Moonstruck.I had heard of neither the film or the actress, but I do remember being impressed with the fact that Governor Dukakis had a cousin who won an Oscar, which compensated, in my mind, for his small stature.
Years later, I saw the film, and kept thinking about Olympia’s cousin, the failed presidential candidate.And because I was obsessed with maintaining my masculinity back in the late ‘80s, I was never going to watch an all “girls” movie like Steel Magnolias that conspicuously, and then overtly, had a huge gay following.We wrote in 2012 about the all Black reboot, and validated the original film as a gay touchstone by writing, “In the decades since quoting biting dialogue such as ‘You know what they say: If you don’t have anything.