A Fine Bromance

Bruno did not open as well at the box office as Borat. Despite a studio publicity blitz, including a faux fight with Eminem at the Grammys and his own best worst efforts, Sacha Barren Cohen did not take into account that real life pesky thing called homophobia. It can really hurt ticket sales. Call a real gay person; we'll tell you all about it.

Blame at least one lost ticket sale on me. I did not see Bruno. I did not go to see Borat either. I think I had a sweater soaking. My non-attendance did not harm Borat's success. I did eventually Netflix the DVD and mutely fast-forwarded my way through it for about five minutes. I should just have settled for my friend's tears-streaming-down-their-faces re-enactments of the hilarious, to them, hijinx of Borat with the hooker, Borat with the clueless Romanians, Borat nude wrestling his fat manager. With any luck I will not have to sit through my friend's re-enactments of Bruno's anal bleaching scene.

Usually summer is one big blockbuster "Woman as Afterthought Film Festival". Studio execs in their big plush chairs watch a first cut and realize there is not a woman in the film. They find some starlet on the cheap, shoot a few love interest plot point scenes and throw them into the plot stew. This year they are not even pretending. With I Love You Man, The Hangover and Hump Day, each exploring non-sexual friendships among white men, this is the summer of the "A Fine Bromance Film Festival." Of course there are some hilarious close gay calls, not that there's anything wrong with that. The bromances are tame tea parties compared with Cohen's in your face homo tea-bagging.

Maybe I should just try to "get ueber it" but I am not comfortable with the masochistic Jack Ass meets Candid Camera, you've been punk'd genre that is post-race, post-gay and post-p.c., and demonstrates that posture by being both racist and homophobic. It is so hard to compete with reality TV. GLAAD gave Bruno a less than ringing "it's not that bad for gays until it is" endorsement. For some of my friends Bruno is hilarious. What do I know? It wouldn't surprise me if Sacha Cohen is an invited keynote speaker at the March on Washington. Especially if he appears in gay-face wearing his tulip-yellow lederhosen

Comments

[goodgravy]

hi ya kate. when are you going to do a show in palm springs? we're dyin' to see ya.

[Dots]

Oh Kate it is so good to read someone who shares my feelings on these stupid-men movies.
If I were younger, I'd start a "Women and Children First Film Festival."

[MinerSam]

Every Satuday my wonderful Mother goes to the movies w/friends down der in nyc.

I, on the other hand, have not been to a movie theatre since...who knows. El Norte(?) No!

See when everyone's having fun out, or playing w/their innies.I have congessional hearings onC-SPANon. So I began to make myself watchThe Mystery Channel once a week..Pretty good.

Very recently I was an Extra in movie called "the fighter" The best part was talking wfellow extras
who came from far and wide...to see Stars I "NevaHoidof"

By afternoon we grew to 600. Each time the director yelled "Background" people stood up and,
started punching the air..

...I ended up sitting at arena top to see how it was done and ended up directing traffic....

"Section "Q" is that way,"
I said...to a crowd that just arrived.

Or "Looks like there's a big gap between those Dummies down there.
Why don't you 2 go sit between the dummies"
Felt good making a contributi­on....whic­h made it OK to leave

I was in 6 Bollywood movies in the early 70s...Paid Hotel for me&Gay Viennese frIend plus
fancy Bombay Restuarant.
Gay men have been on my mind lately. And was amazed to learn that a dear lost friend,
Jeffery, had a lot to do w/those great LG films (Quilt,closet, Silk).
How about one on Cambridg City Hall on May 17th when 5,000 cheered each and every2
until dawn..