Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an "everyday thing"
Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an "everyday thing"
#2Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 6:13am
He truly needs to shut the fvck up.
How about I don't want to see his tired lame @ss comedy schtick shoved in my face.
He should be forced to watch every gay film and scene ever filmed with his eyes pried open for the next 500 Sundays.
What a stupid, ignorant and homophobic statement to make.
Updated On: 1/20/15 at 06:13 AM
#2Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 6:49amSays the man who made his name playing an "in your face" gay man? hypocrite.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#3Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 6:56amMost 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.
#4Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:14amI'm not a fan of Crystal, but I'd be interested in hearing the full discussion rather than these out-of-context quotes.
#5Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:28am
Well said, Auggie.
The full transcript is here, as well as a clarification (of sorts,) that Billy meant sex and nudity in general, or something http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/billy-crystal-clarifies-sex-tv-764719
#6Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:28am
You and the article took his words out of context. Read the full interview and unclutch those pearls.
Edit: I see that you already have. Thank you.
Updated On: 1/20/15 at 07:28 AM
#7Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:43amHe clarified his statements. Good. He needed to.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 9:06am
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.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#9Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 10:36amI'd rather watch dozens of people I am not attracted to having sex than ever listen to another straight man talk about baseball.
#10Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 10:51am
"How about I don't want to see his tired lame @ss comedy schtick shoved in my face."
Grip that tolerance by the throat.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#11Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 11:11am
Yeah Billy Crystal.
#12Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 11:17am
We recently re-watched Soap, and the treatment of the Billy Crystal character is not as landmark as he'd like us to believe.
Other than the guy he breaks up with, the show keeps getting him into "romantic" entanglements with women.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#13Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 11:35amAnd 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.
Everlast85
Featured Actor Joined: 5/2/14
#14Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:23pm
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.
#15Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:32pmHe's right. gratuitous sex and nudity are cheap. Stories that need that are stories that lack.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#16Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:35pm
So, you chose the most bias article with the most dramatic title?
Biased.
#17Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:39pmSlow news day.
#18Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:43pm
"Biased"
Grammar Nazi.
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.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#19Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:49pmEnunciate.
#20Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:01pm
" Stories that need that are stories that lack."
Say what?
#21Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:02pm
"Enunciate"
And?
proved my point.
Thanks
Updated On: 1/20/15 at 01:02 PM
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#22Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:03pm"the subtly he brought"
#23Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:04pm
"Say what?"
huh?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#24Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an
Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:07pm
"Stories that need that are stories that lack,
Step on a crack and you break mama's back."
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