The Flint Hills Observer
February 1997

Kansas State University Isn’t Just For Straights Anymore!
Get a load of this semester’s entertainment, and mark your calendars!

Elvira Kurt
Tuesday, February 18, 8 pm
KSU Union Station—FREE Admission!
This event is co-sponsored by UPC and BGLS!

Elvira Kurt is a stand-up comic whose stand-out performances at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, Toronto’s Comedy Slam Festival, on Comedy Central’s Out There II, in New York’s OUTrageous Comedy! with Sandra Bernhard and on BBC’s first ever Queer Comedy Festival are bringing her brand of humor to a wider audience. She’s straddled the globe with a solo show in Vancouver’s Women in View Festival and done it down under in Australia as a headliner at the Sydney Mardi Gras’ Outrageous Comedy Festival.

As a gifted writer, the critical acclaim received from Elvira’s solo work resulted in her joining the writing team of Canada’s number one comedy show, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes." She managed to find the lighter side of such topics as economics and the internet when she wrote and performed in the National Film Board of Canada’s "Economix!" series and The Discovery Channel’s hot special, "Wired Women." Elvira’s own highly rated comedy special on CBC, "Comics!-Elvira Kurt" also showcases both her acting and writing talents.

Her unending talents keep her in constant demand throughout North America and around the world. Once you see her hilarious stage show, you’ll surely understand why!!

UPC Kaleidoscope Movies for Spring 1997
All movies in the KSU Union Forum Hall
$1.75

Total Eclipse R. 110 min, 1995 Thurs, Mar 6 7:00 & 9:30; Sat, Mar 8 9:30
Agnieszka Holland’s (Europa, Europa) account of the twisted, destructive relationship between Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, two of France’s greatest poets, is a wonderfully powerful, critically-acclaimed film.

Priest R. 110 min, 1995 Thurs, Mar 13 7:00 (panel discussion following movie); Sat, Mar 15 9:30 In what Susan Granger calls "the most gutsy, controversial film of the year," Linus Roache stars as Father Pilkington, faithful priest devoted to his work who gets in way over his head when his religious ideals are called into question upon his arrival at a poor and tough Liverpool parish. Antonia Bird directs this provocative drama of confessional secrets and of one man’s struggle to come to terms with truth, tolerance, and a power much larger than himself—that of desire. Part of Free Your Mind Week at KSU.

Jeffrey R 92 min, 1995 Thurs, April 17 7:00 & 9:30; Sat, April 19 9:30
This story tells of a gay actor/writer living in New York who, terrified of contracting AIDS, commits to celibacy. Ultimately, he is forced to confront all the issues of dating and sex that he had previously denied. Featuring an all-star cast and supporting cast including Robert Klein, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Najimy, Nathan Lane and a special cameo by Sigourney Weaver.

The Celluloid Closet N.R. 102 min, 1996 Thurs, May 1 7:00 & 9:30; Sat, May 3 9:30
This movie is a sexy, funny, infuriating, and instructive overview of a hundred years of largely inadequate depictions of homosexuals in Hollywood movies. Clips from 120 films are lucidly and wittily presented, covering not just the obvious highlights, but also rarities and eyebrow-raising second looks. These are accompanied by sometimes sardonic and often moving personal commentary from sympathetic Hollywood insiders (such as Whoopi Goldberg, Tom hanks, Susan Sarandon), and skeptical gay spectators (including Susie Bright, Quentin Crisp, Harvey Fierstein), the latter group reliving both the sting of insulting stereotypes and the hunger with which crumbs of self-recognition were appropriated and consumed. Neither narrowly sectarian nor toothlessly diplomatic, "The Celluloid Closet" is a good history, good politics, and good entertainment.

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