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50 2d 2000 4MP» 1 Continued from P age 4 9 TKe/ S ta ria te/ L enirle/ [Ypfeft n yourself home alone, you always can count on MAD TV, which has had a lot of fun outing Rosie O ’Donnell, and Saturday Night Live, which always has been fearless in portraying gender benders and various queer storylines. Sunday Halloween Party S a tu rd a y O c t 28 from 8pm to 1am (503) 234-6171 2651 E. Burnside 6 E T S VOU $1 DRINK • Los Beltran (8 p.m., Telemundo) This Mexican sitcom features life partners Femandito (Gabriel Romero) and Kevin (James Charles Leary), who are neighbors to the Beltran family. Mon-Thurs 11am-2am • Fri 11-2:30am • Sat 4pm-2:30am www.chopstickex.citysearch.com Cosrum STtuppensm The fash... Sunday , O ct . 29 ft 8 pm • • The Simpsons (8 p.m., Fox) Will this be the season in which nuclear power plant assistant Waylon Smithers (voice of Harry Shearer) comes out and expresses his undy ing love for the crotchety Montgomery Bums? Nevex a coven! Halloween Day and Night H o rro r Flicks • C ostum es Trick or Treat • D rink Specials (503) 287-4210 2 5 1 2 “ N E ” Broadway • Hype! (9 p.m., W B) This sketch-come dy show skewers Hol- lywood and modem politics. With a trio of out gay co-creators/ writers— SNL vet Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney and Scott King— expect lots of homoriffic barbs. The first episode featured loads of gay humor, including a music video about gay rapper Feminem, which skewered anti-gay rap per Eminem, and the Dead Hollywood Squares with Paul Lynde. • Sex and the City (9 p.m., HBO) Carrie has a gay best friend in recur ring character Stan ford (Willie Garson), although he hasn’t appeared much this season. Expect more gay, lesbian and bisexual issues to crop up in the future. Executive producer/director/writer Michael Patrick King is openly gay, as is cre ator Darren Star. ■’ < • Strip Mall (10:30 p.m., Comedy Central) Exceedingly silly, this sitcom features a lesbian couple, Fannie (Amy Hill) and Althea (Loretta Fox), who run a Chinese restaurant as well as out gay actor Bob Koherr starring as identical triplets, Blair (the gay one), Blunt and Blank. 2 9 1 3 SE Stark (5 0 3 ) 2 3 0 -7 9 8 0 Daily • E! News Daily (7 a.m., 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., E!) Anchor Steve Kmetko is openly gay and often throws gay comments into the mix. Monday-Thursday Lunch 11 am -2 p m / Dinner 5:30-9:30pm Friday and Saturday Lunch 11 am -2 pm / Dinner 5-30-10 pm Sunday Brunch 9:30 a m -l:3 0 p m / Dinner 5:30-9:30pm Lounge open everyday 11 am to 2 am See us online at www.starkys.com • Christopher Lowell (noon and 3 p.m., Discovery) 1 don’t know for a fact that this interior director is gay, but the way he swishes around makes Darcelle and Richard Simmons look stone-cold butch. Every time I’ve seen the show, I’ve been stunned at how much nelliness can be stuffed into one person— and how many ways he can find to swag a valance! • Homes Across America (H G T V ) Special mention needs to be made of the many shows on this channel— which might as well stand for HisGayTV— featuring gay designers and/or openly gay couples offering $ lu l - guided tours of their homes without fanfare. Programs consistently have offered gay content without comment, treating us just like every one else, and that’s revolutionary! • All My Children (3 p.m., A BC ) Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) will have more to be hysterical about on this daytime soap as her teen-age daughter, Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel), will reveal she’s a lesbian. Hints about this already are showing up on the series. • Hollywood Squares (syndicated) Alm ost every day you can hear the wisecracks and not-too-subtle gay humor o f way-out comedian/writer Bruce Vilanch. H e’s the blond not-a-bom bshell in the sometimes-risque T-shirts. • Spyder Games (4:30 and 11 p.m., M TV ) M T V ’s first-ever daily soap opera debuted O ct. 16. The plot concerns the power grabbing and sexual machina tions of a group of heirs to a video game fortune; one of the characters is a closet Upcoming • TV Funhouse (Comedy Central) Robert Smigel, a former comedy writer for Late Night with C on an O ’Brien and the genius behind the howl- ingly funny anim at ed segments on Sat urday Night Live for the past four sea sons, finally will get his own showcase in December. Look for new cartoons mixed in with old, which means more Ex-Presidents, Hete-Roy and the Ambiguously Gay Duo coming soon to a television screen near you. • Queer as Folk (Showtime) T he raging gay series from England is remade American-style for a 22-episode run starting Dec. 3. Set in Philadelphia, the show features one openly gay actor in its ensemble (Peter Paige) and promises a whole lot of taboo-breaking male-male kisses and sex. The series is co-produced by Dan Lipman and Ron Cowen, who have been partners— personal and professional— for 25 years! • Holiday Heart (Showtime) Ving Rhames plays a gay drag queen who has lost his lover and now takes care of a drug addict and her daughter in this made-for-televi- sion movie airing in December. • For 2001, C B S is developing a sitcom version of the gay film Kiss Me Guido and another gay sitcom called Say Uncle as well as a new show starring Ellen DeGeneres. HBO is producing a feature-length version of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and a film version of Moises Kauf man’s play The Laramie Project. Showtime will have the four-hour Armistead Maupins Further Tales o f the City on tap next spring. In January, Lifetime will air the made-for-television movie What Makes a Family, starring Brcx)ke Shields as a lesbian who must battle for custody of her daughter after her lover’s death. in