Q-Quotes 1
"I'm not gay! Not that there's anything wrong with that." --Jerry Seinfeld (1990)
"It was a lot better than kissing an actor you don't know," Meyer says. "We told the director we didn't want to rehearse the actual kiss; we wanted the first one to be on camera. And then we ended up making out eighteen times." Having had the pleasure of doing the same --and more-- with Salma Hayek, he laments: "Now I've got nowhere to go but down -- I've kissed the most beautiful people on the planet." -- Breckin Meyer, '54' costar on his (eventually deleted) kissing scene with Ryan (Seventeen, August 1998)
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"It was written (on the script) that I get out of bed with nothing on, and then I go to pull up my underwear or something, and I didn't really want to do that----Tobey Maguire on being in bed with Robert Downey, Jr. for the movie "Wonder Boys (2000)"
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From a David Boyer interview with Atti
(regarding Deed Poll) "I loved these intense, passionate love scenes with you, Vicky Lambert, and Orlando Bloom. These close-ups, when Orlando's lips touched your nipple ring, or your butt, or that scene when you sucked his lip. The air was filled with lust and desire, you could really feel it!"
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From Wellington TV week
Elijah: Actually we're more than mates. It transcends friendship, because we became so close, so early and spent so much time together. We're family. Everyone embodied their characters in ways that were similar to the book. I mean, Dom and Billy *are* Merry and Pippin in real life, in the way they interact. Even Sean Astin, who plays Sam, was very protective of me. He'd help me out and watch my back. So many situations mirror those of the books... it's quite freaky.
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From an article in the New York Observer:
But Mr. McKellen did not look the least bit melancholy as he and his slim-hipped, long-haired boyfriend Nick Cuthell—who had gotten one of the money shots on ABC Sunday night, showing the United States and its cultural recipients around the world what a really good-looking boyfriend should look like—swayed together near the breakfast buffet to the D.J.’s last songs. The two men seemed oblivious to the outside world, to the guests leaving the party, to the bartenders packing up. Outside the stars shone weakly in the cold Los Angeles night. The air smelled of night-blooming jasmine. Inside, the two men embraced tenderly and danced away the remains of the day, as if they were the last men on earth. March 2002
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Movies:
Take a wild ride through space with Mark Wahlberg to the Planet of the Apes. Can you imagine having to
teach Mark to survive in the Jungle…we know what our first
lesson would be… From Video News Colum Editor "BLUE
DOOR COLLECTION" August/September2001
"My wish [for Christmas] would be that people stop making a
bigdeal about two men kissing on the screen; I mean really, get
overit."--"Jeffrey" star Steven Weber to San
Francisco Frontiers. January 1996
As a side note, I was reminded of the movie Youngblood with
RobLowe and Patrick Swayze<sp?>. Why? I am glad
you asked.Youngblood had one of the most I'm guessing
unintentionalhomoerotic scenes on film. Lowe's
hockey teammates hold him downand shave his pubes.
Unfortunately, you don't get to see any ofthe shaving...
"I
don't want people to think I'm some symbol of thelesbian
community, because I'm not a lesbian myself. Idon't want people
to think that I'm saying I know morethan they do about their own
lives."--Actress Michelle Clunie who plays Melanie
onShowtime's Queer As Folk, to Curve magazine, November 2001
I play the queerest character on the queerest show ontelevision.
Of course I thought about theramifications before I took the
part, but I reallywanted to do this show. It is
absolutelyunapologetic. It has changed the way people --
gaypeople as well as straight people -- think about
gaylife."--Actor Peter Paige, Emmett on Showtime's Queer
AsFolk, to Montreal's Hour, Oct. 4 2001
"Sometimes
it's [the gay sex scenes] real comfortable and sometimes it's
not. It depends on the day. With Randy [Harrison, who plays love
interest Justin], it'sreally easy because we work well together
and we'regood friends. But sometimes, when it's with astranger,
like a day player, you get guys who aren'tvery comfortable with
the subject matter, regardlessof whether we have our clothes on
or not. And then itbecomes tough."--Actor Gale Harold, Brian
on Showtime's Queer AsFolk, to the New York Blade News, April 27
2001
--"I
read once that one in seven people is gay. I paid attention to
thatbecause we have seven children. So chances are one of them is
going to be gayor is gay and doesn't know it yet." That's
Kate Capshaw talking to US Weekly'sMarc Malkin. Capshaw - Mrs.
