I Am Link

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--- Hot Jinx - If you follow me on Twitter you maybe saw me go through my obsession with HBO's astonishing true-crime doc The Jinx, which I watched 5/6ths of in one sitting over the weekend (I had to wait a day for the finale, in which time all the real world news spoiled everything, dammit) - well I'm still kind of obsessed, which is good since said real-world news is gonna be loud for the next whos-knows-how-long, so I turn my eyes to Jarecki's 2010 fictionalization of the same case All Good Things, which I totally skipped watching at the time. (Even though I posted the pictures of Ryan Gosling in tighty-whities here, of course.) Point being I am totally going to watch that movie as soon as I can, and once I've done that I will read this article at the Dissolve talking about the film in light of the doc.

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--- Legendary producer Christine Vachon (true story: when I first got out of college I almost got a gig as one of her assistants... in hindsight I'm glad it didn't happen because she totally would've chewed me up and spat me back across the Hudson) did a Q&A thing at SXSW the other day and IndieWire wrote up the highlights from it; it's mostly about Where We Are Now with indie film-making, but she would know.

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--- Being Frank (Oh) - Some magazine let James Franco interview himself, or rather they let Straight James Franco interview Gay James Franco, and it's exactly all the navel-gazing you think it's gonna be going in, so if you don't wanna read that don't read it. I read most of it... I don't have the monumental patience required to do more than skim two lines of James Franco's poetry though, what am I, Superman? Anyway I wish somebody would just go ahead and ask James Franco: Are you Bi? Because his "I'm not 'Gay' wink wink" word-play's gotten exhausted.
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--- Keep Following - I wasn't quite sure what was up with the release of the awesome horror film It Follows; I'd read it did well on the NY/LA screens its first limited weekend, but I'd thought it was coming out on VOD as well... well DH rounds up the news, which is that it's hitting more theaters across the country this weekend, but it's still going to head to VOD super-fast even though it's making money in theaters.
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--- The Right One - The dudes behind Teen Wolf are turning their attentions a little bit higher with their next target: to the Swedish masterpiece Let the Right One In, actually. They want to turn it into a TV series for A&E. I don't know how I feel about this, but if I was a person who CG'd kitty cats for a living I'd be so excited right now.
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--- The Sigh Guy - I don't usually link to plain old movie reviews in these link-ups very often anymore but this SXSW review of Tab Hunter: Confidential - the documentary based on Tab's entertaining autobiography that I've talked about a few times - has gotten me really excited about seeing the movie myself, it sounds like they did his crazy story justice. Plus interviews with Debbie Reynolds and John Waters? You can't go wrong!

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--- And Finally, speaking of old-timey homos, this one's pretty spectacular a find and I'd never seen it before - via this Tumblr (thanks Mac) comes the following video, which is a screen-test for a scene in East of Eden that was never shot because oh my god it's the gayest thing you've ever seen. James Dean & Richard Davalos are milliseconds away from full penetration.

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