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	Produced and Directed by Bart Everly USA, 2003 75 MINUTES Film Source Information

As the culture wars heat up, we can look forward to hearing more from Barney Frank, one of Congress’ first openly gay members, elected in 1981 (D-MA), due to “divine intervention” (Father Drinan retired after the Pope disallowed priests in Congress). Frank, perhaps because he survived his own sex scandal with a reprimand from the House in 1990, became one of President Clinton’s most vocal defenders during the Monica Lewinsky debacle. Certainly he was the wittiest and most charismatic of the president’s supporters. In LET’S GET FRANK, Bart Everly revisits the media circus that featured Frank and Maxine Waters allied against Henry Hyde, Bob Barr and Ken Starr - not to mention Trent Lott (who equated homosexuality with kleptomania and alcoholism). Funny and insightful, it’s a movie about some recent past history that in many respects we have not moved past at all.

• Barney Frank’s Webpage
• Filmmakers webpage
• Click here to see the schedule for Thirteen’s REEL NEW YORK, New York’s first independent film and video series for television, premiering June 3rd. Film Forum is a Media Sponsor of Channel 13’s Reel NY series, whose season runs from June 3 - July 22.

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