Bryan Sger Opens Up About His Sexualy, Ellen Page’s Comg Out and Rsia’s Anti-Gay Law – The Hollywood Reporter

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• BRYAN SGER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, ELLEN PAGE’S COMG OUT AND RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE CELEBRIBRYAN SGER BOYIEND: JS THE MALE MOL
• BRYAN SGER: THE EPOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S WHE MALE PRIVILEGE PROBLEMA CHANGE WOULD DO YOU GOODTHE DIRECTOR, WHO WAS FIRED OM THE FREDDIE MERCURY BPIC, HAS REPORTEDLY EXHIBED UNPROFSNAL BEHAVR FOR YEARS, OM HARD-PARTYG TO SEXUAL-ASSLT ALLEGATNS.IRA MADISON IIIUPDATED DEC. 05, 2017 11:15AM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 05, 2017 2:30AM EST OPNPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTWHEN JSI CHASTA TWEETED, “LET NOT FET,” BEFORE LKG TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT BRYAN SGER’S PAST SEXUAL-ASSLT ALLEGATNS, WHO ULD’VE IMAGED THAT HE’D SOON BE FIRED FOR A PLETELY UNRELATED OFFENSE?ON MONDAY, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER BROKE THE NEWS THAT SGER HAS BEEN FIRED OM DIRECTG THE UPG FREDDIE MERCURY BPIC BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, STARRG RAMI MALEK. IT FOLLOWG REPORTS OF REPEATED ABSENC OM THE SET, WHICH WERE EXPLAED AWAY AS “A PERSONAL HEALTH MATTER” AND “UNEXPECTED AVAILABILY,” ACRDG TO DIFFERENT OUTLETS. WHATEVER THE REAL REASON, SGER HADN’T RETURNED TO THE SET SCE THANKSGIVG, WHICH LED TO HIS DISMISSAL OM THE FILM. HOWEVER, THR REVEALED TODAY THAT THERE WAS FAR MORE DRAMA ON THE SET THAN UNPLANNED ABSENC. AFTER MALEK PLAED TO THE STUD OF SGER’S ABSENCE ON SET, THEY REPORTEDLY HAD A NONTATN WHICH SGER THREW AN OBJECT AT HIM. AMIDST THIS, THE ACTOR TOM HOLLANR IS ALLEGED TO HAVE QU THE PRODUCTN AND HAD TO BE PERSUAD TO RETURN. DURG SGER’S SABBATIL, CEMATOGRAPHER THOMAS NEWTON SIGEL DIRECTED TO KEEP THE FILM ON SCHLE.IF YOU WANT AN EGREG EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF PRIVILEGE AFFORD TO WHE MEN HOLLYWOOD, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN SGER’S REER. INSTANC LIKE THIS ON SET WOULD GET ALMOST ANYONE FIRED, BUT THIS ISN’T EVEN THE FIRST TIME SGER HAS BEEN UNRELIABLE AND UNPROFSNAL ON SET. THR REPORTS THAT HE PULLED SIAR DISAPPEARG ACTS OM THE SETS OF X-MEN: APOLYPSE AND SUPERMAN RETURNS, AND THERE HAVE LONG BEEN MORS OF STRIFE WH ACTORS ON THE SETS OF HIS X-MEN FILMS. MOST FAMOLY, THERE WAS THE TIME HALLE BERRY ALLEGEDLY GOT TO A FIGHT WH SGER AND TOLD HIM TO “KISS [HER] BLACK ASS” ON THE SET OF X2. DURG AN TERVIEW WH EMPIRE, SGER LGHED OFF AND SAID THE QUOTE WAS ACTUALLY, “YOU N WATCH MY BLACK ASS WHILE I WALK OUT OF HERE,” BUT SISTED THAT HE AND BERRY ARE FE NOW. FOR WHAT ’S WORTH, SHE DID RETURN TO WORK WH HIM ON X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. BUT GIVEN HER CURRENT SLATE OF B-MOVIE GRDHOE FLICKS LIKE THE CALL AND KIDNAP, PERHAPS BERRY WASN’T THE POSN TO TURN DOWN A SUPERHERO PAYCHECK. “THERE WAS A PLAYSTATN SET UP, AND A BLOND TWK A TANK TOP WHO LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 16 WAS STG ON THE FLOOR ALONE EATG IED CHICKEN STRAIGHT OM A KFC BUCKET. MORE WHE TWKS SHOWED UP. I FELT OLD AND GROSS, SO I LEFT.”