New reality show plays gay matchmaker, puts straights in closet
NEW YORK -- The Bravo cable network is going where no television dating show has gone before: matchmaking gay men. "Boy Meets Boy," a six-episode series that will premiere in July, also twists reality-show conventions by secretly including straight men among the pool of dating prospects.No other dating show has promoted same-sex unions, said Scott Seomin, entertainment media director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. It appears "Boy...
Gay Matchmaker: The Express: Retreading the bawds
THE RELAPSE Royal National Theatre, London SE1, 020 7452 3000, in rep until November NIXON'S NIXON Comedy Theatre, London SW1, 020 7369 1731, until September 15 SIR John Vanbrugh is best known for building Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace. But he was also a playwright. The National Theatre, after its nakedly commercial My Fair Lady, has chosen to stage his obscure comedy THE RELAPSE.Vanbrugh claimed his play was so pious it was a staging of the Lord's Prayer....
Gay Matchmaker: The Korea Herald:
Korean gagmen get political; Younger comics' performances barometer
By Matt Hodges Monday mornings the buzz among blue collar colleagues and the emails that clog up corporations' inter-office cyberspace tend to be a recycling of Friday night's "Gag Concert" on KBS 2, terrestrial TV's most popular show bar none, where a score of gagmen like Park Joon- hyung strut around stage poking and jabbing at everything in sight. They're unlikely to refer to "your momma" but they...
Gay Matchmaker: Retreading the bawds
THE RELAPSE Royal National Theatre, London SE1, 020 7452 3000, in rep until November NIXON'S NIXON Comedy Theatre, London SW1, 020 7369 1731, until September 15 SIR John Vanbrugh is best known for building Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace. But he was also a playwright. The National Theatre, after its nakedly commercial My Fair Lady, has chosen to stage his obscure comedy THE RELAPSE. Vanbrugh claimed his play was so pious it was a staging of the...
Gay Matchmaker: SURVIVING THE SCENE
Ask most unattached people in Miami what they think of the singles scene and they're bound to pickle their answers with some of the most negative adjectives in Webster's. ``Miami is a store full of Costco-sized eye-candy,'' says Lissette Fernandez, 33, of Miami's Upper East Side. ``Only problem is, most of the aisles are all sold out of the good stuff and the only thing left on the shelves are the tarts and...