In the Life: Ep. 706, "Lights, Camera, Activism! III"

on this edition of In The Life gay films gay festivals from every corner of the globe and the winners of in the life's third annual short film and video contest all up next on in the Life America's information line on gay and lesbian issues and culture in the life is funded in part by the hvan amerinkan foundation additional support provided by the Gill Foundation the Michael Palm Foundation Barry scuffgard and Mark wilinski Jeffrey B sorif Richard Winger the children of Sylvia sosnick in honor of her 70th birthday and in the Life members like you foreign annual celebration of gay and lesbian Cinema hi I'm Catherine Linton every year more and more gay and lesbian characters step out of the Celluloid closet and onto mainstream movie screens across the country but rarely do their stories ever go beyond the basic coming out tale to depict the true complexity and depth of the gay experience in response gay men and lesbians have decided to examine their world themselves through independent film and video again this year we salute those efforts by presenting highlights of some of these compelling works every year in the life also holds its own short film and video contest and at the end of this program we'll show you the winners I see you and you see me our eyes sparkle at the side of each other your lips part to talk your usual tastes dinner's in the bag dinner at the end of this program we'll give you a phone number that you can call to find out more information about any of the films you see over the next hour but first a look at a place where gay and lesbian Cinema has been supported and sustained over the last two decades the film festival now it's hard enough to make a film much less get it shown especially if it challenges popular stereotypes about gay life so there's no overestimating the critical role these festivals play in nurturing gay artists from bologna to Budapest from Nashville to New York there are nearly 100 gay and lesbian film festivals around the world in this segment we focus on two of the oldest and the largest we begin in San Francisco San Francisco is almost in a whole different category it's the biggest of all of them it's the only one that takes place in something so fabulous is the Castro theater let alone three theaters at once a few years ago it was called the gay Khan and it really is for the way it takes over the city this whole city reconfigures itself around this Festival I come every year to the opening night High holy day for for queer filmmakers it's a space where people come with all their differences they're not homogeneous events they're events that really draw from wide spectrums of the communities frame line the presenter of this Festival has to address the unique demands of this diverse community I think there's a way in which lesbian gay audiences and bisexual and transsexual audiences feel uh complicit with these films and videos in a way that other audiences do not I think there's a way in which people feel their own identity is somehow implicated in the films they go to see and in how they respond to those films you know I think it's a celebration of the community and it's also a it's a chance for the community to express itself it's a chance to respect and honor the art that's in our community which unfortunately doesn't go very far sometimes Beyond events like this the importance of providing space and visibility to new work is well appreciated in the capital of independent film and video New York and New Festival directors Wellington love and Robin Buckle take the challenge to heart it's a good way to Showcase young emerging makers and to kind of put together you know interesting programs of work for people interesting programs that would rarely be shown anywhere else like School [ __ ] a 10-minute monologue from a high school student like in grade seven nobody likes new kids anymore and I started thinking it's just me and the girls oh I decided like at that point I'm like you know what this is getting pretty hectic like they're calling me [ __ ] like like a lot and like I was starting to realize uh oh there's something that they picked up like it's really different about me I'm gonna have to straighten it up quick or else this is going to get worse so I tried it didn't work and you are here an experimental film that explores gender conflict in the form of a nightmare or fish belly white a more traditional coming-of-age story with a Twist it's a coming-of-age story but sort of sat in a small rural community where you know the meanest kids as well as like you know the sensitive Farm Boy and the the young awkward wimpy kid who is obsessed with a chicken but what's sort of beautiful about the film as well as the sort of photography of how it sort of put together but the the pacing and the dialogue and it's all it's very natural it's like you feel like the sort of tension and and the awkwardness and the you know and the you know the the coming of age while festivals used to be dominated with coming of age or coming out stories now they make room for more complex themes that may or may not be read as gay like this film The Sticky Fingers of time her name's Ophelia that's me Tucker Hardy where's the rest of it I threw it away it's not explicitly lesbian but it's definitely can be read I think lesbians can read into if they want lesbian content out of it it's definitely not straight yet in addition to a shift in content gay films have experienced a more significant change the increased presence of commercial films we have a deadline we'll get something into them trust me okay just come with me while many mainstream Distributors have traditionally downplayed any gay content previous to a wide release some are now using festivals as launching pads for example High art was premiered and promoted at many gay festivals this year the presence of mainstream films however has some Festival goers concerned people Express concern about the gay film festivals becoming too mainstream you know with having major sponsorship from absolute vodka and