— A HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRER ON SGER'S ‘SUPERMAN RETURNS’ AFTER-PARTY IF BERRY ED HAD PROBLEMS WH SGER YET SWALLOWED HER PRI TO WORK WH HIM AGA, ’S A TTAMENT TO HOW THE DTRY ALLOWS BAD BEHAVR BY MEN TO GO UNCHECKED—PARTICULARLY POWERFUL MEN LIKE SGER. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE WRAP REPORTED THAT FOX WAS ONE OF TWO HOLLYWOOD STUDS THAT HAVE NO FEMALE-DIRECTED MOVI SCHLED THROUGH THE NEXT YEAR. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THE STUD HADN’T RELEASED A FILM OM A FEMALE DIRECTOR SCE ELIZABETH ALLEN ROSENBM’S RAMONA AND BEEZ 2010. IT’S HARD ENOUGH FOR WOMEN AND DIRECTORS OF LOR TO GET A FOOT THE DOOR, AND ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT ANY ULD GET AWAY WH THE FLAGRANT CHAOS SGER BRGS TO HIS SETS.AND THOUGH SGER HAS NIED THE SEXUAL-ASSLT ALLEGATNS THAT NTUE TO POP UP THE NEWS, THEIR EXISTENCE HAS SOWED DISTST AMONG ACTORS WHO WOULD LIKELY NEVER WORK WH HIM THE FUTURE. ASI OM THE AFOREMENTNED CHASTA TWEET, OTHER ACTORS LIKE EVAN RACHEL WOOD HAVE TWEETED, “YEAH, LET’S NOT FET BRIAN [SIC] SGER EHER.” FURTHERMORE, THE ALLEGATNS THEMSELV OFTEN MAKE HEADL, G SGER TO WHDRAW OM PUBLIC EVENTS WHERE HE’S EXPECTED TO PROMOTE HIS FILMS. HE DROPPED OUT OF ALL PRS FOR X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 2014 AMIDST A LAWSU THAT WAS LATER WHDRAWN BY THE ACCERS. IN 1998, HIS FILM APT PUPIL GENERATED NTROVERSY DUE TO A LAWSU ALLEGG THAT HE MA A GROUP OF UNRAGE BOYS SHOWER THE NU ON FILM. THIS WEEK, GABRIEL BYRNE SHARED A DISTURBG STORY ABOUT THE MAKG OF SGER’S 1995 FILM THE USUAL SPECTS. BYRNE TOLD THE SUNDAY TIM THAT FILMG SHUT DOWN DUE TO “APPROPRIATE SEXUAL BEHAVR” ON THE PART OF S LEAD ACTOR, KEV SPACEY. SPACEY’S LONG HISTORY OF ALLEGED SEXUAL ABE AGAST MORS HAS NOW BEEN MA PUBLIC, BUT IF HIS IMPROPER BEHAVR WAS ENOUGH TO SHUT DOWN ONE OF SGER’S SETS, ’S CREDIBLY RECKLS OF SGER TO HAVE WORKED WH HIM AGA A LATER ON SUPERMAN RETURNS. IT LLS TO QUTN SGER’S JUDGMENT AS A DIRECTOR, GIVEN THAT HE KNOWGLY PUT A FILM DANGER JT TO WORK WH SPACEY AGA. THEN AGA, THR REPORTED 2014 THAT SGER BROUGHT HIS OWN BRAND OF MSS TO SUPERMAN RETURNS: “EXECUTIV WHO HAVE WORKED ON HIS MOVI SAY THE DIRECTOR WAS SOMETIM ERRATIC, OFTEN PLAG HE WAS PA, AT TIM APPEARG ‘HEAVILY MEDITED’ AND SOMETIM FAILG TO APPEAR ON SET. BUT SEEMS ONLY ON SGER’S 2006 WARNER BROS. FILM SUPERMAN RETURNS DID THE ISSU NTRIBUTE TO BUDGET OVERAG. THERE WERE WISPREAD MORS THAT SGER’S PARTYG WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM, BUT A IEND WHO VISED THE SET SAYS