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Gunn takes center stage with Bravo
Perhaps the sanest man in reality television,
Tim Gunn — the gay chair of the fashion
design department at Parsons The New School
for Design — has become the breakout star of
Bravo's hit "Project Runway," thanks to his
sage advice and dry personality.
So it's no surprise that the cable network —
which often seems to be even gayer than Logo
and Here! combined — is giving Gunn his very
own show.
Premiering in July, "Tim Gunn's Guide to
Style" will feature the avuncular fashion guru
helping everyday folks with their wardrobe
dilemmas and teaching them how to develop
their own personal looks. ("Gunn's Guide" will
start up just as Bravo's venerable "Queer Eye
for the Straight Guy" goes off to the TV grave-
yard.) If anyone can take the flagging makeover
genre and "make it work," it's Gunn.
Washington apologizes, enters counseling
Neil G. Giuliano,
president of the Gay
and Lesbian
Alliance
Against
Defamation
(GLAAD),
and Kevin
Jennings,
founder and
executive
director of
the Gay,
Lesbian and
Straight
Education
Network
(GLSEN) met
on Monday with
Grey's Anatomy co-
star Isaiah
Washington to
discuss
Washington's
uses of an
anti-
Tim Gunn
slur.
Officials with the two groups said the meet-
ing laid the groundwork for an ongoing partner-
ship with Washington to combat the prejudice
and intolerance faced by the LGBT community.
By Wednesday, the TV actor announced he is
entering counseling, calling it a "necessary step
toward understanding why I did what I did and
making sure it
never happens
again."
GLAAD and
GLSEN officials
said Washington
candidly acknowl-
edged the harm he
had caused by his
repeated use of the
epithet and has
agreed to work
with the organizations on some sort of cam-
paign against name calling and hate speech.
"Isaiah understands that he is going to be
judged by more than just his apology,9
Giuliano said. "He knows that his future
actions will demonstrate his sincerity in
becoming part of the solution to anti-
gay bigotry."
The meeting happened on the first
day of GLSEN's "No Name-Calling
Week."
GLAAD and GLSEN expect to
meet with Washington again in the
coming weeks to begin discussing
and implementing possible public
education initiatives, officials said.
Gumming oils up
Recently civil-unioned actor Alan
Gumming is an old hand at science fic-
tion, following his appearance in "X2,"
so it's no surprise he's been tapped to star
in the new SciFi Channel miniseries "Tin
Man," a fantasy re-imagining of "The Wizard
of Oz."
Cumming will star as Glitch a
man missing half of his
brain; he's just one of
a motley crew of
people trapped
in the Outer
Zone (or
O.Z., get
it?) who
want to
find their
way
home.
Allen
Cummin
Shooting begins
in March with an
eye to a December
broadcast premiere
date.
Also coming to
SciFi is an action
series from gay
"Sex and the City"
creator Darren Star.
The as-yet-untitled
show is about con-
victs who get new teched-out bodies so they can
go on secret government missions.
McKellen sprinkles a little 'Stardust'
He starred in two
of 2006's biggest
hits — "X-Men:
The Last Stand"
and "The DaVinci
Code" — but
there's no rest
ahead for Sir Ian
McKellen.
The eVer-busy
gay superstar will
lend his distinctive
voice to the fantasy film "Stardust," slated to
open in theaters in July.
Starring Claire Danes, Robert De Niro and
Michelle Pfeiffer, the film tells the story of a
young man who sets out to retrieve a fallen star
for the woman he loves, setting off on a trek
that takes him to the Faerie Realm, where he
encounters witches, goblins and evil trees.
Based on a DC Comics miniseries by hot
writer Neil Gaiman ("Sandman," the English-
language adaptation of "Princess Mononoke"),
"Stardust" is director M atthew Vaughn's follow-
up to the action hit "Layer Cake."
Caouette crashes 'Parties'
Gay filmmaker
Jonathan Caouette,
who made a big
splash with his har-
rowing and riveting
personal documen-
tary 'Tarnation,"
will follow in the
footsteps of great
directors like
Martin Scorsese
and Jonathan
Demme by making
a concert film.
"All Tomorrow's Parties" will celebrate the
annual alternative music festival of the same
name, which is held in a different city each year
and features a lineup of performers selected by
a curator (past act-selectors include Sonic Youth
and Matt Groening).
But rather than focusing on one of the titu-
lar shows, "Parties" will feature footage shot
by curators, musicians, and even audience
members from all of the previous shows.
M
?
By Beth Freed
What do you think about the increasing
diversity represented in this year's
Academy Award nominees?
"There are more
minorities that have
been nominated this
year; however, the
movie industry needs
to do more as a
whole to reflect our
society."
"If you have more
variety, there's more
to offer. If you just
have the same thing
over and over, it gets
boring. I don't like to
get stuck with the
same pattern over
Roland Zuniga
Aerospace engineer
and over again. I like Charlie Hernandez, Jr.
diversity." Clinical staff
"I would say that in
the early years,
maybe it wasn't so
diverse, but now I
think people are
much more under-
standing of seeing
that in every aspect
of entertainment. I
think it's good."
"I think it's wonder-
ful. I think that it's
been a long time
coming. I think that
now, because it is a
more immediate
situation, that we
need to be recognized
in every genre, even
in acting."
Melissa Sewell
Bank employee
Zhyla Alvarado
Entrepreneur
"I'm very excited
about it, only
because it kind of
represents a new
direction that
Hollywood might be
taking."
Rich Lopez
Nightlife editor
Have a suggestion for a question you'd like us to ask?.
E-mail it to staff writer Beth Freed at
freed@dailas voice, com
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