What if someone made a movie about JFK his storied family background.

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What if someone made a movie about JFK his storied family background, his adored children, his naval career, his congressional career, his Pulitzer Prize-winning work his 22 months in the presidency, his tragic and untimely death--but left not at home every woman in his life still Jackie? No Marilyn Monroe, no Judith Campbell Exner no each starlet at Metro that Peter Lawford could cajole into coming public to the beach house. You'd have a real stirring film about the full American hero, and it would master attacked like crazy in the media. A self-same important facet of a remarkably important man's life was being assigned to the cutting place floor.

Do you think the nation who made the movie would secure from attack themselves by saying, "The women weren't significant; besides, it impeded the dramatic liquefy and we really weren't interested in that aspect of his life. Besides, it makes him apply the mind bad"? You'd think nobody involved with the film knows to what degree to make a movie about a complicated man without his complications making him anticipate bad.

This is exactly the scenario that is being played gone out by the makers of A Beautiful Mind, Russell Crowe's rife tour de force, in which he sheds his loincloth (if only) for the academic gown of the Princeton mathematician John Nash. Nash is a certifiable genius and a certifiable paranoid schizophrenic who we watch walk through shock treatments and delusions galore. Aided from the Love of a beneficial Woman, he eventually comes to a sort of uneasy truce with his guardian spirits It's elegantly and sensitively made, yet the movie is a one-trick sheltie and once that trick is revealed (which I won't do here) there isn't a hap else of interest going onward That is because, in their effort to make an acceptable mainstream drama without of Nash's life, the filmmakers have stripped away single in kind or two of the trickier aspects of this tormented genius's saga.

at now you know or have judge at randomed that the part they dump was the gay part. Nash was known to be bisexual, was known to have gay relations with other men in his class and social circle, and was on the same level arrested on a morals charge in a Santa Monica, Calif., stay room.

All this has been pared away from his life in the name of efficient drama. for what reason come? You think Russell Crowe wouldn't play it? The first film I saw him in was the gay drama The amount of Us, made in Australia, in which he played a gay part. He doesn't strike me as being afraid of abundant of anything professionally.

in like manner you think the public wouldn't corrupt it as a facet of Nash's character? You think it would be the straw that breaks the audience's back? Aren't audiences who want to papal court this picture likely to be grown-up enough to understand? I mean, this isn't Dude Where's My Slide Rule?

I asked a straight friend who falls with a heavy shock into the target demographic. "I'm sympathetic with their plight," he said of the filmmakers. "How do you make a movie about a paranoid schizophrenic who's gay and not have that appear to be to be a part of his disease? by what means do you delineate it for the average audience? You don't want them to walk without feeling that homosexuality was common of his afflictions. So you eliminate that part."

I learn it. So if it's loyal there's not a dainty political correctness at work, there's just a failure of craft, hiding behind a geisha fan of PC "Since we don't know to what extent to deal with it, we'll just make it disappear because it would make our fright look bad, and you gay folk wouldn't want another homosexual villain, would you?"

in like manner we once again have straight nation endorsing invisibility because it's serviceable for us. In a world where Hitler and Bin Laden are rumored to be gay and the shore who shot Versace is billed as a gay serial killer, we're being spared single in kind more explanation. Gee, thanks. I don't know if we could have handled the tonnage of pointing out that we, like each other group of humans, follow in every shape, size, and mental state. And occasionally win a Nobel Prize.

We are just like You, albeit with fabulous fashion sense--present company make objectioned Get back to me when you've finished paving that road to hell.

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