After that sexual assault scene last week, I'm thinking it's a little too late for the show to redeem itself with women. But I like how they describe the upcoming character as "a lesbian or someone who's extremely capable in the job", as if that's interchangeable. Finally, a lesbian stereotype I can get behind!

I DON'T CARE IF IT'S NOT IN THE BOOK--THERE SHOULD AT LEAST BE SOME BISEXUAL WOMEN IN THAT SORORITY MOVIE!
D.E.B.S. director Angela Robinson is busy these days. In addition to writing, directing and producing the upcoming season of The L Word, Robinson is directing Newline Cinema's upcoming movie Jenbot (a young woman finds herself embroiled in a secret government operation to turn her into a cyborg); Disney's picture Witches (a young soldier recruits a witch hunter and other unusual people to help him rescue his love from a warlock); and a cinematic adaptation of the non-fiction book Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities for Paramount (an undercover look at sororities, which, in the book version at least, does not include any lesbians or bisexual women, unless you count the straight girls who get drunk and hook up at frat parties, which I don't). Another out director, Boys Don't Cry's Kimberly Peirce, is currently at work on her $30 million sophomore effort, Stop-Loss, an Iraq War drama starring Ryan Phillippe.

While there doesn't appear to be any lesbian content in any of these films, it's nice to see out lesbian directors achieving some success in an industry that is, well, not exactly overflowing with out lesbian directors.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE...
Legendary all-female and partly queer rock group Sleater-Kinney announced this week that they're disbanding after 11 years together. But that's okay, because they'll probably keep in touch, have Thanksgiving together every year, and buy houses next door to each other like all good lesbian ex-es do.

Australian newspaper The Age published an in-depth article on bisexuality this week, and the New York Blade ran an interesting piece about Coors' new ad campaign targeting gays and lesbians, in which "all the guys are gay, and all the girls are either gay or bisexual" (also, see the piece we ran this week on lesbians in advertising).

Out Latina Big Brother 6 contestant Ivette is among the pool of 20 contestants vying to make it into the Big Brother All-Stars season; tune into CBS on July 6th for the kick-off episode.

Former America's Next Top Model contestant Kim Stolz has been chosen as a VJ on mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, a job that will allow her to "put all those countless hours I spent scoping out new music to good use."

Logo now has their TV programs available for download on iTunes. Of lesbian interest is Curl Girls (as part of their "Real Momentum" series) and comedians Vickie Shaw and Judy Gold (part of their Wisecrack series).

Out lesbian Michele Balan is a finalist on the current season of NBC's reality competition Last Comic Standing; watch a clip of her performance on the show here.

A tentative date of October 25, 2006 has been set for the release of The L Word Season 3 DVD.

BECAUSE EVEN PROFESSIONAL LESBIANS NEED A BREAK NOW AND THEN
I'm leaving today for a long-overdue 10-day cruise, where hopefully I won't end up being a lesbian Shelly Winters on the wrong end of a rogue wave. But this means there won't be a new edition of my Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. column next week. Sorry! Hopefully there will be even more news to write about when my column resumes on July 14th. If not, well, I'll come up with something new to report on anyway--making something out of nothing is pretty much a job requirement for lesbian entertainment journalists these days, anyway.

That's it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. or read past installments here.