Gay Directors, Gay Films?   Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters     Emanuel Levy   “This is an impressively  informative  treatment of five promi- nent gay directors who represent a wide range of differences within the  gay  spectrum.  Levy’s background in  gay cinema, independent cinema, and traditional Hollywood cinema […]

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Marion Meade’s definitive biography explores his often-brutal childhood acting experiences, the making of his masterpieces, his shame at his own lack of education, his life-threatening alcoholism, and his turbulent marriages.

In the case of Maus, which details Spiegelman’s father’s experience of the Holocaust, it was “inappropriate language and nudity” that caused a Tennessee school board to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel from its eighth-grade curriculum.