Swiss Army Man: Gay Necrophilia

At one stage, it seemed as if the movie was going to be a traditional(ish) love story – Hank finds Manny, who helps guide him towards the woman he adores. But as it went on, it became apparent that it was something quite different – more about the relationship between the two male characters, and about loneliness. Was that always your intent?

In some ways, we thought we were making a more conventional guy trying to get back to his girl story. But the more drafts we wrote, the more we realised… it sounds stupid when writers say “I listening to my character”, but that’s how it ended up happening. We could tell that Hank and Manny needed each other more than Hank and Sarah ever did. We just kept rewriting and rewriting, until we allowed them to fall in love. And once we allowed ourselves to write that, that story really started to grow and blossom into something worthwhile.'

So that was a really interesting turning point – when we let Hank and Manny fall in love and accidentally made a gay necrophilia movie.' ...

Director Daniel Kwan, Telegraph.

Better known as 'the farting corpse film'.

Daniel Radcliffe: Boo Hoo Squish Squish Sad Face

Pink News.

Have I Got News For You: What Wouldn't I Give?

When did he wake up and get foxy?

Daniel Radcliffe: Search Me

It’s hard to argue with Radcliffe’s contention that everyone wants to talk about it [his drinking]. I wonder if he has ever Googled himself and seen the automatic search entries, but before I finish the question he’s started reeling them off: “Daniel Radcliffe alcoholic. Daniel Radcliffe gay. Daniel Sebastian Coe. Radcliffe girlfriend,” he says, sighing as he does. Actually, I tell him, girlfriend is the top result these days.

“Oh great – I’ll take that, as these things go. I’m pleased my girlfriend comes up before alcoholic or gay. When I first did that, I got really annoyed for about half a minute, until I tried a few other people’s names and I found out [gay] comes up after almost everyone if they’re a man, and even some women – Florence Welch had it, and I was like, really?”

Maybe it’s a sign that a star has made it. “Probably. If people are speculating about your sexuality, then you’re doing OK,” he laughs.

The Guardian.

The talented Mr Radcliffe's next film role is playing the notoriously heterosexual athlete, Sebastian Coe.

Daniel's current top searches at the time of typing.

Daniel Radcliffe: He Shares Your Pain

“I don’t think there’s any difference between how one falls in love. People express love differently, person to person, but it’s not gender or sexuality related. The only difference it made was obviously the actual sex scene, of course…

"I was talked through it by the director. He would be telling me what I would be feeling in each take. Basically, gay sex, especially for the first time, is really fucking painful. And [John Krokidas] said that he had never seen that portrayed accurately on film before. He wanted it to look like an authentic loss of virginity. The transformative thing about the role wasn’t playing such a famous character or playing a character that had such a huge influence on society. It was more of trying to find your voice, and finding out who you are. It’s usually an awful and very painful journey, and it has to be—it involves getting heartbroken or failing at something that you want to succeed at. Those are important things to go through, and that was the thing that attracted me to the part.”

Flaunt magazine.
#sobrave

Unsurprisingly this quote has been picked up by everyone.
"Bumming fnarr fnarr!" etc. 
What is surprising is that even the Daily Mail could reprint it without blinking. 
Some readers not so keen; "No Christian values and no film star good looks either. Big F for fail!"

Dominic Cooper: History (Boy) Repeating

The Sun, like many papers, are reporting that Dominic Cooper is now tipped to play Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic!
Remember last month when so much media fell for a made-up story in The Daily Star quoting an "anonymous" source saying Daniel Radccliffe was going to play Freddie?
Oh, except for Fagburn.
Then Daniel told Empire it was complete bollards. 
Well, luckily there's no need to worry about this rumour.
It comes from an "exclusive" in a blog called Latina Review!
"According to a trusted source, the “rumor” is that Dominic Cooper is now circling the project."

So that's alright, then.

