> I do not often agree with Dennis Miller. But on one of the 85,000 times this past week that Bill O'Reilly has engaged someone in his new obsessive discussion of Dumbledore's fictional sexuality, Miller's response was: "I don't think you can indoctrinate a kid into being gay. You might indoctrinate him into trying it once and him going, "I guess I'm not gay.'" I don't actually think Dennis was trying to be funny there, but I laughed and wholeheartedly agreed.
> TV is still a better home for queer characters than film, which we didn't need Entertainment Weekly to tell us. (Though I was a tad surprised they actually used the Q word in this piece, as in, "ABC...is the most queer-inclusive broadcast network around.") One reason the success of Brokeback Mountain (critical and box office) may not yet be translating into a rush of big gay movies is the Catch-22 of Hollywood financing, where good scripts don't get written because there's no reason to count on them actually being bought: "Three times I've been approached to do the Harvey Milk story,'' says gay screenwriter John August (Big Fish). ''And I would love to. But my favorite genre of movie is movies that get made.''
> The US government's typical left-hand-doesn't-know goof -- where they advertised for military recruiting on a social networking site targeting queers who aren't actually eligible for military service -- pushed the Washington Post into (further) condemning Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Their summary of the "sorry episode" is succinct and persuasive, should you know anyone who still needs a good nudge in that direction.
I used to love Dennis Miller. Since 9/11 he has morphed into an unfunny lapdog for the right. He used to be our lapdog.
Posted by: mike | October 26, 2007 at 02:20 PM