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• JOHNNY DEPP: 'DIDN’T YOU KNOW ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GAY?'
• HOMOPHOBIA AND 21 JUMP STREET: DO “JT KIDDG!” NEGATE EVERY BLOWJOB JOKE?BY BCE HANDYMARCH 16, 2012SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEI SHOULD HAVE KEPT TRACK OF THE NUMBER OF JOK 21 JUMP STREET THAT VOLVED THE POSSIBILY OR SUGGTN OF STRAIGHT GUYS FELLATG ONE OTHER OR HAVG ANAL SEX. IF I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EACH ONE, I’D BE [DOG THE MENTAL MATH] . . . AT LEAST $17 RICHER! PL, THERE WAS A SCENE WHERE A PRUMABLY STRAIGHT FELLOW LOOKED LIKE HE WAS HAVG HIS BOTTOM PERATED, SOME MANNER, BY A GIRL—SO LET’S MAKE THAT $17.50, AND UNTG.I LIKED21 JUMP STREET, THE NEW FILM WH JONAH HILL AND CHANNG TATUM—A SMIRKY, IRONIC UPDATE ON THE OLD JOHNNY DEPP TV SERI ABOUT UNRVER PS HIGH SCHOOL. (CHECK OUT PHOTOS OF DEPP ON THE SHOW WEARG ACID-WASHED JEANS HERE.) YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THE FUNNIT BS OM THE MOVIE THE TRAILERS AND ADS, BUT THE RT IS PETENTLY AMG, WH A UPLE OF WELE SURPRIS; ’S AROUND A 6 OR 7 ON THE SMART-DUMB—OR IS DUMB-SMART?—EDY SLE, WH 10 BEG THE SIMPSONS AND 1 BEG ANYTHG DANE COOK. HILL DO HIS UAL WISE-GUY NERD THG, WHICH WORKS, ALTHOUGH IF HE DON’T THROW A FEW MORE CHANGE-UPS LIKE MONEYBALL, HE MAY SOON WEAR OUT HIS WELE AND WD UP AS THE JACK BLACK OF 2013. TATUM, WHOUT AMANDA SEYIED OR RACHEL MCADAMS BLUBBERG TO HIS EXPANSIVE CHT, TURNS OUT TO BE FUNNY, TOO. HE N DO EDY, ROMANCE, AND ACTN FILMS—THE HOLLYWOOD TRIPLE CROWN. AND LIKE ALL GREAT MOVIE STARS, OM CLARK GABLE WH HIS JUG EARS TO JULIA ROBERTS AND HER DUCK-BILL UPPER LIP, TATUM HAS AN ODD FACIAL FEATURE: HIS LERAL BLOCKHEAD. THAT PROV —THIS GUY IS GOG TO BE HUGE!BUT BACK TO MY ORIGAL POT: WHAT’S WH ALL THE BLOWJOB AND BUTT-FUCKG JOK? TO CE JT ONE EXAMPLE: HILL AND TATUM, POLICE PARTNERS AS WELL AS BT IENDS, ARE A R AND NEED TO HI OM SOME BAD GUYS. WHAT TO DO? LET’S PRETEND ONE OF IS SUCKG THE OTHER GUY’S DICK! LOL. BUT WHO’S GOG TO BE THE BLOWER AND WHO THE BLOWEE? YOU. NO, YOU! [LGH TRACK.]SOMEONE ULD WRE A TERRIFIC BOOK CHARTG THE EVOLUTN OF THE BUDDY FILM—OR BROMANCE, AS IS NOW TELLGLY LLED—AS A REFLECTN OF AMERIN SOCIAL ATTUS. IN THAT SENSE, 21 JUMP STREET REPRENTS A WEIRD KD OF PROGRS: THE SUBLIMATED HOMOEROTICISM OF A FILM LIKE TOP GUN IS NOW OBV AND ALL ON THE SURFACE—NATURALLY THERE’S ISSON AN TENSE MALE IENDSHIP. AND SCE ’S NO LONGER IGNORABLE, MT BE MENTED UPON. HOW TO DO SO WHILE KEEPG WH THE BROAD STROK OF A MASTREAM EDY? DISPEL AS HERENTLY LGHABLE, AND TEMPER THE TENSN WH A LAME, HOMOPHOBIC DICK JOKE.PERHAPS TO LL THIS “PROGRS” IS TO STATE THGS TOO SIMPLY. I’M STGGLG TO MAKE SENSE OF A POP-CULTURAL MOMENT THAT N EMBRACE BOTH A SERI LIKE GLEE, WHERE GAY AND LBIAN RELATNSHIPS ARE CELEBRATED AND, BETTER YET, NORMALIZED, AND A SHOW LIKE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, WH S LONG-STANDG OVERRELIANCE ON PRISON-RAPE PUNCHL OR, WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, GOOSG LGHS OM S DIENCE BY HAVG ANDY SAMBERG FRENCH KISS ANOTHER GUY. BOTH SHOWS’ DIENC PRUMABLY OVERLAP TO SOME EXTENT; THEY DO MY HOE, ANYWAY. AND BOTH TARGET THE SAME YOUNG MOGRAPHIC THAT 21 JUMP STREET WILL PRUMABLY RONATE WH—WHICH WOULD ALSO BE THE SAME YOUNG MOGRAPHIC THAT, POLLS, NTUALLY VOIC OVERWHELMG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE.IF ONE N BROADLY EXTRAPOLATE ANYTHG OM THIS, ’S MAYBE THAT ACCEPTANCE CURRENTLY FUNCTNS MORE ON A MACRO LEVEL THAN A MICRO ONE—’S THE GUS WHO’S COMG TO DNER? PRCIPLE, I.E., TOLERANCE IS EASIER TO E BY THE ABSTRACT THAN THE NCRETE. GAY MARRIAGE IS ONE THG; FOR MANY, THE NOTN THAT A MAN MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO PUT A PENIS HIS MOUTH IS ANOTHER—AND THE NOTN THAT A MAN MIGHT WANT TO PUT, SAY, MY PENIS HIS MOUTH, OR HIS ME, OR THAT SOMEONE MIGHT THK I’D LIKE . . . FUCK YOU, MAN. ASSHOLE. SUCK MY DICK. OH, WA.AS I HOPE YOU N TU, I’M BEG IRONILLY HOMOPHOBIC—AS, TO BE VERY CHARABLE, THE FILMMAKERS BEHD 21 JUMP STREET MAY ALSO BE. THAT WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT OVER DON DRAPER–ERA JOK ABOUT LIMP-WRISTED HAIRDRSERS, I SUPPOSE, BUT IRONY N SERVE AS A FLIMSY VER-UP, TOO. IT’S AN EASY HALL PASS TO WAVE, LIKE THE WAY SOME PEOPLE THK SAYG “JT KIDDG!” PUTS THE BURN OF OFFENSE ON ANYONE THEY’VE JT SULTED. YOU ALSO HAVE TO LCULATE WHO’S LGHG AT A JOKE AND WHY, WHO’S ON AND WHO’S LEFT OUTSI.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINBCE HANDY
• '22 JUMP STREET'S BIG GAY PROBLEM

