Beautiful Mind Gets a Homoectomy for the Big Screen.

It seems that the soon to be released movie "Beautiful Mind", isn't based on the whole book of the same name, penned by Sylvia Nasar. Nobel Laureate John Nash, who was a mathematical genius, didn't spend

all his time adding and subtracting. What he was up to when he put down his calculator down and kicked

up his heels won't be seen by movie goers. His extra curricular activities were completed deleted for the big screen version of the book. If they were included, his co-star Jennifer Connelly. wouldn't have much of a part to play I guess

The book, a biography on Nash, didn't hide the fact that he liked men and one chapter was dedicated to

a 1994 incident on him hitting on another man in a public restroom and his arrest on charges of indecent exposure. There is also no mention of Nash and Jack Bricker's relationship. They were seen kissing in

public and didn't do much to hide their affections from other people. You would have to be blind not to see

that they were romantically involved. When they weren't together, Nash would always be seen hanging with

the boys. He liked to play around and did so often. He was quoted in the book on a letter he penned, in one

line Nash stated, "An essential and significant personal role in my personal long-awaited gay liberation"

Perhaps, Dreamworks felt a schizophrenic homosexual, was a bit to much for movie goers and would hurt

the box office take. Or maybe it was the idea of Russel Crowe doing the nasty with another man on the big

screen, be still my heart. That I would certainly be something I'd, and I'm sure plenty of other Queer as Folk

fans would happily pay to see. But, with this big part of Nash's life totally omitted from he movie, we'll just

have to imagine that scene in our heads, cause it ain't gonna happen in this movie.

The shame of it is this movie has already been touted as a big hit and still not out in the movie theaters

for another week. The movie received six Golden Globe award nominations, which included best actor, actress, picture and screenplay. Was his because Dreamworks performed a homoectomy on Nash's life?

The book without a homoectomy, won the National Critics Circle Award and made the short list for the Pulitzer Prize. This says something for the homosexual aspects of his life included in the book, not being

It's a sad state of affairs, that, a man known for his genius in mathematics and a Noble Prize couldn't be portrayed as the gay man he was. I'm disappointed that the powers that be at Universal and Dreamworks,

feel that such a huge homophobic atmosphere exists. Where they felt it necessary, to completely delete a

large part of Nash's life, because, they believe it could hurt their box office take. What's most disconcerting

is that, openly gay David Geffen, who is co-founder of Dreamworks and surely is a big part of the decision

making process, allowed Nash's being a gay man, to be completely eliminated from the movie. I could have

understood them toning his personal lifestyle down, even down allot. But, to deliberately and consciously delete

this aspect of Nash's life 100%, saddens me greatly and ticks me off, (angers). To think the public would not

find Crowes a good box office draw if he played a Noble Prize winning mathematical genius and gay.

As for going to see this movie, I'll just skip it and reread the book, so much for fiction anyway.