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I'd rather watch paint dry than go see this picture.
Andrew, I don't know if you've ever been to Tel-Aviv, but it actually is a Mediterranean city in its feel, look and food, so it's not just the filmmaker's vision. Tel-Aviv has the largest number of Bauhaus buildings outside of Germany, and you add the very upscale nature of so much of the place. I haven't been there in years, but I was struck by its chic, the blizzard of cell phones, its liberalism, its party atmosphere--and people kept taking us to restaurants that could have been in Italy or somewhere else in Europe. Tel-Aviv couldn't be more unlike Jerusalem.
Boo Hiss. Boycott, etc etc ...
Friend,
I'm gay. That's not the problem.
Look, I don't want you nor anyone using the word 'to do' for 'to be with'. I sleep with people; I don't 'do' them.
To better help yourself understand how to use English in a polite way during daytime in print, transfer it into straight...
In the Movie, the Brad Pitt character did the female lead.
Would that get printed?
Why people become Republican...
Tel Aviv resembles hedonistic, outdoorsy cities like Rio, Barcelona and Miami more that it resembles any other city in Israel or in the Mediterranean. Gays and their lifestyle are accepted in Tel Aviv because its a very cosmopolitan place where many artists live and create, live music is played in pubs that never seem to close for the night and people believe in live and let live. Tel Aviv is a rather ugly and not very clean city, but the atmosphere of freedom to do anything and go anywhere 24 hours a day has created an open-mindness that actually made it into one of the great contemporary cities anywhere in the world.
"do", "be with" Yes, it is so tricky. I prefer "bang" but anyway:
for years I've wondered why gay cinema is often so puerile and schizophrenic. It really baffles me. And try to come up with a good gay-themed storyline. Really, it's practically impossible.
...really, absolutely captivating. A story about people who are gay? AND Jewish? Hold the freakin' phone. I'll pay anything to go to this movie. I'll even quit my job, leave my family and move if it doesn't get to a theater near me soon.
I love the gems that Andrew keeps coming up with.