'Tmp is a bigger nman than me': Gay four-time prison pee and dster Steven Rsell on life after I Love You Phillip Morris | PkNews

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• ‘TMP IS A BIGGER NMAN THAN ME’: GAY FOUR-TIME PRISON PEE AND DSTER STEVEN RSELL ON LIFE AFTER I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
• NSFW: JIM CARREY’S GAY SEX SCEN
• THE OUTG OF PHILIP MORRIS: ADVERTISG TOBAC TO GAY MEN
• THE GAY G.O.P.
• “BEG GAY IS REALLY EXPENSIVE” SAYS THE ‘I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS’ RED BAND TRAILER
• JIM CARREY PLAYS STEVEN JAY RSELL I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRISSTEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS.NILE LAPORTEUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:06PM EDT JIM CARREY & EWAN MCGREGOR "I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS" (ROASI ATTRACTNS)STEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS. RELATED: GA PICLO PROFILED PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL'S GREAT LOVE, WHO SAYS OF RSELL: "I ULD JT BEAT HIM TO A PULP. BUT I LOVE HIM." READ THE STORY.“ALL RIGHT, THIS NEEDS TO BE FLAT, BUT YOU N TAKE A STALS STEEL RAZOR BLA, CUT LIKE THIS…”STEVEN JAY RSELL IS STG ACROSS OM ME, BEHD A BULLETPROOF WDOW OF GLASS, G HIS FGER TO MAKE A CUTTG MOTN. WE ARE PRISON. IN THE MIDDLE OF TEXAS, WHERE ON THE OTHER SI OF THE GAT, THERE ARE WBOY CHURCH (“COME AS YOU ARE”) AND SIGNS THAT SAY “STOP THE PORN AND BE REBORN—J.” “JT GET YOUR NTATN THERE, AND THEN YOU TAKE SOME AJAX, A PAIR OF SHOELAC, GO LIKE THIS WH , CUTS THE METAL”— AND VOILA! THAT, RSELL SAYS, IS HOW TO MAKE A KNIFE. THE KD OF KNIFE THAT AN MATE WOULD CRAFT ORR TO, SAY, ATTACK A GUARD AND PE JAIL.RSELL IS SOMETHG OF AN EXPERT BOTH AT BEG PRISON—HE IS CURRENTLY SERVG HIS 10TH YEAR OF A 144-YEAR SENTENCE—AND GETTG OUT. OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERD BACK THE 1990S, HE BROKE OUT FOUR TIM OM A NUMBER OF TEXAS RRECTNAL FACILI, ALWAYS VERY LORFUL WAYS (ONCE HE DYED HIS PRISON WH GREEN AND PRETEND TO BE A DOCTOR; ANOTHER TIME, HE FAKED HAVG AIDS), AND ALWAYS BEE HE WANTED TO BE UNED WH HIS LOVER, A MAN NAMED PHILLIP MORRIS. EVERY JAIL-BREAK OCCURRED ON A FRIDAY THE 13TH—THE DAY MORRIS WAS BORN. ABOUT THE FIRST TIME HE MET PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL SAYS, “I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!”• GA PICLO: THE MAN WHO FELL FOR 'KG CON'RSELL’S TALE IS THE STUFF OF PULPY, ROMANTIC FICTN, AND NOT SURPRISGLY, WAS TURNED TO A BOOK, BY STEVE MCVICKER, AND NOW A MOVIE, STARRG JIM CARREY AND EWAN MCGREGOR, WHICH OUT ON FRIDAY. I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS HAS ALREADY BEEN RELEASED EUROPE, AND WAS SUPPOSED TO E OUT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE U.S., BUT WAS LAYED BEE OF DISTRIBUTN ISSU. THE STALL EVABLY LED TO