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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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2. FILM: Virginia

Dustin Lance Black (pictured, above) makes his feature directing debut with this semiautobiographic, dreamlike, often very challenging comedy-drama about a teenage boy growing up in the South with an unhinged mother (a terrific Jennifer Connelly) who's having an affair with a Mormon sheriff (Ed Harris, pictured with Connelly below). Toby Jones makes a strong impression as a repressed gay man. Now playing in select theaters.

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