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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Saturday 6 July 2019
In 'Marianne & Leonard,' a love immortalized in song

Associated Press promise. Cohen's songs
It's not exactly a hit parade, can hold eternities in them.
the songs that have been And the story behind Co-
turned into movies. There hen's classic ballad "So
was the shambling recon- Long, Marianne" is indeed
struction of Arlo Guthrie's one that spans many years,
"Alice's Restaurant," the from the masterful Montre-
fizzy pop of "Earth Girls Are al singer-songwriter's begin-
Easy," the Sandra Bullock nings to his death in 2016.
rom-com "Love Potion In the early '60s, Cohen
No.9." But digging into a was living far from his na-
Leonard Cohen song, as tive Canada in a sun-kissed
the documentary "Mari- bohemia paradise on the
anne & Leonard: Words Greek island of Hydra, tak-
of Love" does, holds more ing acid, writing feverishly

This image released by Roadside Attractions shows Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen in a scene
from the documentary "Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love."
Associated Press

and falling in love with a by Judy Collins — singing They continued together
young, blonde, warm-spir- his own songs, Cohen was off-and-on for years, but
ited Norwegian woman catapulted far from Hydra, gradually grew apart. Co-
named Marianne Ihlen, signed to Columbia Re- hen, whose fifth studio al-
who had a son from her first cords and hailed as a bari- bum was titled "Death of
marriage to the writer Axel tone-voiced sage. Among a Ladies Man," moved on
Jensen. his first songs was an ode to to other places and other
Their blissful romance Ihlen, "So Long, Marianne." women. (Janis Joplin was
came before fame found It wasn't initially intended as among them.) Yet Cohen's
Cohen. When he turned an epitaph to his relation- romance with Ihlen be-
from novel writing to music ship with Ihlen but came to came mythic, a legend Co-
and eventually — coaxed be one. hen burnished, himself.q

Marvel's first openly trans actor

calls for more portrayals

Home." His gender identity
is not addressed in the brief
role.
Barack said that to him, su-
perhero movies "always felt
like a trans story because
it's talking about identity."
"It's about separating what
people know about you
and what they don't,"
Barack said at last week's
premiere of the film. "And
I think that's something I
kind of live with every day.
And on top of that, I don't
see a lot of trans-mascu-
line people on television or
This June 26, 2019 photo released by Sony Pictures shows, from trans men specifically, and
left, Angourie Rice, Zach Barack and Remy Hii at the world pre-
miere of "Spider-Man: Far From Home" at the TCL Chinese The- getting to be part of that is
atre in Los Angeles. beyond unreal."
Associated Press The 23-year-old Chicago-
area native, who also ap-
By AMANDA LEE MYERS more representation of his peared in the TV series
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The experience. "L.A.'s Finest," said there
first openly transgender ac- Zach Barack plays a class- needs to be more roles for
tor in the Marvel Universe mate of Peter Parker's trans people in all sorts of
says there needs to be in "Spider-Man: Far From movies.q