Bosom Homies
Before [Brian Grazer] makes most decisions, he engages in an informal survey to garner the opinions of his friends. “I try things on people to test them out,” Mr. Grazer said. “Before I made ‘Eight Mile,’ I was nervous that I might be empowering someone who was not only misogynistic, but homophobic. So when I had dinner with Tom Hanks, I asked him if I was empowering the wrong person. He said no; the guy isn’t taken seriously. He talks through a character.”
(New York Times)
I feel more confused than a wayward teenage girl on nickel abortion night. Am I supposed to thank Tom Hanks for greenlighting the movie Eight Mile? It’s a good movie, but I might actually like it a little bit less now. Where’s my WWTHSOD? bracelet? Wait, though, can we go back to the part where a Hollywood producer actually had the moral compass to wonder whether providing Eminem with a major film vehicle would be empowering a misogynistic homophobe, which is a pretty sophisticated line of self-examination for a Hollywood producer, but then his next thought was “Well, I’ll just have to ask Tom [Hanks]. He’ll know what to do.”
Brian Grazer: Tom Hanks, what should I do?
Tom Hanks: nigga please.
What? HIPPITY HOOP BLAH YOUR TANK TOP SAYS I DON’T FIT YOU.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:22 am
You can’t go through the emotionally and philosophically life-altering experience that was The Da Vinci Code with someone without forming a close bond of trust with that person. Also, I guess one of you would have to have obtained psychic powers to read Eminem’s mind.
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