THAT WAS NOT THE ISSUE. ‘THERE WERE TIM THAT PRODUCTN WAS TERPTED OR LAYED,’ SAYS THIS PERSON, BUT THE PROBLEM WAS SGER ‘BATTLG HIS OWN MONS’ WH RPECT TO MEDITN.” VALERIE MAN/GETTY IMAG SGER’S UNPROFSNALISM ASI, HE STILL MANAGED TO THROW A LAVISH AFTERPARTY ONCE THE FILM WAS PLETED. ACRDG TO BUZZFEED, “A GAY SCREENWRER HIS THIRTI WORKG HIS WAY THROUGH THE FILM DTRY LAND AN VATN TO THE AFTERPARTY FOR THE LOS ANGEL PREMIERE OF DIRECTOR BRYAN SGER’S FILM SUPERMAN RETURNS. ‘IT STARTED AT LIKE 1 A.M. IT WAS SUPER CROWD. SOMEONE TOLD ME TO STICK AROUND AS LATE AS I ULD BEE AFTER MOST OF THE GUTS LEAVE, THE SCENE THE POOL ‘GETS EAKY.’ THERE WERE A LOT OF TWKS SI, JT HANGG OUT, AND ALL OF THEM WERE WHE. I WANRED TO WHAT SEEMED LIKE A SCREENG ROOM OR TV ROOM. THERE WAS A PLAYSTATN SET UP, AND A BLOND TWK A TANK TOP WHO LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 16 WAS STG ON THE FLOOR ALONE EATG IED CHICKEN STRAIGHT OM A KFC BUCKET. MORE WHE TWKS SHOWED UP. I FELT OLD AND GROSS, SO I LEFT.” WHO, AFTER ALL, DON’T LOVE A BACCHANAL TO CELEBRATE ALL THE WORK YOU DIDN’T DO ON YOUR LATT FILM?FOX, MEANWHILE, WAS FULLY AWARE OF WHAT THEY WERE GETTG BY HIRG HIM. ACRDG TO THR, “SGER HAD BEEN WARNED BEFORE PRODUCTN BEGAN BY BOTH FOX FILM CHAIRMAN AND CEO STACEY SNIR AND FOX FILM VICE CHAIRMAN AND PRINT OF PRODUCTN EMMA WATTS THAT THEY WOULDN’T TOLERATE ANY UNPROFSNAL BEHAVR ON HIS PART. A REPRENTATIVE OM THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERI ALSO ARRIVED ON SET TO MONOR THE SUATN.” THE #METOO MOVEMENT HOLLYWOOD HAS SEEN THE OTER OF ACCED SEXUAL PREDATORS LIKE HARVEY WESTE AND KEV SPACEY, Y, BUT ALSO AIMS TO EXPOSE A SYSTEM THAT NTUOLY REWARDS MEN WHO TIME AND AGA PROVE TO BE WILDLY UNPROFSNAL. I’M REMD OF MENTS LIKE THOSE OM LUSFILM PRINT KATHLEEN KENNEDY, WHO, WHEN ASKED WHY THERE ARE NO FEMALE DIRECTORS THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE, TOLD VARIETY, “WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE BRG A FEMALE DIRECTOR TO DO ‘STAR WARS,’ THEY’RE SET UP FOR SUCCS. THEY’RE GIGANTIC FILMS, AND YOU N’T E TO THEM WH SENTIALLY NO EXPERIENCE. WE WANT TO REALLY START TO FOC ON PEOPLE WE WOULD LOVE TO WORK WH AND SEE WHAT KDS OF THGS THEY’RE DOG TO PROGRS UP THAT LADR NOW, AND THEN PULL THEM WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT.” THIS YEAR, KENNEDY HAS FIRED MULTIPLE WHE MALE DIRECTORS WHO WEREN’T UP TO SNUFF. MAYBE HOLLYWOOD SHOULD SPEND A LTLE LS TIME TRYG TO “SET UP” WOMEN AND DIRECTORS OF LOR FOR THIS “SUCCS,” AND STOP DDLG MEN LIKE SGER WHO BRG NOTHG TO THE TABLE BUT THE STENCH OF VODKA OM LAST NIGHT’S AFTERPARTY. IRA MADISON III

BRYAN SGER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, ELLEN PAGE’S COMG OUT AND RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW

He was a Jewish teenager who would eventually e out as gay, livg a mostly Catholic neighborhood of Wt Wdsor, New Jersey.

