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Mr. Sulu Comes Out

George Takei is boldly going where no Star Trek vet has gone before: out of the closet. The 68-year-old actor — who played chief helm officer Mr. Sulu in the original series — has confirmed that he is gay. He made the revelation in the current issue of Frontiers, a Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community. Takei said he would have come out sooner were it not for Starfleet's "don't ask, don't tell" policy

Bwha! I love that last line.

Vampires on HBO?

Alan Ball is getting back in business with HBO. The Six Feet Under creator is developing a new series for the cabler based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series of best-selling novels, per Variety.

Hmm... I've tried these novels but have never quite gotten into them. I have one hanging around the house, I might try one last time.

TVGuide: Watercooler on Smallville

Where to start? OK, I know. Princess Leia, editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, who knew? Favorite-line honors go to the actor formerly known as William the Bloody: "Clark, there's no such thing as vampires." I know, we saw the line teased ad nauseum from the second last week's episode ended. I don't care. Loved it. What do you want? I'm easy. {...} yea! to the first couple of scenes featuring Lex and Milton. The two menaces to society have something in common: an unnatural fascination with Clark Kent. Oh, and we got a bit of Brainiac badness. Finally.

Excerpts from Entertainment Weekly's Apprentice recap

Meanwhile, the Women made a kinda ugly Astroturf golf course and fought a lot. (''Clay is not a man,'' announced Alla. ''He is an insecure, bitchy woman times a thousand.'')

Me: It's funny because it's TRUE!

Excerpt from TV Guide's Apprentice recap

The Donald is displeased. And you know what that means… four, count 'em, four finger-pointing sad sacks get the pink slip in one fell swoop. But amidst all that jaw-dropping, guffaw-inducing jolly good fun, the episode's finest moment comes down to the post-boardroom Walk of Shame in which Josh, Jennifer, Mark and James are forced to share a single cab into sequestered oblivion. Best. Uncomfortable. Silence. Ever!

Batman Begins hits DVDs

"Batman Begins" scored a knockout punch in its first week on home video, shooting to No. 1 on both the preliminary national sales and rental charts.

The brooding Warner Bros. auctioneer, which took in nearly $205.3 million in theaters, is one of the first big summer movies to come to video -- and ranks as the top-selling DVD so far this fourth quarter. Industry sources peg its sales at nearly 4 million copies in the week ended October 23.

Comments

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

Re: George no surprise at all. Great last line but I suspect staying in the closet had to do with his political ambitions and not his acting career. Of course it might just be because his sex life wasn't our business.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, there's always that. :)

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

What I find funny is that when I told my Brother years ago that I thought he was gay bro's reaction was that all that fanfic I read had warped my view of reality. So I may be warped but I'm still right.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

And you clearly have a well hones gaydar. :)

[mlgm.livejournal.com]

TV Tidbits

Mr. Sulu Comes Out
Takei said he would have come out sooner were it not for Starfleet's "don't ask, don't tell" policy

Bwha! I love that last line.

I know all the slash is about Kirk/Spock; but personally I never saw it. It was always Sulu/Chehkov I wondered about

Alan Ball is getting back in business with HBO. The Six Feet Under creator is developing a new series for the cabler based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series of best-selling novels, per Variety.

Hmm... I've tried these novels but have never quite gotten into them. I have one hanging around the house, I might try one last time.

If you figure out how to get into them, let me know becasue they've never done anything for me. Despite the fact so many online friends have rec'd her books.

TVGuide: Watercooler on Smallville
yea! to the first couple of scenes featuring Lex and Milton. The two menaces to society have something in common: an unnatural fascination with Clark Kent. Oh, and we got a bit of Brainiac badness. Finally.

The Lex/Fine scenes (or Flex as I've seen it called) simply blew the rest of the show away. You can see the writers enjoy writing for those two much more than for Clark & Lana.

The brooding Warner Bros. auctioneer, which took in nearly $205.3 million in theaters,

Auctioneer? When did Batman give up being a millionare playboy. Was supposed to be actioneer?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Who couldn't enjoy the Flex scene? It was so filled with testosterone and FUN!

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

A lot of people do like those Southern vampire novels but I just couldn't get into them. I like her Shakespeare novels enormously but Sookie I just couldn't warm up to.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think I've developed novel ADD. I used to be able to read anything, now if it doesn't grab me, and grab me quickly I tend to tune out of a novel.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Apparently unlike everyone else, I love the Sookie novels. But now I'm worried that they'll miscast Bill. Eep.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I've never read it enough to say whether I like them. I've just never really gotten far into one.

I had a craving to read them once, but I was unable to find them in the book store and looking them up they were out of print at the time. They've since been re-printed. I've bought one of them and it's somewhere I've just never gotten around to reading much of it.

[rahirah]

I thought the Harris books were tolerable mind candy, but her heroine is annoyingly Mary-Sueish and too much of the plot revolves around the Supernatural Hunk Of The Week falling in slobbering lust with Our Heroine and glaring jealously at all the former Hunks of the Week who are hanging forlornly round her doorstep.