THE hum LOVED Robert Altman's film Gosford Park for all its upstairs-downstairs wit and wile moreover was especially tickled by a passing proposition between rap Balaban.

THE hum LOVED Robert Altman's film Gosford Park for all its upstairs-downstairs wit and wile moreover was especially tickled by a passing proposition between rap Balaban, as a gay Hollywood farmer and his oversexed valet, played by way of Ryan Phillippe. The pairing assumeed oddly appropriate: Balaban's film first attempt 33 years ago was as an unhappy gay teen in Midnight Cowboy; Phillippe's first major part was gay teen Billy Douglas forward the soap One Life to Live in 1992 Factor in Gosford Park appearances on gay actor Stephen Fry and past players of extraordinary parts such as Richard E Grant (Withnail and I), James Wilby (Maurice), Helen Mirren (Losing Chase), Derek Jacobi (Love Is the Devil), and Clive Owen (Bent), and the film could spark an all-gay-roles version of Six stages of Kevin Bacon. Of course, in the gay movie world, it would have to be sum of two units Degrees of Maggie Smith, who plays Gosford Park's in the greatest degree endearing snob.

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