Steven Spielberg in "real" life - stars with
ElleMacpherson in Showtime's upcoming "A Girl Thing,"
in which the women playlovers. Both ladies admit to stocking up
on Altoids for their kissing scene,and both say the other was a
really good kisser. (An admission you'll never getfrom, say, the
heterosexual male actors of "Queer as Folk," who always
takepains to say how icky the mano a mano scenes are.)
Q: Any scoop on Dawson's? I love me that Jack.
A: Jack moves
into the fraternity house, and he's given a single. At first,
he's thrilled, because it's rare for a freshman to score a room
to himself, but then he finds out it's because no one wanted to
room with him because he's gay. Needless to say, this
infuriates him. This could very well be the beginning of the end
for his Greeky days. -- WATCH WITH WANDA 01/08/02
NY DAILY
NEWS/MITCHELL FINK....--George Clooney and Noah Wyle have gone to
court ? and Clooney was thewinner. Don't worry that the two pals
are tied up in litigation ? Wyle andClooney went one-on-one,
literally and figuratively, for the next US Weekly.The magazine
came up with a novel idea to have Wyle interview his former
"ER"colleague, and Wyle took his assignment so
seriously that he turned in a37,000-word transcript for a
3,000-word piece. The two, who each havebasketball courts at
home, started off the interview by playing five one-on-onegames
at Clooney's house in Los Angeles. Clooney won them all. Wyle
took thelosses so hard that he suggested traveling up to his
house in Santa Ynez for arematch, so he could have home-court
advantage. They played six games at Wyle'shouse, and Clooney won
all those, too. "Even when you're ahead," said
Wyle,"George finds a way to come back." The two also
have matching pool tables, andhave since planned to square off
again. "I'm a much better pool player," saidWyle.
Wahldawg
wrote:<I have no doubt that both
George and Mark are straight and there's nothing between them.\\>
Neither
actor seems gay--but neither did Rock Hudson, James Dean etc. I
do think this coy routine with the press regarding their being a
couple is an attention-grabber more than anything.
"The
press, including the L.A. Times, I might add,depicted Rock
[Hudson] as a man who led a deeplysecretive life. He didn't lead
a deeply secretivelife, he was protected by the industry around
him andthe journalism establishment around him. He wasn'tworried
that somebody was going to break into one ofthose all-boy parties
he held up on Beverly Crest.That was simply his entitlement as a
movie star. Thething I hate hearing the most is stars and
industrypeople who are still quoted as saying, 'I knew Rockbut I
didn't know about his private life.' Believe me,if you knew Rock
you knew about his private life."--Tales Of The City author
Armistead Maupin to the LosAngeles Times, May 5 2001
"Are
Popeye and Bluto coming out of the closet? That'sthe debate over
a new Minute Maid orange juicecommercial. The ad shows the
cartoon sailors, usuallyrivals, bonding on a seesaw and at the
beach. Theyeven ride off together on a bike built for two,leaving
romantic interest Olive Oyl in the dust."--USA Today, May 11
2001
"Love is love, whether you're gay or straight. The gay
character that Iplay is non-stereotypical when one thinks about
how many gay men areportrayed in films. That is why I took the
role. It is one of the bestgay roles I have seen in film. His
sexuality is not really even broughtinto the picture until he
eyes someone in a bar and Julia Roberts'character asks him point
blank if he is gay since he is staring at theguy. When it is
brought up, it is done in a very tasteful way."--Sopranos
actor James Gandolfini on his role in the new film TheMexican, to
Boston's Bay Windows, March 9 2001
The only
fear I had ever had about the movie was actually that those
whowere not familiar with the story and those who are and are
also homophobic,is that any kind of kinship/brothership Frodo and
Sam portray betweenthemselves would be considered as gay. I have
never once thought that theywere gay. They are simply two good
friends on the journey of their lives.
Wyle:Hey,
I've got to take a wicked piss, if you see a spot to pull over. Clooney:All
right. Wyle:That's my Mark Wahlberg impression: "I've got to
take a wicked piss." Clooney:Wicked. --From Noah
Wyle's US Magazine interview of his "Bud" George
Clooney--- January 2001
Wyle:I know
that you've said you are never going to have children. Clooney:Yes.
Wyle:But if you were to have a son . . . Clooney:Would I
name it Noah? Wyle:Would you name it Noah? Clooney:[Laughing]
If I were to have a daughter, I would name it Noah. A son
-any child at all. In fact, the next stray animal I pick up
. . . Wyle:And even though you vowed probably never to wed again
. . . Clooney:Yes. Wyle:I'm willing to wager that if you
met a woman named Noah . . . Clooney:I would marry her
right off the bat. Wyle:You'd marry her right on the spot. Clooney:That's
right. ---From Noah Wyle's US Magazine interview of his
"Bud" George Clooney--- January 2001
Wyle:How
about Ocean's Eleven, your next movie? What's happening
with that? Clooney:We've got a great cast. We got -
we just signed Andy Garcia, so . . . Wyle: Now, I'm not in that.
