In other media-related, but certainly more lighthearted news, the boys over at AfterElton have compiled a list of Hollywood’s most powerful gay boys, complete with list of anally-inclined accomplishments and fun queer quotes. Included in the list are Michael Patrick King, Will and Grace co-creator, Max Mutchnick and music mogul, David Geffen. And, of course, who could forget the only black man included, Paris Barclay: the same man who just days ago called for Isaiah Washington‘s head? It’s also worth noting that there’s not a single actor among the bunch.
As for our favorite, we have to say Darren Star.
How could we not love the man who brought us Melrose Place and Central Park West, wrote for 90210 and Sex and The City? It would be homo heresy. Although, we have to say we’re disappointed with his “cool quote” lifted from the Austin Chronicle:
I think, for me, it’s not about doing something about a ‘gay’ character, but rather doing something about an interesting character whose sexuality is part of his life.
That’s the best they could come up with? We think they have gotten a little more creative and included a special word from Heather Locklear‘s legendary Amanda Woodward:
Get used to the fact that even the most perfect, sensitive guy is, bottom line,a dog. I mean, he might be a well-behaved dog, but he still howls at the moon and grabs the first leg he can get ahold of.
We like to imagine that’s how Star and his Hollywood homies talk when the camera’s off. And, of course, engage a cat fight or five…
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momo
Granted the list would be longer if they included the closet cases.
Jerry
The list would be interminable if they included the closet cases.
floodlite
anally-inclined? there are better ways, and more accurate ways to describe us…grrr
Leland
WHAT???!!! No Reichen?????!!! My god! I’m frightened! After he finally figured out that he wasn’t actually “Time” magazine’s “Man of the Year” but was merely seeing his reflection in the mylar on the cover and now THIS! Hurry, put him on Suicide Watch before it’s too late!
Meantime, a few comments about those who were listed:
I know the article wasn’t meant to cover only gays who had produced gay projects and is more about “powerâ€â€”the Hollywood equivalent of being well hung—but regarding the various gays, Ancier, et al., involved in bringing Buffy and Dawson’s to light, props to them, but should we not be thanking creator/writers Josh Whedon and Kevin Williamson, respectively, for actually creating those shows’ phenomenally positive gay characters for a demographic that most needs to see them? I submitted that they’ve done more good than all of the FEW actual gay projects produced by this list combined.
Ancier-Oh, I sooo want to thank him for the Ricki Lake show and for helping make the careers of those proudly homophobic Wayan brothers starting with their “let’s mock the nelly fags” skit on “In Living Color.” NOT!
Paris Barclay—Yeah, yeah, but what about the recurring flaming fag eunuch “John†on “NYPD Blue� He was so disrespected by the show that he was rarely even allowed to speak. And spare me the crap about his heroic action and final bonding with Sipowicz. Small potatoes in a series that only featured fruit for ten years.
Roland Emmerich — Wow! If he’s applauded for saving 30 years of crappy-beyond-words “independent gay and lesbian films,†I’ll never take my local sewage plant for granted again. “Precious,†my affirming ass!
Michael Patrick King/Darren Star—and anyone else gay involved with “Sex & the Cityâ€: off with their pointed little heads! Name me two positive, non-stereotypical gay male characters in the entire series. …..OK, name me one.
Rick Leed — No remotely gay projects listed [unless you count the closet case on “Home Improvementâ€].
Bryan Lourd — Gay projects?
Rob Marshall — Some great work but where are the gay film projects?
Jonathan Murray — A thousand cheers for Pedro, but they should go to Pedro. Murray kept around the repulsive-even-without-being-homophobic [remember him accusing Pedro of exploiting his AIDS condition?] and too often cast stereotypical gays AND blacks on Unreal World.
Max Mutchnick — “Will & Grace†was in most ways fabulous but it did take them too long to grow a dick for Will and I will never understand their making the lead characters more and more unlikable as the series continued, culminating in a pitiful, illogical finale.
Marco Pennette — He was outed to his parents on the red carpet. Oh yeah, he’s real hero material.
Alan Poul —Can we put him to death simply for not preventing all of the life of the “Tale of the City†books from being suffocated out of the films? Maupin is thinking more of his bank account than honesty when he praises them. Stultifying. Simply stultifying.
Rich Ross — Where are the gay projects that someone this rich and powerful could obviously greenlight? Or even participation in GAY charities? He’s just a “house faggot†in the huge house that Mickey built. Fuck him, and not in the good way. Ten bucks says he’s a “Gay Republican.â€
Zadan and Meron—if they never did another gay-positive thing in their long lives, the light they attempted to shine on the blood on Reagan’s hands of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of AIDS victims make me eternally grateful.