Bonus video! The Day Lesbians Took Over NBC
Added 2022-07-17 18:23:07 +0000 UTCHello there! In this week's bonus video, I've got a few new clues about how "Bruce" became the name for all homosexual men. And also the story of the time that a group of lesbians got fed up with NBC airing a bunch of offensive stereotypes, and hatched a plan to infiltrate the network's headquarters and seize control of an office. It's like a spy story!
Backup link for the video: https://youtu.be/eiSSrFn_kcw
Comments
Token straight guy here, guess there are still some of us that enjoy the 6 degrees of celebrity connections, much to the annoyance of almost everyone else. I'm constantly going: this person was in that thing that went on to become this other thing where that one guy did the thing that went onto that person's kid doing this other thing, that turned out to become... and so on, and so on! We should be getting paid for these celebrity genealogies, or at least make sure the Wikipedia articles get properly amended and cited. ;)
Phil Sowers
2022-09-27 16:08:39 +0000 UTCDavid you put the video link at the 155 seconds time stamp but actually the Bruce comment is at the very beginning of the video
Ron F.
2022-07-30 08:31:18 +0000 UTCIf the executives could see Amadeus cho the hulk that actually is gay then they’d lose it
Ryan Mohr
2022-07-20 07:43:25 +0000 UTCStan Lee himself discusses it in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek2-fcGT2YA&t=155s
David A. Diaz
2022-07-19 21:42:00 +0000 UTCI can't believe there were so many songs like this
Matt Baume
2022-07-19 21:31:10 +0000 UTCBruce" was so tainted as a gay-identified name, that when they made "The Incredible Hulk" TV show with Bill Bixby as Bruce Banner, they changed his name to "David Banner."
David A. Diaz
2022-07-19 20:27:54 +0000 UTCNot sure if this has already been covered....the 1973 novelty song that both cemented "you silly savage" (with extremely sibilant "s"'s) and the use of Bruce as a gay-identified name: The Ballad Of Ben Gay & Silly Savage Serenadehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVLqRQj7Lg
David A. Diaz
2022-07-19 20:22:29 +0000 UTCExcuse me, I left out the multi-parter was called “Starcrossed”.
Lee Mynatt
2022-07-19 00:33:44 +0000 UTCSlightly off a degree but re: Hitchcock/NbNW- in the Justice League cartoon from the 00s ending multi-parter, one of the bad guy’s obsession/love of his commander is a reference to Martin Landau in NbNW. They were able to work in queer subtext by reference earlier queer subtext. I’m pretty sure it’s confirmed on the JL DVDs/bonus content.
Lee Mynatt
2022-07-19 00:32:53 +0000 UTCA very interesting movie for many reasons.
Martijn Spruit
2022-07-18 20:41:04 +0000 UTCYes, two queer actors playing a gay couple.
SG
2022-07-18 00:07:55 +0000 UTCThe fact that "Rope" was based on the real-life Leopold and Loeb murders, and the way the two of them were talked about in the media at the time is also interesting.
Paul Hennessy
2022-07-17 19:38:23 +0000 UTCIn the bonus features on any of the recent video releases, the writer and Farley Granger extensively talk about how the studio was worried that they were going to make a movie about "it" but could never say "it".
TBoneSF
2022-07-17 18:41:26 +0000 UTCDon’t forget Hitchcock’s movie “Rope”!
Kevin Carbonneau
2022-07-17 18:34:18 +0000 UTC
