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NBC has ordered a pilot for Happy Peppers, a comedy by Max Mutchnick, co-creator, writer and co-Executive producer of Will & Grace. Happy Peppers is about an adult brother and sister who end up living together for the first time since they were kids, after one of them suffers a big loss. The network is looking at the new show as a companion piece for Will & Grace’s 10th Season.
In Will & Grace news: we have been missing NBC’s most popular comedy. The series is taking a little break after airing the first six out of 16 episodes in Season Nine of the landmark series. Will & Grace originally aired 1999-2006.
Dan Bucatinsky, Matthew Letscher and Barry Bostwick, who each enjoyed especially nutty story arcs on Shonda Rhime’s hit Scandal on ABC, are each set to guest-star on upcoming episodes of Will & Grace.
Bucatinsky, Photograph: © WMTV, PacificCoastNews
Bucatinsky is reprising his role as Neil from a season two episode, The Hospital Show. Neil was guy who has a date with Will that goes terribly wrong. Bucatinsky met his husband, filmmaker Don Roos, in 1992 when Roos invited him to be his date at the premiere of his movie Love Field. They married in 2008, during the four months same-sex marriage in California was briefly legal. Bucatinsky also wrote a memoir Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions Of A Gay Dad, which has been optioned for television. On Scandal, Bucatinsky played a journalist who was the husband of the President’s Chief of Staff. He won an Emmy Award for the role in 2013. He will appear in the upcoming Steven Spielberg newspaper drama, The Post with Meryl Streep.
Letscher, ABC Television, via YouTube
Letscher was the villainous Billy Chambers, Chief of Staff to Vice President Sally Langston on the first and second season of Scandal. He has tons of theatre and television credits. He played real life Ambassador Chris Stevens in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi, and his is in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, currently in theatres. Letscher is straight, but he was born that way.
Bostwick, Photograph: © Joe Sutter, PacificCoastNews
Silver fox Bostwick is the 6′ 4″, sexy, agile, energetic actor and singer of the Broadway stage, films and television. You probably know him as the nerdy Brad Majors in the phenomena known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Bostwick was featured on the sitcom Spin City (1996–2002), and played the original Danny Zuko in Grease (1972) on Broadway. He won a Tony Award the musical The Robber Bridegroom (1977). Although he has appeared in many musicals, Bostwick is straight, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Guest stars on Will & Grace this season have include one of my favorite lesbians Jane Lynch (Glee), and hotties Max Greenfield (New Girl), Andrew Rannells (Girls) and Kyle Bornheimer (Agent Carter).
Returning from the show’s original eight-season run are Harry Connick Jr., Minnie Driver and Leslie Jordan. Bobby Cannavale and Molly Shannon are also set to reprise their roles this season.
Spoiler: When we last saw Will & Grace, the episode dealt with the death of Karen’s longtime maid Rosario following a heart attack. When the gang goes to visit Rosario in the hospital, Karen promises to throw her a quinceanera when she is discharged because Rosario’s mother had never given her one. However, Rosario dies in the hospital and Karen then turns the funeral for her longtime sidekick into… a quinceanera.
The episode is heartbreaking and hilarious.
Rosario had been played by the great Shelley Morrison during the series first eight seasons, plus the cast reunion’s 2016 Vote Honey video. During her 68-episode run, Morrison not only played Karen’s maid and BFF, but also Jack’s wife. They married to get her a green card in season two.
Morrison retired from acting in 2012. When it was decided that they would write Rosario out of the series, the creators told Morrison about their plans to kill Rosario off.
The same episode dealt with the December 2016 passing of Debbie Reynolds, who appeared in 10 episodes of the show’s original run as Grace’s mother, Bobbi Adler. It was revealed that Reynolds’ character had passed away before the events of the reboot. Grace attempts to console Karen by talking about her mother’s death, saying:
“I get what you’re going through. When my mother died, I was a wreck. On the day of her funeral, my sister had to dress me. I couldn’t even do my own blowout and I really wanted pretty hair for my mom, you know? But I made it and everyone said how brave I was and how pretty I looked and everyone said how proud they were of me. It doesn’t change how much it hurts.”
