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WINDY CITY TIMES
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MEDIA WATCH
by JIM EDMINSTER 2003-12-10
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From the 'Hope-It's-In-The-DVD' file, Newsweek (12/1) reveals that during the
editing of the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy director Peter Jackson filmed a gag video of
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) and Orlando Bloom (Legolas) making homoerotic eyes
at one another. Bloom: '...they had a shot of Viggo pulling out his sword and looking
at me, and me looking at him and drawing my bow. It was brilliant, man.'
From the 'Denial-Is-Not-Just-A-River-In-Africa' file the Chicago Sun-Times (12/4)
ran an interview of J.L. King whose book On the Down Low tells about
African-American men like himself '... Who have sex with men but do not consider
themselves gay or bisexual. They are not effeminate and often have girlfriends or
wives who are unaware of their double lives.' He is touring, speaking to primarily
Black women since such double lives can severely impact them. He says he has
encountered much hostility from men living this way and straight people who simply
don't believe him.
The NY Times (11/30): Former N.F.L. player Roy Simmons, who also lived in 'the
Down Low' mode but who has come out, told his H.I.V. status: he's positive.
Simmons, who suffered through shame and a drug problem for years, quit football,
lived on the streets in San Francisco and finally rehabilitated himself. 'To his
surprise, he has found that old teammates and family members are not shunning
him.'
From the 'Little-Triumphs' file, the Chicago Tribune (11/30) in an editorial calls
South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat a hero for facing down his recalcitrant
government in its anti-AIDS-drug stance and getting those folks to admit the gay
man was right and henceforth they would distribute the anti-virals to their ill
country-people.
Check out: What We Lost, a book by Dale Peck reviewed in The NY Times book
review section (11/16), a finely written memoir of a gay man. A novel reviewed 11/30
The Year of Ice ... It's 1978 and Kevin likes ... boys. The Chicago Tribune (11-26) had
a major article on 'Lesbian pulp becomes pop phenomenon.' Even though the
books were produced in the '50s and '60s as 'one-handed reading' for straight
men, they '...at least provided a representation of life as a lesbian.' Chicago
playwright Paricia Kane is quoted and featured since she has written a play on this
topic called Pulp, which will run at About Face Theater's Festival of New Plays in
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