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Why ‘The Boys in the Band’ Still Resonates After 50 Years

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFive years ago, Charlie Carver, who appears in the upcoming Netflix film “The Boys in the Band,” was at an Emmy party when a gay man he worked with chastised him three separate times for acting too effeminate.“I was told that I needed to ‘get it under control’ around people in the business,” Carver says, sharing the story for the first time with Variety.Later, while Carver was waiting at the valet, he ran into his co-worker again and asked him for clarification.

Instead, the man slapped Carver across the face. “It wasn’t playful but intentional, pointed and meant to be instructive. A slap,” says the actor.

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