MORS THAT NO MERCIAL-MD STUD WANTED TO TOUCH A “GAY PRISON MOVIE,” WHICH OPENS WH A PENIS-SHAPED CLOUD, BUT ROADSI ATTRACTNS, WHICH IS RELEASG THE FILM, HOP THAT THIS OUTRéNS WILL PAY OFF E OSR TIME.IN THE MOVIE, CARREY PLAYS RSELL, BUT REALLY HE’S PLAYG JIM CARREY. UNLIKE MCGREGOR—WHO SPENT TIME WH MORRIS ORR TO PERFECTLY MIMIC HIS GENTLE, ARKANSAS PATOIS AND QUETTISH MANNERISMS—CARREY NEVER MET HIS SUBJECT, AND HIS OVER-THE-TOP-ZANY PERFORMANCE DO NOT PTURE THE VULNERABLE-SEEMG MAN WHO’S STG ACROSS OM ME.NOW 53 YEARS OLD, RSELL HAS A PALE, PUDGY FACE AND SPEAKS SOFTLY, A SOUTHERN ACCENT. (HE GREW UP NORFOLK, VIRGIA.) HE HAS TWKLY BLUE EY THAT ARE ASTOUNDGLY PLAYFUL FOR A MAN WHO SPENDS 23 HOURS A DAY ALONE A PRISON CELL, AND HE IS A MASTER AT CRACKG HIMSELF UP. MIDWAY THROUGH A SENTENCE, HE’LL STOP AND HAVE TO REMOVE HIS WIRE-AMED GLASS, VER HIS EY WH HIS HAND, AND LGH OUT. THEN HE’LL RUME THE STORY. HE IS ALWAYS TELLG STORI.“LET ME TELL YOU A STORY,” HE IS SAYG NOW, TO THE OLD-FASHNED, BLACK TELEPHONE RECEIVER, WHICH IS HOW WE’RE MUNITG. (FYI, TALKG TO AN MATE PRISON IS EXACTLY THE WAY LOOKS ON TV AND MOVI.)“THIS GUY—ANOTHER PRISONER—ASKED ME, ‘HOW DO YOU BREAK OUT?’ WE’RE TALKG BACK 2000. SO HE STARTS WRG ME THE NOT. SO I TELL HIM EXACTLY HOW TO DO , EXACTLY HOW HE ULD GET OUT OF THERE. AND THIS FOOL—”HE STOPS. HE IS LGHG TOO HARD TO TALK.“HE”—NOW HE IS PRACTILLY CHOKG—“ HE KEPT THE NOT! “AND HE GOT UGHT WH THEM, WE’RE TALKG YEARS LATER. AND SO ONE DAY THIS GUY TO ME AND SAYS, ‘WE’VE GOT A SE FOR YOU.’ I WAS MY CELL DRKG HOT CHOLATE. I SAID, ‘A SE FOR WHAT?’ HE SAID, ‘ATTEMPTED PE.’ I STARTED LGHG RIGHT THERE. I SAID, ‘I DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO PE.’ HE SAID, ‘ALL THIS ADVICE YOU GAVE SOMEBODY.’IN THE END, RSELL HAD ANOTHER YEAR ADD TO HIS SENTENCE, BUT EVEN SO, TO HIM, THE STORY ISN’T ABOUT BEG BTER, ’S ABOUT GAG YET MORE SIGHT TO HUMAN BEHAVR, A SUBJECT THAT FASCAT HIM: “IT’S JT FUNNY,” HE SAYS. “BEE, ’S LIKE, PEOPLE N’T MEMORIZE ANYTHG!”HE EPTS TO HOWLS.PART OF WHAT IS SO DISARMG ABOUT RSELL IS THAT HE HAS NEVER PHYSILLY HURT ANYBODY, OR OUT OF PRISON, SO HE IS NOT SRY A JACK THE RIPPER KD OF WAY. ALL OF HIS ARRTS, WHICH BEGAN WH SURANCE D BACK 1992, STEM OM WHE-LLAR CRIM, WHICH GENERALLY VOLVED RSELL—WHO HAS AN IQ OF 163—OUTWTG THE KD OF PERSON WHOM HE WOULD SCRIBE AS A MORON.IN THE NOTEBOOK THAT HE KEEPS WH HIM AND FASTIDLY FILLS WH MGS, FACTS, AND FIGUR (CLUDG THE NASDAQ AND DOW JON DAILY X), HE ONCE WROTE: “THE REAL PROBLEM WH SECURY PEOPLE IS THEY’RE BASILLY IGNORANT AND MAYBE JT PLA STUPID.”HE SAYS HE WOULD NEVER HAVE WRTEN THAT TODAY, CLAIMG TO HAVE GAED MORE RPECT FOR THE SYSTEM NOW THAT HE’S OLR, BUT THERE IS NO QUTN THAT RSELL THKS—PROBABLY RRECTLY—THAT HE IS SMARTER THAN EVERYBODY AROUND HIM.EVEN HIS RELATNSHIP WH MORRIS, WHICH BEGAN 1995 WHEN THE TWO MET THE HARRIS COUNTY JAIL LAW LIBRARY (MORRIS WAS ARRTED FOR NOT RETURNG A RENTAL R), RSELL ADMS THAT HE NNED HIS FUTURE ME TO FALLG LOVE WH HIM.