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	<title>Birch Society: Thoughtful GLBT people craving something deeper than &#39;Queer Eye&#39; should be heartened by the arrival of &#39;Birch and Co&#39; on &#39;here&#33;&#39;</title>
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TV: Move over Univision&#44; BET&#44; and Lifetime Television for Women &#45;&#45; we have arrived&#46; While American entertainment has long had gay flavor&#44; the dawn of here&#33; and LOGO bring us two channels dedicated to all things GLBT&#46; &#40;Granted&#44; here&#33; management will point out that they&#39;ve been around since 2002&#44; but you&#39;re excused if you didn&#39;t notice&#46;&#41; These two cable and satellite&#45;delivered networks serve up more than the sexy beefcake that drives gay advertising dollars&#46; As a matter of fact&#44; former Human Rights Campaign head Elizabeth Birch has joined the here&#33; camp with a heady brew of talk&#46; From the halls of the HRC to your living room&#44; Birch seems to have found a new career&#46; Don&#39;t let the painfully corny name of the new show turn you off&#44; Birch and Co&#46; is actually more thoughtful than its title&#46; First off&#44; there&#39;s no denying Birch is a sharp woman&#46; Her resume as a litigator is impressive&#46; She led HRC ably&#44; in some ways becoming the face of gay America during her decade at the helm&#46; She is a familiar anchor for here&#33; among thousands of small&#45;screen offerings&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>All Soaped Up: &#39;&#39;One Tree Hill&#39;&#39; on WB</title>
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TV: As television critics ponder their post&#45;mortems for the 2003&#45;04 season&#44; much attention will be paid to this year&#39;s crop of guilty pleasures&#46; Whether it&#39;s the O&#46;C&#46;&#44; Simple Life or Average Joe&#44; we all secretly harbor shows we&#39;re embarrassed to admit we watch&#46; So let me be the first to come out of the closet and rave about the WB&#39;s One Tree Hill&#46; A melodramatic&#44; deliciously awful teen soap&#44; One Tree Hill follows in the tradition of Dawson&#39;s Creek&#44; that other WB teen soap we all loved to hate&#46; Though lacking the wit and clever scripts of Creek&#44; One Tree is just as much fun in a heavy&#45;carb&#44; high&#45;fat kind of way&#46; The show follows the impossible circumstances of two teenaged boys&#44; Lucas &#40;played by the frizzy&#45;haired&#44; scruffy&#45;faced Chad Michael Murray&#41; and Nathan &#40;the drop&#45;dead gorgeous newcomer James Lafferty&#41;&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Fantastical Voyage: &#39;&#39;Wonderfalls&#39;&#39; on Fox</title>
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TV: In the same whimsical&#44; refreshing style that made Ally McBeal such a treat for millions of viewers&#44; the Fox network has created its spiritual heir&#44; a delightful new comedy called Wonderfalls&#46; The hour&#45;long series focuses on Jaye Tyler&#44; a disaffected recent college grad&#44; who&#39;s moved back home to Niagara Falls&#44; New York&#44; only to end up as a cashier in a cheesy souvenir shop&#46; Bored and directionless&#44; Jaye &#40;played by Caroline Dhavernas&#41; fritters away the hours&#44; waiting desperately for some sort of salvation&#46; Caroline Dhavernas &#40;right&#41; It takes the unlikeliest of forms when inanimate objects begin talking to her&#46; That&#39;s right&#46; Small toys and figurines tell her to do certain things and essentially intervene in the lives of hapless strangers who enter Jaye&#39;s life&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Unwittingly Hooked: &#39;&#39;Playing it Straight&#39;&#39; on Fox</title>
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TV: A former English teacher of mine used to say John Grisham novels were like Doritos&#46; Even though they make you fat and have no nutritional value&#44; once you open the bag&#44; you keep eating&#44; one after the next&#46; Certain reality shows are a lot like that&#46; Fox&#39;s latest offering&#44; Playing It Straight&#44; is the latest specimen&#46; The show follows a na&#239;ve Wisconsin girl&#44; the beautiful Jackie&#44; who&#39;s whisked away to a Nevada ranch&#44; where she&#39;s marooned with 14 handsome suitors&#46; The cruel twist du jour is that not all of the hunks are straight&#46; If she picks the &#34;right&#34; guy&#44; presumably one who wouldn&#39;t mind bedding down with her for the evening&#44; she and the lucky hetero get to split &#36;1 million&#46; If she falls for a gay guy&#44; each of whom is trying desperately to pass&#44; the happy homo ends up with all the loot&#46; Laughably predictable and patently absurd&#44; Playing It Straight is a show this critic wanted to hate &#45;&#45; make that&#58; needed to hate &#45;&#45; to have any shred of self respect left at all&#46; Yet&#44; as I watched the first episode&#44; I knew I was hooked&#46; Like Doritos&#44; there&#39;s no such thing as just one&#46; Passing maneuvers&#58;the men of &#34;Playing It Straight&#34; Of course most of the fun in Playing It Straight is the guessing game&#46; Like Jackie&#44; I found myself scrutinizing the bachelors and their every move as if it were dialogue on The West Wing or the subtle moods evoked on Six Feet Under&#46; I sat breathless&#44; legs curled up under me&#44; fists clenched&#44; as Jackie eliminated her suitors&#44; one by one&#44; and each loser revealed whether his orientation&#46; No freaking way&#33; Are you fucking kidding me&#63;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Swan Dive: &#39;&#39;Celeste in the City&#39;&#39; on ABC Family Network</title>
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TV: It&#39;s a universal truth&#44; widely accepted&#44; that inside every gay man is a blonde&#44; neon&#45;wearing&#44; glitter&#45;adorned&#44; Justin Timberlake&#45;loving teenaged girl&#46; It&#39;s why movies like Jawbreaker and Legally Blonde are made and why Hello Kitty lip gloss still reigns supreme&#46; It&#39;s also the driving force behind the derivative and predictable new movie&#44; Celeste in the City&#44; premiering this Sunday on the ABC Family cable network&#46; A modern&#45;day fairy tale about an ugly duckling moved to New York City&#44; Celeste in the City was created with two audiences in mind&#58; 14&#45;year&#45;old girls and gay men&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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