Sony and Columbus appear to have put RENT through the anti-gay shredder — Page 9

art2 you make me embarrassed to be a gay man.
But that's the difference between us isn't it.....your whole self image is defined by being gay, mine is not.....it is simply my sexual orientation.
Long before I am gay, I am a man, a brother, a son, a co-worker, a musician, a writer, a salesman, a librarian, a patron of the arts, a traveler, a friend, a partner, and somewhere, very near the bottom I am gay..........
I would really hate to have put myself, as you have, into a little tiny box where "being gay" is my entire life.
I truly feel sorry for you, because I can see you sitting there hating, and whining about everyone simply because YOU think they are homophobic........GROW UP!
What it REALLY sounds like is you do not accept or love yourself........and rather than deal with that, you pull your little broken-record, whining crap.......

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I just don't really see how art thinks coming here and to other message boards and constantly posting the same thing over and over again is doing anything good for the gay community (if he really believes that it does).

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That is not true. PLEASE do not judge this movie in that way without having seen it first hand. I saw it a week ago at the private screening and to be perfectly honest Angel and Collins relationship in the film is the heart and soul of the movie it is very well done and represented. And extremely romantic (I'll Cover You and reprise) It is represented extremely well.

So..."directors are terrified of showing an erotic male-male interaction"

That's what you want?

"It's not that kind of movie, honey"

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Jersey Girl, you are just showing your "libido liberal" bias once again.

ETA: I just realized my comment could be taken seriously. It is a joke, I know JG is not a "libido liberal" she is just a libido.

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Updated On: 11/4/05 at 12:56 PM

I started to follow it with "This board is FULL of MuthaF**kin' Arts...Hey Art, you gotta dollar?"

But I assumed he wouldn't get it.

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Updated On: 11/4/05 at 01:22 PM

Hehe Wax Lion is awesome.

musicnmath, that's for posting about that Brazil situation. It was definitely interesting. And now maybe art2 can go start harrassing them. How do you say "libido liberal" in Portuguese?

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Elphaba -

I think it is a physical impossibility to ever upstage you - (this is said as a compliment - in case it does not come over clearly in the virtual world).

I have laughed out loud, spewed many a beverage or scratched my head and gone "hmmmmm" after many of your posts.

But, I gotta admit, Wax Lion, that was a pretty good one.

Hehe. Nice sign, Wax Lion. Quite similar to one I snapped outside of Kensington Palace when I visited England last year:



*applauds Elphaba*

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I am one of the fairest and most open-minded people about. I simply want fair and equitable treatment of the gay male relationship in RENT, both in the content and the style. The RENT trailers and poster quite disgustingly minimized the gay male relationship, simple as that. It's not an exercise in rocket science analysis to be able to see that. At the bare minimum, Sony stands accused.

Didn't the poster have Joanne and Maureen together?

Oh, YWIW????, don't you know about the huge CONSPIRACY? Everyone in the arts is so homophobic, especially on Broadway, that it's obvious that everything out of Hollywood and Broadway is going to be part of the giant plan to disenfranchise the gay community. Rent is the biggest offender of these.




Oh...wait...that doesn't sound right...


hehe, I love those pics you guys posted...I was away for far too long. Even WAX LION decided to do a little jab :0)

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