Another year, another Outfest Opening Night Party. Oh wait, this year it's 25! To misquote Exodus: "What makes this Outfest different from every other Outfest"? The short list of last night's highlights:
- Bill Condon's acceptance speech for his Lifetime Achievement Award was articulate and thoughtful. Though the clips of his body of work were kind of repetitive. He's only made five films and one of those is Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh.
- Perez Hilton got into a fight with an Outfest volunteer. Yawn.
- The fight happened in front of Tori Spelling. Since both she and Perez are shooting reality shows, this meant the two crews were filming each other as well as Perez's hissy fit.
- Save Me is a weird choice for an Opening Night movie. Kyle explains what it's about here. It's a quiet film and while Judith Light is a-mazing in it, it's sort of a downer. It does bring up the tantalizing possibility that gay men could be brothers to each other instead of you know, being overwhelmed by their own abandonment/ sense of entitlement. Instead of Lost Boys, we could be a community bound to each other by shared pain, experience and love. You know, the 'whole responsibility to the living', thing.
- Much better party than last year. More food, more bars, an aerialist for entertainment.
- Apparently, I look like Crispin Glover and/or Jeff Daniels. I am so getting a haircut.
Labels: film, gay
Another year, another Outfest Opening Night Party. Oh wait, this year it's 25! To misquote Exodus: "What makes this Outfest different from every other Outfest"? The short list of last night's highlights: