Once Is Not Enough is more
than just the name of a best-selling Jacqueline Susann novel, it’s how
Hollywood does business all the time, cranking out remake after remake as fast
as they can. The latest: another version of Carrie. The classic ’70s horror
film from Brian DePalma has already been remade once as a TV movie, but now
that 2010’s back-to-the-book True Grit has proven that adaptations can hew
more closely to the source material and shine with new life, another pass at
adapting Stephen King’s original novel is in the works. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa,
who’s already re-written Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark in the hopes of saving
its Broadway run, will pen the screenplay. And if there’s any worry that
Carrie’s cultural legacy as a metaphor for tormented gay teen life is in
jeopardy, consider Aguirre-Sacasa’s other new gig: co-producer and writer on
Glee. So you can rest assured and get your pig-blood-proof tuxedo ready.
Lost Girl found by SyFy
Good news for fans of sexy
Canadian lesbian science-fiction thrillers, aka people who like Lost Girl.
The series from our northern neighbors is coming to the SyFy network for its
second season. They’ve picked up 26 episodes and, if they’re smart, will start
advertising it heavily everywhere women-who-love-women go, if for no other
reason than the plot line that involves actress Zoie Palmer (Devil) as a
doctor who gets involved with the series’ protagonist, Anna Silk (who was,
before now, best known for her role in the gay-themed family comedy Breakfast
With Scot). Silk plays Bo, a bisexual succubus with an unfortunate habit: she
feeds off sexual energy and sometimes – oops – kills the ones she
loves. Season two is shooting now so you’ve got a little time to catch up on
all the accidental murder-sex.
Happy Endings not ending
just yet
The way ABC is burning off
summer episodes of its fledgling sitcom Happy Endings (two at a time: good;
aired out of chronological order: bad) would make you think they were just
going to cancel the thing due to lack of interest. But the surprisingly funny
show about a group of young Chicagoans (think Friends but less all-white and
all-hetero) has just been given a second season pickup from the network, and
that’s good news for anyone who’s wondered why there aren’t more racially mixed
sitcoms that also happen to include non-stereotypical gay characters out there.
For the record, the slovenly, unemployed homosexual is played by comic Adam
Pally in a way that suggests the creators watched Sex and the City 2 and
decided to create a man who embodied the exact opposite of that insane Mario
Cantone/Willy Garson wedding scene. Next season maybe they’ll give him a
boyfriend to ignore in favor of beer and video games.
Work It Looks Like a Drag
In new fall season
trainwreck-in-the-making news comes something called Work It. It’s the story
of two married straight men who find that the job market is somehow – all
regard for reality aside – a woman’s world these days. Their answer to
this cosmic upset in the balance of power is to put on ugly Tootsie/Bosom
Buddies lady-outfits and magically trick all women into believing that they’re
part of the sisterhood. According to pilot clips available online they still
swagger around, speak in weirdly breathy non-female voices and generally forget
to act the part. So, you know, HILARIOUS. Who wants to be the first transgender
activist to protest this dumb thing’s existence before it gets cancelled after
three episodes?