you know they're selling out and they're showing these big movies and I think that it's become much more competitive to draw audiences to position yourself as the place that people want to be and to get the media attention well inevitably something is lost when you have this kind of growth and this kind of repositioning and I know certainly in San Francisco there are a lot of people who are bitter about the changes in the festival and there are people who feel that they've lost their intimate connection to the festival that they used to have that they've become all the glitz in consumerism and Flash of the late 90s that's sort of infected so much other life in the late 90s I think they've actually managed to do both I think it's it's understandable that people feel this way but I think that the festivals have managed to update themselves without losing the important part of what they used to do incorporating both mainstream and independent films has made a deeper exploration into and Beyond what it means to be gay possible other people usually about half the work shown a gay and lesbian film festivals are documentaries that in the past have typically chronicled the hardships of being gay but recently there's been a significant change in this a new wave of documentarians that are tackling a broader range of issues facing the gay community next correspondent Tanya Barfield highlights three works that deal with an inescapable topic there's such an emphasis on youth in gay culture the gay male Community is just an extension of American culture we carry a lot of the values that are heterosexual peers carry being athletic being strong being desirable whether it's growing up or growing older age is an issue that everyone confronts the three documentaries we feature look at the issue of age from different generational and gender perspectives and explore the gay experience during different stages of Life coming of age coming into one's own and becoming older the first Beauty before age is filmmaker Johnny Simon's exploration of intergenerational relationships between gay men and the complexities of Aging in a culture where youth is valued and the old are often vilified as soon as the sun comes out on the Castro no one little ray of light comes through the dense fog in San Francisco these people walk around with little half shirts and tank tops in the back pocket just in case and they whip out their bodies as soon as possible even the the spaces like the street and the sidewalk there's no interaction between people of different age groups and it allows for stereotypes to develop for a lot of misinformation to develop you want to look good as far as like young Gables everybody's like coming out looking as cute as they can and spending a lot of money on their outfits putting a lot of energy into their faces and their bodies they're at the gyms constantly and working out all week just so they can look good so they can be attractive and compete really people are after like little young gay boys like 18 to 21 22. like little young pretty boys and so if you're looking 27 or 28 it's probably kind of all over for you unless you have a man part of it is the thought I don't want to be like you because you know as you get older you slow down and I don't think they want to slow down and I don't think we as older people take the time to communicate with the younger generation but I think we'd be willing to I think the sad thing is that these young people are losing the benefit of the pain that we've gone through if you have contact with an older person who can supply something of a role model or share their experiences it would make those passes just maybe a little easier I've gotten really interesting responses particularly from straight women who have said come up to me and said you know I never realized that gay men deal with the same sort of issues that I deal with every single day issues around trying to make yourself look good and being concerned about your appearance so that you looked good for other men gay men tend to be a very ocularly focused Community you know we look and when we like what we see we look again and we smile and we Cruise strangers and the way we Cruise might not be directly towards having sex it might not be I'm cruising you to have sex it might just be I'm cruising you to see if you Cruise me back and if we're cruising each other then I know that I'm desirable I know that I'm a sexual being I know that I still have status in this community when you're older that sort of cruise relationship tends to break down and folks tend to not really pay attention not look at you you become invisible can any of this be mine am I part of this if folks don't look at me I think when I first started dating older man I felt like I really couldn't go anywhere because I felt like there was no one else like that or no one that would understand it sometimes I sit back and think about it and I really think about the assumptions that are going on and people see that me being 25 and the person I'm with being 65 or 70 or whatever that can be a little weird and awkward there's a sort of real stereotype around um so sugar daddies which is that the older man is sort of providing the younger male is something like money but for me what I'm really getting out of it is their sort of wisdom of being around for a long long time and sort of how calm they are and where they are in their life how that sort of wonderfully adds to romance one of the reasons I made the film is to try and encourage people to look at those gaps that division that exists and find ways to get past it the next documentary presents a different view on Aging experience and the wisdom that comes with growing older is honored in the story of Blue London the film is called some ground to stand on and it's the story of Blue London who is a working class Dyke who came out in the 50s in New Orleans and she got arrested in a lesbian bar for wearing quote the clothing of the opposite sex before my mother died my godmother went to beauty school this was going to be her profession and guess