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Bonus Video! The hidden camera tricks of The Birdcage (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-05 17:01:00
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2023-07-14 18:30:28
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2026-06
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Backup link in case the video doesn't play: https://youtu.be/g1r4jYPWkOM 

Hello there!

In this week's bonus video, I want to show you some very clever visual effects in the opening shot of The Birdcage -- some crafty little tricks that you might never notice, but once you see them they're obvious. Staying with The Birdcage, I also want to show you a super awkward moment from Robin Williams' appearance on Oprah when someone claims to have known him in elementary school; and also a mostly-forgotten sitcom starring Nathan Lane as an openly gay actor who goes to Washington. And we're also jumping back a hundred years to take a look at a saucy silent film from 1907 that appears (depending on who you ask) to contain a startling gay sex joke. Plus a sneak peek at my next video!

Also, big thanks to everyone who suggested locations for me to come do an in-person talk! We're figuring out all the book-tour logistics right now, and while I probably won't be able to go EVERYWHERE I want, we'll probably have some details to announce soon about upcoming events.

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Bonus Video! The hidden camera tricks of The Birdcage

In this week's bonus video, I want to show you some very clever visual effects in the opening shot of The Birdcage -- some crafty little tricks that you might never notice, but once you see them they're obvious. Staying with The Birdcage, I also want to show you a super awkward moment from Robin Williams' appearance on Oprah when someone claims to have known him in elementary school; and also a mostly-forgotten sitcom starring Nathan Lane as an openly gay actor who goes to Washington. And we're also jumping back a hundred years to take a look at a saucy silent film from 1907 that appears (depending on who you ask) to contain a startling gay sex joke. Plus a sneak peek at my next video! Also, big thanks to everyone who suggested locations for me to come do an in-person talk! We're figuring out all the book-tour logistics right now, and while I probably won't be able to go EVERYWHERE I want, we'll probably have some details to announce soon about upcoming events.

Comments

TBoneSF

Watching your video, I had a flashback to a made-for-tv movie in the mid-80s about a family whose son comes out that starred Martin Sheen and Marlo Thomas. I looked it up and it's called Consenting Adult from 1985. As a closeted gay teen when I saw it, it stuck in my brain all these years. Sheen played a less-than-accepting dad.

Scott Nesmith

"Some of My Best Friends Are" was also the title of an obscure 70's film set in a gay bar and featuring Rue McClanahan and Fannie Flagg.

William C. Hardy

I remember watching this, with much trepidation, as I had just come out to my parents a few years earlier, was still seeing a psychiatrist at the time for 'my condition' and was literally fearful that the fam would see me watching it and.....I don't know what I was fearing they would do. In reality, they didn't do anything. However, as most people know nowadays, there were no positive role models for Gay people in the 50's and 60's so whenever anything came along, I would want to watch it. I remember an episode of the TV show, "Medical Center" in which Robert Reed who later played the Dad on "The Brady Bunch' played a transgender man, mid1970's. Quite a thing for that time, but by 1975 I had no problem watching on topic programs.

Gillian

If you're able to come to Canada for your book tour, (not sure how complicated it is to go international) you should check out Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto, it's the best, they do lots of events, and is the oldest LGBTQ+ bookstore in the world, I believe!

William C. Hardy

Regarding 'The Birdcage', Alfred Hitchcock also used incredibly long camera shots, in "Young and Innocent' 1937,when the camera zooms slowly over a crowd of dancing couples in a hotel ballroom to focus on the drummer with an eye twitch in blackface in the band playing the music and an amazing 20 minute shot (actually 2 shots) that follows characters from outside a house to inside the house and then room to room.

William C. Hardy

I neglected to mention the 20 minute shot was from 'Under Capricorn" 1948.

Jason Olshefsky

The Sheen name reminded me of a theory I have: the show "Two and a Half Men" is about a gay couple adopting a son, but it got retooled to be about brothers. Please just tell me I'm crazy and I'll bury it...

Ghostland Radio

I don't know if Maine has entered the "please come here" conversation - but please consider the Space Gallery in Portland! Or... I guess anywhere in Ogunquit. Also: I work at a university with a very large LGBTQ+ collection (I know, Maine is wild). Feel free to reach out. My user name at gmail.

JordanL

I have to ask - is that a stuffed Nermal on your shelf?! (Also, great video, as always!)

Lexi Turner

Just rewatched your absolutely fantastic The Birdcage & La Cage video, and couldn't help but think how much I would love to see a Nathan Lane dedicated video, and/or perhaps even moreso an Angels in America video! (Maybe a "stage to screen to stage" journey?)