As for the lame movie 'joke,' it struck me as gratuitously mean-spirited and dated and unfunny, but not shocking.
I find those things shocking and ugly and offensive. And then there's New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino announcing, 'I don't want brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. No word on whether it will remain in the movie, which opens in January.Īs Matt Singer observed at IFC.com, 'Howard and his marketing team are as much guilty of bad timing as bad taste.' The rash of recent suicides by teenagers who've been harassed for being gay has made the use of 'gay' as an insult especially galling, even among those who might otherwise think it's 'all in good fun' or something like that. I mean, not homosexual, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay.'ĬNN anchor Anderson Cooper reportedly went on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' and said he was 'shocked' that Universal 'thought that it was OK to put that in a preview for the movie to get people to go and see it.' Universal responded by quickly pulling the scene from the trailer. Vaughn's character is speaking to some automotive businessmen (is this a follow-up to Howard's 'Gung-Ho'?) and says: 'Electric cars are gay.
I saw the trailer in front of ' The Social Network,' October 1.
