De-gaying movies: Why bother?
Due on December 11th, Tom Ford's "A Single Man" is one of the more hotly-tipped Oscar frontrunners. It's got just the right combination of gears in motion: a prestigious literary source (Christopher Isherwood), period production design (the early '60s), and the Weinstein brothers handling the Oscar push. But after paying a reported $2 million for the rights to Ford's directorial debut in Toronto, the Weinsteins apparently only just realized that the film was, uh, gay. For those who saw the film in Toronto or Venice, suspicions were first aroused last week when the film's first poster was unveiled, revealing Colin Firth and Julianne Moore lying in bed together with no allusion to the film's actual plot -- that Firth's college professor recently lost his lover (Matthew Goode) in a car accident and spends the next 24 hours coming to terms. One could call the full-length trailer that the Weinsteins just...
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