.....Who are some of the hot indie actors, the unknown cast
members, that youput in my place? Clooney:Well, we wanted
the ensemble itself to be sort of the star. So we gotJulia
Roberts and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon and Andy Garcia and
AlanArkin and Don Cheadle and Bernie Mac, and just got a couple
of otherguys, Casey Affleck . . . Wyle:A lot of young guys in
that cast. Clooney:Yeah, they're young. You know
what, Noah? You know what they don'thave that you do have?
Wyle:A TV Q Rating? Clooney:Well, that. And the jump
shot. The jump hook. The jump-twistingskyhook.
Although Julia can shoot. Wyle:Let's see, what else? Clooney:I'm
a Taurus. I hate long lines. I love to laugh.
Wyle:Turn-ons? Clooney:[Laughing] Jump shots. ---From Noah
Wyle's US Magazine interview of his "Bud" George
Clooney--- January 2001
BEST-DRESSED
ACTORJude LawGeorge ClooneyBen StillerMatt Damon
and Ben AffleckHarrison FordSamuel L. Jackson....George Clooney
came in a close second: He lost out mainly because people want to
see him naked, not clothed. ----"Celebrity fashion
2000" by Jane L. Thompson, National Post
"Mark Wahlberg & George Clooney. Fine, so they're
really roosters--butnobody's had more fun playing up their animal
charm than these two, I assureyou. Besides, I hear Mark. W. only
has eyes for Jordana Brewster. (As in,Eye-do? Hmmm. Mark-babe'll
have to get back to us on that one.) As if..." ----Ted
Casablanca bestowing the George W. Shrubs on 39 twosomes who
have, in the past 12months, done just what the President-elect
did so unapologetically: harrumph Hollywood and still get work.
--RICHARD
GERE walked up to Mark Wahlberg at a Hollywood party and said,
"Iwant to be your Daddy!" - or words to that effect.
Gere reportedly pitched amovie idea in which he would play such a
role. Mark said yes on the spot. Doesfrequent co-star George Clooney
know about this? . . . NY POST/LIZ SMITH...October 2000
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From "J.P.R. Jenkins" newsgroup post February
2001:
Several of John Wayne's westerns have a such an obvious
homosexual subtextthey're riotously funny, but I doubt Wayne was
smart enough to realize it-- it was imposed on him by
scriptwriters turning the screws to machomythology, & by
directors who were gay. Now the subtext would take a
bookto analyse so I won't try that today, but something that
comes awfullyclose to the surface (leaving subtext in the dust)
is Rock Hudson & JohnWayne exchanging loving glances in
"The Undefeated." Bare in mind Rock wasdoing it on
purpuse -- but when the Duke presumedly "replying" to
the lookwith one just as sweet, we can still assume the Duke
didn't "get it." Thiswas discussed in a book called
ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES.
There's also a work of fiction called JOHN WAYNE: THE NOVEL which
dealswith the influence of Wayne's image on gay men in
America. Wayne himselfseemed often to worry that the excessive
machismo might induce some peopleto think he was a twinkus. A
film that might have been one of the greatesthe'd ever starred in
in the '50s, Bullfighter and the Lady, included twocharacters
(played by Robert Stack & Gilbert Roland in a
"student/mentor"relationship that came
dangerously close to man-boy love).
The film was dear to David Boetticher's heart, the script
beingautobiographical, & he expected with this film to break
out of his ownB-Western work with the studio & finally be
taken seriously. Wayne was noteven the gay character but
could he stand to be in such a film? He couldnot. He was too
stupid to realize what was going on while it was beingfilmed --
like Chuckles Heston never knew what was going on in "Ben
Hur"-- but when he saw the final cut prior to release, it
was all too clear.He was outraged to find he was in such a film
& called his good buddy JohnFord to intervene against
Boetticher's film. Ford & Boetticher arguedabout the
appropriateness of man-man love in the film.
Ford: "People are gonno think those guys are
fairies."Boetticher: "There's nothing wrong with grown
men loving each other."Ford: "You've got to cut out
everything about those characters."Boetticher: "I
won't."Ford: "Oh, you will."
