CHARLES BUSCH Mon Nov 15; DICK CAVETT Fri Nov 19 and JOE GAGE Sun Nov 14
(Long Island, N.Y.) The Cinema Arts Centre presents three major events mid-November: DICK CAVETT IN PERSON Nov 19; plus CHARLES BUSCH, JOE GAGE for the 13th Annual LI Gay/Lesbian Film Fest. Events curated by Dr. Jud Newborn, Special Projects Curator – call for interview contact: 516-931-7796 or cell 516-652-7920. (Must act fast to reach Dick Cavett) OR CONTACT for Photos, Information, and Interviews: Susan Finkelstein, Publicist: Susan@CinemaArtsCentre.org 631-423-7611 x14 M-Th 11:30am-6pm
“IN PERSON” HEADLINERS AT THE 13th ANNUAL LI GAY/LESBIAN FILM FEST (Fri Nov 12 to Thur Nov 18) – FULL FILM FEST SCHEDULE HERE: http://www.liglff.org/schedule.html
1. CHARLES BUSCH – acclaimed Tony-nominated playwright/star, Monday, Nov. 15, 7pm – direct from the stage of his comic hit of the season, THE DIVINE SISTER! Appearing with hilarious satirical film “DIE MOMMIE DIE” (2003), for which he won the coveted Sundance Best Performance Award. Super-slashed “Thank You” play discounts for event attendees. http://www.divinesisteronstage.com/
2. JOE GAGE, Long Island resident and pioneering, politically subversive gay “art-porn” director – finally being recognized by mainstream cinema – Sunday, Nov. 14, 7pm with his revolutionary, culture-critical cinema verite masterpiece,L.A. TOOL AND DIE” (1976) – no one under 18 permitted. Will provide an edgy, intelligent, historically important interview for Newsday.
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Separate Event:
3. DICK CAVETT (Montauk Resident)- “TALK SHOW”: AN EVENING WITH THE LEGENDARY DICK CAVETT. Friday, Nov. 19, 7.30pm. Only granting selective interviews. Rare Pubic Appearance – Exclusive for LI. If desired: Jud Newborn (curator) can be an intriguing part of this interview as a born/bred Long Island gay teen– a religious Cavett watcher– for whom a Cavett interview was instrumental in my “coming out” in the early ‘70s.
DETAILS BELOW: http://www.cinemaartscentre.org http://www.judnewborn.com
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1. IN PERSON: AWARD-WINNING STAR CHARLES BUSCH
Monday, November 15, 7pm – Screening – Interview and Q&A – Reception – Members $15 / Public $20
Come meet Charles Busch, direct from the stage of the SoHo Playhouse, where his unanimously acclaimed new play, The Divine Sister, is the comic hit of the season. Subject of the PBS-aired documentary, The Lady in Question is Charles Busch, this award-winning actor and prolific playwright–including the Tony nominated Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom–will talk about his multifaceted career. Mr. Busch will also tempt us with inside details about his sophisticated new hit, in which he slyly channels every Hollywood nun from Rosalind Russell’s The Trouble With Angels and Ingrid Bergman’s The Bells of St. Mary’s to The Singing Nun herself!
–“Get thee to The Divine Sister!”—Ben Brantley, New York Times.
–“Comic heaven! Anyone hoping to keep a straight face hasn’t got a prayer!”—Roma Torres, NY1
–Special “Divine Sister” ticket discounts with code. ADDITIONAL SUPER-SLASHED “THANK YOU” THEATER DISCOUNTS FOR BUSCH EVENT ATTENDEES ONLY!
FILM: DIE MOMMIE DIE (2003)
–An outrageous post-modern send-up of Douglas Sirk and other plush Hollywood melodramas of the 1950’s, Die Mommie Die won Charles Busch the coveted Sundance Film Festival’s Best Performance Award. Retired hit-parade singer/film star Angela Arden–surviving member of a twin-sister vaudeville act–is married to ailing producer Sol Sussman while pursuing a wild affair with handsome young tennis instructor Tony Parker (Jason Priestly). Impossibly gracious but secretly desperate, Angela plots to poison Sol, who, refusing a divorce, cuts off her allowance instead. Daughter Edith (also Tony’s lover) suspects foul play and wouldn’t mind if Mom got the Chair–but son Lance (also Tony’s lover) will doing anything to protect the mother he adores. Devotees of byzantine movie plots may think they know the outcome–but the surprise ending will knock your socks off! (USA, 2003, 90 min.)