’ ”By the late ’90s, Sger also had a reputatn on the gay Hollywood scene— part for the pool parti he threw at a hoe he lived on Butler Avenue, the Mar Vista neighborhood.

Colls-Rector’s ia for Digal Entertament Network, or DEN, was to produce TV shows and movi for 14-to-24-year-olds, wh an emphasis on stori for gay teens, and distribute them onle. “I don’t thk Brad was gay, or even bi.

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“I showed him where all the gay bars were, ” Andy rells. At s re, the film is about a group of kids who feel alienated until the much olr Profsor Charl Xavier shows them that their mutatns are really superpowers—a pellg allegory for gay teenagers stgglg to e to terms wh their sexual the way, there were media reports of Sger’s erratic behavr on set.

”Sanchez-Guzman says he uldn’t brg himself to tell his parents what had happened; they still didn’t know he was gay.

Although often intified as “openly gay, ” Bryan Sger never really me out — to his parents or the public. And Sger says he don’t really fe himself as gay, remarkg, “I’m que bisexual.

BRYAN SGER: THE EPOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S WHE MALE PRIVILEGE PROBLEMA CHANGE WOULD DO YOU GOODTHE DIRECTOR, WHO WAS FIRED OM THE FREDDIE MERCURY BPIC, HAS REPORTEDLY EXHIBED UNPROFSNAL BEHAVR FOR YEARS, OM HARD-PARTYG TO SEXUAL-ASSLT ALLEGATNS.IRA MADISON IIIUPDATED DEC. 05, 2017 11:15AM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 05, 2017 2:30AM EST OPNPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTWHEN JSI CHASTA TWEETED, “LET NOT FET,” BEFORE LKG TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT BRYAN SGER’S PAST SEXUAL-ASSLT ALLEGATNS, WHO ULD’VE IMAGED THAT HE’D SOON BE FIRED FOR A PLETELY UNRELATED OFFENSE?ON MONDAY, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER BROKE THE NEWS THAT SGER HAS BEEN FIRED OM DIRECTG THE UPG FREDDIE MERCURY BPIC BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, STARRG RAMI MALEK. IT FOLLOWG REPORTS OF REPEATED ABSENC OM THE SET, WHICH WERE EXPLAED AWAY AS “A PERSONAL HEALTH MATTER” AND “UNEXPECTED AVAILABILY,” ACRDG TO DIFFERENT OUTLETS. WHATEVER THE REAL REASON, SGER HADN’T RETURNED TO THE SET SCE THANKSGIVG, WHICH LED TO HIS DISMISSAL OM THE FILM. HOWEVER, THR REVEALED TODAY THAT THERE WAS FAR MORE DRAMA ON THE SET THAN UNPLANNED ABSENC. AFTER MALEK PLAED TO THE STUD OF SGER’S ABSENCE ON SET, THEY REPORTEDLY HAD A NONTATN WHICH SGER THREW AN OBJECT AT HIM. AMIDST THIS, THE ACTOR TOM HOLLANR IS ALLEGED TO HAVE QU THE PRODUCTN AND HAD TO BE PERSUAD TO RETURN. DURG SGER’S SABBATIL, CEMATOGRAPHER THOMAS NEWTON SIGEL DIRECTED TO KEEP THE FILM ON SCHLE.IF