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Andrew Flemg, the wrer-director of the gay-themed 'fay' film, says he has been shocked by accatns of stereotypg levelled at his movie." name="scriptn

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HOW GAY IS TOO GAY? STEVE COOGAN'S IAL HOME ACCED OF STEREOTYPG

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”As happens, that oversight is far om the only sore spot the 52-year-old has relatn to his edy, which stars Steve Coogan and Pl Rudd as a gay uple Santa Fe who sudnly fd themselv parents of a 10-year-old boy (Jack Gore)’s wboy-hat-wearg, whe-we-swillg celebry chef Erasm – and to a lser extent his TV producer partner Pl (Rudd) – have been rid some circl as Birdge-style stereotyp that uld set the e of same-sex equaly back cricism has e om straight and gay people, adms Flemg, and hurts bee while the film is clearly a work of fictn draws heavily om his own Pl, Flemg was a relatnship wh a man who had a child om a heterosexual relatnship (the boy the movie is Erasm’ grandson).

Like Erasm, he n be rather flamboyant at Coogan (left) as Erasm and Pl Rudd as Pl Andrew Flemg's edy Ial In“I prefer chardonnay to beer, I have a picture of myself wh Liza Mnelli, I’ve worn chaps to dner, ” he says, cg three of the film’s more overt markers of “gayns”. That’s ternalised homophobia. Havg such out-there leads “was liberate”, he says, an antidote of sorts to a different type of gay stereotype that has emerged recent years.

“I feel the cliche at this pot is this really straight-actg guy who says, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m gay’. But the tth is most gay men have some kd of affectatn, and we were very clear that we didn’t want to shy away om that. Bee that is not what I see the world – that’s not how the gay men I know behave.

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”Jack Gore (left), as Bill, and Rudd Ial Home, which has drawn cricism om straight and gay InIt’s certaly not the way Pl and Erasm behave. They have a luxur ranch New Mexi, eat and drk and travel fabuloly, dabble spirualism and yoga, host r and ocsnally dg-fuelled dner parti, and have a prehensive llectn of gay porn movi on DVD, most of them hilar riffs on the tl and subject matter of mastream Hollywood films (Bareback Mounta hardly even unts sce is, as Erasm nces, merely a gay-themed play on a gay-themed movie) relatnship, though, is far om rosy.

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