Celeb News: Billy Crystal corrects gay statements

Swag

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First of all, I don’t understand why there would be anything offensive that I said. When it gets too far either visually… now, that world exists because it does for the hetero world, it exists, and I don’t want to see that either. But when I feel it’s a cause, when I feel it’s ‘You’re going to like my lifestyle,’ no matter what it is, I’m going to have a problem and there were a couple of shows I went ‘I couldn’t watch that with somebody else.’ That’s fine. If whoever writes it or produces it…totally get it. It’s all about personal taste.

What I meant was that whenever sex or graphic nudity of any kind (gay or straight) is gratuitous to the plot or story it becomes a little too much for my taste.

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getback

should've said only the last sentence.
the first paragraph makes him sound ignorant again

madonnafan18

I knew this was coming!

henryevil

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But when I feel it’s a cause, when I feel it’s ‘You’re going to like my lifestyle,’ no matter what it is, I’m going to have a problem

Might want to correct your correction, too

*.Digambar.*

still a stupid bitch.

Phoenetic

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Originally posted by getback

should've said only the last sentence.
the first paragraph makes him sound ignorant again

The combination of the first and second paragraph makes sense though. The first paragraph on its own sounds ignorant, but the second paragraph also explains what he is talking about in the first.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if he was a victim of the media taking words out of context to make a celebrity sound bad again. I generally don't even take it serious anymore when I read an article about something offensive or ignorant some celebrity said.

Wonderland

I'm going to have a problem with this correction, Billy.

Callum

Not his "correction" just digging himself into a deeper hole.

PopBoi

V3$$3L.

Hope he hates us more when his inane comments come up on Eyewitness News after some new HTGAWM sodomy.

Don't see why he's come out of the woodworks to clarify/save face; it's not like he was getting much work anyway.

Skywalker

I agree with him to a point. It's important to think and clarify on big issues such as this before opening your mouth.

lonnie

This "correction" being worse than the "mistake"

And wtf does he mean by "lifestyle"?!!
Lifestyle is the shoes you choose to buy or your home decor or your diet, who you love isn't

What kind of ignorant asshole

HotHeaven

NLX

Yeah, I was feeling kinda uncomfortable watching the Whitney biopic
with Whitney and Bobby having passionate sex.

QueenBLadyG

Just shut it Billy

Lady Claire

He said too much again.

Just shut up, please.

Thomasuxx

Still sounds like homophobic trash

Giliap

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I couldn’t watch that with somebody else

the insecurity

Espresso

Swag beat me to it on the update. Insincere, making things worse, what mostly everyone said.

Priyanka Chopra

Except he never said anything about sex scenes in general in his original statement. He and his team are trying to make it seem like he meant he has a problem with sex scenes in general, but he specifically said he has a problem with gay sex scenes being portrayed on TV because it's putting out the idea that it's normal. And he's still saying the same thing again, but trying to sugarcoat it.

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But when I feel it’s a cause, when I feel it’s ‘You’re going to like my lifestyle,’

Take out the new icing and still saying the same comment! It's not about sex scenes. It's about that 'gay agenda' and his having to be exposed to gay men on TV being portrayed as normal and not in the background or getting gay therapy like his character.