Currently on hiatus because of something called Thursday Night Football, Will & Grace has a special Christmas episode airing December 5, and then is set to return with new episodes on January 4. The show is already renewed for a 13-episode second season.
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Rosie O’Donnell has said she knew of Whitney Houston’s secret same-sex relationship. She told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live!Robyn Crawford were a couple,
“I knew that they were together. I was friends with a lot of very athletic older lesbian women who were in the WNBA – all these basketball playing women. I knew that, I knew it for a very long time. Everyone sort of knew it. So I thought it was very surprising when Clive Davis came out and said he never discussed her being gay.
I don’t believe that for one minute.”
An explosive docu-film Whitney: Can I Be Me also claimed Whitney was dating childhood pal and assistant Robyn. According to friends the singer was bisexual, but not out to the public.
The couple first met in 1979 as teenagers at a community centre in East Orange, New Jersey. Security personnel Kevin Ammons told filmmaker Nick Broomfield,
“Robyn and Whitney were like twins. They were inseparable. They had a bond and Bobby Brown could never remove Robyn. He wanted to be the man in the relationship.”
Stylist Ellin Lavar reveals in the movie.
“I don’t think she was gay, I think she was bisexual. Robyn provided a safe place for her … in that Whitney found safety and solace.”
Whitney Houston’s former husband Bobby Brown has corroborated reports that his ex-wife had a love affair with her longtime assistant. He also claimed that if Houston had stayed with Crawford, she might never have died.
“I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today. She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.
We were married for 14 years. There are some things we talked about that were personal to us.”
Following her daughter’s death, Houston’s mother Cissy revealed to Oprah Winfrey that had her daughter been gay, she would have had a problem with it.
During the interview, Oprah read the section of the book where Cissy Houston wrote,
“I knew I didn’t want Robyn near my daughter and I told Nippy [the family’s pet name for Whitney] that. Cissy admitted she “didn’t really like” Crawford, saying she spoke “disrespectful”.
When Oprah asked if she would have been “bothered” if her daughter was a lesbian, she replied:
“Absolutely.”
Watch.
Whitney & Robyn
(via Pink News)
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Trans woman Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier who was court-martialed in 2013 for leaking 750,000 classified or sensitive documents to WikiLeaks, has been named Out Magazine’s 2017 Newsmaker Of The Year at the magazine’s annual Out 100 gala last night.
She told the crowd:
“There’s a lot of commentators out there, but I don’t feel that’s my role. My role is to motivate people and remind them that there are ways in which we can defend ourselves.”
Manning’s 35-year sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in January after spending almost seven years in military prison after her arrest in 2010.
Since her release, Manning has been busy on the speaker’s circuit talking about government transparency and trans issues. She had a very public setback earlier this year when Harvard University rescinded their offer of a fellowship due to hrash criticism over the appointment.
Manning:
“Transgender people face struggles and challenges in so many aspects of our life that are about more than just visibility and being out there. This is not a new reality, this is what reality has been the whole time.”
Of POTUS rolling back LGBTQ Rights, Manning added:
“It’s more in our face than it’s been before, but after this we’re still going to be facing the same threats… they just seem bigger now. There’s no way they’re going to shut me up. The more they intimidate me, the louder I get.”
“The bathroom bill has turned into a battleground, but trans people didn’t start that battle… it wasn’t an issue until it was turned into one, and it’s a way to undermine our ability to even exist.”
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The Out 100 Event was presented by Lexus at the Altman Building in beautiful Manhattan. Manning looked stunning in a flirty midnight blue dress cocktail dress with velvet bow, fingerless gloves and iconic Doc Martens combat boots, styled by Miss Chelsea herself. For accessories, Manning kept it simple with a silver watch and her hashtags that has been wearing ever since her release from the U.S. Army Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.I am throwing in a gratuitous photo of Miss Jackson from the same gala, just because she is looking so fierce.
