February 27, 2004
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The Flab Four have some advice for Carson and Jack
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cemetery or looking to camouflage their Adam's apple."
The three-part Queer Eye spoof Straight The reverse of 'Boy Meets Boy'
Plan for the Gay Man, in which four straight guys known as the "Flab Four" give gay men a gay-to-straight makeover, made its debut on Comedy Central February 23.
Two of the "Flab Four," Curtis Gwinn and Billy Merritt, shared some of their ideas for gay-to-straight makeovers for some of television's best-loved characters with TV Guide (February 21).
Merritt says Queer Eye's Carson Kressley, "needs to get in touch with the fact that he wants to be Pat Benatar, 1982," while Gwinn says that Kressley, “needs clothes that accentuate he's a man. At this point, it's not man and it's not woman. It's just Planet Fabulous."
Will and Grace's Jack (Sean Hayes), Merritt says, "needs to change his poses, 'cause sometimes less is more. And whatever he has, I think he needs less of it."
Gwinn, on the other hand, quipped, "Put him in a cardboard box because no matter what clothes you put on this guy, he's going to shine through gay.'
Straight Plan for the Gay Man can be seen on Comedy Central Mondays at 10 pm. What Democratic primary?
Ellen DeGeneres has not commented on the Democratic presidential primary because, she says, "I haven't even been paying attention. I'm not a political person."
"I don't know enough about what's going on to say anything," the lesbian comic explained to Time.
DeGeneres admitted it was probably fair to say she will support the Democrat chosen to challenge President Bush, “but I really don't know who it will be."
She noted that coming out was "the best thing I ever did for myself.” It did temporarily slow her career, which she says, "hurt my feelings in many ways. But once all that settled, I'm able to be exactly who I am and I have nothing to hide any more.” Move over, Martha Stewart
Brini Maxwell, the drag persona of Ben Sandler, has been dispensing household tips on New York's public access TV for some time. Now, she has found a new home on cable's Style Network.
Broadcasting from a '50s-themed set, Maxwell, who describes herself as "part Marlo Thomas, part Donna Reed," offers how-to segments and celebrity interviews on her Brini show airing Fridays at 10 pm.
"Maxwell's deadpan delivery is a hoot," said Entertainment Weekly. “She uses words like 'scads of fun' and 'homemaking' without a hint of irony."
The magazine says Maxwell "is essential viewing for anyone planting flowers at a pet
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Playing it Straight is a new dating show like Bachelorette with a Boy Meets Boy twist that some of the male suitors are gay. In the reverse of Boy Meets Boy, to win money on the show the heterosexual woman must unmask and avoid her gay male suitors. The show debuts on Fox March 12, and is set to air on Fridays at 8 pm.
O'Donnell returns as TG man
Actor Chris O'Donnell, who recently signed with CBS for his own series, will play a female-to-male transsexual on an episode of the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men set to air March 1.
O'Donnell's character, who dated Charlie (Charlie Sheen) as a woman before his gender reassignment surgery, returns to make amends for breaking his heart, according to TV Guide. This is true love
Many thanks to Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Dick Feagler for voicing his support for the rights of lesbians and gays to
marry.
In his Valentine's Day column titled “Just Let the Lovers Love Any Way That Suits Them," Feagler told of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, ages 83 and 79, who were the first couple to marry in San Francisco two weeks ago. The pair founded the nation's first lesbian organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, in 1955.
"I saw a couple in love on TV the other day," Feagler said. "They were a lesbian
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"Love was what we saw in their eyes and what we knew about their time together. Love," he said, "doesn't come from a court, or a legislature, or a love song, either."
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Show your appreciation to Feagler by contacting him online at dfeagler@plaind.com or calling him at 216-999-5757.
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 Saturdays at 1:30 pm, and at www.wruw.org.
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