At Thanksgiving in 1999, a retired museum director issued a warning to his son. “Tomorrow,” he said. “I’m going to throw you a ball. I hope you catch it.” The father had lost his wife of 44 years to brain cancer only a few months earlier. “He was a widower in this house he’d been married in for ever,” explains Mike Mills, who is the son in question. “That was really sad and terrifying. I was like, 'He wants to move in. What a drag.’ I was slightly relieved when he said, 'I’m gay.’ ”
In a Hollywood filled with seemingly 2D stars, flattened against a wall for public consumption by agents, managers and PR flaks, James Franco stands out as a multi-dimensional multi-hyphenate anomaly. How one sees Franco, then, truly depends on the angle at which they choose to view him, reports the Huff Post!
In his acting career, which stretches over half a century, Christopher Plummer has appeared in more than 100 movies. But no matter how good he is — and he is often very good — he may always be remembered as a certain singing Austrian navy captain named von Trapp.
George Clooney has been offered the role in the remake of the film from which Brokeback Mountain got its inspiration, according to media and gossips reports.
Film legend Barbra Streisand and gay activist Larry Kramer would both like to set the record straight about their failed attempt to bring The Normal Heart — Kramer’s 1985 play about the dawn of the AIDS epidemic — to the big screen. The problem is, each of them says it’s the other’s fault. In an exclusive interview with EW, Streisand calls Kramer “brilliant, courageous, stubborn, and self-destructive.” The writer’s response? “She never put her money where her mouth is.” reports US mag Entertainment Weekly in this exclusive.
Apparently, today is the day of eye candy, of looking and enjoying a bit of male flesh on display. So it would seem that we are going to have a choice of beef to watch in the cinema, two movies starring the super-sexy Marvel heroes Thor and Captain America.
But how do you decide which one is better? Sure, some people would point to things like plot structure or well-defined characters, but those people are pussies. No, the only true way to judge the merits of a superhero movie is by how bangable the hero is, so says xtra in Canada and yours truly, so lets take a peek
It's time to decide: who'd you rather?
Thor?
...or Captain America?
A memoir by Cary Grant’s daughter has revealed that the Hollywood star enjoyed the rumours about his sexuality.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th Century's biggest movie stars, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 79.
Boy meets boy. Boy falls in love with boy. Boy has a sex-change procedure in a misguided attempt to please his lover. Boy regrets his decision, moves back to hometown and falls in love with a girl. Reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
When it comes to specific television shows and movies that have lacked gay visibility over the years, the Star Trek franchise has probably received the most scrutiny — and criticism — from AfterElton.com. After all, despite having produced more than a dozen feature films and 726 episodes over the course of six series (including the 22-episode animated series) the franchise has never managed to include an out gay character in a movie or series.
This despite the fact that in 1991 Gene Roddenberry told The Advocate that the fifth season of The Next Generation would at least show gay crewmembers as part of ship life. Unfortunately, Roddenberry died that year and none of the subsequent episodes featured gay people at all.
Brannon Braga on "Star Trek"s Lack of Gay Characters: "Not a Forward Thinking Decision" | TV Show Recaps, Celebrity Interviews & News About Gay & Bisexual Men | AfterElton.com
In 2008, the fan series Star Trek Phase II produced an online version of a gay-themed episode originally intended for The Next Generation and written by David Gerrold. And in 2008, I asked Roberto Orci and Alexander Kurtzman if the new Star Trek movie would finally go where no Star Trek had gone before by including a gay character. The answer was no, but perhaps the next one would and that "it needed to be addressed."
At this month's Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles, I had an unexpected and brief opportunity to chat with Brannon Braga, one of Star Trek's most prominent writers and producers, about why the franchise had done so poorly with with gay visibility and whether or not his new show Terra Nova would do anything to improve American television's terrible track record with the issue.
The film by the German director Todorovic got the main prize of the festival while I shot my love by the Israeli director Tomer Heymann was awarded with the Best Documentary Feature Film.
The US commentator and so called writer, Ramin Setoodeh has reignited a row over gay actors in Hollywood after claiming that studios shut out stars who make their sexuality public.
Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh was widely vilified in April when he wrote a piece claiming that openly gay TV star Sean Hayes, best known for his role as the flamboyant Jack in Will and Grace, did not make a convincing straight character in the Broadway play Promises, Promises. And then angering more and more people in the process when he implied that no gay can play straight. Now, he’s back, jumping on the bandwagon, though changing tact a little by saying in a new article, that gay men are not even able to play gay roles because Hollywood prefers to hand them to straight actors.
"The lovable lesbian wives in The Kids Are All Right were played by the heterosexual actresses Annette Bening and Julianne Moore," writes Setoodeh. "The quirky couple in I Love You Phillip Morris were portrayed by straight men Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. "You could say that's why it's called 'acting'. But that's little comfort to gay actors, who are routinely shut out of the studio system, even though Hollywood is supposedly one of the most 'gay-friendly' towns. Movies need to attract the broadest possible audience, and film-makers worry that if they cast a gay person as a romantic lead, audiences will be too grossed out. Instead, straight actors get the roles, and everybody talks about how brave they are."
This wilt from Setoodeh comes on the back of comments of Rupert Everett who implied the homophobia of Hollywood still exists in a recent radio interview. Also legendary actor Richard Chamberlin advises gay actors to stay in the closet to secure more work.
However, it would seem that it’s quite ok to be young and gay in Hollywood these days, just look at the emergence of gay actors and characters in the teen drama sector, "Glee," "Gossip Girl," "Pretty Little Liars," "Hellcats," "Greek" the US version of "Skins" all do well in showcasing young, gay roles. The new US version of UK comic drama “Shameless” has a vivid and powerful gay storyline and character.
“Perhaps when we stop turning in on ourselves, we can expect the same from the rest of society” said Andrew a TV commentator from England, highlighting that often the most homophobic people in the showbiz world are gay themselves. “They cave out a niche for themselves, yet fight dirty and ferociously to any other gay star on the rise, as if they will keep them in work!”JS
