The Interview: Kim Wild

KIM Jong-Un is portrayed as a gay, margarita-loving Katy Perry-obsessive in the controversial movie pulled by Sony after pressure from cyber-terrorists.

The film will now never be screened after hackers threatened 9/11-style attacks in cinemas.

But The Sun can reveal [sic] that one scene featured the North Korean dictator sobbing while driving a tank and blasting out a track by his favourite pop star Perry.

He is crying after telling James Franco's character that his dad told him drinking margaritas was "gay".

One leaked scene depicting his head exploding was toned down before the decision to pull the movie was made.

In another, leaked online, the tyrant dies in a ball of flames when his helicopter explodes...

The Sun.

Though a fondness for Katy Perry and margaritas are gay signifiers - a bit like 'Kylie and cocktails' - I can't find anyone else claiming Kim is presented as simply 'gay'.

[Edit: Apparently there's a kinda gay scene betwixt Kim and Franco - but then it's a standard fratboy movie full of 'coz gay iz funny' 'jokes'].

Out's review, for example, doesn't reach this conclusion - though it does riff on the Franco/Rogen bromance.

However...

... it’s Eminem that gets all the laughs. Skylark [Franco's TV interviewer] asks him about his numerous homophobic lyrics and remarks. Eminem explains: “That’s because I’m gay. I like men. I can’t believe people didn’t pick up on that.” Marshall Mathers says it all with a straight face, matter of factly with a priceless deadpan delivery...

Showbiz 411.

PS Regular viewers may recall we know which member of NK's Kim dynasty is the gay one...

PPS I can't see why North Korea would have bothered with all the Guardians Of Peace hacking malarkey about a daft film.

I get the distinct feeling it'll turn out to be the work of a spotty adolescent geek holed up in his bedroom in Baltimore.

Eminem V Boy George: Hilarious

Pink News.
Really?

Let's invent a feud that never existed, about a song where someone said a bad word that doesn't really matter, really.
Well done hysterical gay journalists!
Really.

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I may have made up the Eminem handle.

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That's nice, dear.
Does your mother know?

Money For Nothing: Faggots On The Radio

"The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that "Money for Nothing," a Dire Straits hit from 1985, is too offensive for Canadian airwaves. The song is being singled out for the repeated use of an anti-gay slur — "that little faggot" — in its second verse," reports Rolling Stone online.
Radio stations have been told to play an alternative version of the song with the f-word replaced with "mother".
Can't happen here?
Readers with something approaching a memory may recall that in December 2007 there was a bit of a hue and cry when BBC Radio 1 began playing a version of "Fairytale of New York" that lost the offending word in the line "You cheap lousy faggot" (They also lost the word "slut").
Radio 1 not being desperately committed to tackling homophobia they swiftly caved in to criticism and began playing the original version once more.
It's become a bit of a cliche for gay journalists to go; "Well, I don't find it offensive..." - it became rather popular and tedious when Eminem broke big, and when Bruno was released - cause getting angry's just so passé...
I think Fagburn may even have initially joined in with some manful scoffing at this "censorship".
The most thoughtful piece written about the Fairytale debacle was Popjustice editor Peter Robinson's 'Why Radio One Were Right To Censor Fairytale Of New York'.
Read it - you might learn something.

Press Briefing: We're Making The News

And in other news today - yes there is some - there's some stuff about The Gays and the news in the news.

A gay bloke has asked another gay bloke to marry him via the front-page of London's Metro!
I thought he sounded a bit flash and creepy when I heard, but apparently he won a competition where the prize was a Metro cover to do what thou wilt with so that's not quite so bad, I suppose.
And if it made some bigot's commute a bit more miserable this morning then it's all good with me.
Apparently, the other gay bloke has said yes.
No, I'm not really bothered either, but in a spirit of fraternal solidarity I hope it all works out better for them than it does for those other two people who've announced their engagement today.

Sir Elton of John will be guest editing a special edition of The Independent (and i!) for World Aids Day!
Bono did this in 2006 and it was predictably pretty wanky, but Fagburn is pressing the pause-button on his cynicism for this one.
When Mr John has contributed to newspapers in the past he's often shown an admirable internationalist perspective, he does get angry about stuff that people should be angry about, and he does have an interesting set of close-personal-showbiz-friends to call on for the other stuff.
Elton also knows some goons like Rush Limbaugh and Eminem, but let's hope for the best.
The Independent claims; "He is said to have already begun planning the special edition of The Independent."
I should ruddy hope so too, he's only got a fortnight.

And finally... just for once Pink News has an item of news that you won't have already read somewhere else ages ago!
"Wanted: A staff writer for PinkNews.co.uk"
Pink News used to be edited/written by Tony Grew - probably the best news journalist the British gay press has ever had.
It is currently edited/written by Jessica Geen - who's hopeless and clueless.
Fagburn sincerely hopes Pink News choose a new Grew this time.

Elton John & Eminem: "Two Diamond-Encrusted Cockrings"

There's a fucking HUGE interview with Sir Elton of John in The Daily Telegraph today.
The old bitch is on good form: Pop videos ("I fucking hate them"), D-list celebrities ("I loathe celebrity. I can’t stand it"), and Fabio Capello ("I cannot believe – and I hope you print this – that we employ a manager who still cannot speak English").
He gets a light grilling about playing at bigoted bigmouth Rush Limbaugh's wedding.
Mick Brown writes; "He faced similar criticism in 2001 when he joined Eminem on stage at the Grammy awards, ignoring the controversy about the rap singer’s allegedly homophobic lyrics. Eminem has now come out in support of gay marriage. 'For our civil partnership present he gave David and me two diamond-encrusted cock-rings.’"
Which would be wonderful - if only it didn't make Fagburn think about Elton John and David Furnish doing anything with them.

Eminem Vs Anderson Cooper: Whatever

Eminem was gentled prodded by Anderson Cooper on US show 60 Minutes last night.
Mr Mathers was thrown slightly on the defensive due to the current shitstorm following the spate of gay teen suicides over there.
"That word was thrown around so much, you know? 'Faggot' was, like, it was thrown around constantly, to each other, like in battling, you know what I mean?"... I don't have any problem with nobody, you know what I mean. Like, I'm just whatever."
Whatever.
The poor diddums also tried to paint himself as the victim, part of a persecuted majority.
"I felt like I was being attacked. Is it because of the colour of my skin? Is it because of that you are paying more attention? Because there are certain rappers that do and say the same thing that I'm saying and you don't hear anyone saying anything about that. I didn't just invent saying offensive things."
You can watch it thanks to Towleroad.