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GIVE ME MITCH CRUMB OVER WILL TRUMAN ANY DAY
Crumbs has been on the air just over a month and already I like it a hundred times better than I ever did Will and Grace. Yes, both are sitcoms and the actors speak English, but there the similarities end. Fred Savage imbues his role as Mitch with a depth I still don't see in Will Truman after eight seasons. On Tuesday night's episode, Mitch refused to come out, thereby losing a boyfriend. As the episode ended, Mitch spotted a gay couple holding hands, causing him a look of real pain and yearning.

It just feels like Savage takes his role a lot more seriously than McCormack ever did. That being said, if after eight seasons Mitch has been single the whole time, I'll have a bone to pick with Crumbs.

DIDN'T BRAD PITT WANT THAT PART?
Adam Sandler and Kevin James are in negotiations to star in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The film, about a couple of straight firefighters who pretend to be gay in order to get domestic partner benefits, has languished around Hollywood for quite sometime now. Previous stars rumored to be interested include Will Smith, Vince Vaughn, and
Owen Wilson.

I've never been wild about Chuck and Larry, which seems ripe with potential homophobia. Pre-Brokeback it just PO'd me that this was the most interesting gay story Hollywood had to tell. The fact that Wedding Crasher's director David Dobkins is set to direct Chuck and Larry doesn't instill me with confidence—not after the creepy gay brother he gave us in Wedding Crashers. But Adam Sandler does give me some hope, as he has been remarkably pro-gay in his movies. Even the recent remake of The Longest Yard wasn't nearly as homophobic as I expected. (It was still a ka-rappy movie however.)

AMERICAN IDOL CAN KICK THE GRAMMY'S ASS WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND
ITS BACK
The Grammys aired this week, seemingly without either the usual controversy or the numbers of viewers. Early ratings show that nearly twice as many people watched American Idol. I can only assume the moral decay of American culture caused by the success of Brokeback Mountain is to blame for the Grammys' falling ratings. After all, that's why the Golden Globes did poorly this year, according to the right-wingers anyway. Perhaps the Grammys just needed a hot lesbian fantasy sequence.

Sources tell me that viewers missed out on Madonna's latest Grammy shenanigans. After her performance with animated band, Gorillaz, Madonna first tried to french kiss Mariah Carey who had bodyguards beat off the ageing pop star. Then Madonna went after Bono and Kanye West, but they, too, refused her advances. Next the Material Girl tried to get E! to interview her by first speaking in faux German, Russian, and Swahili accents. They declined and when last seen Madonna was making out with a nineteen-year old cross-dressing valet while yelling “Look at me! Look at me!” Sadly, no one would.

Now I'll shut up so you can have the BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER!

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