With a scant few days to go until Oscar, the speculation and "What are the many implications of life and/or playing gay in Hollywood films?" pieces are coming fast and furious on every news bit, entertainment clip, and syndicated show that ever spent several weeks discussing Lindsay Lohan's penchant for Santa Monica demolition derbies.
MTV - known primarily for celebrating diversity by cramming every tenth homosexual on the planet into a Road Rules challenge - recently highlighted the LGBT entries you may or may not be rooting for come Sunday night.
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OK, folks, when shopping for Oscar bait roles remember "gay" is the new black (or African-Americans as they prefer to be called). Retards, cripples and getting hit with the ugly stick are out, out, out! Does AMPAS and the entertainment media actually realise how fucking patronising this kind of shit is?
Posted by: Craig Ranapia | March 01, 2006 at 05:39 PM
LOL...Craig, you read my mind. I was just thinking how Hollywood wants to make of the world one big "Carnivale", with the freaks all flashed across the screen so you can pity them and so that actors can mouth pithy phrases about "feeling what it's like to be (x)".
Posted by: North Dallas Thirty | March 01, 2006 at 05:43 PM
Well, I must admit that I love Gary Oldman's response when he was congratulated on his "bravery" playing gay writer Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears: "A fireman running into a burning house is brave. I'm just an actor." Really puts the annual Hollywood circle-jerk into perspective, doesn't it?
Posted by: Craig Ranapia | March 01, 2006 at 06:15 PM