You need an outside body to change that culture. In The Patriot, Mel Gibson plays a character inspired in part by Francis Marion, the Revolutionary War hero known as the Swamp Fox for his guerrilla-style stealth attacks on the British. But in the final hours leading up to the film's nationwide opening, Gibson was feeling a lot more like Paul Revere. Hugh Davies reports from London. Gielgud's quiet gay activism revealed Sir John Gielgud made secret payments to Stonewall, the campaign group for homosexual rights, but insisted that his support remained secret because he did not want to encourage speculation about his private life.
Nothing is more irritating to professional sport fans than the capricious interest of outsiders.
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