'GAY' SHERLOCK HOLMES COULD BACKFIRE FOR GUY RITCHIE

GUY Ritchie's plan to put a gay spin on the relationship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in his new movie about the detective and his sidekick could backfire.

Robert Downey Jr</strong>, who plays Holmes, has revealed the crimebuster will sleep with and have sweaty grappling scenes with Watson, played by Jude Law, in "Sherlock Holmes," due out Christmas Day.

"We're two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's bad-ass," Downey told Britain's News of the World. Added much-in-the-news Law: "Guy wanted to make this about the relationship between Watson and Holmes. They're both mean and complicated."

But Michael Medved, a former Post movie critic, says Downey and Law must be joking. "There's not a seething, bubbling hunger to see straight stars impersonating homosexuals," Medved told us. "I think they're just trying to generate controversy . . . They know that making Holmes and Watson homosexual will take away two-thirds of their box office. Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Law make out? I don't think it would be appealing to women. Straight men don't want to see it."

Firstly, there is NO proof that this is a gay film except for the interpretation of a comment made by Downey Jr. In a notoriously poor British tabloid paper. A comment which actually dosent say that the two are gay in this film. At all.

Sharing a bed?. So did Laurel and Hardy.

Wrestling?. Hardly a sign of gayness, the two characters wrestle with each other as aggressive men. So did Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women In Love and both those characters are straight as an arrow.

The most shocking thing about this story is that idiots like Medved (yes, Ive seen him, read his books and I think hes crap) fall for stuff like this. The only difference is that usually the star making the comments is British, and the dry British humour and irony usually gets lost on American journalists. Though Downey is a very bright man, and just as ironic and dry witted.

This new Sherlock Holmes will be about two men who DO love each other, but in the proper way that you love another man.

The only screaming queens are people like Medved.

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