Нашелся вот такой журнал Out от июля 2004 с небольшой заметочкой про премьеру 4 сезона в Сан-Франциско.
Пощу с обложкой, а то часто на ебей предлагают журналы с квирами, а что там внутри не ясно)

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Это старое интервью, или вообще сборка из ивью разных лет, но кое-каких подробностей я раньше не читала. Например, что муж Шэрон Барри присутствовал на съемках сцены, где Тэд и Эммет учат Дэбби делать минет )

by Jim Halterman
June 12, 2014

Sharon Gless Reflects on “Queer As Folk” and… a Reunion Soon?

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There was never anything like it and there will never be.

Those are the words of actress Sharon Gless talking about the gone-but-not-forgotten series, Queer As Folk, the US take on the British hit series which ran on Showtime from December 2000- August 2005.

And while the actors from the show have been busy in multiple projects – Peter Paige (Emmett) is Exec Producing the ABC Family series, The Fosters, Gale Harold (Brian) has been acting in series like Defiance and The Secret Circle and Randy Harrison (Justin) has concentrated mostly onstage though he appears with Michael Urie in Such Good People, which is currently on the film festival circuit – is there a chance we could see them, along with co-stars Hal Sparks, Scott Lowell, Thea Gill, Michelle Clunie and, of course, multi Emmy-winner Sharon Gless, reprise their roles?

According to Gless, who talked to TheBacklot last week, the answer is yes.

The actress has had a string of long-running series in her career including Switch (1975-78), Cagney & Lacey (1982-88) and Burn Notice (2007-13), but it’s clear in talking to her that QAF is still very near and dear to her heart as she recounted taking the role when her managers told her not to, her favorite storylines, how the show helped teach her about the gay community and, yes, whether we’ll see the QAF characters come back to life again in the near future.

Before the show started and you were in the cast, did anybody ever say you shouldn’t do cable since cable back then was considered inferior to network TV?

Sharon Gless: Well actually, I was in Chicago doing a play that someone had written for me, and while I was there somebody sneaked a sсript to me under the table, a sсript called Queer As Folk…I read it and I picked up the phone and called Showtime. And a friend of mine, Barney’s [Rosenzweig, Gless's husband] assistant for many years, was an assistant to Jerry Offsay, the head of Showtime. Jerry was the man who was courageous enough to put Queer as Folk on television. I don’t know if Showtime was the first one approached, but Jerry was the one who had the courage to do it.

So I called up Jerry’s office because Carole Smith, who was Barney’s assistant, was now Jerry’s assistant. I called her and I said, ‘Have you cast Queer as Folk?’ And she said, ‘No, we didn’t cast anybody but you don’t want to do that, Sharon. There’s no money and it’s in Canada.’ And I said, ‘yes I do.’ So Jerry was told I wanted to do it and he called me and said, ‘you know, I like the idea. I think you’ll add a little class to the project.’ I said to Jerry, ‘class in not what I had in mind.’ And they flew me out to Los Angeles from Chicago to meet Ron Cowen and Dan Lipman, the men who created the show, and I got the job. Once I read that sсript I couldn’t understand anybody not wanting to do that show.



What was it about Debbie that you connected with when you first read that sсript?

SG: Having read her for the first time I just thought she was outrageous. I just loved the sсript. And when I went to meet Ron and Dan, I said ‘I know that people write the scripts to get the money, to get the backing for it, but they don’t shoot it. I mean, come on, you’re not going to put that on TV.’ I said, ‘are you going to shoot what I just read?’ They said, ‘every frame.’ I said, ‘well, then, send me in Coach. I want to be part of this. I smell trouble and I love trouble!’

There was no trouble. The night we opened on television, on Showtime, was the night of the Bush/Gore election in Florida. Remember that scandal that night? Well, nobody would pay any attention. I mean all the religious right didn’t pay any attention to [us]. So we just sort of elegantly slid in and they forgot to be upset about it. I was disappointed because I thought we’d be in big trouble about it. And it just became a very, very popular show. If we’d all known it was going to be such a hit we all would have bought property in Toronto.

One thing I always liked is that Debbie wasn’t just Michael’s mother. You had your own stories and you had romance and you had the storyline with your brother on the show. They really gave you a lot to do on the show.

SG: They did, and it wasn’t originally written that way. But when I said ‘I’d really love to do it’ and I got the part, then they started writing for Debbie. And they were wonderful. Ron and Dan kept developing this character. She wasn’t that big a role in the British version from what I understand. Ron and Dan asked that I not look at the British version. ‘Yeah, all right.’ They said, ‘well, we know what an Anglophile you are’ and I do, I love the British. They were afraid that I would want to copy what they did with the character. And they said, ‘we don’t want you to copy it. We want you to just do your thing.’ I think they were right.

Did being a part of the show change your opinion at all about gay people and relationships at all?

