Ask the Flying Monkey (November 11, 2008)

How about JD & Turk on Scrubs? Admittedly it's more of a 'bromance' than homoerotic, but I get the impression it's something the writers deliberately play with.

Well in scrubs didn't they have a musical episode where turk and jd addresed this and it was a total straight love story? But i have to admit i did really like the Turk/JD relationship, but aside fromt hat I also love that they made JD out to be gay, but not in a "he's so gay eww" kind of way just in that, he's JD and we all think he's kinda gay!

 

 I do kinda wish we had a xena-esc relationship to follow, but then again the problem with the xena/gabby relationship was that we all knew but it wasn't really shown (as far as I can remember, but I did miss loads of the final season) and the one time i do remember them actually kissing it was when Xena was inside Bruce Cambell, (not the normal thing to write of a morning!!) I'm LOVING this Ask The Flying Monkey section!! :)

 james xxx

If we did have a couple like that, wouldn't everyone just come out of the woodwork complaining about "coded" gay characters? 

even if there have been some eyebrow-raising scenes of seemingly gay subtext, they were probably unintentional on the part of the creators.

Not on every show. The Canadian show, due South, had tons of subtext, most of it intentional, especially the last season. Paul Gross has said so in interviews.

Ironically, I prefer the pairing that DID have the unintentional subtext. :)

“It began as a friendship, became more intimate and moved to a physical level but Dali found it difficult and couldn't carry on. He said they tried to have sex but it hurt, so they couldn't consummate the relationship.”

The Monkey isn’t sure what that means, but, um, okay, whatever.

 What the filmmaker means by this is that even though, in real life, Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca were madly in love with each other, intellectual soul mates of sorts, they couldn't have sex. They tried a few times, but apparently it was physically painful for both of them. Animosity eventually began to grow between them.

 My favorite quote by Dali about the relationship is this:

"He was homosexual, as everybody knows, and he tried twice to screw me. I was repulsed, of course, because I am not a homosexual, and besides, it hurt. But I was quite flattered vis a vis prestige. I figured he was a great poet, so I owed him a piece of the Divine Dali's *beep*"

Absolutely ridiculous, right? He was "repulsed," but they tried it twice? He wanted nothing to do with it, but he felt like he owed him "a piece of the Divine Dali *beep*"? It cancels itself out.

As for the hype around Pattinson, I honestly do believe this man will be a star, unlike Ben Barnes. He's causing chaos wherever he goes - he's definitely going to be a huge hit, and I have a feeling it's going to extend beyond Twilight.

I, too, was disheartened to discover that Smith didn't actually kiss his male co-star but got as close as he possibly could without doing so (and proudly proclaimed that fact in an interview many years ago.) That said, everyone grows, especially actors (isn't that what they do?) He has been open about not being a great actor and simply working very hard to get it right. Most importantly (and oh, that I could find a clip!), he was on Oprah a few years back (with Jada), and Oprah asked him if he had any career regrets and he said that he regretted not kissing the guy in "Six Degrees" because (I believe) he owed it to the character. And c'mon, at that time, he was a twenty-something rapper who had only recently started work on a "gem" called "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and was getting acting advice from a freakin' Oscar winner (who looked like Denzel Washington!) I'd listen too.

Hey hey,the National Novel Writing Month is so cool. I participated twice and finished once (my masterpiece about 4 gay/bi roomates was called "The Fantabulous Four" *g*). Any other (ex-) participants around? I'd love to read some stuff other people wrote, esp. if it's gay-themed! :)

Although there might have been a lot of hype around Ben Barnes, he's spoken in the past about his desire to be an actor first. As a very general rule, young British actors have that drama-school education that says they have to prove their acting prowess and experience before they'll be accepted as an equal by other actors. Look at Kate Winslet - immediately after Titanic she avoided Hollywood movies and instead went for small-scale, interesting acting challenges in movies that a lot of people won't have seen. Off hand, the only young Brit I can think of who enthusiastically embraced Hollywood without serving time in the indie and stage trenches is Orlando Bloom - and even he took to the West End stage earlier this year in a relatively small role to prove that he deserves to be thought of as an actor rather than a 'star'.

Here's a link for the Little Ashes promo page with more articles on the film and interviews with Robert Pattinson than you'll ever need.

http://www.themovie-fanatic.com/la/

So... you mention Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, but fail to mention the supposedly gay actor in the movie, Mark Patton, who was also the screamingly gay character in Nightmare on Elm St. 2. I suppose this is worth a whole ask the flying monkey answer, but what the hell happened to this guy? Many sources connected with Nightmare 2 say that he is gay, and state it as gospel fact, where are they getting this info anyhow? And why did he totally disappear after that movie? Curious.

considering this Chuck moment between Chuck and Casey last night:

But, as most shows do, they had to follow it with:

so I guess that cancels the whole thing out.

It is amazing a) how beautiful he really is, and b) based on your attached picture how much he resembles Garcia Lorca. As to his star potential, after seeing him in Harry Potter I scurried home to check out who he was on IMDB. He has a lot of charisma and if the riot at the mall near San Francisco yesterday is any indication he's gonna be big. You know I would *bleep* him.

INSIDEGUY

Nano WrMo is nothing. I've done the 50000+ words in a month twice this year already. As for being published, it's over rated. I've bought hundreds of gay books, nothing. Not a single damn one was worth reading. And of those, nine-five percent of them turned out to be little better than porn. I'm sticking with fanfiction.

Is it just me or does that guy just creep you out with that hairstyle? actually, as I look at his photos, he just creeps me out no matter what. Now Sean Biggerstaff has a little more potential than Pattinson (for an ex Harry Potter "star"). Sean Biggerstaff

what about seth and ryan on the OC? i thought the writers definately hinted at/played up the fact that seth was pretty much in love with ryan... even if it never got to the xena level(unfortunately). i think conan obrien asked adam brody about it in an interview once, and adam said that every time he read a new script he thought that they would 'for sure be making out on the next page'. one can dream. :)