Mr. TiVo suggested I check out Longtime Companion which was playing on Encore this week. Think he knows me? I can't believe I've never seen it before. It came out when I was in school and I was one of those insane students camping out in the back stacks of the library so that might explain it. That was early in my journey in figuring out who I am. I had a girlfriend. I was fucking around with my roommate. Not going to gay films, though. I started watching it last night and just finished. I think it was very well done. Brother, I did not see that beach scene coming at all. I bawled my eyes out. It was snot-running bawling. That movie is 16 years old, but it holds up. I can't imagine what effect it must have on people who have lost loved ones to AIDS. Have you seen it?
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
All my life I've waited to see your smile again
Mr. TiVo suggested I check out Longtime Companion which was playing on Encore this week. Think he knows me? I can't believe I've never seen it before. It came out when I was in school and I was one of those insane students camping out in the back stacks of the library so that might explain it. That was early in my journey in figuring out who I am. I had a girlfriend. I was fucking around with my roommate. Not going to gay films, though. I started watching it last night and just finished. I think it was very well done. Brother, I did not see that beach scene coming at all. I bawled my eyes out. It was snot-running bawling. That movie is 16 years old, but it holds up. I can't imagine what effect it must have on people who have lost loved ones to AIDS. Have you seen it?
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Wow, 16 years? Yeah, I saw it when it first came out. Jeezalou that means I was 25 when it was released. It had quite an impact on me when I saw it, especially the beach scene you mentioned. So sad. In the context of the times it certainly was an important film.
Oh, and I remember having a serious boner for Stephen Caffrey (Fuzzy) and to a lesser extent Dermot Mulroney. I'm very shallow, scratch the surface and underneath is more surface.
Well if crushing on Fuzzy is shallow, then I'm a kiddy wading pool, Andrew. Especially when he trimmed the beard up a bit.
That beach scene is intense...so happy and sad at the same time.
Yeah, if I remember rightly towards the end of the film he trims the beard and has those nice pointy sideburns... yum! He's a snack.
I heart happy/sad. I really liked Dermot Mulroney's character John, and when he comes racing down the beach and gives all his friends a hug (esp Campbell Scott), well I lost it.
I haven't seen it since it came out on telly but I do remember Bruce Davison (He's in it, right?) and everything that I have seen him in since then has been coloured by this film rather than say, "Willard".
Was he kind of worldy-wise and calm wearing sun-bleached cottons? Or was it just him looking sun-bleached?
I do remember that it was a very big deal at the time, this show, and I believe it won quite a few awards. Now I'll have to find it and weep once more.
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