it's sunday today, hence the title - it's also the title of a film that came out when I was a tweenie back in the early 70's. It was about a love triangle between the late great peter finch, the young actor Murrary Head (he of "one night in bangkok" fame, the stage version of hair and various cool young brit type roles) and some woman that I can't remember - might have been Vanessa Redgrave or Sarah Miles, I'm not sure and not convinced it was either.
The reason I remember the film of course is because of the hint of guy on guy action!!! This was probably the first film that entered my consciousness where the gay boys were not flaming hairdressers or a form of transvesite . Peter Finch played a doctor - respectable, upright, well dressed and "straight acting", Murrary Head , I think played a hip photographer in low slung skinny jeans spreading sex appeal in all directions - male and female. This was what I aspired to be and in retrospect I think I probably acted out this role throughout my early 20's without even realising it. Anyway, even though the film made a big impression on me, I never saw it. At the time I was too young to buy a ticket and life moved on. But I still love the title for it's dour recognition of an immutable truth and they way it sums up all the contradictions that sunday brings with it.
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