SG: What it did was educate me. I was always involved with the gay community. This will sound like such a cliché, but some of my best friends are gay. But I learned so much. There was a lot of the heartache and the problems that the gay community is up against. I didn’t totally grasp what was going on and as I did the show over the years that was probably the best thing I took out of it is everything I learned and that’s what made me active more in the gay community because I get it. I’m not gay. I didn’t have to go through the heartache but I had friends who I loved very, very much. So now I go out and I fight for gay marriage and I fight for equality. But I thought I knew everything. I didn’t. I didn’t know anything. I just thought that gay men make the best girlfriends. [laughs]

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Well, we do! [laughs] Was there a particular storyline of Debbie’s that stands out to you more or differently than the other ones did?

SG: Gosh, I’m trying to think now. Each boy had their own story and she was always a part of it because she was a mother to all of them. But for Debbie’s personal story, I loved the transition that they wrote for her where she hated that cop (Carl, played by Peter MacNeill). She hated him. He was a homophobic cop and I loved the sexuality that they wrote for her.

Every boy on the show and the two girls, they were always called into the producer’s office every week, I don’t know if you knew this, with the cinematographer present and Ron and Dan present. And the actors were allowed to say what they were uncomfortable about, how there would be scenes that would be shot nude but they would be protected. And it was always done to the courtesy of the actors, to be comfortable. You didn’t pull any punches on that show.

Well, when Debbie falls in love with her policeman, I got called in and so did [Peter]. We’re a couple of old farts sitting around on the couch like children, [asked] ‘now is there anything you’d like to talk about with this first kiss?’ It’s just a kiss…but it’s a good one. [laughs] They were so serious, Jim. They said ‘would you like to practice the kiss here in front of us and see how comfortable you are?’ I said, ‘no!’ I loved that they made someone her age find her sexuality again and that she changed this man, who was so homophobic.

I remember that well.

SG: Do you remember the scene with the boys, she wouldn’t have sex with [Carl] because she thought she wasn’t very good.

I do remember that!

SG: Two of the boys taught her how to give head in the kitchen. Do you remember that? My husband was on the set the day we shot that. I was going down on vibrators, right? And I was hoping from off the set, I’d hear a voice saying ‘she doesn’t need lessons’ but he just sat there and watched me do this wonderful scene with Peter Paige and Scott Lowell. And so they train her so well that Carl thinks she’s a pro and he doesn’t want to go out anymore. Do you remember? He stopped seeing her and he said, ‘honey you’re a pro.’ [laughs]

Then they finally get engaged and she’s so excited. And then her child [Michael] is not allowed back into America. He went up to Toronto and got married to his lover [Ben, played by Robert Gant] and then they wouldn’t let them back in as a married couple and she called off her engagement saying ‘until my son can walk down the aisle, neither do I.’ And for Debbie, I think she taught the boys to change and grow. That was one of the purposes of her being on that show with her foul mouth and everything. But her heart was in the right place.

When you’re out and about, what do you hear most from fans? Do you hear Cagney & Lacey? Do you hear Queer as Folk? Or Burn Notice?

It’s split between three. It depends on the age of the fan. The older ones, men and women will comment on Cagney and Lacey. Predominately gay men will always comment on Queer as Folk. And I love that, I don’t want that to ever be forgotten. And then a widespread of age groups for Burn because their demographics I think were age ten to age ninety.

The luxury of a hit series is just my favorite thing. We were asked at the end of Queer As Folk, what is the most orgasmic thing? And everybody gave something very sexual and I said ‘a hit TV show.’ That’s orgasmic for me. [laughs] But it is because you have to luxury of your character growing. We all change as we get older, or hopefully we do. We learn and become more compassionate, hopefully.

The best thing, I think, is I’ve gotten mail or people have told me that they sat their mother or their father down, usually their mother, gay boys who didn’t know how to say, ‘I’m gay,’ and they’d sit them down and have them watch Debbie. Or the parents were not accepting to their son being gay and they’d set them down and ask them to please watch Queer as Folk. One boy wrote me that it saved his life, Queer as Folk. And he said, ‘I think a lot of kids are suicidal if they can’t get anybody to listen to them or understand.’ He said, ‘my best friend wasn’t as lucky. Queer as Folk had not came out yet and he’s dead.’ And I thought, ‘wow, the impact of television is just amazing!’

If they were to come around and say, ‘Hey let’s do a reunion movie’ or ‘let’s do a couple more episodes,’ would you be on board?

SG: That’s exactly what we want to do. We want to do a reunion movie. I mean, the cast all had a meeting in Los Angeles saying how many of us would be on board to doing it and every one of us said yes. And so I’m hoping Showtime, they’re airing our shows now this month, and I’m hoping it will let them see how loved that show was and the characters. I think it’s time for them to all meet again. There was never anything like it and there will never be.

Queer As Folk is re-airing weeknights on Showtime along with The L Word for the rest of this month and then will continue airing through November. Check listings for times.

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Совсем небольшой отчет о мероприятии, но... единственный. У нас нет ничего с этой премьеры(
(Может быть и есть, но мне об этом неизвестно).
Девушка пишет очень кратко, но сразу представляешь себе, как набрасываются охотники за автографами на Рэнди, выходящего из автомобиля. Какое впечатление произвели все актеры.
Фотографий с этого мероприятия очень много, их можно посмотреть в галерее сайта ГХ.ру и странно, что почти нет любительских, хотя автор отчета пишет, что постоянно наблюдала фотовспышки.