With Ford & Wayne ganged up against him, & Boetticher's
comparative lackof political strength at the studio, an A-movie
approaching two hours inlength was cut by over 40 minutes to
remove almost everything about thecharacters played by a young
Stack & his "mentor" who Roland played as afaggoty
old retired matadore, & it was released as a B-film. Wayne
dideverything to destroy this film, but even the ruined short
version got anoscar nomination. Boetticher had his revenge on
Wayne, when he got thechance to direct Wayne in Seven Men From
Now. "To put it crudely," saidBoetticher, "we
stuck Randolph Scott up John Wayne's ass." The aging
Scottcomes across as the film's actual hero.
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1996/01/26
(S.E.
Morris) wrote:
>The relationship between Bruce and Alfred is a bit
different to
>the Bruce/Dick relationship. Alfred is a lot
older than Bruce, and
>he is more of a mentor and friend. The fact that he is
a servant also
>distances him from Bruce. Dick, on the other hand, has
a more intermate
>one-to-one type relationship. He shares in
Bruce's adventures as Batman.
>Whenever a film has two guys working side-by-side like this
you will
>always get some brain dead studio exec making a fuss about
homosexual
>overtones. With Batman this problem is compounded by
the crime-fighting
>costumes the pair wear, plus the age difference between the
two (ie. the
>'dirty-old-man' seduces 'naive-young-boy' stereotype).
And no matter
>how many girlfriends the two of them get through, there will
always
>be people who see it this way.
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"Mark Dacascos, with short hair, stars as Jesse, also known
as "Lucky Boy".I get the impression that when you ask
this guy how his day was, he neversays "fine". He
either has days where he gets to jump on stage and join inwith a
much-admired band, and hot chicks are washing his motorcycle
forfree...or days where he's having to kill, avoid being killed,
andre-consider major relationships in his life. For Lucky
Boy, it's lifeitself that's manic-depressive, not him. He's
been out of prison for a fewmonths, is itchin' to start drumming
again with something other than pens,and has decided to move to
the coast to be with his "friend" and formercellmate
Larry (Jaimz Woolvett). As soon as he arrives in town, he's
besetby sin merchants of all stripes, but the film establishes
early on that he'sstaying clean. Larry (who, unlike Jesse,
has no apparent aspirations forleaving a life of drugs and crime
behind) picks him up on a motorcycle hebought just for him, and
they go to Larry's nasty apartment, where everybodyseems angry at
everybody else all the time, except for a friendly,up-and-coming
scream queen played by Traci Lords......
......The homoerotic overtones in the relationship between
Jesse and Larry aremost evident early on - whatever their
relationship was when they were inprison together, it now faces
the test of what form it might take now thatthey're not actually
confined to a cell together. At first it seems prettymuch a
gimme that this is a gay relationship (there's a level of
physicaltenderness between the two that no two straight guys I
know would becomfortable with), but that seems less clear as the
film goes on, untilultimately, you might forget it was even a
question unless you're takingnotes. I considered asking
Craig what his intentions about this were, butafter some thought,
I concluded that when it comes to possibly gay themes inmovies
which aren't expressly, explicitly gay-themed, I generally like
tokeep ambiguity ambiguous. It's like Deckard being a
replicant - goddammit,I didn't want to hear Ridley Scott flatly
answer that one!?"
Brian J. Wright ------from an online review of the film BOOGIE
BOY (1997)
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No one told me this about tough-guy action heroes... what does
thismean for tough-guy super heroes? I wonder what Lone Wolf and
Cubreaders think about this news item The week's films ,
"Gohatto -These days, everyone knows that tough-guy action
heroes usually have alatent homoerotic quality to them.
Well, it's taken the Japanesedirector Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm
of the Senses) to enter thecloset and sort the men from the boys:
the boys who like men, and themen who want be another man's
"bitch". This is a serious art- housefilm, so let's not
beat about the butch: set in 1865, Gohatto is allabout gay
samurai. That's right, sex and swords and big sticks, withtough
Japanese warriors for whom big hugs and disembowelling are allin
a day's work. When the pretty-boy warrior wannabe Sozaburo
Kano(Ryuhei Matsuda) joins the shinsen-gumi militia, it isn't
long beforejust about every samurai in sight wants to cuddle up
and makewhoopee."
