Celebrities and Gay Slurs II
Sharon Stone, Isaiah Washington, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, and Gay Slurs: Part I
Grand Thesis:
Some may see Stone’s statement “I call all my gay friends…” as proof positive that one can be ready, willing, and able to perform charitable deeds, and still be appallingly crass, vulgar, and disrespectful to others. But those much too sensitive souls are actually missing the point. What Stone’s remarks and the “fag rag” line in Little Miss Sunshine prove is that “fag” isn’t an issue.
Stone’s Big Fag friends, for instance, apparently enjoy being called that. Perhaps they even refer to themselves as such (or as “Mary”) while watching reruns of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, or while throwing deadly hissy fits because Dreamgirls [...]
by Andre Soares | January 30, 2007
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Tags: Censorship, Doug Ireland, Gay Interest, GLAAD, Homophobia, Isaiah Washington, Sharon Stone
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
