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Jake In Drag??
Flashframe777:
Shock and Awe, indeed.
The real civil rights heroes of the gay community were the loud, over-the-top drag Queens who fought back hard against the police who busted them at Stonewall. Drag Queens aren't called "fierce" for nothing.
Kelda, rent the movie "Stonewall" (1995), directed by Nigel Finch, and you'll understand a lot better, and rent Jenny Livingston's poignant "Paris Is Burning". If these movies don't spell it out, then nothing will.
Brokeback Mountain is so effective because our heroes are completely up against their environment and the time flow. They take our hearts.
Stonewall occurs at about the same time period, in an environment that could be somewhat manipulated by it citizens. They earn our respect.
It shows you people who did what needed to be done, in contrast to those who were too afraid to step up and deal even though, unlike Jack and Ennis, they had the means.
Middle America is the problem. They are stuck in gray area, and they never move, until moved.
Whether its civil rights for women, blacks, gays, freedom to worship whatever you want or don't want to, they're issue will always be the same - inaction.
welliwont:
boy NBC is on the warpath this week! Jakey's opening monologue will just not stay up at YouTube! :'(
Well the link above to the Barry Gibb Talk Show does not work anymore, but luckily this one still does, probably bcz it does not have SNL as a tag word.
enjoy, this one is the funniest of the three.... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTwFCvLbieI&NR
newyearsday:
Yay, Jane! That link shows the same clip as the other link I posted. Thanks for posting this one, and yes, it's the first of the three and I still think the best. Even though I'd seen it four or five times, when I watched it the other night I was laughing so hard my abs got a serious workout!
Justin's impersonation is so good, he even does the "hand to the ear" for the harmonizing at just the same time and with the same hand as Robin used! (My friend and I checked out a YouTube clip of the Bee Gees doing Nights on Broadway, the song they parody in the sketch.)
Thank god for Jimmy Fallon!
welliwont:
Hi Jenny!
ya, that is a great clip, I must have watched it 30 times! :laugh: :laugh: The part that cracks me up, (well, one of the parts ;D) is how Timberlake can't keep a straight face, hahahahahahaa gotta go watch it again :laugh: :laugh:
injest:
ok I would like to make a distiction between "Will & Grace" and "Queer Eye"...
Carson is just being Carson...that is who he is...he may exagerate for effect BUT he is a gay man and the show is not a comedy show....
Jack is a made up character...
If a person is effeminate and behaves a certain way, it is NONE of our business to criticize him....if a corporation tries to make money by doing a cheap caricature of the real person THEN I object...
does that make any sense??
and I appreciate people making the point about the wheelchair skit....they were mocking the stereotypers not the minority...
I felt the opening mocked the minority...
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