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Interesting article about celebrity gay gossip. Discusses Jake Gyllenhaal.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on August 06, 2006, 09:31:06 pm ---
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“He’s a sponge, for crying out loud,” Mr. Martinsen said.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Ah me. The New York Times is not was it once was, at all, at all. Sigh. (SpongeBob SquarePants indeed.)
But then, we come to--uh--Mel:
Contrast that balanced response (from Jake Gyllenhaal) to sharp-tongued quotes attributed to Mel Gibson. After his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic outburst in Malibu last week, entertainment journalists dredged up other controversial remarks of his, including the following quote from a 1992 interview with the Spanish newspaper “El Pais.”
“Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them? I think not.”
We'll let that by, shall we?
twistedude:
Since Gibson's ascting is only one rung above Kenasu Reeves, I'd think the gay guys would be HAPPY to let it....slide...
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: silkncense on August 06, 2006, 12:04:57 pm ---Barb -
I need details. What exactly does "met" encompass?? :o Feel free to embellish for the audience's pleasure!
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What? Me? Embellish? Never.
Ralph was in "Coriolanus" and "Richard II" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in 2000. I flew up there with my friend Jacki and saw him in both - we went to the matinee of "Coriolanus" on Saturday and the matinee of "Richard II" on Sunday. I didn't go with the intention of trying to meet him at the stage door afterwards - in fact, I had no intention of it at all. But Jacki not so gently persuaded me. And so against my better judgment (thank goodness I didn't listen to it), right after the play on Saturday (which was *amazing*, needless to say - directed by Jonathan Kent who had also directed his "Hamlet") we both walked outside to the stage door and found a small gaggle of pretty much all women waiting with Sharpies and books/DVDs in hand. After a few minutes, a very large bodyguard type came out and said "Mr. Fiennes will be meeting with fans in the lobby - there's too much of a commotion with loading the set for tonight (which was true) back here." So Jacki and I hightailed it to the lobby without a second thought. I didn't realize until we got there that pretty much none of the other women had followed us - apparently they thought the bodyguard was just saying that so Ralph could escape free and clear. I remember one even saying as we turned to walk back "Is he really, or are you just saying that so he can make a clean getaway?" and the guard saying, "No. Of course not. Mr. Fiennes is very good to his fans." I *love* that - "Mr. Fiennes."
So there we were back in the lobby, and there was NO ONE else with us but one other girl not with the rest of the group who trusted the nice, big man too, and she was a ways behind. We walked in, there was no one there, and just when we were wondering where exactly we should stand and starting to feel rather awkward, from out of the shadows, he walked like a dream. Looking very freshly-scrubbed, with hair still wet from the shower, slicked back, and in comfortable but crisp looking street clothes. He lasered me with those eyes and I felt like I was in a tractor beam being pulled to him. I don't know what else possessed me. I just strode very confidently up to him like he was a long lost friend. I had this whole mini-speech prepared, about how he had brought Shakespeare's words to life for me in a way that no one else ever had. But when I got to him, I was suddenly starstruck and could barely utter a word. I had the playbook and pen in hand, and all I could muster was "Thank you for bringing these plays over to us." He all but whispered, "You're quite welcome." I handed him my book and pen. He was trying to will me to look at him, but I couldn't. I'd taken one glance at those eyes, which were as clear and *green* (in that light) as peridots and was afraid I'd turn into a pillar of salt if I looked at them again. While all this transpired, Jacki stood back and snapped a couple of photos. I remember worrying that he'd be annoyed by that, but it didn't remotely faze him. In fact, after I backed away so that the nimrods who had now finally figured out they should return to the lobby like the guy said could have their chance, I was amazed to see him actually posing for photos with them, shaking the hand of one who gushed, "May I hold your hand?" (I kid you not) and hugging another one who was even bolder still and asked for one of those. He was so gracious the whole time. And so quiet and deliberate in his movements, I'm sure conserving every ounce of energy for the second play he had to do again a few hours later ("Coriolanus" is three hours long, and he's onstage in almost every scene.) The air around him was rarified. I've never believed in seeing auras, but there actually was one around him. He was almost angelic.
See for yourselves. Wouldn't you agree?
;D
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: atz75 on August 05, 2006, 08:01:45 pm ---Well, the number of time the dumb questions come up in zillions of interviews probably has something to do with the popularity of the film. I think the magnitude of the movie's popularity in the mainstream world probably was a tiny bit unexpected... even by well-intentioned actors and others involved in making the movie.
I grant it that there would be curiosity about the kissing from the media. That seems fine... But, the tone of many (although certainly not all) of the questions seem to include that grain of meaning that leads to the idea that the interviewers are expecting their audience to be uncomfortable with the subject matter - or think it's way out of the realm of typical experience, etc. In making this assumption about the general audience, I think a lot of these interviews do foster or help create the idea that this subject matter should be seen as uncomfortable. It seems like a sad type of assumption to make about the audience in any case. And, it's almost like they're trying to push the actors to admit to a level of uncomfortable-ness (whether they really feel it or not). Or, in other words it's like some of the interviews seem to push the actors to re-affirm or explicitly articulate their own real-life sexuality in light of the "uncomfortable" content ot the movie.
:-\
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I agree. Even Jake said to Oprah with more than a hint of irony when she kept pushing it, "What're ya gettin' at?" (LOVED that, needless to say.)
In my view, a lot of these people clearly had an agenda in asking the question. And it wasn't one of honest curiosity. At best, if it can be called that, it was out of self-preservation - out of being uncomfortable themselves with the subject matter and wanting to let their audiences know it lest they be perceived as - gasp! - gay-friendly or "worse" - gay. And at worst, it was to deliberately put the actors in an awkward position so as to make for "good TV." Shame on pretty much all of them.
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