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Kay77
This is my first post. I have been a visitor here for a while and am a big QAF fan but have never posted in any of fan forums until now. The thing is that I usually like to stay anonymous. However, meeting beautiful Sunshine today at New Orleans signing made me come out of a lurkdom and share my wonderful experience with other QAF fans.

Although I love all of the QAF cast members, Randy always has been my favorite. I have fell in love with intelligent, persistent, artistic, and most courageous Justin from the very first episode. I think Randy is absolutely fantastic and wonderful actor. So, when I found out that he is coming near my area for DVD signing, I had to be there. However, I wasn't expecting too much from this event. You see, I have met few celebrities and, more often than not, I got disappointed with the real person.

Also, I've heard that Randy was very shy. So, I didn't think I would get a chance to talk to him much since I am very shy, too. Imagine my surprise when I met very relaxed, open, witty, and very articulate young man! I was so impressed with him. He is so, so, so much more beautiful in person than I have ever imagined him to be, both inside and outside! Now I have actually met him, I am more impressed with Randy than I have ever been. His gorgeous sunshine smile definitely brightened my day and his winning personality made me his most devoted fan for life!

The signing started few miniutes late. There weren't as many people as I thought and feared. I was at the beginning of the line, so I could have gone through the line at least two more times if I wanted to. However, being in a dazed state from meeting Randy and getting picture taken with him, I wasn't thinking clearly at all and left early . Also, I didn't want to make a complete fool of myself.

Randy's hair was gorgeous! I thought I liked him best with his longer hair. I mourned the loss of his long gold locks. Surprisingly, I absolutely adored his current hairstyle. He had shorter cut in the back and longer in the front. His hair in the front was all spiked up (in a carefully tousled, yet adorably messy kind of way ).

As far as the length is concerened...trying to think...I guess it is about late season 2 length in the front and mid-season 1 length in the back?!? I could be wrong... Only thing I can remember clearly is how bright and beautiful his sunshine smile is and how sweet he really is.

Randy's hair looks absoultely fantastic, btw. Scott and Peter looked good, too. Peter was very nice and funny. Scott was little quiet and seemed little shy.

I think the impulsive ear nipping fun gesture is very much Peter Paige. I have met him twice and found him to be an amazingly gracious and warm young man.

The second time we chatted a little and, not wanting to keep him any longer, I said my "thank you so much for taking the time...." speech. And....without my leaning forward or sticking my cheek out or begging....he reached out and gave me a big kiss.

I think I either reminded him of his beloved grandmother (maybe the one in Hazelhurst, Mississippi?) or it was my PFLAG tee shirt. I have a great picture of us, Peter pointing to my shirt with a big smile.

Nice, nice young man. The kind you wish you could bring home to marry your son!

AlisGuy, that Peter is something else, isn't he? Gave you a big kiss, did he? I tell ya... Gotta love him and his fun loving personality!!!

MailLing, I was about in the middle of the line and I had to wait about 45-mins to an hour for my turn. As it was with Best Buy, they were about 10 mins late getting started. There were a lot more people in groups. I think it was pretty good turn out. It is kind of hard to tell how big was the crowd because of the layout of the store. The the first floor of the store, where the guys were, was kind of small and crowded with displays and stuff. So the line had to kind of wrapped around the wall and up the stairs. I have to say there were about 60 or more people when I was there. I left as soon as I got things signed. So I have no idea how much longer they stayed or how many more people came in after I left.

I like the signing at the Best Buy much better. Nicer staff, better layout of the store, and more comfortable chair for the guys to sit on. I don't know what these people were thinking but the guys had to sit on a hard, fold-out chair. Very uncomfortable ! I felt bad for our boys!

I just got my pictures developed and I wish there is someway I can share this one particular "post Peter nipping Randy's ear" picture with you guys! It turns out that I didn't forget to push the button and managed to take one of a kind picture!!!

I finally got to see Randy's reaction to Peter's antics! The picture captured a moment so perfectly. The picture made me laugh so hard that I wish I had a scanner so I can share it with eveybody. I am so sorry I don't have a scanner and have no way of posting the picture.

In the picture, Peter has his arm around Randy and has this hilarious "I am a tiger and I am going to eat you up, you sexy thing" kind look on his face. Randy has his head tilted slightly to his left side and has this mischievous, nose crinkled, eyes squinted, all his teeth showing huge grin on his face. Scott is on Randy's right side, leaning toward Randy and has this cute, mouth slightly open, sweet but goofy grin on his face. He has his whole upper body on the table. I don't think I ever saw any picture like this of them. So relaxed, having fun, and being very mischievous... Make me giddy and extremly happy every time I look at the picture. I already got it framed and have it very near my computer


Hephaistion
I'm coming down from my Randy high to give everyone a quick report. I'll be posting a detailed recap of my wonderful adventure at my Yahoo group in the next day or two. I have a lot to share--I made notes after I left so I wouldn't forget anything. lol

The most important thing--it was a completely wonderful experience. Everyone was well-behaved--that I saw anyway. I worried for nothing--and I'm glad.

Randy is an absolute doll. And I was much more impressed with Peter and Scott than I thought I'd be.

There are a couple of things I want to share tonight:

I had a squee moment. At one point Randy put his coat on and as he
lifted his arm his shirt went up and I got to see a flash of his
boxers and some skin. I didn't squee out loud but I was defintiely
squeeing inside. It reminded me of times in fics when a flash of
J's bare skin gets Brian all hot and bothered. It ain't just
fiction anymore folks. lol

I asked Randy and Peter if it was always intended for B and J to be
together or if the original intention was to make it more of a
triangle. Peter said that the triangle thing was more of a UK
series thing but that he also wasn't sure that BJ were meant to be
the focus at first. That's when I said something like, "That's
true, Cowlip doesn't plan the story far ahead, do they?" Then Randy
said, "No, I think it was always meant to be BJ." And then I
said, "A lot of us wondered if it went toward BJ because of the
chemistry between the two of you." And before Randy could say
anything, Peter said, "Oh yeah, they defintiely have chemistry."
And then I dropped it because Randy seemed to get uncomforatble. I
got the sense that he thought I was going to go a little BJ crazy.
Which saddens me because you know he's had experience with that.
I'm conflicted. Now, part of me wants to meet the entire cast since I had such a great experience but the other part is afraid that because it was such a great experience that anything else would be a disappointment.
galedreamer--
It was very light. So much so that for an hour of the 2 hour scheduled time the guys walked around Best Buy! I hung around until they left. Didn't stalk. Just stayed in the store and looked at CDs. I didn't go up to them. Just waited around to see what would happen--didn't want to miss anything.

After an hour no one came up for signatures. I figured they'd leave, but it shows, to me anyway, what class acts they are that they stayed the entire time.

I was a bit embarassed for them at first because of the lack of interest, but I changed my mine. First because I have a feeling it will be pandemonium in the Quarter today. Two famous, sexy gay boys and a good looking straight boy who plays gay in the Quarter?!

But I was also glad for the light turnout because the guys seemed to enjoy the chance to shop in Best Buy. Really! Randy and Peter romaed all over the store. And when they left they both had Best Buy bags. So I think they enjoyed that hour of just being normal. Of course most people in the store had no idea who they were. Most people were just in there to check out CDs or appliances. They had no idea there was anyone famous in their midst.

So though it was a light turnout, I don't think they were too disappointed. The fans were respectful, and they got to do some shopping.

To be honest, I don't know what the hell Showtime was thinking sending them to a Best Buy in Metairie. Never mind that it's a suburb. It's a pretty conservative suburb. It was the home district, after all, of David Duke.

Though I don't understand why they chose it, I'm glad they did because the low key, unhurried pace, I think, led to my enjoyment.

My first time through the line I was so nervous I don't remember a lot of it. lol But I have clearer memories of the second. I'd had time to get over my excitment and I didn't feel as rushed.

As for as Randy's hair, I'm not good at judging length, but it did seem to me that he's letting it grow out. And I too was surprised at how spiky it was. Don't know if he wanted it that way or he'd slept on it that way. lol His shirt sure was rumpled so maybe it bed head! But it didn't matter, he still looked very yummy and exuded sexiness.

