November 15, 2002 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

CHRONICLE 11

on the airoff the press

Timberlake goes out of sync when asked about gay fans

by John Graves

Justin Timberlake was at a loss for words when an HX.com reporter asked whether he was aware of his gay fan base and whether he thought they would like his new album Justified.

Neva Chonin of the San Francisco Chronicle says the usually cool 'N Sync star was "reduced to bashful gibberish" when the

says the 27-year old Hall and Paquita are emerging as audience favorites on the show, which began airing October 14. White says Hall, who lists her status as "dating," and "ogles the other female cast members and her painting models with humor and wit," met her muse Paquita while visiting a litter of pit bull puppies. Paquita climbed up Hall's leg and "it was love at first sight."

New York gay nightlife web site asked the Cheering on 'Amazing Race'

question.

He answered, "Um... honestly I've never really, uh, I've never really. something that I've thought a lot about . . . Something that I will say, you know, about, you know, the whole community is... that I appreciate is that... and the people that I've met that are, I mean, it's so non-discriminating where music goes that it's . . . it's all . . . sometimes it's almost inspiring that there's people out there who just like music because they like music. I don't know, for some reason I find it in this community more than one another is that... you know, um . . . honestly I don't know. I think, uh ... I never really thought about it. I hope that, uh, all types of different people, they like it, I mean, 'cause, uh . . . it's kinda somewhere in the middle of . . . of... of the styles that are going on right now." "So, um, you can only hope for the best. I don't want to come off sounding pretentious."

Elton John scores 'Billy Elliot' musical

Gay music giant Sir Elton John has been picked to compose music for a musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, Stephen Daldry's Oscar-nominated film about the 11-year-old son of a macho British coal miner who defies his father by skipping boxing classes to attend ballet classes.

John is expected to complete the score in December and the show could open in London early next year. The producers are seeking to sign Julie Walters to reprise her role from the film. Daldry, who previously worked in London and on Broadway as a theatrical director before his work on the film Billy Elliot, is also working on a film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's play The Hours.

Bisexual artist gets dogged

Look for openly bisexual East Village artist Anne Hall and her pit bull Paquita on Dog Days, a new weekly series that looks at the lives of New York City dogs and their human companions on cable's Animal Planet channel, airing Mondays at 10 pm and Fridays at 8 pm. The show's producers spent weeks filming at Madison Square Park, one

Andrew Hyde, the openly gay cheerleader from Kentucky on Amazing Race 3, talked to Gay.com's Christine Champagne about his experiences on the show and what he's been doing since he and his father Dennis were eliminated from it.

After appearing on The Early Show and

Andrew Hyde

the Caroline Rhea Show following their elimination, Hyde returned to his home in Lexington. Kentucky, and took a break from his

show, While You Were Out.

The upcoming episode features Leavey, designer John Bruce and helpers Andrew Dan-Jumbo and Leslie Segrete redecorating the couple's living room while Leavey's partner Livingston, a Frito-Lay executive, is out of town competing in the Atlantic States Gay Rodeo in Maryland.

TV Guide's Janet Weeks said the woman was "speechless with joy" when Livingston arrived home after the job was done.

"In my head, I was going, 'Oh, my God! Oh my God!" Livingston said. “My mouth was wide open and I couldn't speak.”

Like its sister show Trading Spaces, in which neighbors redecorate their neighbor's homes, the show is primarily a home im provement show but While You Were Out adds a twist by having spouses and partners redecorate their own homes to surprise their loved ones.

On While You Were Out, which airs Saturdays at 10 pm, one partner is encouraged to take a 48-hour trip out of town while their spouse handles the makeover with the show's hosts.

studies in broadLong-lost father?

casting and theater at Eastern Kentucky University to begin working full time

as the youth development director at a community center in downtown Lexington.

Hyde, who had watched the show on TV before becoming a contestant, noted that the real experience was quite different, saying, "I think watching it at home, you can never get the full grasp of what you go through physically, mentally and even spiritually. Even I had never fathomed just how different it really would be. It's a totally different world when you're actually racing."

Champagne asked Hyde if his father had any reservations about going on the show with his openly gay son.

"He was a little bit worried that maybe they wouldn't show us in a good light," Hyde explained. "He was afraid that the differences between us-he's a conservative southern Baptist and I'm his openly gay son— would be really exploited. And there was a point where he said, 'I don't want to do this.' But then I basically just sat down and talked to him and said, 'Do this for me. Do this with me.' And he really just opened up."

Hyde said competing with his father on Amazing Race 3 had a dramatic effect on their relationship.

of New York's most popular dog parks, to Designing women

put together the eight one-hour episodes that delve into all aspects of the lives of the dogs and their humans.

Amanda White, a publicist for the show,

Erin Leavey and Noe Livingston, a lesbian couple from Rancho Cucamongą, will be featured on the November 23 episode of the Learning Channel's home makeover

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Cheech Marin, of Cheech and Chong fame, will guest star on ABC's Latino-themed sitcom The George Lopez Show. On the show. Marin appears as a man who believes he is the father of the show's star.

"I want him to be my father, but he can't because he's gay," Lopez told Entertainment Weekly. "Maybe 30 years ago, 35 years ago, one night in a drunken stupor, he may have slept with my mother, but the truth is that he

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John Graves is the producer and host of Gaywaves, a lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender public affairs show on Cleveland's WRUW 91.1 FM Fridays at 7:30 pm, and at www.wruw.org. See what's coming on TV in the Couch Potato Report, under "Entertainment" at www.lgcsc.org. Dave Haskell, Jim McGrattan and Kim Jones also contribute to this column.

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