Oh uh-huh make it magnificent Tonight Right Oh your hair is beautiful Oh tonight Atomic (...)
Stuart Allan Jones (Aidan Gillen), dancing to ‘Atomic’ (Blondie). Queer As Folk UK, Season 1, Episode 7, Scene 60 (deleted scenes).
With compliments to @no-literally whose detailed analyses of QAF have been such a delight to read :)
When you get so irked by someone saying that "Clive and Maurice were the better romantic pairing because they truly loved each other while Alec and Maurice's relationship was based on nothing but sex" that you end up writing a small essay in a Pinterest comment section (which had to be broken up into 500 word chunks because of Pinterest's word limit).
Anyway, I actually like what I wrote so I wanted to share it here. I didn't say everything I wanted to in the exact way that I wanted to due to the word restrictions, but I think it did the job.
Well said and so right. Whether your wisdom will land is another matter, but let’s hope.*
Re. “you, me, attempting to teach people media literacy”: historical literacy, too.
A further point the “Alec and Maurice's relationship was based on nothing but sex” snipers miss (along with sexual fulfilment being rather important and not negligible, for Forster and for Maurice) is that there’s a history of male–male relationships which do indeed start with the sex but flower into and endure as love – in that order. There’s so much more than “just sex” between Maurice and Alec – but also, the sex which brings them together is never “just” sex. For Forster, the meeting of bodies is profound (the “flesh educating the spirit”), not profane – and it certainly isn’t a “lesser” love than Clive giving Maurice blue balls for three years.
(*I’ve had Clive zealots trying to beat me up on YouTube for making precisely these points about history, context, queer liberation, sex without shame and Forster’s whole purpose in writing Maurice.)
James Wilby & Fiona Gillies in Mother Love (1989)
MAURICE (1987)
James Wilby as Milord Runbiff in Caccia Alla Vedova (The Siege Of Venice) in 1991.
James Wilby as Alfred Redl in A Patriot For Me (posted by Nicola Stephenson who played Hilde) in 1995.
E. M. Forster, Maurice
One of my favorite roles of James Wilby: Robert in Shadow In The Sun. (2009)
James Wilby (Nathan) and Natalie Verbeke (Alicia) in Jump Together (2001): the way he looks at people.
Dang, life is so horrible that I forgot about James’ 66th birthday. :((
So:
James Wilby as Charles Henderson in You, Me, And It (1993)
"It was very stressful, and a traumatic experience for Shana. After a few days, we really had to concentrate to forget about it and get on with our lives. Of course, you'll always hear the argument that it's nature's way of getting rid of something wrong. But it does shake you up- and you do sense an element of failure." "All those feelings returned to me during the making of You, Me, And It-although the characters' sense of failure is much bigger, as the wife can't get pregnant." -James Wilby, Western Daily Press, March 27, 1993
Dutch Girls （1985）group photo
and some Dutch Girls cuttings from ITVTIMES, Nov. 23~29, 1985.