JOHNNY DEPP: 'DIDN’T YOU KNOW ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GAY?'

Photograph: Peter Mounta/AP‘All my characters are gay’Depp reunted the well-documented story that he was almost fired om the set of the first Pirat of the Caribbean movie bee his outlandish performance as Jack Sparrow ially had Disney executiv worried.

Is dnk, is gay? “When they asked if was gay, I said: ‘Didn’t you know all my characters are gay?

HOMOPHOBIA AND 21 JUMP STREET: DO “JT KIDDG!” NEGATE EVERY BLOWJOB JOKE?BY BCE HANDYMARCH 16, 2012SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEI SHOULD HAVE KEPT TRACK OF THE NUMBER OF JOK 21 JUMP STREET THAT VOLVED THE POSSIBILY OR SUGGTN OF STRAIGHT GUYS FELLATG ONE OTHER OR HAVG ANAL SEX. IF I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EACH ONE, I’D BE [DOG THE MENTAL MATH] . . . AT LEAST $17 RICHER! PL, THERE WAS A SCENE WHERE A PRUMABLY STRAIGHT FELLOW LOOKED LIKE HE WAS HAVG HIS BOTTOM PERATED, SOME MANNER, BY A GIRL—SO LET’S MAKE THAT $17.50, AND UNTG.I LIKED21 JUMP STREET, THE NEW FILM WH JONAH HILL AND CHANNG TATUM—A SMIRKY, IRONIC UPDATE ON THE OLD JOHNNY DEPP TV SERI ABOUT UNRVER PS HIGH SCHOOL. (CHECK OUT PHOTOS OF DEPP ON THE SHOW WEARG ACID-WASHED JEANS HERE.) YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THE FUNNIT BS OM THE MOVIE THE TRAILERS AND ADS, BUT THE RT IS PETENTLY AMG, WH A UPLE OF WELE SURPRIS; ’S AROUND A 6 OR 7 ON THE SMART-DUMB—OR IS DUMB-SMART?—EDY SLE, WH 10 BEG THE SIMPSONS AND 1 BEG ANYTHG DANE COOK. HILL DO HIS UAL WISE-GUY NERD THG, WHICH WORKS, ALTHOUGH IF HE DON’T THROW A FEW MORE CHANGE-UPS LIKE MONEYBALL, HE MAY SOON WEAR OUT HIS WELE AND WD UP AS THE JACK BLACK OF 2013. TATUM, WHOUT AMANDA SEYIED OR RACHEL MCADAMS BLUBBERG TO HIS EXPANSIVE CHT, TURNS OUT TO BE FUNNY, TOO. HE N DO EDY, ROMANCE, AND ACTN FILMS—THE HOLLYWOOD TRIPLE CROWN. AND LIKE ALL GREAT MOVIE STARS, OM CLARK GABLE WH HIS JUG EARS TO JULIA ROBERTS AND HER DUCK-BILL UPPER LIP, TATUM HAS AN ODD FACIAL FEATURE: HIS LERAL BLOCKHEAD. THAT PROV —THIS GUY IS GOG TO BE HUGE!BUT BACK TO MY ORIGAL POT: WHAT’S WH ALL THE BLOWJOB AND BUTT-FUCKG JOK? TO CE JT ONE EXAMPLE: HILL AND TATUM, POLICE PARTNERS AS WELL AS BT IENDS, ARE A R AND NEED TO HI OM SOME BAD GUYS. WHAT TO DO? LET’S PRETEND ONE OF IS SUCKG THE OTHER GUY’S DICK! LOL. BUT WHO’S GOG TO BE THE BLOWER AND WHO THE BLOWEE? YOU. NO, YOU! [LGH TRACK.]SOMEONE