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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    05:30 AM

    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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    03:16 AM

    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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    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    03:11 AM

    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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    Image of bodegacat bodegacat
    03:09 AM

    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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    Image of Colander Colander
    03:48 AM

    @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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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    04:32 AM

    @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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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    02:54 AM

    In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
    Hello Darling, Aren't You Working?
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    02:15 AM

    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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    02:06 AM

    In reply to Rupert Everett: Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet
    Rupert Everett's gay?!?!
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    02:20 AM

    @Airvault: I know, right? Thank God we've still got Elton John on our side.
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    Image of belltolls 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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    Image of snugbug 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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    Image of belltolls 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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    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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    Image of raincoaster 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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    Image of Juancho 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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    Image of PaisleyPajamas 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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    Image of SpikeLives 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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    Image of CitizenTian 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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    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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    Image of Juancho 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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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    Interesting piece I will reread..

    Thought this was about writer/Tarantino collaborator Avary, Tweeting from jail.
    For DUI manslaughter. It's actually pretty compelling reading. Sheets that although laundered, have "the ball-sweat of a thousand men" on them. Uh, vivid! Also, all inmates forced to watch Fox.

    (How he Tweets: Avary uses his phone time each day to speak to a service that does the Tweets for him. Capitalism is amazing.)
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    Why am I in film school again?

    I'll be right back. I'm going to go dunk my head in the kitchen sink for a few minutes.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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