who she practiced on I knew I was a girl but I was mad about it you know I was very mad about it because I from a very early age I was getting the message that I wasn't going to get to be fully who I was or who I could be because I was a girl as soon as I got out of that setting where I felt any pressure you know to modify the way I wanted to dress or anything well then I went you know hey I did everything I got a crew cut I had Blue Suede Shoes when Elvis Presley was singing about them it was around Christmas time and I went back to see my father I explained to him that I was living with a woman that I was a lesbian that I was very happy and he said I'd rather see you dead that's really the last time I ever saw my father it ended with him saying well as far as I'm concerned I don't have a daughter I think we have very few images from before Stonewall and I'm not sure that younger viewers may have a sense of how dangerous physically it was to dress as a Butch in the 1950s I had been aware of Stonewall I was very excited by it when I read about it in the Village Voice somehow I didn't catch on that there was some organized movement going on that I should get involved with I had a friend who was involved with the lesbian Liberation committee at gay activist Alliance I remember one night this woman who had been to a Tuesday night lesbian Liberation committee meeting she had gone around the corner to a bar to make a phone call after the meeting and she had gotten harassed for being a lesbian we voted right then on the floor to just get up and go over there and give them a piece of our mind and we marched over there must have been 80 of us just charged into this bar restaurant and somebody got up on the bar and said this woman came in here to make a phone call this is what happened to her we're here to tell you we will not tolerate this anymore and if you ever do this again we'll be back here and we'll close you down we'll come back every night until we close you down you know by the time the police got there we were finished we you know we didn't care it was such a powerful thing it was just so powerful you know it healed me all the times that I was ever kicked out of that and had no recourse I mean there used to be a place called The Ninth Circle we used to go there after basketball because we like they had draft beer and peanuts you know one night we started talking with a woman they realized we're lesbians they refused the service they told us to leave you know and there was nothing we could do about it you know we couldn't call the police and say we're being discriminated against we couldn't we couldn't do anything we just had to leave so of course there was a healing one of my favorite things she says is at the end she says you know I've pretty much done what I want to do in my life I haven't really worried about things and now I find myself an old woman and she's living in community and she'll have people to take care of her when she dies you know that's very immediate that's like a very real sort of experience you know that as I get older I'm thinking about more and more thank you in the documentary rules of the game a new generation reflects on what it means to be gay and lesbian and what it's like growing up queer at the end of the millennium when you come to the Hedwig Martin institute there's always something happening on TV they watch a lot of music videos MTV is on most of the time and I think the idea for them to represent themselves in a music video was one of the reasons that so many wanted to be part of this yeah I never really saw my feminine side I've always tried to keep myself as masculine as possible just to be on the safe side should I say they tell me yo why are you gay and you know that's going against the laws of God it's like well yeah judge not let you be judged the only person that needs to worry about whether I'm gay is me and God the questions these these these kids in the film race for themselves how do I fit in society what is what is up with my sexuality how do I fit in here what about masculinity femininity gender roles I think those are questions all kids have to deal with to dress up as a woman and um dance and to just see how I look as a female something that I've never done before something that I've always thought about but been too afraid to do it and like that's it you know there's nothing wrong with you know hard hard Dyke and there's nothing wrong with being all femmed out but you know I identify as a woman even though I wear men's clothes that's just because I like them and I think they look good on me now whether or not people think I want to be a man is totally up to them I know what I want to be and I know what I am so I don't stress it I'm just me well every time a guy asks me why do you like women I say well why do you like women and they list a whole bunch of reasons I say well there you go that's it oh there's a crisis in America schools and it is in fact a documentary that is proven effective in addressing it anti-gay slurs are the taunts of choice among many school children violence against kids who come from alternative families or who may look gay or lesbian is commonplace and studies show that one out of every three teenagers who commit suicide does so because they're struggling with their sexual orientation with these disturbing statistics in mind as well as the knowledge that her own son was about to attend elementary school academy award-winning director Deborah chasnoff decided to address the problem the result a documentary that would help teachers talk with students about discrimination against gay men and lesbians in our next segment we use our regular Day in the Life format to look at this extraordinary but controversial film it's Elementary foreign 1992 my son was about to start Public elementary school and I started to be concerned about what kinds of messages he was going to be getting at school about the kind of family that he came from the more I thought about it the more I realized that what he was going to be exposed to in the official curriculum was going to