CREEMEDIA
The most important fact about Making Love, Personal Best, Victor/Victoria and Deathtrap—far beyond whether they’re any good or not—is that they exist. The rage underlying the protests against Cruising and other homophobic movies wasn’t inspired by just another example of prejudicial stereotyping; it arose from Hollywood’s cowardice or mean-spiritedness in refusing to play fair.
CREEMEDIA
Play It Again, Quentin
MAKING LOVE (20th Century-Fox)
PERSONAL BEST (Geffen)
VICTOR/VICTORIA (United Artists)
DEATHTRAP (Warner Brothers)
Jim Feldman
The most important fact about Making Love, Personal Best, Victor/Victoria and Deathtrap—far beyond whether they’re any good or not—is that they exist. The rage underlying the protests against Cruising and other homophobic movies wasn’t inspired by just another example of prejudicial stereotyping; it arose from Hollywood’s cowardice or mean-spiritedness in refusing to play fair. If there were numerous positive representations of gays in films, then one might reasonably compare Cruising to, say, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, which certainly showed a rather unsavory aspect of the straight world, but which did not equate heterosexuality and violence or psychosis. Like they say, it’s the context that’s important.