ULD WRE A TERRIFIC BOOK CHARTG THE EVOLUTN OF THE BUDDY FILM—OR BROMANCE, AS IS NOW TELLGLY LLED—AS A REFLECTN OF AMERIN SOCIAL ATTUS. IN THAT SENSE, 21 JUMP STREET REPRENTS A WEIRD KD OF PROGRS: THE SUBLIMATED HOMOEROTICISM OF A FILM LIKE TOP GUN IS NOW OBV AND ALL ON THE SURFACE—NATURALLY THERE’S ISSON AN TENSE MALE IENDSHIP. AND SCE ’S NO LONGER IGNORABLE, MT BE MENTED UPON. HOW TO DO SO WHILE KEEPG WH THE BROAD STROK OF A MASTREAM EDY? DISPEL AS HERENTLY LGHABLE, AND TEMPER THE TENSN WH A LAME, HOMOPHOBIC DICK JOKE.PERHAPS TO LL THIS “PROGRS” IS TO STATE THGS TOO SIMPLY. I’M STGGLG TO MAKE SENSE OF A POP-CULTURAL MOMENT THAT N EMBRACE BOTH A SERI LIKE GLEE, WHERE GAY AND LBIAN RELATNSHIPS ARE CELEBRATED AND, BETTER YET, NORMALIZED, AND A SHOW LIKE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, WH S LONG-STANDG OVERRELIANCE ON PRISON-RAPE PUNCHL OR, WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, GOOSG LGHS OM S DIENCE BY HAVG ANDY SAMBERG FRENCH KISS ANOTHER GUY. BOTH SHOWS’ DIENC PRUMABLY OVERLAP TO SOME EXTENT; THEY DO MY HOE, ANYWAY. AND BOTH TARGET THE SAME YOUNG MOGRAPHIC THAT 21 JUMP STREET WILL PRUMABLY RONATE WH—WHICH WOULD ALSO BE THE SAME YOUNG MOGRAPHIC THAT, POLLS, NTUALLY VOIC OVERWHELMG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE.IF ONE N BROADLY EXTRAPOLATE ANYTHG OM THIS, ’S MAYBE THAT ACCEPTANCE CURRENTLY FUNCTNS MORE ON A MACRO LEVEL THAN A MICRO ONE—’S THE GUS WHO’S COMG TO DNER? PRCIPLE, I.E., TOLERANCE IS EASIER TO E BY THE ABSTRACT THAN THE NCRETE. GAY MARRIAGE IS ONE THG; FOR MANY, THE NOTN THAT A MAN MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO PUT A PENIS HIS MOUTH IS ANOTHER—AND THE NOTN THAT A MAN MIGHT WANT TO PUT, SAY, MY PENIS HIS MOUTH, OR HIS ME, OR THAT SOMEONE MIGHT THK I’D LIKE . . . FUCK YOU, MAN. ASSHOLE. SUCK MY DICK. OH, WA.AS I HOPE YOU N TU, I’M BEG IRONILLY HOMOPHOBIC—AS, TO BE VERY CHARABLE, THE FILMMAKERS BEHD 21 JUMP STREET MAY ALSO BE. THAT WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT OVER DON DRAPER–ERA JOK ABOUT LIMP-WRISTED HAIRDRSERS, I SUPPOSE, BUT IRONY N SERVE AS A FLIMSY VER-UP, TOO. IT’S AN EASY HALL PASS TO WAVE, LIKE THE WAY SOME PEOPLE THK SAYG “JT KIDDG!” PUTS THE BURN OF OFFENSE ON ANYONE THEY’VE JT SULTED. YOU ALSO HAVE TO LCULATE WHO’S LGHG AT A JOKE AND WHY, WHO’S ON AND WHO’S LEFT OUTSI.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINBCE HANDY

