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Matt Bomer: "Fellow Travelers"

  There are things I'd change in "Fellow Travelers." The Jelani Alladin story feels generic; also, it seems to have been grafted onto the actual plot, without a compelling reason. (I'm only three hours in. Maybe I'll change my mind.) Also, when Roy Cohn addresses the ghost of his mother--as a way of cramming in information about his disfigured nose--I feel like I'm watching a thesis video for an undergraduate "film studies" class. All that aside, I'm happy to spend a few hours with Matt Bomer's "Hawk." This guy seems to be Thomas Mallon's response to "Don," from "Mad Men." It's a gay Don Draper! Hawk has decided that love isn't an option; the best choice is to marry the boss's daughter, then fuck young men on the side. In Joseph McCarthy's climate of terror, it isn't possible to be idealistic. Hawk will toss people under the bus to survive; he sacrifices one young man to HUAC trials (or ...