THIS
AIN’T YOUR MOMMA’S BREAKFAST WITH TIFFANY
Tommy
O’Haver (Ella Enchanted) has been tagged to direct the
movie version of Edwin John Wintle's Breakfast
with Tiffany. Don’t throw a hissy fit—nobody
is messing with the beloved Audrey Hepburn classic. Not yet
anyway. This Breakfast is based on Wintle’s
memoir about his having taken in his thirteen year old niece
when she could no longer handle living with her alcoholic
mother. The forty-year old openly gay, obsessive-compulsive
New Yorker has received glowing reviews for both his self-deprecating
wit and for putting to rest to the lie that we are somehow
a threat to the nuclear family.
Speaking
of movies, Capote, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman,
opens this week. Early reviews
are rapturous. Hoffman discusses
the role with Time, including the fact that he was
apparently initially afraid of the part. Says Hoffman of when
he started watching material for the role, “I thought,
'Oh. My. God. There’s no way I’m going to do that.'”
But he did and the next thing he might find himself saying
is “I’d like to thank the members of the Academy.”
Several
weeks ago I mentioned Netflix was a great place to rent gay
flicks. A reader wrote in to say there was an even better
online source for gay pics. (No, not the dirty kind. I know
nothing about that.) She recommended Greencine.com
not only for its great selection, but because they donate
to the arts. We report—you decide! So check it out and
tell us what you think.
In
our final piece of movie news, another reader had the great
fortune to attend a screening and Q & A session for the
Toronto premiere of Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto.
It was Pluto’s star, Cillian Murphy, who really impressed
our reader, however. During the Q & A, Cillian commented
he had no trouble at all playing same-sex love scenes. Indeed,
it was terrorizing Rachel McAdam’s in the recently released
thriller Red Eye that gave Mr. Murphy the heebie-jeebies.
Having recently tagged Cillian’s turn in Batman
Begins as a creepily homophobic performance, I’m
only too happy to give credit where credit is due.
TYING
THE KNOT
With
same-sex marriage and civil unions all the rage, what’s
the proper etiquette for attending a ceremony with two grooms?
Well, for starters don’t go “ick” when they
kiss. Other than that, things are pretty much the same, or
so says James Purdy in a recent article
in the St. Petersburg Times. Mr. Purdy writes the
Social Grace column for the SF Weekly in San Francisco.
Mr. Purdy is full of helpful advice such as “Don’t
be scared” and that it’s not polite to "be
using anybody else's ceremony to make a political statement."
Got that Limbaugh, O’Reilly, and Hannity?
For
even more information on same-sex nups, you can check out
www.theknot.com where same-sex weddings rate their own section
and include helpful tips such as how to deal with unsupportive
parents. Threatening to leave them in a Medicare nursing home
seems like a good place to start.
OUT
THIS WEEK
Not much in the DVD section, but if you’re looking for
a good paperback, check out Marc Acito’s very funny
How I Paid
For College and the not-so-funny, but award winning
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.
And now I’ll shut up so you can have
the BEST. GAY. WEEK. EVER.
That's
it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment
of Best. Gay. Week. Ever., or read previous installments here.
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