GREY'S
ANATOMY UPDATE
Update on the Grey's Anatomy spoiler I reported
on two weeks ago: TV Guide's Michael Ausiello writes
in his TV
spoiler column this week, "I got an e-mail from
a Grey's publicist on Friday insisting that there
are 'no plans for any kind of same-sex relationship this
season with any of the main characters. Joe, the bartender,
remains happily involved with another man though.'"
From this, Ausiello concludes, "it's possible this
bisexual plot was scrapped soon after it was hatched."
But
Ausiello missed the point: the publicist doesn't deny
that one of the characters previously had a same-sex relationship,
just that s/he won't be having one this season.
The spoiler--at least as I reported it--was never about
Cristina...er, the bisexual character actually having
a same-sex relationship this season (no big shocker considering
there are only a few episodes left), only that it was
going to be revealed that she had had one before. Trust
me, I've seen the casting sides, and unless series creator
Shonda Rhimes changes her mind, one of the show's female
characters is going to be outed as bisexual.
LOVELY
BONES
Director Peter Jackson (best known for the Lord of
the Rings trilogy but he also did 1994's lesbian-ish
drama Heavenly
Creatures) is moving forward with a film adaptation
of The
Lovely Bones, the 2002 award-winning Alice Sebold
novel about the death of a 14-year-old girl that includes
a prominent lesbian character (who is not the dead girl,
for a change). The script for the film, which is slated
for a 2007 release, is still being written, so no parts
have been cast yet, but I hear Sarah Shahi's free...
KRISTANNA
LOKEN AND PINK, REVISITED
Out actress Kristanna
Loken played the Queen of Iceland in the Sci Fi Channel's
new two-part TV movie Dark
Kingdom: The Dragon King this week. In a new
interview
with TV Guide to promote the film, Loken was asked whether
she wanted to "open a can of whoop-ass" on the
gossip columnists who wrote about her 2003 lesbian encounter
with singer Pink,
and she answered, "No. I don't have a lot of anger
or rage. I don't do things that I don't know that I'm
doing, so.... I like to think that I'm a fairly aware
person." Which kinda puts her making out in public
with Pink in a whole new light.
TV
LESBIANS, LINDSAYS, AND LAWYERS
Kelli Williams, best known as Lindsay on the ABC legal
drama The Practice, has been cast as pregnant
lesbian lawyer Pamela in the pilot for the new CBS legal
drama I mentioned
a few weeks ago, now called Sisters in Law (it
was previously titled Women in Law). The cast
also includes Regina King, Garcelle Beauvais, and Jill
Ritchie (Janet from D.E.B.S.).
In
real-life lesbian casting news, Jane
Lynch (last seen as Bette and Tina's lawyer Joyce
Wischnia on The L Word) just landed a role on
an untitled ABC comedy pilot about two sisters (Kaley
Cuoco, Marisa Coughlan) who live together despite growing
up under different circumstances (one rich, one poor).
The character Lynch will be playing wasn't officially
announced, but I'm guessing it's the older sister's no-nonsense
boss at the newstation, which would be a perfect role
for Jane--like Joyce, but funny.
In
more disappointing TV news, Arrested
Development is now officially dead. Long live
Arrested Development! Although Showtime did make
creator Mitch Hurrowitz an offer to pick up the show,
he announced this week the he's just done, creatively.
Which effectively puts Portia de Rossi--who plays Michael's
materialistic sister Lindsay Bluth--out of a job for now.
Speaking
of Portia, she recently told a very funny anecdote
about coming out to her grandmother, and having her grandmother
respond, "'I knew you were living with Ellen and
all this time I was thinking, 'I hope that lesbian isn't
hitting on my granddaughter!'."
Coming-out comedy gold.