“I SPUN A TALE,” HE SAYS, EXPLAG HOW HE TOLD MORRIS, A MORE NAïVE SOUL, THAT HE WAS AN ATTORNEY, EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER BEEN TO LLEGE. “BEE I WASN’T TERTED GETTG A RELATNSHIP WH HIM. I HAD BAD THGS ON MY MD. I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!“BUT THEN TURNED OUT TO BE REALLY GOOD.”THEY WERE REALLY GOOD FOR A WHILE. ONCE OUT OF PRISON, THE MEN LED AN EXTRAVAGANT LIFE (MATCHG RED MERCES AND ROLEX), FUND BY RSELL’S LATT N—HE FAKED A RUME AND FAST-TALKED HIS WAY TO A JOB AS THE CFO OF A MANAGED HEALTH-RE PANY HOTON. HE EMBEZZLED $800,000 OM THE PANY BEFORE BEG UGHT AND TOSSED BACK JAIL.MORRIS ALSO HAD TO DO MORE TIME, BUT HAS BEEN OUT SCE 2003. HE AND RSELL NO LONGER TALK.“PHILLIP IS ON MY VISG LIST,” RSELL SAYS QUIETLY. “BUT I HAVEN’T ENURAGED HIM TO VIS. IT WOULD ONLY E HIM PROBLEMS.”(MORRIS HAS SPOKEN OPENLY ABOUT HOW HE RENTS BEG LASSOED TO RSELL’S SHENANIGANS, AND SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN REASONS FOR NOT VISG.)“I’VE TALKED TO PAROLE AND BASILLY BEEN TOLD THAT IF I EVER DO GET OUT, THAT THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE STIPULATNS—THAT I HAVE NO NTACT WH HIM.”AND HOW DO RSELL FEEL ABOUT THAT? “THERE ARE THGS LIFE THAT YOU DON’T AGREE WH, OR YOU DON’T LIKE, BUT YOU GOTTA ACCEPT. AND THAT’S ONE OF THEM FOR ME.”SOMETHG ELSE HE SAYS HE HAS E TO ACCEPT IS THE FACT THAT, A BT-SE SCENAR, HE WON’T BE OUT OF PRISON FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS. “I N MAKE MY PAROLE, AND I PROBABLY WILL, EVENTUALLY. BUT I’LL BE OLD. I’M OLD ALREADY, BUT I’LL BE OLR.”HIS VOICE BE SO SOFT ’S ALMOST HARD TO HEAR HIM, AND A SHADOW PASS OVER HIS EY. “YOU N’T DO ANYTHG ABOUT . YOU N’T. YOU EHER LET DRIVE YOU CRAZY AND YOU STAY ANGRY AND YOU TURN AT NIGHT… THIS IS SOMETHG I’VE HAD TO MATURE TO. I DID TO MYSELF. BUT IF I REACT TO THE WRONG WAY, THEN I’M GIVG . SO I LOOK AT AS GIVG . BEE—THAT’S ! YOU DID .”DPE THIS VERY RATNAL LEVEL-HEADNS, ’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO ASK RSELL IF HE DON’T EVER THK ABOUT ANOTHER JAIL-BREAK. BUT HE SISTS NO. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER: “I’VE PUT TOO MUCH TIME , AND I’VE CHANGED.”BUT WHEN ASKED IF HE ULD BREAK OUT, HE LIGHTS UP, AND STANTLY SAYS, “OH, Y! Y!”THE SHADOWS ARE GONE. HIS EY ARE DANCG.PL: CHECK OUT MORE OF THE LATT ENTERTAMENT, FASHN, AND CULTURE VERAGE ON SEXY BEAST—PHOTOS, VIOS, FEATUR, AND TWEETS.NILE LAPORTE IS THE SENR WT COAST REPORTER FOR THE DAILY BEAST AND THE THOR OF THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KG: AN ALMOST EPIC TALE OF MOGULS, MOVI, AND A COMPANY CALLED DREAMWORKS. NILE LAPORTE
• JIM CARREY GAY ROLE 'I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS' PRAISED

