Friday,
September 3, 2004
SO
CRUELLA DE VILLE WASN'T AVAILABLE?
Quick, who is the person you'd least like to see play a lesbian
on TV? If you said The Apprentice's stomach-curdling former
contestant Omarosa, you're in for a very unpleasant surprise: she
has managed to parlay her 15 minutes of fame into a guest role on
the season premiere of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends on September
20th playing a lesbian who thinks Joan (Tracee Ellis Ross) has had
an affair with her girlfriend. Because black lesbians don't
have enough of a visibility problem already...Speaking
of Girlfriends, are lesbians running that show? They seem
to have lesbian themes or characters on at least a few episodes
a season.
Not
that I'm complaining, mind you, I just keep waiting for the other
shoe to drop--oh wait, I guess that explains Omarosa's role.
REALITY
ROUNDUP
While
there don't appear to be any lesbians among the just-announced contestants
on the third season of America's Next Top Model or the
second season of the Donald Trump business reality show The
Apprentice, the latter's 28-year-old venture capitalist Ivana
lists The L Word as one of her favorite TV shows in her
Friendster profile. Although she lives with her fiance Brian, the
fact that she's lesbian-friendly--and one of the few Asian American
reality show contestants on TV--at least gives us someone to root
for.
Lesbian
contestant Cynthia Weis on Animal Planet's reality show King
of the Jungle (and by "king" we don't mean "drag
king") was the latest contestant to leave the jungle this week.
But lesbian reality fans can take solace in the fact that next week,
we get to start counting down the weeks till the lesbians get kicked
off of Survivor.
ADVERTISING
ROUNDUP
CNN has refused to air an ad by the Log Cabin Republicans that it
dubs "too controversial" because it urges Republicans
to stop focusing on gay marriage and to concentrate on what unites
them rather than what divides them (even though it's not too controversial
for the FOX network, which has been running the ad). The ad includes
clips of former President Ronald Reagan speaking at the 1992 Republican
National Convention, as well as Reverend Fred Phelps holding a "God
Hates Fags" sign at the funeral of Matthew Sheppard."
Susan
Sarandon, meanwhile, has teamed up with GLAAD to star in a public
service announcement in which she picks petals off a flower
and chants "he loves me, he loves me not," then asks the
camera whether it would matter if she was saying "she loves
me, she loves me not," because "love is love is love."
Well, it might not matter to most straight people, but I know a
few lesbians who would care!
YET
ANOTHER REASON REPUBLICANS SHOULDN'T PROCREATE
In a recent interview with Michaelangelo Signorille on Sirius OutQ
Radio, Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes said
Vice President Dick Cheney's gay daughter Mary is "by definition"
a "selfish hedonist" because of her sexual orientation.
The remark was quickly picked up by major news outlets and resulted
in a wave of denouncements by several other Republicans. But Keyes
maintained his position and insisted at an Illinois caucus a few
days later that "If my own daughter were a homosexual or a
lesbian, I would love my daughter but I would tell my daughter that
she was in sin."
This
followed Dick Cheney's much-publicized remarks a week earlier that
gay marriage is an issue that should be left up to the state, which
is "I support my daughter" in Republican-speak.
BUT
TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL, PARIS
The New York Post reported that Paris Hilton and
Christina Aguilera "suddenly started making out" at a
rooftop party last week, but Paris Hilton's publicists later denied
the incident, telling E! Online's Ted Casablanca, "Paris
hates kissing girls. Even when she and Carmen Electra did it—hated
it!”
THE
LATEST ON THE L WORD
Showtime has begun running a promo for the second season of The
L Word which highlights Shane's new (short) haircut, Dana and
Alice's ongoing flirtation, Bette and Tina's ongoing separation,
the beginning (and end?) of Ivan and Kit's relationship, and Robin's
inexplicable ongoing fascination with Jenny.
In
Canada this week, the CH channel clearly underestimated the fanaticism
of its L Word fans when it delayed the air dates of the
final two episodes of the series without telling viewers, prompting
a flood of frantic inquiries until it was finally announced that
the last two episodes would air on September 4th and 19th respectively.
Hopefully the U.K., Denmark and Norway, which each started airing
the first season of The L Word this week, won't make the
same mistake.
That's
it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment of
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