from [url=“http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=9067&sd=06/25/03”]The Advocate[/url
Chris Kattan, as in the guy from SNL, Corky Romano and A Night at the Roxbury?!? What kind of ninny is casting him opposite Parker Posey - a somewhat offbeat but real indie darling actress?
What’s the difference between “openly gay” and “out”?
self-revealed living and acknowledged gay vs. third-party revealed gay? Or maybe it’s just a matter of not wanting to say “openly gay” twice, for literary effect.
Either way, I thought it was something of an odd way of putting it. Why not just describe him as gay? You don’t go around calling people ‘openly brown-haired’.
I don’t know about open brown-haired but I know there are a lot of closet brunettes around.
It is a strange phrase, but maybe it’s something that has a certain meaning in the gay community.
Openly Gay: Never official made a statement that they were gay, but make no effort to hide the fact. For instance, seen with gay lover or in gay clubs.
Out: Made official Coming Out Statement.
How’s that for an off-the-cuff made-up answer?
Actually I think it was just a editorial decision to keep from repeating the same word or phrase.
Still, it seems weird to me – why not say something like “…the film’s writer-director, Craig Chester, and costar Malcolm Gets, both of whom are openly gay” (or out)?
(PS – sorry to hijack your thread, Homebrew. ;j )
Maybe they were afraid your average mundane would construe that construction as meaning they were a couple in real life.
Kattan’s playing half of the straight couple?
Exactly. A mind-blowing bit of casting like that, and I hijack the thread brooding about the intricacies of the phrasing.
So is there something about Parker Posey we need to know?
Yeah, that IS weird… why anybody would cast Chris Kattan at all is a mystery I may never understand.
My point exactly Marley23.
Kattan was simply brilliant in Undercover Brother.
And nothing else.
And why the heck would they cast him as straight?