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From: fisher@smiley.DEC (Gerry --- Terminally Inane)
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Subject: Erratum: State of the Union;  Doherty: Recent reading
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 10:34:08 EDT
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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
 
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