YOU WANT AN EGREG EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF PRIVILEGE AFFORD TO WHE MEN HOLLYWOOD, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN SGER’S REER. INSTANC LIKE THIS ON SET WOULD GET ALMOST ANYONE FIRED, BUT THIS ISN’T EVEN THE FIRST TIME SGER HAS BEEN UNRELIABLE AND UNPROFSNAL ON SET. THR REPORTS THAT HE PULLED SIAR DISAPPEARG ACTS OM THE SETS OF X-MEN: APOLYPSE AND SUPERMAN RETURNS, AND THERE HAVE LONG BEEN MORS OF STRIFE WH ACTORS ON THE SETS OF HIS X-MEN FILMS. MOST FAMOLY, THERE WAS THE TIME HALLE BERRY ALLEGEDLY GOT TO A FIGHT WH SGER AND TOLD HIM TO “KISS [HER] BLACK ASS” ON THE SET OF X2. DURG AN TERVIEW WH EMPIRE, SGER LGHED OFF AND SAID THE QUOTE WAS ACTUALLY, “YOU N WATCH MY BLACK ASS WHILE I WALK OUT OF HERE,” BUT SISTED THAT HE AND BERRY ARE FE NOW. FOR WHAT ’S WORTH, SHE DID RETURN TO WORK WH HIM ON X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. BUT GIVEN HER CURRENT SLATE OF B-MOVIE GRDHOE FLICKS LIKE THE CALL AND KIDNAP, PERHAPS BERRY WASN’T THE POSN TO TURN DOWN A SUPERHERO PAYCHECK. “THERE WAS A PLAYSTATN SET UP, AND A BLOND TWK A TANK TOP WHO LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 16 WAS STG ON THE FLOOR ALONE EATG IED CHICKEN STRAIGHT OM A KFC BUCKET. MORE WHE TWKS SHOWED UP. I FELT OLD AND GROSS, SO I LEFT.”— A HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRER ON SGER'S ‘SUPERMAN RETURNS’ AFTER-PARTY IF BERRY ED HAD PROBLEMS WH SGER YET SWALLOWED HER PRI TO WORK WH HIM AGA, ’S A TTAMENT TO HOW THE DTRY ALLOWS BAD BEHAVR BY MEN TO GO UNCHECKED—PARTICULARLY POWERFUL MEN LIKE SGER. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE WRAP REPORTED THAT FOX WAS ONE OF TWO HOLLYWOOD STUDS THAT HAVE NO FEMALE-DIRECTED MOVI SCHLED THROUGH THE NEXT YEAR. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THE STUD HADN’T RELEASED A FILM OM A FEMALE DIRECTOR SCE ELIZABETH ALLEN ROSENBM’S RAMONA AND BEEZ 2010. IT’S HARD ENOUGH FOR WOMEN AND DIRECTORS OF LOR TO GET A FOOT THE DOOR, AND ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT ANY ULD GET AWAY WH THE FLAGRANT CHAOS SGER BRGS TO HIS SETS.AND THOUGH SGER HAS NIED THE SEXUAL-ASSLT ALLEGATNS THAT NTUE TO POP UP THE NEWS, THEIR EXISTENCE HAS SOWED DISTST AMONG ACTORS WHO WOULD LIKELY NEVER WORK WH HIM THE FUTURE. ASI OM THE AFOREMENTNED CHASTA TWEET, OTHER ACTORS LIKE EVAN RACHEL WOOD HAVE TWEETED, “YEAH, LET’S NOT FET BRIAN [SIC] SGER EHER.” FURTHERMORE, THE ALLEGATNS THEMSELV OFTEN MAKE HEADL, G SGER TO WHDRAW OM PUBLIC EVENTS WHERE HE’S EXPECTED TO PROMOTE HIS FILMS. HE DROPPED OUT OF ALL PRS FOR X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 2014 AMIDST A LAWSU THAT WAS LATER WHDRAWN BY THE