Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous! JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS Movie A Go!
Eighties ladies and gays everywhere received the news we’ve long waited to hear on Friday when Hasbro, Blumhouse Prods, Justin Beiber’s manager Scooter Braun and director Jon M. Chu announced that we’re finally… finally… getting a Jem and the Holograms movie. Hopefully Mr. Chu and company can capture the campy, kitschy spirit of the original show and apply it to the cartoon that inspired countless of drag queens. I honestly haven’t been this excited for a cartoon adaptation since Josie and the Pussycats got the big screen treatment. (For real. No sarcasm.) Though, I would be lying if I said I wanted to see Jem and the Holograms. I’m really in it for The Misfits, who were quite obviously the superior musical performers. It’s worth noting that Chu most recently directed an adaptation of every straight boy’s favorite 80s cartoon with G.I. Joe: Retaliation. But Chu also has Justin Beiber:...
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Lee Daniels Is Making A Gay Action Hero Movie With MAGIC MIKE’s Alex Pettyfer
Lee Daniels can pretty much do what he wants these days now that his The Butler has grossed over $100 million and is heading into the Oscar race with the wind at its back. But will notoriously timid studio execs get behind his latest idea, a gay action hero movie? Of course, we’re not supposed to know they’re gay, but Daniels, in an interview with Out magazine pretty much revealed everything about the movie that would have been surprising: According to Daniels, think of it as a gay “Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but the two good-looking guys as the action heroes.” The twist? “We don’t find out they’re gay until the end of the movie,” he explains. But it’s all about the journey, not the destination, folks. And if the journey is with Alex Pettyfer, who played a slave-driver in The...
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Andrew Garfield Asks: Why Can’t Spidey Be Gay?
While there have been gay superheros in comics for years, starting with Marvel’s subtly gay Northstar back in the 1980s, there hasn’t been an openly gay superhero in the movies yet. And considering The Amazing Spider-Man was about as interesting as a math test, Andrew Garfield has come out (pun intended) and asked the question that probably wouldn’t have been asked just five years ago: Why can’t Spidey be gay? In an interview with EW, Garfield had this to say about the famed hero’s sexuality: Recently, he says, he had a philosophical discussion with producer Matt Tolmach about Mary Jane or “MJ” to fans. “I was kind of joking, but kind of not joking about MJ,” he tells EW. “And I was like, ‘What if MJ is a dude?’ Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking!…So...
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Rock Hudson’s Gay Confession Recorded by His Wife
Rock Hudson was gay. We all know that. But back in the 1950s, movie stars weren’t gay. That didn’t stop Hudson’s wife, Phyllis, from hiring a private eye to record her confronting Hudson about his sexuality and essentially outing him on tape. The Hollywood Reporter recently obtained the secret files from Hollywood P.I. Fred Ostash, and in those files was a 1958 recording of this exchange between Hudson and Phyllis. From THR: On January 21, 1958, Rock Hudson’s wife confronted him, demanding to know if he was gay and grilling the actor about a Rorschach test he had taken. “You told me you saw thousands of butterflies and also snakes,” she said “[A therapist] told me in my analysis that butterflies mean femininity and snakes represent that male penis. I’m not condemning you, but it seems that as long as...
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