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| Lee, thanks for the pics.    At this time in Vegas the pipes get warmed enough there's no such thing as cold just lukewarm water. Now I'll never be cooled down.Where'd you get them.
The natural waves have lost shape and his hair in the front is fuzzing. That's what happens to me in humidity or sweating. Maybe he was exercising. I adore in paparazzi photos how natural he is and willing to keep doing things even if it makes for a less "flattering" pose. Some celebrities when they spot the camera stop eating because the usual contortions appear unbecoming. In the first he's scratching his chin. This reminds me of a scene I'd envisioned where Izzie is shaving George before work.
He looks rather dazed in the second but this is probably where he realizes someone is trailing him. In the last one he seems distressed. Once again I just want to hug him, run my fingers through his hair, and give him a kiss. If this is late '06-early '07, sadly, the drama in his life would be the unraveling of his relationship with Luke.  Honestly, unlike other celebs a set of pics is like watching a snippet of a silent documentary.
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Love those pictures of him in casual clothes....He has a nice chest and arms.
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Gwen, those people you're talking about are atrocious. The sad thing is Adam Lambert and TR Knight probably have more talent in their pinky finger than them.
| My friend alerted me to this so I checked out a few of their LJ's. Sure enough from three of the males there was definitely jealousy that Adam and TR still receive female adoration, in spite or maybe because of, their sexuality. There seemed to be an underlying anxiety that women will reject wholesale machismo in favor of more emotive men.
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Appalling is most definitely the word. I can't believe that went on in a GA LJ community... I can't believe that was tolerated!
Appalling.
| Exactly that a moderated board and they let this happen despite protests. What's next icons with racial, ethnic, and gender epithets?
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Gwen, I honestly am heartbroken over the discrimination that you faced growing up. Honestly? High School kids are the worst of it... unlike smaller, younger children who do not have the skills to figure out how to express their curiosity about differences, high schoolers/adolescents have the ability to think abstractly to understand the complexities of these issue and the social skills to converse about ethnic differences in a reasonable and considerate manner. It just makes me that you had to endure such ignorance and pointed cruelty. I appreciate your openness in sharing you stories of discrimination, for my own understanding for my son and also to understand and appreciate TR's strength even more.
| Scientifically adolscents have reached the physical end of brain development. They possess all the cognitive abilities of adults but often their emotions get the best of them. This is where authority figures have to guide with a deft hand. Unfortunately we've seen the decline in discipline and moral teaching to youth.
Cindy, thanks for the compliment. It's been twenty years and I look upon it with different eyes. While it's tempting to recall the negative I also want to add the positive. There were highly supportive students and teachers who became proactive on issues of intolerance and multicultural clubs were formed. These took on more significance when the riots erupted. After that formerly reluctant teachers and students realized racism was a serious issue.
I can't emphasize enough that the climate in the 1980s and early 1990s was a different world from the last decades. Imagine how racially homogenized popular culture. Michael Jackson was one of the few Black artists featured on MTV, in the early years. Fashion magazine featured almost exclusively blonde, Nordic-looking models. I rarely even saw Italian, Greeks, Jewish, or Armenian. This is probably why those girls truly believed themselves to be the envy of the females of high school.
In retrospect I noticed an interesting parallel. In the 1980s two Black actors became the first sex symbols to receive cross-racial adulation: Philip Michael Thomas of Miami Vice and Denzel Washington of St. Elsewhere. PMT was more readily favored in Hollywood because he was in the action genre, a place people were comfortable seeing Black men in through a decade of acceptance in sports. Denzel was considered more problematic because he broke the mold for Black actors in drama.
The press seemed uneasy about him being a fan favorite amongst the White women. Many times he was omitted from stories about the "hunks" of St. Elsewhere despite viewer demands. However, the media could never be as vicious towards him as they are to TR but they did describe his character in stereotypical terms. Denzel's Philip Chandler was derided as "uppity," "angry," and "arrogant" all stereotypes of educated Black men in much the same way as George being "weak" and "frail" as stereotypes of gay men. Hints of interracial desire was squashed with approval from the press and despite being gorgeous and fit Dr. Chandler had no love interest until the last two seasons. He also was given storylines that undermined his credibility such one where he believes becoming a doctor was a mistake. For the last three seasons he was backburned.
However, nothing compares to the hounding the press gives to TR. Pia put it succintly with "it seems like he swallowed TPTB's Kool Aid there." Although I do wonder if the reference to DHP was an inadvertent admission to the campaign or a warning of the role they will consign him for the rest of his career. Also I'm dismayed by the almost absolutist tone about him not returning to TV. Is that wish fulfillment? TR himself never said he was done and why preclude he'd do another program or a TV movie or miniseries. I hope he rises like Denzel and proves the critics wrong.
Thanks, Cindy, for informing us about the book. There's also a TV an old TV miniseries called The Murder of Mary Phagan with Peter Gallagher as Leo Frank. There's another book by David Mamet on the case called The Old Religion.
Also thanks for the pic of George. Also have fun on your fourth of July. That's goes for everybody. Belated Happy Canada Day! |
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