Continued from p. 4
about everything. When you feel that you
don’t know about everything about everything
and you like to say good things and to share
good emotions and be a tender man, then you
believe that you need be a woman to have the
alibi to show these emotions. Maybe this is
(what the movie is all about). Maybe this is
myself, I don’t know.”
Julia’s role was strengthened in the
transition to the screen, the director believes.
‘‘I think that Puig (in the novel) is all the time
focused (on) Molina’s point of view, and
Valentin is a kind of — just a counterpoint
that he needed to flesh out Molina. We treat it
(in the film) to give more power and more
personality and more contradiction to the
Valentin character that in the book is very
weak. He’s just a silly boy saying ‘Shut up,
shut up, don’t tell me this movie’ — but for 300
pages he’s saying the same ‘shut up.’”
One senses that Hector Babenco would
have been content even if Kiss of the Spider
Woman had not proved such a critical and
commercial success, because he’s doing the
kind of work he chooses to do. “How many
lives do you have?” he asks rhetorically. “I’m
living from my movies for ten years, and I’m
not living bad. I travel a lot, I buy good
clothes, I have a good dentist; I have
everything that everyone who has a lot of
money has, and I’m making the movies that 1
want.”
And he has what, if he were gay, would be
the ultimate satisfaction:
“My mother loved the movie.” •
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MAN CONVICTED IN NIGHTCLUB FIRE
Robert “Jack” Eury, sentenced last month
to 14 years in prison for setting fire to the
Scorpio lounge last Christmas Eve, was
indicted August 6, I98S for allegedly
tampering with a key prosecution witness in
his July trial.
Conviction could get him another 10 years
in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to a
report in the Charlotte Observer (8/7/85).
Eury is accused of using intimidation and
threats to induce codefendant and key
prosecution witness Danny Clontz to be
absent from his week-long arson trial in U. S.
District Court.
Clontz already had been convicted for his
role in burning the popular homosexual night
spot when he disappeared on the first day of
Eury’s trial. Clontz, out on bond awaiting
sentencing, had been subpoenaed to testify.
Two days after Clontz disappeared, U. S.
District Judge Robert Potter revoked Eury’s
$25,000 bond and ordered him jailed. He ruled
there was evidence Eury had attempted to
obstruct justice and had violated conditions of
his pre-trial release.
Eury, 34, was accused of masterminding a
conspiracy to burn the Scorpio lounge. Eury,
Clontz and a third codefendant Smith testified
Eury told him he was getting together a large
sum of money so Clontz could leave town and
avoid testifying.
In a March hearing, Assistant U. S.
Attorney Kenneth Andresen sought to have
Eury jailed without bond pending trial. The
prosecutor argued that Eury had threatened
witnesses and might threaten, intimidate or
injure others.
Eury was released on bond but was ordered
to have no contact with witnesses or victims.
On August 5, Clontz told Potter he fled
because he feared for his life. He testified Eury
had threatened him and forced him to write a
suicide note and fly to Chicago the night
before the trial began.
Smith also was convicted for conspiring and
carrying out plans to set fire to the Scorpio
lounge. Smith, 29, and Clontz, 24, each were
sentenced to 11 years in prison. •
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To The Editor:
The board of directors of QCQ (Queen City
Quordinators) has asked me, as interim co
ordinator, to make you aware of our concerns
as to the coverage which QCQ events receive
in the Front Page.
Since the paper originates in Raleigh, it is
possibly understandable that more attention is
devoted to Triangle area events, and that,
when stories of particular note to
Charlotteans are published, they are usually
reprints of Charlotte Observer articles. We
understand that you are basically at the mercy
of us Charlotteans for your information on
Charlotte.
However, on at least 3 recent occasions,
QCQ notified the Front Page, in writing and
by the deadline, of QCQ events for which we
were seeking publicity. We were quite
disappointed with your coverage.
• We attribute the poor attendance at the
Romanousky and Phillips concert on March
23 of this year largely to the fact that FP
provided no coverage.
• Charlotte’s Gay Pride Week events were
reported, as I recall, way back on page 6. (In
spite of this, attendance was excellent, since
we did not depend on TFP for coverage).
• The last straw was the August 13th issue
(Vol. 6 #14). The N. C. Gay and Lesbian
Conference, sponsored by QCQ, is being held
for the first time in Charlotte (August 30 and
31) and many people have devoted much time
and effort to make it a success. Since FP is a N.
C. newspaper for gays, the annual N.C. gay
conference would seem to warrant the front
page, or close to it. However, our story was
buried on page 13 in a 5-inch one-column
article. On top of that, the layout was botched
as well.
We at QCQ hope that you will consider and
act on our concerns. QCQ members were
responsible for the distribution of the Front
Page to all Charlotte locations for several
months, and our secretary, Sammy Jackson, is
currently distributing your paper to all non
bar locations in Charlotte and Salisbury. We
also occasionally place paid advertisements.
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Dr. Timothy W. Lane, M. D., of the UNC
Chapel Hill School of Medicine faculty, will
be appearing in the Joyner Lounge of the
Elliott Center on the UNC-Greensboro
campus on October 9, 1985, at 7:30 p.m. to
speak on the AIDS epidemic. Dr. Lane is chief
of the internal medicine teaching program at
Moses Cone Hospital, Greensboro, and he is
an expert on the AIDS epidemic. Dr Lane will
speak on many aspects of the AIDS epidemic,
including: the spread of the disease into the
heterosexual community, and the current
state in the search for a cure to this lethal
illness.
The lecture by Dr. Lane is sponsored by the
Gay/Lesbian Student Association and the
Student Government of UNC-G. The public is
invited to attend free of charge. •
Literary
Notes
Celebrated black writer James Baldwin,
author of such gay- themed classics as
Giovanni's Room and Another Country, will
see his non-fiction works collected in The
Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction,
1948-85. Saint Martin’s Press will release the
anthology in November.
New Directions has announced plans to
release what may well be the most definitive
collection of Tennessee Williams’ short
stories. The new anthology has been brought
to fruition by James Laughlin, New
Directions' publisher; Lady Maria St. Just,
Williams’ co-literary executor (with attorney
John Eastman, Jr.); and writer Gore Vidal.
The work, to be entitled Tennessee Williams:
Collected Stories, will also mark the first
appearance of some half dozen previously
unpublished short stories.
The New American Library continues its
progressive tradition of looking at gay male
topics. In August it will release a new work
entitled In a Man’s World: Father, Son,
Brother, Friend and Other Roles Men Play.
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