fisher@smiley.DEC (Gerry --- Terminally Inane) (07/18/85)
RE: State of the Union: \"Gay Boston.\" > "passing the bucket" to raise funds. To win the support of Boston > mayor Kevin Flynn, Kessler took him on a tour of Gay Boston that OOOOooopppps! Boston's mayor is *Raymond* Flynn. Kevin Flynn was a jock I was in lust with back in highschool. I'm not even going to try to figure out the significance in this slip-of-the-tongue. RE: Recent reading: Will Doherty >Recently, I finished reading Edmund White's "Forgetting Elena," >which is much more like "Nocturnes for the King of Naples" than >"States of Desire." Has White written anything else? >... >Now I'm looking for more fun reading. I loved "Forgetting Elena", but it came off sounding like an English major in heat (I'm an ex-English major; I have the same problem!). The prose in "A Boy's Own Story" is clean and lean; I think this is White's best book. I'm just starting "The Family of Max Desir." Most people who have read this book rave about it; however, it is *very* heavy. For fun, it's hard to beat Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" series. I think that the last installment, "Babycakes", is his best. In "Babycakes", for the first time, he attempts to write a "book," complete with themes, subthemes, non-overbearing imagery, and steady character development. The topic of AIDS can sober anyone. Anyone out there heard when we are going to be graced with a film version of "Torch Song Trilogy"? I heard sometime in '86; is this true? Gerry Fisher ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-smiley!fisher