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SOUTHERN VOICE
SEPTEMBER 23/1993
CHATTER
Tom Cruise is “insisting” that the gay yearnings of his
character, Lestat, in the film based on Anne Rice’s “Interview
with a Vampire” be cut. In particular, according to the Chi
cago Sun-Times, Cruise said ‘no way’ to an overt scene with
co-star Brad Pitt. Hollywood mogul David Geffen, the gay
man behind this film, hasn’t been heard from yet on the re
writing of the script. Cruise is too much “mom and apple pie”
to play Lestat, says author Rice, adding he is “no more Vam
pire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler...[He]
should do himself and everyone else a service and withdraw.”
Mel Gibson a couple of years ago got into hot water
with gay/lesbian rights activists for saying in a European
magazine that he was afraid some people might “assume he’s
gay. But with my look, who’s going to think I’m gay?”
Apparently Mel was so concerned about anyone thinking he
was “like that” that for his latest film and directorial debut,
“The Man Without A Face,” he altered Isabelle Holland’s
original novel so that the lead character, whom Gibson por
trays in the movie, is no longer gay as he is in Holland’s book.
During a recent interview on ABC’s “PrimeTime Live,” as
the reporter discussed Gibson’s anti-gay comments, Gibson
went into a tirade about “politically correct” speech. Gibson
said he’s been screamed at by men in leather, and generally he
just doesn’t seem to understand why people are offended.
Gibson and, of all folks, Jodie Foster will star as con artists
in a new film based on the “Maverick” TV Series.
The long-delayed biopic of assassinated gay-rights leader
Harvey Milk is inching closer to reality. Filmmaker Rob
Cohen, who was named to direct “The Mayor of Castro
Street” after Gus Van Sant left the project, says David Franzoni
is writing a new script, which should be available this month
to show it to Robin Williams, long mentioned to portray the
murdered San Francisco supervisor in the film. Cohen also
said he’s been talking to singer k.d. lang about a role in the
film, probably as Milk’s campaign manager when he won a
seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Entertainment columnist Marilyn Beck reports that a
Warner Brothers film being planned about the life of Ameri
can composer George Gershwin will ignore recently-pub
lished material in the book “The Memory of All That” by
Joan Peyser indi
cating the famed
composer was bi
sexual. Warner of
ficials told Beck
there was “no
proof’ of Peyser’s
reports.
Entertainment
Weekly Reports
that Madeline
Stowe, Drew
Barrymore and
Mary Stuart
Masterson are
expected to star in
the western “Bad
Girls,” but director
Tamra Davis has
been fired, report
edly replaced by Jonathan Kaplan because she was aiming for
a feminist take on the Wild West and the studio wanted a
sexier version of “Young Guns.”
Premiere has a special issue out on women in Hollywood,
with Jodie Foster on the cover. The lesbian factor is pretty
much ignored, although “Claire of the Moon’s” Nicole Conn
Robin Williams looking at new
Harvey Milk script
Jodie Foster offended by “Basic Instinct”
is briefly interviewed about her new look. She’s found some
one interested in “lesbian-themed projects” and is in pre
production on “Cynara,” a period love story.
Foster says she fiercely hated “Basic Instinct” for its
portrayal of women (ironic given the gay controversy over her
film “Silence of the Lambs”). She says: “The film is so ill-
informed about human behavior... In terms of women, I mean,
it’s catastrophic, but it’s so laughable that it’s almost not to be
taken seriously.”
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