Mollie Sugden has died. She was 86. The British actress was best known for the role of Betty Slocombe in the long running comedy Are You Being Served, a character whose hair color changed constantly and who repeatedly referenced her “pussy.”
Drop Dead Diva, a new series airing on the American Lifetime network premieres July 12th, starring Brooke Elliot as a rail thin model who dies unexpectedly only to be reborn as a plus size attorney. The show’s September 20th episode could be the gayest hour ever of basic cable, featuring guest turns by Liza Minnelli and Delta Brooke as sisters who are also competing psychics each, and by Rosie O’Donnell as a judge.
There are reports that the original ending to the Bruno, the new film by the stunningly stupid Sacha Baron Cohen, featured a horrific gay bashing, since edited from the final print. The film is supposedly a parody of homosexual prejudices meant to challenge conventionally held stereotypes of gay men. Seriously! I know right! Brutal bashings are often the centerpiece of a parody.
I like True Blood this season, its second, far more than the first. It’s incredibly entertaining, written with a wit that is rare anywhere, not only on television, and well, Ryan Kwanten is often in various stages of undress. Alan Ball, series creator, talks and talks and talks more about the True Blood and the many surprises in store.
Tiny notes, rather than big news on the upcoming fourth season of one of television’s finest drama’s ever, Friday Night Lights, and of which characters will remain in Dillion, Texas, and which will suddenly appear as new characters on shows completely different.
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