Friday, June 17, 2005

MOVIE ROUNDUP
Chris Terrio's The Heights opens this weekend in limited release. About a group of New Yorkers in the theater world, the drama includes Glenn Close as a theater diva, and Jesse Bradford as a gay actor.

Queer Eye's Carson Kressley plays a gay waiter in the Hilary Duff-Heather Locklear vehicle opening this weekend, The Perfect Man. And in case anyone's wondering, no, he's not the title character.

THE SHOW GOES ON IN VEGAS
Elton John has renewed his Las Vegas show through 2008. The show, called "The Red Piano," has been playing at Caesars Palace's The Colosseum since February, 2004. Last year, the show grossed over $40 million, with tickets averaging around $158 each.

GLAAD AWARD TO MAPA
This week at its Media Awards in San Francisco, GLAAD gave openly gay actor Alec Mapa (Half & Half ) its Davidson/Valentini Award, which honors an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for the LGBT community. In accepting the award, Mapa thanked the restaurant staff where he worked in high school. "The staff who worked in this restaurant was gay--and not just gay, but gay. Gay, gay, gay. They gave me the courage to be the person that I am. And I thought it would be unacceptable for me to be in the closet professionally when I'd benefited so much from these men. So when you honor me tonight, you honor every single out, proud, gay and lesbian person I've ever known."

TAB TELLS ALL
The upcoming memoir by actor Tab Hunter reportedly includes details on Hunter's two-year affair with Tony Perkins, and his fling with Rudolf Nureyev, and the price he paid for staying closeted, according to New York Post columnist Liz Smith.

EVERETT BEING EVERETT IS WRONG
"Gays being gay is wrong," Chicago White Sox designated hitter Carl Everett told Maxim in a new interview for their July issue. "Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay."

Let's just pause for a moment on the grammatical and logical flow of the statement "gays being gay is wrong." That tells us pretty much all we need to know about Everett, now doesn't it?

That's it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment of Best. Gay. Week. Ever.