[untwist]

The problem I have is with the overwrought stereotyping typical of gay-themed productions. You see the strait-laced Mormon married guy, who really is a gay man living a lie. Gays want to claim their population is much higher than 1 or 2% and really many, many more gays are living straight due to societal injustice. They always fall back on the Kinsey report from years ago that claims their number is 10% of the population. The whole victimization issue with no accountability for the actions that caused it is not portrayed at all. The spread was all Reagan's fault.
Also, Pacino as Roy Cohn is very compelling but the Ethel Rosenberg visit is a bit much. They still hang onto the untruth that the Rosenbergs were innocent activists and that Cohn unjustly prosecuted them to their deaths. This is historically false.

[RobbyS]

"Historically false." What these guys are doing is re-writing history through film. "Inherit the Wind" has become the history of the Scopes Trial, even though it distorts the facts beyond belief. Much of what ws put in the mouth of Hornback--the Menckin-like character played by Gene Kelly--were actually the words of Clarence Darrow. To have them spoken by Spencer Tracy would, of course, have made the Drummond character seem less than an angel of light. As for the Scopes-like character, the innocent crusader, that was off the mark. My mother knew Mrs. Scopes later on when Scopes was working in the oil field. Scopes was treated rather badly by the Darrow team after the trial.