Please Don’t…Review: Rosie, Live!

From Kaderade.com!

So, last night I sat down to watch “Rosie, Live!“. I had seen the promos and all the plugs on the daytime talk shows. I could say that I was a little excited, mostly because of the guest list, but all the same excited. But this show was atrocious!

We started off the show with a monologue from Rosie doing some bit about her weight and her “Spanx” underwear. I believe she called them, “Onsies for fortysomethings…”. I’m pretty sure we’ve heard all this before…on The View. We then move onto Liza Minelli…she came out of the ground like a zombie of the living dead. The woman has been able to sing and it was good to see that she’s still got it, but how can we miss you if you never go away? Retirement is not a death certificate.

Alec Baldwin came out and proceeded to talk into Rosie’s cleavage, can anyone say awkward? And Conan O’Brien came out with a pumpkin pie which eventually landed in his face. It felt like a really bad version of The Carol Burnett Show, which NBC has been comparing “Rosie Live” to.

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The Doctor is Out - On Grey’s Anatomy

Lois Smith has known for a while something most “Grey’s Anatomy” fans only learned yesterday: The gay character of Dr. Erica Hahn has been axed from the popular ABC show, and tomorrow will be her last appearance. Smith, a former Hollywood publicist who lives on Plum Island, was in the know because her daughter Brooke Smith plays Dr. Hahn. “It’s too bad because Erica was a good character - a strong, independent female fighting the old-boy network,” Smith told us yesterday. Entertainment Weekly speculated that ABC execs ordered the change because they were uncomfortable with the gay-themed storyline. (Hahn has been getting cozy this season with Dr. Callie Torres, who’s played by Sara Ramirez.) “Grey’s” producer Shonda Rhimes denies Brooke’s dismissal had anything to do with the lesbian storyline, but Lois isn’t buying it.

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Germany’s First Gay TV Channel Hits the Air

Germany has a new television channel that “loves men.” TimmTV is the country’s first broadcaster to focus on gay and lesbian programming. Already established in much of Europe, gay TV’s taken longer to reach Germany.

Find out more at dw-world.de.

Kevin of ‘Brothers & Sisters’ Passes the Test

From the Southern Voice:

MANY GAY CRITICS ARE relentless when it comes to gay television characters. They must be prominent, not peripheral. They can’t be stereotypical, but they can’t be one-note and boring either.

They must avoid a clichéd coming out, and they must not be overly angsty about their sexuality.  Their lives should involve complications unrelated to being gay, but we must on a continual basis be reminded that they are, in fact, gay, or they’ll be deemed “gay in name only.”

They can’t be promiscuous; they can’t be campy; they can’t be psychotic. They should preferably be in a relationship, and if they are, they should have awesome, hot make-out scenes frequently. Anything less is hardly equal treatment.

But with a glass-half-full mentality, we should appreciate the strides made in the last few years. Watching “Brothers & Sisters,” it’s delightful how the character Kevin Walker passes every gay test.

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There’s a New Girl in Town & a Gay Man Too

Back in 1976, the gay rights movement was relatively new, and a gay character on TV was practically unheard of. But it was on this day in that year that a “new girl in town” named Alice (played by Linda Lavin) had a new show on network television and little did we know that it would be history in the making. Seen on September 29th, 1976, during the first season of the hit sitcom, a former football player, and long-time friend of Mel (played by Denny Miller) would waltz into Mel’s Diner and gain the attention of Alice only for her to find out he was gay.

This was an episode about coming out, understanding, and acceptance. This show was way ahead of it’s time, and I’m still thankful today for the producers who did not cave in and aired this controversial hit.

Watch a clip of the coming out episode here.

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