This is not a particularly fresh question, but it's a fair one.
I'll tell you what: let's work backwards from what he now says was his point: 'If an actor of the stature of George Clooney came out of the closet today, would we still accept him as a heterosexual leading man?' And it's kind of none of my business.īut I know how to read an argument and determine whether it has any internal logic to it, and this one just. I don't know what's in the guy's head I think that's a pretty complex soup to sort out. Look, I'm not here to argue the motives of Ramin Satoodeh, who recently wrote the lightning-rod column that started with a critique of Sean Hayes in Promises, Promises and somehow arrived at the idea that it never really works when out gay actors try to play straight romantic leads. Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes take their curtain call at the Broadway Opening of Promises, Promises Broadway Theatre on April 25, 2010.Īndrew H.