‘TMP IS A BIGGER NMAN THAN ME’: GAY FOUR-TIME PRISON PEE AND DSTER STEVEN RSELL ON LIFE AFTER I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS

If we expect prison to rehabilate offenrs or if we expect mat to retegrate to society once they have done their time, the ls broken they are when they fally e out, the easier that will Jay Rsell is a gay, four-time prison pee, nman and thief, currently servg a 144-year prison sentence for nonvlent crime. Steven Rsell is a gay, four-time prison pee, nman and thief, currently servg a 144-year prison sentence for non-vlent crime, at a maximum secury prison Texas. After the jump, you are ved to watch two rather graphic gay sex scen starrg Jim Carrey om his movie I Love You, Phillip Morris, based on the te story of a former-p turned n-man who abandons his fay after he gets a r crash that turns him gay (LOOK IT UP!

The outg of Philip Morris: advertisg tobac to gay men.

NSFW: JIM CARREY’S GAY SEX SCEN

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THE OUTG OF PHILIP MORRIS: ADVERTISG TOBAC TO GAY MEN

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THE GAY G.O.P.

D'Amato, who supports gay rights, Mr. Fkelste has also helped elect, at nsirable fancial enrichment to himself, some of the most powerful gay-bashg policians the Senate voted 97 to 3 last year on the Ryan Whe bill for AIDS fundg, two of the three no vot me om Fkelste-aid Senators: North Carola's Jse Helms and New Hampshire's Bob Smh. When the Senate voted for a Defense of Marriage Act and agast a gay anti-discrimatn bill this month, two other Fkelste Senators, Oklahoma's Don Nickl and North Carola's Lch Faircloth, led the anti-gay forc on the floor, wh Mr.

Fkelste, who told The New York Post ''all my iends and fay know I'm gay, '' cled to elaborate on why he sells his talents to lawmakers who would outlaw his fay's very existence. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn to Terry Dolan, who ran the Reagan-era Natnal Conservative Polil Actn Commtee, some of the most thls exploers of homophobia public life have turned out to be homosexual themselv. Even Pat Robertson has employed a gay speechwrer, the Rev.

Mel Whe (who jumped ship to bee a cidly unhypocril and eloquent champn of gay rights) some s, such as Mr. Fkelste's, the gay facilators of gay-bashg don't hi their homosexualy -- which rais a parallel issue of hypocrisy about their heterosexual associat. Why do so many straight nservative Republin policians take the low road of preachg agast homosexualy public when they practice tolerance private?

“BEG GAY IS REALLY EXPENSIVE” SAYS THE ‘I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS’ RED BAND TRAILER

Bce Bawer, the gay thor who llaborated wh the openly gay (and about-to-retire) G. ''The gay Log Cab Republins' spokman, David Greer, pats the same picture and holds closeted gay Republins most rponsible for : ''I have always believed that if everyone who is gay the party, om terns to chiefs of staff to the ndidat themselv, were to e out, this wouldn't be the anti-gay party.

Nsultant Tanya Melich put this week, Republin hypocrisy about homosexualy ''poisons polics. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 1, Page 23 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: The Gay G. “I Love You Phillip Morris” happens to be based on fact, the te-life tale of a oime married police officer turned gay Texan n man, Steven Rsell, who had a penchant for breakg out of prison on Friday the 13th and a mad passn for a fellow mate by the improbable te name Phillip Morris.

