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Friday, July 18, 2008 12:00 AM

"Mamma Mia!"

Pierce Brosnan sings! Meryl Streep dances! Can't you hear ABBA's "SOS"?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, July 18, 2008 08:36 AM

    "this gay-ass film..."

    Hey Everyone, I just read the phrase "this gay-ass film"...

    Everyone in this town ( I live, for most of every year, in the few blocks between the politically-correct, parrot-fever hothouse of the Duke English Department and the less-than-entirely-politcally-correct "Duke Lacrosse" scandal-house) has gotten so self-consciously NICE that I haven't heard the phrase "gay-ass" (as in "your gay-ass dog" or "that gay-ass film") in years and years.....even gay men seem scared to use it anymore...(atleast when they're with straight, "nice" people)

    I'm so glad to find that someone's got the balls to type it.

    I (and, surprisingly enough, also my reasonably handsome, very rich, 6'1", devoted French doctor boyfriend)am queer as a box of birds.

    and I miss the phrase "gay-ass". I neverliked it when folks mis-applied it, but it DID serve a useful purpose for long while there....

    thank you, whoever wrote that....

    ---david terry

    www.davidterryart.com

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