Billy Eichner isn’t having any of Kirstie Alley’s pro-discrimination, anti-inclusivity B.S.
Earlier this week, Alley had a meltdown on Twitter over the Oscars’ new diversity requirements for movies that want to be considered for Best Picture.
In a since-deleted rage tweet, the 69-year-old former actress wrote, “This is a disgrace to artists everywhere. Can you imagine telling Picasso what had to be in his f*cking paintings. You people have lost your minds. Control artists, control individual thought… OSCAR ORWELL.”
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After deleting that tweet, she posted another one that said, “I’ve been in the motion picture Academy for 40 years. The Academy celebrates freedom of UNBRIDLED artistry expressed through movies. The new RULES to qualify for Best Picture are dictatorial.. anti-artist.. Hollywood you’re swinging so far left you’re bumping into your own a**.”
(Fun fact: At no point in her 40 year career has Alley ever appeared in an Academy Award-winning film.)
Well, Eichner wasn’t having any of Alley’s crap. Yesterday, he tweeted: “Honestly just doing what I can to get Kirstie Alley to block me again.”
Honestly just doing what I can to get Kirstie Alley to block me again.
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) September 10, 2020
The tweet is a reference to the time he and Alley, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2016, got into a Twitter spat over the 2017 shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise.
At the time, Eichner tweeted: “Congress didn’t care when 20 young children were shot dead at Sandy Hook. Will they care when one of their own gets shot? I doubt it.”
(Another fun fact: Billy was right! Congress didn’t care.)
Alley responded to Eichner’s tweet by calling him “weird creepy sad and irreverent” (we think she meant “irrelevant”) and saying she was glad she didn’t know him personally (which sorta begs the question why she felt the need to reach out to him in the first place, but whatev).
Weird creepy sad and irreverent .. Basically a fucking soulless tweet.. I don't know you Mr. Eichner and for that I'm fortunate. https://t.co/Ii7SN8PKH4
— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) June 14, 2017
Then, at some point, she blocked him. Because this past April, Eichner posted a screenshot showing he had been cut off by the Celebrity Big Brother 22 contestant.
Have a wonderful day. pic.twitter.com/1jibm5Maq8
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 19, 2020
When asked by a follower about it, Alley, who frequently bemoans cancel culture and criticizes others (read: liberals) for never giving conservatives a fair chance to speak, responded by saying that it must have been an “error.”
I didn’t mam.. must have been in error .. https://t.co/gxvKC1WStA
— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) April 19, 2020
Since attacking the Oscars for being more inclusive, Alley has walked back her criticism, saying she supports diversity and inclusion, she just doesn’t like when it’s “mandated.”
I deleted my first tweet about the new rules for best movie OSCARS because I feel it was a poor analogy & misrepresented my viewpoint. I am 100% behind diversity inclusion & tolerance. I’m opposed to MANDATED ARBITRARY percentages relating to hiring human beings in any business.
— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) September 9, 2020
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Cam
Funny, Alley never complained when the movies weren’t hiring any black or gay people. I guess Scientologists don’t mind that.
Den
The “theology” of Scientology considers homosexuality to be among the most dysfunctional of human interactions. Scientology drove one of L. Ron. Hubbard’s children, who was gay, to kill himself. The chiurch thought that was just fine and a fitting end for him.
It is one sick cult.
I joined the church way back in the 60’s before I finally came out because they claimed they could cure the “personality disorder” of homosexuality. In 6 months it became clear that there was no one person in the local organization that was not an a$$h0le in serious need of therapy themselves. So I left. They were not the fascists back then that they have become now, but the philosophy was just as messed up.
dhmonarch89
so wait- she was in the Academy 40 years ago- 1980? She hadn’t even done a movie yet, her first came out in 1981.
frapachino
No one with more than 2 brain cells thinks her Tweet was “pro discrimination”!
Hdtex
Frapachino lacks even 2 brain cells, so he’s speaking out of turn.
eeebee333
Thank you, frapachino.
