Leno gets 'My Gayest Look'
By Andrew Wallenstein
It all started with a seemingly innocuous talk-show appearance by actor Ryan Phillippe on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on March 20. Then it snowballed into the kind of backlash that gives publicists acid reflux. A bizarre, offhand remark by Leno to Phillippe, directing him to give the camera "his gayest look" during a broadcast has spurred the creation of My Gayest Look, a protest site of sorts in which various offended parties pose for pictures in which they flip the bird and make other obscene gestures.
After watching the footage, I can't say I see what the hubbub is about. Yes, Leno's comment was ridiculous, but it seemed less like a burst of latent homophobia and more like a weird echo of their earlier conversation, which centered on a homoerotic commercial Phillippe filmed when he was 19. Michael Richards, this isn't.
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Posted by: weenus | April 01, 2008 at 03:46 PM