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I attended our local opera company's production of Verdi's Rigoletto last evening with a friend. My friend told me about running into a man a couple of days ago, who said he'd seen the opening performance last Saturday. This man said he had enjoyed the production and the singers but that his wife and daughter, who had attended with him, were very put off by the "treatment of women" in the production and could not enjoy the opera for that reason. I asked my friend if the production was updated to modern day, since I'd read no reviews or discussions of this local Rigoletto production yet. My friend had no idea, either, but I expressed my opinion that if the production was in the original setting (16th century Mantua) how could the man's wife and daughter expect women would not be portrayed as they were treated in Italy back in the 1500's? The Metropolitan Opera's current production of Rigoletto is updated to 1960's Las Vegas and it perhaps would show the treatment of women in a better light, thus my speculation that our local production may have been updated to modern day and did not believably portray Gilda and Maddelena as modern women. No. As I found when the curtain first went up, the production is fully traditional, set in 16th century Mantua. So to my question. Is political correctness becoming so important to modern society that we need to modify and update or even drop classic plays/operas or even works of art so as to not offend the public? Do the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements on social media require a modification or avoidance of any and all performance art created in history, or are some just hyper-sensitive at this moment in time? TruHart1

HOLLYWOOD – Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name is to be remade as a heterosexual love story From the parody show business online publication The Studio Exec: https://thestudioexec.com/heterosexual-call-name-works/ TruHart1

********slight spoiler below********** Dominick Abbate, the survivor who found a real idol, then made an additional fake idol to try to fool Chris: Donathan Hurley, the (perhaps) clueless gay guy: TruHart1

Here's a publicly shared tumblr article that hits so many feelings I had, __hearing all the buzz, reading the novel and finally seeing the film: https://mellemental.tumblr.com/post/171439866999/call-me-by-your-name-a-personal-journey TruHart1

I'm not familiar with him at all (in his ad, he gives his name as Brunno.) WOW. If his pic's in his ad are real, he is one HOT man! TruHart1

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As far as Russell Tovey's nude scene, I read somewhere that in the filmed version of the original NT production Russell only showed his naked butt (which I can verify, having watched it on film myself) but that in every other performance which was not being filmed, he showed full-frontal. Why? I have not read any explanation but my guess would be that he was okay with full frontal nudity in the stage performance but they (TPTB or Russell himself) decided to not show full frontal for posterity so that if drama classes/student studies, etc., studying this production would be more accessible for universal serious study? TruHart1

LOL! My mother. She always had eyes which changed color depending on the color of her outfit, from hazel to green to blue to gray. Her father (my grandfather) had the clearest steely blue eyes (noticeable even in black and white photographs!) which I only ever saw in either b & w and color pictures since he died when I was only a bit more than a year old. That steeliness is what gives my eye color the "Husky eyes" look, with variance from clear green to clear blue, depending on what color of clothing I'm wearing! TruHart1

A change of pace - I know it's not CMBYN but... Armie on Nick Grimshaw's BBC1 radio programme, reading from Brit reality star Gemma Collins autobiography: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10156131157611763 TruHart1

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Is this the man in question? https://rentmen.eu/ItalianMassge TruHart1

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We have a family legend: My mom loved to go out to local dance clubs with her roommates/girlfriends and Jitterbug all night. She'd been going out dancing for years! One Saturday night, she decided she was tired of dancing with every man who approached her, which was her usual M.O. and would instead wait to dance next with the first guy who had his shoes impeccably shined. That happened to be my dad and they got married 3 weeks later. Thus I was born nine months after they were married! TruHart1

I called my mom, 'momma' until I was around 12, then started calling her mom. If I was exasperated with her, I formalized it to "Mother!" My father was 'daddy' until I was around 10, then always dad. But I never called him "Father." My mom's parents both died when I was about a year old, her mother first and then her father in a few months, since he lost his will to live after my mom's mother died, so I never knew them. My dad's folks were always grandma and grandpa. Pretty standard for many families, I think. TruHart1