Cam
Except for the fact that Alley herself admitted the tweet did sound like that.
It’s cute that you try to defend somebody who already admitted fault.
JAW
Not a fan of kirstie… especially after going for the orange man in The White House… HOWEVER…
I agree that mandated diversity is WRONG!
Can they meet most of the requirements by having a bunch of blond and blue eyed gay men? Since LGBT’s are one of the group they are looking to see more of.
Can a Gay Man play a staring role as a straight man or must he only play gay roles? Does the same goes for ALL LGBT people.
Would a movie, say, about The Obamas require a big % of white folks in roles and production?
Or are we only discriminating toward white people who are not LGBT?
We need to be careful about what we hope for.
linedrive
Kirstie Alley is weird and possibly nuts. Forced diversity is weirder and nuttier.
trsxyz
Thanks. I totally agree.
IanHunter
She is totally irrelevant. I thought she was crazy when she begged Oprah to redo her kitchen.
Inspector 57
C’mon. When someone has to “walk back” her original comment like this one, you KNOW what she really means is, “I am a racist, homophobic c**t and I just had too many double-pours of bourbon to be on my phone. Sorry. I was drunk. I hope I can work again sometime.”
cuteguy
She has NEVER been in an Oscar nominated movie yet she’s part of the academy? What are her qualifications? She’s white? Or is it Bc she’s a Scientologist and Tom Cruise and John Travolta( during Pulp Fiction era) got her into the academy so she can keep #oscarsowhite?
nitejonboy
You can be invited to be in the Academy regardless of being in an Oscar nominated or winning film, however I still have my doubts that she has ever been in the Academy, ever. She is not known as a film actress, something the Academy would probably use against her.
Hdtex
Are we sure that she and Roneanne Barr aren’t in fact, the same person?
dinard38
Oh Queerty. How shady of you to use that unflattering picture of Kirstie. Haha.
Man, Scientology sure turn its followers into whackadoodles. However…..with that said…..I don’t disagree with her on this. I read the requirements, and they are complex. I don’t think that forcing diversity is the way to go.
Cam
Actually the requirements are very simple. Basically a movie can be considered for an Oscar as long as the company that made it and the company distributing it aren’t all white and male.
startenout
Yeah they’re really not complex and also not hard to meet… and nobody is forcing anyone to do it, but you also don’t get to be considered for an award if you don’t. It’s like free speech: say what you want, but it doesn’t absolve you from consequences.
McSteve
Being FORCED to allow Black folks to eat at lunch counters was not the way to end racist attitudes but it went a long way toward inclusion. Expecting an industry dominated by straight, white males to willingly give up power or control is, at best, naive. Force the door open so that people who have not been given the opportunity will now have it. Of course, there will be flaws and imperfections but people will have a seat at the table. Alternate proposals?….I’m listening
Gay Thomas
Kirstie Alley has gone as wacko as Rosanne Barr. This is what irrelevance and conservatism does to weak women.
frankcar1965
Fat pig Jabba the Hut bitch should go drink bleach.
nitejonboy
Come on, let’s end the fat shaming, let’s just say ” DRINK BLEACH BITCH ! “.lol
Jbaltes
Why would anyone give any time or credence to this has-been, irrelevant cow?
startenout
It’s funny to see people complaining about the requirements, but not at what perpetuates the NEED for said requirements. If programs were available to and producing POC/LGBTQ+/female artists and studios and production companies were hiring POC/LGBTQ+/female associates, well there wouldn’t be a need to recommend inclusion. And bear in mind, this IS a recommendation; you don’t HAVE to do it, but then again an organization doesn’t HAVE to consider you for an award.
D_Bro
Well said!
eeebee333
I’m with Kirstie on this one.
frankcar1965
Suicide can be a way out of your hate filled life you know.
woodroad34
No wonder she’s a scientologist.
ChrisGMN
Just read the guidelines as described by the NY Times. Not at all as strict as Kirstie Alley would want us to believe. Perhaps she should put down the sandwich and read the actual rules.