Posted on 06/02/2006 11:23:11 AM PDT by bpjam
STUDIOS love magazine stories that breathlessly hype their summer popcorn movies, so you would think that Warner Bros. might have been happy with Alonso Duralde's cover story about "Superman Returns," which gushed, "Superheroes — let's face it — are totally hot."
There was a twist: Duralde's "Superman Returns" story was not in Entertainment Weekly or Newsweek or Premiere. It ran in the May 23 issue of the Advocate, the prominent national gay magazine, next to the headline: "How Gay Is Superman?"
Man of Steel has been missing from the movies for 19 years, and now that he's scheduled to fly into the multiplex on June 28, his worries may not be limited to Lex Luthor and kryptonite. Even at a time when moviegoers and awards organizations embraced the overtly gay love story "Brokeback Mountain," there may be a different challenge for a mainstream action movie that happens to be attracting a gay following.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
NOW what are you looking at? NOTHING!!!
Well, I wouldn't be surprised in any case. It's not like they haven't tried to homosexualize an American icon before.
By the way, did you know Lincoln was gay?
:p
Not closet! Phone booths, dammit!
I'm not. I know that homosexual people have given their lives for America. *points to the soldier whose funeral was recently hijacked by Phelps and his ilk*
The thing is, Superman isn't a homosexual. Nor has he been shown to be a bisexual. That's my problem with the angle WB appears to be taking in the advertisement of this movie.
And I love how you use the overused line 'homophobia'. I don't fear homosexuals. I just don't want things that have no business being homosexual being...well, homosexual. Nor do I want children being subjected to homosexuality in elementary school. Things like that.
Just to let you know...this one smells like a troll.
The left seems to be getting antsy on the heels of the Federal Marriage Amendment debate. I can only imagine how enraged they will get as the 2006 elections draw near...
My boyfriend told me...
George Clooney was Superman also? I remember Keaton and I like him but Clooney??
Not Superman. Batman.
To: bpjam
"In addition to drawing poor reviews and generating weak word-of-mouth, the studio's 1997 summer release "Batman & Robin" was criticized for having too much homoerotic appeal, including nipples on Batman's suit. George Clooney, the film's star, has joked, "I could have played him straight but I didn't. I made him gay."
Which is why I preferred Michael Keaton.
18 posted on 06/02/2006 11:35:22 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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