Sharon Stone, Isaiah Washington, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, and Gay Slurs
Sharon Stone does a brief zen meditation session on the set of Basic Instinct 2 while trying to uncover the elusive difference between fag and faggot.
See, it’s all about Got.
No, God has absolutely nothing to do with anything. I wrote Got. Just follow me.
Exhibit A:
When Alan Arkin’s heroin-addicted grandpa tells Steve Carell’s wimpy, sexless gay amoeba to go get himself a “fag rag,” the audience at the industry screening where I saw the weather-beaten Little Miss Sunshine pissed in their pants laughing. (You could actually smell the stench.)
Little Miss Sunshine has gone on to win the Producers Guild Award for best picture of 2006; it has won numerous critics’ awards for Michael Arndt’s screenplay, and it has received four [...]
by Andre Soares | January 30, 2007
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Tags: Censorship, Gay Interest, Homophobia, Isaiah Washington, Little Miss Sunshine, Liz Smith, Michael Arndt, Rupert Everett, Sharon Stone
STAGE BEAUTY d: Richard Eyre
Stage Beauty (2004)
Director: Richard Eyre
Screenplay: Jeffrey Hatcher; from his own play Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Cast: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Zoe Tapper, Ben Chaplin, Richard Griffiths, Edward Fox, Hugh Bonneville
SHAKESPEARE IN CONFUSION
Despite touches from A Star Is Born, All About Eve, Farewell, My Concubine, and the many versions of Viktor und Viktoria, Stage Beauty’s raison d’être is the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love. Like its predecessor, this romantic comedy about gender impersonations in old-time British theater may even succeed in becoming a critical and box-office hit in spite of itself. For Stage Beauty, directed by Richard Eyre and adapted for the screen by Jeffrey Hatcher (from his own play), is as much of a calculated crowd-pleaser [...]
by Andre Soares | October 17, 2004
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Tags: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Edward Fox, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Ned Kynaston, Period Movies, Richard Eyre, Rupert Everett, Stage Beauty