ACCERS. IN 1998, HIS FILM APT PUPIL GENERATED NTROVERSY DUE TO A LAWSU ALLEGG THAT HE MA A GROUP OF UNRAGE BOYS SHOWER THE NU ON FILM. THIS WEEK, GABRIEL BYRNE SHARED A DISTURBG STORY ABOUT THE MAKG OF SGER’S 1995 FILM THE USUAL SPECTS. BYRNE TOLD THE SUNDAY TIM THAT FILMG SHUT DOWN DUE TO “APPROPRIATE SEXUAL BEHAVR” ON THE PART OF S LEAD ACTOR, KEV SPACEY. SPACEY’S LONG HISTORY OF ALLEGED SEXUAL ABE AGAST MORS HAS NOW BEEN MA PUBLIC, BUT IF HIS IMPROPER BEHAVR WAS ENOUGH TO SHUT DOWN ONE OF SGER’S SETS, ’S CREDIBLY RECKLS OF SGER TO HAVE WORKED WH HIM AGA A LATER ON SUPERMAN RETURNS. IT LLS TO QUTN SGER’S JUDGMENT AS A DIRECTOR, GIVEN THAT HE KNOWGLY PUT A FILM DANGER JT TO WORK WH SPACEY AGA. THEN AGA, THR REPORTED 2014 THAT SGER BROUGHT HIS OWN BRAND OF MSS TO SUPERMAN RETURNS: “EXECUTIV WHO HAVE WORKED ON HIS MOVI SAY THE DIRECTOR WAS SOMETIM ERRATIC, OFTEN PLAG HE WAS PA, AT TIM APPEARG ‘HEAVILY MEDITED’ AND SOMETIM FAILG TO APPEAR ON SET. BUT SEEMS ONLY ON SGER’S 2006 WARNER BROS. FILM SUPERMAN RETURNS DID THE ISSU NTRIBUTE TO BUDGET OVERAG. THERE WERE WISPREAD MORS THAT SGER’S PARTYG WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM, BUT A IEND WHO VISED THE SET SAYS THAT WAS NOT THE ISSUE. ‘THERE WERE TIM THAT PRODUCTN WAS TERPTED OR LAYED,’ SAYS THIS PERSON, BUT THE PROBLEM WAS SGER ‘BATTLG HIS OWN MONS’ WH RPECT TO MEDITN.” VALERIE MAN/GETTY IMAG SGER’S UNPROFSNALISM ASI, HE STILL MANAGED TO THROW A LAVISH AFTERPARTY ONCE THE FILM WAS PLETED. ACRDG TO BUZZFEED, “A GAY SCREENWRER HIS THIRTI WORKG HIS WAY THROUGH THE FILM DTRY LAND AN VATN TO THE AFTERPARTY FOR THE LOS ANGEL PREMIERE OF DIRECTOR BRYAN SGER’S FILM SUPERMAN RETURNS. ‘IT STARTED AT LIKE 1 A.M. IT WAS SUPER CROWD. SOMEONE TOLD ME TO STICK AROUND AS LATE AS I ULD BEE AFTER MOST OF THE GUTS LEAVE, THE SCENE THE POOL ‘GETS EAKY.’ THERE WERE A LOT OF TWKS SI, JT HANGG OUT, AND ALL OF THEM WERE WHE. I WANRED TO WHAT SEEMED LIKE A SCREENG ROOM OR TV ROOM. THERE WAS A PLAYSTATN SET UP, AND A BLOND TWK A TANK TOP WHO LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 16 WAS STG ON THE FLOOR ALONE EATG IED CHICKEN STRAIGHT OM A KFC BUCKET. MORE WHE TWKS SHOWED UP. I FELT OLD AND GROSS, SO I LEFT.” WHO, AFTER ALL, DON’T LOVE A BACCHANAL TO CELEBRATE ALL THE WORK YOU DIDN’T DO ON YOUR LATT FILM?FOX, MEANWHILE, WAS FULLY AWARE OF WHAT THEY WERE GETTG BY HIRG HIM. ACRDG TO THR, “SGER HAD BEEN WARNED BEFORE PRODUCTN BEGAN BY BOTH FOX FILM CHAIRMAN AND CEO STACEY SNIR AND FOX FILM VICE CHAIRMAN AND PRINT OF PRODUCTN EMMA WATTS THAT THEY WOULDN’T TOLERATE ANY UNPROFSNAL BEHAVR ON HIS PART. A REPRENTATIVE OM THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERI