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An Office Manager who reads far too much, with my favorite authors being Yukio Mishima, Shirley Jackson, Phil Rickman, Ambrose Bierce, Jeanette Winterson and Gregory Maguire. No genre of movies is safe from my viewing, from classics such as 'Rope' and 'The General' to foreign films including 'Amelie' and 'The Devil's Backbone' to more mainstream fare including 'Session 9' and 'Finding Nemo.' (Oh … Read moreAn Office Manager who reads far too much, with my favorite authors being Yukio Mishima, Shirley Jackson, Phil Rickman, Ambrose Bierce, Jeanette Winterson and Gregory Maguire. No genre of movies is safe from my viewing, from classics such as 'Rope' and 'The General' to foreign films including 'Amelie' and 'The Devil's Backbone' to more mainstream fare including 'Session 9' and 'Finding Nemo.' (Oh yes, and the B-movies of the '50s and '60s.) I also listen to almost all genres of music, everything from Pink Floyd, Garbage and Alanis Morrissette to Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Philip Glass and Sarah Vaughn.
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Harlan Brown is an ex-Marine and a track coach. In 1974, after he is dismissed from Penn State due to rumors of an alleged homosexual romance with one of his athletes, Harlan finds himself as the track coach at Prescott, a smaller university which he discovers is a more diverse than any other school in the country. Harlan's coaching life is thrown into turmoil when three young track athletes, kicked out of another university for their openness about their sexuality, want to join his team. One of the athletes, Billy Sive who looks to be a contender for the Montréal Olympics, piques his interest, and Harlan soon finds himself falling for the young man. Billy begins to have the… Read more
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Max Desir comes from an old Italian family, but his parents left the old country and made a new home for themselves in New Jersey. As he grows up, Max discovers his own preference for men, but nothing ever becomes too serious. Until he meets Nick during a trip through Italy. They live together for a few months in Rome, then move back to the U.S. when they decide it's time to settle down. John, Max's father, doesn't take to the idea that his son is a homosexual; his mother, Marie, accepts her son and acts as a buffer between the two. But after 15 years of keeping them civil, she succumbs to cancer, and John struggles to accept both Max and Nick while dealing with the loss of his… Read more
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Young Paula Alquist witnesses the murder of her Aunt Alice, a world-reknowned opera singer, in her own house. On the advice of family and friends, Paula moves out of the country, to live with a family friend. After many years, she falls in love with Gregory Anton, and he convinces her to move back into her Aunt's house. Nothign has changed since she left 10 years ago, but Gregoy persuades her to remove her Aunt's belongings in order to keep those painful memories at bay. Soon after moving in, though, strange things start to happen. The gaslights mysteriously dim each night, followed by strange noises coming from the closed off upper floor. Paula begins to lose and to misplace things,… Read more
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