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...also hit plenty of nerves, in its collision of races and classes, and Hollywood loves issue movies that push the hot button. But what about Brokeback? Didn?t that film pioneer man-love in a pup tent? Sure, but homosexuality is just not an issue in Hollywood. The town was gay before gay was cool (that would be the summer of 2003, when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy became a brief TV sensation). Indeed, homosexual roles are prize-winning plums for actors-like Hoffman in Capote -as long as they aren?t gay, or, if they...
...Clooney through a side door, since he won as an actor in Syriana, not as a director or screenwriter of Good Night, and Good Luck. ?All right,? he fake-sulked when he accepted his trophy, ?so I?m not winning Director.? But he did serve, with handsome grace, as Hollywood?s poster boy for glamour, taking a few genial shots from Stewart (?I kid because I envy?) and hearing a female winner of the Short Subject Oscar ?thank the Academy for seating me next to George Clooney at the nominees? luncheon.? (The star, who knew a camera was trained...
...Clooney was the evening?s (and Hollywood?s) epitome of intelligent hunkitude, Witherspoon was Oscar?s darling, Hollywood?s homecoming queen. She presented one prize, accepted another. She was also the subject of one of the show?s very funny ?attack ads? (voiced by Stewart?s old Daily Showcrony, now cable TV?s favorite mock-scold, Stephen Colbert) against every Actress nominee but good old American Reese...
...which I mean, this New Jersey liberal offered a few mild gibes at Hollywood liberalism. He called the Oscar show ?the one night of the year when you could see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party.? He told the audience that, to many people, Hollywood was ?a moral black hole, where innocence is obliterated in an endless orgy of sexual gratification and greed.? (Pause for gentle laughter.) ?I don?t really have a joke here. I just thought you should know a lot of people are sayin? that...
...yourself in Hollywood today...