I watched the 1950 Noir film, gender-benderish GUN CRAZY ......A hit or miss flick about gun obsession and its shaping of the lives of a pair of "B' movie outlaw societal parasites.....screenplay by Dalton Trumbo.....and starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall, in yet another 'closeted' performance......(I think I'll re-watch ROPE, which featured Dall as a gay murderer, with his 'partner', Farley Granger).......After ROPE 'outed' both Dall and Granger......GUN CRAZY attempted to heterosexualize Dall, as SENSO had done for Granger.......65 years later, films are far less ambiguous......In the interim, BONNIE AND CLYDE offered some even more closeted ambiguity to the cinematic mainstream.
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CINEMA NOSTALGIA
mostly my nostalgic and frequently puerile reflections on old movies, music and whatever pops from the recesses of memory....i have detailed memory of the oddest and more insignificant details.......these memories codify and indelibly emboss the past into my portrait of the future.......and a bit queer, to boot!
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- pragmatic sensualist, motivated by really deep instincts, actualized by willful imaginings and perpetuated by other's desires. Abstract, yet clear in purpose, honest, but abstruse, my moods change like winds and water with my confidences, and when ungrounded, i am both guarded and vulnerable, leaning, in darkness, to the Light, nurtured by instinctual feelings arising from a deep gene pool.