But according to Editors and Publishers, she's appearing less and less frequently, as newspapers are dropping her screed, er, column. I've no doubt that's a good thing, but hundreds of other columnists are going to miss having her to write about on a slow news day.

MAYBE NOW LOST WILL FIND A GAY CASTAWAY
ABC's Lost is planning on adding three more actors in prominent roles this fall. One of them is going to be Rodrigo Santoro. Santoro isn't well-known in the US, but he's known elsewhere as Brazil's Tom Cruise (hopefully without the sofa jumping part). Or maybe Brazilians dig that stuff. Lost insiders are being tight-lipped with details about Santoro's role, but I swear if somebody on that island doesn't turn out to be gay soon, someone's going to end up fat-lipped as well as tight-lipped.

OPRAH IS NOT THE PROBLEM
A website I frequent tipped me off to an Oprah rerun about crystal meth that aired on Wednesday. The thread about Oprah and the show devolved into accusations that Oprah was maligning gay men by exposing meth use in the gay community. I tivoed the episode, but didn't find it exploitative or unfair to gay men.

The show covered a wide spectrum of meth users, from housewives to truck drivers to, yes, a gay man. And, yes, he was pretty frank about his experiences. But Oprah and the show made it clear being gay had nothing to do with being a meth addict. I will grant that the video footage included in the gay segment was more salacious than necessary, but other than that I give the show an A.

OH, NO! NOT ANOTHER GAY SUPERHERO!
As if the gay superhero thing wasn't already way overdone, this week we had to listen to Kevin Smith of Clerks fame whining he wanted Superman Returns to be more gay than it was. I don't know why Kevin felt this way and I don't care.

Then last night the Sci Fi channel debuted Stan Lee's Who Wants to be a Superhero reality show. In the show, eleven contestants who have created their own Superhero identities compete for the chance to have an actual comic built around their character. And of them is a ‘mo!

He is thirty-two year old Tobias Trost and his alter ego is Levity. No Levity doesn't make folks die laughing by doing Joan Crawford impersonations. Instead, he is able to control air molecules, create force fields, and shoot blasts of air that can penetrate concrete! Levity is especially devoted to protecting gay people. Of course, every superhero needs a nemesis to fight. Levity's will be Rightwing Psycho Nutcase, better known to you and me as Ann Coulter.

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