After watching Promises, Promises, theatre critic Ramin Setoodeh found that he couldn't suspend his disbelief about Sean Hayes being a heartbroken heterosexual man and when he looked around for examples, he found them. The same way that when you start looking for a Starbucks, you start seeing all of them. Beginning from Rock Hudson who we believed to be straight until he died of AIDS and ending with the more obvious closeted gay men like Ricky Martin. Though his examples alone can get him i...
>>>After watching Promises, Promises, theatre critic Ramin Setoodeh found that he couldn't suspend his disbelief about Sean Hayes being a heartbroken heterosexual man and when he looked around for examples, he found them. The same way that when you start looking for a Starbucks, you start seeing all of them. Beginning from Rock Hudson who we believed to be straight until he died of AIDS and ending with the more obvious closeted gay men like Ricky Martin. Though his examples alone can get him into trouble, Kristin Chenowith (who happens to be the co-star of Sean Hayes) took offense and wrote Newsweek decrying that the writer was homophobic.
Is it a real problem of perception? Or is talent overshadowed by your public image?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/236999
http://newsweek.tumblr.com/post/579783041/kristin-chenoweth-responds-to-homophobic-newsweek
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-sorkin/now-that-you-mention-it-r_b_574210.html
