Does Brad Pitt Play A Gay Baseball Star In Moneyball?
I could have sworn as much the second I started watching the based-on-a-true-story movie and heard Brad being referred to as Billy Beane.
I knew someone by that name! (See above.)
He was the hot-looking ex-major-league player who made international headlines when he came out in 1999.
He's historic!
I later worked with Billy on a TV project, and he then returned to selling real estate in Miami, even appearing on Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List when he showed her some hot properties.
So why was the movie not even bothering to refer to the character's major-league gayness?
Another Hollywood con job?
More creative closeting from the big boys in La La Land?
Nope. I'm an idiot. It turns out Brad actually plays the Oakland A's general manager, Billy Beane.
The gay player I know is Billy Bean, without an e.
And he's the one who can no doubt sing every word of "Liza With a Z," not the one Brad Pitt plays.
Got it? Good.
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