» Sundance Picks
The Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2009 selections (full list available here, PDF), and we have our eye on Dare, "about three privileged high school seniors who decide they can no longer ignore their deepest needs and take the biggest risk of their lives," starring Emmy Rossum and featuring Ana Gasteyer, Alan Cumming, and Sandra Bernhard. Yes, it just so happens that we're friends with Dare's (gay) screenwriter David Brind. (Though the more homoerotic short that appeared in Logo's Short Film series might be more appealing to some.) That said, some of you plan on boycotting Sundance in some respect (Not attending? Not seeing the films once they're bought?) out of deference to Proposition 8's passing and the Mormon Church calling Utah home base, so this makes no difference to you. |
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Box office boycotting
After much anticipation, Milk, the Sean Penn biopic about celebrated San Francisco politican Harvey Milk, arrives in theatres next Wednesday (and goes into wide release Dec. 5). Well, not all theatres. You won't be able to find the film playing at any of Cinemark's 2,700 venue. Perhaps that's because the company's CEO, Alan Stock, happened to write a cheque for $9,999 to the Yes on 8 campaign, as we noted earlier. Use sites like Fandango or Yahoo! Movies to locate theatres other than Cinemark in your area in case you're looking for some Daniel Craig or Twilight goodness. (Unless you'll do something like not see Twilight because the book's author, Stephanie Meyer, is Mormon, and will supposedly donate 10 percent of all the cash she earns from it to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) Spend your gay dollars appropriately. |
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Look at this one from You Only Live Twice. A bit phallic, no? |
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Not that McClellan's the most objective viewer, seeing as how he literally wrote the book about George the 2nd being a naive, goofy pawn for his father, Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney. But which of the White House cronies does McClellan continue to carry a grudge for, after all these years? |
» Hahaha!!
Remember David Zucker, the director who said being a Republican in Hollywood has become so taboo that it's "the new gay"? Well, his right-wing comedy American Carol got whooped at the box office by Bill Maher's satirical look at religion, Religulous: "An American Carol brought in $3.8 million… Carol was shown on 1,639 screens. Bill Mahers Religulous was on 532 screens. And yet, so far it has made $3.5 million." |
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The girls gave photogs a show of their love last night at the New York City premiere of my pal Anne Hathaway's new movie, Rachel Getting Married. I was also there, but the paps didn't care too much about him. How rude! As for the movie - I know I'm biased because Hathaway and I are college chums, but it's really fucking good. Hathaway and the entire cast - even the less central characters - are genius. Director Jonathan Demme has done it again. And by "it," I mean "made a movie that resonates and becomes more endearing with each recollection." I've included a trailer after the jump. Oh, and some other pictures, like a precious one of Alan Cumming get a bit of a rubdown.
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Ford again fueled rumors last November, when he announced that he'd bought the rights to novelist Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel, A Single Man, about a middle-aged gay professor. Still, most people simply shrugged at the news, but now Ford seems closer to ever to achieving his big screen dreams, complete with A-list actors, says Marc Malkin: Sources reveal exclusively to me that it looks like Colin Firth will star as a gay college professor who deals with the sudden death of his lover. The character is helped in his efforts by a lifelong female friend and one of his students. The movie, which has yet to find a studio, will begin shooting in November. |
» "The New Gay"?!
Airplane! and The Naked Gun director David Zucker says he feels Hollywood forces him to hide his conservative ways: You sort of feel like you have to hide it. When you meet, you give each other a secret look, 'Are you a Republican, too?' It's the new gay." Zucker's next project is An American Carol, which takes many shots at Michael Moore and other liberal activists. It looks awful. [UPI] |
» Stinker!?
Sheesh! People are really hating on Another Gay Movie: Gays Gone Wild, the spring break-themed sequel to AGM. Seattle Times' John Hartl described it as "forced and sometimes desperate," while the Philadelphia Inquirer ripped the sequel "colder creature with little heart." But, seriously, what do people expect? |
» Lovin' Lady Lovin'
Australian actress Naomi Watts says she prefers sapphic sex scenes: "The easiest sex scene I have done was in Mulholland Drive. That's because it was with another woman. There was no awkwardness and there was no sexual tension." [Showbiz Spy] |
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As Out celebrates disco cellist Arthur Russell, our old friend Matt Wolf's circulating his documentary, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell. This here's the trailer… |
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The "Now in post production" notation at the end of the trailer is an odd, inauspicious choice, but let's just forget about that for now—Cheryl Hines! Clip after the jump. |
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That story about Iris and Peter Robinson made us think of George and Martha, the dysfunctional, reprehensible couple from Edward Albee's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Thus, here's a scene of the fictional couple going at it. It's really just an excuse to remember Elizabeth Taylor's acting career… |
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This is the rough of Bruce LaBruce's gay zombie flick. Okay, that's a lie, but wouldn't that be funny?! |