"Contrivances" may be the wrong word—I have no idea if the screenplay changes the actual events, and I'm not really familiar with the story. But it's a safe bet that the movie will find the most tearjerking way to tell the story.

Seriously, they would have to seriously fuck this up for me not to end up a blubbering mess by the end, even as I chart every contrivance along the way.

That's kinda brilliant. Is that something the filmmakers have confirmed, or is it a theory you or someone else came up with?

I imagine that in some cases it's put on to feel a part of the community, and in others it's un-suppressing the way they wanted to speak from the beginning.

And there are a TON of gay cultures out there. I (sincerely) hope you find the one that works for you.

Gay culture has never been monolithic and has always been changing, just like any culture.

This is absolutely an issue that a lot of gay men deal with—I think about my voice pretty frequently, and I code-switch all the time, based on situation (my theatre company and my in-laws get very different versions of me). My husband's voice sometimes drops a good half-octave when he's talking to straight men. I…

He also played the father in the original cast of BYE BYE BIRDIE (and the film) which is just WEIRD.

The way that some gay men choose to sort themselves into armed camps, based on voice/physicality/interests, all the while insisting that they have to do it because other people are persecuting them, is a fascinating, but unsurprising phenomenon. (See the "gay bro" phenomenon, or the recent book HOW TO BE GAY, which…

Is this the place where I admit that, despite my distaste for his art and public persona, I find Eli Roth kinda hot?

Same here. I'm now going to try to use it.

I just saw Steven Pasquale play Billy Bigelow in CAROUSEL in Chicago, and he was absolutely brilliant. He's a terrific singer. If this show found a way to make Mark Fuhrman sing, I would watch the hell out of it.

Would you call INSIDE MAN wobbly?

I saw Rollins a few years ago as well. Unbelievable.

This is very cool, but I'm pretty sure I saw this some time last year—maybe even linked from this site. Old News, Internet?

I'm snoozing until the Harvey Pekar Cinematic Universe gets going.

Well, I guess that answers the question of how things are there.

There's something so gratifying about interviews with actors who do both theatre and film in which they don't just pay lip service to the idea that they prefer theatre but actually go into why and tell stories about the process. (The Mike Nichols story was the highlight for me, though I agree that the whole interview…

Tony Randall was a pretty remarkable guy.

I'd love to see what a movie could do with the cave scenes. I'd also love to see what could be done with the book—I saw it a few years ago and was shocked at how *clunky* parts of it are.