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New York Times
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Pink Narcissus': A Home Movie Both Abject and Erotic
As its title suggests, 'Pink Narcissus' is something of a hothouse flower. A feature-length movie, shot over a period of seven years on eight-millimeter film and elaborate sets constructed in the filmmaker's tiny Manhattan apartment, it's also a labor of love — focusing largely on a single actor. Originally released anonymously, this homoerotic fantasia created by the photographer James Bidgood, newly restored by the film and television archive at the University of California, Los Angeles, gets its first theatrical run in 54 years at Metrograph, starting April 11. The breathtaking opening sequence in which a full moon is glimpsed through a tangled forest is as fastidious as a late 1930s Disney animation, an association supported by a musical track heavy on program music like Mussorgsky's 'Night on Bald Mountain.' Soon, amid busy butterflies and fluttering flowers, Bidgood's young star, known as Bobby Kendall, makes his first appearance. The movie has no dialogue and, so far as I can tell, no women. Dressed variously in tight white jeans and short kimonos, but most often posed as a nude odalisque, Kendall plays a kept rent-boy whose fantasies provide a succession of set pieces, as when he imagines himself as a matador whose bull is a hard-charging biker. Kendall also participates in a toga party and is entertained by a provocative belly dancer in a male seraglio. Sex acts are implied and full nudity coyly veiled. Explicit yet decorous, 'Pink Narcissus' is founded on a dialectic between the erotic and the abject. The rococo apartment and an idealized natural world of rosy sunsets vie with a dank public urinal and an invented, garbage-strewn Times Square where pushcarts sell vibrators and other sex toys. Charles Ludlam can be glimpsed among the denizens of this sordid domain, but more than Ludlam's 'ridiculous' theater, Bidgood's precursors are taboo-breaking movies like Jack Smith's 'Flaming Creatures' and Kenneth Anger's 'Fireworks.' Like Anger and Smith, Bidgood appears to have been deeply impressed by Josef von Sternberg's gauzy exotic mise-en-scène. Bidgood's vision is neither as exhilaratingly threadbare as Smith's nor as perversely opulent as Anger's — still, blown up to 35-millimeter, the eight-millimeter stock is gorgeously grainy. Anger and Smith are bold, 'Pink Narcissus' is not. But if Bidgood's film feels claustrophobic, it's worth noting that during the period it was made, homosexual relations were illegal in New York. 'Pink Narcissus' opened in New York in May 1971 and played at the Cinema Village for six weeks, a run coinciding with the second anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion. Arty porn or porny art? Although awash with ads for gay and straight sex films, and featuring frequent articles on gay liberation, The Village Voice did not deign to give 'Pink Narcissus' a review — although the New York Times critic Vincent Canby did. Considering the movie an exercise in humorless camp, he compared it unfavorably to Mike Kuchar's underground hit 'Sins of the Fleshapoids.' Decades passed: Bidgood, whose baroque photographs for Muscle Boy and other male physique magazines were rehabilitated as gallery art, finally took credit for the film. 'Pink Narcissus' was belatedly acclaimed in The Voice, as well as The Times, as a 'queer classic.' John Waters likened it to 'The Wizard of Oz.' If not exactly 'Wicked,' the movie is a singular achievement.
NBC Sports
12-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
P Bryan Anger agrees to two-year deal to return to Dallas
The Cowboys will see the return of punter Bryan Anger. Mike Klis of 9News reports the Broncos 'went hard' after Anger, but he is going back to the Cowboys on a two-year, $6.4 million. The Cowboys earlier agreed to a three-year, $18 million deal with All-Pro returner KaVontae Turpin and long snapper Trent Sieg also will return on a three-year, $4.45 million deal. Kicker Brandon Aubrey is in line for a new deal. Anger has averaged 49.0 yards per punt in four years with the Cowboys, with a 43.3-yard net, and has earned Pro Bowl honors twice. The Jaguars made Anger a third-round pick in 2012, and he spent four seasons in Jacksonville. He then played three seasons in Tampa and two in Houston.
USA Today
30-01-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
This position is prime for Cowboys to find a rookie replacement in 2025
As if there wasn't enough to do already, fans can probably add punter to the list of needs for the Dallas Cowboys this offseason. Bryan Anger, the Cowboys' punter for the past four seasons, is a free agent. The veteran is regarded as one of the best punters in the NFL, logging Pro Bowl bids in two of his four seasons in Dallas. At 36-years-old, Anger is a little long in the tooth for an NFL player, but the punter position is forgiving, and Anger has been an ironman, missing just two games in 13 seasons (both in 2019). But with Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and Trevon Diggs all making significant money, the Cowboys are looking to cut costs anywhere they can. And punter looks like a fairly obvious position to target. It's not for nothing one of Anger's biggest advocates, John Fassel, has signed on to coach special teams in Tennessee. It's reasonable to assume some degree of interest will be paid to Anger as Fassel builds his unit out. According to Over the Cap, Anger cost the Cowboys an APY of $3 million during his time in Dallas. That's not going to break the bank for the Cowboys but that's not chump change either. Much like long snapper, punter is typically a position teams can generally go cheap with. It's important but it's not irreplaceable. If Anger does indeed leave, the Cowboys could look to a lower cost veteran or even the free agent crop of rookie punters to fill his shoes. Punters are rarely drafted so it would most likely be a post-draft addition if Dallas went the rookie route. In that case, punters like Alabama's James Burnip, Oklahoma's Luke Elzinga, Florida State's Alex Mastromanno, Florida's Jeremy Crawshaw and South Carolina's Kai Kroeger all look like viable options. For the first time in a long time the Cowboys may be in the punter market. Just add that to a list of their many offseason needs in 2025. Related articles
