Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (April 18, 2008)

FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!
Maybe it's not opening nationwide, but there is a real live gay movie at the box office this weekend. Unfortunately, it's Kiss the Bride which pretty much most of us here did not like. Brian gave it a pretty solid thumb's down in his review and both Brent and I found it a total snooze with uninteresting leads and a script that never worked.

I was quite surprised to feel this way given that it comes from C. Jay Cox who gave us the terrific Latter Days and also features Tori Spelling who was such a pleasant surprise in Trick. I definitely suggest you stick with here!'s other recent release, Shelter. But if you insist, Bride is opening Friday in St. Louis, Denver, Hollywood, and Berkeley with more cities to follow. And here is the trailer:

Opening in much wider release is Forgetting Sarah Marshall and if you're really desperate to see a full frontal nude scene with a dude, this is your chance to see Jason Segel's goodies. I think I'll pass, so you'll have to tell me what I missed.

Speaking of Shelter, starting Friday April 18th, here! is offering it on demand for viewing at home. Also on here! are two new episodes of Cover Guy and a new The Ben and Dave Show.

Saturday night wraps up Season 2 of Torchwood and I have to say, the season is going out with a bang. I don't want to spoil anything for those that have avoided spoilers, but the following pics, in one way or another, allude to pretty much everything about the episode. I'll say more next week.

(Photo credit: BBC Worldwide)

Also on Saturday night is a new episode of HGTV's Color Splash with David Bromstad.

Sunday night is the second of the new episodes of Desperate Housewives and I, for one, was quite disappointed in last week's ep. I found it kinda clunky and unbelievable and while number two is better, I wasn't thrilled with it either. Maybe things will pick up a bit more when Bob and Lee pop back up, but, frankly, I hope the reports floating around out there that the show will flash forward five years in the finale and that Andrew will then be partnered with either Bob or Lee are true. Okay, it's slightly creepy Andrew will be with one of them, but at least it will finally give him something to do than serve pizza once in a while.

Sunday also marks the return of ABC's Brothers & Sisters which you'll find very B&S-ish. Lots of Walker angst, yelling, and emoting. The ep also employs a little flash forward, but as Scotty doesn't even appear, it doesn't affect our boys. Oprah's Big Give wraps up on Sunday night, but given that no one has mentioned it even once in the comments, despite Nate Berkus' presence, I figure no one is watching anyway.

Monday has a new episode of Greek, but it involves a flashback so methinks Calvin won't be getting much screen time. I do, however, have a bit more of my recent chat with Paul James about his role as the frat brother who happens to be gay.

When asked about how he approaches the role and if that has changed from the first season to now, James said:

He’s [Calvin] one of the few [gay characters] so it’s like I was reading this great book with Sidney Poitier, it’s called Pictures at a Revolution. It’s a great book. I recommend it. And he was saying how when he was the only black actor working he couldn’t afford to just be a regular actor because every role he did was going to say something about the race or whatever and so he didn’t want to be irresponsible.

Now it’s definitely not to that extent, but Calvin has to make sure that he is being treated like every other character but responsibly. So, I feel like his flaws, which need to be shown, have to be of a certain nature. Do you know what I mean? You don’t want to fall into stereotype. So you don’t want to see so much promiscuity from Calvin’s character. We’ve seen that before. Or you wouldn’t want to see like too many snappy retorts, you know like a bitchiness that we’ve seen before, something like that.

So, I think there is definitely a pressure to make him original, which is good. But we also have to handle the issues that Sean is writing about really carefully since a lot of times it’s going to be, since young people are watching the show it’s going to be their only representation that they’ve seen, a positive representation of a gay character. So, we have to handle that responsibly.

That the show has managed to do that without neutering the character into some bland goody-two-shoes is a testament to both James and the show's writers.

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