GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

September 21, 2007

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The L Word, lite

Logo redeems itself with 'Exes and Ohs'

by Anthony Glassman

Ah, dear, sweet Logo. When the LGBT cable netlet started, everybody was so excited, wondering what joys it would bring.

Then they got stuck with endless reruns of the same documentaries that were kind of interesting the first four times, but after that they got really stale.

There were some high points, admittedly, like Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall fame hosting First Comes Love, or the shouldhave-been-naughtier-on-Showtime Noah's Arc, the first black gay television series to get off the ground.

Much of it has been hit or miss, though. Big Gay Sketch Show was pretty funny, while Rick and Steve, the Happiest Couple

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• in the World seemed to follow the mathematical equation: South Park + Lego – 75% of the laughs = Rick and Steve. In other words, not that damned funny.

And Curl Girls? What the heck is that? Logo gets to redeem itself, though, with the October 8 debut of Exes and Ohs, which their press materials compare to Allie McBeal or Sex and the City. A more apt analogy might be The L Word Lite. All of the long hair with half of the angst!

The half-hour dramedy is written by Michelle Paradise, who penned the short film The Ten Rules. She then adapted it into the series, and stars in both the original short and the new sitcom.

She plays Jennifer, a neurotic and perpetually startled lesbian filmmaker whose

GHOSTS OR BERTAIREY 06 AFTER I READ CAL'S NOTE I WENT

HOME, JUST NUMB ALL OVER.

MA WAS STILL UP. WE DIDN'T TALK MUCH BUT I WAS REALLY NICE TO HER AND SHE SMILED AT ME A LOT. WE WATCHED SOME TV SHOW TOGETHER.

one success was a documentary on bird watchers called, aptly enough, Bird Watch-

ers.

Surrounding her are a cast of cuckoos who borrow both from The L Word and many old sitcom saws, like the hot slut who's afraid of commitment, although she's not nearly as bad as that show's Shane. She's very attractive, although in a more femme way than Shane.

Marnie Alton plays Sam, the Shanelet, and she's definitely one to watch.

Heather Matarazzo plays the young crazy one, in this case named "Crutch," as opposed to Mia Kirshner's Jenny Schecter in The L Word. In a way, that's kind of interesting casting, since Matarazzo played Stacey Continued on page 10

By Robert Kirby

I WENT UPSTAIRS TO BED AFTER A WHILE AND CRAWL ED UNDER THE COVERS.

JACK,

How

WILL

WE

GET

OFFA

THIS

ISLAND

A BIG WIND KICKED UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, MAKING AN AWFUL RACKET

I WONDERED, DID CAL HEAR THE WIND OUT THERE TOO? WHERE WAS HE BY NOW ANYWAY? HAD HE HOPPED ON A BUS OR A TRAIN, OR JUST WHAT?

THERE'S THIS BOY I USED TO 空 LOVE NAMED PREN, WHO I

HARDLY EVER THINK ABOUT ANYMORE. MAY BE THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN WITH CAL SOMEDAY AND I'LL HAVE LEARNED SOME BIG LIFE LESSONS, BUT WHO KNOWS.

WELL YOU'RE

AWFUL EARLY!

he's out there some-1 where... in The dark...

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