JIM CARREY PLAYS STEVEN JAY RSELL I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRISSTEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS.NILE LAPORTEUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:06PM EDT JIM CARREY & EWAN MCGREGOR "I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS" (ROASI ATTRACTNS)STEVEN RSELL, PLAYED BY JIM CARREY THE “GAY PRISON” MOVIE, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, IS SERVG 144 YEARS PRISON AFTER FOUR P. HE TALKS TO NILE LAPORTE OM BEHD BARS. RELATED: GA PICLO PROFILED PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL'S GREAT LOVE, WHO SAYS OF RSELL: "I ULD JT BEAT HIM TO A PULP. BUT I LOVE HIM." READ THE STORY.“ALL RIGHT, THIS NEEDS TO BE FLAT, BUT YOU N TAKE A STALS STEEL RAZOR BLA, CUT LIKE THIS…”STEVEN JAY RSELL IS STG ACROSS OM ME, BEHD A BULLETPROOF WDOW OF GLASS, G HIS FGER TO MAKE A CUTTG MOTN. WE ARE PRISON. IN THE MIDDLE OF TEXAS, WHERE ON THE OTHER SI OF THE GAT, THERE ARE WBOY CHURCH (“COME AS YOU ARE”) AND SIGNS THAT SAY “STOP THE PORN AND BE REBORN—J.” “JT GET YOUR NTATN THERE, AND THEN YOU TAKE SOME AJAX, A PAIR OF SHOELAC, GO LIKE THIS WH , CUTS THE METAL”— AND VOILA! THAT, RSELL SAYS, IS HOW TO MAKE A KNIFE. THE KD OF KNIFE THAT AN MATE WOULD CRAFT ORR TO, SAY, ATTACK A GUARD AND PE JAIL.RSELL IS SOMETHG OF AN EXPERT BOTH AT BEG PRISON—HE IS CURRENTLY SERVG HIS 10TH YEAR OF A 144-YEAR SENTENCE—AND GETTG OUT. OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERD BACK THE 1990S, HE BROKE OUT FOUR TIM OM A NUMBER OF TEXAS RRECTNAL FACILI, ALWAYS VERY LORFUL WAYS (ONCE HE DYED HIS PRISON WH GREEN AND PRETEND TO BE A DOCTOR; ANOTHER TIME, HE FAKED HAVG AIDS), AND ALWAYS BEE HE WANTED TO BE UNED WH HIS LOVER, A MAN NAMED PHILLIP MORRIS. EVERY JAIL-BREAK OCCURRED ON A FRIDAY THE 13TH—THE DAY MORRIS WAS BORN. ABOUT THE FIRST TIME HE MET PHILLIP MORRIS, RSELL SAYS, “I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!”• GA PICLO: THE MAN WHO FELL FOR 'KG CON'RSELL’S TALE IS THE STUFF OF PULPY, ROMANTIC FICTN, AND NOT SURPRISGLY, WAS TURNED TO A BOOK, BY STEVE MCVICKER, AND NOW A MOVIE, STARRG JIM CARREY AND EWAN MCGREGOR, WHICH OUT ON FRIDAY. I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS HAS ALREADY BEEN RELEASED EUROPE, AND WAS SUPPOSED TO E OUT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE U.S., BUT WAS LAYED BEE OF DISTRIBUTN ISSU. THE STALL EVABLY LED TO MORS THAT NO MERCIAL-MD STUD WANTED TO TOUCH A “GAY PRISON MOVIE,” WHICH OPENS WH A PENIS-SHAPED CLOUD, BUT ROADSI ATTRACTNS, WHICH IS RELEASG THE FILM, HOP THAT THIS OUTRéNS WILL PAY OFF E OSR TIME.IN THE MOVIE, CARREY PLAYS RSELL, BUT REALLY HE’S PLAYG JIM CARREY. UNLIKE MCGREGOR—WHO SPENT TIME WH MORRIS ORR TO PERFECTLY MIMIC HIS GENTLE, ARKANSAS PATOIS AND QUETTISH MANNERISMS—CARREY NEVER MET HIS SUBJECT, AND HIS OVER-THE-TOP-ZANY PERFORMANCE DO NOT PTURE THE VULNERABLE-SEEMG MAN WHO’S STG ACROSS OM ME.NOW 53 YEARS OLD, RSELL HAS A PALE, PUDGY FACE AND SPEAKS SOFTLY, A SOUTHERN ACCENT. (HE GREW UP NORFOLK, VIRGIA.) HE HAS TWKLY BLUE EY THAT ARE ASTOUNDGLY PLAYFUL FOR A MAN WHO SPENDS 23 HOURS A DAY ALONE A PRISON CELL, AND HE IS A MASTER AT CRACKG HIMSELF UP. MIDWAY THROUGH A SENTENCE, HE’LL STOP AND HAVE TO REMOVE HIS WIRE-AMED GLASS, VER HIS EY WH HIS HAND, AND LGH OUT. THEN HE’LL RUME THE STORY. HE IS ALWAYS TELLG STORI.