PS And whatever happened to that film with Mickey Rourke playing ruggger bugger Gareth Thomas...

Daniel Radcliffe: Don't Say I Didn't Warn You!

"There is no truth to it at all. It's one of those very, very funny things: it came out of a story in the Daily Star and then you see newspapers like The Guardian using The Star as their source, and it grows and grows [until] it's 'Dan Radcliffe is playing Freddie Mercury!', which I was never going to do."

"Everyone on the internet who I presume is saying I'm totally wrong for that part is correct," he laughed. "I AM completely wrong for that part!"
 
"If I'd seen a rumour about me playing Iggy Pop, I'd think, 'Hey, I'd have a go at that - that'd be fun!', but Freddie Mercury? No. I don't even know who the director is. They seem to be saying it's Stephen Frears and Tom Hooper on the internet."

"This is the kind of thing that happens to me and it happens to Emma (Watson) with multiple 50 Shades Of Grey things. When somebody has column inches to fill, they just sub in one of our names." 

Daniel Radcliffe talking to Empire in a podcast - about the story that he was going to play Freddie Mercury in the new biopic.
A fiction ran as fact in media around the world.
Except for one lone voice crying "This sounds like bollocks!" in the wilderness - the mighty Fagburn!
Journalists would make their lives so much easier - and far less embarrassing - if they just listened to me in the first place.
Hey-ho...

The Guardian online - though there's an embedded link they don't make it explicit how they published this crapola without bothering to check it.
Journalism fuck yeah!

Another way stories appear in the Daily Star (and they are not alone) are when they are simply made up, or based on such scant, dubious evidence as to essentially be untrue. I list in my resignation letter (attached) a number of stories that I wrote via this method, in the full knowledge, and on occasion request, of superiors. Most, but not all, of the fabricated stories featured the Daily Star’s most referenced celebrities – Katie Price, Peter Andre, Kerry Katona etc. These people’s careers are symbiotically linked to tabloid column inches, and therefore they were very unlikely to sue over false stories...

Former Daily Star journalist, Richard Peppiatt, statement to the Leveson Inquiry [Thanks to fillo].

PS UND! here's a video of Ed Miliband auditioning for the part of Queen Freddie at Labour party conference yesterday. ONE VISION!

Update: I'm far too nice to gloat - and moreover there are far too many to list - but there are some hilarious reverse ferrets on this today, in both the gay and straight media, often forgetting to mention how they'd run the Star story as if it was deffo deffo true. Hahaha!

Daniel Radcliffe: Media Gaga

 

Daniel Radcliffe aims for a new kind of magic in Freddie Mercury biopic

Harry Potter star is sought to replace Sacha Baron Cohen after the Borat actor bit the dust over alleged creative differences Harry Potter star is sought to replace Sacha Baron Cohen after the Borat actor bit the dust over alleged creative differences

The Guardian.

This story has "gone viral" - just like dysentery did.
There are now over 75 (and counting) news stories internationally on Google News.
Like The Guardian, their source is "an unnamed source" in Sunday's Daily Star - I Wand To Break Free! Daniel Radcliffe To Play Freddie Mercury.
Eh? An unnamed source in the Star??!
No need to check that, then!
Precious few expressed any doubt - I've yet to see any hack that's tried to check it - the gay media in particular have taken it as gospel.
Fagburn has offered a simple challenge...

Dear journalists of the world, Here's the number for Daniel Radcliffe's agent - 020 7436 6400 - why not call them and check the story?
— Read Fagburn.com  (@Fagburn) September 24, 2013

I wonder if anyone will?
Bit hopeful asking journalists to maintain basic journalistic standards, I know. 

I wouldn't hold your breath - how many media have reported the statement from the Olympics organising committee; "There have never been any negotiations with Cher about her possible participation in the ceremonies."
Mind you, that was about the Great Satan Russia so you can lie as much as you want.