Пишет Gina (madeofgold)

The New York Premiere

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So, I went to the New York premiere with violet_salt and we saw the entire cast and talked to a few of them.It was funny and cool but there was ickiness too.

Unfortunately for the cast, there were a group of professional autograph seekers that JUMPED on them the minute they exited their respective cars. It was so obnoxious. These were clearly people who sell autographs on ebay for a living because they all had the same pictures in huge folders filled with other celebrity photos. They weren't fans in any way.

The first one to come in was Randy and he looked so cute. He had on a long brown coat and his hair looked pretty normal from what I could see. He was the only one to arrive alone in a car (probably because he lives here in the city already) and he was pounced on as soon as he got out. And get this. Those autograph hounds had the nerve to call him an asshole because he signed his name in the "dark" area of the photo, thereby making the pic practically worthless because you couldn't see the signature.

And the Randylove Grows!

We didn't get to talk to Randy because he went into the hotel pretty quickly.

Sharon came next with her husband, was accosted by the autograph people and then we talked to her for a bit. Took pics with her and everything. She was a sweetheart. She asked if anyone had come in already and someone said "Just Randy."

Then a limo pulled up and Michelle, Gale, Bobby, Thea, Scott and Peter come out. Michelle and Thea sort of blocked the way so Gale and the rest of the guys could run in. It was clear that Gale did not want to do the autograph thing with those people there.

We talked to Bobby:

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and he was super sweet. He looked really good!

Then we talked to Thea:

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where I proceeded to take the world's worst pic of me I have ever seen. The pic of me and Thea will never see the light of day.

Your children will thank me and your children's children will thank me.

For real.

Oh, and Kyan and Ted from Queer Eye showed up. Kyan looked great. I was going to talk to him but then the limo pulled up and well...

Gale looked BEAUTIFUL! He was wearing a light colored suit and I think he was clean shaven or maybe with just a little scruff. It was hard to tell. Either way, he looked a little thin but hot as always.

We actually saw him smoking outside the side entrance a little later on in the evening. Though I would have loved a chance to talk to him again, I'm a big believer that a smoke break is not time that he owes to us fans. I've spoken to him in other venues and stuff and it's been great, but if he wants a smoke, he should be able to do it without having me bothering him!

But...he looked really fucking hot!

Well, that's the story. I'm hoping there will be pics soon. I'm surprised they haven't been posted yet. Hmmm.

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14.06.2014 в 09:56

Пишет  NataliM:

Гейл на сцене прямо сейчас! thanks @TheBlankTheatre!

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Randy Harrison’s Manhattan Project

Randy Harrison, at rehearsals for Atomic

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Randy Harrison is winning a new generation of fans thanks to Netflix, which is streaming all five seasons of Queer As Folk, a television series that ran on Showtime from 2000 to 2005, in which Harrison co-starred as Justin Taylor. By the end of the series (spoiler alert, I guess), Justin is leaving for New York City to make a career in the arts, and that’s what Randy Harrison has done.
His latest role is in “Atomic,” which is running on Theater Row June 26 to August 16, a musical about the making of the atom bomb. The show focuses on the little known physicist Leo Szilard (portrayed by Broadway veteran Jeremy Kushnier) who was nevertheless central to the story of the bomb.
Harrison plays two characters – Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, and Edward Teller, who is known as the father of the hydrogen bomb. “I love playing such completely different characters.”
The show itself is illuminating of the Manhattan Project (the name given to the team of scientists that first produced the atom bomb) and the issues that are still with us. “It’s hard to come away with a black or white opinion about it all. So many scientists working on the bomb were Jewish scientists who wanted to stop the Nazis. And then (after the Nazis were defeated) many of them tried to stop the bomb.”
Scene from Queer as Folk: Hal Sparks, Gale Harold, and Randy Harrison
Scene from Queer as Folk: Hal Sparks, Gale Harold, and Randy Harrison
When Scott Lowell, who played Ted in “Queer As Folk,” makes his Broadway debut in the fall in a revival of The Elephant Man, he will be only the second cast member from the TV series to appear on the Great White Way. The first was Harrison, who debuted on Broadway ten years ago as Boq in Wicked, and has worked steadily in theater since. (He was in Silence the Musical and Harbor, among other Off-Broadway shows.)

Asked how the TV series made a difference in his and his colleagues’ careers one way or another, Harrison says, “I don’t think it hurt any our careers. It didn’t help as much as I thought it would. But I’m grateful for the job. If it happened now, it would be different. Gay subject matter is much more common now. People didn’t know what to do with me.”
It’s interesting to compare Harrison with Charlie Hunnam, who played the same character (albeit with a different name) in the UK (original) version of Queer as Folk; Hunnam has had an active screen career that included the starring role in the TV series “Sons of Anarchy.”
That’s not what Harrison ever wanted. “It was sort of a fluke that I was in television. I didn’t pursue a career in the movies. I wanted to do theater.”

Randy Harrison and Jeremy Kushnier in Atomic

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