Hairspray, Teen Lust, Scientology - and all that jazz!
June 19th 2007 05:21
"Don't you just love the groove?
You see Travolta is apparantly closetted (if he actually IS gay that is) because Scientology doesn't believe in being gay. No. It believes that Body Thetans (too complicated to explain here, just watch the South Park episode or Google it - all you need to know for now is Body Thetans are EVIL!!!!!) make you gay and that all is required is a good dose of Scientological therapy and a healthy serving of the word according to L. Ron Hubbard.
This at least is the gay Gospel according to Kevin Naff of Fag-Rag: The Washington Blade, who calls for a gay boycott of the movie-musical Hairspray in protest of what he calls "reparative clinics" where gay Scientologists are "cured"!
Does anyone else think this sounds a bit like the plot of X-Men 3?
John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky and Zac Efron
"If [Travolta] was homophobic ... dancing in that fat suit with as many gay people as are working on this film, he would have had a heart attack and been dead."
La Pfeiffer is the deliciously evil Velma Von Tussle
In amidst the melee the Gay community seems to have forgotten something highly important. Hairspray does not "belong" to them!
While musicals are easily perceived as lying within the heartland of "Camp" territory these days it is vaguely insulting to assume that they are exclusive homosexual fare and whenever this sort of ridiculous claim is made the musical theatre industry around the world suffers as straight people consider it increasingly less "cool" to be associated with it.
Scientology is a disgrace to civilisation as a whole - true. But to attack it by calling for a boycott of a movie is just downright stu-pid!
Investigate, gather evidence, prosecute, fine.
One helluva cast for one helluva funny movie
If ever I meet Kevin Naff I will slap him accross the face with a wet fish of his choice!!! The dip-wad has just helped ruin a great movie before it has even been released.
In the meantime, Hairspray gets its Australian release on September 13 "And I am telling You" all now: GO AND SEE IT!!!!!! It's funny. It's heartfealt. It's clever... and it stars a lot of very sexy people (Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Effron, Brittany Snow, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelley, James Marsden and Queen Latifah to name but a few)! Hairspray the movie musical lives!
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Comment by Anonymous
i think its time scientologists keep their "medical"opinions to themselves unless they are doctors or scientists.
BG
entertainment desk,the newsroom
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
I'm curious about this one just because I'm such a fan of John Waters original film. The soundtrack is great and the dancing was cool....seeing Johnny T Bird cut a rug in his wig and frock has me intrigued.
Great post.