#roy cohn?

[mostlysignssomeportents]

"The Apprentice"/Trump-Harris debate mashup

The Apprentice is a forthcoming docudrama about Trump's mentorship at the hand of the gangster Roy Cohn; despite the best efforts of Trump's billionaire allies to kill it the movie will open on Oct 11. In this anonymously sourced, unofficial mashup trailer, footage from the movie is brilliantly combined with clips from the Sept 10 Trump/Harris debate.

[adamshallperish]

"rpf is fine" - tony kushner, angels in america

[godlessondheimite]

*Kendall Roy voice* Your problem, uh, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on fucking labels, OK? “Gay,” "homosexual", uh, fucking, uh, “carpetmuncher.”

[b3y0ndm3asur3]

i love that roy cohn is part of the AIDS quilt. “bully. coward. victim” is so powerful and does a really good job of succinctly acknowledging how damaging such a restrictive environment is and how that allowed someone like cohn to hold so much internalized homophobia that he spent his career outing other queer ppl

[senso1954]

music in the apprentice is pretty good 👍

[gayiconwaluigi]

The birthday dinner scene where Roy is sat as far away from Trump at the end of the table as possible next to Ivana and he shows Ivana the diamond cufflinks and she tells him the cufflinks are worthless before they bring out the cake decorated with sparklers instead of candles so he can’t blow them out. Trump couldn’t have been bothered to buy him nice enough cufflinks to be buried in. Such a pitiful ending and because of Jeremy’s performance, I actually cried

[bassiter2]

i'm watching angels in america and in the first episode, there's this scene where the politician roy cohn monologues about why he's not a homosexual despite exclusively fucking other men, and it like. PERFECTLY articulates something i've been thinking a lot about lately (funnily enough from having just watched fellow travelers which also featured a fictionalized roy cohn, and then looking into him and his insistence that he couldn't be gay because he was masculine, that he didn't have AIDS until he died of it - i had no idea he'd be in AiA though, that's a major coincidence)

basically, when a guy says something along the lines of "i'm not gay, i just have sex with men" and your instinct is to ask "lmao what do you think being gay IS": this is your answer. THIS is what they think being gay is. and the thing is that they're genuinely not completely wrong. are they harming themself? are they actively splitting their sense of self in half? are they almost definitely being horrible to other people too? yes and yes and yes, but for the time being, this is quite genuinely their concept of their gender, because Gay Man is a gender category. that's one of the many things that Gay Man is (it's also a factual description), but in terms of their identity and their place within the world, they're kind of right.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Sebastian Stan is playing Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean we have to sexualize him, right children? We have other Sebastian Stan movies to sexualize, we can leave this one on the shelf, right?

[beebeetheclown]

The real and only acceptable dilfnation glow up:

[loveandthings11]

New poster for The Apprentice- EXCUSE ME

[the-breath-in-air]

An "oh no what am I going to watch after Fellow Travelers is done?" List

When I first saw the trailer for Fellow Travelers I was disappointed because it looked predictable. Turns out it wasn't nearly as predictable as I thought, and is actually quite good. But then I got to thinking...why not share a list of series and movies that folks might be interested in watching once Fellow Travelers is done airing.

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If you want to see more about McCarthyism, Roy Cohn and the Lavender Scare:

Bully. Coward. Victim. (2019) and Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019) - Both of these documentaries focus on the life of Roy Cohn, from his time at the McCarthy hearings, to his time as the Studio 54 lawyer, to his work during the Reagan era and his eventual death from AIDS. Where's My Roy Cohn? also focuses in on Roy Cohn's working relationship with Donald Trump. "Bully. Coward. Victim. was produced by the granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and as such, it also focuses more on the lasting impact of Cohn's role in their executions. There's a lot of overlap between the two documentaries, but I think they're both worth watching if you can.

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If you want to see more stories of gay men in the 1950s:

Against the Law (2017) - This is a biopic about Peter Wildeblood, a man who was put on trial for homosexuality and who, remarkably, acknowledged that he was gay during the trial. This trial and Wildeblood's later actions, are considered pivotal in the movement toward decriminalizing homosexuality in the UK. The movie takes place mostly in the 1950s and, again, deals with queer men trying to find love in a time in which laws, social norms, etc. made it exceedingly difficult to do so. The drama is interspersed with interviews in 2017 with real queer men who were alive at the time of the trial.

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If you want to see more stories of ruthless politicians trying to hide that they're gay:

A Very English Scandal (2018) - As the title suggests, this miniseries takes place in the UK. It's based on a true story...even the more outlandish moments. Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant) is a career politician who's been hiding that he's gay for decades. He's developed a ruthlessness and callousness to his own situation and he, predictably, treats everyone around him as disposable. Then along comes Norman Scott (Ben Whishaw), a young man who Thorpe is instantly attracted to. But Scott struggles with self-acceptance and mental health issues, and Thorpe has no compassion nor patience for any of that. The result is a dark comedy about this doomed relationship alongside the change to the law in the UK to decriminalize homosexuality.

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If you want to see more stories of queer folks in the 1980s:

It's A Sin (2021) - This is a miniseries that follows a group of queer folks during the 1980s in London. It's all about their search for love and finding themselves and whatnot, even as they are forced to deal with HIV and AIDS. It's a good show that is worth a watch, especially if you haven't seen much else about being queer in the '80s.

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Angels in America (2003) - Of course Angels in America was going to end up on this list. It is one of the definitive pieces of fiction on living in New York during the AIDS crisis. The play was originally performed in 1991...just four years after AZT was approved for use in the US to treat HIV and AIDS. It's big, and complex, and as much about the state of the U.S. at the time as it is about these individual characters and their lives. Also, Roy Cohn shows up, working as a political operative for Reagan. It really is, as it's subtitle says, "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes."

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The Apprentice (2024) by Ali Abassi

[godlessondheimite]

this is what tumblr’s gonna look like when that jeremy strong movie comes out

[stubbornvulpixquotes]

His closet was nothing but skeletons. It was like one of those monasteries built out of the bones of monks. That's Roy Cohn's closet.

-Robert Evans, Behind the Bastards - Part 2: Roy Cohn: The Man Who Made Donald Trump

[wehear4u]

i would kill to be their fourth