Photograph: © Avalon.red, PacificCoastNews
I am throwing in a gratuitous photo of Miss Jackson from the same event, just because she is looking so fierce:
Janet Jackson, Photograph: © Avalon.red, PacificCoastNews
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You know the fabulous Mamie Van Doren, yes? I’ve interviewed her and written about her a few times, and our Stephen Rutledge has made her the subject of #BornThisDay here on The Wow Report. She the 50s/60s actress and sex symbol that is now 80-something, and better than ever. She posts a lot on Facebook (I’m lucky to be friends with her there) she’s sharp as a tack and a really good writer. She posted this tale in reaction to all of the sexual assault accusations flying around. It’s kind of funny, not really traumatic, but lest you think she’s making light of what women (and men) have gone through (she’s been there too) she also posted the text in the pink box above…
“In 1973, I hadn’t been back from Vietnam very long when I received an invitation from the Richard Nixon White House to a dinner party honoring German Chancellor Willy Brandt. My first response to this sort of thing has always been to go buy a new dress, which I did. I packed my new frock, flew to Washington, and checked into Willard’s Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.
My date for the evening turned out to be none other than Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. I know there’s a lot of back-and-forth about Kissinger and the relative merits of his accomplishments. Though I agree with much of the criticism, I have to say he was a charming dinner companion, even though he cavalierly massaged my knee under the table.
Probably no one remembers today, but back then Kissinger was regarded as quite the ladies man. At some point in the dinner, the conversation turned to his efforts at detent with the Russians. He confided to me,
‘The Russians believe I am a sex fiend. Whenever I arrive in Moscow, there are always seven robust Russian ladies–all in military uniform, of course–waiting to, um, serve me.‘
‘And what do you do with those seven ladies, Henry?‘ I teased.
He chuckled roguishly,
‘Oh, Mamie.‘
In case you’ve never been to a White House dinner, there are many, many courses of food served by white-gloved stewards, and many, MANY accompanying courses of wine and champagne to wash them down. By the time the dessert dishes were cleared away, and brandy and cigars brought, I was, to use Sam Peckinpah’s lovely phrase, “ripped to the tits.”
Henry and I slipped away from dinner and he gave me a tour of the West Wing. We sneaked into the Oval Office and Henry spun me around in the president’s chair. He pointed out the the historic artifacts and paintings, and name dropped the world figures who had momentously visited there.
Truth be told, when I’ve had that much to drink, I’m not a very exciting date. I decided it was time for me to leave. With the kind of persuasiveness you could expect from someone negotiating world peace, Henry convinced me to get rid of my limo and let him take me back to the hotel in his car. Oh, but first he needed to make a quick stop at his Georgetown townhouse.
When we went inside, it was clearly some kind of a signal to Henry. He led me into his bedroom, grabbed me by the shoulders, and shoved me against the wall. He pressed against me and I side stepped away. He pushed me back onto the bed and threw himself on top of me. We wrestled around for what seemed like eternity, him grappling at me, me repeatedly pushing him away. However, I am really strong, and I finally tired him out enough that he gave up. We got back into his car and his driver took me back to Willard’s.
He said he would call me the next day, but I think he felt it was a lost cause. But he was a horny little devil, that I can attest to. I’m not sure he could do justice to seven Russian military women, but if you put him up against the PUSSY GRABBER and his five Russian women, my money’s on Henry the K.”
–mamie
Photo, Alan Mercer
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Well, color me surprised!
In today’s WTF news story of the day, celebrity conspiracy site YourNewsWire recently alleged that perky songstress Katy Perry spoke at length “on French radio” about being a cannibal, saying it was all the rage in Hollywood to feed on dead bodies, and that they taste like pork:
“So many people in Hollywood tell you that human meat is the best meat in the world,” but it’s “gotten a bad rap” due to “squeamish Christians and their hypocritical virtues and morals.”
