Colin Firth won ‘Best Actor’ at last night’s Bafta’s for his performance in Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man’. Firth plays George, a gay college professor breaking down after his partner dies in a car accident. Firth said of working with the director/fashion designer:

“An encounter with Tom Ford is come away feeling resuscitated a little more worldy, better informed, better groomed, more fragranced and more nominated than one has ever been before.

“What Tom Ford doesn’t know is I have the email in my outbox telling him I could not possibly do this,” Firth said. “I was about to send it when a man came to repair my fridge … so I would like to thank the fridge guy.”
Sounds like the beginning of a porno doesn’t it? Albeit an intellectual one where they converse about Isherwood.

Colin Firth won ‘Best Actor’ at last night’s Bafta’s for his performance in Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man’. Firth plays George, a gay college professor breaking down after his partner dies in a car accident. Firth said of working with the director/fashion designer: “An encounter with Tom Ford is come away feeling resuscitated a little [...]

It's been the year of the stealth gay for Hollywood movie marketing

I may sound like a broken record here, but is it really impossible to market a gay movie as a gay movie in the United States? Whether it’s gay characters as a small story point, like Valentine’s Day, or a very, very gay movie like A Single Man, the answer seems to be yes.

Adding to that pair, we now have I Love You Phillip Morris, the critically acclaimed, but commercially troubled Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor movie due to be released March 26th after multiple reschedules. I’d forgotten about the film, frankly, until the Russian movie poster scrolled past this morning, and I realized that it wasn’t the same as the one I’d seen used in the States.

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I may sound like a broken record here, but is it really impossible to market a gay movie as a gay movie in the United States? Whether it’s gay characters as a small story point, like Valentine’s Day, or a very, very gay movie like A Single Man, the answer seems to be yes. Adding [...]