Gene Shalit apologizes for his Brokeback Mountain review
Remember Today show movie critic Gene Shalit's Brokeback Mountain Review? After an outpouring of emails and phone calls he's issued an apology. "In describing the behavior of 'Jack' I used words ('sexual predator') that I now discover have angered, agitated, and hurt many people. I did not intend to use a word that many in the gay community consider incendiary. . . 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.'"
Comments
oh man, i heard that critique that fuzz face made on tv...i just figured that he was tryiing to impress katie matt and al with his views on Brokeback mountain. i knew when he said what he said that he'd be eating those words. I met mr shalllot in a deli in ny years ago and thought that he was hitting on me ...ha!!!
Posted by patrick? on January 13, 2006 7:44 AM
Oh, Gene! I'm sorry too!! I'm sorry I have been calling you an idiot for the past week. I hope that didn't cause you any pain. Many heterosexuals think I am too harsh when I call them idiots. I know many really strange looking heterosexuals (like you, fozzy) and they become gassy and confused when I remark that everything they say is stupid.
From now on I'll try to use a more descriptive and physiological word when explaining the behavior of heterosexuals, insteaed of a word like idiot, which is so judgemental. From now on, I'll just call you an anus.
Posted by Patrick? on January 13, 2006 12:41 PM
The know, the funny thing is, he never really apologized! (At least according to the words included in Queerday's article.)
Shalit expresses surprise, and provides an excuse that he never intended to hurt anyone (um...sure, you never knew that the words "sexual predator" were emotionally and socially negative?), and he even "regrets" any emotional hurt that "may have resulted" from his words, but -- and note this carefully -- that's NOT an apology. An apology would have been something like, "I'm sorry I said those words." What he did was apologize for your reaction to them. And there's a difference.
I hate these modern, bogus non-apologies. Don't be a pussy, Gene. Whoops, I regret if anyone was hurt by that. But I'm not sorry I said it. SEE THE DIFFERENCE?
Posted by Bill? on January 15, 2006 10:14 PM
This guy has a major sensitivity chip missing from his curly que brain. He knew what he was saying and why he was saying it. Gene you know what is worse than being treat like a sex object? Not being treated like a sex object.
Enough said.
Posted by Joe? on January 18, 2006 3:23 PM
Ay yi yi, leave Gene Shalit alone already and focus your anger elsewhere--like the throngs of people who are championing Brokeback Mountain as a breakthrough movie. It's about as progressive as "The Children's Hour" made almost a half-century ago. No wonder mainstream audiences are comfortable with it. Queers are either left miserable or dead. If it was set in the 90s, Jack would have died from AIDS. Yeah, boy aren't we all a sad, lonely, unfulfilled bunch? Come on, it's 2006! Why are queers still settling for pity from straight people!?
Posted by Jim? on January 20, 2006 4:12 PM
I thought Gene was gay!!?!?
Posted by Vivienne Westwood is a vlaming fagina.? on March 1, 2006 6:46 AM
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