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Amber Benson reveals some Buffy-trivia!
Amber was at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival to promote her new movie "Race You to the Bottom" and she talked about "Buffy"-stuff. |
Over the moon in Miami
The Advocate's first trip to the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is all about good movies, great company, and, ah, that beach
By Anne Stockwell
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Hopping into the festival van, I introduce myself and realize I'm talking to Amber Benson, the unjustly murdered Tara of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's sitting in the back with Cole Williams and Russell Brown--her leading man and director, respectively, in tonight's opening feature. During a hilarious ride, the straight-but-polar-opposite-of-narrow Amber regales us with behind-the-scenes Buffy stories. Lesbian fun fact: In order to get Willow and Tara's unprecedented love scenes on the air, Benson, costar Alyson Hannigan, and series creator Joss Whedon submitted such carnal clinches that the horrified censors willingly went with the footage we saw. Food for thought, no?
It's doubly fun afterward to see my new friends Cole and Amber in Russell's film, Race You to the Bottom: Both actors hit their marks as a bi guy and a hetero girl swept up in an affair in Northern California's wine country. The movie is a smart window on a new world of romantic complications. Where old-world queers were traumatized by the thought of an either/or coming out, young queers with fluid sexual boundaries are up against a whole new set of dilemmas.
Next up is the women's shorts program--an experience that any gay festival veteran approaches with caution. But this time I'm pleasantly surprised, especially by the two heavy hitters that cap the program. From Boston, "Everything Good" follows a long-bed-dead lesbian who, finding herself alone in Amsterdam, works up the courage to phone a call girl. Written by Caren Block and produced by Block and Paula Dowd--both first-timers--the story's got lots of heart as well as a healthy dash of salt. Finally, L.A.'s hip lesbian community gets a hilarious once-over in Liz Lachman's "Getting to Know You," a totally-ready-for-prime-time comedy about the romantic misadventures of an Angelena cartoonist (the captivating Elizabeth Keener, sister of Catherine) in search of her dream girl (gorgeous ER paramedic Michelle C. Bonilla).
Afterward there's a lesbian bacchanalia at the local club Elements--and the last I see of her, the fabulous Amber Benson is headed off into the fray, on a matchmaking mission for a lovelorn lesbian buddy.
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