> Gray's Anatomy has lost T.R. Knight forever, but it's OK because he's in a better place now -- Broadway. Knight is set to star in a revival of Lend Me a Tenor opening in February 2010, in a role that once earned Victor Garber a Tony nomination. Actor Stanley Tucci will be making his directorial debut with the production, a comedy by Ken Ludwig about a night at the opera gone awry.
> TLC's T-Boz says there's a new TLC album in our future, though details are still sketchy about when it will happen and how the lost recordings of Left Eye will or won't figure in. Until then, we'll always have Shock Dat Monkey.
> Speaking of 1992, R.E.M. is dropping a new EP next Tuesday on iTunes, featuring live versions of four songs that were recorded at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in 2007. It'll be followed this fall by a two-disc album from the same session.
Humanity has always turned to epic universal sagas -- of daddy issues, rehab, and sex tapes -- for spiritual guidance and intellectual respite. In these, certain stories echo through the ages from which we can interpret our present and attempt to divine our future.
In 90210: the New Testament, we have a certain character who perhaps managed to exceed in blandness the unapologetic blandness of certain other characters. And Darren Star called him Ethan. As an entity he was perhaps a little too simple and average to fill the god-sized shoes the stylist had laid out for him. If we scour 90210: the Old Testament for parables relating to the fate of bland characters, we find that they accidentally shoot themselves at parties.
Then in their stead we see rise a character of higher aspirations and holier proportions -- like those of an Abercrombie and Fitch model. If we are attentive to detail, we notice that they might resemble Steve Sanders a little, if Steve Sanders were way hotter, in a daytime TV or Playgirl magazine kinda way.
Suffice to say, Darren Star called him ... Teddy. And it was good.
> Chace Crawford, future Footloosian, thinks tabloid rumors of romance between himself and his Gossip Girl co-star and real life best friend Ed Westwick are "crappy" but he doesn't let them get in the way of a good time. "You know what we really
did the first time we heard it? Ed goes, 'Oh, did you
hear that rumor about us being gay?' I was like,
'Yeah, man.' He starts laughing and we're kind of like,
'Okay, you want to go play pool and have a beer?' "
> A One Life to Live actress has been replaced because she protested the upcoming gay storyline between Officer Fish (Scott Evans) and Kyle
(Brett Claywell). Producers apparently wanted Patricia Mauceri's character, Carlotta Vega, to play a supportive role in the budding gay relationship; Mauceri "objected to Carlotta’s positive attitude because it
conflicts with her personal beliefs."
> On tonight's episode of The Cleaner, A&E's "inspired by a true story" mega-drama about an extreme interventionist played by Benjamin Bratt, a father grapples with having lost his gay son to war. This tearjerker airs at 10 P.M. EDT/PDT.
Last night on the premiere of America's Got Talent (the low rent version of American Idol), David Johnson, a loan officer from Washington, was able to finally, triumphantly make one of his childhood dreams come true: serenading former Bay Watch-er turned talent competition judge David Hasselhoff.
With lyrics like "I bought your Speedo off Ebay too, / But I can't fill them out like you" and "I would spoon you even if you had the flu," Johnson not only won over the audience (who initially boo-ed his bland tune), but even Hasselhoff himself who responded, "I'm honored and humbled that someone would write a song like that for me. I'm sad that he's a man." We say, these days you should get it where you can, Hoff.
One Life to Live's Scott Evans may be the little brother of the Human Torch himself, Chris Evans, but he's also breaking ground as an out actor in his own regard. In the coming months, his character, police officer Oliver Fish, will join the growing ranks of daytime characters with gay storylines of their own. This week, the Advocate's Michael Fairman caught up with Evans to get all the details.
About his own coming out process, Evans says "I wanted
to put myself first before my career. I did not want
to go through life having to deal with extra issues when I
am dealing with trying to get a job. So I went, 'OK,
this is me. Either you like or you don’t.
Hopefully you can accept it, and if you can’t,
bummer. If you can hire me, great.' " Read the full interview on Advocate.com.
The universe pretty much agrees that when it comes to Real Housewives, the broads who hail from the nether shores of the Hudson could crush the fabric-hawkers and faux-countesses of New York City with their gel-tipped pinkies. But it's not like Bravo didn't try to give New Jersey a run for its cold hard cash.
Michael Musto reports that the network courted legendary club diva Susanne Bartsch, spouse of gym mogul David Barton, for the series but that "she'd rather do something with intelligence and some meaning." And while we certainly can't blame her -- because intelligence and meaning look pretty good next to Simon Van Kampen in an inflatable pool -- we'd be lying if we said we weren't more than a little disappointed.
[Before we even start we're going to be up front and tell you the following gossip came from Star Magazine. Basically that means there's a good chance it's a bunch of hogwash -- but -- there's also a chance it's actually true. Either way, consider yourself warned about the dubious source of the following story.]
“Neil and David were so relieved and excited once they were approved,” a source told the gossip maagzine. “Now they have so many surrogate profiles to go
through to find the right woman to carry their child. Neil and David can’t wait to hold their baby; they don’t care if it’s
a boy or a girl. They just want a healthy child,” the source added. In an Out interview last year, Harris revealed that Burtka is already the father of twins (via a surrogate) from a relationship with a former boyfriend.
So, not only do we have the world’s most fey vampire, but we might just be on the verge of the world’s only hot black gay vampire. Could life -- or undeath or whatever the cool kids call it these days -- get any better?
First the fey -- Eric and his highlights. He has that whole Eurogay thing going on anyway, you know, where you really can’t tell because they all do that laconic, louche and limp thing. Even his name, too: Eric? Not even kids in Harry Potter are called Eric. He also always has that haggy old vamp bitch hanging on his arm, but that’s fooling no-one, right? And let's not even start talking about the way he stares at Bill. But last night, in the debut of the series second season, Eric is interrupted and has to come down to the torture chamber/hot new bar/inside of a huge watch with the foil still in his hair, mid-dye. This of course opens up all sorts of speculation re: vampires and their hair/nails etc. Do they need haircuts? Manicures? Or does their hair just regenerate to whatever it was when they were made into the undead? If they were alive during the 80s, say, will they forever be sporting/battling a Flock of Seagulls hairdo?
AND, who should be chained up in the cellar but Lafayette, who is as gay as gay can get, and has, since last we saw him, grown a beard. Now, Eric has him there (a) to satisfy his closeted desires and (b) because Lafayette has been selling “V” -- vampire blood -- to junkies. OK (a) is made up, for now anyway, but did you notice Lafayatte is topless?
Now, most of the folks in the cellar seem to get eaten. And that’s no euphemism. But we saw a flash forward to next Sunday’s episode where Lafayette is suggesting to Eric that he be made into a vampire. Which would surely make sense all round, right? I mean, no WAY will True Blood throw away the best character? Or would fey plus gay be outré?
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