Friday,
June 24, 2005
SUNSHINE,
LOLLIPOPS, AND LESBIANS
Although she hasn't exactly been hiding her sexual orientation,
singer Lesley Gore officially came out as a lesbian this week in
her interview
with us. Gore is best known for her 1960s pop hits, like "It's
My Party (I'll Cry if I Want To) and "You Don't Own Me;"
she has a new album coming out next week.
EDGEMONT
UPDATE
A very limited release (i.e. 200 copies) of the first five seasons
of the Canadian series Edgemont
on DVD is going to be sold for $100 to those who email Feedback@Edgemont.tv
and express interest. For those not familiar with the show, it's
a teen drama which includes Smallville's Kristin Kruek
among the cast, as well as Grace Park as one of the only Asian lesbian
teen characters on a North American television show (read more about
that here). Currently, there
are no other plans to release the show on DVD, and it won't be available
in stores, so if you want a copy, you have to email feedback@edgemont.tv
with the subject "Edgemont DVDs" and include your mailing
address in the body of the email. Target delivery date is August.
You
do have one other way to see it: Edgemont has just begun
airing on the cable channel WAM in the U.S.
GRATUITOUS
LESBIAN SCENES ALERT
Ah horror movies, a lesbian's best friend. Earlier this month, we
were treated to High
Tension, and next week we have the DVD
release of the 2004 film The Sisterhood, a horror
movie about a college freshman who goes undercover to defeat a sorority
of "glam goth bisexual Satanists," as one heterosexual
man phrased it in his very funny review
of the film. He goes on to ask, "by the way, is it just me
or does it seem as if virtually every horror movie that makes female
empowerment its central theme ends up with girls making out with
one another?" Out of the mouths of straight guys...
True
to form, Land of the Dead, the fourth installment of George
Romero's popular Dead horror movie franchise which opens
this weekend, has its own shiny lesbian moment: two lesbians appear
out of nowhere, start making out, and then suddenly get grabbed
by zombies. (And
I thought watching High
Art with my girlfriend on our first date made for the worst
lesbian date ever...)
STANDING
STILL
Last week was the premiere of director Michael Cole Weiss's indie
film Standing Still at the Las Vegas film festival CineVegas.
The movie is a young Big Chill-type film set against the
backdrop of a wedding, in which a group of college friends reunite
for a weekend several years after graduation. One of the friends
is a lesbian played by Lauren German (MTV's Undressed, A Walk
to Remember) who re-enters the life of the bride, played by
Amy Adams (Catch Me if You Can), with whom she once had
a relationship and wants to win back. German's character finds her
plans thwarted, however, and her attention unexpectedly captured
by another woman, played by Mena Suvari (who played Claire's lesbian
lover on last season's Six
Feet Under). The
movie also stars James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek), Colin
Hanks (Orange County), Ethan Embry (Can't Hardly Wait),
Aaron Stanford (X2, Tadpole) and Melissa Sagemiller (Get
Over It).
Mena
Suvari, Lauren German, and Amy Adams all playing for our team, in
the same movie? What's the catch? Oh, here it is: you won't be able
to actually see the film anytime soon, since Standing Still
hasn't been picked up for distribution yet. But the director tells
me there are several offers on the table, so stay tuned.
MORE
MENA
Speaking
of Mena Suvari, gay message boards have been overrun with speculation
this week about new
photos of the recently divorced Suvari hanging out at a bar
in Venice Beach, CA with a blond butch lesbian. Because straight
women and lesbians? Can't be friends. (Didn't anyone read The
Truth About Hillary?)
Everyone's
so eager to find the Next Big Lesbian these days, it's like a Sapphic
Sixth Sense out there: "I see Cynthia
Nixon's!"
AND
NOW FOR THE BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL WEEK
Ilene
says no more Jenny flashbacks in Season 3 of The L Word.
That's
it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment of
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