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A far cry from the gawky and boyish Norman Bates, B.Z. is a floppy-haired, closeted Hollywood player slowly dissolving in his own nihilism.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Down the road in Indiana, Emma (Samantha Rich) has a closeted relationship with Alyssa (Madelyn Davis-Haddad), so their prom represents a big night.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
The confusion about whether or not Farnsworth had been outed gave screenwriter Paul Rudnick the idea for In & Out, a movie about a closeted high school teacher whose secret is inadvertently revealed during a former student’s acceptance speech at the Oscars.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
The actor, 51, broke out in a series of a roles in the early 2000s, playing a closeted gay Mormon in Mike Nichols’ Angels in America for HBO in 2003 and then Brad, a suburban dad set adrift in Little Children, Todd Field‘s 2006 adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Down the road in Indiana, Emma (Samantha Rich) has a closeted relationship with Alyssa (Madelyn Davis-Haddad), so their prom represents a big night.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
The confusion about whether or not Farnsworth had been outed gave screenwriter Paul Rudnick the idea for In & Out, a movie about a closeted high school teacher whose secret is inadvertently revealed during a former student’s acceptance speech at the Oscars.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
The actor, 51, broke out in a series of a roles in the early 2000s, playing a closeted gay Mormon in Mike Nichols’ Angels in America for HBO in 2003 and then Brad, a suburban dad set adrift in Little Children, Todd Field‘s 2006 adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Closeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closeted. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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