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Portrayals of homosexuality were frowned upon until the 1960s, by the movie industry's production code and such groups as the Legion of Decency. Yet gays were everywhere in the movies, right from the beginning this documentary shows two men dancing together in a Thomas Edison short named “The Gay Brothers,” from 1895 and often they were hidden in plain view. Hollywood knew who was gay and who was not, and there were in-jokes like John Ireland's line to Montgomery Clift in “Red River”: “There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun a Swiss watch, or a woman from anywhere. You ever had a Swiss watch?” “The Celluloid Closet” is inspired by a 1981 book by Vito Russo, who wrote as a gay man who found he had to look in the shadows and subtexts of movies to find the homosexual characters who were surely there. His book was a compendium of visible and concealed gays in the movies, and now this documentary, which shows the scenes he could only describe, makes ....
Special Alert! President Biden Bans Bitcoin, Institutes Fed Dollar Share Share Gerald Loeb (quoted on p. 149 in “The Maxims of Wall Street”)
But it could happen. Billionaire guru Ray Dalio warned last week that Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will “probably ban Bitcoin” and institute its own digital currency, “Fedcoin.” Yellen has already told the press that she is no fan of a digital currency that is independent of government control. Countries under an authoritarian regime, like India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, or the United States, under President Joe Biden, hate to lose control of their currency. Modi has threatened to make the ownership or the mining of Bitcoin illegal in the world’s largest “democracy.” ....