Eddie Redmayne as the brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking. And now we have Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing…