HTTP:: Bronson Pinchot Explains Homophobe Comment on Tom Cruise
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Bronson Pinchot, who fans mostly remember for his part of adorable Balki in “Perfect Strangers,†resurfaced in the media the other day with a series of not-at-all-flattering comments about some of his ex co-stars. These included Tom Cruise, whom Pinchot labeled a homophobe, Denzel Washington, who was vile, and Bette Midler, for whom Pinchot used an appellative that can hardly be transcribed here. He stands by his comments, Pinchot tells the Wall Street Journal â€" with a slight correction. As one might easily imagine, the moment Pinchot’s comments made it on to the blogosphere, they immediately generated talk of a potential lawsuit. Denzel was probably the least offended by what his former co-star said, because it could very well be that his behavior had been misinterpreted. Tom Cruise, on the other hand, had all the reason to sue, as Pinchot accused him of discrimination and even went to great lengths to show that he was the only to do so on the set of “Risky Bus!
iness.†Herein lies the problem, the actor explains. It’s true that Tom Cruise made disrespectful comments, but it’s also true that, for him at the time, it was an unremarkable thing. “The context of the question was, ‘how did he strike me as a person’ at a point in his ...
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