So on Friday night we decided to see The Witnesses, a movie about gays and straights in France at the beginning of the AIDS crisis.

Stephen Holden said:

The Witnesses sidesteps most of its opportunities for high drama, political sermonizing and the jerking of tears. …

The Witnesses may frustrate those who prefer movies that tell clear-cut stories in which hard lessons are learned. But in the director’s farsighted vision of life, the ground under our feet is always shifting. As time pulls us forward, the shocks of the past are absorbed and the pain recedes. In its light-handed way, The Witnesses is profound.

Not true. The Witnesses was heavy-handed and vaguely retarded. And because we don’t believe in suspense as a plot device, guess what? The straight people in the movie aren’t affected by AIDS crisis. Just like in real life. (We kid!)

Anyway, at the theater we saw former mayor Ed Koch.

A friend of ours once postulated: “Everyone you think is gay is, and some people you don’t think are gay are gay, too.”

Just saying.