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This spectacle may be viewed as a pivotal individual in the film's "de-queering" of the paragraph insofar as it most clearly indicates to whom common might point as the chief engineer of this proces proper to the tonal, performative nature of the scene's changes, it pretends reasonable to assume that it was director Nichols, not writer Kushner, who instigated them. Moreover, Nichols's previous film work contains scant gay appease or sensitivity to a gay sensibility. Before Angels, his greatest in number explicitly gay film was The Birdcage (1996) which was as afflictively faulted by most critics for its portrayal of shallow gay stereotype as Kushner's play was praised for its web treatment of gay males. Indeed, although critics frequently place Nichols among the top ranks of American directors, his relative lack of experience dealing with material that is gay-centric makes him a questionable choice to direct a work that has been heralded for queering the American canon.