Gay Star News: FFS

Now I don't know about you, but whenever I hear about a terrible human tragedy in which many people have died my first thoughts are always; "Oh dear, but are all the gays okay?"
Whenever I read about Guernica, Hiroshima, My Lai, East Timor, 9/11 or Fallujah, I always say; "Yes, that's all very well, but how many gay men were killed?"

From the morally obscene and embarrassingly thick Gay Star News.
[I've deleted a very badly worded comment here after being called on it. See comments].

PS More great gay reporting here..

As the Mirror story linked to says, Stonewall haven't withdrawn support from their own campaign, Football V Homophobia has.
From Gaytoz.com.

[Gay cliché watch: The Independent call being an out footballer "the last taboo" - apart from all the other "last taboos", obvs].

PPS And in the interest of balance, Pink News reports today that Daniel Radcliffe is lined up to play Freddie Mercury in a biopic... ACCORDING TO AN UNNAMED SOURCE IN THE DAILY STAR!
No need to check if that's true, then.
Oh FFS.

Kill Your Darlings: Darlings You Were Wonderful

Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg in the first trailer for Kill Your Darlings.
Don't get too excited, you don't see any steamy gay sex scenes and it only lasts 30 seconds.
You can see Harry Potter talking about making the film here.
Enjoy!

PS The Sun are running some pretty scummy nudge-nudge stories at the moment about Daniel's love of the nightlife and how he looks "tired and worn out"...

Daniel Radcliffe: Homo The Brave

Those who know him only from Potter will be astonished by what he brings to the screen in Kill Your Darlings, a movie by first-time director John Krokidas in which Radcliffe plays a young Allen Ginsberg at a formative moment in his life. Based on a long-hidden murder case that brought Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs together at Columbia University, Krokidas has compared it to Capote in the way it focuses on a single event - in both cases a murder - as a transformative experience in the lives of the people around it...
Hollywood.com singled out the romantic relationship between Radcliffe and [Dane] DeHaan as the motor of the entire movie, “eventually swelling to a burst of passion.” For many, the unflinching scenes of gay sex were further evidence, if it was needed, of the distance Radcliffe has travelled in a few short years. “The Boy Wizard never pinned his knees behind his ears,” snickered The Hollywood Reporter - a harbinger, one suspects, of many such jokes to come. Radcliffe himself remains unfazed, saying only, “You never see a gay actor getting asked what it’s like to play straight - to my knowledge, at least, there is no difference in how heterosexual and homosexual people fall in love.”

Daniel Radcliffe interviewed in Out Magazine.
Though the last quote sounds "nice", I don't agree with it.
I agree with the journalist though that there's going to be a lot of sniggering at the bum jiggery.
But as Daniel's also playing gay, I bet there'll also be a lot of; "So brave..." 
Some people won't know whether to laugh or cry.

Daniel Radcliffe: Horses For Courses

"It's interesting that it's deemed shocking," he told MTV News. "For me, there's something very strange about that because we see straight sex scenes all the time. We've seen gay sex scenes before. I don't know why a gay sex scene should be any more shocking than a straight sex scene. Or both of them are equally un-shocking."
As Radcliffe walked the jam-packed red carpet at the Eccles Theatre on Friday and answered a seemingly unending series of questions about his sex scenes, he wanted to remind everyone that he starred in a Broadway play in which he mutilates horses and stands naked on stage. What's the more provocative performance?
"What weirded me out the most last night was people were asking me all these questions about the gay sex scenes. I was like, 'You know I did Equus?" Radcliffe laughed. "Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange."

Daniel Radcliffe talking to MTV about his mild bemusement at being asked endless questions at  Sundance about the "gay sex scene/s" in Kill Your Darlings. 
I've never seen a Harry Potter movie - and hope to get through life without ever doing so - but this young Radcliffe fellow does sound like a jolly decent cove.

Update: Spot the slightly mis/leading headline in The Daily Star.

Independent On Sunday: Question

 By going to see his new film?