Best.
Lesbian. Week. Ever.
by Sarah
Warn, AfterEllen.com
Editor
The
lesbian pop culture column
Friday,
October 13, 2006
RUNNING
WITH CHRISTIANS ON THE SUNSET STRIP
You've
got to hand it to Kristin
Chenoweth: the Christian singer/actress (Wicked,
The West Wing) puts her money where her mouth is. Or
in this case, her mouth where her mouth is: "She
has the best lips", Chenoweth said
recently of Running
with Scissors co-star Annette Bening, with whom
she has a fling in the film. "She was my first female
kiss", she said, and added teasingly, "And who
knows if she‘ll be my last?"
This
might be Chenoweth's first lesbian kiss, but it isn't her
first time going to bat for our team: she's playing the
lead in the untitled
upcoming biopic about queer singer Dusty Springfield,
and she served as the MC at the 2005
Power Up gala (which honors lesbians in entertainment).
Chenoweth
has also been in the news lately because of reports that
Studio
60 on the Sunset Strip creator Aaron Sorkin based
Sarah
Paulson's Christian character Harriet on Chenoweth.
"There's an argument me and Aaron had and it's pretty
much verbatim [in the show]," Kristin recently confirmed
to New York Dog magazine (yes, you read that right:
New York Dog magazine). But,
she noted, she definitely doesn't share Harriet's anti-gay
rights stance. "I'm totally the opposite of that and
that's hard because people will be thinking: Is that really
Kristin? 
But
there's nothing you can do about that stuff. You just have
to let it go. It's a little weird."
This
is the first I've heard that Harriet doesn't support gay
rights (this hasn't been indicated on-screen yet). It's
a little disappointing--and ironic, considering who's playing
her--but whatever. I still like the character, and the show.
And in case you're wondering, Studio 60's ratings
are okay so far--not great, but not terrible, either. Maybe
God will pony up better ratings if Harriet gets over her
problems with the gays? It's worth a try, Aaron!
LESBIAN
BEST IN SHOW
The trailer
for the upcoming Christopher Guest movie For
Your Consideration is online now, and it includes
out actress Jane
Lynch as a news anchor (in a very funny wig), and Parker
Posey playing an actress who plays a lesbian in the film
Home for Purim. The film chronicles what happens
when the movie-within-a-movie gets Oscar buzz, which probably
mean Posey's character's character becomes a lesbian serial
killer--all the cool Oscar movies are doing it.
FUNNY
AND TRUE LESBIAN QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The '70s had The Hustle. The '80s, the Moonwalk. We
have The Faux Lesbian Dance." - Veronica (Kristin Bell)
as she is sandwiched by sorority girls on the dance floor,
on Episode 3.2 ("My Big Fat Greek Rush Week")
of Veronica Mars.
IF-ONLY-IT-WERE-TRUE
LESBIAN QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"It's
a big feel-good lesbian comedy, isn't it?" - Late
Late Show (CBS) host Craig Ferguson to guest Jennifer
Beals after showing a clip of a somber Bette and Tina scene
from The
L Word.
THE
REAL REASON AMELIA EARHART DISAPPEARED?
Gore Vidal's new biography Point to Point Navigation
reportedly
asserts that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had a romantic
interest in missing pilot Amelia Earhart that Earhart found
disconcerting. "Amelia said that Eleanor was always
suggesting they make flights together all around the country,"
Vidal elaborates, "just the two of them, communing
with the wind and the stars." After Earhart famously
disappeared during a flight, Eleanor supposedly conducted
her own investigation and ultimately concluded the pilot
had simply "lost her way".
Speaking
of planes disappearing over the ocean, next week's episode
of Lost (ABC) sees the debut of a new character,
Colleen, who was formerly a security guard and has a gender-unspecified
"significant other". Maybe her S.O. is Amelia
Earhart, and we find out she's been hiding out from Eleanor
by living among The Others all these years. Or maybe it's
Elizabeth Mitchell, and I'm just indulging in wishful thinking.
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