Susie Bright: "I saw Marlene Dietrich in Morocco when I was a teenager. I just was flipping the channels and saw her and decided to settle in for an old movie. And there's this scene where she comes into a nightclub and she's just stunning in this tuxedo. And the camera lingers, I mean, it wasn't like I was catching this out of the side of the screen. It 's right in the center. She has a romance with Gary Cooper in this movie but that romance just went right out the window for me. I was just like, who was that woman, what had happened? I started writing a whole other script for what was really going on!"
Arthur Laurents:"...the thing worked for everybody of every sex. And what's amazing, I don't think they've done anything as delicious sexually as that since. They didn't pretend it was anything but it was: she was doing it to turn on both the woman and the man, which appealed to everybody. As it should. It was so free."
Queen Christina, 1933
Chancellor: There are rumors that your majesty is planning a foreign marriage?
Christina: They are baseless.
Chancellor: But your majesty, you cannot die an old maid!
Christina: I have no intention to, Chancellor. I shall die a bachelor!
Rebel Without A Cause, 1955
Stewart Stern, screenwriter: "People talk about whether that was a homosexual relationship. The intention wasn't that. But any film is at the same time an expression of a writer and it's an offering to an audience to create their own film. I think if I were writing that script again today that I would be much more specific about Plato. I would let him be an outcast because the gang thought he was a faggot and let his isolation come from that opinion."
Ben Hur, 1959
Gore Vidal, screenwriter: "I said well, look, let me try something. Let's say that these two guys, when they were 15 or 16 when they last saw each other, they had been lovers and now they're meeting again and the Roman wants to start it up. Masala, played by Stephen Boyd, wants to start it up with Ben Hur, played by Charlton Heston, heaven knows why but he does."
Susie Bright: "I saw Marlene Dietrich in Morocco when I was a teenager. I just was flipping the channels and saw her and decided to settle in for an old movie. And there's this scene where she comes into a nightclub and she's just stunning in this tuxedo. And the camera lingers, I mean, it wasn't like I was catching this out of the side of the screen. It 's right in the center. She has a romance with Gary Cooper in this movie but that romance just went right out the window for me. I was just like, who was that woman, what had happened? I started writing a whole other script for what was really going on!"
Chancellor: There are rumors that your majesty is planning a foreign marriage?
Stewart Stern, screenwriter: "People talk about whether that was a homosexual relationship. The intention wasn't that. But any film is at the same time an expression of a writer and it's an offering to an audience to create their own film. I think if I were writing that script again today that I would be much more specific about Plato. I would let him be an outcast because the gang thought he was a faggot and let his isolation come from that opinion."
Gore Vidal, screenwriter: "I said well, look, let me try something. Let's say that these two guys, when they were 15 or 16 when they last saw each other, they had been lovers and now they're meeting again and the Roman wants to start it up. Masala, played by Stephen Boyd, wants to start it up with Ben Hur, played by Charlton Heston, heaven knows why but he does."