31 Jan 1997
Afro Promo
A series of thirty-two trailers put together to illustrate the film industry's attitude to and packaging of African-American screen imagery.
Tab Hunter Confidential
Hollywood's all-American boy had a secret.
Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.
Top Billed Cast
Tab Hunter Self
Debbie Reynolds Self
Robert Wagner Self
George Takei Self
Clint Eastwood Self
Portia de Rossi Self
Noah Wyle Self
Lainie Kazan Self
Connie Stevens Self
Liz Torres Self
Dolores Hart Self
Don Murray Self
Robert Osborne Self
Darryl Hickman Self
Anthony Perkins Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman Self (archive footage)
Natalie Wood Self (archive footage)
James Dean Self (archive footage)
Rock Hudson Self (archive footage)
Etchika Choureau Self
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