be nothing it was going to be silence complete invisibility that gay and lesbian people existed looking for a way to build understanding and tolerance among teachers and students Deborah chasnoff decided to make its Elementary together with co-producer Helen Cohen she embarked on a four-year project we set out across the country and we found six schools for public schools two Independent Schools where teachers were doing some kind of lesson that included an awareness of lesbian and gay people or anti-gay discrimination and we took our cameras in to the classrooms and observed we thought the contribution that we could make would be to demystify for people for educators and parents what it would actually look like if a third grade teacher walked into the room and said today we're going to talk about lesbians and gay men once the film was completed chasnoff and Cohen traveled to 30 cities across the country to screen and promote it people who are in the audiences of these big premieres got really excited and inspired and they would say to us I'm gonna take this film to my son's school and I'm gonna sit down with the principal and make her watch this film and they did there's a feeling of inspiration and I think you can't watch the film without feeling motivated to do something the response when teachers and parents see it is usually what can we do here he was accepted he was respected which was what we were looking for from this is wonderful we need more documentaries like this you know this has changed my attitude towards what gay and lesbian people are feeling there was that one situation where the two girls were sitting across from two boys they were actually sharing their feelings of that game as it being issues that was very inspiring there was a magical learning moment that occurred it's Elementary soon began winning awards at film festivals as word of the film spread so too did the Press coverage well we were amazed we kept getting you know feature story written about us reviews written about us and they were all incredibly positive and I kept waiting um and then finally one day I somebody forwarded me something from some right-wing organization ranting and raving about this film and then I would say in the fall of 97 it started coming and it was a deluge video is basically an infomercial for the homosexual agenda and it's an infomercial for homosexual marriage before we knew it it seemed like its Elementary have become the poster child for the religious right we were what was wrong with America and you should send your money now to stop its Elementary as far as activists are concerned the younger a child can be introduced to homosexuality the better schools are also promoting gay and lesbian pride month as shown in this video another resource for homosexual supporters to recruit sympathy from the children soon its Elementary was being debated on the talk show circuit now there's no mention of sex or sexual acts in this film but a lot of people are up in arms over it the homosexual activists aren't content with the idea that they ought to be left alone they want to indoctrinate school children all over the country we challenge Mr Knight to show one place in our film where a child is being recruited I think it's a complete myth that if you talk to children in a responsible way about gay and lesbian people that somehow that will make a child gay or lesbian for chasnoff this type of controversy is all part of social activist filmmaking they're organizing against it because there's a whole movement out there that's having success and that is demanding that schools be safe for gay teenagers so I think it's a good sign that things are starting to shift and with any kind of major social Revolution which I think this is there's going to be a backlash eventually this backlash reached the Senate conservatives held up the nomination of James Hormel for U.S ambassador to Luxembourg because Hormel had contributed money to the production of the film it turned out that Senator Bob Smith the Republican from New Hampshire who starts off our film we can and we must protect the taxpayers by keeping this kind of trash out of our schools he sits on the Foreign Relations Committee which has approval over ambassadorial nominations and he was outraged that someone would be considered for that post who had funded a film that he was in in that way as the controversies rage on its Elementary is continuing to change attitudes in classrooms across the country so what that's how the life is I don't think people should be strict about them because if they were dating when I want to be getting beat up I think it's just the way a person is you can't really change it I think the film really shows that children are not born being prejudiced and they are born thinking everybody should be treated fairly and really capable of understanding that people can love each other in very different ways and I think that's what's most threatening we'll get one of those emails or one of those letters in the mail and it's very upsetting and then I just have to look over at the the relative size of our hate mail and our fan mail and be reassured that the vast majority of people who have seen this film have been elated to see it and to say what can we do about this so that our kids don't have to grow up the way we did hi I'm Wesley Snipes hi I'm Catherine Linton this is Petula Clark no wait a minute I'm Kate Clinton Pete Seeger David Marshall Grand Quentin Chris Jason Alexander we're Betty and you're watching you're watching you're watching in the life in the life in the life now I think that's fabulous still to come on in the life the winners of in the life's short film and video contest an animated documentary explores the ups and downs of a relationship and waiting in anticipation of love and dinner but first gay films produced here in the United States are fueled by Decades of a gay rights movement whose issues have been debated in every community in every corner of this country but imagine making a gay film in or about a country in which the subject of homosexuality is