Most bizarre is his need to share these ruminations, at his age. Leaving the obvious offense out of the equation, only momentarily: what did he think such remarks would do to his own legacy? It's the kind of thing he might say over dinner to someone in the business, or a closest friend. At best, it's about a personal aesthetic; at worst, it reveals a narrow concept of human intimacy. But its sociopolitical ramifications are self-evident, and his willingness to share his personal ick factor with the media in 2015 suggests a tone-deafness to the era in and business in which he toils. He's a performer, one who famously played a gay character. Suffice it to say: he sounds like an idiot.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Billy Crystal is the Lawrence Welk of comedy -- he's finally reached the stage where he's complaining about too much sex on TV, and he complains so stupidly he has to backtrack and pretend he wasn't getting all homophobic.
Next up, those kids on his lawn.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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And I remember people being pissed off about that at the time. First he was gay, then he was bisexual, then he married a woman and we never heard about his landmark gaiety ever again.
So, you chose the most bias article with the most dramatic title?
Cool.
"What I meant was that whenever sex or graphic nudity of any kind (gay or straight) is gratuitous to the plot or story, it becomes a little too much for my taste," he told THR in a statement."
His remarks were clarified within hours of him making them. This is a non-event. Billy Crystal is clearly not a hateful human being.
You know ( cause you don't ) people talk more than they type. And when people talk they don't annunciate well. That's normal. And so when they say words like biased, they think it and then say bias instead. So when they type they type out bias as they say it.
Perfection might be your goal, but it's not a noble one.