OVITZ’S ANTI-GAY MAFIA

The real story behind former CAA super-agent, Mike Ovitz’s, Vanity Fair meltdown is that his outburst about a “gay mafia” was not an isolated case. He has, apparently, a long record of intense discomfort around homosexuals, constant use of the word “fag,” and aversion to gay movies and gay agents. L.A. Weekly has the goods. The social right might have to adjust their notions of a monolthic pro-gay establishment in Hollywood. For many years, the most powerful agent was apparently a homophobe. Maybe that helps explain the still-stunning absence of almost any mainstream openly gay movie actors. It’s also pertinent that Vanity Fair didn’t seek to explore this dimension. But then Graydon Carter has long found peddling cliches about homosexuals to be very good copy.