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.

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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