i’d reference how the academy blew off mickey rourke’s brilliant performance and gave the oscar to sean penn simply because he played a gay fella...
any straight that can kiss a guy and pretend to like it is probably either gay or a good actor.
that’s why Philadelphia, Milk , Porkback MTN,ect, win Hollyweird awards,IMHO.
That and they just love any gay-theme movies.
I haven’t seen either movie, but I still know Rourke gave the better performance simply because there was even talk of him beating Penn in a year when Hollywood was desperate to give us th finger over the gay issue.
I do get a chuckle out of how Hollywood types are actually shocked that Mormons and black churchgoers are not big fans of gay marriage. Yeah, and the sky is blue, too.