OPEN POST: With Victor, Victoria, Toddy, King And Norma!
It's over thirty years old - can you believe? - but "Victor/Victoria," the classic musical farce by writer/director Blake Edwards, loosely based on a German comedy from the 1930s, may still be the most radical Hollywood movie to prominently feature gay characters. It's even more daring and more progressive, I'd argue, than the likes of "Brokeback Mountain" or "Call Me By Your Name." And it does it all with, as they say, a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. Some stunt! Consider the feat, a movie in which Julie Andrews, a straight woman pretending to be a gay man pretending to be a woman, attracts James Garner, a straight tough-guy who's flummoxed, then approving, when Alex Karass, his tough-guy cohort, comes out of the closet and becomes lovers with Robert Preston, a gay cabaret performer who is himself pretending to be Andrews' gay lover. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in scenario wherein not a si