They sure didn't seem worried. I got the impression that everyone--the guys, their handlers, the security and the Best Buy people--was all pretty laid back. They didn't seem bothered by the lack of interest at all. They seemed to enjoy the fact that everyone could just hang out.

And I don't think we have to worry about lack of interest in the Quarter. I'd be very surprised if it were a bust. Between Quarter residents and tourists, I think there will be a lot of interest. Especially if the guys as wonderful and cooperative as they were at yesterday's signing.

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Я играла девушек каждого Тома, Дика и Гарри на телевидении - включая Джорджа Клуни в «Скорой помощи» - и мне до смерти наскучило ходить с ярлыком «телки». Чтобы бросить вызов ситуации, я прошла пробы на роль Мелани в Шоутаймовском сериале «Queer as Folk». Я получила эту роль и, вопреки советам друзей и людей, имеющих отношение к киноиндустрии, которые не хотели, чтобы я подверглась осуждению склонного к предрассудкам общества, согласилась на нее. Когда я приехала на съемочную площадку, костюмер подвел меня к стеллажам с мешковатыми штанами и теннисными туфлями. Я привыкла носить каблуки и пуш-ап. Затем гример объяснил, что моя героиня использует только гигиеническую помаду и румяна. А я помешана на карандашах для губ. Но после начала съемок я поняла, что, избавившись от всех женских атрибутов, почувствовала себя свободнее.

По больше части потому, что отзывы поклонников невероятно воодушевляют. Раньше я получала письма от мужчин, говорящих, как сексуально я выгляжу, а теперь они пишут, что признались матерям в своем влечении к мужчинам. Я люблю свою работу и не переживаю, что в будущем эта роль помешает мне получать роли не-геев - моя героиня очень разносторонняя. Но я с нетерпением жду хиатуса, когда смогу вернуться к каблукам, туши для глаз и кружевному белью.

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Я парень без предрассудков: я никогда не голосовал за республиканцев, верю в использование марихуаны в медицинских целях и играю одного из самых ярких геев в самом гейском ТВ-шоу в истории. Но когда я открыл пакет с мужским нижним бельем от фирмы Hidden Vestments, мое сердце буквально остановилось. Я не мог поверить своим глазам - там был кружевной черный корсет, красный шелковый пеньюар и серые сатиновые стринги (можно заказать на сайте www.hiddenvestments.com). О Боже! Моим первым желанием было засунуть все это обратно в коробку, пойти на бейсбольную площадку и хорошенько поколотить по мячам, чего я не делал с тех пор, как… никогда. Но я не позволил своим страхам одержать верх.

Поэтому я примерил белье. Это было неплохо - честно говоря, даже очень хорошо (шелк - отличное изобретение). Удивительно, но мужское тело выглядит особенно мужественно, когда одето подобным образом. Мои мускулы казались такими большими, твердыми, рельефными. Хотя я и не уверен, что готов включить в свой гардероб кружевные трусы, я не буду судить мужчин, которые решат это сделать. И в будущем я, возможно, не буду так скор в своих суждениях о мужском белье. В любом случае, как можно пользоваться карандашом для губ?

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Как уже неоднократно писала Саша  moveforever, во время съемок сериала фэндом жил спойлерами. Кто-то ездил на съемки непосредственно в Торонто, кто-то добывал сведения у своих знакомых, задействованных в массовках. В то время было несколько форумов, где выкладывали и обсуждали спойлеры, старались с их помощью предугадать, что же будет дальше )
Это пост Sandstorm63 взятый отсюда. Она пишет со слов человека, который участвовал в массовке.

Серия 402, Майкл и Эммет приезжают в фейский лагерь....
Мы с Кристиной надеемся, что этот небольшой рассказ поднимет вам настроение.

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У меня есть друг, который снимается в массовке QaF. Обычно он участвует в съемках в Вавилоне или в тех сценах в задней комнате, когда не нужно раздеваться. Но в этот раз он рассказал мне о долгом дне натурных съемок (в октябре), когда ему пришлось сниматься едва ли не в носовом платке. Он описывает свой гардероб так:
«Обычно они говорят, в чем ты должен прийти, но в этот раз все было неопределенно. Список был таким: Тяжелые ботинки или сандалии. Клетчатые или блестящие рубашки. Поношенные джинсы или джинсовые шорты. Цветочный орнамент - хорошо. Бусы - хорошо. Я не брился три дня, и это было правильно. Разноцветные или «этнические» одеяла приветствовались. Я переживал насчет своего гардероба. Я рылся в своем шкафу целый час в поисках неуловимых джинсовых шорт. Мне удалось найти несколько клетчатых рубашек. Никаких «этнических» одеял, впрочем».
Съемочная группа выехала из Торонто в 5 утра и направилась за город к лесу, где они начали снимать визит Эмметта и Майкла в коммуну хиппи-нудистов. Мой друг сказал, что там были голые парни, играющие в волейбол (очень плохо), и несколько, мягко говоря, неприятных мужчин с выбритыми лобками.
«Сцену снимали на поле за холмом. За пределами съемочной площадки был небольшой участок квадратной формы, явно выкошенный специально для волейбола. Эмметт и Майкл разговаривали с каким-то человеком, которого я не знал. Нас не задействовали в съемках в течение примерно получаса, поэтому большую часть времени я провел, пытаясь спрятаться от лесных пчел. У меня аллергия на их укусы. Примерно в четверть первого начались съемки. Они расставили игроков в волейбол, которым пока разрешили остаться в халатах. Они отпустили 10 или 12 фей. Но меня оставили. Возможно потому, что я был самым раздетым, или из-за того, что все оставшиеся большей частью были уродливы».
«Я должен был наблюдать за игрой. Приветствовать одобрительными возгласами удачные подачи и вообще вести себя очень оживленно. Но было несколько проблем. Один из голых парней, «профессиональный» нудист, в принципе не представлял, что такое волейбол. Очевидно, он думал, это то же самое, что и футбол, и был очень удивлен и озадачен, увидев сетку. Когда началась репетиция, мы сбросили наши халаты и пальто. 5 из 8 обнаженных волейболистов фигурой напоминали героя, рекламирующего пончики от Pilsburry, и были практически такими же белыми. В солнечном свете они ослепляли почти так же, как чистый лист бумаги. К тому же они отвратительно играли в волейбол. Они даже не представляли, что делают. Один из голых темнокожих парней боялся мяча и все время ронял его и вскрикивал, когда мяч переходил к нему. Им никак не удавалось удержать мяч в воздухе. Поэтому радоваться и вести счет было очень сложно - пожалуй, я никогда не был так хорош в актерской игре.
Они как минимум дважды свалили сетку. Пришлось прервать съемки, чтобы поставить ее на место. Они забросили мяч в высокий стог сена, и пришлось снова остановиться, чтобы достать его оттуда. И они продолжали ронять мяч. Однажды темнокожий парень запустил мячом в чью-то спину, свалив человека с ног. Это было невероятно смешно. Как оказалось, один из голых парней был женат, на женщине, и он потерял свое обручальное кольцо. Это не очень весело, но так как я с ним совсем не знаком, мне было смешно. Я представил, как он рассказывает эту историю подружкам своей жены. "Я потерял обручальное кольцо в ужасной волейбольной игре посреди леса с уродливыми голыми геями, щеголяющими выбритыми лобками в октябре". По моим последним данным, они его так и не нашли».

Очевидно, Эмметт раздевается и присоединяется к игре, в отличие от Майкла (слава вам, боги и богини).

