He was one of the first openly gay actors in Hollywood & I always thought highly of his work. Now he is an interesting & inventive filmmaker. Mitchell Lichtenstein is known for his performances in Robert Altman's Streamers (1983) & Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet (1993). He won a Venice Film Festival Award for the first film & an Independent Spirit nomination for the latter. His motion picture directorial debut was-Teeth (2007), which he also wrote & produced, At the Sundance Film Festival he picked up a Grand Jury Prize for Teeth. Mitchell: "Teeth is about a young woman who discovers that she is anatomically unique & what happens when her boyfriend gets violent with her & is 'punished' for it." His drama- Happy Tears (2009) is about mismatched sisters played by Parker Posey & Demi Moore, who argue about what to do with their dad, played by Rip Torn, who is slipping into dementia, & Ellen Barkin as his girlfriend. He is the son of the the great American painter Roy Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein turns 46 today.
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