"The Dilemma" star Vince Vaughn in the middle (of a controversy) (Universal Pictures)
Acting in The Dilemma, Vince Vaughn looks at a battery car and says that “electric cars are gay”
Well, since it was directed by Ron Howard, overly sympathetic for all things PC, you’d think that it would get criticisms, apologies and go on.
Perhaps, but when CNN anchor Anderson Cooper told Ellen DeGeneres that he was upset when seeing the phrase in a theatrical trailer, all hell broke loose.
“…we’ve got to do something to make those words unacceptable cause those words are hurting kids,” Cooper said. “When you’re a kid, it can change the way you see yourself and the way you think about yourself, and the worth that you give to yourself.”
Universal Pictures, much less Howard want to be branded generic smear words, including bully-phile-phobe, so the offensive scene was ripped from the Movieola, burned and then swept into the editing dumpster. Now the scene has been quietly excised from the feature film itself, sources whisper.
“Let me add my voice of support to the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be,” Vince Vaughn said to Deadline.com at his peril of never working again for not being a useful idiot. “Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing dividing lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop.”
When he was ridiculing, insulting everyone in his hilarious lounge act at the Sahara, Don Rickles never made a gay joke. And that was 33 years ago. Two years before Stonewall.
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