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12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
Kenny Loggins has really let himself go.
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nellicat
12/03/09

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"happier in the end." heh heh.
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miss_msry
12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
Philip Seymour Hoffman as L. Ron Hubbard? Tommy Boy isn't gonna like this.
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Perhaps Not
12/03/09

@miss_msry: I see David Miscavige killing someone with a bowling pin over this.
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unclevanya
12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
Rupert had everything lifted but the fuzz on his drug-addled mind. And this Matt Goldberg guy keeps propping him up and cheering his point, even ahooting down the obvious onslaught of negative feedback in his comments section. He's not just saying this is true; he wants this to be true.

After that farce upstate earlier today, I'm not in the mood for penny-ante crap like this.
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hughman
12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
for god's sake, don't come out like rupert. you'll be forced into a life of forgetful movies, hobnobbing with the likes of madonna and donatella versace and lamenting how your aging looks can't snare free coke and puerto rican hustlers like they used to. quel dommage, indeed.
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senatormayer
12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
I know people say the Oscars are rigged and the Emmys are just what the left happen to like that year, but what the hell is wrong with the Grammys?
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FaceMelter
12/03/09

@senatormayer: They award commercial viability, not artistic talent. I guess that's not such a bad thing, but do we really need another blown out award show that ignores the true creative innovation happening in this country?
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senatormayer
12/03/09

@FaceMelter: Thank you. I never payed attention to the Grammys before. I suppose I now know why.
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bodegacat
12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
Speaking of being gay having an affect on your career, ABC not only cancelled Adam Lambert on Jimmy Kimmel, they cancelled him on New Year's Rockin' Eve.

It's bullsh*t, but I hope Lambert and Everett can remember there are other important things in life than minor details like earning a living - like love and family and marriage and... oh. Nevermind.

So just where are gays allowed that "pursuit of happiness" thing? I forget.
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Colander
12/03/09

@bodegacat: Sadly, not in show-business (let's keep it to the industry, and not touch the fact that some would like there to be nowhere that a gay can be happy). I tend to agree that the industry is 'a game' and you have to play it right, that means people like us don't get to know who is gay and who isn't. Some of these people are out to their loved ones, but, PR-wise, it's not a good idea for them to play it that way. People are fucking dumb and afraid and uneducated about sexuality in general--so you get young actors, especially, who just grin and blush coyly about who they're dating. They might actually be happy otherwise, it's just the truth isn't something that's good for business, at least not when it's out in the open. A lot of eyes are on them, and some of those eyes belong to assholes.
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skt.smth
12/03/09

@bodegacat: What's sad is that, unlike heterosexuals, homosexuals often have to choose one or the other ("happiness" or "career success"). That said, show business will quickly dispose anything risky at the slightest hint that its fanfare is on the wane.
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Miss Anita Manbadly
12/05/09

@bodegacat: Well, remind me to watch more ABC shows, then. Adam Lambert is a talentless hack, nothing more. At least when Madonna does the talentless hack thing she's smart enough to get good song writers who can craft a pop tune out of the five notes she can reliably sing. If Lambert's voice didn't sound like the Sea Hag wielding a chainsaw, maybe I could be in Camp Adam.

Is it possible that someone, somewhere at ABC said "oh lord no, we can't inflict that sonic malady on the public on New Year's Eve?"

Or, let me put it this way. If George Michael, or Rufus Wainwright, or Mika, or even Boy George had performed the song and choreography that got sister Lambert into so much trouble, I would be up in arms if it had cost any of those performers future opportunities.
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12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
Hello Darling, Aren't You Working?
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Airvault
12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
Also: MGMT for Best New Artist.

And "Kids," that Target jingle, over "Electric Feel" for Best Pop Song? For shame.
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Miss Anita Manbadly
12/05/09

@Airvault: They turned "Kids" into a Target commercial? Is nothing sacred? I haven't seen that and it's a Good Thing because I'm already displeased that Empire of the Sun's "We Are The People" is now a commercial music bed.
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Airvault
12/03/09

In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
Rupert Everett's gay?!?!
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DahlELama
12/03/09

@Airvault: I know, right? Thank God we've still got Elton John on our side.
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belltolls
11/24/09

In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
Darren Aronofsky has a lifetime cool exemption...as he should.
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snugbug
11/24/09

@belltolls: For π, I assume? Since Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler were all crimes in the first degree against cinema. But π.. yes. Very interesting indie.
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belltolls
11/24/09

@snugbug: Pi and Requiem (and I actually liked the Fountain but I understand it sucks) but if Aronofsky has crimes what in Holy Hell is it that M Night does?
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snugbug
11/24/09

@belltolls: I can't really muster much hate against M. Night Shama-Lama-Ding-Dong because he excreted two thriller classics, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. He's been coasting along and flogging his one-trick pony narrative device to death since, but I still think he's got something ELSE to say.
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raincoaster
11/24/09

In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
As ever, "Make somebody shitloads of money" = "Get out of jail free" card
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Juancho
11/24/09

In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
John Lee Hancock has always had cash rolling in as an in-demand screenwriter (particularly on rewrites). Kind of a nice gig to fall back on.

I should add, not directing The Alamo is quite possibly the smartest thing Ron Howard ever did.
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PaisleyPajamas
11/24/09

In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
On "The Grosses Speak Law," doesn't this have its tentacles in "The Big Cool Friend Exemption?" Not in terms so much of getting household names committed to your next project, but having industry names follow through on the marketing of your film that can make or break gross receipts? There are numerous examples of good films not getting the studio backing they needed to launch and can only aspire to be a Donnie Darko-esque film instead.
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SpikeLives
11/24/09

In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
Ah, I was just asking someone what ever happened to Jan De Bont. But you have forgotten a couple of people. Paul Verhoeven and Michael Cimino!
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CitizenTian
11/24/09

@SpikeLives: An excellent pair of candidates. From 'Robocop' to 'Showgirls', incredible.

And Cimino is the shining star, as 'Heaven's Gate' destroyed United Artists and forever crippled Hollywood director autonomy. How many bad directors these days can make that same claim?

I would also suggest Peter Jackson, as much as it pains me to do so. He really killed it with King Kong, and I think he's gotten so much stature at this point that it's gotten difficult to edit the man or keep him on a budget. I don't have high hopes for this new flick. It will not be Heavenly Creatures.

Quentin Tarantino ought to be in director jail just to knock some fucking sense back into his over-inflated head. The shame palace that Kevin Smith currently inhabits would be a welcome abode.
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snugbug
11/24/09

@SpikeLives: Ah! Paul Verhoeven.. One of my fave directors of all times. Also apt to mention him here, since Jan De Bont was his DP on the wonderful Turkish Delight , and they both first achieved fame with that movie.

Anyway, Paul Verhoeven went back to Holland and made a riveting comeback in 2006 with Black Book.

Michael Cimino hasn't done anything film-related since the mid-'90s. Instead, he published a novel and morphed into a woman via multiple plastic surgeries.
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Juancho
11/24/09

@CitizenTian: Peter Jackson is in Spielberg/Lucas territory, probably right above James Cameron. He's a billionaire. You have to include WETA and everything (as capital), but he's probably close in pure cash.

It was before LOTR, when he had to shoot the "test" footage, that everything was on the line. He was afraid that if he and Fran screwed it up, they'd never work in Hollywood again.
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