«Нас отправили на новую площадку. По тропинкам, через лес. На поляне была коммуна геев-хиппи. Стояла какая-то лачуга, в которой продавали батик и краски для ткани. Расставили столы с бусами и дешевыми пластиковыми кольцами. Горел костер, но пламя было недостаточно большим, чтобы около него можно было согреться. Стало холоднее. Небо заволокло облаками. Казалось, что в любую минуту может начаться дождь.
Более получаса ушло на то, чтобы подготовить съемочную площадку. Режиссеру необходимо было дать указания 25 актерам из массовки. Предполагалось, что я буду покупателем».
«Сюжет: Эмметт и Майкл приезжают, чтобы влиться в коммуну. Их приветствует актер, которого я никогда не встречал, по имени Pumpernickle или Perrywinkle (морская улитка). Эмметт чувствует себя неуютно. Майкл говорит, что это была идея Эмметта, и они остаются».
«Питер (Эмметт), Хэл (Майкл) и третий парень, хозяин, стояли как раз около меня. Точнее, толкались около меня. Когда началась репетиция, у меня забрали мой халат, рубашку и зонт. Нам всем велели притвориться, будто сейчас тепло и солнечно. Питер смотрел на меня с жалостью. Хэл сказал: "Добро пожаловать на фабрику пневмонии". Питер был очень мил. Я все ждал, что он погладит меня по спине или по плечу. Съемочная группа, как я заметил, была в плащах и теплых куртках. На Эмметте и Майкле также были куртки и водолазки. Третий парень, хозяин, был в мехах. На мне - какая-то поношенная тряпка, в которую вы бы даже не завернули больного хомячка».
Я понимаю, что здесь нет сюжета как такового, но мне показалось, что интересно увидеть все это изнутри. Наверняка все не так весело, как кажется.

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story by Brent Ledger / Xtra Jan 11 2001
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BROAD CASTING. US Queer As Folk’s writer/producers Daniel Lipman and Ron Cowen (inset) say that they had a really tough time finding an actor to play an amoral gay man; Gale Harold (middle) turned up in the nick of time.(Image by Xtra files)

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BROAD CASTING. US Queer As Folk’s writer/producers Daniel Lipman and Ron Cowen (inset) say that they had a really tough time finding an actor to play an amoral gay man; Gale Harold (middle) turned up in the nick of time.(Image by Xtra files)

Sex, guys & videotape
Free trade
Gay TV / Queer as Canuck Limey Yanks

story by Brent Ledger / Xtra Jan 11 2001

The US version of Queer As Folk comes trailing clouds of sexual hype — most of it justified.

Within the first few episodes of the new show, its hero, the sexually voracious Brian, does a 17-year-old in bed, a male nurse in a hospital ward, a married client in a corporate washroom and a hunky stranger in the steam room of his gym.

There’s a lot of casual nudity and most of the actors have riders attached to their contracts detailing just much they’ll be asked to reveal. But it’s not a porn movie, says executive producer Daniel Lipman, who created the show with his partner in life and work, Ron Cowen. "We do not have a crotch cam always on the ready."
Besides, the sex is actually less interesting than the context in which it occurs.

"What’s amazing about this show," says Lipman, "is that all the characters are gay." Lots of shows have gay characters and that helps "people get used to the fact that this is part of the tapestry of the world. But when you see a show like this in which all the characters are gay — there are very few straight characters, and they all live in a gay world… that’s very important."

For Canadians raised on a steady diet of British shows like This Life, Inside The Line and of course the original Queer As Folk, the idea of a show with sexualized gay leads is old hat. This Life’s Warren was cruising the parks for strangers long before Ellen even came out.

But there’s no doubt that the US Queer As Folk is breaking new ground in the States, where cutting edge is the cute but chaste Will And Grace.

Ten years ago, a show with even one gay leading character would have been unheard of — an ensemble show like Queer As Folk with its multiple gay characters absolutely unthinkable.

When Lipman and Cowen created their hit family drama, Sisters, in the early 1990s, they tried to make the youngest sister gay. The network said, nice idea, find yourself another network.
Cowen and Lipman, who also wrote the award-winning AIDS drama An Early Frost, eventually introduced other queer characters, including a recurring lesbian played by Nora Dunn, but they were all secondary characters.

For the Queer As Folk commissioned by US cable network, Showtime, they’ve gone much further, creating six queer characters: the aforementioned Brian (Gale Harold), his easy going best friend Michael (Hal Sparks), a 17-year-old ingenue (Randy Harrison), an insecure, porn-loving accountant (Scott Lowell), a sensible queen (Peter Paige) and a child-rearing lesbian couple (Thea Gill and Michelle Clunie).

The characters bear more than a trace of their British origins, as do the first few episodes worth of plot, which follow Brian’s sexcapades, Michael’s new romance and young Justin’s attempts to deal with gay life. But the tone is quite different — funnier, more joyful and less gritty, says Lipman. Plus a touch more psychologically explicit, in deference to the US taste for therapeutic intervention.

He and Cowen watched each episode of the original 10 or 12 times, tried to absorb the essentials, then went their own way.

"The thing you have to do when you adapt something," says Lipman, "you have to totally digest it and then absolutely throw it away." Maybe 10 lines of the original survive.

Generally, he’s wary of adapting edgy British shows like AbFab and Fawlty Towers. They don’t translate well. But he and Cowen thought Queer As Folk was very much in their voice and they could do it.

For Canadian fans, the big question is probably: Why bother? Why not just run the British original?

But as Lipman points out, "There really is a different sensibility in the States than there is in Canada." Gay audiences might be able to penetrate the British accents and other cultural barriers, but a larger US audience probably wouldn’t.

Showtime bought the new Queer As Folk in the hope of attracting the sort of large, crossover audience that has flocked to shows like the Sopranos and Sex And The City on the rival HBO network. "I don’t think the original would have gotten that [audience]," says Lipman. "I think people would have been frustrated by it."

So few people in the US have seen the original that for them it’s almost a fresh show. Originally, there was even talk of changing the name. (The old Yorkshire proverb, "There’s nowt so queer as folk," doesn’t have much currency in the US.) But Showtime decided the name had marquee value and featured it prominently in its promotions.

For Canadians, there’s the dubious and deeply ironic thrill of watching identities mingle. This is a British drama recast as a US soap that’s shot entirely in Toronto with much help from local talent.

All the writers, including the well-known trio of Richard Kramer (Thirtysomething), Jason Schafer (Trick) and Jonathan Tolins (The Twilight Of The Golds) are based in LA. But Canadians Thea Gill and Chris Potter act (she plays a lesbian mother; he, Michael’s new love interest) and Canadians John Greyson, David Wellington and Jeremy Podeswa direct a number of the episodes.

Most of the dance club scenes have been shot at either Fly or Guvernment, with Woody’s supplying some exteriors and Church St doubling as Pittsburgh’s Liberty St. Look for a lot of familiar faces as secondary characters and extras.

Lipman says he’s learned a lot about Canadian attitudes during his stay, but hasn’t seen that much difference between Canadian and US gays.

"What’s really strange here is you walk by a travel agency and there’s a big sign for a vacation in Cuba, which is something you would never see in the US." Otherwise, Toronto isn’t so different from LA. Church St reminds him of West Hollywood and the Santa Monica strip.

As with all series dramas, the production schedule is gruelling. Shooting on the 22-episode series started last July and continues into March. But one of the biggest headaches, casting, is over. It was "extremely difficult," says Lipman.

Most actors are willing to do almost anything once, but a starring role in a long-running series carries its own dangers. It can make you a star or stamp you indelibly as the wrong kind of character. And apparently nobody wanted to be known as a selfish, amoral, gay man.

Sparks, Lowell and Paige appeared almost immediately. But finding a Brian was difficult. Agents varied in how they couched their rejections, says Lipman. "Some said it’s a very fine show but we don’t have anyone available and others said there’s no way in hell so-and-so is going to do this part." But the message was the same and it held up the start of shooting.

The week before they were supposed to test their lead on network execs, they still didn’t have a Brian. Finally, at 5pm on the Friday before their Monday meeting, they found Gale Harold.

Good thing, too, because the self-centred character of Brian is central to the show’s theme which, like the show’s psychology, is much more explicit than in the British original. It’s about the difficulty of becoming a man, says Lipman.

"It is harder for a gay boy to become a man because when you’re growing up you’re not able to express yourself emotionally, sexually and romantically, and your adolescence is delayed."

Some men get caught up in drugs or sex and die a kind of spiritual death. The question in Queer As Folk, says Lipman, is which of the characters will survive the transition.

Whether it’s Michael, Brian or someone else, they’re all going to have lots of chances to indulge their hedonistic impulses before they’re forced to "grow up." There’s a foam party in episode seven ("Studs And Suds") and a leather ball in episode 15.