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Scott Bakula
in Favor of a Gay Character on "Enterprise"-----
According to TV Guide Online, Scott Bakula, who stars as Captain
Jonathon Archer on the UPN series "Enterprise" would be
in favor of having a gay character in the "Star Trek"
universe. He said that in an interview in "MetroSource"
magazine. However, he had not heard of that actually happening in
the series from the powers-that-be. Read an article on this
subject at http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/06/30/gay_trek/
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Quick
Hits
Matt
Damon will be in an upcoming episode of "Will &
Grace" playing someone who vies with Sean Hayes'
character for the last spot in a gay chorus. Mitchell Fink from
NY Daily News 12/12/2001
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>>
Dave Foley: Bridget Fonda and Brendan Fraser are in it.
Later just lovely. >> Mike: Every time I see Brendan
Fraser, that's the word that comes to mind, lovely. He is one
of the most physically beautiful human beings I've seen in my
life. >> Dave Foley: And neither of us, for the record, are
gay. >> Mike: You or Brendan? >>
Dave Foley: I was talking about you and I. -Dave Foley
("Kids in the Hall") talking about his
"MonkeyBone" co-stars on OPEN MIKE with Canada's Mike
Bullard
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Joeavg01 wrote in message
<20010607015505.20731.00000105@ng-fq1.aol.com>...
>>He's
married but says they are not ready for kids...that they are
'still
>>getting to know each other.' Rumor has it that he
was actually sleeping with
>>her brother and she married him not only to cover but to
get some of his>$$$.
>>That
was a Filth2go rumour and unsubstantiated. I think
the negativecomments about his wife were more hurtful than the gay
rumours. Anyway,I've seen him with Mrs Fraser when
there were no cameras around, nojournalists and he didn't need to
"act." They were holding hands andtalking,
heads close, like any happy couple walking down a street.
Whichproves to me that the relationship is genuine.
Jackie
>I saw his "Celebrity Profile" on E!, and he
was babbling about "finding my
>soulmate, she's my raison d'etre," etc. If he was not
telling the truth, then
>he is a FAR BETTER actor than anyone could have imagined.
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NY POST/PAGE SIX...
THERE'S
confusion over the sexuality of Rosie O'Donnell - that is,
of the
character she'll play on NBC's long-running "Will and
Grace." O'Donnell will
guest-star in an upcoming episode of the Emmy-winning sitcom as
the former
flame of Jack McFarland (played by Sean Hayes). In the orginal
script, Rosie
gave birth to a baby boy by McFarland before both characters
discovered they
were gay. But, after Rosie accepted the role, the show's creators
changed
Rosie's role to heterosexual. When O'Donnell heard about the
sexual switcheroo,
say our sources, she insisted her character be changed back to
gay. Regarding
the character's sexual orientation, Rosie's rep tells us:
"The character was
always supposed to be straight. But when she sat down with the
producers they
all felt that it would be funnier if her character was a
lesbian." Got it?
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He *is* totally hot. Rickman's a truly scrumptious man.
I just always thought/heard that he is gay and at least
semi-out, so I wonder about the Horton thing. He could,
shockingly, be straight... ya nevah know.
Umm... I take that back, sometimes you really know.
-----------------------------------
Yes but Rickman is efeminant gay the same way Jeremy Irons has
always appeared
efeminant gay to me and from what I have been told he is a
straight horn dog...
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Director Clooney
has star filmed naked
George Clooney says he had the star of his new movie filmed naked
on the
first day of shooting.
He is directing Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, which stars Sam
Rockwell.
The film is based on the autobiography of game show host Chuck
Barris.
"The very first day of shooting I had Sam Rockwell standing
completely
naked in front of a TV set. That typifies the way the film is
going,"
Clooney tells www.latimes.com.
Barris, creator of The Gong Show, claims to have been a covert
CIA
assassin.
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"I was
totally distraught after reading this. Brendan has
always blown my skirt up, and reading that I might have gazed
upon what surely is a "surprisingly big box" but for
the overcautious advice of handlers frustrates me to no end.
Maybe Brendan will re-think this in a future film
project. What I saw outlined beneath his towel in that
scene makes clear that he has nothing to be ashamed
about!"----Liz Smith, lamentng on Disney's persuasion of
Brendan Fraser to not bare quite all in the film 'Gods &
Monsters'.
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"I was pulled from my bed and thrown in the trunk of a car,
then tied to playground equipment with a pillowcase over my head.
They ripped my pajama top off and tried to rip the bottom off but
I kicked a guy in the head." Brendan Fraser
speaking to reporters about a school hazing incident from his
youth.
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"I learned something: Never turn your back on an emu. This
emu tried to mate with me." ---Brendan Fraser in
Australia filming The Quiet American remarking on
black and blue back of his neck from the bird's love pecks.
