christiekeith's blogProject Runway cracks a fag joke
I was curled in front of my TV, laptop on my knee, contemplating how lucky I am to have a job where I am paid to watch Project Runway and tell people what I think about it. Life, I thought, is very good. I was floating on a little riff of the show's trademark workroom banter between two of the show's out gay contestants, Chris March and Ricky Lazade. Chris had a joke:
Now, I did laugh. I get the joke. I even get that it's not anti-gay, and not simply because it was a joke between two gay men. I mean, the whole premise of it is that if you're gay, that's all homophobes will see. It doesn't matter if you're a college professor, auto mechanic, ballroom dance instructor, or paleolithic cartoon character: You're just a fag. So I'm not casting any aspersions on my beloved Chris or Ricky. I love you both, you know that, guys, right? No, I'm wondering about Bravo. And this isn't your usual rhetorical, fake-concern, I-already-know-the-answer type wondering, either. It's genuine, and it's this: Would Bravo have aired a similar exchange between two African-American designers joking about the word "n****r"? I don't watch much reality TV, and I never watch the kind where the focus is the backstage drama and backstabbing. Perhaps Bravo not only would air such an exchange, but already has. Those wiser in the ways of reality television can probably answer that question, and I hope one of you does. But it did give me a tiny pause, in the moment before I laughed, and again after. Just a little question in my brain, wondering what Bravo was thinking when they edited this episode, and made the decision to include this joke, and that word. Check out the whole recap here! Submitted by on Thu, 2008-01-10 16:50. Noah's Arc film shooting in November?
Okay, the whole reason I write for this site is so I can say stuff like this: “When I was chatting with Wilson Cruz yesterday, he told me….” Wilson Cruz: Well, we have a script. We should be shooting before the end of the year, maybe November-ish.Logo wouldn’t confirm this for us, so it has to be considered mere rumor at this point, but I’m sitting here going OMG please just make sure Wade and Noah get back together because they are made for each other, yo. I don’t care if Jensen Atwood is busy taking his shirt off on Dante’s Cove, my romantic little lesbian soul needs it. Are you listening, TV gods? Submitted by on Thu, 2007-09-27 18:32. Take your shirt off, it's Season Three of Dante's Cove!As you know, I’m all about the fluff, so when there’s news about Dante’s Cove, I’m all over it.
No, Dante’s Cove is where you go if you’re looking for guys with their shirts off rolling around in the sand making glorious love while ancient curses drive immortal beings to wreak havoc on the lives and loves of everyone they come in contact with.
Also “I have a very steamy scene with [new cast member] Jensen [Atwood]. It was very powerful and was supposed to be the biggest orgasm of my life."Season Three debuts sometime in October on the here! network. Check out the official series site for more information, and catch the trailer after the jump: Submitted by on Thu, 2007-08-30 16:02. Giggle when you say that, TuckerNothing makes me laugh quite like a little gay-bashing humor. How about you?
Last night Tucker Carlson, Dan Abrams, and Joe Scarborough had a falling-down-laughing good time with the Larry Craig story on MSNBC. When Abrams seemed curious as to why Tucker had once indicated a person's sexual orientation wasn't actually anyone else's business, Carlson hastened to reassure him of the most important thing: “Let me be clear, Dan. I’m not gay. I’ve never been gay. Over-reacted and made a poor decision…” (laughter) To which Abrams, who isn’t just a big name at MSNBC but an attorney, responded, also laughing:
I mean, come on. This is funny stuff. But not anywhere near as funny as Abram's reaction when he found out Carlson has been approached by men for sex in public places; such things have apparently never happened to Abrams. What exactly did Carlson do, he asked, when he was approached? In the manliest tone possible to use when one is giggling, Tucker replied:
Then they all basically wet their pants laughing. Submitted by on Wed, 2007-08-29 13:25. Randy Harrison on stage: It's all good
Randy Harrison, the out gay actor who played Justin in Showtime's Queer as Folk (and was number 34 on AfterElton.com's Hot 100) left television behind when that series wrapped in 2005, saying he wanted to focus on the stage. Lots of television actors say that's what they're doing even though secretly all they really want out of life is to be a movie star, but Randy seems to mean it — and have the chops to do it, too.