But that’s all just window dressing, says Lipman. He feels what’s really liberating about this show is not the toys nor the sex, but being able to show characters who are something other than the usual network-approved heroes and villains. Michael, for instance, is a nice guy who happens to go to discos and take recreational drugs. Some people don’t like that kind of contradictory complexity, but Lipman does.

"The music, clothes, looks, clubs can change, but the important thing is making sure the characters are true to who they are."
Sex, guys & videotape
Brent Ledger

From the opening sentence you know they’ve got it all wrong, but in that cute American way that says they think they’re being daring.

"The thing you need to know," says the narrator of the new, 22-hour, US version of Queer As Folk, "is that it’s all about sex."

Well, yes and no. Sure sex dominates gay life but it’s only of interest, artistically speaking, because it says something about us. And not as a group, but as individuals — where we are in life, our needs, desires, fantasies and fixations.

Russell Davies, creator of the original UK series, understood this and used sex to advance the plot and delineate character. Stuart’s energetic self-interest, Vince’s ineffectual passivity and Nathan’s eager innocence were all laid bare by the way they did or did not have sex.

The celebrated rimming scene in episode one of the original wasn’t there to titillate little old ladies in Iowa. It said something about a cocky 15-year-old kid who thought he knew it all but had many pleasures yet to discover.

Mostly, too, the sex was there because it was the chief way in which Stuart kept Vince at bay; it was the one thing the two best friends did not do together.

For a show that was widely believed to be about sex, the original Queer As Folk was never more erotic than when addressing the largely sexless relationship of Stuart and Vince. The conflicted dynamic of their 15-year-old relationship drove the show and supplied its suspense. Their love was a given. The only question was where and how it would find expression.

That tension is gone from the US version, along with the original’s bracing ambivalence toward contemporary gay life. The plot is pretty much the same, at least for the first three episodes, broadcast in one lumpen sum (Mon, Jan 22). Two 29-year-old gay best friends, here renamed Brian and Michael, get mixed up with a 17-year-old ingenue, while their gay friends suffer bad dates and their lesbian friends deal with their first child.

The difference is that the minor characters steal the show. Peter Paige and Scott Lowell do a great deal with a couple of seemingly limited roles — a comic-relief queen and a very average-looking accountant.

But the major characters are completely unmemorable. Hal Sparks’s happy-go-lucky Michael is charming but depth-free, while Gale Harold’s self-interested Brian is a one-note parody of what the tabloids are pleased to call a "sexual predator." In place of Aidan Gillen’s mesmerizing portrait of an angry young man, we get a crude, clanking portrait of promiscuity.

When Brian tells their friends about the first and only time he and Michael almost had sex, it’s with the sort of joyless pornographic detail that would be out of place in most bar conversations.
When Brian picks up some guy on the Internet, he not only questions his trick’s dimensions, he pulls out a tape measure and measures the guy’s 10 inches on screen.

Instead of a character, Brian has a credo: "I don’t believe in love; I believe in fucking. It’s honest, it’s efficient. You get in and out with a maximum of pleasure and a minimum of bullshit." As an emotional defence this may be believable but as a prelude to the kind of growth that drives good character drama, it’s a dead end. How is this one-note wonder supposed to change?

Much of the power of the original came from what was not said. Whether it was Vince’s baffled hurt, Stuart’s simmering anger or Nathan’s cocky determination, the characters feelings were reflected in their faces. Here, feelings are telegraphed and sex jokes are screamed — at high volume. It’s like being at the cinema with a bozo who not only talks through the entire movie but uses "fuck" as adjective, noun and verb. The lack of originality is numbing.

Like most US dramas, Queer As Folk operates on the assumption that more is better — more sex, more shocks, more plot twists. As long as they keep it moving, you won’t notice the lack of substance.

By episode four (on Mon, Jan 29), this begins to seem like an effective strategy. Once the producers drop all pretence of breaking new ground and get down to the serious business of creating a riveting primetime soap, the series starts to click.
In terms of tone and intent, it reminds me of Beggars And Choosers as redone by Aaron Spelling; an efficient, middle-brow entertainment with a serious helping of schlock.

No shame in that. Just don’t call it Queer As Folk.

QUEER AS FOLK.
10pm. Mondays, starting Jan 22.
Showcase.

Telling straight people how to live
EDITORIAL / Kids are the most subversive act
story by Brenda Cossman / Xtra May 01 2003

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In a recent episode of Queer As Folk, Lindsay and Melanie ask Brian for his sperm because they want a second child. Brian had earlier co-operated with Lindsay on baby-making, but this time Melanie was going to get pregnant. There being no love lost between Brian and Melanie, Brian initially refuses.

But all is not lost. Later that evening, he asks his best buddy Michael why any self-respecting queer would have kids. Michael’s pot-induced response, “to piss off straight people,” makes it all crystal clear. Having babies is not about assimilating into the family ways of heterosexuals. It is subversive. With this epiphany, Brian is now only too willing to offer up his sperm, even to the insufferable Melanie.

What’s unthinkable in the show’s fictional location, Pittsburgh, is allowable here in its real location, Ontario. Same-sex couples can adopt each other’s children, have child support rights, child custody rights and child access rights. Having babies here isn’t quite so subversive.

Or is it? There are limits, numerical ones. Lesbians and gay men can’t have families with more than two legal parents. In a court case out of London, Ontario last month, a court denied
a request by two lesbian parents and the biological father for an adoption that would affirm the parental status of all three parents.

Under Ontario law, the non-biological mom could adopt the baby. But the adoption would end the biological father’s parental status. The couple and the bio father asked for a three-way shared custody, but the court said no.

“If this application is granted, it seems to me the door is wide open to step-parents, extended family and others to claim parental status in less harmonious circumstances. If a child can have three parents, why not four or six or a dozen?” observed Justice David Aston in his decision.

Why not indeed? Why not four or five or six parents? Under current law,
a child might have more than two parents for the purposes of child support. Biological parents have to pay child support, but so do step-parents. A child could be living with one biological parent, and receiving child support from both a biological parent and a step-parent. Do the math: three parents in law.

In the London case, both the biological dad and the non-biological mom could be considered parents for the purposes of child support. But the trio aren’t entitled to simultaneously call themselves parents.

The idea that children can only have two parents simply defies the ways in which many Canadians live. There are single families, remarried families and blended families. There are step-
parents on both sides. There are ex-
step-parents and new step-
parents. But when it comes to asking for legal recognition, the law freezes in its 19th-century tracks.

The London family is considering an appeal, and the issues are ones that all queers should be able to get behind. It’s not like the marriage cases, which divide those who seek assimilation from those who seek sexual liberation and a destabilization of all things straight.

The case is about fundamentally changing the definition of family in a way that would allow children to be raised in a range of settings and in a way that would recognize the multiplicity of parental relationships.

The irony is that it’s actually straight people who live in the most diverse relationships with their marrying, reproducing, divorcing, remarrying and so on. Straight people are at least as likely as gay ones to produce children with multiple parents. They should be the ones keen for this kind of legal recognition, but here we are, with gay and lesbian people leading the way to recognizing reality.

Now I hate to suggest that Queer As Folk’s Michael and Brian are insightful social critics. But they are on to something. Queer parenting can be subversive, even for those who are totally disinterested in parenting. Maybe it is all about pissing off straight people.

Spunk rock
MUSIC / Greek Buck gets harder
story by Krishna Rau / Xtra Apr 18 2002

QUEER AS ART. With the release of No Time, Don Pyle and Andrew Zealley return to their Queen St roots.(Image by David Rasmus)

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Spunk rock
MUSIC / Greek Buck gets harder

story by Krishna Rau / Xtra Apr 18 2002

For the members of Greek Buck, having millions of people listen to their theme for Queer As Folk seems a little unreal.

“I watch it in my bedroom with my boyfriend,” says Don Pyle, half of the Toronto musical duo. “It’s just us. It’s hard to think of anyone else watching it. It’s one of those things I mostly feel detached from.

“Watching it with those images was kind of weird. I kept thinking, ‘That’s not right.’ But I said, ‘Well, they’re going to pay us.’”

His musical partner Andrew Zealley says getting the theme was more or less accidental. Greek Buck had done the music for Canadian director John Greyson’s 2000 film Law Of Enclosures (for which they were nominated for a Genie). “When we did Law Of Enclosures, different people took note of us. The Queer As Folk people came to us.”

