CHARLES BUSCH, AL PACINO, JANE FONDA, Gina Gershon, Jason Priestley--the Sundance Film Festival is the place to
rub elbows with gay and gay-friendly stars.
"For 11 days, you can see great movies, interact with talented filmmakers,
rub elbows with Hollywood celebrities, and party, party, party," says Ron Henderson, the rambunctious executive director of the Denver Film Society, which puts on the event.
Their recent trip to Detroit enabled Marining and Keast to
rub elbows with car designers, parts manufacturers, suppliers and technical staff from all over the world to study what products companies are testing how these components perform.
Tokyo Notes is set in the visitors' lounge of an art museum in Japan, a place where strangers and acquaintances
rub elbows. In Hirata's hands, this space becomes an oasis of calm in a violent cosmos.
And those of us who won't be jetting in to
rub elbows with the art-world grandees can be consoled: When it comes to the masters of less, less may still be more.
Don't forget to party hardy, too--this is an opportunity to
rub elbows and socialize with your peers, Michel adds.
The main difference is basically prestige, as the kitchen is shared, but the walls are there so the big shots don't have to
rub elbows with the lower echelons of the staff.
The annual spectacle also allowed Akhuetie to
rub elbows with rivals on the court, as he played alongside Arellano's Jiovani Jalalon and got mentored by San Beda's head coach Jamike Jarin.
The most difficult because if you aim to
rub elbows with her challenge it becomes excitingly and depressingly difficult to know what you are doing.
Now, of course, the art galleries
rub elbows with the key-chain shops and the straight tourists gape openly at the parade of tattooed, hand-holding, ass-grabbing, platform-heel-wearing gay tourists.
At these conferences, members make important career connections, participate in developmental seminars and
rub elbows with the likes of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and Congresswoman Maxine Waters (as they did last year).