I interupt this regularly scheduled blog for this freakin' idiot

Jerry Falwell is such a douche. Yes, you all know all those rash of open homosexual movie stars . . . Name me one that's make $20 million a picture (Tom Cruise doesn't count.)

From Imdb:

The Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell, who has campaigned for stronger regulations on racy film and television content, has told a church audience in Lynchburg, VA that the entertainment industry is riddled with "moral perverts." The Associated Press quoted Fallwell as saying during a televised sermon at the Thomas Road Baptist Church, where he serves as senior pastor, "You know, you almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore." He suggested that the industry has caused the world to go "sex crazy," then added: "Movie stars not married to each other, having babies and making headlines all over the world as though they were doing some great thing. Big deal! Just another moral pervert. And for them to become heroes for our kids."

Fruit Flies of the World Unite

I was once told by a gay man that he hated the term "fag hag" so I'm going to use the phrase "fruit fly" as to not offend my gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered friends

20) Gypsy - I'm not a huge musical fan but I love Gypsy (I've seen it twice on Broadway too.) There's something to a pushy stage mother who ignores her one daughter in favor of her blonde pretty one. Of course the mousy one rises to fame, transforming (very much like Mariah Carey) like a butterfly. Rosalind Russell is great as Rose and Nathalie Woods plays shy teenage girl and burlesque performer with ease. Even the songs are good as well as the struggle.

21) Almost the same plot but without the catchy songs, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? I like to think of what happens to Gypsy and Baby when they are old and gray. If Baby was a psychotic alcohol with a predilection for serving up household pets. Plus, knowing that Betty Davis and Joan Crawford HATED each other is pretty awesome.

22) Speaking of Joan Crawford - Mommy Dearest. Is it the greatest film ever made? Probably not but it is THE camp classic for drag queens around the world. No wire hangers kids. If for some reason, you've never seen this film, run don't walk to your local video store or order from NetFlix

23) Priscilla Queen of the Desert - ABBA, drag queens, Australia enough said.

24) Rocky Horror Picture Show - Don't Dream it Be It. Boys and girls who didn't have any chance to express themselves or their sexuality got two hours to be whomever they want to be. RH is brave enough to have the beautiful Tim Curry as the transexual who everyone wants to be, whether they are straight or gay. Revolutionary and proves that everyone is a little gay:)

25) Wizard of Oz - Come on - Judy Garland, Sparkly shoes, wicked witches. Seriously, I have to explain to you why this is such a iconic gay movie, then you need to come to my house for a viewing.

26) Showgirls - This is, I'm not kidding - one of the greatest camp movies ever. It's been said to be the lesbian equivalent of Valley of the Dolls. It is, in one word, brillant. Every SG virgin that I show this to immediately wants to see it again or talk about it with their friends. I mean the fact that it combines All About Eve with stripping and Vegas is downright fantastic. The sex scene alone with Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle McLachlan might be the unsexiest ever put on film. Only Gina Gershon seems to realize that this film is a genius piece of crap.

Nuns on Fire!

My favorite nun movies:

17) Sound of Music - I wanted to be a nun after seeing this until I found out about the celibacy and Catholic thing. As an adult, I just want to make out with Captain Von Trapp. This movie has one of my favorite wedding scenes ever. When Maria and Captain Von Trapp are getting married, all the nuns are behind the "virgin" gate singing, "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" If you're wondering, Marta is my favorite Von Trapp child.

18) Black Narcissus - Although I've only seen this movie for the first time within the last year, it's amazing. One sexy crazy nun and one repressed angry nun in a foreboding place with a hot groundskeeper. Produced in the late 1940s, the plot could take a very melodramatic turn but in fact, is taut and gorgeous.

19) All About My Mother - An amazing movie about a mother (Cecilia Roth) trying to cope with the death of son. She ends up taking care of a nun with AIDS (Penelope Cruz) and a transexual. A great story of humility, hope, despair with a little bit of comedy thrown it. It could be Pedro Almadovar's greatest movie.

Man, I'm a slacker -the list

I was supposed to make a top list of my 30 favorite movies for my 30th. My 31st birthday is actually tomorrow and I'm only on 11! So let's see if I can finish this as I hear the clock ticking (not my biological one -- thank God.)

