By Romeo San Vicente
Keeping the faith with 'The L Word'
Showtime didn't pick up "The Farm," the "The L Word" spinoff about Alice in prison. That's off the table for now. And those post-finale webisodes? Did they solve the mystery of Jenny's death? Nope. But creator Ilene Chaiken has a plan:
An "L Word" movie. It worked for "Sex and the City." It even worked for "Noah's Arc." You know what? It even worked for "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." So it can work for the craziest gang of lipstick lesbians that pop culture ever produced, right? Sure it can, just as soon as Chaiken finishes the script and gets backers and corrals her cast and a million other things fall into place. But the hardcore fans (Romeo among them) believe wholeheartedly in the bright future of this project. Three requests, though, Ms. Chaiken: 1) Bring Jenny back to life 2) Let Max lose the fake facial hair 3) Dawn Denbo!
New flick's gang of gay allies
How many times have you watched a trailer for a movie you probably didn't care about, only to see a favorite actress in the cast that causes you to say, "Oh, I love her!" Suddenly it's on your must-see list, right? Well, some gay-casting agent must have worked on Disney's latest feature "You Again" because the cast is like a current who's-who of queer allies and oh-I-love-hers: "Wicked"'s gay-rights-supporting Christian diva Kristin Chenoweth, Jamie Lee Curtis, "Golden Girls" icon Betty White, "Veronica Mars/Gossip Girl"'s Kristen Bell and lesbian-favorite Sigourney Weaver are all working on the comedy about a woman trying to stop the wedding of her brother to the mean girl who bullied her in high school. In production right now, it's set for release sometime in 2010 and already sounds like a bride war worth watching.
Linda Hunt will be back shortly
When Hollywood doesn't know quite what to do with you, even when you're an Oscar winner, sometimes it's just good to hook up with a steady paycheck. And nothing spells steady like a starring role on one of television's ubiquitous crime-procedural shows. Which is why it's nice to know that Linda Hunt, one of Hollywood's most talented and most unique actors, will appear regularly on the upcoming "NCIS: LA." She won her Academy Award for playing a man in 1982's "The Year of Living Dangerously" and acclaim for her role as Gertrude Stein's lover Alice B. Toklas in "Waiting For The Moon." So while offbeat roles like that may be a world away from the acting skills needed to utter almost-certain NCIS-centric dialogue like, "Get this DNA to the lab right now!" her presence is sure to elevate the material. The crime-solving gets underway this fall.
Brent Corrigan acts with his clothes on
They called him the Traci Lords of gay adult film when, a few years back, it was discovered that Brent Corrigan, who would later go on to star in titles like "The Porne Ultimatum," had lied just the tiniest bit about his age, handed the director a fake I.D. and jump-started his career as a naked sex-twink at age 17. But that was then. Now the notorious young star has set his sights on a crossover career with a lead role in the forthcoming "Judas Kiss," a gay coming-of-age fantasy feature. It won't be Corrigan's first dip in the non-porn pool, as he's already been seen in the raunchy comedy "Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!" and had a blink-and-you'll-miss-him cameo in "Milk." Romeo thinks it would be a real breakthrough if Corrigan acted in this indie feature (due in 2010, by the way), watched it become a huge hit, then turned around and starred in the porn knockoff version, too.
