ENTOURAGE VERSUS BROTHERS & SISTERS
Sunday night brings us new episodes of HBO's Entourage and ABC's Brothers & Sisters. Normally, if I were going to be stranded on a desert island on a Sunday night and could only take one of the shows with me, it would be B&S (even though I've been rather put off by it of late). But this Sunday I would have to take Entourage instead because of Lloyd (Rex Lee. Part of Sunday night's episode is built around just what Lloyd is willing to do to keep Ari (Jeremy Piven) happy. The answer? Here it is as an asterisk spoiler. He's ******* to ***** the ***** with a ****** in order to *** *** to **** with ***'* ******. Now that's devotion. But in the end, Ari cares too much for Lloyd to let him go through with it.

One of the things I appreciate about Entourage is that the show hasn't forced Lloyd to stay a one-joke character. He's actually been allowed to emerge as a person with his own goals and dreams. But apparently that's not enough character development for some folks. After we ran an interview last year with Rex, Defamer.com reprinted part of it under the heading Entourage's' Lloyd Latest Victim of Gay Eunuch Syndrome. As detailed in this LA Times article, Defamer was ticked that since viewers get to see all of Entourage's other characters get bedded, we should see Lloyd get bedded, too. Hey, I'm the first to want gay characters to be fully realized, but let's face it; Lloyd is a secondary character and rather than criticize Entourage for what it isn't doing, I'd rather praise them for what they are doing. And I think the ongoing relationship between the very gay Lloyd and the very-straight Ari is one of the more interesting currently going on with a gay sitcom character.

As for Sunday's episode of B&S --Game Night—the show wastes no time in introducing us to Kevin's (Matthew Rhys) next potential victim love interest Jason McCallister (Eric Winter). Kitty (Calista Flockhart) sets the two up on a blind date which goes disastrously. Gee, there's a shocker. At least it's not because Kevin pulled Jason's hair. Or slept with Scotty (Luke Macfarlane) again. Don't expect a whole lot of character development with Jason for now which is probably a good thing as there is still no word on whether or not his pilot for CBS has been picked up. In the meantime, here is another asterisk spoiler to keep you busy for Sunday night. Please note it does not involve Kevin.

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READER MAIL!
Dear AfterElton Flying Monkeys:

I'm a well-known, very respected, hunky journalist car salesman who everyone thinks is gay. They even make jokes about it in on network TV, one of which was so mean it made me cry for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. Plus, the most recent issue of Out Car and Driver outed me! I've dealt with these rumors for years by not talking about them or by claiming that sharing personal details would hurt my ability to report the news sell cars (even though I write books about my dad's death, my brother's suicide, and other family stuff). But now a fellow journalist car salesman is calling me on the mat for my supposed hypocrisy. Should I have Olbermann him whacked or just come out?

AC69

Dear Anderson AC69

Us flying monkeys remember that when we lived back in the lush jungles of Rwanda there was a big silverback gorilla named Isoni that everyone knew was a big ‘mo. He was the leader of the pack, but was convinced none of the other gorillas would listen to him anymore if they knew he was a banana smoker. Well, everyone knew anyway (it was the Tarzan infatuation that gave him away, the muscle queen) and at first no one cared. We all knew it was nothing to be ashamed of, but his silence made it seem like there was. Then some gorillas started making jokes about it and others wondered if there were other things he wasn't telling the truth about. Isoni got depressed, started drinking fermented coconut milk, and became the laughingstock of the jungle. One day he finally left and I hear he's now a stripper in a gay gorilla bar in Johannesburg . What a waste.

So come on out already, AC69. Even though it's not fair you've been pushed out, by now it's inevitable and if Thomas Roberts can do it, so can you!

The AfterElton Flying Monkeys