How I Met Your MotherAfterElton Briefs: "Get Smart"'s gay kiss, an apology from Shia (sorta), and more!
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Out actor B.D. Wong, also at the Theaatre Wold Awards ![]()
And today's Briefs are brought to you by... Submitted by on Wed, 2008-06-11 16:59. A gay misstep on "How I Met Your Mother"?
I'm a day late on this, but was anyone else vaguely annoyed by the minor "gay" sub-plot on Monday's episode of How I Met Your Mother? Desperate for money, Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) decide to try to sell Lily's paintings. They have the usual sitcom-y back luck ... until Lily manages, to her delight, to sell a painting to the arbiters of truly good taste, a "GAYCWK" — a Gay Couple Without Kids. But Marshall loves the painting and wants it back, so he goes to visit the gay couple's apartment. After Marshall inquires about the painting — "the one in the nice frame" — one of the gay guys says (in a queeny, lascivious voice): "Talk about a nice frame! You are a big one, aren't you? My, my. And you're married to that little bit of a thing. How does that work? I'd like to find out." The show pretends that Marshall, an obviously married, heterosexual man, would flattered by this creepy, totally inappropriate sexual attention, rather than having him give the correct response, which would be to tell the gay guy to go f*#& himself. I confess: I hate gay-guy-hitting-on-straight-guy humor. I hate it when frat-boy comedies cement the rock-solid heterosexuality of their main characters by having them get hit on by, and then rejecting, some queeny stereotype of a gay guy. (For the record, I also hate it when drag queens get cheap laughs by making double entendres to the hapless straight guy in the audience. Passive aggressive much?)
Anyway, you can tell who has the real power in Hollywood by looking atwho the sexual predators tend to be in movies and one television: women and gay men. Um, yeah, cause that's the way it is in real life. This whole thing was beneath How I Met Your Mother, which, after the brilliant new Robin Sparkles video "Sandcastles in the Sand" a few weeks ago, had been on something of a winning streak. I mean, the gay couple wasn't just creepy-lascivious, they were literally limp-wristed! I refuse to blame Neil Patrick Harris for this — hey, he's just another actor on the show. But did the whole thing strike anyone else as a series of gags straight out of the 1980s? Submitted by on Wed, 2008-05-14 11:29. AfterElton Briefs: Neil Patrick Harris talks "Password", Mike Epps slings a gay slur, and more!
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And today's Briefs are brought to you by... Submitted by on Tue, 2008-05-13 17:07. AfterElton Briefs: Broadway's "Glory Days"!
In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
And today's Briefs are brought to you by... Submitted by on Thu, 2008-05-08 16:47. AfterElton Briefs: Neil welcomes back Britney with open arms, Clive Barker's dark arts, and more!
Moonlight's totally not-gay vampires (Jason Dohring and Alex O'Laughlin) In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
Britney's back ... and she's dating Barney!
And today's Briefs are brought to you by... Submitted by on Tue, 2008-05-06 17:04. AfterElton Briefs: AFA mad at "ATWT" (duh!), "Desperate Housewives" commitment ceremony, and more!
In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
And today's Briefs are brought to you by... Submitted by on Mon, 2008-04-28 18:03. Breaking! Neil Patrick Harris will probably never say the word "Britney" within range of a microphone again
How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris learned a very valuable lesson over the last few days: "LEAVE BRITN--" ... (I'm sorry, I just can't finish it). No doubt you've seen the hysterical overreaction to some remarks he made to an Associated Press reporter. Late last week, the story exploded, with headlines like NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: SAY NO TO BRITNEY!, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: KEEP BRITNEY OFF MY SHOW!, and NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: CASTING BRITNEY WAS A STUNT! Here are some of his remarks from the original story:
'We've done a good three and three-quarter seasons with guest stars that we feel like are exactly perfect for the characters that (were) written ... by the crack writing staff,'' Harris told a reporter visiting the set of the Monday night CBS sitcom. ''I worry that if they start 'Will and Gracing' us too much, that the show will suffer. And we're all really proud of the content of the show. I mean viewership is not our game. It's the network and the studio's game, you know. It's the promotion department's game. We wish we weren't opposite an awkward reality dancing competition. But we have no say about that. I just am a real fan of our content. I think we have a great show going and I hope it's not screwed up by the desire for 700,000 more viewers.' Bloggers had a field day with the comments, and now Neil Patrick has issued a "clarification":
"It seems that yesterday a writer took some quotes of mine and speculated an opinion about their intent. I write to you to set the record straight. "As I have said all along, Britney did a great job on the show. She really did. In fact, we are all hoping that she returns rather soon to reprise her role as Abby. Look, that episode garnered our highest ratings of the season — I would never ignore or disrespect that fact. I am just very protective of our show, and its content. I have a high standard of quality, and hope to maintain it on every level. Television is big business, I understand that. I have great faith in our casting department, as well as [Twentieth Century Fox Television] and CBS, to find the appropriate person for every role on our show. I was remiss in speculating otherwise. My job description is to act, and I should really do just that. "Britney Spears fits into our make-believe world very well — if she chose to return I can only imagine that Carter [Bays], Craig [Thomas], and the rest of the writers would create a humdinger of a storyline for her. We should be so lucky. Not to be outdone, the AP released their own revision, saying that "We're issuing a clarification to our story," "Harris did not say that he opposed a return engagement for Spears, and our lead said that he did." So what can we learn from all this? Obviously, that Britney Spears, more than ever, is the Black Hole of pop culture, trapping things like reason and sense in her imploding vortex. Submitted by on Mon, 2008-04-14 11:59. AfterElton Briefs: Barrowman and Spacey defend their turfs, "Naomi and Ely" head for the screen, and more!
What, no unicorn? Neil Patrick Harris (we think?) in the first Dr. Horrible teaser In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
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And today's Briefs are brought to you by... Submitted by on Wed, 2008-04-02 15:57. How I Met Your Unfit Mother: Neil Patrick Harris talks Britney's guest spot
Neil Patrick Harris popped up on Entertainment Tonight talking about the upcoming Britney Spears guest-spot on his sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Watch closely for a crash course in how to diplomatically answer questions about someone whose reputation is clearly in the toilet without sounding mean. Aside from his referring to Brit as "... Madam? Spears?" this has to be my favorite line: "It'll be very unlike any Britney we've seen before ... and we've seen a lot of Britneys recently!" He also muses on whether the whole batsh*t-crazy-Cheeto-fueled-head-shaving thing might just be an act. Oh, the kids these days with their optimism! (I couldn't figure out how to stop the clip from playing on its own, so I moved it to after the jump. Check it out!) Submitted by on Tue, 2008-03-11 07:41. |
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