Coming out of the closet is no longer cool.
It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.
Ok so I'm hoping that enough TnT people know me well enough to recognize that I really don't care about people's sexual orientation -- in a similar vein, I really don't care about the lives of celebrities. The internet being what it is however, stories about people's sexual orientation as well as proclivities do make it across my news radar.
Which brings me to Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle. One key aspect of the movie is that it features the actor who played Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) aka NPH in the film as 'himself'. In it, NPH is portrayed as a hetero-sex addicted, drug using generally crazy guy.
This 'role' was somewhat reprised/repackaged in the comedy series "How I met your mother" where NPH plays a very similar character.
Then one day it crossed my radar that NPH had come out as gay. Unexpectedly that news did affect how I saw both the movie and the show. Where the character was a mindless sex-focused alpha-male, I now saw the same exact film as some sort of subtle satire on hyper hetero males i.e. secretly they are gay. It kind of took away (a little) from the humor to be honest.
The point is that an entertainer sells more than his/her performance, an entertain also sells an image. Can anyone of us really watch the Naked Gun movies and not think "oh there goes OJ, the murderer who got away with it". When the persons image interferes with the performance (Fran Drescher in This is Spinal Tap), or interrupts the suspension of disbelief associated with the performance, audiences are a bit cheated.
So Aiken announces he is gay. Welp I don't care ---was never a fan. But if Richard Dawkins ever came out as a closet catholic, or Obama announces he is indeed secretly muslim -- well I'd have to reexamine my perspective on how I saw them. Its not that I hate catholics or muslims, but the image presented affects the actions just as much as the actions affect the image.
Memory is a strange bell, jubilee and knell.
You know...in that picture, he kind of looks like Sarah Palin with short hair.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
"Another one bites the dust"
I'm confused. I thought he was already out of the closet.
- derumi (del-me)
"Bobby Fischer? Man, that guy is crazy!" - Mike Tyson
