A Broadway legend. A Hugh Hefner playmate. A dark, crazy Hollywood story.
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.We love Hugh Hefner.
We miss Hugh Hefner. We still rejoice at the recent revelation that the love of Hefner’s life was purportedly another man, with whom he had an affair spanning four decades.
Still, for the Playboy icon, not everything was a party. In fact, sometimes the euphoria of sex-positivity and hedonism gave way to violence.Star 80, the final film of screen and stage legend Bob Fosse, recounts possibly the darkest chapter in Playboy history.
In 1978, a not quite legal beauty named Dorothy Stratten (played here by Mariel Hemingway at her most ethereal) living in Vancouver caught the eye of a local con artist and pimp named Paul Snyder (Eric Roberts).