taboo and discussion virtually non-existent while there are some who are doing just that with cameras rolling and often working underground these directors are asking questions rarely if ever considered on film in their countries We Begin this segment with two films from West Africa when I saw the images of of two men loving each other openly from my experiences in seeing African film and and I really like African film I've never seen that doc on or destiny represents the first narrative film out of West Africa to deal with homosexuality this is I have to say it's a very small percentage as far as work that comes in by people of color from third world countries that are queer trophies foreign whatever film that focuses on issues of homosexuality in West Africa is a documentary called Whoopi darling um a million I deal with in a lot of people of color in in third worlds who are dealing with a lot of political things as far as having basic human rights they aren't focusing on gay lesbian issues as much neither dot-con nor would be darling has yet been shown in West African theaters the right to be different is at the heart of another film from a country a continent away from the Ivory Coast though India has the most prolific film industry in the world it only last year produced its first wide release feature about a lesbian relationship the film called fire caused a national stir it was like all hell broke closed not a week has gone by where there isn't something in some major Indian newspaper about fire so it's done what I really hoped it would do in India which is start a dialogue about you know the definition of rules and how rules are defined and how important is a desire for a personal independent voice awareness needs in Fire Two Sisters in law with failed marriages find comfort in each other the film is really them about how the emotional nurturing turns into a physical relationship but in a language that can describe what we are how we feel for each other I love people of all color you know whether they're white or brown or Hispanic or Indian or or whatever their sexual preferences are to come out and say hey this is a film about passion and it's about the Dignity of human choice desire brings through him I I think through him does it a show you know that without desire I was dead without desire there's no point in living and you know what else I desire to live I desire Sita I desire her warmth her compassion her body I desire to live again if our choices don't hurt anybody else not only should we tolerate them but have great empathy for them the New Frontier of gay subjects has also been driving directors in another major movie industry in Asia in the early 1990s Hong Kong films began to look at issues of gay identity coinciding with the rise of a new gay movement there in Happy Together Juan Kar y one of Hong Kong's best known directors shocked audiences across Asia by using famous actors in the sexually charged lead roles Survivor the film was banned in South Korea because they thought because the film has two known Asian actors playing lovely in a film and this may cause bad influence on their kids so they they banned the film one of the things that has kept me intrigued with Hong Kong films since maybe about 1992 has been such an influx of films which deal with gay and lesbian characters I think Happy Together by one for y is probably the end result of the whole genre which started in 1992 I think Wonka wave makes pretty much the definitive Hong Kong gay film though it has yet to interfere with the work of Hong Kong directors mainland China has so far tried to prevent the making of any film that deals openly with homosexuality hi East Palace West Palace filmed underground and smuggled out of China represents a turning point in Chinese Cinema for its Frank treatment of a modern gay character though seen on pirated video in mainland China East Palace West Palace cannot be shown in theaters East Palace West Palace is a great film it's uh by genuine who's a Mainland Chinese director very much underground director oh foreign each one of his films deals with marginalized groups so for uh genuine it's a natural progression to go to gay people who are very marginalized in Chinese Society it deals with a police officer who arrests a gay man for cruising in a park behind the Imperial Palace it's actually mind games between the two foreign as directors from around the world explore new ideas about gay life and gay identity foreign in most parts of the world including this country getting your work seen by the public is one of the most difficult challenges facing independent film and video makers as we explored in the beginning of this program many rely on film festivals for that initial visibility with this in mind in the live sponsored its third annual short film and video contest here's correspondent Darius dejas with the winners thank you first runner-up good night I love you uses new technology to depict an age-old situation this animated documentary takes a humorous but touching look at acceptance and expectations in the early stages of a relationship animator Gordon Thomas tells us that making the film meant something new for him both professionally and personally good night I love you is my second year MFA film at San Francisco State and it's supposed to be something in which you try something new it was meant to be a documentary about my relationship with my current boyfriend and he was going to have the camera part of the time and I was going to have the camera part of the time and we were gonna kind of expose each other and uh when a time when the time came to make the film he left foreign yeah foreign you know a funny thing happened to me in my last relationship no really you see I met this guy he's a really sweet guy we did it all we wrote each other poems took weekend trips to the mountains showed each other off to friends and family we fixed up this really nice place we even talked about marriage but he got scared and he'd dumped me well I mean eventually we talked it out and we got back together but then he broke