Ruper Everett’s new autobiography a Hollywood tell all
Rupert Everett has written a book about his expereience of being an openly gay man in a Hollywood that never lived up to his expectations. The people at yahoonews.com give us this: The British actor, whose screen hits include “Another Country,” “Shrek” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” says he’s sick of the movie industry’s hypocrisy and homophobia. He’s even tired of celebrity — the whole glittering illusion deliciously evoked and eviscerated in his candid new autobiography “Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins.”
The book is a sort of Rough Guide to late 20th-century highlife — and lowlife. There are walk-on parts for Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Bob Dylan, Donatella Versace and a host of other luminaries. Everett seems to know everyone, remember all and recount everything.
The book is a feast for gossip fans, and Everett is an articulate and charming raconteur with a knack for a memorable image. At one point, a swimming pool is described as “shaped like a Xanax.
“Everett was disappointed to find showbiz “as middle-class and provincial” as the private school world he’d left behind. “My imagination of show business was this red plush netherworld of drunks and sex maniacs and killers and freaks,” he said. “It’s not. My world is, because I’ve doggedly tried to create that world. But it’s not in general.” Movie stars are “blobs who don’t say anything, aren’t allowed to say anything. They are paid to shut up.”
I think it’s kind of funny that Rupert Evert’s imagination of Hollywood was “drunks sex maniacs, killers and freaks”. Not doing much for your image Rupert. Neither is telling all of the secrets and sexual experiences you’ve had with Hollywood’s elite.
I have to wonder about Everett’s intentions with this book. It could be said that since his last few movies have been flops and has been looked over for roles because of his open homosexuality he is getting his revenge. Or perhaps he is actively trying to open the eyes of people in Hollywood, to say “stop being fake, either be crazy and drunk or be somber and sane, don’t try and be one and show the other!” Either way this is from what I’ve heard it’s a pretty good read.
Good book or not this is definitely going to keep Everett from ever getting into a Hollywood party again.
But does he care? Rupert Everett is traveling the world on behalf of the Global Fund against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and has declared showbiz “not very relevant”. So I’m guessing he’s not all that interested in being Paris Hilton’s new best friend.
1. Marina replies at 22nd September 2006, 5:24 pm :
I think this sounds like a lame way of getting his name back in the limelight. Sure it’s not the best way to get back into Hollywood (let’s face it, his career ended shortly after it started) but like you mentioned, I don’t think he cares much about that. I DO think he cares that the general public remember who he is and I think there’s no better way to engraciate the house wife than to tell all and share tons of gossip about Hollywood.
2. Jay replies at 22nd September 2006, 5:59 pm :
The truly sad fact is that there is anyone on this planet that is interested in being Paris’ new best friend.
Oh, and Rupert’s just being a gossipy queen. Arent all queens gossipy? They were on Sex and the City.
(get off my back, my wife made me watch it)
Yes, I realize the apparrent ignorance and homophobia in that statement if you choose to read it that way, but my intention was that it be read as sarcastic silly humor. Its a shame you have to explain yourself but it’s hard to get sarcasm and across with no face or tone.
3. Kristina replies at 22nd September 2006, 7:17 pm :
This is just a sad attempt at career revival. Nobody gave two shits about this dude before, and they still don’t.
4. Lilly (formerly John Campea's part-time fiance) replies at 22nd September 2006, 7:30 pm :
I have to disagree with Kristina. Rupert has more acting chops in his left testicle than all of the A-listers of today’s Hollywood. I would run to the cinema to watch him in a flick than, say, oh I don’t know… Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Brad Pitt and the like. Rupert is like fine dessert: scrumptous at any dinner party and best savoured all night long, and not even in a sexual way. He’s just brilliant, funny and devilish to watch on the big screen.
5. Kristina replies at 23rd September 2006, 11:10 am :
Good point Lilly, but I never said that he couldn’t act. I said that people didn’t CARE. He was never an A-lister. That was my point.
6. bullet in the head replies at 23rd September 2006, 5:51 pm :
He is fantastic in Dellamorte Dellamore AKA Cemetery Man and should have been a bigger star, but I have to admit I have no intrest in his book of celeb gossip, but I guess it will be a good read for those that enjoy that stuff.
7. Donna A. replies at 23rd September 2006, 8:01 pm :
I really enjoyed watching him. He is amazing actor. And it’s to bad that he was shut out because of him being gay. He is very sexy. And plays the smoldering sex god quite well.
Donna A.
8. Kristina replies at 23rd September 2006, 8:26 pm :
He was not shut out because of being gay. Ellen Degeneres, Rosie O’Donell, Ian McKellan, hello? All sucessful, all gay.
9. Lilly (formerly John Campea's part-time fiance) replies at 23rd September 2006, 8:48 pm :
Yes, but does anyone want to pay to see those three actors kiss the opposite sex on the small or big screen, Kristina? I doubt it. Unlike Rupert, the other three didn’t hold any sex appeal for the opposite sex before or after they came out. That’s the difference.
10. Edward Lee replies at 24th September 2006, 6:58 pm :
Beware the devil who says “showbiz isn’t very relevant” but is trying to cash in on glamorizing it in a ‘tell all’ bio.
11. Jennifer replies at 17th January 2007, 1:56 pm :
I love Rupert Evert and have always had a whopping crush on him. I’m sure his book is just as fascinating as he is. Kisses Rupert!!