Remember how the old Fame movie dealt so explicitly and compellingly with homosexuality? Well, apparently, it's feasible to make a new take on the old classic while applying a bit of white-out to those parts that made the original so fabulous. AfterElton has this to say in their review:

Yesterday, AfterElton.com broke the story of how one of the characters, Kevin, was originally written as gay, but then the scene that established him as gay was cut, because the director felt it was too "campy" and inauthentic. The director told us he thought it was still "clearly obvious" that the character was gay anyway.

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Worse, very early on in the movie, there's a sequence with a very effeminate kid - one of the talentless wannabees that auditions for the school - that's played for laughs, and his queeniness is part of the joke.

The point is I taught at a high school for the performing arts a few years back (I'd like to think I was a cross between Lydia Grant and Mr. Shorofsky, but I suspect I was probably more like Mr. Vernon in The Breakfast Club).

Anyway, the idea that a story set at a school for the arts would have no visible gay presence among the students or faculty is outrageous.

If you missed it, here's what was said yesterday in an interview with the actor (Paul McGill) who plays the character (Kevin), who was allegeldy originally slated to be gay:

Was the character gay when he auditioned for the part? "Originally, he was," said McGill, who explained that the character also started out as "campy" and "superficial" but evolved in rewrites so he now has "... the darkest moments in the movie. The most ...emotional scenes in the movie."

Listen, fuckhead: Just because you don't know how to give authenticity or depth to a sissy doesn't mean that it can't be done. It just means you're a crap actor in a crap film.