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Review: <em>Chris & Don, A Love Story</em>

Review: Chris & Don, A Love Story

Distinguished English author Christopher Isherwood, best known for his book Berlin Stories, basis of the musical Cabaret, met teenaged Don Bachardy on a Malibu beach in 1953. Despite a thirty-year age difference (Isherwood was already in his his late forties) the two fell in love and carried on a relationship for over thirty years, ending when Isherwood died of cancer in 1986. That they lived openly as a couple at a time when unmarried straight couples had a hard time of it makes this new documentary, which opens tomorrow at the Landmark Century, that much more vaulable. more ›

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