Sex In Cinema 1982

November, 1982

An oft-anthologized short story by Irwin Shaw is The Girls in Their Summer Dresses; a collective title for the films of 1982 might well be The Boys in Their Summer Dresses. Clint Eastwood, it would seem, is the only major star who hasn't as yet climbed into drag. The tone was set, of course, by Blake Edwards' comedy hit Victor, Victoria. In it, not only does gay, graying Robert Preston wind up the show performing a wild kind of Carmen Miranda impersonation in a night club, he also persuades the...

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