Beauty And The Beast director: ‘I wish I could say I…rip pages out of the Bible’
In a 2007 interview that is getting renewed attention this week, Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon said that he wishes he could "rip pages out of the Bible" when he stays in hotel rooms. When asked by Passport Magazine in the interview what the first thing is he does when he gets into a hotel room, he replied: "I wish I could say I’m like Ian McKellen and immediately go rip pages out of the Bible, but there don’t seem to be bibles in the hotel rooms I stay in these days.” The openly homosexual director’s film is being boycotted by Christian and Conservative groups after he revealed that it contained what he called an “exclusively gay moment.” "Le Fou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston," Condon said in a March 1 interview with Attitude . “He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realising that he has these feelings. And [actor] Josh makes something...