After supposedly touting the health benefits of human flesh, Perry is further quoted as revealing, “There is a group of old Hollywood guys who have an annual dinner party where the main dish is human… Each year a new host is selected for the following year by drawing straws.” The outlet claims she added, “It is the new host’s responsibility to provide the main course, and it has to be human. If he can’t find a suitable person to serve as the meal… the host will be eaten instead!” After suggesting that Perry is open to the idea of murdering and eating someone, the outlet then notes she typically just feeds on dead bodies. “It tastes like pork,” the singer allegedly said.
GossipCop did a fact-check on the story and concluded:
Naturally, this nonexistent interview can’t be find anywhere on the Internet. Still, Gossip Cop notified a source close to the singer of this nonsense, and we’re exclusively assured all the quotes attributed to her were fabricated. It’s possible this phony article was concocted because Perry’s music video for “Bon Appetit” features her getting cooked and served like a piece of meat. At one point in the footage, she prepares to eat a cherry pie stuffed with body parts (see above). The singer has explained that the imagery is a metaphor for her sexual liberation, despite YourNewsWire seemingly interpreting it as a celebration of cannibalism. Regardless, the site’s story is simply ludicrous.
Kinda wishing there WAS a big cannibal dinner party scene in Hollywood, and folks like Louis CK, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and the rest could just devour themselves and we could be done with it.
(Photo: Pacific Coast News)
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The son of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore was arrested in Alabama on a misdemeanor charge linked to allegations of illegal hunting. No big deal, right? Except that this arrest marks the ninth time the 27-year-old has been in jail.
Etowah County Sheriff‘s spokeswoman Natalie Barton told news outlets Caleb Moore surrendered last month on a charge of third-degree criminal trespass. He was accused of hunting without permission and hunting over bait last year.
Moore was released on $1,000 bond and the Judge’s campaign issued a statement calling the arrest a
“cheap political trick.”
Caleb was arrested on drug charges in 2015, but those were dropped after he entered a pre-trial diversion program.
Roy Moore has just been accused of assaulting a 14 year-old when he was 32. He also called those accusations a cheap political trick.
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Actor Anthony Edwards, best known for his performance on eight seasons of ER, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and as “Goose” Bradshaw in Top Gun (1986), claims that he was molested by producer Gary Goddard when he was 12-years old, and that the abuse went on for years and that Goddard sexually abused several other actors and also raped his best friend. Edwards, currently appearing on Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, on a post on Medium today, writes:
“I met Goddard when I was 12, and he quickly became a dominant force in my life. He taught me about the value of acting, respect for friendship, and the importance of studying. Pedophiles prey on the weak… Everyone has the need to bond, and I was no exception. My vulnerability was exploited. I was molested by Goddard, my best friend was raped by him and this went on for years. The group of us, the gang, stayed quiet.”
Edwards goes on to say that he’s only recently been able to confront what happened to him and to star healing with the help of therapy and from supportive friends and fellow survivors:
“Shame can thrive easily when we are isolated, but it loses its power when people come together to share their common experiences. One in six men have an abusive sexual experience before they turn 18. Only by breaking the stigma of childhood sexual abuse that we can heal, change attitudes, and create safer environments for our children.”
Twice, Goddard, now 63-years-old, has been sued twice by men claiming that he sexually abused them when they were teenagers. One in 2014, filed by former teen model Michael Egan III, claimed that Goddard, director Bryan Singer, and television executives Garth Ancier and David Neuman abused him. An anonymous British actor, also named Singer and Goddard. Singer had both lawsuits dismissed.
Goddard directed the junky Masters Of The Universe (1987) and Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future (1987), you know, the sort of films young boys enjoy. He later founded the Goddard Group, an entertainment design firm. He produced the Tony Award-winning revival of the musical Hair in 2009, and several other Broadway show, and oversaw several theme-park attractions for Universal Studios.