Best Schindler's List movies that I'll never watch again.

12) Schindler's List - This is the movie that started my phrase of movies that I thought were fantastic but were so scaring, I never wanted to watch again. Ironically, I've seen this movie three times in the theater. Ralph Fiennes awesome as the evil Amon Goeth who runs the Plaszow death camp. The scene when all the women and children go into the showers where they could be gassed or where they could bathe was so agonizing that I thought I was going to have a panic attack.

13) Boys Don't Cry - Stunningly acted by Hillary Swank (for which she deservedly won the Academy Award) is overwraught with a tense story line and a really upsetting death scene.

14) Reservoir Dogs - I've actually seen this more than once but I can't get through it at all now. Maybe I've matured or maybe Michael Madsen is so convincing as the baddie that I'm afraid he's going to come to my apartment and cut off my ear.

15) Kids - The Larry Clark film (his only really good one) is filled with kids and AIDS and drug abuse. Good times for all. Fantastic acting from Brown Bunny bj queen Chloe Sevigny.

16) Every documentary I've watched on WWII death camps, animal abuse and child abuse.

Goths errr X-Men, the Last Stand

Imagine if all the employees of Hot Topic were mutants with powers and you might have most of the plot to X-Men.

Yes, it's apparently, the last of the X-men movies, where a lot of people die and Jean (luscious but under used Fanke Janssen) rises as the Phoenix. In this one, there are thousand mutants with lame-ass powers including Kelsey Grammer is the angry care bear, Dr. Henry McCoy who is the ambassador of the mutants in the U.S. government. Also, there's that model (Omahyra Mota) from the Roca Wear line (and you can see her in Jay Z's Change Clothes video) whose crap ability is something to do with soundwaves.

Seems a dude has found a cure for the mutant gene and now everyone is either for or against it. Magneto (clearly doing this for the money Ian McKellan) wants to rise above and form a mutant army. Dr. Xavier (Patrick Stewart) just wants everyone to get along. Wolverine (yummy Hugh Jackman) is super hot while Storm has a short hair cut. Some of the effects are super duper cool but the plot is very contrived even for a X-men movie. I will however, give the movie points for coming up with the lines, "Do you know who I am. I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch." I want to use that so badly at work.

You can guess who wins in the end. I'm giving this 2 1/2 out of 5 Juggernauts, Bitches.

TMC race in American films

Turner Movie Classics was doing a movie series on race in America in May. Two movies they chose were the insanely controversial Birth of a Nation and the "comedy" Judge Priest. Both present some of the most incredible racial stereotypes ever put on screen.

However, Birth of a Nation unlike Judge Priest, is a brilliant piece of film-making. You must put in perspective the time BOAN came out and the political climate that existed. Shot for shot, this film is one of the most revolutionary cinematic triumphs. D.W. Griffith, a southern man, was probably expressing the deep seeded resentment and fears of some Americans (particularly those in the south) in 1915. The first hour and a half (yes folks, it's nearly three hours long) is a melodramatic story about two families on the opposite sides of the civil war. It isn't until after reconstruction begins in the film, that the plot begins to take a really, really sympathetic view of the KKK and cast all the black actors (actually blacked faced whites) as stupid deviants. It is very hard to watch from this point on but I can't say it's not worth watching for, at the very least, historical value and frankly, beautiful cinematography. I'm not giving this a rating because I don't want to trivialize the inexcusable ignorance promoted by the film but I also want to recognize the technical achievements of this movie. The real test of freedom and free speech is to let things that we don't necessarily agree with, allow to exist.

Sadly, Judge Priest, starring Will Rogers as a judge seeking re-election, does not provide the cinematic achievement that Birth of a Nation does. I suppose it was chosen because it features, Stepin Fetchit - one of most revered and reviled black character actors of our time, is featured. It is almost like he is speaking in a foreign tongue. Hattie McDaniel makes the best of her mammy role but it just falls horribly flat. The movie only picks up when Priest helps defend a man who assaulted the local barber but other than that the jokes, at least to me, aren't all that funny nor is the portrayal of blacks as stupid but happy to be "put in their place."