Square jawed, boyish & handsome, Bryan Singer’s movies have homoerotic moments, homo-friendly subtexts, & he has a really serious thing for uniforms & hot young men. Singer was adopted, & was an only child of a Jewish couple in a mostly Catholic neighborhood in New Jersey. He was very affected by his parents divorce when he was 12, but remained close to both his mother & father, whom he often casts in small roles in his films. Growing up gay, Bryan Singer has said that he has felt like an outsider as he grew up & that awareness has made him a better filmmaker. After several short films & a little seen first feature, his first major studio release was The Usual Suspects, which received universal good reviews & was popular at the box office. It won Oscars for best screenplay & best supporting actor for Kevin Spacey. The next film was Apt Pupil with Sir Ian McKellen with whom he became friends & a frequent collaborator, using him in the extremely popular X-Men films, in which all kinds of minority moviegoers saw an allegory about themselves. He is also executive producer Dirty, Sexy Money, which features a trans-sexual as a major character, played by trans-sexual Candis Cayne & of the smash hit TV show House. Upcoming projects include a Battlestar Galactia feature & a film of Augusten Burroughs’ Sellavision. He turns 44 today.
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