Top Gun (1986) Paramount, via YouTube
Edwards says that 22-years ago, he ran into Goddard at an airport and confronted him about the abuse, and that Goddard told him he was sorry and had gotten help. But just four years ago, Edwards said that he learned there had been more victims.
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A former model and actor is accusing Star Trek star, and LGBT activist George Takei of sexually assault him over 35 years ago. Scott R. Brunton, who was 23 at the time of the alleged incident, claims that Takei took advantage of him when he was most vulnerable.
Brunton told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview.
“This happened a long time ago, but I have never forgotten it. It is one of those stories you tell with a group of people when people are recounting bizarre instances in their lives, this always comes up. I have been telling it for years, but I am suddenly very nervous telling it.“
Brunton was living in Hollywood in 1981, working as a waiter and beginning a career as a commercial actor and model when he met a 43 year-old George Takei one evening at Greg’s Blue Dot bar. The men exchanged numbers and would call one another from time to time as well as run into each other at clubs, Brunton says. When Brunton broke up with his then-boyfriend, he spoke with Takei.
“He said, ‘Let me know what your new number is’ and I did. And not long after we broke up and I moved out, George called me.”
Takei invited him to dinner and the theater,
“He was very good at consoling me and understanding that I was upset and still in love with my boyfriend. He was a great ear. He was very good about me spilling my heart on my sleeve.
We have the drink and he asks if I would like another. And I said sure. So, I have the second one, and then all of a sudden, I begin feeling very disoriented and dizzy, and I thought I was going to pass out. I said I need to sit down and he said sit over here and he had the giant yellow beanbag chair. So I sat down in that and leaned my head back and I must have passed out.
The next thing I remember I was coming to and he had my pants down around my ankles and he was groping my crotch and trying to get my underwear off and feeling me up at the same time, trying to get his hands down my underwear. I came to and said, ‘What are you doing?!’ I said, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ He goes, ‘You need to relax. I am just trying to make you comfortable. Get comfortable.’ And I said, ‘No. I don’t want to do this.’ And I pushed him off and he said, ‘OK, fine.’ And I said I am going to go and he said, ‘If you feel you must. You’re in no condition to drive.’ I said, ‘I don’t care I want to go.’ So I managed to get my pants up and compose myself and I was just shocked. I walked out and went to my car until I felt well enough to drive home, and that was that.“
THR spoke to four longtime friends of Brunton — Norah Roadman, Rob Donovan, Stephen Blackshear and Jan Steward — who said that he had confided in them about the Takei encounter years ago.
Takei’s rep, Julia Buchwald, told THR,
“George is traveling in Japan and Australia and not reachable for comment.“
Brunton claims that he met up with Takei years after the incident in Portland, Brunton’s current home, while the actor was there on a book tour.
“I wanted to see him. I always wanted to ask him — I just felt really betrayed. I thought I was a friend and here I am later, just another piece of meat. So I called him up at the hotel — I figured out which hotel he was at — and he said ‘Hi, Scott. I remember you.’ I wanted to ask him why. We met for coffee, and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. It was just too uncomfortable.“
Brunton says he considered going to the media with the story for years, but he assumed no one would take him seriously.
“Who’s going to believe me? It’s my word against his.”
Brunton’s reasoning changed when Takei spoke out regarding allegations leveled against Kevin Spacey.
On Oct. 29, Anthony Rapp (who happens to be starring in the latest Star Trek series) told BuzzFeed News that Spacey sexually assaulted him while he was a minor in 1986. Spacey later apologized and came out as gay in response.
Takei said of the Spacey claim,
“When power is used in a non-consensual situation, it is a wrong. For Anthony Rapp, he has had to live with the memory of this experience of decades ago. For Kevin Spacey, who claims not to remember the incident, he was the older, dominant one who had his way. Men who improperly harass or assault do not do so because they are gay or straight — that is a deflection. They do so because they have the power, and they chose to abuse it.“
Brunton says he found Takei’s response infuriating.
“I don’t want anything from him but an apology. I am sure he’ll disown all this, I don’t know, maybe not.“
(Photo, YouTube; via THR)
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“I mean if Will & Grace made me proud of anything, I mean now because it’s over I guess, I could say I am proud that we kept a dignified gay man who lives with a great deal of integrity at the center of a of a television series for eight years. I always got a lot of heat that we didn’t take the character far enough, that we didn’t see the character sexualize himself enough. My thinking was always let’s just keep the guy on television. Let’s just show people that this man can exist and that he can be your neighbor, he can be your doctor or he can be your son, and we can learn to live with that. I think I was most pleased that the show just stayed on the air. That’s what I’m really proud of.”
Did Will & Grace make your Thursday nights a gay old time for eight years back in the last century? The Husband and I faithfully watched the
Must See TV” line-up that included Frasier and Friends. It was a golden time for the traditional sitcom. I was proud and pleased to have a well written, funny show with a gay male lead character. At the time, I was fascinated that America would embrace a show where the male and female leads were not involved romantically.
As if you didn’t know, the show took place in NYC and told the tale of Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, plus their friends Karen Walker, a rich socialite, and Jack McFarland, a very gay struggling actor/singer/dancer who also had brief careers as an acting teacher, back-up dancer, cater waiter, talk show host and student nurse. During its eight season run, Will & Grace won 16 Emmy Awards, with 83 nominations. All four stars each received an Emmy Award during the run of the series, making it one of only three sitcoms in the award’s history to do so. Among the show’s hundreds of awards and accolades, it garnered seven Screen Actor Guild Awards.
For his own work on Will & Grace, the show’s creator/writer/producer Mutchnick has been honored with an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, two People’s Choice Awards, seven GLAAD Media Awards, and The National Award For Excellence from the Human Rights Campaign.
Mutchnick started his writing career 36 years ago with his high school best friend, David Kohan. As a team they began writing professionally for The Dennis Miller Show. Hillary Clinton pals, producers Linda Bloodworth and Harry Thomason, who gave us Designing Women (1986-1993) gave the kids their big break into the world of sitcoms when they hired them to work on their series about politics, Hearts Afire (1992-95), with the late, great John Ritter, Billy Bob Thornton and diminutive gay Leslie Jordon. His other television writing credits include: The Wonder Years (1988-93), Evening Shade (1990-94), and HBO’s Dream On (1990-96). In addition to Will & Grace, Mutchnick and Kohan also created and executive produced the comedy series Boston Common (1996-97) and Good Morning, Miami (2002-2004) for their company KoMut Entertainment.
Born in Chicago, but mostly raised in LA, Mutchnick grew up in a creative family. His father was a graphic designer who was a founder of the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and his mother is a showbiz executive and writer of children’s books
Mutchnick left L.A. after high school to attend Emerson College in Boston. Starting as a theatre major, he switched to mass communications. At Emerson, he became involved in the school’s Television program, eventually running the campus station. In 2005, Mutchnick was appointed to Emerson’s Board of Trustees. In 2006, The Max Mutchnick Campus Center was erected. Known as “The Max”, the center is the hub of student life on the campus in Boston’s Back Bay.
Mutchnick is an active member of the Big Brother Program of Los Angeles, having mentored his “little brother” for 19 years. He has also been a longtime supporter of the Human Rights Campaign and the Lambda Legal Defense Fund.
Mutchnick lives in L.A. with his husband, entertainment lawyer Erik Hyman. They were legally married in their backyard in Autumn 2008. The couple are parents of twin daughters.
Mutchnick:
“I’m a big personality! I’m Mel Brooks and Erik is Anne Bancroft. He’s this sophisticated, elegant guy, and I’m the kind of guy who would have a piece of toilet paper stuck to my heel.”
