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Falling for Angels (2017)
Episodes I-V brilliant. Episode VI a waste of time.
The first five episodes of this series, which I missed when it came out, are wonderful. The writing in each, although from different writers, was beautifully related to the other episodes. Painfully honest and critical of the gay community as it was celebrating it, this should have been a longer series. The acting was uniformly wonderful and all the actors credible. I especially liked the Boyle Heights and the Asian episodes. They spoke with sincerity (and what seems like authenticity, but being an older white guy, I'm not going to claim to know if this is accurate) and made the characters realistic by showing us their weaknesses and strengths simultaneously and trusting the audience to make their own judgement call on them. I would love to see more from this team of writer-producers.
When Bette Met Mae (2014)
Amazing project of rare film history involving two legends.
I was privileged to see this remarkable film as part of a Mae West tribute at the Hollywood Heritage Museum. The casting was so superb that members of the audience thought the actresses in the film were the real film legends they were portraying. The concept is incredible, the execution wonderful, and the design of the film is excellent. This is an incredible peak into the private lives of these great stars. Davis is very familiar, her personal and screen person'as being one in the same. West, however, is a surprise and a pleasure. There is no work comparable to this film. This would have been easy to parlay into parody, but the filmmakers took the high road and let the legends speak for themselves while providing a remarkable vision for the rest of us.