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Article: Cocktails with Dame Judi: bringing Iris to the screen involved deciding how to portray writer Iris Murdoch's bisexuality. Here's the inside story from the film's director and stars. (film).(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)(Interview)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2002
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Enigmatic, witty novelist Iris Murdoch lived a life of the mind until her death from Alzheimer's disease in 1999. She also lived a life of bisexuality, carrying on numerous affairs with women both before and, allegedly, during her involvement of more than 40 years with husband John Bayley.
Iris, the new Miramax film chronicling the couple's early years and her later deterioration, downplays Murdoch's lesbian side--yet offers a big plus in the person of Dame Judi Dench, a favorite actress of both gay men and lesbians who actually plays lesbian in Miramax's other big holiday release, The Shipping News.
So what degayed Iris? At a New York soiree in honor of ...