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Last updated on: December 15, 2003 at 10:17 pm by Barbara Nicolosi

2003-12-15T22:17:00-07:00 Barbara Nicolosi

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JOHN, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU

Time for more spicy bits. In deference to poor John S. who is drawn to this blog daily and yet has a stomach full of references to The Passion of the Christ, LOTR and Act One, I will mention none of these in this next entertaining bit of snippets.

– Joan Conquers the Globe? Daily Variety just put out its annual issue speculating about the Golden Globe nominations due out Dec. 18. New Catholic, Barbara Hall’s freshman show Joan of Arcadia is reported to be hot in the running as a contender for an award. This would be remarkable as the show has barely ten episodes out there. But as Variety notes in interviewing voting members of HFPA (that’s Hollywood Foreign Press Association), “[In terms of TV] there’s little out there that is making a big impression….One of the few series that is appealing to both critics and audiences is CBS’ Joan of Arcadia which has been winning its Friday timeslot and generating good reviews.”

– SPOTLIGHT AS FAMILY BUSINESS…Hollywood Reporter last week reported that George Clooney’s father Nick will be running for Congress next year. From a district in northern Kentucky, Mr. Clooney will run as a Democrat to succeed three-term Rep. Ken Lucas who is retiring. Maybe if George campaigns for him, he can do for this Democratic franchise what he did for Batman.

– Starting next month, Europe’s first gay pay channel, Pink TV, will launch in France. Pink TV, notes HR, will air four hours a day of X-rated programming, as well as other cultural and news programs of interest to gays. Notes the channel’s president of operations, Pascal Houzelot, the channel will give gays “what they want to see. ” What kind of cultural and news programs would be “of interest to gays?” I’m just curious. Houzelot responds, “We might do a themed evening on Brad Pitt, who’s not as far as we know gay, but is of interest to gays.” Poor Brad!!! Talk about turning a guy into a piece of meat. Is it just me, or is this stuff getting creepier and creepier?

– Following that line of icky perversion as entertainment, the William Morris Agency just picked up a show coming from France’s Studio Canal. It’s a game show modeled afer American Idol, only guess what? It will be called “Gay Stars” and will feature America voting to assemble a band of singers modeled on the Village People. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP! Notes the show’s producer, Denis Mermet, “The pitch for the show was so strong, WMA went for it straight away.”

– A friend appraised me today of an Emily Dickinson docudrama on PBS tomorrow night. The idea of another Emily project in town went through me with (as Emily put it) “a tighter breathing and Zero at the bone.” I don’t think I can watch. If it’s good, I’m officially becoming a hermit and I might never speak to God again. But then again, it might create interest in a feature length Emily movie. If it’s bad, it could mean the kiss of death for any other Emily Dickinson project. What to hope for?

– In search of a hit show, Disney owned ABC has just greenlit a drama pilot called Doing It. The show will revolve around the sexual antics of three 16 year old boys and is being described by the network as a cross between American Pie (which was rated R) and My So Called Life. The “sexual antics of 16 year old boys”? The show’s producer Jeff Judah crosses his heart and promises Daily Variety that “Despite the show’s potentially controversial subject matter, Doing It will not go salacious.” Oh reallllllllllllllllllllllllllly……………….. Now, why don’t I believe them? Memo to Disney: Alternate title for this show: Statutory Rape.

– Don’t make fun. So, there’s a new hot religion in town called EMC2 which stands for Energetic Matrix Church of Consciousness. Taking its moniker from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the church’s central doctrine os to reject “the current mechanistic Newtonian model of reality.” That’s kind of good, isn’t it? EMC2 has already started gathering stars under its banner. For only $1000 the church can provide treatments with a Quantum Consciousness Imprinting Device that will heal all bouts of Darwinian materialism, I suppose. Don’t make fun. Keep your little California jokes to yourselves, please.

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