A look at some noteworthy television this week:
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Noteworthy Televison This Week: Two Tonys on Sunday
Law & Order: Four More Years
Chung chung! NBC and producer Dick Wolf have hashed out a deal to keep Law & Order on the air for the next four years. Variety reports (subscription only) that as part of the deal, Law & Order: Criminal Intent will be moving to USA. Yes, USA (which NBC owns) will now have the first run episodes of Detective Robert Goren's histrionics, and then NBC will air repeats of L&O:CI. Interesting!
Pair with Flair
It's easy to bring out your inner sommelier -- just step outside. At our doorstep are some of the finest ingredients just begging to be matched with wine. A stroll down Bleecker Street with Ted Allen, the food and wine expert from Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (pictured at right tasting the pulp of a cacao pod for the first time) showed us how simple it was to create elegant and seemingly fancy pairings without even having to turn on your stove (or even your microwave). Turns out the key to a great pairing is picking high quality ingredients and highlighting what makes them special. For example, if the food is only made in a specific area, pick a wine from that area; if it has a citrus accent, select a wine with a crisp acidity. A great paring highlights the unique attributes of both the food and the wine. On this particular evening, all wines were provided by Robert Mondavi's Private Selection.
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer by Warren St. John
Gothamist was still a little skeptical of Bama fans' dedication, until we learned that Warren's honeymoon was postponed because of his book tour through the South later this month. Touche. He agreed to answer some questions Gothamist had about being an Alabama fan, college sports, NYC sports, and men who get pedicures.
Metrosexuals' Deadbeat Daddy
Simpson also discusses being credited (or not) for the term's origins; oddly enough, British journalists say the idea is from "New York admen" whereas U.S. journalists do credit him. Read the interview, it's filled with a lot of interesting thoughts about hetero and homo as well as metrosexuality. And we're not giving anything away when we leave you with Simpson's final words, "The only thing that's certain about the metrosexual is that he's the kind of man that the modern world deserves. "
Long Bets, In The Year 2000
And Mr. T's "Conan O' Brien will be pitied not be me as a fool, but by fools as a superfool."
Thanksgiving Eve In NY
The Times has a story about Brett Zwieback, the 27-year-old meteorologist who helps weather-direct the balloons in the parade. He works at a company that consults with film and TV crews about weather conditions for outdoor shooting; clients include Law and Order, Saturday Night Live and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Can Queers Like Pier 1?
The website for Thom Filicia Inc. is not finished yet, but so far, it looks like it'll have the crisp, modern sensibility he's been injecting into the homes he designs. Plus it does have his phone number and email. And last week's Queer Eye was so good ("Queer Eye Blues" etc.); tomorrow, the QE5 battle a toupee with a man attached.
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Project Runway
, a new model compeititon, with Heidi Klum judging. Bravo thinks it will be a great companion piece to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; yes, because there's nothing that gay men like more than pretty vacant models to escort around. And Variety reports Miramax head Harvey Weinstein saying Runday "help find and identify the same untapped talent in the fashion world that 'Project Greenlight' has found in film." Untapped talent? The NY Times' Elvis Mitchell reviewed both Project Greenlight films: Stolen Summer was "Well-meaning but inert" and "The drab comic melodrama The Battle of Shaker Heights may lead to a new axiom: success has many fathers, but failure has Project Greenlight." Note to aspiring models: This is your chance to choose.
Q Awards Lead to Q-uestions
1) When did Duran Duran (above) become the lead contenders for the British version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Queer Eye for the Straight Bloke?
A Heartbreaking Movie
After being caught in development hell for three years, it looks like Dave Eggers' autobiography, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, is on its way to the big screen. Universal Pictures is picking up rights to the book from New Line, and Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) will be developing the project. Interestingly, Nick Hornby and D.V. DeVincentis (screenwriter of Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity) adapted the book.
Trying to Get Queer in Queens
." The Daily News mentions a straight guy named Captain Caveman whom Newsday also noted. Obviously, he made himself look like the total Straight Guy ready for some Queer Eyes to reporters.
Queer Eye For the Straight Guy: Which Fag To Hag
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy premiered Tuesday night and it was just as good as Gothamist had hoped: A pack of gay men terrorizing a straight man into cleaning himself and his lifestyle in order to jumpstart his life, by way of clothes, accessories, styling products, gourmet food, and etiquette, and a healthy dose of bitchy remarks - love it.
Gaying It Up for the Good of Society
As if Gothamist wasn't already jealous of people who get to hang out with the Fab Five of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, John Sellers goes through a mini-gayification for the Times. Damn damn damn. Sellers' abs get prodded, his apartment gets made over, he goes to Craft for lunch, he goes to the salon and then goes shopping. Among what the experts say:
Queer Eye for Your Straight Guy?
Drat - we only just found the Today show's Makeover your man opportunity, where you write in and attach a photo of a straight guy you want made over by the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy team of uber gay and uber hip style specialists. The segment is running early next week, so Gothamist isn't sure if there's still enough time to submit an candidate for debate and possible entree into better style, if not complete metrosexuality.
Queer Stamp of Approval
There are two TV season premieres that straight women and gay men are looking forward to this summer: Sex and the City on June 22 and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on July 15. Five gay "cultural experts," aka "The Fab Five" will help straight guys understand more about fashion, culture, and living. It's a self-improvement show, along the lines of A Makeover Story or Fashion Emergency, but not as extreme as, well, Extreme Makeover. Finally, the Fab Five will give a "Queer Stamp of Approval."
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