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The F Word
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by John M. Tegan. Edited, written, and directed by Andrew Rosen. Videography by Charles Stevens. Music by Gianfranco and Charles Kurzwell. Starring Jesse Santana, Matt Majors, Christian Owen, Andrew Justice, Guy Parker, Jason White, Cole Ryan, Tyler Saint, and Braxton Bond.
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When volatile actor Isaiah Washington called costar T.R. Knight a "little faggot" during a fracas on the set of the ABC-TV series Grey's Anatomy late in 2006, the ensuing media hype sealed the incident's destiny as smut fodder. In this well-crafted, competently acted porno-fictionalization, tensions erupt on the set of something called Golden Hills, whose cranky, ginger-stubbled star Andrew Justice hurls the f-epithet at a colleague. Andrew Rosen's script won't sow any seeds of self-doubt among the speech police, but it does fall short of full-bore GLAADthink. The real issue here isn't language, it's hypocrisy. Apart from the predictably closeted homophobe, everybody in The F Word is a little devious, including the unabashed fags.

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The latter include Jesse Santana as a reporter for a glitzy tabloid; Cole Ryan as a paparazzo; Guy Parker as Santana's on-set informant; Matt Majors as a producer; Christian Owen as Majors's boytoy/assistant; and Tyler Saint as Justice's agent. ("My agent's a faggot," says Justice in his own defense, "and I have no problem with that.") Braxton Bond, the target of Justice's outburst, is also, of course, gay; his encounter with fellow TV actor Jason White provides a luscious first sex scene. The F Word's sexual component peaks with the third of four episodes, a three-way for Owen, Saint, and Majors; the sequence itself hits its peak with a rigorous fuck-train. The final scene, in which dark-haired, finely wrought Cole Ryan draws Andrew Justice out of the closet, owes much of its heat to Justice's performance. Plunging headlong into sex, he's like a thirsty castaway who's just found water.