Capote-Sounding ‘Star Wars’ Character Only As Gay As You Want Him to Be

We thought all discussion of The Clone Wars ended yesterday with the discovery that if Harry Knowles hates it — enough even for George Lucas Warner Bros. to swoop in and kill his embargo-shattering review — it must be some kind of radioactively awful. But new revelations have surfaced this afternoon about Ziro the Hutt, the fringe character whom Knowles described as sounding like “a racist take on a Black New Orleans Crack-Dealing Whore.” Not quite, Harry — not even close, in fact, according to an interview published today at MTV Movies: