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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mum (DVD)

May 31, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Julia Stone, Macha Grenon, Gil Bellows, Rebecca Croll, Dolly Parton
Director: Tara Johns
Running Time: 95 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: May 27th 2013

With a title as awesome The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mum, this film has a lot to live up to, and thankfully it’s a pretty good and rather sweet movie. It’s also a fairly good example of what cinema is lacking because there are so few women directors, as when you get a movie like this, with a genuine female voice, you realise how rare it is and how lop-sided the movies generally are.

It’s 1976 and Elizabeth is on the verge of puberty. During a class assignment about how blood groups are hereditary, she realises that she cannot be her parents’ biological child. Understandably she’s a little upset and confused about this, and becomes gripped with the idea of find her ‘real’ mother. After thinking it over, she comes to the conclusion that perhaps Dolly Parton is her mum, due to the singer’s trailblazing ways and love of poetry. [Read more…]

Dolly Parton Says She’s Not Gay, But She Sure Love Them

November 27, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If I were to turn straight, I think I’d have to try and woo Dolly Parton (and that, dear friends, is good evidence of why I’ll never turn straight). Her support of gay rights is well known, but has led to speculation from some more closed-minded corners – who can’t believe a straight person would love gay people so much – that she’s a lesbian and in a relationship with her childhood friend.

The singer and sometime actress was asked about her lovelife by ABC’s NIghtline, to which she responded, “I’ve been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have. But you know people always saying that.”

She then compared lesbian rumours surrounding her to those that have swirled around Oprah and her friend Gail, “Like Gail, her friend, Judy, my friend, they just think that you just can’t be that close to somebody. Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade… We still just have a great friendship and relationship and I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we’re not romantically involved.”

Indeed Parton is a bit of a poster child for straight relationships, as she’s been married to her husband Carl Dean, for 46 years. Speculation about Parton being a lesbian may be a result of the fact that Dolly and her hubby are rarely seen together. Dean is generally publicity shy and Parton has said he’s only ever seen her perform once, but just because he doesn’t go to events with her doesn’t mean they’re not happily married.

She has long supported gay rights and even holds ‘gay days’ at her Dollywood theme park, continuing with them even after she was threatened about them by the Ku Klux Klan. Parton has even previously entered a drag queen contest anonymously as herself… and lost.

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Joyful Noise (DVD)

November 1, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Dexter Darden
Director: Todd Graff
Running Time: 112 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: November 5th 2012

I don’t consider myself a particularly stereotypical gay man, but that all changes when it comes to Dolly Parton, who has the innate ability to bring out my inner screaming queen.

I’m oddly unashamed about my love for Dolly Parton. Therefore I’m more than a little excited about the fact that Joyful Noise brings her back to movie screens in a starring role for the first time since Straight Talk in 1992. It’s not a completely triumphant return but the film is quite fun. [Read more…]

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