Adam Lambert: Stop being a drama queen

Originally Posted by trumptman

Rolling Stone



Dear Glambert,

Stop being an idiot. If it were discrimination, you wouldn't have the job in the first place. Being comfortable in your own skin is completely separate from attempting to be in someone else's skin aka ACTING.

As you also conveniently noted, the entire production cast was filled with homosexual people (like this is some sort of revelation in theater) and guess what, when they went on stage they had to act like the people they were portraying as well. That acting involves taking on and adapting traits that aren't normally part of what you do might be shocking to you but it isn't shocking to....well... actors.

Last I checked Joseph, Moses brother, wasn't a gay man and in fact had a wife. Sorry if you had to act like a man that liked women when portraying a man who likes woman. Again, this is why it is called, acting.

Love your talent, get over yourself in the other areas, and next time you claim discrimination, make sure it is for something legitimate rather than... I had to act like the guy I was hired to portray as an actor.

Sincerely,
Nick

Originally Posted by trumptman

Don't be an idiot. It is you who know nothing and must resort to name calling.

I actually saw the Ten Commandments at the Kodiak theater. I regularly do theater productions and in fact I am in one now. I do not personally know Adam Lambert but you don't either and have come to your conclusions much like everyone else has by watching American Idol and associate fluff interviewed related to it.

BTW, this article is indeed different from every other article in that it is the first time he has addressed his sexuality head on and answered questions related to it instead of sidestepping it. So of course it is also the first time he has been asked and answered questions related to possibly being discriminated against for being gay.

The point is that his answer for being discriminated against was in no form or fashion discrimination. He was easily hired for work and it was based purely on his talent. He was given direction about his acting and FROM THE DIRECTOR. It didn't even come from an inappropriate source for example. It wasn't like it was the producer asking him to be less flamboyant backstage or something of that nature. Lambert's example was not discrimination, it was acting direction and as someone who does theater I have heard it dozens of times over the years given to my fellow actors when they happen to be gay and that was from a half dozen well intentioned caring and yes even at times, gay directors as well.

Tell me what makes you an expert Tonton or are you content to just accuse others?

Originally Posted by trumptman

My colloquial usage has always included both genders and preferences.

Sorry if yours doesn't and sorry if you take out your limited worldview and ignorance created by it out on others with baseless accusations.

Oh and one last note, Tonton, stop being a drama queen.

Originally Posted by tonton

Adam Lambert saying he was bothered when told that his performance was "too gay" was not being a drama queen. Your use of the term here fits better. Even better yet would be Carrie Prejean's blaming intolerance of intolerance for the face that she was fired, when the truth is she was fired because she canceled or refused multiple appearances and interviews required of her position as Miss California.

Well, Larry, all I can tell you was this basically comes down to the answer that I gave the night of the pageant. As you can see, Mr. Lewis does not agree with the stance that I took. I think he's very angry. I think he's hurt. He said in a previous statement that he's deeply saddened and hurt that -- what Carrie Prejean believes in -- a marriage is between a man and a woman. Politics and religion have no play in the Miss California family.

My question is, then why was the question asked at the pageant in the first place? If politics has no role in the pageant, why was I given this question?
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I've had some inappropriate appearances that Keith Lewis has asked me to do. And I'm sure you're aware of them already -- one of them being Playboy; another one being a reality show which is being filmed in Costa Rica. So had I said yes to these, I mean, I would have been out of the country.

Again, Playboy, I couldn't believe. I was completely shocked that he would even pass this along to me. Another one was a gay movie premiere that he wanted me to attend incognito. He actually said he wanted me to wear a hat and go in disguise and attend this movie premiere promoting gay marriage and then come out with a statement the next day saying that Carrie Prejean attended a gay movie premiere.
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This isn't about appearances. This isn't about a breach of contract. This is about Keith Lewis not agreeing with the stance that I took on saving traditional marriage. And from day one, he wanted me out.

Originally Posted by hardeeharhar

wow this thread is full of sad.

um, i am not sure what lambert was complaining about -- his direct language seems to indicate that he was offended by the fact that the director used the term gay as opposed to over dramatic, but it is hard to tell.

as for miss california, does it really matter why she was fired? any number of real reasons exist, from her intolerance (there are ways of saying that you believe that marriage should be defined by religious institutions and not government/the people without coming across as an intolerant moron), to the distraction of her tenure. either way she was reducing the value of the miss usa pageant brand name, and that as far as i can tell is a perfectly legitimate reason for firing someone from what amounts to be a pr agency.

is the broader point, here, nick, that bias doesn't exist? because we have one dead security guard that pretty much refutes that notion...

Originally Posted by tonton

Adam Lambert saying he was bothered when told that his performance was "too gay" was not being a drama queen. Your use of the term here fits better. Even better yet would be Carrie Prejean's blaming intolerance of intolerance for the face that she was fired, when the truth is she was fired because she canceled or refused multiple appearances and interviews required of her position as Miss California.