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My Favourite Pic From Pride 2010 (Photo: Michael Ain)
… slowly, with trepidation, she emerged from the depths of her Pride recovery, the daylight singeing her eyes …
Wow. Not just Pride recovery, I’ve decided, but Spring 2010 recovery – what an intense ride these past several weeks have been. It was so nice to take last week off, chill, and avoid the heat wave with a/c in front of the TV.
One can actually graph the return of my right mind by examining the order of my DVD rental choices. Shall we?
1) The Hills Seasons 1 and 2 (at last, context for the hot glue gun mess that is Heidi Montag) 2) The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 1 (aspiration for The Hills gang, I’m shure)
3) Nip/Tuck Season 1 (not sure if I’ll stick with it; too stomach churning) 4) Damages Season 1 (friggen amazing)
5) The Wire Season 2 (and once I could follow this without issue, I knew I was back, and that all would be alright)
Delishsuh!
… and of course, The Young & The Restless, suitable for any state of mind. Holy-dump-your-husband, at long last Phyllis has given Tree the heave-ho. The last five minutes of today’s U.S. episode where Phyllis reads Nick is some of Michelle Stafford’s best work of late – lots of great pacing and emotional levels while Tree Nick just stands there wishing she’d use smaller words like Sharon does. The highlight of my Pride come down.
Speaking of Pride, yesterday I was alerted I made the National Post twice this month – but can you spot their funny boo-boo in my second appearance?
Music alert! Kylie’s new album Aphrodite is a tasty must-have. Not a bad track on the dance-heavy release, with ‘Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)’ easily my favourite, and I really really love the first single, ‘All The Lovers’, so that’s saying something. Take it from a gay man: Buy. Now.
And while you’re on iTunes, do grab Toronto icon Ivana Santilli’s latest, Santilli – it’s more awesome sweet grooves from one big talent. I just love this down-to-earth sexpot and her sultry voice so much and we had a few laughs Friday afternoon while she helped with with a project:
Photo: Mark Wigmore
And then there was Chi Chi LaRue. The infamous L.A. porn mogul, who discovered Eddie go-go dancing there years ago and has remained friends with him ever since making him an international porn star, came to Toronto Friday for the weekend. The multi-faceted drag queen had a DJ gig at The Barn Saturday night, and the rest of the weekend we spent with Chi Chi (as a boy), touring the city, eating out, and stopping him from buying an $1800 necklace at Holts on a whim. He’s a wonderful and fascinating man and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time together. Saturday before the DJ gig I brought my crew to her hotel to shoot an interview for the show, where we talked bareback porn, the real reason she’s lost over 100 pounds, and what it takes to maintain the Chi Chi LaRue brand for as long as she has. Watch for it on an upcoming episode, soon!
Photo: Eddie Stone
Waiting To Shoot. And Figuring Out How I Can Steal Chi Chi's Top Hat Without Her Noticing. (Photo: Eddie Stone)
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Springtime In Toronto Is So Glorious! (Photo: HIMBO!)
It would be an understatement to say “What a week!” Here’s what I’m loving as we head into the weekend
Let Me Put It Like This: I WOULD MAKE A BETTER MALCOLM!
Let’s start in the HIMBO! mailbag, where many have written to denounce the new Malcolm. “Wanda” says: “I demand to know who’s in charge of casting for Y&R. The new Malcolm looks (and acts) like a gorilla*. And don’t get me started on Daisy. *PS – Please don’t put use my real name in your blog or TV/radio show, due to possible racist interpretation.”
No problem, Wanda, and I couldn’t agree more, neither could the reader who wrote of “Nu Malcolm”: “Ugh. Make. It. End.” Indeed.
Here’s what else is up and down in the ups and downs of Y&R of late: Read the rest of this entry »
Smiling On The Outside, Debating Stealing On The Inside! Fix And I Break The Rules On The Set Of Y&R.
Last year when I was on the set of Y&R in L.A. I was tempted to steal a couple of things, much like Sharon has been ransacking Genoa City. In particular I was tempted to take a bumper sticker I saw that read ‘Jack Abbott For Senator!’, and I was also tempted to slip a copy of the then current Restless Style into my bag. It had Katy Perry on it, imagine having THAT on my coffee table, I thought.
It was in my hands – we were on the teeny tiny set of the Restless Style ‘offices’, my pal from Soaps.com Christine Fix and I – and so it would have been easy. There were several copies lying about, although what they were really were copies of the real-life W magazine with a fake Restless Style cover glued on them. The CBS folk, however, were VERY rule-oriented to begin with (no pics on set unless actors are in them, no watching certain scenes being shot, etc.), so the last thing I wanted was to get caught friggen STEALING A PROP and get kicked off.
I fondly remembered this when watching Y&R this week. Did you see what I saw? Katherine is the latest GC resident on the cover and she held the mag up, and for the longest bloody blooper moment it opened up to reveal as clear as anything: “W Contents” – the index page of the actual magazine masquerading as Restless Style. AAACK!!!!!!!! Oh how she laughed at THAT bloop, M&M crumbs falling from her mouth.
Also having fun with Billy and Chloe arguing over the baby. No, literally, putting Delia down in her bassinet and then arguing over her … Loving Phyllis‘ ride on the emotional rollercoaster that is her marriage and Michelle Stafford is so damn good you just want to weep along side her, if only because she has to play her scenes across from that tree that is Nick Newman. Incapable of any emotion at all, but god that L.A. soap actor body. What would be fun would be to pair him up with the new Mackenzie, equally as wooden (although that could just be the lesbian in her), and then you would have the beginnings of a forest … Which would be good, because then the chipmunk that deranged Kevin is now seeing every time someone visits him in the looney bin would have somewhere to scamper off to. This storyline is clearly being written someone who comes from the soaps where people levitate and we wish he would understand we like our Y&R with a soupςon of grounded sophistication, however absurd … Speaking of absurd, Sharon has now started to tell the world that she thinks she’s got a problem (HELLO!) with things like stealing bumper stickers from Jack’s election campaign and old Restless Style issues while visiting the set of Y&R shit from her neighbours. But instead of freaking out about being found out and hauled off to the police station, she gets out on bail and shares this about herself as though she’s telling people she’s getting a new colour of blonde … We object to the over-use of the GC vintage book store where everyone runs into one another constantly. We know America doesn’t read, let alone read vintage. And regardless, how many times do YOU run into your worst enemy at a book shop? A Starbucks, certainly. But not a book shop … Scene-stealer of the week has got to be Jill, who is her own worst enemy, so much so that she keeps running into herself at the bookstore. We so admire Canada’s Jess Walton. For someone who has gone through as much behind-the-scenes contract drama as she has this past month, to the point of quitting playing Jill, she’s sure shown up and given it 100% regardless. Loser of the week is Neil, for secretly encouraging Tyra to try and adopt Ana while at the same time pretending to back Karen, which is like … like … like plotting with some reality show winner over Nia Peeples is really the only way to put it.
So that, friends, is your Y&R update for this week. It’s evolving a bit from what I used to do, but it must, as the show itself is evolving and going through growing pains, and those pains are being felt big time right now. I’ve never had to smoke so much marijuana in my life just to make it tolerable some times. Follow me on Twitter.
And The Last Word goes to … Karen! ”You only used me to get over a dead wife!”
