Terribly disappointing news: late Friday evening Tarleton State University cancelled Saturday’s scheduled production of four student directed plays, including a staging of Terrance McNally’s Corpus Christi, a 1997 one-act play that imagines Jesus as gay. According to a media release by the university, in making the decision “the professor cited safety and security concerns for the students as well as the need to maintain an orderly academic environment as reasons for cancelling the plays. The performance of these four class plays will not be rescheduled.” Although the professor in the press release remains unnamed, an assistant professor Mark Holtorf said that the drama department “received so many threatening calls and e-mails today across campus, the numbers were staggering. One administrator received in excess of 800 e-mails. Our department received calls of a threatening nature. I could not guarantee the safety of my students. The administration was truly behind the academic exercise, but I could not justify the safety risk.”
Kevin Smith next’s project, Red State, a film Smith describes as being “so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake,” will begin shooting in July. The movie, one Smith has been trying to make since 2007, will centre around a character based on Fred Phelps, the anti-gay hate mongering founder of the
Westboro Baptist Church. Casting has yet to be announced, and the plot is not known, although Smith refers to
Red State as a “deadly serious horror film.”
The brothers Hemsworth – Liam and the older Chris – attend the after party for the premiere of Liam’s
The Last Song Thursday, the twosome making quite a sexy spectacle.
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