BILLY CRYSTAL, AT HIS SOLD-OUT ONE MAN SHOW -- 700 SUNDAYS
Did he think they would stop at all?
OFF TO RE-EDUCATION CAMP WITH YOU!
“700 Sundays” was a lovely book, and espoused American family Values in an off-beat, but loving way. He described a childhood that included New York Jewish Humor, American Jazz and Blues, The Catskills Borscht Belt Era, Love, Marriage, and family.
His introduction to TV was the first recurring homosexual character in SOAP, many years ago. I have a feeling he knows what his foray into the unknown has spawned, and may feel a little guilty about it. Unfortunately, it was he who pulled the cork out of the bottle, and it has spread exponentially, like Pandora’s box, or Eve eating from the tree.
When we play games with the forbidden, the results can be catastrophic.
Soap was also a “late night” program but today such plotlines are found in “the family hour”.*
Welcome to the new normal, Billy. What did you think was going to fill the void when you subverted the culture?
* - Soap was scheduled to air in the slot after Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. A number of affiliates did not air the series and others rescheduled it to “11pm” (after the evening news).
It wasn’t just controversial because of the gay character subplot. It was raunchy decades before Two And A Half Men.
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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?
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 find it hilarious that hollyweird complains about the 1% when Homosexuals are the 1% that are getting 90% of the screen time.....