And now he's grabbing a surprisingly large and positive amount of critical attention as the charming cad Frank Gardner in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession at the prestigious Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, MA. While one critic did seem to think he fidgeted too much, whatever that means, all the other critical mentions have been positive — too many to list, in fact, so here are just a few: The Boston Globe described Frank as "the young ne'er-do-well next door (Randy Harrison of "Queer as Folk," summoning some of the ludic qualities that made him such a superb "Amadeus" at BTF last season)." Theatermania didn't care for the production but singled Harrison's performance out for a positive mention. NewBerkshire.com loved him: Frank, (Randy Harrison) the youngest of the quartet is charming, ardent, fickle, an amiable weakling, supportive of Vinie and loving her, but practical enough to know without her mother’s money to back them marrying her would never work because he is well aware he is incapable of earning any. A well-defined character, and one distinctively different from those leads he has played with skill in “Equus” and “Amadeus.” From TheTranscript.com: Randy Harrison plays ... Frank, with a persuasive charm that, aside from his Adonis-like handsomeness, is his chief means of survival. But Harrison, who seems to improve on excellence each successive year at BTF, provides dimension in also emphasizing the humanity Shaw has given him.
One thing's for sure: If it's really what he wants, it looks like Harrison has a glowing career in the theater ahead of him. Even if I do still kind of miss seeing him on TV. Submitted by on Tue, 2007-08-28 08:11. Design Star Recap: Going to the chapel and it's gonna get ugly
Okay, when I think of timeless design and endless love, I don’t think any of the following words: Las Vegas, dice, casino, rockabilly. This was the moment I had a very bad feeling about our boy Josh, who is not looking as sparkly as he did when the show began. The bride and groom don’t seem enamored of his presentation, and I couldn’t get a feeling for how it was supposed to look from the camera angles we were given on it. Submitted by on Mon, 2007-08-20 15:16. Design Star Recap: Tears, queers, and what you can get for 99 cents
It was really hard for me when HGTV decided to do a reality competition show last year. I kind of hate reality TV and competitions make me horribly anxious, and yet, if you don’t count my Xena: Warrior Princess DVDs, HGTV is pretty much the only reason I have a television. In fact, the first blog post I did here was all about my big gay home decorating network. Submitted by on Mon, 2007-08-13 10:54. Rufus shines. Audience, not so much.Oh, Rufus Wainwright, how you sparkle.
The crunchy granola-ness of his audience didn’t seem to affect Rufus, though. He opened the show with a rendition of “Release the Stars” that tore right out of his gut, dressed in a white suit covered with blue flowers and about ten pounds of diamante, illuminated during the choruses with the thousand swirling sparkles of a good old-fashioned disco ball. I believe that if you check the dictionary under “sui generis,” you’ll find a photo of Rufus Wainwright. No one puts on a more eclectic show, and with the tragic loss of James Brown earlier this year, I’m thinking we might also have a new “hardest working man in show business.” Four costume changes, a two-hour set (at least – it might have been longer but I lost all track of time), and enough genre-hopping to overwhelm a less gifted artist. He sang rock, folk, an un-miked Irish ballad, Judy Garland classics, and all of it with complete abandon and the passion he’s justly renowned for.
Submitted by on Thu, 2007-08-09 14:49. Mpreg: Sometimes the internet scares me
I don't know when or where I first heard of something called "mpreg," although I know it was online. I didn't know what it was, and oh, how I long for those innocent days of yesteryear. Submitted by on Fri, 2007-07-27 12:46. Falling for Grace: B. D. Wong, Gale Harold, and Margaret Cho star
For a totally conventional hetero Cinderella romantic comedy without even an Obligatory Gay Best Friend, Falling for Grace, which opens this weekend in San Francisco and next weekend in Washington, DC, is kind of a who's who of the queer and near-queer. It stars Queer as Folk's Gale Harold as the JFK Jr-esque Andrew Barrington, Jr. He's vying for the affections of Grace Tang (Faye Ann Lee) with Steven, played by gay actor B.D. Wong (M. Butterfly, Law & Order: SVU). When Grace, who has been mistaken for a Hong Kong heiress by a group of upper-crust New Yorkers, falls for Andrew, Steven turns his sights on her best friend, Janie, brought outrageously to life by every gay boy's best friend, Margaret Cho. And there's more: Andrew's brittle socialite mother is played by the brilliantly funny and gay-friendly Christine Baranski (Birdcage, Jeffery). Baranski is currently on Broadway, starring in Paul Rudnick's Regrets Only, where she plays a different kind of socialite mother, one who's torn between her husband, a conservative lawyer helping the president write an anti-gay marriage amendment, and her gay best friend, Hank. It's also something of a Law and Order who's who, because in addition to Wong and Baranski, both L&O franchise alums, Andrew is about to become engaged to Kay, played by Stephanie March (SVU's ADA Alexandra Cabot). She's kind of WASP-y and uptight but her hair looks really fabulous in this movie, and there just has to be something gay about that. Submitted by on Fri, 2007-07-20 08:07. |
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