He flies to Chicago twice in a weekend to help, packing eveningwear.
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Here he is in his chic dining room in a clearly sprawling apartment: a little framed photograph of him with another man, a table full of white people dressed in various shades of taupe, lilacs on the table, only-now-trendy flat-bottomed wineglasses. There’s Everett’s significant bone structure at a crowded bookstore listening to some overwritten erotic literature. Meanwhile, we are treated to short glimpses of our gay hero back in New York. The most romantic backdrop the film could find: the foul Chicago River, an artificially reversed sewage pit and introducer of invasive aquatic species to the Great Lakes. “What a hideous room!” Everett exclaims upon visiting the Drake, Chicago’s best-known hotel.
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Watching the movie again in 2021 makes not just heterosexuality but Chicago (or its stand-in?) look tepid. Julia Roberts - at 27, somehow a taste-making food critic in New York - suddenly realizes she’s in love with her old pal (Dermot Mulroney, here at the second of his three, to date, pinnacles of hotness), a sportswriter, and so pursues him to his wedding weekend (in Chicago!) to destroy his planned nuptials with a very small, exuberant, and extremely young Cameron Diaz. The underappreciated 1997 rom-com, often criticized for using a gay man as a prop or plot device, has revealed itself in time to be more about how heterosexual brainwashing distracts us from three great tastes: true friendship, fabulous gay men, and having an amazing life in New York City, the best place in America. The king, if you will, of them all is the gay best friend played by Rupert Everett in My Best Friend’s Wedding. It’s terrific to have an aesthetic obsession (fashion, décor, murder) it’s wonderful to inhabit your own private New York while heterosexuals live overlapping but less interesting existences. But each portrayal celebrates the true wonder of being a homosexual gentleman. It’s been a long, slow slide from these heights of the urbane New York City homosexual: from Farley Granger and John Dall’s wonderful confirmed-bachelor pad in Rope (the gay apartment of my dreams!), to Stanley Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada, to, I guess, Stanford Blatch in whatever roach box he lived in. “You’ll meet a lot of amusing people there - all the people that you hear about and some that you haven’t.” Shall we go over?” All around them, people prepare to jump from buildings. Then: “Say, it’s five o’clock, cocktail time at the Emersons’. “Oh, their silly stock market,” Pangborn replies. In 1933’s Only Yesterday, a suave decorator in evening clothes, played by Franklin Pangborn, is enjoying a painting alongside his young lover while all around them New York City is melting down over the stock-market crash. Photo: Ronald Grant Archive/Alamy Stock Photo