Pickg up Where Julia Roberts and Rupert Everett dared not go My Bt Friend's Weddg, namely the bedroom, Jennifer Aniston and Pl Rudd unzip for actn The Object of My Affectn. She's straight, he's gay. Yet here they are fondlg, lip-lockg, nearly fuckg.
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GAYS COME OUT AND INTO THEIR OWN / `AFFECTN' IS LATT FILM TO STOMP STEREOTYP
It's a charged moment but not for the ual reasons: He's gay, and they both know that the le between iendship and romance is a dicey one -- pecially this se. Based on a novel by Stephen McCley, touch on a subject that has been seen equently popular fictn but never a Hollywood film: the straight woman who falls for a gay man.
For s, if gay men popped up Hollywood movi they were only peripheral, and evably f one of two stereotyp: limp-wristed queens or sister psychopaths. Today, we see multidimensnal gay men who aren't ma to atone for their sexualy -- and some s aren't necsarily fed by . If there's a gay screen type that's replaced the mcg fairy and the tragic victim, 's the gay bt iend -- the nocuo next-door neigh bor, phone buddy or nfidante who shar knowg glanc and lic secrets wh the female lead, gets a healthy share of the bt l and then mak a quick ex so that the domant, heterosexual story le n proceed.
Sometim, the gay bt iends are updat on celluloid sissi of yore -- the prissy men that Frankl Pangborn, Eric Blore and Grady Sutton ed to play the '30s and '40s. When actor Eric Bogosian was offered the role of the gay neighbor the 1992 film "Sgle Whe Female, " he turned down, he said at the time, bee "the character was two-dimensnal... "So-lled gay characters are very eful for this: They're not really perceived as gay but more as nuchs that e and have no electril charge the scene and therefore won't terfere wh the male-female relatnship.