![]() He has had many men, he confides, but "not once has anybody said, 'I love you.' " "Torch Song," its three acts too much in evidence, chronicles the hero's turbulent quest for sitcom happiness, a nine-year search that begins when he meets the hunky bisexual Ed (Brian Kerwin, adapting his Broadway performance).Īrnold is like a wallflower at the prom when shyly he accepts Ed's offer to buy him a beer. "A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise" is how Arnold puts it it. Set before the AIDS epidemic, the movie seems a ghostly relic of the orgiastic '70s - though sex has less to do with it than do love and family ties. ![]() The homely playwright with the hickory-smoked voice recreates his stage role in this brazen melodrama. It's "Les Cage aux Folles" with mood swings. Hurting on the inside, but torch singing on the outside, the camp chanteuse is striving for social acceptance in this belted-out adaptation of Harvey Fierstein's play. Under all that flippancy and Max Factor, however, Arnold is actually a nice Jewish female impersonator. "I'm aging like a beach party movie," he moans. ![]() ![]() "It ain't easy being a drag queen, but I just can't walk in flats," says Arnold Beckoff - once a look-alike for Miss Joan Crawford, he now more closely resembles Miss Marjorie Main. "Torch Song Trilogy" opens with a close-up so tight you can see the hero's pores clog as he slathers on the pancake. ![]()
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