Well, *CBTT5&D,JD,JD* has a character who was once male, but now is a

female, but it turns out that he/she fathered "the son of Jimmy Dean,"

rather than James Dean himself.  The film explores what it means to be a

woman--one character has had a radical mastectomy, the others have mislead

themselves for years about who and what they are.

 

I've been exploring this issue lately because I spend so much time M**ing,

both for fun and for teaching, and there is a lot of genderbending going on

out on the telnet sites.

 

Which reminds me....has anyone seen "the movies" at MediaMOO?  They

certainly seem to lack a filmmaker's flair.  But they are there, at purple-

crayon.media.mit.edu 8888.  I'm Montana there, if any of you should try to

come out.

 

I vote for the brainstorming on movies--I'm always finding new things to

watch that way (and living in Montana, that is sometimes difficult).  This

week a couple of friends and I have been working our way through the Fred

Schepisi films--inspired by the *New Yorker* article--then discussing them

out on the MOO.  Would any of you folks out there be interested in having a

discussion about film sometime out on MediaMOO?  We could easily schedule a

conference.

 

This list is really odd--I guess I'm used to the spontaneity and creativity

of CREWRT-L; sometimes things here seem terribly hostile.  Must be all that

critical theory....

 

Kathleen Ely

(Who never made it beyond the auteur theory....)