up with me again but then we got back together and then we broke up then he got back together we broke up and we got back together we broke it out and then he moved out that was the most intense two months relationship I've ever had counselor what do you think was the real reason that Gordon and that other guy broke up I'm sorry I'm not at Liberty to talk about that oh well then what what were some of the issues that they had that that were they were part of the root of their conflicts that were leading up to the reason that they broke up I I really can't go into that you know can't you say anything about why Gordon and that other guy had problems anything at all look is your therapist I can't reveal that kind of information that's strictly confidential how does that make you feel sometimes I catch myself hoping you'll turn to me and say you're sorry and you'll come back and this time everything will be different and this time everything will be different and this time everything will be different and this time everything will be different at this time everything will be different and this time everything will be different it's time there won't be the sorrow the depression it'll have changed you'll be happy I wonder how he feels about all this what do you think he's thinking right now when we first met we met with a bang really hit it off he was so sweet I mean he seemed to have everything that I wanted in a person and over time we started to just get on each other's nerves and be uncomfortable in the fact that we had a cramped space and we kept on struggling and the more that time went by the more we learned stuff about each other we really didn't like and we began to see oh this is who you are and not just who I thought you'd be like a really scary towards the end of our relationship it seemed like all we did together was [ __ ] and moan about what was wrong with the other person I did it he did it I'm not proud of it I hated it actually it was the was the worst thing about living here and I don't want this film to be more like that I know people do the best that they think that they can do at the time I hope he understands that about me so if he changed would you take him back can I love him just the way he is but can I accept him as he is it hurts to know that someone you love doesn't want you anymore oh my God that's sick that's not art they just want to flash everyone what a [ __ ] he's a media [ __ ] he's just stuck on himself one of the things that I've learned is that when you get together with somebody sometimes the things that you like about them the most are things that are different from you things that you want to have and sometimes the things that you hate about them the most are actually things that you see in yourself things you want to face what would you like to say to the men in your past I want to let them know that that I understand life goes on and things change and it's not always what you thought it would be I want to say good night and that I love you and I will always love you no matter who we've turned out to be foreign and now the winner of in the life's third annual short film and video contest director Sean Simmons love and dinner is a film based on a poem written by his high school teacher Lou Berry originally about a heterosexual couple but in making the transition from page to screen Simmons decided to make some changes the actual wording of it flowed so well and and actually had a very feminine kind of quality to it so I said you know it sounded like it was done in a woman's voice and I didn't want to change the fact that was written by a woman and so it just kind of happened that way the poem itself is about the anticipation that the two lovers have you know and seeing one another and that is really what I was trying to get across the fact that it was a lesbian couple um really fit I think it was incidental but it it fit and it made it right for me and I'm hoping that that's more or less people get the warmth You know despite the fact that it's black and white I hope and kind of abstract I hope people get that that warmth from the film I came straight home like many ordinary people do when there is sustenance to be had when so many carrots potatoes are needed to sustain the next moment yes I came early and waited by our door to see if you're coming home was soon would your arrival make dinner a vitamin for a weary brain or tired muscles leering at rest while eyes dart back and forth from car to bus waiting waiting I hear the rustling of a paper sack the side to side shifting of potatoes and carrots and cellophane perhaps an onion and garlic oh my all means garlic soon I will smell those colorful vegetables bubbling in gentle oil colors rich and promising sauce fixings I can taste imagine expect my muscles tightened and as if the torment of hunger and thunderous companions weren't enough I see you and you see me our eyes sparkle at the side of each other your lips apart to talk your usual tastes dinner's in the bag dinner and love fill the air at our house off times postponed for one or the other so I could grab a carrot to munch on wow and we cook there are fluorescent broccoli and Tufts of cauliflower a sprig of cilantro and you my dear clad in your apron and I clad in my appreciation of your culinary Talent we saute and braised with spoon and spatula with sauce and base the menu the more or twinkling eyes delighted hearts and eager tummy and again we turn over and over until lightly delicately Brown the green of the pepper the white of the onion slightly Brown on the edges the red of the paprika the garlic oh the garlic I touch your face you smile lovingly and touched my hand s foreign from all of us in the life thank you for watching and we'll see you next time I wanna believe me thank you in the life is funded in part by the hvan and moringen Foundation additional support provided by the Gill Foundation the Michael Palm Foundation Larry scuffgard and Mark wilinski Jeffrey B sorif Richard Winger the children of Sylvia sosnik in honor of her 70th birthday and in the Life members like you