“LET ME TELL YOU A STORY,” HE IS SAYG NOW, TO THE OLD-FASHNED, BLACK TELEPHONE RECEIVER, WHICH IS HOW WE’RE MUNITG. (FYI, TALKG TO AN MATE PRISON IS EXACTLY THE WAY LOOKS ON TV AND MOVI.)“THIS GUY—ANOTHER PRISONER—ASKED ME, ‘HOW DO YOU BREAK OUT?’ WE’RE TALKG BACK 2000. SO HE STARTS WRG ME THE NOT. SO I TELL HIM EXACTLY HOW TO DO , EXACTLY HOW HE ULD GET OUT OF THERE. AND THIS FOOL—”HE STOPS. HE IS LGHG TOO HARD TO TALK.“HE”—NOW HE IS PRACTILLY CHOKG—“ HE KEPT THE NOT! “AND HE GOT UGHT WH THEM, WE’RE TALKG YEARS LATER. AND SO ONE DAY THIS GUY TO ME AND SAYS, ‘WE’VE GOT A SE FOR YOU.’ I WAS MY CELL DRKG HOT CHOLATE. I SAID, ‘A SE FOR WHAT?’ HE SAID, ‘ATTEMPTED PE.’ I STARTED LGHG RIGHT THERE. I SAID, ‘I DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO PE.’ HE SAID, ‘ALL THIS ADVICE YOU GAVE SOMEBODY.’IN THE END, RSELL HAD ANOTHER YEAR ADD TO HIS SENTENCE, BUT EVEN SO, TO HIM, THE STORY ISN’T ABOUT BEG BTER, ’S ABOUT GAG YET MORE SIGHT TO HUMAN BEHAVR, A SUBJECT THAT FASCAT HIM: “IT’S JT FUNNY,” HE SAYS. “BEE, ’S LIKE, PEOPLE N’T MEMORIZE ANYTHG!”HE EPTS TO HOWLS.PART OF WHAT IS SO DISARMG ABOUT RSELL IS THAT HE HAS NEVER PHYSILLY HURT ANYBODY, OR OUT OF PRISON, SO HE IS NOT SRY A JACK THE RIPPER KD OF WAY. ALL OF HIS ARRTS, WHICH BEGAN WH SURANCE D BACK 1992, STEM OM WHE-LLAR CRIM, WHICH GENERALLY VOLVED RSELL—WHO HAS AN IQ OF 163—OUTWTG THE KD OF PERSON WHOM HE WOULD SCRIBE AS A MORON.IN THE NOTEBOOK THAT HE KEEPS WH HIM AND FASTIDLY FILLS WH MGS, FACTS, AND FIGUR (CLUDG THE NASDAQ AND DOW JON DAILY X), HE ONCE WROTE: “THE REAL PROBLEM WH SECURY PEOPLE IS THEY’RE BASILLY IGNORANT AND MAYBE JT PLA STUPID.”HE SAYS HE WOULD NEVER HAVE WRTEN THAT TODAY, CLAIMG TO HAVE GAED MORE RPECT FOR THE SYSTEM NOW THAT HE’S OLR, BUT THERE IS NO QUTN THAT RSELL THKS—PROBABLY RRECTLY—THAT HE IS SMARTER THAN EVERYBODY AROUND HIM.EVEN HIS RELATNSHIP WH MORRIS, WHICH BEGAN 1995 WHEN THE TWO MET THE HARRIS COUNTY JAIL LAW LIBRARY (MORRIS WAS ARRTED FOR NOT RETURNG A RENTAL R), RSELL ADMS THAT HE NNED HIS FUTURE ME TO FALLG LOVE WH HIM.“I SPUN A TALE,” HE SAYS, EXPLAG HOW HE TOLD MORRIS, A MORE NAïVE SOUL, THAT HE WAS AN ATTORNEY, EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER BEEN TO LLEGE. “BEE I WASN’T TERTED GETTG A RELATNSHIP WH HIM. I HAD BAD THGS ON MY MD. I WAS JT TRY’ TO GET LAID!“BUT THEN TURNED OUT TO BE REALLY GOOD.”THEY WERE REALLY GOOD FOR A WHILE. ONCE OUT OF PRISON, THE MEN LED AN EXTRAVAGANT LIFE (MATCHG RED MERCES AND ROLEX), FUND BY RSELL’S LATT N—HE FAKED A RUME AND FAST-TALKED HIS WAY TO A JOB AS THE CFO OF A MANAGED HEALTH-RE PANY HOTON. HE EMBEZZLED $800,000 OM THE PANY BEFORE BEG UGHT AND TOSSED BACK JAIL.MORRIS ALSO HAD TO DO MORE TIME, BUT HAS BEEN OUT SCE 2003. HE AND RSELL NO LONGER TALK.“PHILLIP IS ON MY VISG LIST,” RSELL SAYS QUIETLY. “BUT I HAVEN’T ENURAGED HIM TO VIS. IT WOULD ONLY E HIM PROBLEMS.”