Logan Kelly is a professional author, screenwriter, and proud cinemaphile. He studied screenwriting and film history while attending Valencia College, before moving to New England. Logan's first publication came with his book, Brighter Stars.
The Big Picture The Academy Awards are undoubtedly Hollywood's biggest night, routinely filled with snubs and surprises as we recognize the best performances of the year. Over the many decades it's been on the air, the Oscars have also dealt with their fair share of controversy.
However, though the part is often considered one of his best, drama behind the scenes was one of Gere's earliest controversies. In an interview, Gere admitted he clashed with both Debra Wagner and Louis Gossett Jr., his costars in the film. While his feud with Wagner was surprising to audiences, as the two had remarkable chemistry, his on-set controversy with Gossett Jr. got physical. Gere said, "I love Lou, but Lou didn’t work as hard as me to learn the karate...
Another controversy occurred in 2007. While attending an HIV Awareness event in New Delhi, India, Gere kissed actress Shilpa Shetty on stage. Outside the oddity of his unexpected behavior, the government proclaimed that the kiss broke the country's "public obscenity" law. According to CBS News, "Under Indian law, a person convicted of public obscenity faces up to three months in prison, a fine, or both.
When Gere took the stage, however, his speech was quite different. "…if something miraculous, really kind of movie-like, could happen here, where we could all kind of send love and truth and a kind of sanity to Deng Xiaoping right now in Beijing, that he will take his troops and take the Chinese away from Tibet and allow people to live as free independent people again," is just part of Gere's unexpected rant.
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