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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.
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• 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.
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• 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?
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• 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.
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• 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.
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Anchor Steve Kmetko is openly gay and
often throws gay comments into the mix.
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• 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
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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.
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