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From Fresh Prince to liking Prince, here’s a funny walk down memory lane.
From Blog Spout:
Russell Crowe
Yes, Maximus was once a friend of Dorothy. Fresh on the heels of his notoriously sexy turn as a neo-Nazi skinhead in Romper Stomper, Russell Crowe starred in Geoff Burton and Kevin Dowling’s 1994 The Sum of Us, playing Jeff Mitchell, a young Australian looking for Mr. Right as his dad searches for the woman of his own straight dreams. Crowe plays gay okay if lukewarm. (A homo Gladiator would have been way hotter.) Watch the trailer.
Will Smith
Yup, Hancock liked cock. In Fred Schepisi’s 1993 Six Degrees of Separation Smith played Paul, a gay hustler posing as the son of Sidney Poitier. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard. To be honest, I can’t bring myself to watch Six Degrees of Separation because the idea of Smith playing gay just feels, well, as wrong as Harvey Fierstein doing Tevye on Broadway (whereas Jeffrey Wright as Belize in Angels in America felt oh-so-right).Watch the trailer.
Matt Damon
Though Jason Bourne does make for a fine gay hustler, in Anthony Minghella’s 1999The Talented Mr. Ripley Damon plays Tom Ripley, a natural born killer and con artist with the hots for Jude Law’s Dickie. Damon is convincing playing gay, but then the homosexual nature of the role is beside the main point that snotty richies shouldn’t screw with psychos of any persuasion. Would have gotten bonus points if Tom and Dick had actually got it on. Watch the trailer.
Daniel Craig
What? You thought I was going to pass up the opportunity to talk about James Bond? In John Maybury’s 1998 Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, Daniel Craig plays Bacon’s lover George Dyer, a sizzling piece of rough trade that Bacon picks up in his own apartment (Dyer was burglarizing the pad – how hot is that?!) The filmmaking, artsy and overwrought, can be forgiven since Craig as dominant Dyer takes off his clothes. And the stylish, soft-core poster of a nearly naked Craig lighting up on a bed is number two on my holiday wish list. (Right after a nearly naked Craig lighting up on my bed.) Watch the trailer.
