Elton John weighs in on “The Dilemma”
Elton John has gotten a lot of flack for being so chummy with Rush Limbaugh but he won’t get any grief here for agreeing with another friend, Anderson Cooper, over the gay joke in the Vince Vaughn comedy The Dilemma.
Anderson attended Elton’s AIDS fundraiser this week (and even agreed to have a lunch with him auctioned off and it raised more than $60,000!) and the singer praised Cooper’s very public objection to the line in the film when Vaughn’s character says: “Ladies and gentlemen, electric cars…are gay.”
Here’s what Elton told US Weekly about it: “Enough already! I hate bigotry. I hate racial hatred. I hate sexual hatred.”
Of Anderson he said: “His heart is in exactly the right place — same as mine. He thinks the way I do. He’s intelligent, and he’s on the side of what we’re on.”
So Elton sounds very wise on this one but then you think about his hanging out with Rush Limbaugh and, sadly, whatever he has to say about anything loses a little bit of credibility.
Oh well.
By the way, I went to see Red this weekend which I loved and the trailer for The Dilemma came on and it did not contain the gay joke. And you know what, the movie looks to be funnier than I thought it would be and has many funnier bits to feature than that stupid joke. It does not need it at all.
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K. Martinez says:
If Elton has really had enough of bigotry and hatred like he says, then why doesn’t he take Rush Limbaugh to task? Elton has done some great work in raising money for AIDS, but he needs to give some thought before he shoots his mouth off.
I will not forget his comments he made on Prop 8 in California regarding civil unions vs. equality marriage. He comes off as very insensitive and clueless when commenting on regional politics and law. He talks about the heart being in the right place. I think he needs to get his brain in the right place.