Usg “21 Jump Street, ” the cematic spoff loosely based on the guilty-pleasure TV drama, as a progrs-meter for the gay muny is probably a b ridiculo, but you have to give up to the filmmakers for s anti-hateratn: no, ’s not ol to punch a gay black kid. When a pair of dimwted unrver ps, rigned to a nverted church n by Capta Dickson (Ice Cube), head back to high school for a dg bt, they realize all that’s changed: the “” kids aren’t the jocks and slackers; they’re the tree-huggg braiacs – and gays – who al nartics. In that sense, 21 Jump Street reprents a weird kd of progrs: the sublimated homoeroticism of a film like Top Gun is now obv and all on the surface—naturally there’s isson an tense male iendship.

Dispel as herently lghable, and temper the tensn wh a lame, homophobic dick joke. I’m stgglg to make sense of a pop-cultural moment that n embrace both a seri like Glee, where gay and lbian relatnships are celebrated and, better yet, normalized, and a show like Saturday Night Live, wh s long-standg overreliance on prison-rape punchl or, when all else fails, goosg lghs om s dience by havg Andy Samberg French kiss another guy.

And both target the same young mographic that 21 Jump Street will prumably ronate wh—which would also be the same young mographic that, polls, ntually voic overwhelmg support for gay one n broadly extrapolate anythg om this, ’s maybe that acceptance currently functns more on a macro level than a micro one—’s the Gus Who’s Comg to Dner?

'22 JUMP STREET'S BIG GAY PROBLEM

Gay marriage is one thg; for many, the notn that a man might actually want to put a penis his mouth is another—and the notn that a man might want to put, say, my penis his mouth, or his me, or that someone might thk I’d like ... Oh, I hope you n tu, I’m beg ironilly homophobic—as, to be very charable, the filmmakers behd 21 Jump Street may also be. It's often totally juvenile bro humor (y, there are a few gay jok… though they're not mean-spired) but there's somethg sweet goofy about the tone preventg om beg only another rnchy R rated edy.