"LaBruce leaves no taboo unshattered in his outrageously subversive, unabashedly kinky film provocations" My @Criterion closet picks: MOUCHETTE SORCERER SIMON OF THE DESERT 3 WOMEN A TASTE OF HONEY DON'T LOOK NOW criterionchannel.com/collect… 3 of my films now on @criterionchannl

HBD hot Irish gay actor Andrew Scott, BOTD in 1976, turning 50 today. Although he'd been around for a while, he broke through as the amorous priest/love interest of Phoebe Waller-Bridge in her show "Fleabag" in 2019 & as the gay ghost in Andrew Haig's "All of Us Strangers" (2023)

Luscious Lux Interior was BOTD in 1946 & died too soon in 2009 at 62. Although I guess that's pretty old for a punk/rock'n'roll legend. Lux reportedly took his name from an automobile advertisement. His wife & band partner, Poison Ivy, took her name from poison ivy, presumably

HBD great & sexy actor Viggo Mortensen, BOTD in 1958, turning 68 today! He certainly fulfilled his full-frontal promise in Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" (2007) in a spectacularly naked bathhouse knife fight & generously shared his feet in Sean Penn's "The Indian Runner" (1991)

HBD Dolores Hart, the Hollywood starlet who gave up Elvis Presley for Jesus, becoming a nun, BOTD in 1938, turning 88 today. The beautiful blonde actress made her screen debut opposite Elvis in Hal Kanter's "Loving You" (1957), becoming the first actress to kiss him on screen

Great dwarf actor Michael Dunn was BOTD in 1934 & died in 1973 at 38. He had a number of impressive big-screen roles such as Stanley Kramer's "Ship of Fools" (1965), nominated for a Supporting Actor Oscar, & Joseph Losey's "Boom!" (1968), as LIz Taylor's fascistic bodyguard Rudi.

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet known for his transgressive themes & profound influence on modern literature, prefiguring surrealism, was BOTD in 1854 & died in 1891 at 37. He's generally considered a gay primarily due to his passionate & violent affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine

My movie "Gerontophilia", a reverse Lolita, is on the @criterionchannl this month! “[LaBruce’s] best film yet!” - SF Chronicle, 2014 “Bold!” - The Village Voice, 2015 “Winningly light comedy.” - https://RogerEbertdotcom, 2015 search-criteria.com/films/82… @strandreleasing @Criterion

My queer zombie movie "Otto; or, Up with Dead People" is on @criterionchannl this month just in time for Halloween! search-criteria.com/films/82… “Otto deliriously intermingles sex & entrails but is also imaginative and witty.” - Los Angeles Times, 2008 @strandreleasing @Criterion

My movie "Hustler White" (1996) is miraculously on the @criterionchannl this month! “Hustler White is ultimately a gay romantic comedy for those who couldn't swallow ‘Pretty Woman.’” - San Francisco Chronicle search-criteria.com/films/82… @Criterion @strandreleasing

The divine Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), muse of John Waters, was BOTD in 1945 & died in 1988 at 42. "Multiple Maniacs" (1970) is my fave Waters film (it's also Waters' fave film of his own), along w/ "Mondo Trash" (1969), but all his movies starring Divine are masterpieces!

Tony Lo Bianco, known for William Friedkin's "The French Connection" (1971) & Larry Cohen's "God Told Me Too" (1976), was BOTD in 1936 & died in 2024 at 87. I wrote about one of his best films, Leonard Kastle's "The Honeymoon Killers" (1970) 4 @Talkhouse: talkhouse.com/bruce-labruce-…

Gay Robert Reed, squeaky-clean Dad on "The Brady Bunch", was BOTD in 1932 & died in 1992 at 59 of complications from AIDS. As if to purge himself of the bromidic Brady image, a year after the show ended he played a surgeon who has "gender reassignment surgery" on Medical Center

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George C. Scott was BOTD in 1927 & died in 1999 at 71. One of the great faces of cinema, he gave many fine performances such as his sexy surgeons in Richard Lester's "Petulia" (1968) opposite mod Julie Christie & in Arthur Hiller's "The Hospital" (1971) opposite hippy Diana Rigg

Klaus Kinski was BOTD in 1926 & died in 1991 at 65. Best known for starring in 5 films by Werner Herzog between 1972 & 1987, his oldest daughter, Pola, Nastassja's half-sister, declared in 2013 that the actor repeatedly raped her over a 14-yr period. Nastassja supported her claim

Effervescent yet arch Miriam Hopkins was BOTD in 1902 & died in 1972 at 69. It wasn't Crawford with whom Bette Davis had her most major feud, but Hopkins (her nickname for her was "Hoppy"). They co-starred in Goulding's "The Old Maid" (1939) & Sherman's "Old Acquaintance" (1943)

Great Cannuck actor Margot Kidder was BOTD in 1948 & died in 2018 at 69. She struggled w/ her mental health, suffering a very public breakdown in 1996 when she disappeared for some days and was eventually found houseless in LA. She later became an outspoken mental-health advocate

Sapphic Traffic! Hollywood star Jean Arthur was BOTD in 1900 & died in 1991 at 90. The husky-voiced screwball comedy queen's sexuality was famously ambiguous. She co-starred with sexually ambiguous Marlene Dietrich in Wilder's "A Foreign Affair" (1948) and they loathed each other