(MORRIS HAS SPOKEN OPENLY ABOUT HOW HE RENTS BEG LASSOED TO RSELL’S SHENANIGANS, AND SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN REASONS FOR NOT VISG.)“I’VE TALKED TO PAROLE AND BASILLY BEEN TOLD THAT IF I EVER DO GET OUT, THAT THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE STIPULATNS—THAT I HAVE NO NTACT WH HIM.”AND HOW DO RSELL FEEL ABOUT THAT? “THERE ARE THGS LIFE THAT YOU DON’T AGREE WH, OR YOU DON’T LIKE, BUT YOU GOTTA ACCEPT. AND THAT’S ONE OF THEM FOR ME.”SOMETHG ELSE HE SAYS HE HAS E TO ACCEPT IS THE FACT THAT, A BT-SE SCENAR, HE WON’T BE OUT OF PRISON FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS. “I N MAKE MY PAROLE, AND I PROBABLY WILL, EVENTUALLY. BUT I’LL BE OLD. I’M OLD ALREADY, BUT I’LL BE OLR.”HIS VOICE BE SO SOFT ’S ALMOST HARD TO HEAR HIM, AND A SHADOW PASS OVER HIS EY. “YOU N’T DO ANYTHG ABOUT . YOU N’T. YOU EHER LET DRIVE YOU CRAZY AND YOU STAY ANGRY AND YOU TURN AT NIGHT… THIS IS SOMETHG I’VE HAD TO MATURE TO. I DID TO MYSELF. BUT IF I REACT TO THE WRONG WAY, THEN I’M GIVG . SO I LOOK AT AS GIVG . BEE—THAT’S ! YOU DID .”DPE THIS VERY RATNAL LEVEL-HEADNS, ’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO ASK RSELL IF HE DON’T EVER THK ABOUT ANOTHER JAIL-BREAK. BUT HE SISTS NO. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER: “I’VE PUT TOO MUCH TIME , AND I’VE CHANGED.”BUT WHEN ASKED IF HE ULD BREAK OUT, HE LIGHTS UP, AND STANTLY SAYS, “OH, Y! Y!”THE SHADOWS ARE GONE. HIS EY ARE DANCG.PL: CHECK OUT MORE OF THE LATT ENTERTAMENT, FASHN, AND CULTURE VERAGE ON SEXY BEAST—PHOTOS, VIOS, FEATUR, AND TWEETS.NILE LAPORTE IS THE SENR WT COAST REPORTER FOR THE DAILY BEAST AND THE THOR OF THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KG: AN ALMOST EPIC TALE OF MOGULS, MOVI, AND A COMPANY CALLED DREAMWORKS. NILE LAPORTE

”“A lot of people ncentrate on the gay thgs, ” adds Carrey. “I don’t thk the movie is about gay people. It was fanced by director Luc Bson’s pany Europa, and the filmmakers hope to sell the domtic rights recently showed the film to GLAAD, the gay and lbian advocy group, and “they loved , ” says Requa.

Most gay movi wh gay people are about beg gay and treat beg gay as this afflictn, ” says Firra.

JIM CARREY GAY ROLE 'I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS' PRAISED

”“We wanted to do a movie that wasn’t about gay and sufferg, ” says fact, the 39-year-old Firra and the 42-year-old Requa are both married to women and have young children.

Wh the ntroversy of last week surroundg the “Electric rs are gay” gag “The Dilemma” trailer now pretty much fotten (we gus GLAAD and Universal are bt buds now? Apparently bee “beg gay is really expensive.

In the 1950s, some of Hollywood's most popular romantic edi starred Doris Day and Rock Hudson, a gay man pretendg to be straight. In 2010's I Love You Phillip Morris, the romantic leads are played by Ewan MacGregor and Jim Carrey — two straight guys pretendg to be gay. Requa says he and Firra wanted to make a classic romantic edy, but wh two gay men the kd of rol that Doris Day and the closeted Rock Hudson played the 1950s.