A Brief Glimpse of A Single Man

Very brief. AFTER THE JUMP...

Trailer HERE if you missed it.

Tom Ford Hates Yves Saint Laurent, and the Word Marriage

Tom Ford lets go in an interview with Kevin Sessums at The Advocate, discussing A Single Man, the first blowjob he ever gave, his partner Richard Buckley, his use of cosmetic fillers for the face, and his life in the fashion world.

Ford unleashes on Yves Saint Laurent:

"I don’t even remember much about my time at Yves Saint Laurent, though I do think some of my best collections were [there]—other than that black-and-white initial one. That one wasn’t very successful and wasn’t very good. But being at Yves Saint Laurent was such a negative experience for me even though the business boomed while I was there. Yves and his partner, Pierre Bergé, were so difficult and so evil and made my life such misery. I’d lived in France off and on and had always loved it. I went to college in France. It wasn’t until I started working in France that I began to dislike it. They would call the fiscal police, and they would show up at our offices. You are not able to work an employee more than 35 hours a week. They’re like Nazis, those police. They’d come marching in, and you had to let them in and they’d interview my secretary. And they can fine you and shut you down. Pierre was the one calling them. I’ve never talked about this on the record before, but it was an awful time for me. Pierre and Yves were just evil. So Yves Saint Laurent doesn’t exist for me."

Ford also says he's in favor of civil partnerships and not marriage, for everyone.

"A few weeks ago Richard had to go into the hospital for something, and I had to carry around all these legal documents saying I could make medical decisions for him. It was insane. The fact that we are not married in the federal sense means that if I were to die, he’d have to pay all these taxes on my estate and receive but a fraction of it and he’d have to alter his life —whereas if we were married, he wouldn’t have to face that burden. That’s disgusting. It’s wrong. But that said, I think I am in favor of terming what I’m talking about as a civil partnership. We all get so caught up with this word marriage. For me, the word marriage is something that a religion should decide. Just give me all the same rights. A civil partnership is what I’d like for everyone—heterosexual as well as homosexual. Call it what you like—it’s the rights that are important. Getting hung up with the semantics derails the cause we’re all fighting for."

More at the Advocate. Check out the one-sheet and trailer for A Single Man, HERE.

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First Look: One-Sheet for A Single Man

Here's the just-released one-sheet for Tom Ford's debut film, A Single Man, an adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, and Nicholas Hoult.

Firth won the Best Actor prize for the film at the Venice Film Festival and last week he picked up another top honor, this one from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which will present him with its "Outstanding Performance of the Year".

It' scheduled to open in limited release in December.

The trailer, if you've missed it, AFTER THE JUMP...

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