Fellow Travelers: Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer — Photo: Courtesy of Showtime
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of the 2024 Dorian TV Awards, honoring the best in television and streaming networks.
Max’s Hacks took top honors with 4 wins, including nods for Best TV Comedy, Best Written TV Show, and its two stars, Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder.
AMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire won Best TV Drama, Best LGBTQ TV Show, and Best Genre TV Show, and the Showtime/Paramount+ drama Fellow Travelers earned wins for its stars Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey.
The Campiest TV Show honor went to SYFY/USA’s Chucky, while FX/Hulu’s Reservation Dogs took home the group’s award for Best Unsung TV Show.
Netflix’s superb Young Royals won Best Non-English Language TV Show, while the Alan Cumming-helmed The Traitors on Peacock won Best Reality TV Show. Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV on Investigation Discovery won Best TV Documentary.
Julio Torres was honored with GALECA’s “Wilde Wit Award,” Alan Cumming was bestowed with the “TV Trailblazer Award,” and the legendary Carol Burnett was this year’s “TV Icon” award-winner.
“Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 Dorian Television Awards,” Walt Hickey, GALECA’s President, said in a statement. “This group is second to none when it comes to elevating and advocating for innovative, daring work, and celebrating the creative efforts of the future of the film and television industry.”
The nonprofit organization boasts over 500 members, most of whom are on staff or freelance for mainstream and niche media outlets including The New Yorker, Vulture, HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, Out, The Advocate, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, and The Guardian.
Four of Metro Weekly‘s writers are GALECA members, including Senior Contributing Editor and film critic André Hereford, Contributing Editor Hugh McIntyre, Broadway Critic Ryan Leeds, and Editor-in-Chief Randy Shulman.
Miles Heizer wants to clear up a rumor about him that seems to be picking up steam lately.
"It's not real. And I don't know why people think that," the actor states pretty emphatically, though clearly with tongue in cheek, aware there are worse things people could make up about him.
For, while Heizer most definitely, factually was born in the state of Kentucky, he has not, as several sources have erroneously reported, ever been named a Kentucky Colonel, that coveted honorary title bestowed by the governor to individuals "for noteworthy accomplishments and outstanding service to our community, state, and nation."
The Pentagon is bashing the hit Netflix series Boots as "woke garbage."
Based on The Pink Marine, former Marine Greg Cope White's memoir, Boots follows Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer), a closeted teen who joins his straight best friend, Ray McAffey (Liam Oh), at a U.S. Marine Corps boot camp run by the ruthless Sgt. Sullivan (Max Parker).
Set in the 1990s, the series unfolds at a time when service members discovered to be gay or engaged in same-sex activity could be dishonorably discharged. In 1994, under the Clinton administration, Congress approved a so-called "compromise" policy -- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- that ostensibly allowed gay and lesbian troops to continue serving.
The amazing Oscar Isaac can produce magic on-camera, but the actor's overripe performance in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein fails to cast a spell.
Stunting his characteristic charisma to portray madly determined scientist Victor Frankenstein, Isaac still wields a brooding intensity and sensuality in the part. Outfitted in plush, body-con Victorian garb, his hair a tumble of curls as Frankenstein rages against his detractors, or feverishly saws parts off corpses, Isaac is ever the movie star.
But he's also wielding an extravagant "ye olde English" accent, aristocratic edition, that never once convinced me. Gothic horror, especially done to Grand Guignol excess as del Toro aims for here, certainly is no place for timidity. And Isaac's go-big performance isn't the only ham being served. Still, it's hard to get past him sounding like a more over-the-top Vincent Price. That mode works better for Charles Dance, portraying Baron Leopold Frankenstein, Victor's demanding, emotionally distant father, in flashbacks to the scientist's sad childhood.
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