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Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. (February 2, 2007)

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In a very candid interview with The L.A. Times last week, out actress Kristanna Loken–who made a splash in Terminator 3, starred in the god-awful BloodRayne, and currently plays Shane’s love interest Paige on this season of The L Word (pictured, right)–said she has no plans to return to the lesbian drama next season because she found it to be “the most difficult cast I’ve ever worked with.” She goes on to say:

“I’m not naming names. Let’s just start with the fact that it’s an entire show of women. And the amount of egos and insecurities and cattiness that can go on with a bunch of women – that’s what you get. It attracts certain people that want to do something different in their career, but the girls were tough. You know?”

Hmmm. I’m sensing there’s more to the story here – maybe she had to share a trailer with Angus? Or she was forced to wear Marina’s fedora whenever she wasn’t shooting? Or maybe an on-set romance went sour…

AMERICA’S NEXT TOP STRAIGHT MODEL

Tyra and company have just revealed the 13 new contestants for the upcoming season of America’s Next Top Model, debuting February 28th, and it doesn’t appear that there are any lesbian or bisexual contestants this time around. If anyone hears different, let me know!

ROOT FOR THIS PILOT OR PERISH, SWEATER MONKEYS

Uber-successful director/writer/executive producer Darren Star, of Sex and the City and Beverly Hills 90201 fame, has a new series in the works for ABC called Cashmere Mafia, about four successful female executives, friends since college, who rely on one another as they juggle the demands of career, family and high ambitions in New York.

The good news for us? One of the four women, Caitlin, falls head over heels for a woman she hires, and the two share a steamy kiss in the pilot. Who knows if it will still be steamy after the network censors have their way, but ABC is currently airing the best gay male storyline in American TV history, so I’m optimistic.

More good news for us? Bring It On director Peyton Reed is directing the pilot. We’ll have to wait until May to find out if ABC picks up the series, and there’s no casting news yet, but readers of Entertainment Weekly’s blog are already speculating on possible leads, including Lauren Graham, Lucy Liu, and Aisha Tyler. Any one of those women would be great on the show, but since we’re creating wish lists, how about Jessica Alba for Caitlin? Or Jennifer Garner? I wouldn’t kick either of those women out of my office for being sexually inappropriate.

And Portia de Rossi can play the seductive new hire–and as long as she doesn’t ruin the mood by doing the chicken dance.

KISSING GRETCHEN MOL

We just posted Shauna Swartz’s review of Puccini for Beginners, which opens in limited release this weekend, but I wanted to add my $.02: I really enjoyed this film. Don’t let the two-girls-and-a-guy premise fool you: Allegra (Saved‘s Elizabeth Reaser) gets a happy lesbian ending, just not necessarily the one you–or she–expects.

I do wish, though, that there’d been more Julianne Nicholson (looking very different from her current role as Det. Maggie Wheeler on Law and Order: CI), and less Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page). I’ve liked Mol’s performance in other films, but in Puccini, both her character and her acting came across like nails on a chalkboard, at least to me. Reaser on the other hand? All that a bag of lesbians, especially by the end of the film. Here’s a clip from the film so you can judge for yourself:

Supposedly there’s a sequel in the works–Puccini for Intermediate Users–in which Allegra runs off with a butch Laurel Holloman, who’s back to pumping gas now that all of her lesbian friends have deserted her. But I don’t believe everything Jenny Schecter tells me.

MORE DIRT ON DIRT

Jennifer Aniston confirmed to People magazine this week that she does indeed play a lesbian on the series finale of Dirt, but clarified that her kiss with Courteney Cox is just “a good-bye kiss,” not a passionate one, adding “I don’t honestly think people want to see Rachel and Monica have at it.”

Um, you’re kidding, right?

WHAT DO HASBIANS, BURLESQUE DANCERS, MARY CHENEY, AND TRIPLE CREME HAVE IN COMMON?

Watch this week’s episode of She Said What? to find out…

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Jon Stewart devoted the first 10 minutes of The Daily Show last night to making fun of Dick Cheney’s hypocrisy in refusing to talk about his daughter’s pregnancy. Guest Chrissy Gephardt, the openly gay daughter of former Democratic congressman Dick Gephardt, was asked to weigh in on whether her dad chose to be a politician or was born that way, and if politicians should even be allowed to have children. Hilarious.

Trading Spouses (Fox) will feature its first lesbian couple in a two-parter beginning February 2nd.

Sara Gilbert’s rep has confirmed to People magazine that the actress is pregnant; her partner Alison Adler (an executive producer for Emily’s Reasons Why Not and Commander in Chief) gave birth to their first child in 2004.

The publisher of Venus magazine, a long-running magazine for black gays and lesbians, has found religion and heterosexuality, and now aims to use her magazine to help readers do the same. No, I’m not kidding. Get all the bizarre details at Jasmyne Cannick’s blog.

D.E.B.S. star Jordana Brewster has been cast in the Angelina Jolie role in the TV version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Alas, she does not fall in love with a fellow female assassin–although I’m keeping my fingers crossed when Sweeps rolls around!

That’s it for this week! Check back next Friday for another edition of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever.

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