If Montgomery Clift Were Alive Today...

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I'm participating in The Montgomery Clift Blog-a-thon over at Film Experience today. To honor what would have been Monty's 87th birthday, several bloggers are posting various perspectives on this legendary, yet tragic actor. Montgomery Clift was nominated for 4 Academy Awards and was considered a screen idol of his time. He was also a closeted homosexual. At first, he kept his lifestyle discreet. He knew if the studios and the public knew the truth, his leading-man image would be forever tarnished. I wondered how Montgomery Clift's homosexuality would be handled in today's celeb-obsessed world. Even if he had chosen to remain "in the closet", would Perez Hilton out him on his blog? Would he write "gay" over Montgomery's photo and add the ubiquitous drips of white coming out of his mouth? One reason Perez generates so much controversy is his insistence on outing gay celebrities. He was instrumental in outing Neil Patrick Harris and Lance Bass and has appointed himself to pulpit status by loudly preaching "The closet no longer exists if you are a celebrity or a politician!...Society will no longer be able to marginalize us!...Please stand up! We are talking to you Anderson Cooper, Jodie Foster, Kevin Spacey, Clay Aiken, Queen Latifah....and the rest of you!" Yep, I think if Montgomery Clift were alive today, he'd be roped into Perez Hilton's crusade whether he wanted it or not. I made this parody of Hilton's website to show how it might play out.

Comments

[Jujupiter]

The lifes of Anderson Cooper, Jodie Foster, Kevin Spacey, Clay Aiken, Queen Latifah, Neil Patrick Harris and Lance Bass haven't changed that much since then. Some even seem to get some more fame. And Kevin Spacey is hot.

[that_girl]

I love the comments. It's so dead on it's scary.

[Sloth]

I love the "FIRST!!!!!" at number five. I mean the whole thing is bril as always, but for some reason that pushed the laughter out my mouf.

[SJK]

Love your stuff, 14, but not this one. It's just spreading the poop around.

[nathaniel r]

the small details always amaze me.

love the "first!!!" on the fifth comment. too true 14, too true.

[14]

I feel the best way to illuminate the poop is to put it under a spotlight. With proper light, people are able to see that it is indeed, poop. Some people don't know that, you see.

Okay onward to paintings of higher consciousness....

xoxo
14

[Knox Bronson]

Well, the problem is that the beautiful homosexuals go to Hollywood and are easy marks for Perez.
The ugly homosexuals join the Republican Party and go to Washington, D.C. to work for the corporate/crime Syndicate that has coalesced since the JFK assassination.
Perez would find a treasure-trove of closeted and bathroom-stalled Repubes there ... why doesn't he out them?
Oh ... too much work ... not part of celebrity porn noise machine function he is a part of.
Oh well ... you captured the Perez style perfectly, 14!

[Julie]

The drawn-on penis... the 'file under: gay, gay, gay'... the multiple exclamation points... the shameless self-promotion of his own TV show... the misspelled 'your' in the comments... and OF COURSE, the 'First!!!!!!!'

This is a spot-on parody - the details are really well thought-out. And it really shows how much things have changed since this actor's time. Bravo, 14.

[midevil]

A parody of a parody!

[just wonderin]

Thank you for pushing out the image of CarROT Top with a lovely image of Montgomery Clift. So sad, so gifted, so beautiful.

[Lynnster]

First!!!

[gamma-normids]

I always love your work and I love this one as well, because is in fact good and accurate. But what I don't like is the free publicity that pig is having. He doesn't deserve it.

[Campaspe]

Extremely funny and deadly accurate to the point that I fear for you, as so much familiarity with Perez's site must surely be detrimental to one's mental health. I would like to offer one thought in the closeted Clift's defense: He didn't play studio straight games. He never got married, didn't go on pre-arranged dates to premieres or agree to any studio-staged romances. Off-set he did largely as he pleased. While that doesn't make him a hero, it does make him more of a rebel than he generally gets credit for.

[BiG GYM]

this is brilliant. so simple yet genius. it's what my science professors would call "elegant"

[gilmore]

Oh my sweet lord! This is beyond great. 14, I love this for so many reasons. I think perhaps the typo filled comments might be my favorite part. "Your gross", "U idiot", and "Go ate another muffin". I file this under clever, clever, clever.
xoxo
Your wonder twin

[Kristin]

Genius! The comments are priceless.

