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David Ehrenstein (born February 18, 1947) is an American critic who focuses primarily on LGBTQ issues in cinema. ==Life and career== Ehrenstein was born in New York City. His father was a secular Jew with Polish ancestors, and his mother was of African-American and Irish descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Ehrenstein, Meet David Ehrenstein )〕 His mother raised him in her religion, Roman Catholicism.〔 He attended the High School of Music and Art (different from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts)〔 and then Pace College (now Pace University). He now lives in Los Angeles. He is openly gay. His writing career started in 1965 with an interview with Andy Warhol which was published in ''Film Culture'' magazine in 1966. Ehrenstein wrote for ''Film Culture'' until 1983. During the 1960s he also wrote for ''December'' and the ''Village Voice''. In 1976 he moved to Los Angeles with his partner Bill Reed and began work as a film critic and entertainment journalist for the ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner'' and also wrote for ''Film Comment'' and ''Film Quarterly'' during this period. In 1982 he collaborated with Bill Reed on the book ''Rock On Film'', while continuing to write for diverse publications, including the ''San Francisco Examiner'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', ''Arts'', the ''Los Angeles Reader'', ''Enclitic'', and ''Wide Angle''. From the ''Herald-Examiner'' he moved to ''Daily Variety'' and later ''The Advocate''. He also wrote ''Film: The Front Line - 1984'', a survey of experimental and independent film work. He has contributed to ''Sight and Sound''. In 1987 he served as the film researcher and historian for the "Hollywood and History" costume exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1992 he published ''The Scorsese Picture: The Art and Life of Martin Scorsese''. In 1998 he published ''Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1927-1997''. As he documents on his blog and website, lawyers representing Hollywood actor Tom Cruise threatened to take legal action against Ehrenstein because he wrote of how Cruise is appealing to both men and women. Ehrenstein has appeared often on ''The E! True Hollywood Story'', specifically for the profiles of Rock Hudson, Sonny Bono, and Bob Guccione. He has also written about the film ''Brokeback Mountain'' for ''LA Weekly''. His homepage and blog also contain commentary and satire on various journalists, politicians and figures in the entertainment industry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Ehrenstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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