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Kilmer’s on screen as a big, bad gay PI
He stirs up controversy as much for his off-
screen life as for his roles, and now Val Kilmer
is stirring it up again as a gay detective who
doesn’t shrink from a fight in “Kiss, Kiss, Bang,
Bang.”
The action comedy is the first intentionally
funny movie staning Kilmer since his turn in
1985’s “Real Genius” (“The Island of Dr.
Moreau” doesn’t count), and the first directing
job for screenwriter Shane Black, who penned
the “Lethal Weapon” franchise.
“Kiss” co-stars Robert Downey Jr. as a strug-
gling actor who assists Kilmer’s tough-as-nails,
openly gay private eye in solving a murder case.
Hopefully the comedy will take a fresh
approach to its gay lead character, but we’ll still
be on the lookout for “Lethal Weapon”-style
sophomoric gay jokes.
Screening at this month’s Toronto Film
Festival, the film is due to open wide early this
fall.
Angelina Jolie
Jolie: Hungry like the ‘Beowulf
Angelina Jolie is mother to a monster. No, not
her son Maddox. Think Grendel, the evil crea-
ture from the 8th-century literary classic
“Beowulf.”
Jolie has signed on to play the wicked
temptress mother to Crispin Glover’s
Grendel ip the big-budget, Robert
Zemeckis-directed epic “Beowulf.”
Starring Ray Winstone (“Sexy
Beast”) as the heroic Viking war-
rior who battles the monster, the
film shoots this fall for a summer
2007 release and will co-star
Anthony Hopkins, Jolin Malkovich
and Robin Wright Penn.
Meanwhile, Zemeckis is also pro-
ducer of the upcoming film “The Prize
Winner of Defiance, Ohio,” from les-
bian director Jane Anderson, based on
the nonfiction book by lesbian writer
Terry Ryan.
Universal’s ‘Flight’ Plan
After the terrorist attacks of Sept.
11, movie studios were reluctant to
rush to capitalize on the events. Now
Universal will be the first studio
tc take on 9/11 with “Flight
93," a big-screcn imag-
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“The Flight That Fought Back” will air on the
Discovery Channel this Sept. 11. This is also
about Flight 93, on which it’s believed that the
passengers, including gay businessman Mark
Bingham, fought back against the plane’s high-
jackers.
Universal’s project is in pre-production with
an Oct. 1 start date and a probable 2006 release.
No cast has been announced yet, but director
Paul Greengrass (“The Bourne Supremacy”) is
attached to direct.
Branagh and Fry make ‘Magic’
The movie stars are behind the camera this
time in a new screen adaptation of Mozart’s
opera “The Magic Flute.”
Kenneth Branagh and gay actor-writer
Stephen Fry, longtime collaborators, co-wrote
the adaptation of the operatic fantasy, the story
of a prince and a bird seller who must rescue a
princess, which is one of Mozart’s final pieces
of work.
Branagh will direct the feature, and shooting
begins in January 2006.
The director has reached into the opera world
for his leads: Joseph Kaiser, a member of
Chicago’s Lyric Opera Center for American
Artists, will play Prince Tamino, and Ben Davis,
who performed on Broadway in Baz
Luhrmann’s “La Boheme” and in “Thoroughly
Modem Millie,” will be the bird-peddling side-
kick Papageno.
Fans of opera on film will feel the magic
sometime in 2007.
West raps homophobia
Rap star Kanye West said that while hip-hop
has “always been about speaking your mind,”
the hip-hop community needs to stop discrimi-
nating against gays and lesbians.
“1 wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my
rappers, just teil my friends, ‘Yo, stop it,”’
according to a report by the BBC News.
West acknowledged that being called a
“mama’s boy” when he was young made him
develop some anti-gay views. But he decided to
rethink his own homophobia when he learned
that one of relatives, a favorite cousin, was gay.
“It was a turning point when I was like, ‘Yo,
this is my cousin. I love him, and 1 have been
discriminating against gays,” he said.
Have a suggestion fora question you'd like us to ask?
E-mail it to staff writer Tammye Nash at nash@dal-
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Jenni Beauchamp
“U.S. military officials just announced
that they are preparing for American
forces to spend four more years in Iraq.
Do you think our military should stay in
Iraq, or is it time to bring them home?"
“1 don't believe we
should have been in
Iraq in the first
place. But at this
point in time, I don't
think we can afford Dana Pierson
to just withdraw.” Self employed
"I think there should
be a deadline on it,
and 1 think we should
finish what we start-
ed. We can't save the Don Kirby
whole world.” Fitness instructor
“You gotta do what
you gotta do.
Otherwise, the world
is going to fall
apart.”
Michael Lawrence
Unemployed
“I think we should
pull out .quicker than
four years. That is Walter Steele
too long." Ethics expert
“I don't know about
pulling out once we
are in there. But we
shouldn’t have been
there in the first
place."
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Luther Scott
Retired
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