Quickies: Equestrian arrivals, creepy dads, Golden Girls pack up, Lifetime vs. Bravo

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> Daniel Radcliffe will make his Broadway debut in September in a reprise of his London role in Equus. The production will be the play's first revival on Broadway since it debuted in 1974, playing until 1977 and winning the Tony Award for best play in 1975. The Harry Potter star -- who garnered critical and commercial acclaim starring in the British version last year -- is apprehensive about bringing the psychological thriller to the great white way. "I would be very nervous because I think (the audiences are) even more discerning than in London," he said. True! But also we're simultaneously pervier and more repressed -- which means we'll do just about anything to legally see schlong paraded around in public on a stage under a spotlight.

> Ryan Sutter, the hunky fireman who "won" the hand and every other body part of Trista Sutter (nee Rehn) on the dating show The Bachelorette -- was given a column on MomLogic.com entitled " 10 Things You Don't Know About Dads." Among them: "Even when you're about to breastfeed, we get turned on because we're guys and we just see boobs"; "Dads are sensitive too, and sometimes we feel fat"; and "we do steal glances at cute 25-year-olds who walk by...that's why we never leave home without our sunglasses!" If these days all straight fathers are creepy, prone to whiny bouts of PMS, and even creepier -- respectively -- then it seems we have a new argument for queer parenting being the only way to go.

> The Golden Girls are moving to the Hallmark Channel. The Emmy Award-winning show will begin running on the cable network after February 2009, when it will leave its longtime home, Lifetime Television. "The Golden Girls has been on our wish list for a long time, so we’re delighted to reach this agreement," said Michele Vicary, Hallmark's senior vice president of acquisitions and scheduling. "This is the perfect complement to our schedule of family-friendly programming." After the initial wave of nausea wore off we've decided this is a good thing: even twenty years after it originally aired, there still aren't many shows that have brought as many controversial and thoughtfully handled topics -- including being queer, AIDS, sex after 50, suicide, and the importance of always placing hos before bros -- to the masses. Maybe it can work a little subversive magic on a brand new audience.

> Even with the loss of those excellent four old broads, Lifetime should still be flush with its coup over Bravo, which continues to reel over the departure of Project Runway. We've never quite read such an emotional divorce. The lawsuit Bravo brought for alleged breach of contract contains this choice quote, supposedly uttered by Harvey Weinstein as he assured Bravo's big daddy, NBC Universal prez Jeff Zucker, that Heidi and Tim wouldn't jump ship: "You can only have in your life five true friends and I consider you one of my five friends. And I'm telling you, I will not embarrass you." Completely screw you over? Yes. But not in an embarrassing way.

-- NOAH MICHELSON

Comments

[Harolo]

Daniel Ratcliffe is Jewish so -- as was widely reported when the London production of Equus opens -- no "gift with purchase," as my friend Cary used to put it.