Charles Busch will be interviewed by Dr. Jud Newborn, CAC Special Projects Curator and author, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
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2. AN EVENING WITH JOE GAGE, REVOLUTIONARY FILMMAKER with Special Guest Bryan Slater, Erotic Model – Sunday, November 14: 7:00pm – Members $15 / Public $20 – Interview with Q&A – Explicit Trailers & Clips – Reception & DVD/Photo Signings/Raffle – Special Screening (original uncut theatrical version) = (No one under 18 permitted for entire event)
Joe Gage’s early films are über-potent dissections of American life and culture–unique and defiant works of virile, unabashed pornography raised to the level of art. Begun when he was 32, his “Working Man’s Trilogy” belongs to the genre of road trip/buddy films even as it appropriates and subverts them. Gage presents “real men” who cross boundaries of race, class and ethnicity, sidestepping rigid sex roles and oppressive stereotypes of homosexuals as effeminate or deviant. Using techniques of cinema verité, Gage juxtaposes car radio soundtracks with the unfolding narrative, interwoven with telling vignettes. The final ingredient is Gage’s trademark building of tension, as men, forced to convey their desire in unspoken looks and coded language, experience the risky thrill of approaching the forbidden. Sometimes disturbing, often exuberant, these are ultimately liberating works that proclaim the humanity of men determined to live their lives despite the hostility of a society that will not even let them breathe.
L.A. TOOL & DIE (Original Uncut Theatrical Version)
When the El-Paso Wrecking Corp. shuts down, Hank–a lanky drifter (played with wry, laidback masculinity by Richard Locke)–has nearly had enough. Fate intervenes when he spots the younger Wylie (Will Seagers), an elusive veteran still haunted by his lover’s death in Vietnam. Despite their instant connection, Wylie sets off cross country for a West Coast welding job, with Hank in determined pursuit (but always ready for some thrills along the way). Hank also has in mind that rinky-dink homestead he’d bought, sight unseen, with its dream-like guarantee of a flourishing orange grove. Hank, Wylie–and the “Working Man’s Trilogy”–finally come together in a denouement that is at once tender and exuberant, as the parched American landscape itself shudders in an unexpected gift of god-sent orgasmic release. (USA 1979, 88 min., b/w.)
Joe Gage and Byran Slater will be interviewed by Dr. Jud Newborn, CAC Special Projects Curator and Cultural Anthropologist (University of Chicago)
Curated by Dr. Jud Newborn
SEPARATE EVENT:
3. AN EVENING WITH THE GREAT DICK CAVETT – Friday, November 19, 7:30pm – Members $20 members / $30 Public – Interview – Audience Q&A – Rare TV Clips – Reception – Book-Signing & CAC Benefit Auction Conducted Personally by Dick Cavett
–“There’s never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett’s. His guest list was miraculous, the conversations dazzling, and it’s a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book.” –Woody Allen
–*“If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, living or dead, who would it be? My answer: Dick Cavett. He is a legend and an inspiration to me.”–Jimmy Fallon (Late Night)
THE GREAT DICK CAVETT, author of the new Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets, has chosen the Cinema Arts Centre for a rare, scintillating and exclusive Long Island appearance with interview and audience Q&A. During the reception and book signing that follows, Dick Cavett will also personally conduct a CAC Benefit Live Auction of his Hollywood Greats and Comic Legends DVD Boxed Interview Sets.
Dick Cavett is, of course, the multiple Emmy award-winning, classic TV talk-show host widely considered the most intelligent, trenchant and wittiest interviewer of our time. His voice unmistakable, his multifaceted career has also included narration, acting and stand-up comedy. The CAC’s Special Projects Curator Dr. Jud Newborn will moderate the evening as Dick Cavett beguiles us with reminiscences and rare TV clips from interviews he conducted with the era’s greatest celebrities on his WABC late night program (running successfully opposite Johnny Carson’s) from 1969 to 1975, and his PBS program from 1977 to 1982.
Cavett’s interviews have included such celebrities (some prior Cinema Arts Centre guests) as Katherine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Groucho Marx, Mel Brooks, Sir Laurence Olivier, Janis Joplin, Woody Allen, Fred Astaire, Ingmar Bergman, Salvador Dali, Ray Charles, David Bowie, Bette Davis, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman Mailer, Orson Welles, The Rolling Stones, Robert Altman, Bill Cosby, Paul Simon, Kirk Douglas, Debbie Reynolds, John Lennon and Yoko Ono,, Joni Mitchell, W.H. Auden, George Burns, John Simon, Jimi Hendrix, Sir Noël Coward, Lucille Ball, Stevie Wonder, Frank Capra, Ray Charles, Lillian Gish, Carol Burnett, Gore Vidal, George Harrison, John Huston, Robert Mitchum, Lily Tomlin, Muhammed Ali, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, The Smothers Brothers, Ravi Shankar, Bob Hope, Grace Slick, Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, Mort Sahl, Truman Capote, Jack Benny, Jefferson Airplane, Stephen Stills & David Crosby, Rex Reed, Sly & The Family Stone, Pete Hamill, Angela Lansbury. . . .
Dick Cavett will be interviewed by Dr. Jud Newborn, CAC Special Projects Curator and co-author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose.
