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Ben Shenkman earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations four years ago for his supporting role in Angels in America, in which he played the lover of a gay man who had AIDS. In the Canadian indie Breakfast with Scot, Shenkman takes on the lighter and more modern side of gay life, playing one half of a couple who are suddenly faced with raising a precocious, deeply theatrical 11-year-old boy. Shenkman stars alongside Tom Cavanagh, who plays a former hockey player and sportscaster who is in the closet at work, and ambivalent about raising a kid to begin with, not to mention one who seems more gay than he is. Shenkman, who lives in New York with his wife and newborn son, talked to me about Breakfast with Scot, which he says is more of a family story than anything specifically for gay audiences. The film premiered at the Toronto... [read full story]
