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Best. Gay. Week. Ever.
by Michael Jensen

A weekly column highlighting news about gay and bisexual men in pop culture.

Friday, February 24, 2006 (page 2)
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IF EDWARD R. MURROW WERE ALIVE AND SAW YOUR SHOW, HE’D TAKE A BIG...
Bill O’Reilly has to be the biggest boob not currently featured on BigBoobs.com. In a column he penned this week about Brokeback Mountain, O’Reilly described the likely thoughts that would pass through his pea-brain should he, for some bizarre reason, find himself watching the movie. About the pup tent scene, O’Reilly wrote, “What would Clint and Lee and Eli [from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly] have done had they stumbled upon the tent? I believe gunfire might have been involved.”

Nice, Bill. Real nice. Notice he didn’t say he thought Jack and Ennis should be shot to death. He just thought some movie heroes might want to off them. This man is beyond icky. So icky that I can’t help but wonder what Walter Cronkite might do if he happened to stumble upon O’Reilly. I think a knee to the groin would be involved (but only because Cronkite is anti-gun!).

JOHNNY WEIR IS NOT THE ONLY MALE SKATER AT THE OLYMPICS. IT JUST SEEMS THAT WAY
At the start of the Olympics, I mentioned one speed-skater worth watching was Chad Hedrick. Boy, was I wrong. Not only has Hedrick turned out to be a poor loser and whiny, several readers have written in to inform me that Hedrick is—gasp!—a Bush lovin’ Republican. This, of course, absolutely ruins his hotness factor, taking him from a nine to a one.

So instead, I urge you to cheer on Shani Davis, the first African-American to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics. And Outsports.com has pointed out that on Shani’s website, the first link takes you to KeithBoykin.com, the homepage of a prominent gay African-American. This makes Shani very open-minded if nothing else.

FORGET FOOTBALLERS’ WIVES—WHAT’S WITH THE FOOTBALLERS THEMSELVES?
The internet has been burning up for weeks now with stories about the antics of European footballers. I’m not sure who put what in the water over there, but those boys are definitely cut from a different cloth than US footballers. We’re much too refined to tell you exactly what sort of shenanigans have been going on, but refer you to Queerty.com for the whole scoop.

GOING WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE—OR, FRANKLY, SHOULD GO
The WOW Report is reporting that William Shatner’s character on Boston Legal, Denny Crane is going to have a gay arc sometime this season. So let me get this straight: heterosexual men and lesbians get to watch beautiful women like Lucy Liu and Calista Flockheart take a walk on the wild side, and we get Captain Kirk? And not young, trim Captain Kirk, but swaddled-in-slimming-black, seventy-three year old Captain Kirk? No fair! Yeah, I know we’ve got Jake and Heath, so I really shouldn’t be complaining, but still! Kirk?!?

NEPOTISM? WHAT NEPOTISM?
I’m not telling you about the new teen novel Grand and Humble because it was written by my significant other, and because if I don’t I’m going to be sleeping on the couch for the next six months. No, I’m going to tell you about it because it’s a terrific mystery by Brent Hartinger, the brilliant man who gave us the gay teen novels Geography Club and The Order of the Poison Oak. Grand and Humble is an enthralling mystery with a twist you’ll never see coming! Oh, and there is a secondary, but cool gay character, too.

Honey, would you please let go of my arm now? It’s starting to hurt.

Now I’ll shut up so you can have the BESTGAYWEEKEVER!

That's it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment of Best. Gay. Week. Ever., or read previous installments here.

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