Billy Crystal doesn't want gay sex scenes on tv treated as an "everyday thing"

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 4:17am

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/billy-crystal-stop-shoving-gay-sex-scenes-in-my-face-9987381.html

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 6:13am

He truly needs to shut the fvck up.

How about I don't want to see his tired lame @ss comedy schtick shoved in my face.

He should be forced to watch every gay film and scene ever filmed with his eyes pried open for the next 500 Sundays.

What a stupid, ignorant and homophobic statement to make.



Updated On: 1/20/15 at 06:13 AM

[Hulmeman]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 6:49am

Says the man who made his name playing an "in your face" gay man? hypocrite.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 6:56am

Most bizarre is his need to share these ruminations, at his age. Leaving the obvious offense out of the equation, only momentarily: what did he think such remarks would do to his own legacy? It's the kind of thing he might say over dinner to someone in the business, or a closest friend. At best, it's about a personal aesthetic; at worst, it reveals a narrow concept of human intimacy. But its sociopolitical ramifications are self-evident, and his willingness to share his personal ick factor with the media in 2015 suggests a tone-deafness to the era in and business in which he toils. He's a performer, one who famously played a gay character. Suffice it to say: he sounds like an idiot.

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:14am

I'm not a fan of Crystal, but I'd be interested in hearing the full discussion rather than these out-of-context quotes.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:28am

Well said, Auggie.

The full transcript is here, as well as a clarification (of sorts,) that Billy meant sex and nudity in general, or something http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/billy-crystal-clarifies-sex-tv-764719

[Bucky Builder]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:28am

You and the article took his words out of context. Read the full interview and unclutch those pearls.

Edit: I see that you already have. Thank you.
Updated On: 1/20/15 at 07:28 AM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 7:43am

He clarified his statements. Good. He needed to.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 9:06am

Billy Crystal is the Lawrence Welk of comedy -- he's finally reached the stage where he's complaining about too much sex on TV, and he complains so stupidly he has to backtrack and pretend he wasn't getting all homophobic.

Next up, those kids on his lawn.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 10:36am

I'd rather watch dozens of people I am not attracted to having sex than ever listen to another straight man talk about baseball.

[J_Jammer]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 10:51am

"How about I don't want to see his tired lame @ss comedy schtick shoved in my face."

Grip that tolerance by the throat.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 11:11am

Yeah Billy Crystal.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 11:17am

We recently re-watched Soap, and the treatment of the Billy Crystal character is not as landmark as he'd like us to believe.

Other than the guy he breaks up with, the show keeps getting him into "romantic" entanglements with women.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 11:35am

And I remember people being pissed off about that at the time. First he was gay, then he was bisexual, then he married a woman and we never heard about his landmark gaiety ever again.

[Everlast85]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:23pm

So, you chose the most bias article with the most dramatic title?

Cool.

"What I meant was that whenever sex or graphic nudity of any kind (gay or straight) is gratuitous to the plot or story, it becomes a little too much for my taste," he told THR in a statement."

His remarks were clarified within hours of him making them. This is a non-event. Billy Crystal is clearly not a hateful human being.

[J_Jammer]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:32pm

He's right. gratuitous sex and nudity are cheap. Stories that need that are stories that lack.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:35pm

So, you chose the most bias article with the most dramatic title?

Biased.

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:39pm

Slow news day.

[J_Jammer]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:43pm

"Biased"

Grammar Nazi.

You know ( cause you don't ) people talk more than they type. And when people talk they don't annunciate well. That's normal. And so when they say words like biased, they think it and then say bias instead. So when they type they type out bias as they say it.

Perfection might be your goal, but it's not a noble one.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 12:49pm

Enunciate.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:01pm

" Stories that need that are stories that lack."
Say what?

[J_Jammer]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:02pm

"Enunciate"

And?

proved my point.

Thanks


Updated On: 1/20/15 at 01:02 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:03pm

"the subtly he brought"

[J_Jammer]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:04pm

"Say what?"

huh?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/15 at 1:07pm

"Stories that need that are stories that lack,
Step on a crack and you break mama's back."