Here's GMA's Michael Strahan's Oscar red carpet interview of Timothée Chalamet (with his mother.) Note how moved, even a bit overwhelmed he honestly is by his HS drama teacher's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JjBSIDoUWM TruHart1

Here is Mr. Ivory's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDoIOo8GMvY ...and here is a short 'Backstage at the Oscars' interview of Q & A with Mr. Ivory and media: TruHart1

Having never read the original French novel, D'Entre les Morts, on which "Vertigo" is based, I have no idea if the character of the detective in the movie, portrayed by Stewart, was supposed to be an older man or not. Oliver in Aciman's novel is 7 years older than Elio in the book. I was not trying to say Oliver is older and wiser in CMBYN, only that Oliver covers his insecurities with a bravado which is perceived as a high level of confidence and wisdom, trying to convey that Armie Hammer did that perfectly, contrary to all the brickbats thrown at Mr. Hammer as being "uninvolved, too old, etc., etc." in his role interpretation. TruHart1

You are entitled to your opinion just as the LA Times theater critic is. However, what is described, including the skewed viewpoint on Armie Hammer's interpretation of Oliver, is NOT what the book, and therefore the movie, is about. Does anyone really believe that in 1983 a 17 year-old teen age male with a crush on an older 24 year-old male would actually be in any way cognizant of how this sexual affair might ruin his life? AIDS had certainly not reached Northern Italy yet in any form in 1983. As for Hammer's interpretation, read the book. Oliver protects his inner self by trying to appear older and much more confident than he actually is. Director Guadagnino hand-picked both Chalamet and Hammer for his leading men and has expressed the belief that the vision he had for this film was fully achieved. Like the film or dislike the film. It is the film that the filmmakers wanted to make. TruHart1

Here's Timothée Chalamet's acceptance speech at the Independent Spirit Awards accepting the award for best male actor: Armie was suffering from the flu and unable to attend, even though he WAS nominated as best supporting male actor (Sam Rockwell won): https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/03/03/how-timothee-gas-station-spirit-awards/392614002/ TruHart1

Check out this link, @WilliamM , it explains the contest and how to enter it, though it is over now. Lucy, from Medford, MA won a pre-Oscar dinner with the cast & director of CMBYN: https://www.omaze.com/experiences/call-me-by-your-name-oscars-party?ref=callme That prize was for earlier this evening, March 10, 2018. TruHart1

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''Cheers to Lucy from Medford, MA! Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer are going to call Lucy by her name at their exclusive pre-Oscars dinner party. We also owe a big congratulations to Laura from Berkeley, CA, who won a signed copy of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name and Bryant from Doylestown, PA, who won a limited edition vinyl of the soundtrack signed by Sufjan Stevens. Thank you so much for supporting The Trevor Project and the Foundation for The AIDS Monument. We’re celebrating you, too! Stay awesome, Team Omaze'' TruHart1

https://rentmen.eu/TedColunga I used to have fantasies about Ted Colunga and his amazing thick, uncut endowment back in the early 2000's when his porn career was so popular that he made videos under three or four other stage names for different studios! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c15ggxLiV6I/T1ueFnHdiKI/AAAAAAAAJwQ/INxN46nbwRo/s1600/z+Ted+Colunga,+haiory+big+dick,+fat+cock.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEOF-vfXIAAspeh.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDbvIJVW0AErfmT.jpg:large One of my favorite videos with Ted back around 2006 or 2007: https://www.gayforit.eu/video/104052/Ted-Colunga-and-Lucas TruHart1

The Ghost Island cast is certainly made up of a lot of male eye candy! I also enjoy the young, inexperienced gay guy's personality, though I'm afraid he may not last too long, due to his lack of athleticism! My favorite, Chris Noble: The (18 year-old but saying he's 23!) gorgeous Michael Yerger: Brendan Shapiro, the (ultimate DILF) middle school coach: Wendell Holland, furniture maker: Sebastian Noel, the fisherman: James Lim: TruHart1