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Laughing Matters (2pc) (Dolby)DVD ~ The lives,
onstage and off, of four charismatic lesbian stand-up comedians--Kate
Clinton,
Marga Gomez,
Suzanne Westenhoefer, and
Karen Williams--are captured in
Laughing Matters. Through interviews, old photographs, and
live performance footage, this documentary gives these four women
the opportunity to sound off on sex, coming out, and the
significance of
Ellen DeGeneres, as well as
airport security, Halloween, women in the military, reading in bed,
and Catholicism. Through capsule histories of their careers, a
narrow but valuable portrait of the progress of gay rights also
takes shape. The political views are predictable but earned, as well
as wittily phrased. Some of the extra footage--particularly a
question-and-answer session at the festival premiere of
Laughing Matters--is as funny as the stand-up routines. |
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