AfterElton Briefs: Spilt Milk, Zac Efron and more!

The chance of Zac Efron being gay are about the same of mine are of becoming queen of France.  He'd be lucky to be gay, then he might have a serious career.

 

I have to run there is some kid named Louis Bourbon on the carrier pigeon.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want Efron to be gay, just because it'd make thinking about him feel a little less juvenile. Crushing on straight guys is just so passé. That said, can I just once again reiterate my surprise at how judgemental people are? It's refreshing to hear Efron's entire response to the massive gay-baiting he endures (and frankly brings on himself, the boy wears entirely too much makeup) and how he simply dismisses it.

Oh and the picture of the two basketball players "kissing?" If that's what people reading the Louisville Courier-Journal (why won't italics turn off when I cut and paste this?) call kissing, then I pity their loved ones.

afhickman

"It takes a village (to make Village People)"

When I read your article, I went to IMDB to discover more about Efron and learned, not only that he was just in the hospital for appendicitis, but also that Brad Renfro has died.  Stranger still, the two actors' names are practically anagrams of each other.  Renfro has had trouble with drugs and the law from childhood, but he kept bouncing back in role after role, often as sexually ambiguous characters .  His career choices were rarely dull; when he died, at age 25, he was making a film of Bret Easton Ellis' "The Informers," with Wynona Ryder and Mickey Rourke.

I surely hope he isn't gay. What's with the new black hair and mini-moustache? Well, at least his singing voice is similar enough to Drew Seeley's the majority of the tweens have yet to realize he didn't actually sing (like, at all) in High School Musical 1.

 BTW, why does the magazine make some kind of a big whoop over Efron "going on a date" with Hudgens recently? I thought they were dating, as in multiple dates.

afhickman

"It takes a village (to make Village People)"

Why all this dissing of Zac Efron?  Did he say or do something to offend?  I saw him in "Hairspray" (for which he DID do his own singing), and I thought he was kinda sweet.  Who cares if he's gay or not.  At his age, he probably doesn't even know himself.  Let be.   

It's not so much the guy himself (though I would personally not have taken on the role of "High school heartthrob and captain of the basketball team" if I had his HSM-build)
but the whole circus surrounding him.

His rise to fame comes from the mindless nitwit tweens who are much more preoccupied with how "dreamy" their male idols are than their ability to act, sing, dance or whatever. We have a bunch of those artists in Sweden as well, most of them from (Swedish) Idol. They're not really that special when it comes to singing but it's become one big "ZOMG! X-guy had coffee somewhere! Quick, alert the press!"-like circus around them because the tweens go nuts over them.

It's the same thing with Zac. Though HSM is the only thing I've seen him in (and don't tell me you consider the acting in HSM good. It's so overacting on pretty much everyone's part that it's one of those "So bad it's good"-movies), I can only assume he's a mediocre to OK actor. Possibly good. Then I read articles stating that he's the new rising star, slated to become this generation's Brad Pitt or Leonardo di Caprio and I go "WTF?!".

Give the guy a break he is just a kid. He seems to be handling his notoriety well. Look at most of young Hollywood right now(perfect fodder for the gossip rags). HSM was a cute movie it was a little like the movie "Camp". He was in a series called "Summerland" and he was okay. It was about 2 or 3 years ago. I watched because it had hot guy's on a beach and I like Lori Loughlin. He sets off my Gaydar but that doesn't really mean anything as I am wrong as many times as I am right. He seems like a good kid with some great opportunities if he can put up with the crap that comes with it.

afhickman

"It takes a village (to make Village People)"

Exactly, luvluke1.  We don't need any more Brad Renfros or River Phoenixes.  I have no idea whether these actors' problems were complicted by being homosexual in a business that does not reward sexual honesty, but it's always possible.  The bottom line is that they are vulnerable to criticism, just like everybody else.  In a few years, the wisecracks and the innuendoes may roll right off their backs, but, as teenagers or as young men in their early twenties, fledgling actors have proved themselves to be all too fragile.  As I said in an earlier post, Zac Efron is apparently recovering in the hospital from appendicitis; it must be a frightening time for him.  I doubt he is aware of what we say here, but, on the off chance that he is, I recommend that we moderate our speech.  I don't think anybody here means to be cruel, but we sometimes think our comments are made in a vacuum.  I question whether that is always the case. 

afhickman

"It takes a village (to make Village People)"

Yes.  I saw this play in London a few years back, before I even knew who Jake Gyllenhaal might be.  All the actors were good (it is a three-character play), but Jake was the most memorable.  He had the role of a rich kid who was dealing drugs and who might have had a secret crush on the Christensen character.  He and Christensen wrestled a lot on stage.  It is hard to know where the next Jake Gyllenhaal, or Heath Ledger, might be coming from.  Zac Efron apprarently does his own singing in "Hairspray" and doesn't embarrass himself.  Maybe he could try out for the role of Jack or Ennis in the stage-musical version of "Brokeback," if it ever gets made.  The point is, these young guys are just starting out.  Who knows what they're capable of?

I liked alot zac efron's atittude about those rumors saying that he's gay, if he's gay, bissexual or straight, I don't care, 'cause I'm a big fan of him, and that wouldn't change his talent, cause he's young and will improve alot, I really admire him alot cause I'm a young rising actor too, and I look at him as a model for me.