WHAT
HAPPENED TO THE DAYS OF GIA? GIRL,
INTERRUPTED? TOMBRAIDER?
Angelina
Jolie has been cast opposite British actor Ray Winstone
in a new Hollywood adaptation of the epic poem Beowulf,
to be directed by Robert Zemeckis. Jolie will be playing
the "temptress" mother of the monster Grendel--just
the latest in a string of movies in which she plays someone's
wife or mother (and in Alexander, saddled with
a god-awful accent to boot). It's
a sad state of affairs for women in film when even Angelina
Jolie can't get a role that isn't defined by her relationship
to a man. I mean, I'll admit I enjoyed Mr. and Mrs.
Smith as much as anyone else with eyesight and a pulse,
but that doesn't make it right.
WHO
SAYS THERE AREN'T ANY GOOD LESBIAN ROLES IN MOVIES TODAY?
Director Atom Egoyan's latest film Where the Truth Lies,
starring Kevin Bacon, Rachel Blanchard and Colin Firth, has
reportedly received the dreaded NC-17 rating due to an extended
threesome with the lead actors, and a lesbian sex scene involving
a woman dressed as Alice in Wonderland. Not surprisingly,
the ratings board had a bigger problem with the threesome
than the lesbian scene, according to the New York Daily
News. It's one big version of Rock, Paper, Scissors:
two naked men in the same room together will trump gratuitous
lesbianism every time.
In
related news, Disneyland fired a female employee recently
for "misuse of a Disney costume."
SOAP
(NON) NEWS
This
week's soap
column at TV Guide confirms what we pretty much
already knew: there are no plans in the near future to re-cast
the character of Bianca on All
My Children, now that Eden Riegel has left the show.
"At this moment, there are no plans to [recast Bianca],"
AMC head writer Megan McTavish told TVGuide.com. "Whether
or not we will in the future, who knows? Certainly she's Erica's
daughter, and she's a very important character. We'll never
say never."
The
column also reveals what we wrote about here weeks ago: that
Simone is coming
out as a lesbian on Passions. There is one new
piece of info in the column, though: the actress who has been
cast to play Simone's girlfriend Rae is Josarra Jinaro, and
she makes her first appearance on August 31st.
COMING
OUT IN JAPAN
Kanako Otsuji, a member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly
in Japan, became the first openly gay woman in the Assembly
(and one of the only openly gay women in Japanese government)
when she came out publicly this week by telling reporters
that she is a lesbian and is publishing an autobiography that
centers on her quest for sexual identity. Hopefully her next
book won't be about her quest for a new job.
SAVING
THE DATE
Good news for fans of lesbian movies that don't suck: Saving
Face will be released on DVD on October 18, 2005.
See cute Asian American lesbians! Watch them fall in love!
Wonder why you can't meet someone like that, and drown your
sorrows in pints of ice cream while you ponder where it all
went wrong....wait, where was I? Oh yeah: buy
Saving Face! You'll love it (and you'll be supporting
an out lesbian filmmaker).
That's
it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment
of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. or read past
installments of Best. Lesbian.
Week. Ever.
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