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Hot Sheet: Week of July 5

When you get back from that big 4th of July barbecue, unwind with Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno and your favorite B-movie-mocking, basic cable robots.



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- Brüno: Watch the straight comic satirize homophobia. Or pander to it. Your call. But one thing we can probably all agree on is that the most shocking thing he did in this movie was wax his entire body. Because have you seen Sacha Baron Cohen in real life? Second only to Robin "Missing Link" Williams. Kelly Clarkson's name got yelled a lot, you just know.

- I Love You, Beth Cooper: Take The Truth About Cats and Dogs, cross it with Pretty in Pink , reverse the genders and remove Michael Cera from what you thought might be the starring role and you have another teen fantasy about being loved for who you are instead of your hotness. Unfortunately, everyone still knows that the geek only gets the hottie after founding Microsoft.

- Humpday: (Pictured) Two straight male friends decide that it would be really "daring" to have sex with each other on camera for an alternative amateur porn contest. Then they talk each other to death trying to back out of it. That this movie opens the same week as Brüno will be all the fuel Bill O'Reilly needs to declare that the entire world is turning gay.

- Blood, The Last Vampire: A female vampire gets hired by the government to hunt demons in a boarding school in post-WWII Japan. Cue the explosions, flying martial arts, leaping sword fights and digital monsters running across tree-tops. If only gay pride parades were that exciting.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: slobone
    Date posted: 7/6/2009 3:49:00 PM
    Hometown: Iowa

    Comment:

    Hump Day -- omigod yet ANOTHER movie about straight guys pretending to be gay? What is the fascination straight men have with this theme?

  • Name: mike
    Date posted: 7/4/2009 1:08:00 PM
    Hometown: cincinnati

    Comment:

    I wouldn't have such disdain for this type of gay portrayal if gays had equal rights for any length of time. Now is not the time to reinforce anti-gay sentiments. We will never know how many people will be persuaded to continue to hate gays just by the advertising. It is sad that this film was made. Those responsible have no consciences. They are only hungry for money at our expense. Gays need to be more angry about the situation that we allow ourselves to be in.

  • Name: James Eros
    Date posted: 7/3/2009 10:07:00 PM
    Hometown: Shehperdstown, WV

    Comment:

    While Cohen and the intelligentsia understand that Bruno is a joke, living, breathing gays will have to support this experiment in minstrelsy and tongue-in-cheek comedy with bottles thrown at them, quiet bias at job interviews, etc. The "us' and 'them' are firmly maintained by the film. Bruno is not the hero he could be. If we are going to have to live with a fantastical gay cinema phenomenon, at least he could end of getting the better of the crowd. Would a gay or more gay friendly comedian have done this character differently? I'd love to see an Ellen or Margaret Cho Bruno. THAT incarnation would have the pride to match the spunk. I think we might end up with a scenario such as Dave Chappelle faced -- someday we will see the crowd of jeering white faces (in this case, straight faces) and realize that they are laughing at us, not with us.

  • Name: J Mathews
    Date posted: 7/3/2009 3:12:00 PM
    Hometown: London

    Comment:

    Bruno makes homophobia socially acceptable. It is a cynical silly film that panders to the worst in society. Of course the man himself, will just brush any criticism off as usual, by asserting that it is irony. Getting gay bashed by a group of thugs chanting 'bruno' is NOT ironic. Now, remind we again, you are suggesting this film because.......

  • Name: Drake
    Date posted: 7/3/2009 2:13:00 PM
    Hometown: Washington DC

    Comment:

    How can the Advocate be promoting Bruno at the same time that there are so many gay-bashings occuring? Sacha "gay-basha" Cohen is making it socially acceptable to ridicule gays. Long ago, African-Americans saw that Black-face and minstrel representations in the media hurt the public perception of blacks. Bruno will fuel bashings,bullying in schools, and some voters at the ballot box who will vote against gay issues believing the bad stereotypes. Of course its a free country, yadda yadda yadda, but gays should be the last ones giving free space to "Bruno", since it is a mocking hateful piece which some attempt to saw is really "profound", the critics just "don't get it". Tell that to the car load of teenage males who yelled "Bruno" at the patrons of a DC outdoor cafe in the DuPont Circle (gay) neighborhood last week. From the exccessive promotion, millions who will not even see the movie worldwide are being influenced in a negative way about .



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