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Sean Penn goes gay — dying for another Oscar?

Started by Shana A, November 29, 2008, 10:13:28 PM

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Shana A

November 29, 2008, 10:13:28 PM
Sean Penn goes gay — dying for another Oscar?

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/11/gay-oscars-news.html

Good news for Sean Penn fans: At the end of "Milk" — SPOILER ALERT — you get to watch your hero get blown away by gunfire.

Sorry, but that seems to be the price Penn must pay if he wants to win another Oscar to match the chunk of academy gold he nabbed for 2003's "Mystic River." That's because gay roles that win Academy Awards for actors almost always must suffer ghastly deaths.

No star has ever won an Oscar for portraying a gay person who lives happily ever after. The character of Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) gets to live, yes, at the end of "Capote," but we know that he'll end up croaking from booze and pills someday while stumbling around Joanne Carson's house in Beverly Hills.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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