A new version of the theme “Spunk” — redone in a self-described “Ramones meet Giorgio Moroder” style — is included on Greek Buck’s new release, No Time. The five-song album includes appearances from local rock luminaries Dallas Good from the Sadies and Ian Blurton from Change Of Heart and Blurtonia. The album is topped off by two versions of “No Time To Be Seven,” with vocals by Pyle’s seven-year-old nephew, who apparently likes to be known as Tyler B.

No Time is more rock-oriented than Greek Buck’s previous more computerized and sequenced material. But the band’s origins go back to their rock ’n’ roll days of the ’80s, when both were living a block apart on Queen St in Parkdale.

“Andrew was working in record stores and playing in bands, and so was I,” says Pyle. “I was playing in a pop-rock band that was kind of dorky and he was playing in a new-wave band that was kind of dorky.”

“We kept running into each other,” says Zealley. “We realized that we had a tremendous amount in common. We decided we wanted to do a cover of a Sigue Sigue Sputnik song. We found we both enjoyed the software sounds, and started playing sounds that wouldn’t have been appropriate for that song.”

Both had a background in working in visual media — Pyle’s Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet was best known for scoring The Kids In The Hall, and Zealley had scored children’s television shows. Their common interest in synthesized sound fed into their desire to work in different media.

“We were interested in doing things with artists from other disciplines,” says Zealley. This has included filmmakers such as Greyson and Sarah Polley, and artists from around the world.

But this music hasn’t lent itself to live performances. A Fri, May 3 four-song set as part of a Yoko Ono tribute at Lee’s Palace, will be only Greek Buck’s second performance and first in Toronto. But Pyle says they would like to play more live shows.

“Andrew and I did a show last summer with Cherie Currie from the Runaways. Andrew and I had been Runaways fans; it was something else we bonded over. It was the first time we had played guitar and drums together.”

* The album release party is also a chance to see and hear many of Greek Buck’s cross-media projects with people like John Greyson, Luis Jacob, Wrik Mead and others; the event runs from 6pm to 10pm on Tue, Apr 26 at Art Metropole (788 King St W); call (416) 703-4400. No Time is in stores on Apr 30; go to www.greekbuck.com.

Fallen Angel
Marc Hall / How do you go from lonely high school student to cause célèbre without cracking up?
story by Paul Gallant / Xtra Jun 27 2002

TROUBLEMAKER? Marc Hall says he used to be shy and lonely.
(Image by David Hawe)

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Fallen Angel
Marc Hall / How do you go from lonely high school student to cause célèbre without cracking up?

story by Paul Gallant / Xtra Jun 27 2002

This year Marc Hall had scored 91 in his grade 12 religion class — his strongest subject at Monsignor John Pereyman Catholic High School in Oshawa — when he paid his principal the visit that turned Hall into the Ontario Catholic school system’s worst nightmare. He asked to go to the prom with his boyfriend — and in the media, the hearts of Canadians and a court of law, he won.

With all the hoopla, Hall’s religion mark dropped to 79. But that’s okay. He’s not thinking of becoming a priest anyway.

“With my religion class, I love my religion teacher. But I just see it as a class,” says Hall, 17.

There were other changes, too, post-prom. Hall used to describe himself as a shy person.

“Now I’ll talk to anyone. I used to just sit there in class and now when the teacher asks a question, my hand is up. I feel more confident,” says Hall.

He’s also more together: “With all the media attention, I had to schedule everything. I’m so organized now.”

How exactly does one transform from a shy closeted teen to a gay celebrity waiting for a court date to argue that Catholic schools shouldn’t be able to discriminate against homos? (Hall’s successful May case was merely an injunction to allow him to attend his own prom and was not binding on the school board. The larger issue will likely come before a judge this winter. )

One day you’re coming out to your mom and dad. The next day the National Post is writing mean things about your new boyfriend.

“I find it kind of dumb,” says Hall about the interest in his personal life. After his prom victory, it came out that there were tensions with his prom date boyfriend JP Dumond, which led to their May 20 break-up. Dumond started dating somebody else six days later; Hall hooked up with his current boyfriend eight days later.

The Post suggested Hall dumped Dumond because of the selection of men offered by Church St. Hall says his relationship was having problems. And besides — his current beau goes to his school, so they’ve known each other for ages.

“They kind of twisted it. Yes, JP and I fought to go to the prom together. We were in a relationship and there was conflict in it,” he says. “I don’ t like him anymore. Long story. If you knew the whole story, you’d understand.”

Hall says he knew he was gay early on and came out to his brother in grade 10. In grade 11, he was being teased in accounting class when he got up and announced to the class, “Yes, I’m gay. It’s no big deal.” He told his mother that spring (“She was watching Wheel Of Fortune”) and she told his dad. There were rocky points, but Hall says, “My dad’s been 100 percent behind me.”

Though he goes to a Catholic school in a working-class city, Hall says he’ s never felt bullied, even when someone shoved a photo into a friend’s locker with “Die Marc Hall Die” written on it.

“There was people saying, ‘fag,’ and ‘queer,’ that kind of thing. Before it made me uncomfortable, but now I think it’s funny that people can be so stupid,” he says.

In grade 11, Hall says he felt lost and lonely. There weren’t many other openly gay people at his school (though he says there are more and more out lesbians if you go down the grade ranks) and he went on the Internet to find friends. It was from there he learned about gay culture and met Dumond; they chatted on-line for a month before they met in person.

“I never knew about Church St,” says Hall. “I didn’t know about gay magazines, newspapers. In grade 11, I knew a couple of lesbians in my school, that’s it.”

It was when his friends set up a website complaining that Hall couldn’t take Dumond to the prom that Hall’s relatively isolated gay existence was shattered. First it was the media, who tracked him down via the website.

“I’ve had so many interviews I’ve lost count,” he says. “One day I was going to the locker for my jacket and a friend warned me there was a bunch of TV crews outside. I got nervous so I just didn’t go outside until they were almost all gone.”

Then it was Liberal MPP George Smitherman who wanted to shield Hall from the media. Smitherman set up a whole campaign to support Hall in his prom court battle. From Smitherman, Hall got to meet a whole heck of a lot of queers.

“If I had never had George, I’d be messed up,” says Hall. “George is like an other friend.”

Now Hall is someone who attends Fashion Cares with his lawyer, David Corbett. Someone who brunches on Church St with leaders of Parents, Family And Friends Of Lesbians And Gays. Someone who is not getting a summer job because he’s too busy going to Pride parades (he’ll be with the Equal Marriage entry in Toronto’s parade and will grand marshal the parade in Halifax). Someone who hasn’t decided on his career yet, but who appears in the finale of the second season of Queer As Folk wearing a pink feather boa. Peter Paige, who plays Emmett on the show, gave Hall a T-shirt he wears a lot.

Though he’s only 17, Hall has already got a grip PR talk. About his upcoming court case, in which he’ll have to take the witness stand, he says, “I’ve won the battle, now I have to win the war.” Asked if he’s an activist, he replies, “Not really. I’m a gay student fighting for his rights to be treated equally.”

Is it hard having come into the spotlight at such a young age?

“Beforehand, I gave away my trust too easily. Now I know trust has to be earned. The school board let me down and now I know not to trust what they said.”

