Dress Gray

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From: Steve Dyer
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1986 07:11

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I liked it.  This was a fine example of a well-made TV movie.
It had a rather formulaic plot, and the requisite boy-girl
love interest at its center, but within that genre, it was
very well executed.  Dress Gray was hardly a "gay story";
rather it was about the myth of machismo in the armed forces
and its simultaneous attraction to and fear of things homosexual,
and the havoc such dissonance wreaks.  I thought Gore Vidal's
screenplay was wonderfully subtle, and worked well within the
confines of network genteelness.  Anyone else care to comment?
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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Subject: Dress Gray
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 02:11:17 EST
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