Will there ever be a DVD release of the superior director’s cut of “54″ starring Ryan Phillippe?
I was so happy to read Brent Hartinger’s AfterElton.com article today on the original director’s cut of the 1998 film 54. Brent recently viewed the original cut by writer-director Mark Christopher which included a scene of Ryan Phillippe’s character briefly kissing co-star Breckin Meyer. Brett writes: It was yet another in a long line of Hollywood “de-gayings,” where gay content is removed from a movie’s source material or edited out of a film before its theatrical release, and it’s still one of the most notorious examples. ********** And it’s not just the kiss between Shane and Meyer’s character (who doesn’t reciprocate) that was cut from the theatrical release: the heart of the original version is a touching love triangle between Shane and the characters played by Hayek and Meyer — three more-or-less doomed souls. ********** In 1999, a DVD was released, which included some alternate takes and additional footage not seen in the theatrical release. But this was not the director’s origi