[Jenn F.]

I like the multiple spelling errors within the comments from Perez readers. And what's with the "First!" thing, anyways? That's always struck me as so completely retarded. Who gives a shit if they post a comment first? Especially if it says nothing but that? Perhaps it's the whole juvenile "tag yer it" kind of mentality, but it got old pretty fast.

[ihaveadog]

PerezHyatt. Hahahahahahahahhahah!!

[Kipling]

Wow. Spot on, girlie. Now, back away from the Perez, slowly...this is SCARILY accurate.

[phlegmfatale]

Brilliant as ever, baby.

Um, it's called ACTING. A little mystique to performers makes them more able to disappear into roles - why do we need to know what brand of toothpaste they use or who they are banging? Just because Perez' sexuality is part of his public persona doesn't mean every other person in Hollywood should be forced to do likewise. Excellent send-up.

[Chantelle]

FIRST!!! :P

Loves it.

But Perez? Not so much...

[Demon Kitty]

We still have the same problem all these years later. Nothing has changed, except it is cool now to be a lezzie on the telly.

Hollywood has fuckloads to answer for as far as prude and repressed in our culture go. The way they try to convince us that all these queens and dykes are straight. Jake Gyllenhaal is boning Reese Witherspoon?

B U L L S H I T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hollywood would have us believe that everyone fucks missionary style, the cinderella fairy tale does exist, or you can have nasty, nasty sex in a clock tower like Kim Bassinger and Mickey Rourke and fall hopelessly in love, until he tries to initiate a menage trois. Oh whatever the fuck! I am boring myself as I write this! Did Montgomery Clift live during the fucking McCarthy era?

I shudder to think that not so long ago, you could be thrown in jail for being gay.

[audrey]

hi 14, i want to express mi admiration for your art work, the way you capture the pop "culture" of your country, it's so funny but makes you think the way the society it´s right now, here things are much different, but in many ways u.s. it's a "role model" for my society (and for many others), and with all this celebrity culture, it´s makes me worry...

gracias.

saludos desde mexico!.

P.S. i was feeling a little bit worry about my grammmar, but when i look all those posts in Perez Hilton's blog, i feel a little better!! hahahaaa.

[trapitossucios.com]

Brilliant.. only a creative mind can come up with that! I love this site Im addicted.. as a matter of fact.. I am more addicted to this site than Perez... :-)

[Doodle Whore]

Nancy Kulp (Miss Jane Hathaway) wouldn't have stood a chance...

[Dianne]

Spot on, as always, 14. But I do have to agree with others that Perez is getting publicity (from your site, and others, and TV spots), that is undeserved in relation to his talent, or lack thereof. He's cruel in a juvenile way, and it's bound to peter out (pun intended), in the near future.

[Lily]

Wow, you're amazing, as always. For some reason the comment section of the image won't load in enlarged version, but the rest will. It's hilarious to me that you're so much better to draw a penis than Perez does -- it figures -- and you've made him look almost cherubic, sparkly and cute in your little logo for him. He really is an extreme misogynist, although I read his blog frequently. He hates every woman who isn't a gay icon, pretty viciously at that, and overly fawns over the few who pass his absurd 1950s style test. He's just a less loathsome Bobby Trendy, and not by much. Hey, have you ever drawn him/her/it? Eee... WAY too much material, there. Maybe as Boticelli's Venus on the half shell. Eee. My retinas are burning just contemplating it...

[yeah]

lol nice work! can someone kill perez? i would even offer $100

[Sergio]

If Montgomery Clift was alive he would probably just scratch his head and go about the day like nothing .... he was never closeted in the way we use the term... he was in fact very open but not in-your-face-open... in fact, he was so open that not even Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper dared touch him. Nobody could. And those women destroyed actors as they pleased. He was not part of the Hollywood scene. He kept to him self and had a great sense of dignity and couldn't care less what people might say. He really knew his place on this earth, and the rest of Hollywood couldn't measure upp to him.

[john wood]

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Will give GENEROUS, GENEROUWS DISCOUNT FOR groups. Clift fans have to see this show!! Begins June 1st. Stesses how importnat he was to AMERICAN CINEMA. john wood 917-822-8642. Alfred Lunt says as great as Olivier.