Gay Thursday: Eric Dane and Bradley Cooper

AfterElton's Snick has put two and two together. The answer is Eric Dane and Bradley Cooper playing lovers on the big screen. Greg in Hollywood gave us this on May 13th:

Bradley Cooper, whose first movie role was that of a gay camp counselor on Wet Hot American Summer ... is going to play gay once again. Bradley has been cast in the film Valentine’s Day, an ensemble comedy about five couples as they celebrate Valentine’s Day in L.A. He plays a gay man who is in love with a closeted football player. Also in the cast is Julia Roberts and The Hollywood Reporter states that Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, and Ashton Kutcher are also starring.



Bradley is best known for his role on TV’s Alias and such films as The Wedding Crashers, Yes Man, and He’s Just Not That Into You [and, of course] The Hangover ...




Entertainment Weekly said this: "Dane will play a Brett Favre-esque quarterback." Snicks from AfterElton came to a logical conclusion. Logical and tasty.



OK, it is a Garry Marshall film, therefore, it seems that Dane will probably still keep the towel on as he comes out of the steam room. There is hope, nonetheless, that there will be some pandering to the gay male audience that will partake of this cinematic offering not to mention those women who have a voyeuristic proclivity for man on man heavy petting. (cf. Beecher and Keller on OZ)

From yesterday's New York Daily News
It's progress that reflects two strong forces tugging at both the entertainment industry and the whole country.

On the one hand, gay people have fought their way to far greater acceptance than anyone could have imagined 40 years ago, when the Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village helped blast a movement out of the closet.

On the other hand, large numbers of Americans still are uncomfortable about gays, as Bruno illustrates once again, and because 'mainstream' movie and television producers depend on patronage from a mass audience, they desperately don't want to alienate some measurable percentage of the population just by subject matter.

Even a movie as well-made and well-reviewed as Brokeback Mountain undoubtedly lost potential viewers who just felt uncomfortable about Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall kissing.

Read all of David Hinckley's article here.



The Soap Opera world is blossoming with gay characters. Most of us have our fingers crossed. Cinematic endeavours are varied, but if they keep at it, the cinema going public will get used to it. Bruno in its insane way will probably immunize viewers and the general public to the innocuous stories being told on TV and in Valentine's Day. When Eric Dane co-starred with John Stamos in the gay themed Wedding Wars on television, alas and alack he played the straight brother. It is a very good thing that a television actor with the visibility of Mr. Dane takes playing gay to something a bit bigger than life. The reality is that being gay is life and Mr. Marshall, Mr. Dane and Mr. Cooper are taking pains to let the populace know.