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Текст на английскомMuch of the controversy surrounding Showtime's provocative new gay soap, Queer as Folk, has centered on the character of Brian, a 29-year-old sexual predator who, in Sunday's season premiere (10 pm/ET), seduces a 17-year-old virgin and then discards him like a dirty Kleenex. But it was going to take a lot more than a little statutory rape to scare unknown actor Gale Harold out of taking the role.

"Let's be honest, people are breaking the law in every way, in every state, at every second," Gale tells TV Guide Online, "and it's only a small percentage of people who are getting prosecuted for those crimes or even apprehended by the authorities. My point of view on taking this job is that I'm interested in real work... and it's just something that happens. It's not like we're making it up or doing it to try and say, 'Look at this! Freak out! Feel uncomfortable!' It's a real experience, it's something that goes on. And if people are not aware of it, then it's for a variety of reasons that I can't really be worried about."

Another thing not keeping Harold up nights is concern about Brian being too unsympathetic in the audience's eyes. "I think it would be counterproductive to try and make apologies for Brian in the early stages, because that would compromise his arc as a character," he says. "You don't want to redeem him early because then what's left to do? But I don't think there's any question in my mind that he has redeeming qualities, but those will be revealed to the viewers in time.

"That's one of the great things about the sсript," he adds, "it doesn't make any apologies. There are no obvious attempts to make him okay to balance out what he's doing that people recoil from, and that's good writing. The integrity of the character is intact — it's not being compromised."

Harold — who believes everyone has a little Brian in them, but "they just don't want to admit it" — has thus far declined to discuss his own sexual orientation in the press. (Randy Harrison, who plays his high school conquest Justin, has admitted he's gay, as has co-star Peter Paige.) "It's not that I'm refusing to say anything, it's that I don't have any interest in talking about things that I feel are irrelevant," he explains. "For me, it's just about the job and maintaining the character."

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Большинство споров, возникающих при обсуждении нового провокационного сериала о геях производства Showtime, Queer as Folk, концентрируются вокруг персонажа по имени Брайан, 29-летнего сексуального хищника, который, в воскресной премьерной серии сезона (10pm/ET), соблазняет 17-летнего девственника и затем выбрасывает его как использованную салфетку. Но должно было произойти нечто большее, чем действие, законодательно признанное изнасилованием, чтобы испугать неизвестного актера Гейла Харольда взяться за роль.
"Если быть честным, люди постоянно нарушают закон по любому поводу и в любом состоянии, - говорит Гейл в интервью TV GUide ONline. - И только единицы несут наказание или подвергаются аресту. Для меня выбор этой роли обусловлен тем, что я заинтересован в реальной работе, и так, в конце концов, и произошло. Это не выглядит, как если бы мы мирились с этим или делали это чтобы попробовать и сказать: "Смотрите! Злитесь! Почувствуйте себя неловко!" Это реальный опыт, это то, что происходит. И если люди не знают об этом, то есть множество причин, почему меня действительно это не волнует."
Харольда не беспокоит то, что Брайан предстает перед аудиторией в не самом выгодном свете. «Я думаю, нет смысла оправдывать персонажа в начале истории, потому что в таком случае кому он будет интересен потом? Но я не думаю, что есть какие-то сомнения в том, на мой взгляд, что у него есть хорошие качества, но это должно быть открыто зрителям со временем".

"Одна из важных особенностей сценария, - продолжает он. - В том, что он никого не оправдывает. Здесь нет явных попыток позволить ему [Брайану] балансировать, он делает то, что ужасает людей, и это хорошо прописано. Целостность персонажа остается неизменной - это не ставится под сомнение".
Харольд - который верит в то, что у каждого есть свой внутренний Брайан, "но они просто не хотят признать это", - отказывается обсуждать в прессе собственную сексуальную ориентацию. (Рэнди Харрисон, который играет покоренного им ученика старшей школы Джастина, признал, что он гей, как и его коллега Питер Пэйдж). "Не то что бы я отказывался говорить что-нибудь об этом, но мне неинтересно говорить о вещах, не имеющих отношения к делу, - объясняет он . - Мне интересно говорить о работе и построении образа персонажа."

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
Ok. I woke up. Made plans with Vinnie. HAD TO GO TO TOWER IN NYC TO MEET THE CAST OF QAF.

Ok. Kat. Breathe.

Anyway.

Got there at around four PM. So we're chyllin... I go in to buy a soundtrack to QAF so they have something to sign. Go out side and get on line. Start talking to people. Made some new friends.

OMG.

At around 8:30, after freezing our asses off in the cold, we get taken in groups upstairs to meet them. Theresa had met up with me. She bought the DVD set. It was time.

"I'm next!" I start buggin, as we're on the line. "I have no idea what to ask!" Well... I figured, I'd tell Hal Sparks that I'd been a fan of his since Talk Soup. Then, when all else fails, FALL BACK ON LED ZEPPELIN!!

So I get up to Hal. He's really the one I care about most. So I tell him "I've been a fan since Talk Soup!" So then (after shaking his hand!!) I tell him "Ok. I was just waiting out there for four hours to meet you... the least you could do is put me on the show. "You don't have enough crazy Led Zeppelin fans on your show!" Hal Sparks was like "I totally agree, what's your name?" He was signing the CD booklet.

So then I realize, Randy and Gale were looking at me waiting as I spouted off about "Just one Led Zep fan!" THEN... OMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMOMGOMGOMGPajb'aweg

GALE TELLS ME... "Oh, did you know John Paul Jones is going to be on the seventh episode of the new season?"

Now ya'll don't know. But John Paul Jones is the bassist from Led Zeppelin, and is also the guy who is forever on my icon. That's him, the pretty man. I love him. He is my LORD. So then I'm like "WHAT? NO WAY! I went to see him like, three weeks ago, live at the Beacon Theater!"

Gale's like "Yeah, he's doing a duet with Diamanda Galas."

John Paul Jones toured with British eccentric Diamanda Galas in 1994, as well as sharing credit on one of her CDs, "The Sporting Life." Apparently, Gale is a John Paul Jones fan!

I replied "You're full of it."

He asked me if I cought it when it came around, I replied no... I was only like 12 at the time, I was too young. By then the world was spinning, and I was being rushed out. Randy Harrison was signing my thing, and smiled at me. I didn't say much and I felt bad so I was like "Can I shake your hand?" He gave me a strong handshake. I was like OMG!!! I think I said "You're so cool!" Before I walked off to the side.

I mean, it was a rush. I couldn't believe it as it was happening, and yet I have autos to show for it! As me and my friend Theresa walked around the store, we felt warm... I kept touching my hand to my face... JUSTIN AND MIKEY TOUCHED IT. It was warm... it felt prettier than the afterglow of an amazing orgasm... I'm serious!

Shucks, guys, I'm just freaking out. I couldn't wait to come home and write about it. And show it all to you!

YEAH BABY!!!

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Журнал из Торонто, Канада, даже, скорее, толстая газета.
После того, как я посмотрела фильм "Жизнь в стеклянном доме", стала поклонницей Фаба, он мне очень понравился и от этого вдвойне рада этому журналу.

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THIS IS OUR YOUTH by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Woody
Harrelson, with Fabrizio Filippo, Marya Delver and Marcello Cabezas. Presented by maclDeas 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 Bums'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.

ft
iffiien 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 Maclvor and the late Ken McDou- gall 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 resume 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 Harrel- son - 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 mythopoetic 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 cliches.”
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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