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Фанатки Фабрицио Филиппо на его спектакле “This is Our Youth”, октябрь 2003.
Таня вчера выложила интервью с Фабрицио, и это напомнило мне, что я давно собиралась перевести-выложить эти отчеты, и тут же мне приспичило это сделать, хорошо если не выйдет из серии, поспешишь - людей насмешишь)) они и вообще мне нравятся, ну и интересны тем, что это отчеты фанаток Фабрицио, со всеми вытекающими))
(лажи, косяки, кривости в переводе? дайте знать)

Фанатки Фабрицио Филиппо на его спектакле “This is Our Youth”, октябрь 2003.
(режиссер спектакля Вуди Харельсон), долгожданная встреча с Филиппо, и неожиданная с… Гейлом)

отсюда www.angelfire.com/folk/emony/fab/fablive.html

Это слово в слово моя запись в дневнике от 4-го октября 2003. Я поделюсь ею с вами в надежде, что вы сможете почувствовать, будто сами были там… так что не волнуйтесь слишком сильно, если я иногда буду звучать глупой или эмоциональной, ок?
Я очень хочу начать рассказ с какого-нибудь невозмутимого саркастического комментария о том, что пьеса была неплоха, места далековато, а погода ужасно
хороша для этого времени года… понимаете, с чего-нибудь забавного. Но я действительно не могу думать ни о чем ином, кроме того, какой невероятный опыт это для меня был. Я даже не знаю с чего начать.
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Это был чудесный спектакль, я вернусь к нему через минуту, но есть кое-что ближе к поверхности моего разума прямо сейчас.
Так что перейду прямо к этому. Да, я встретила Фаба. Я трижды пожала его руку и сфотографировалась с ним. Он был абсолютно наимилейшим, самым обворожительным человеком. Не буду притворяться, что у меня хватило самообладания, чтобы сказать что-нибудь особо умное, но у меня были две минуты очного общения, и он был очень великодушен.
Я подслушала, как он разговаривал с другими фанатами, и он сказал именно то, что мы уже слышали: он работает над сценарием и выпуском своего собственного телесериала, и они обсуждали с продюсерами QAF возможность возвращения Итана (скрестим пальцы).
Что еще… он невысок! Такого же роста, как и я. Он был очень возбужден, и много улыбался. Он дважды поблагодарил меня за то, что приехала аж из Thunder Bay. И у меня нет ни малейшего сомнения, что он на самом деле такой замечательный человек, каким я его себе представляла. Я жалею лишь, что у меня не было сигарет, а то я могла бы [пойти] покурить с ним. И какая абсолютно потрясающая улыбка.
Я перейду к спектаклю через секунду. Есть еще одна небольшая деталь… понимаете, когда мы с мамой входили в театр (да, я была с мамой, у кого-нибудь проблемы с этим?), она мне тихо сказала «Лорен, разве это не Гейл Харольд?», и я, закатив глаза, ответила, «Да нет, этого не может быть», но все равно вернулась и посмотрела и… ну вы понимаете к чему все идет.
Должна сказать, есть в Гейле Харольде кое-что. Он очень, очень пугающий. Особенно потому, что я так много слышала, как немногословен и застенчив он с фанатами, и плюс он разговаривал с какими-то людьми. Однако от шока и изумления я подошла к нему. Я подошла с ручкой и блокнотом в руке, и в насколько могла извиняющейся манере спросила: «Простите меня, мистер Харольд, не могли бы Вы дать мне автограф?» и, несмотря на некоторые, слегка бестактные замечания его друзей, он спросил мое имя и расписался для меня. Я поблагодарила его очень вежливо и поскорей удалилась. И, несмотря на то, что он весь спектакль был всего в двадцати футах от меня, я не побеспокоила его снова. Но я наблюдала. И да, он [такой?]. Может еще больше вживую. И высокий! Типа, я ему по грудь, хотя во мне 167 сантиметров, и я была на пятисантиметровых каблуках.
Для тех из вас, кто, может, хотел бы об этом знать, на нем были джинсы и черная кожаная куртка до середины бедра. Его волосы вроде как длиннее, думаю, как в начале первого сезона. Позже я видела его в одноцветной черной рубашке. И он не брился день или два. И он, в конечном счете, улыбнулся мне, GaleMyBabyDaddy, тебе действительно нужно увидеть вблизи его кривой зуб.
Также, пока я ждала, что Фабрицио спустится в фойе, я видела, как Макила Смит подошла поговорить с Гейлом. Я не стала их прерывать [чтобы пообщаться с Макилой]… как я и сказала, Гейл пугает. Впрочем, приятно было видеть ее без косичек [хвостиков]. У меня не было шанса встретиться с Марией Делвер, она ушла сразу [после спектакля].
И так получилось, что мы в фойе разговаривали с женщиной о том, чтобы взять автографы, и она заверила нас, что актеры очень доброжелательны и любезны. Потом, когда Марселло Кабезас спустился, она подошла к нему и поцеловала. Она представила меня (по имени), своему бойфренду. Марселло был невероятно дружелюбен и оценил наши комментарии, и он даже спросил, не имеем ли мы отношения к театру, и я действительно могла сказать да! И я также получила его автограф на афише.

Думаю это все, что касается встречи со звездами – я все еще изумлена тем, как все обернулось и с трудом могу поверить, что встретила Гейла и Фаба. Какой подарок на день рожденья.

Ладно, [наконец] четырьмя страницами спустя про спектакль.

Он начался с персонажа Фаба, спящего на диване. Признаюсь, первый восторг оттого, что вижу его вживую, в смеси с возможностью немного посматривать влево и видеть Гейла (чертова) Харольда слегка меня отвлекало. Однако, очень быстро, я (почти) забыла про это, потому что спектакль затягивал абсолютно. Фаб уже через двадцать минут был весь потный, в нем просто было так много энергии. В нем было все - манерность, выражения, голос наркомана с большим банковским счетом и проблемной семьей – я на самом деле забывала временами, что я смотрю на Фабрицио (чертов) Фелиппо. Все еще немного хромающего. (Как вы, наверное, слышали, он сломал ногу на репетиции). Его исполнение[?] во втором акте заставило мои глаза увлажниться.

Марселло был невероятен. Его персонаж - покорный лучший друг, у которого намного больше причин быть расстроенным, чем у Дениса, но его сдержанность была восхитительна. И он тоже растрогал меня до слез.

Роль Марии была меньше, и у персонажа было не много действия (и уж точно не было двадцатиминутной тирады со скачками по всей сцене - я почувствовала усталость, всего лишь глядя на Фаба). Но, тем не менее, я наслаждалась тем, что вижу ее вживую. Ее героиня одновременно была очаровательной и невыносимо чокнутой. И у нее великолепное декольте (читай – грудь), что вы, несомненно, не увидите в WDT [видимо фильм Waydowntown, в котором также снимался и Фабрицио]. Очень смешной была сцена с джойнтом и пробежкой за водой, когда она сильно закашлялась.

Я встала, когда опустился занавес [чтобы аплодировать стоя]. Видеть так профессионально сделанный спектакль, с такими невероятно талантливыми исполнителями, было привилегией, которую я никогда не забуду, и кто знает, может они вдохновят меня, и сделают мои собственные выступления лучше.

Не забыла ли я какие-нибудь детали? Я хочу записать их все. Встретить Гейла это мозговыносяще, и встретить Фабрицио было феноменальным опытом. Я такая, такая везучая. И сейчас я владею ручкой, которой касались двое самых потрясающих мужчин из всех, которых я когда-либо видела. (И да, я собираюсь мыть ту часть спины, на которой была рука Фаба, но я, наверное, никогда больше не буду пользоваться этой ручкой.)

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Это маленький памятный альбом моего путешествия в Торонто в октябре 2003, чтобы посмотреть спектакль «This is Our Youth», с Marcello Cabezas, Marya Delver, и Fabrizio Filippo. Наслаждайтесь.

* Запись в дневнике [читать выше] об этом вечере, пунктуально мною описанном. Вы, вероятно, сможете почувствовать, просто читая, как безумно взволнована я была.
* Дальнейшие комментарии [из дневника]:
«Я пишу эту часть спустя два месяца после события, и воспоминания о нем все еще доставляют мне массу радости. (Предупреждение: вы входите в зону полнейшей Фаб-любви. Каски рекомендуются.) Причина, по которой я добавляю все это, то, что я продолжаю пребывать в потрясении от того, как открыт Фабрицио. Что я имею в виду… ну, сравните мою встречу с ним с моей встречей с Гейлом Харольдом (не подумайте, что я жалуюсь!) Когда я встретила Гейла, я была откровенно перепугана, и не желала ничего больше, чем чтобы она поскорее закончилась, потому что я была в ужасе. Но с Фабрицио… еще прежде чем я успела что-нибудь сказать он спросил мое имя, и протянул руку, чтобы пожать мою. Ни разу я не почувствовала себя глупой или что я посягаю на него как-то. Он задавал вопросы, и я была интересна ему как человек, а не просто как анонимный обожатель. Он был просто искренне дружелюбен и благодарен. Я не знаю насчет вас, но я никогда не слышала о знаменитостях настолько доступных, как он. К счастью для нас, наша любимая звезда также и отличный парень. (Окей, завязываю с сентиментальной болтовней.)»



