As
if this was not bad enough, Bravo teamed up with TV Guide to
bring us a poll that picked viewers' favorite reality TV stars.
Voters chose Clay Aiken as their favorite star (My vote? James
from Boy Meets Boy), and Richard Hatch as the reality
star most likely to cheat, as well as the one they would most
like to hit in a game of dodge ball. Homophobia or common sense?
You decide. Oh, and if you have absolutely no life whatsoever,
click here
to read all the poll results. Better yet, do yourself a favor
and read this best
books poll instead.
ONE
DOWN. TWO HUNDRED TO GO.
One head of the reality TV hydra has at least been banished
to the television wasteland called Friday night. Sean Hayes's
Situation: Comedy debuted to a record low 217,000 viewers.
Geeze, I had almost that many people come to my fortieth birthday.
Bravo wasted no time in yanking Situation: Desperate,
er, Comedy off their Tuesday night line-up. Let's just
pray two more Bobby Browns don't pop up in its place.
THAT'S
HOW MANY NOW?
Cable TV added yet another gay character to its line-up with
this week's debut of Weeds on Showtime. The critically
acclaimed show stars Mary Louise Parker (Angels in America,
Longtime Companion) as a recently widowed woman who turns
to dealing pot in order to make ends meet. (Who among us wouldn't
do the same? Resumes are such a pain and the print in the Help
Wanted section is so tiny, after all.) Justin
Chatwin (War of the Worlds) plays the gay son of Elizabeth
Perkins, Mary Louise's erstwhile best friend. Oh, Justin is
also Mary Louise's competition in the pot market. Who knows?
Maybe they go after the same guys as well.
Speaking of Showtime, Queer as Folk
bowed out this week after five seasons. In the final episode,
lesbian couple Melanie and Lindsay did what any rational gay
person would do and high-tailed it for Canada. Meanwhile, Brian
and Justin were supposedly headed for the altar, but Brian being
Brian, really couldn't commit to giving up his playboy lifestyle.
True, he didn't want Justin to give up his career either, but
Brian didn't exactly change much over the course of five years.
Even if I was never a fan of the show, I have to give the writers
of QAF credit for not giving the show a sappy ending. Life ain't
a bowl of cherries. Just ask Dana Reeves.
DAN
SAVAGE COULD KICK MICHAEL SAVAGE'S BUTT AND GIVE HIM A COMPLETE
MAKE-OVER AT THE SAME TIME
Sex advice columnist Dan Savage (that's his real last name)
has pretty much done it all. His column, Savage
Love, is syndicated across the country. His books, including
The Kid and Slouching Toward Gomorrah, have
been critically praised best-sellers, and The
Stranger, the Seattle alternative weekly paper Dan
edits, puts our local Seattle dailies to shame. So what's a
gay writer to do once he's done all this? Why conquer the blogosphere,
of course!
While
conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan is off on vacation, Dan
guested on Andrew's blog
this week. Topics of conversation ranged from Iraq to cell phones
on planes to a man killed having sex with a horse. (No, this
isn't the opening of a Six Feet Under episode. It really
happened. Ugh.) Dan brought his usual wit, intelligence and
insight to Andrew's blog. Too bad it's only for a week. As if
that isn't enough, Dan also has a new book coming out next month.
It's called The
Commitment, and Publisher's Weekly has already
raved about it. If I didn't think Dan was so great, I'd hate
him.
BTW,
right wing nut, columnist, and all around ass Michael Savage's
real last name? Michael Wiener. Maybe there is a God.
ISN'T
THAT WHAT STRIP CLUBS ARE FOR?
An
article in last Sunday's New
York Times posits the theory that the rise in male
nudity on Broadway is due to increased acceptance of gay people.
Says James Nicola, artistic director of the New York Theatre
Workshop, "I think you could say that gay people coming
out of the closet has paralleled the arrival of the penis onstage."
Hmm, there's an odd image to contemplate. Also called the Take
Me Out Revolution (referring to Take Me Out, Richard
Greenberg's baseball play with a ten minute full frontal all-male
shower scene), the rise in nudity is credited to the desire
to be both more artistically honest and to increase the box
office (ya think?). Whatever the reason, I think it simply proves
the conservative's slippery slope argument. Once the burqa's
come off, men's jockey shorts can't be far behind.
I
THOUGHT THE GAY THING WAS FRODO AND SAM'S "SPECIAL"
FRIENDSHIP
Openly
gay actor Brent Carver was tapped to play Gandalf the Grey in
the upcoming stage version of The Lord of The Rings.
Apparently, openly gay Sir Ian McKellen's performance in the
three films was so memorable that only a gay man can now play
the role. In a recent interview, Sir Ian reiterated his call
for gay actors to come out. Says the LOTR star, "I became
a better actor, and my film career took off in a way that I
couldn't have expected. You can't lie about something so central
to yourself without harming yourself." Um, Ian? I love
you, really. But Gandalf and Magneto aren't exactly leading,
romantic roles, you know?
In
completely unrelated news, screen legend Lauren Bacall recently
trashed Tom Cruise as "vulgar" and "not a great
actor." Who knew?
Now
I’ll shut up so you can have the BEST. GAY. WEEK. EVER.
That's
it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment
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