IS
IT LESS DEPRESSING IF IT'S IN FRENCH?
A new movie called Les Filles Du Botaniste
(The Botanist's Daughters) debuted in France this
week. It's about the forbidden lesbian relationship--apparently
the only kind of lesbian relationship known to filmmakers--between
two young women in China, and if the official
website and trailers are any indication, it looks
like a gorgeous but depressing movie. We'll post a review
of it soon on AfterEllen.com.
Speaking
of lesbian movies: over on our brother site, AfterElton.com,
editor Michael Jensen has created a
guide to summer theatrical releases featuring gay men,
and a guide
to fall network TV pilots with gay characters. In
case you're wondering why I haven't done the equivalent
on AfterEllen.com for lesbians, it's because they would
both be mostly blank pages. Maybe Hollywood is saving
all the lesbian characters for its next big serial killer
movie.
BUT
WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
CBS still hasn't set a return date for its sitcom Out
of Practice--the only current network TV show
with a prominent lesbian character, and one that's really
grown on me over the last several months, thanks to Paula
Marshall's snark.
No
update yet on the return of Bad
Girls to BBC America, either.
The
second season of Sugar
Rush is gearing up to debut
in June in the U.K. Alas, the first season is still
not available on DVD in the U.S.
Jill
Hennessy randomly kissed
Leslie Bibb on this week's episode of NBC crime drama
Crossing Jordan; don't get too excited, though--no
one's actually coming out on the show, as far as I can
tell.
Finally,
out lesbian Canadian writer Camilla
Gibb took home the prestigious Trillium Book Award
this week for her novel Sweetness
in the Belly, a first-person account of a white
Muslim woman in exile. Because they can keep us out of
the movies, but they can't keep us from writing great
books!
That's
it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment
of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. or read past
installments here.
L
WORD CASTING NEWS
It's official: Rosie O'Donnell (pictured with partner Kelli
Carpenter O'Donnell) is returning to daytime television as
Meredith Vieira's replacement on the popular ABC morning talk
show