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Shalit to GLAAD: Oops.
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I'm sure you all remember our report a few days ago about GLAAD's
outrage over critic Gene Shalit's Today Show characterization of Brokeback Mountain's Jack Twist as a "sexual predator."
Despite the fact that Shalit's very own, very gay son defended both his father and his words in a letter to GLAAD
("It is precisely because my dad is not homophobic that he felt free to
criticize the movie as he saw it."), Shalit himself wrote the organization a very different letter.In the letter, which reached GLAAD yesterday, Shalit both apologized for his choice of words, and also asked that the organization correct its website assertion that the goal of his review had been to "promote defamatory anti-gay prejudice to a national audience." His letter ends this way: "I certainly had no intention of casting aspersions on anyone in the gay community or on the community itself. I regret any emotional hurt that may have resulted from my review of Brokeback Mountain." To GLAAD's credit, they ask the visitors to their website to email Shalit and thank him for his clarification. Whew. I was so worried - thank goodness everybody made up.
Gene Shalit makes GLAAD mad
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Oh, that Gene Shalit. Now he's gone and pissed of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD) for his comments during his negative review of Brokeback Mountain (which, as some of
our commenters have pointed out, is not even a gay cowboy movie - it's a gay sheepherder movie). In his
critique, Shalit referred to Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Jack, as a
"sexual predator" who "tracks Ennis (Heath Ledger) down
and coerces him into sporadic trysts". Apparently Shalit hasn't heard the news from Dateline: Hollywood that
Brokeback Mountain isn't
a gay cowboy movie at all.
GLAAD criticized NBC for allowing Shalit a platform to air his "defamatory anti gay views" and slammed Shalit for characterizing Gyllenhaal's character as a sexual predator, alleging that Shalit wouldn't have made the same assessment of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Titanic for getting it on with Kate Winslet's Rose. GLAAD doesn't take umbrage with Shalit's criticism of the film as "wildly overpraised, but not by me" - just with his bizarre take on Gyllenhaal's character.
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