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The top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Dustin Lance Black tells a personal story, Joan Crawford is back in the saddle, Beth Ditto makes some noise, and more.

BY Jeremy Kinser

May 18 2012 4:35 PM ET

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The offscreen friction between Oscar-winning screen greats Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge, who referred to her costar as a "rotten egg lady," was so intense that it helped give their scenes a vivid lesbian subtext on-screen in Nicholas Ray's unforgettable 1954 western, an analogy for the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. See it on the big screen in L.A. Wednesday as part of Outfest's Downtown 30 series.

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