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| | Gerald Peary - essays - Academy Awards - 2000 |
 | | It was hetero retro at the Oscars, as the silver-haired Playboy-era gang, 60s and 70s hipsters all, Jack Nicholson huffing and preening on stage, provided the tired dominant discourse of last Sunday's 72nd Academy Awards. |
 | | Other old-time womanizers, Michael Caine and Phil Collins, also came in from the cold and, seemingly cured, used the Academy Award platform to go off on their doting wives and bountiful kids--not only Kathie Lee tediously names names! |
 | | Even more subversive: all that blabbering of the Hollywood near-ancients, all the genuflecting before "cool" Grinnin' Jack, couldn't keep down, or out of our TV picture, an amazing alternative, celebratory New Hollywood for the year 2000: the ascendancy at the Oscars of gay and lesbian sensibility. |
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