*Я справа. Я спросила разрешения, прежде чем выложить эту фотографию. И мистер Филиппо был достаточно великодушен, чтобы дать согласие, при условии, что «Ты не приставишь мое лицо к чьему-нибудь еще голому телу.» Как будто существует чье-нибудь другое голое тело, которое я предпочту видеть… И скажите мне, почему у звезд никогда не получается эффекта красных глаз? О, и кто-нибудь напомните мне поспешить и отсканировать автограф Фаба. Уже прошло больше года. Я должна поторопиться с этим.

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*Итак, это несомненно автограф Гейла Харольда. Ныне он пребывает в рамке на стене, рядом с этой фотографией [с Фабрицио] 8х10 (с полностью устраненными красными глазами, лол). Я не знаю что еще рассказать о встрече с Гейлом кроме того, что я до сих пор чрезвычайно горжусь собой за то, что у меня хватило смелости [?] подойти к нему.

*И если вы хотите услышать еще мнение, вот отчет Min [читать ниже], об этом же самом вечере. Я стояла подле нее, ожидая своей очереди, и была свидетелем большой части ее истории, не подозревая, что смотрю прямо на свою подругу с форума QAF No Limits. Мир тесен.

На этом почти все. Если у кого-нибудь есть какие-нибудь вопросы ко мне об этом вечере, или вы просто хотите поделиться собственной историей про Фаба, я всегда доступна для разговора об этом. Пишите мне на почту не колеблясь.


и вот еще один очень милый эмоциональной отчет обожательницы Фабрицио, Min (Phantom Minuet).

В субботу, группа нас – фанатов Фабрицио, отправилась в Berkeley Street Theater на час раньше необходимого, чтобы занять места на спектакле в первом ряду. Когда мы вошли в театр, кто хромает через фойе – Фабрицио Филиппо. Да. Смысл нашего существования. И Delicious, которая бесстрашна, подходит к нему и сообщает, что сегодня здесь присутствуют его большие фанаты, и он говорит ей не уходить сразу после спектакля.

Итак, мы стояли у подножия лестницы, когда кто-то заметил что Гейл Харольд только что показался во дворе снаружи театра. Да. Он был там с какими-то людьми, кто, как мы думаем, члены съемочной команды QAF. И мы подумали, как это классно, что Гейл здесь, чтобы увидеть выступление Фаба.
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Как бы то ни было, мы, наконец, заняли места – по центру первого ряда – где мы могли видеть, как Фаб чертовски хорош в роли. [прим. – не могу сообразить как перевести складно Fab act the holy hell out of his part]. Я серьезно. Оставив в стороне его привлекательность и впечатляющие способности целоваться, он был абсолютно великолепен. Его персонаж, Денис, отличная роль… несдержанный, грубый, сидящий на кокаине, молодой человек, с тенденцией к жестокости, за которой он скрывает свои собственные страхи, но как Фаб играет его – он также трогательный и смешной и забавно несносный… и всегда абсолютно захватывающий. Marcello Cabezas был также замечателен в роли Уоррена, и очень смешной, но его Уоррен столь же сдержан, сколь необуздан Деннис.
После пьесы, когда мы стояли в фойе, надеясь, что Фабрицио действительно может выйти и поговорить с нами, я увидела Марселло, спускающегося по лестнице. Я крикнула ему, как изумителен по моему мнению он был. Он был невероятно любезен, подошел к нам и поговорил о пьесе и спектакле. Потом он спросил нас, откуда мы узнали о спектакле. На несколько секунд настало виноватое молчание, а потом Sweety сказала, что мы все большие фанаты Фабрицио. Марселло это, казалось, развеселило, а потом он посмотрел на лестницу и сказал: «А вот и он.»

И точно, это был он, во всей своей потрепанной пост-театральной славе. Он вложил немало пота в спектакль, который я бы так хотела слизать с него, начиная свой путь с яремной впадины и вверх по его шее…

Но я отвлеклась.

Как бы то ни было, я попыталась привлечь его внимание, но он направился к группе людей у двери. Только это не была группа людей… это был Гейл. Потом они обняли друг друга [a hug that could be seen all the way in Winnipeg]. Не безразлично, типа «хорошая работа, бывший коллега», а «обхвати приятеля покрепче и не отпускай подольше» - вот такое объятье.

Это было очаровательно.

После того, как он закончил говорить с Гейлом, я помахала Фабу, и наш дорогой мальчик – который настолько красивее вживую, что это трудно описать без того, чтобы не истечь слюнями – подошел к нам и продолжил ослеплять нас. Он со всеми поздоровался за руку, спросил имена и спросил откуда мы. Когда он услышал, что из Нью-Йорка, Детройта, Нэшвилла, он выглядел удивленным, и отпустил типичный канадский преумаляющий собственную значимость комментарий. Мы сказали ему, как сильно мы любим Итана. Пара человек даже сказали, что им бы хотелось увидеть его возвращение сериал (не я…я думаю, что он заслуживает лучшего, чем QAF), и он поддразнил нас комментарием, который кажется говорит о том, что были какие-то обсуждения этой темы. Потом Grendel сказала ему, что мы очень жалеем, что не увидели его на TIFF [кинофестиваль в Торонто], на премьере Hollywood North". Он отвечает, что в тот день он сломал ступню (отсюда и хромота), а потом он вдруг выглядит испуганным (его большие глаза и великолепные губы), и спрашивает, не мы ли те, кто отправили ему корзину шоколада. Это были мы. Точнее, это была Grendel, но она любезно включила нас как дарителей. Мы поговорили еще немного, и он показал себя абсолютной душкой… оживленный, милый и привлекательный. Но все хорошее подходит к концу, и он, в конце концов, отправился на улицу курить с Гейлом. Однако Puffgirl и Sweety сфотографировались с ним прежде, чем мы покинули театр. Мы закончили вечер в баре оживляя в памяти нашу встречу с Фабом.

Так что считайте меня абсолютно покоренной. Я серьезно обдумываю бросить работу, и стать круглосуточной фанаткой Фаба.

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Fabrizio Filippo
Hot actor returns to the stage after wooing Buffy and wowing Sophia
By GLENN SUMI

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Fabrizio Filippo
Hot actor returns to the stage after wooing Buffy and wowing Sophia
By GLENN SUMI
THIS IS OUR YOUTH by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Woody Harrelson, with Fabrizio Filippo, Marya Delver and Marcello Cabezas. Presented by macIDeas and Banack Awerbuck Productions at the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs (26 Berkeley). Previews from Thursday (September 18), opens Monday (September 22) and runs to October 18, Monday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2 pm. $20-$65. 416-368-3110.

