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Daily Dose: A little culture at the bathhouse<\/b><\/p>\n

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Welcome to <\/em>Queerty’s latest entry in our series, <\/em>Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19<\/a> pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer <\/em>entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Steamy: The Ritz<\/strong><\/p>\n

We still mourn the loss of Terrence McNally<\/a>, the great queer playwright who gave us Love! Valor! Compassion!<\/em><\/a>, Ragtime<\/em> and Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Musical<\/em>. Unfortunately, though he penned dozens of acclaimed stage shows, only a handful have ever made it before the cameras<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With that in mind, today we suggest one of his film adaptations that mixes farce with gayness. The Ritz<\/em> takes loose inspiration from the Continental Baths, the New York gay<\/a> steam-o-Rama that helped performers like Bette Midler<\/a> launch their careers. In this fictionalized version, the great Rita Moreno<\/a> plays an aspiring singer named Googie with her sights set on Broadway glory. When a mobster (Jack Weston) decides to hide out in the baths, Googie and her fan club of wacky queers give him an experience he won’t forget anytime soon. Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham, Treat Williams, Kaye Ballard and the late Jerry Stiller also star.<\/p>\n

Abraham, Weston, Stiller and Moreno all reprise their performances from the original Broadway production, for which Moreno picked up a Tony Award. This kind of screwball farce is notoriously difficult to pull off on film (see also: movie versions of Noises Off<\/em> and Beyond Therapy<\/em>), but the game efforts of the cast and McNally’s sensitive writing make this one work at times it shouldn’t. Moreover, it offers a glimpse into the mythic world of gay<\/a> bathhouse culture in the 1970s–something an increasingly few of us got to experience. Moreno also gives one of her best performances as the manic Googie, which makes this bygone bust-up fun enough for us.<\/p>\n

Streams on Amazon, iTunes, VUDU and YouTube.<\/em><\/p>\n

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