ALSO ARRIVED ON SET TO MONOR THE SUATN.” THE #METOO MOVEMENT HOLLYWOOD HAS SEEN THE OTER OF ACCED SEXUAL PREDATORS LIKE HARVEY WESTE AND KEV SPACEY, Y, BUT ALSO AIMS TO EXPOSE A SYSTEM THAT NTUOLY REWARDS MEN WHO TIME AND AGA PROVE TO BE WILDLY UNPROFSNAL. I’M REMD OF MENTS LIKE THOSE OM LUSFILM PRINT KATHLEEN KENNEDY, WHO, WHEN ASKED WHY THERE ARE NO FEMALE DIRECTORS THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE, TOLD VARIETY, “WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE BRG A FEMALE DIRECTOR TO DO ‘STAR WARS,’ THEY’RE SET UP FOR SUCCS. THEY’RE GIGANTIC FILMS, AND YOU N’T E TO THEM WH SENTIALLY NO EXPERIENCE. WE WANT TO REALLY START TO FOC ON PEOPLE WE WOULD LOVE TO WORK WH AND SEE WHAT KDS OF THGS THEY’RE DOG TO PROGRS UP THAT LADR NOW, AND THEN PULL THEM WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT.” THIS YEAR, KENNEDY HAS FIRED MULTIPLE WHE MALE DIRECTORS WHO WEREN’T UP TO SNUFF. MAYBE HOLLYWOOD SHOULD SPEND A LTLE LS TIME TRYG TO “SET UP” WOMEN AND DIRECTORS OF LOR FOR THIS “SUCCS,” AND STOP DDLG MEN LIKE SGER WHO BRG NOTHG TO THE TABLE BUT THE STENCH OF VODKA OM LAST NIGHT’S AFTERPARTY. IRA MADISON III

“I emotnally lean towards male relatnships, so I’m happy to say I’m gay, too, if ’s a one-syllable, easy answer, ” he says. But he tells Out that he wasn’t planng to travel to the film’s Mosw premiere anyway, the wake of the untry’s recent anti-gay law. " He says that as he watched the accatns agast Harvey Weste mount, he though, "Me too--only I was a kid, " and that he cid not to go public and risk not beg beme notor gay Hollywood for his r pool parti filled wh young men who looked like they were high school.

"Much of the article centers on Digal Entertament Network, a pany Sger ntributed to, which produced entertament largely for gay teens (Chad's World, Tal om the Eastsi, Fear of a Punk Pla). And is no surprise that, wh Bohemian Rhapsody beg an award-wng h, this homophobic smear piece has been nveniently timed to take advantage of s succs. Egan scrib what is sentially a sex rg, wh olr men like Colls-Rector sutg barely legal twks who might be lookg to saddle up to Hollywood's rich and powerful gays.

But Hollywood gays and lbians don't need to be as discreet as they did 60 years ago, and 's not too difficult to fd stori and photos of Sger's famo gay pool parti—and mors of at Dlisted, Michael K. " A few years ago, Queerty published photos of a post-gay pri pool party at Roland Emmerich's hoe that was -hosted by Sger. If I’d known that beg gay uld mean this, I would have e out a lot young man stood across om me the small, perfectly manicured yard of a nt home that hugged slop of Hollywood Hills.