fabrizio filippo has sharon stone to thank for his big break that never happened. You’ve seen the charismatic actor – even the guy’s hair has star quality – and writer in lots of TV and film.
He was vampire slayer Buffy’s post-Angel love interest. He captured a generation’s anomie by flying through a mall in Gary Burns’s indie hit waydowntown. And recently he played the classical violinist who plucked away at the heart of the blond kid from Queer As Folk.
But things could have taken a different turn a decade ago, when he nabbed a screen test for the big-budget western The Quick And The Dead, starring the blond with the Basic Instincts.
Then in his late teens, the fast-rising actor (he was Busy’s brother in Ready Or Not) auditioned for the Sam Raimi film and got flown down to Tucson to test for Raimi and the film’s producer. The big leagues.
"I knew something was wrong as soon as I entered the room," he says, lounging in the back yard of his house in lower Riverdale, bought last year with "my American TV series" money.
"But I did the test anyway, and Raimi told me I was a very good actor. I learned later that Sharon Stone had put up half her salary to get Leonardo Di Caprio for the role. Everyone there knew that."
The film shot blanks at the box office; Filippo’s career might have ended up quick and dead, too.
"And I really wasn’t ready for it," he says. "To have had that kind of thing thrust on me back then wouldn’t have been good. I would have lost my trajectory."
Some trajectory. He’s gone from the local indie theatre scene as a naive, straight North York teen nurtured by gay theatre types like Daniel MacIvor and the late Ken McDougall to playing opposite Sophia Loren in the upcoming TV adaptation of Nino Ricci’s Lives Of The Saints.
In between he’s filled out his resumé with lots of TV work – the Jay Mohr series Action is his fave, he admits – and features (watch for his committed work this fall in Peter O’Brian’s Hollywood North).
So why is he stepping onto a Toronto stage for the first time in eight years? He plays the dangerous alpha male Dennis in Kenneth (You Can Count On Me) Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, a paean to being young and restless.
"I haven’t had words like this in my mouth in so long," he says about his role in the play. He’s sitting back, drinking his freshly ground Italian coffee and flashing his smile, which Youth co-star and producer Marcello Cabezas describes as "a smile that makes you want to sob and immediately want to listen to him."
"The writing shows you everything," continues Filippo, whose own scripts include The Gospels Accordingly and the Chalmers-nominated Waiting For Lewis. "Even where Lonergan puts the accent on a word. It’s been ages since I’ve been excited to speak words, to relish them."
Besides the Lonergan play – directed by Woody Harrelson – Filippo’s part of the Tarragon’s Playwrights Unit, developing a sсript under artistic director Richard Rose, one of the first directors to cast him as something other than a Guatemalan refugee or Brazilian street kid.
Oh yeah, the ethnic thing. For years Filippo got pigeonholed here as the dark-haired ethnic guy.
"I couldn’t be actor Matthew Ferguson (Nikita). I couldn’t get those roles even though I wanted to. Yet after two weeks in L.A. I was at CBS auditioning for leading man parts."
His experience with Lives Of The Saints – Ricci’s mytho-poetic look at Italian immigrants – indirectly helped him come to terms with his background.
"When I read the book I realized that Fab was Vito," says director Jerry Ciccoritti, who had worked with Filippo on the 1999 feature Life Before This.
"Our parents both came over from Italy in that immigration wave. We share this sense of dislocation. Are we Canadian or Italian? How much of that mythologized old country, sex and Mastroianni, is in us?"
"The older I get the more I embrace the Italian," explains Filippo. "The part of me that’s Italian is the passion, the misery, the love of women. I spent so much of my life pushing it away because of all the stereotypes. But when we were in Italy shooting, Jerry and I looked around and laughed. The Italians were walking clichés."
Visiting his extended family in Calabria in southern Italy, he signed hundreds of autographs, famous as the kid who worked with Sophia Loren. Back home in Canada, his mom refused to meet Loren – she was too nervous – but admitted that her son’s gig made her feel like a success.
He knows that his post-Hollywood success can help him kick-start projects.
"Stardom exists as an economic reality," he says. "I want to be able to green-light movies. I want to generate projects. Being visible in America is important for that."
And theatre?
"People say theatre is dead, but to me it’s a truly alternative art form," he says. "There was a time when everyone went to the theatre for their entertainment. Now they go to movies. If you’re going to a play now, you’re seeking something else. So you’re creating art for people who are seeking it, who need it and can’t find it anywhere else."
He also wants to shake up the local scene with his international smarts.
"Here we’ve got an American director doing an American play, all Canadian actors and producers whose average age is between 25 and 30," he explains.
"We’re taking theatre out of the government subsidy model. Don’t get me wrong. A country like ours needs government subsidies. But I’ve always had problems writing grants, because you have to convince someone that what you’re doing is good for society."
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• NOW | September 18-25, 2003 | VOL 23 NO 3
FAB EXPERIENCES
Fab Filippo’s career has taken him from experimental theatre to Hollywood and back. Here are some stories he’s collected along the way.
ON BEING A THEATRE VIRGIN
"Before my first professional show, 2-2-Tango , Daniel MacIvor gave me the sсript and in the play were two guys who loved each other. I was freaked out. I was 17, straight and from the burbs. Daniel asked me what I thought, and I told him I felt uncomfortable. Why? ’I don’t know any gay people,’ I told him, ’and I don’t want anyone to rape me. ’"
ON HOLLYWOOD AUDITIONS, TAKE ONE
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THIS IS OUR YOUTH

by Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Woody Harrelson
Starring Marcello Cabezas, Marya Delver and Fabrizio Filippo
at Berkeley Theatre Upstairs until October 18
26 Berkeley Street

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THIS IS OUR YOUTH

by Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Woody Harrelson
Starring Marcello Cabezas, Marya Delver and Fabrizio Filippo
at Berkeley Theatre Upstairs until October 18
26 Berkeley Street/416-368-3110 or 416-872-1111

Reviewed by Joel Greenberg

"This Is Our Youth", Kenneth Lonergan's 1998 play about disaffected rich kids on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is currently at Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs until October 18. The cast of three — Marcello Cabezas, Marya Delver and Fabrizio Filippo — is directed by Cheers alumnus Woody Harrelson. (The celebrity factor has had a huge impact on the show's media profile, aided in large part by Harrelson's non-stop promotional activities during this year's Toronto International Film Festival.)

Lonergan is known for his film writing, especially his Oscar-nominated "You Can Count On Me" and perhaps even more for "Gangs of New York". Between these two, in fact, there is a chasm that eludes easy labeling. Lonergan is best when he is permitted time with his characters without plotting events in their lives. As in these recent films, the writer penetrates the surface of people's lives when he is concerned more with their idiosyncrasies than with the pivotal events that threaten to change them. That may explain the quiet success of "You Can Count On Me" and how it moved beyond its cult status so quickly. In the two principal characters, played by Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo, Lonergan established the moment of loneliness without ever speaking about such things. He was content to show us how people move on with their daily lives, or don't, and he was utterly determined to resist self-conscious monologues of explanation. The screenplay, like his best writing in other stage and film scripts, observes and doesn't stoop to commentary.

"This Is Our Youth" rests uncomfortably between these two styles and the current production fails to provide its own point of view. Can three selfish post-adolescent kids hold our interest and earn our sympathy when they have so little regard for each other? And can a play that turns on an intrusive second act offstage death overcome its own rude mechanics? In stronger directorial hands these might be necessary elements for bringing the playwright's voice to the proceedings, but we are left with staging that is so haphazard and readings that stray from any discernible focus so often that the play grows tedious long before its quiet conclusion.

Basically, the play is set in a run down Upper West Side apartment. The design, by gifted designer Michael Gianfrancesco, doesn't evoke any Manhattan apartment that I've ever seen or heard of. A huge space with an enormous skylight and enough floor space for a soccer game is bewildering. More bewildering are some of the accessories that hang about. Sure, a punching bag and a ceiling swing might be part of the décor, but they are so arbitrarily placed and so little used that they become distracting rather than helpful props that delineate character or behaviour. The furnishings play as though someone had a neat idea one day in rehearsal and the props people complied by incorporating the requests.

More telling than the dressing, the actors are somewhat isolated in their various playing styles. Cabezas is the only one who has the ear and the rhythm for Lonergan's language and for the flavour of the city. Filippo, by contrast, plays everything with such vehemence and unnecessary volume that we stop listening to his rants early on. In the process, too, he misses most of Lonergan's wonderfully dry humour. Delver, playing the thankless female role, has been poorly and unfairly cast. She looks and sounds and behaves as though she had just arrived from the mid-west. Nothing about her appearance, speech or attitude suggests an Upper West Side girl named Jessica Goldman. And the costumes selected for her only make her situation worse because no self-respecting Upper West Side girl who spends her time at F.I.T. would be caught dead in public wearing these clothes. It just wouldn't happen.

When I first read the play I was taken by Lonergan's ability to create characters whose lives, however unappealing and unsympathetic, got beyond the mundane dialogue that they exchanged. On the page, the anguish of being alone and frantic for human contact is both compelling and disturbing. The first act is superior to the second in this regard. But this production reveals the trap of playing the situation of desperate lives with nothing but dogged desperation. If the play is to work, it needs to draw us into its world rather than batter us about the ears. And if this production had taken some time to delineate characters rather than presenting them in broad strokes coloured with angst and more angst, we might have taken the time to listen and absorb their sadly dislocated stories.

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