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#26

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 8:45pm

Umm... I don't think Sir Ian McKellen is hurting for work...

Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy I can't go on tonight

#27

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:01pm

No, but he's irrelevant.

"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere

#28

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:05pm

Not to try to (continue) thread-jack(ing) the thread that I started, but how can you classify an actor with 75 film and television credits to his name "irrelevant"? Because he doesn't fit into your theory?
Sir Ian on IMDB

#29

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:17pm

He's a terrific actor and I admire him completely. He's out and he's proud and doesn't put up with bull****, but I'm asking about out actors in leading men. Last I checked, the narrator in STAR DUST wasn't the lead.

He's not someone a million women are going to drool over. In that regard, he's irrelevant.

"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere

#30

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:28pm

You've got to look at his career as a whole though. Yes, he hasn't played a leading role in a whole, but he played the title role in Richard III for example. And once you take into consideration the fact that he hasn't always been in his 60s, I bet he was a pretty handsome younger man.

I'm not saying that there are a ton of openly gay leading men in Hollywood, (outside of Rupert Everett, whose career seems to have crashed as of late, I can't think of many more,) but -- in my opinion -- McKellen counts. I have a feeling we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one though (and that's okay by me).

#31

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:35pm

This is meant to be a PM -

I'm sorry for the thread jacking.

But, one last question, when did McKellen come out?

"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere

#32

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:41pm

Weird... Every once in a while, my PM settings change on their own. Thanks for the heads' up.

According to this article (in 2006), McKellen came out in the mid-80s.
http://www.afterelton.com/archive/elton/people/2006/9/mckellen.html

#33

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:47pm

"They'll let me play a gray-bearded wizard, but they still wouldn't cast a young gay actor - who was out - in a straight romantic lead."

---Sir. Ian Mckellan.

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

#34

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 9:49pm

Well, would you look at that? ClumsyDude saves the day.

#35

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:00pm

Yes, I did post that quote, but here's the deal. He ALSO said:

" Hollywood is a dream factory. I love the way that conservatives think that Hollywood is a bed of radicalism - it couldn't be more staid and old-ladyship if it tried. The audience don't give a blind whatever about the sexuality of actors. Gay people fancy straight people and vice-versa. It's all in the head, so what does it matter?"

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

#36

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:04pm

I personally think it's ridiclous for producers/directors to not put openly gay actors in lead roles in any movie because of them being open about who they are. They can bring just as much to the table as a straight actor would, or perhaps more.

I think that we as a society need to allow people to be who they are and let them be able to have all the same experiences and chance.

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

#37

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:07pm

I was interested in the names you listed of romantic actors who are not gay. I'll concede that none of them mention it publicly, but there are several in your list about whom the rumors have been most rampant, going far beyond its being a well-kept secret.

BroadwayEd

#38

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:11pm

Do movie musicals count? Zac Effron keeps getting romantic leads in movie musicals...

#39

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:15pm

I have a vision of Cheyenne and I reading to each other..in bed.

#40

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:33pm

Ed_Mottershead: There are rumors of Elijah and Orlando getting it on while working on LORD OF THE RINGS, but since neither one of them are officially out, it's a moot point.

And I do agree with you, Clumsy, but that's the way it is. It's going to take a new company to make change.

I believe Zac to be straight. I haven't heard any rumors.

"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere

Updated On: 1/25/08 at 10:33 PM

#41

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:51pm

I to clarify that when I posted the quote agreeing with jenna2, it was never intended to be "betraying" Cheyenne: I was just putting two quotes from him up and one agreed with jenna2 and one was a lean toward my opinon, I was just showing the two sides that we share, that Ian also shared.

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

#42

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:53pm

Giovanni's Room is a beautiful novel. The man has taste.

#43

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:35am

Nitsua,

My post read : "I was interested in the names you listed of romantic actors who are not gay. I'll concede that none of them mention it publicly, but there are several in your list about whom the rumors have been most rampant, going far beyond its being a well-kept secret."

I don't think you interpreted what I said correctly. I'm not going to get into a is-he or isn't-he controversy.

BroadwayEd

Updated On: 1/26/08 at 08:35 AM

#44

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 4/22/08 at 10:44pm

You don't get any bigger than Cheyenne! Love him

#45

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 4/22/08 at 10:55pm

I would love to see Cheyenne in a Rock Hudson biopic.

#46

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 4/22/08 at 11:14pm

It's official

I love Cheyenne more and more each day

Updated On: 4/22/08 at 11:14 PM

#47

re: Cute Cheyenne Jackson Survey from Variety

Posted: 4/22/08 at 11:21pm

I'm still waiting for someone to give me at least one A-List celebrity that's gay and has a lead role in a Hollywood movie.
Brad Pitt? Nope. George Clooney? Nope. Tom Cruise? Nope.

Well, Tom Cruise is debatable.

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Wanting life but never knowing how

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