To say it's a little surreal to watch a documentary about someone you've known since you were teenagers is an understatement. So while my opinion may be a bit biased, you won't see a film about a more genuine guy than this one, whose "Scooter LaForge: A Life of Art" debuted last night at the IFC Center in New York City as part of the DOC NYC festival.
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Post Script: The film touched on a lot of topics, including the height of the AIDS epidemic during which Scooter and I came out. So it wasn't lost on me that when I came home and turned on the Game Show Network BUZZR to unwind -- with a little "Super Password" and the like -- I happened to see not one but two talents we lost to the disease. And to make matters worse, as children we didn't even get to look up to them as fellow gay men because being "out" wasn't an option for any of us.
Tom Villard, who I knew from "We Got It Made," died in 1994 at just 40 years of age.
And the wonderful Leonard Frey, the standout from "The Boys in the Band" who died in 1988, 11 days before his 50th birthday. The PTSD from all of this is palpable in the Scooter film and was one of its most poignant subjects.
P.P.S. I solved this on the second clue while the panel barely got it with all of them!
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I adore Scooter. Such a great and talented guy. We have a couple of his pieces in our home.
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