Posted on 01/20/2015 7:41:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Billy Crystal Has Had Enough of Gay Storylines
Billy Crystal, comedian and one of the first actors to portray a gay character on TV, has had enough of the gay storylines on television.
Speaking to an audience at the Television Critics Association press tour, Crystal said: “Sometimes I think, ‘Ah that’s too much for me.’”
The comedian played Jodie on Soap from 1977-1981. “It was very difficult at the time,” said Crystal. “Jodie was really the first recurring [gay] character on network television and it was a different time, it was 1977. So, yeah, it was awkward. It was tough.” He spoke about how his character was not always well-received. “I did it in front of a live audience and there were times when I would say to Bob [Seagren], ‘I love you,’ and the audience would laugh nervously. I wanted to stop the taping and go, ‘What is your problem?’”
But now, Crystal thinks things have gone too far. “Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I’m not going to reveal to you which ones they are.”
Crystal’s new show The Comedians premieres April 9 on FX.
Don’t be surprised if he backs off those comments within the week..
Pot/Kettle/Black
Pray America is waking
He was the first one to take this disgusting behavior mainstream... how does he like it now?
I have never seen “Game of Thrones” - many others here probably have not, too.
Can you fill us in on the details? what was it like?
Just an observation, not really a comment on this particular story.
I went to see Birdman yesterday. It was a weird movie. Right in the middle of it two obviously heterosexual characters (they were both talking about how their men sucked) were comforting each other.
I used to work as one of four men in a staff of 300 women. I am used to seeing women comfort each other in times of stress. This includes deaths, births, divorces and break ups.
The scene was not unusual. In fact, it was pretty “normal.”
Then they started kissing each other.
In 25 years in the working environment I mentioned above, I never saw this type of consoling end up with a “make out” session. Never.
The directors or writers put the gratuitous lesbo scene in the movie for no apparant reason other than to either shock, titillate, or make a statement that lesbo love was better than hetero love.
It just did not make sense.
Getting out of that scene would have been funnier if during the embrace is one looked at the other and made some kind of look like, “Is this gonna go somewhere? Because that would not be cool....”
It would be interesting to ask the director what he was trying to convey there.
It was completely out of place.
I just finished reading that...he was so right about the Ballet, then Theater, then Broadway, then Hollywood...(”Tomorrow, THE WORLD!”)
Well, as I said, i only watched one episode. It was a mythical, northern European style world, that seemed to take place during this mythical world’s version of the dark Ages, with castles and clans and kings and so on. The production values, costumes, dialogue, etc were excellent, but the sex and violence turned me off. One episode was enough for me, So I really am not the one to ask.
Interesting. I knew it existed in Hollywood, but assumed that people there looked the other way and didn’t care as long as it did not cause any scandal.
I find it hilarious that hollyweird complains about the 1% when Homosexuals are the 1% that are getting 90% of the screen time.....
Advocacy and the advancement of fellow travelers. And it happens within journalism, the medical profession, academia, and government as well.
Well, I see two dudes kissing, I change the channel and don’t come back. I’m sure I am not alone, so let them go ahead and tank their own ratings and revenue.
Indeed.
Indeed.
I am a woman, and so i know EXACTLY what you are talking about.
And you are correct.
Game of Thrones has everyone doing everyone else. A little too over the top. Waiting for the bestiality in that one (which isn’t in the source material ... yet).
My father didn't like Paar, so I would not have been able to watch it even if I was a little older. My father's dead, and I never did get to ask him why he disliked Paar. He loved Carson though. I guess he just didn't think Paar was funny enough.
In the first book, which came out in the 90s, there are two knights, one the younger brother of the King and the other a son of another royal house, who have a relationship which is hinted at. The only reference or two I can recall can be written off as a put-down between soldiers.
The show went all out with the relationship, although nothing was explicitly shown in the first season, but the implicit was clear enough.
Most of the adult-to-middle-aged female characters have appeared in various stages of undress, if not totally naked, usually just prior, after or during sex scenes. There have been a few males butts and at least two cases of full-frontal make nudity (once post-sex and once by a prisoner condemned to death).
Lots of violence and death -- don't get fond of any particular character. They aren't written out randomly, but sometimes it does seem that way.
That explains the lesbian scene in Netflix's "The Fall" starring Gillian Anderson (where she attempts to put the move on another female in a hotel room). It was a disgusting and unnecessary addition to the show. The new version of X-Files will not be on my viewing itinerary after having seen that.
The homosexual agenda remains unabated...they seriously believe they can convince the great majority of people that there's no difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality. And if not, they why shouldn't they be given more scenes in movies and on tv where they make out.
Fortunately, most heteros have a natural revulsion seeing people of their own sex doing things only men and women should be doing. I've never been a fan of love scenes between men and women...I certainly don't care to see homosexual love scenes.
Same here. Friends were saying I should watch Downton Abbey. Went to Netflix to watch Episode 1 and two guys start kissing and feeling up each other CLICK not watching that crap. "Oh, it was just one episode," they said.
"Yep. And that is all it takes to lose me."
Same thing with a new TV show this past Fall about a law class and getting away with murder.
You aren't the only one. Attempted to watch the first episode on Netflix DVD but did not finish it and returned the dvd. Not-so-soft porn is making the people who created this show and liberal actors and actresses rich. Scenes of simulated sex (and accompanying nudity) have no place in my Christian home as "entertainment."
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