The recent hoopla over Newsweek associate editor Ramin Setoodeh's ridiculous commentary about gay actors just proves how much the news business has deteriorated in quality. Who are these stupid young jocks with absolutely no education in common sense and history? Kids these days ...
Fox's "Glee" is getting an unexpected turn in the klieg lights because of a Newsweek article suggesting that gay actors can't pull off heterosexual roles and which includes a lengthy discussion of "Glee" cast member Jonathan Groff.
"Glee" creator Ryan Murphy issued a scathing statement about the piece and has called for a boycott of the magazine. On Wednesday, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued a statement "urging Newsweek to issue an apology."
The article by Newsweek Associate Editor Ramin Setoodeh, which first appeared online and runs in the mag's latest print edition under "The Critics" heading, starts with a discussion of Sean Hayes's latest gig on Broadway in a revival of "Promises, Promises." Hayes plays an ad guy hopelessly in love with co-worker Kristin Chenoweth. Hayes is "best known as the queeny Jack on [NBC sitcom] 'Will & Grace,' " Setoodeh wrote.
Hayes's "sexual orientation" is "part of who he is" and seeing him "play straight" in the Broadway production is "weird" because he "comes off as wooden and insincere, like he's trying to hide something, which of course he is," Setoodeh wrote.
