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Deep Inside Hollywood: Liza, Jackson, Timing

By Romeo San Vicente

Cheyenne Jackson. Photo: Miranda Penn Turin

Liza to serenade 'the City'

Is there such a thing as too much concentrated gayness happening in one spot? That's the scientific experiment the "Sex and the City" sequel is planning when it hits theaters next year and Liza Minnelli makes a cameo. At a gay wedding scene. Performing Beyonce's "Single Ladies." If it sounds like a crazy rumor, it's not. Liza loves making an entrance – and this sounds like one for the record books. And Minnelli isn't the only planned cameo. Apparently Miley Cyrus is going to show up, too, but doing what? No one seems to know just yet. Maybe she's going to play Big's long-lost love child or an arch-nemesis competing for young men with Samantha. And of course, as more insane news leaks about 2010's queerest film event, you'll be kept in the loop here. Romeo is waiting for reports of a fantasy sequence featuring ultimate fighter/"Dancing With the Stars" contestant Chuck Liddell.

Jackson to rock '30 Rock'

Cheyenne Jackson may be Broadway's reigning it-boy, but he's made the leap to the big screen before in "United 93" and to TV with guest spots on "The Mentalist" and "Ugly Betty." So it was just a matter of time before people who don't have matinee tickets to "Xanadu" found out about the talented actor, and it looks like that time may be now. Word is that Jackson is about to take on a role at "30 Rock," bringing that show's total number of ensemble players into what may now be the triple digits. No information about his character, how long he'll be around, when he'll surface – because just when you think you've seen the last of Liz Lemon's pager-salesman ex, even he pops up again – or when his episodes will hit your TiVo, but he's reported to be shooting now, so hold tight.

Sci-fi guys have perfect 'Timing'

Attention gay nerds who never got over their fixation with the canceled sci-fi series "Firefly" and its subsequent film "Serenity" (Romeo attended Comic-Con once, so he knows this isn't a made-up demographic): Sean Maher is about to play gay in the film "Timing." The indie co-stars another sci-fi leading man, "Eureka"'s Colin Ferguson, and both actors have gay projects on their resumes already, as Maher was featured in the TV movie "Wedding Wars" and Ferguson appeared in "More Tales of the City." The drama is set to shoot in early 2010, and the plot concerns two men whose relationship is tested when one of them discovers he has a teenage son he never knew. Sounds heavy – wonder if they work it out?

Oompa Loompas to take Manhattan

The idea of a stage musical version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" isn't so far-fetched when you remember that even Roald Dahl's original book featured morals-heavy song lyrics sung by the Oompa Loompas after each naughty child's retribution took effect. And the everlasting gobstopper-like popularity of the various film versions more or less demanded a new incarnation. So now comes the Broadway musical, in development with Warner Bros., director Sam Mendes ("American Beauty") and songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman ("Hairspray"). No word yet on how many, if any, of the original songs from the book or first film starring Gene Wilder will be used – though Shaiman and Whitman's songs are always witty fun – or about casting. But wouldn't it be cool to see a singing, dancing Johnny Depp hit the Broadway stage?

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