“My career had been the centerpiece of my life. Then in 2006, the final episode of Will & Grace was broadcast, and I found myself envying Will Truman, who had committed to a life partner and started a family. Will had gotten ahead of me, and I was watching the character have an experience I knew nothing about.”
They moved in together a week after their first date, which was arranged by a mutual female friend. Mutchnick:
“We have not spent a night apart since; I had never met a man as intelligent and confident, or one who could withstand my insecurities and histrionics. I fell immediately for his passion, charm and humor.”
During the Jewish ceremony in their garden, Mutchnick, always the producer, abruptly stopped the ceremony to turn off a fountain that was burbling off-cue. Hyman:
“He’s a show runner, and he likes to run a show.”
Last year, the cast reunited for a 10-minute special, urging Americans to vote in the 2016 presidential election. The mini-episode got a lot of attention and love with its surprising reveal a year ago. Immediately after, there was talk of a possible real reunion.
L to R, Mutchnick,Kohan, McCormack, Messing, Mullally, Hayes : photo by:Paul Drinkwater/NBC
It was Mutchnick who was behind the Will & Grace reunion mini-episode, getting the cast together, and getting the original set re-assembled. He and Kohan wrote the script. It had more than seven million viewers after its debut on the day of the first Presidential debate in September. Unlike other reunion shows, the characters just picked up where they left off, all of them looking pretty much to the way they did a decade ago when the series ended, and so did their character dynamic. I love the way the original series finale was just cut off and forgotten, with the reboot starting off as if nothing had changed. It was like they never left us.
After the success the reunion special, NBC announced the series’ return, with a 16-episode ninth season. The season premiered in September and it swiftly became the network’s number one comedy. NBC has renewed the series for a tenth season.
They are back on December 5 with a special Christmas episode.
In this sad world we live in, a little Will & Grace helps with the healing, don’t you think?
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Adam Beach
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CNN is reporting that Trump said he took Russian President Vladimir Putin at his word that Russia did not seek to interfere in the election last year, despite a finding from US intelligence agencies that it did.
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew from Da Nang to Hanoi in Vietnam,
“He said he didn’t meddle. He said he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times. Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn’t do that,’ And I believe, I really believe, that when he tells me that, he means it.“
Trump has remained mostly quiet about the Russia investigation back home, but on his flight, which left Da Nang in the early evening Saturday, Trump’s anger over the Russia matter came out,
“There was no collusion. Everybody knows there was no collusion. I think it’s a shame that something like that could destroy a very important potential relationship between two countries that are really important countries.“
Trump seemed to indicate on Saturday that he trusts Putin’s denials more than the comments of former intelligence officials, like former high-ranking intelligence officials James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper.
“I mean, give me a break, they are political hacks. So you look at it, I mean, you have Brennan, you have Clapper and you have Comey. Comey is proven now to be a liar and he is proven now to be a leaker. So you look at that and you have President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with them.“
Trump repeated that, according to him alone (& Fox News, I’m guessing) the Russian interference in the US election is a conspiracy invented by Democrats to distract from their electoral losses. And he implied that investigators looking into his campaign aides’ ties to Moscow were better off probing elsewhere.
“That whole thing was set up by the Democrats.“
Trump and Putin did speak at various occasions throughout the summit, and agreed to release a joint statement on Syria. But they did not sit for formal talks. Trump has met his Russian counterpart only one for such a face-to-face bilateral session, at the G20 summit in Germany in July.
“The relations between Russia and the US have not come out of the crisis state yet. As you know, and I often talk about it, we are prepared to turn the page and go forward to look into the future to solve the problems that are of interest to people of the United States and people of the Russian Federation.“
Meanwhile, Putin’s press secretary Dmitri Peskov told CNN that Putin and Trump did not discuss meddling in the presidential elections. In a text, CNN’s Matthew Chance asked Peskov,
“as far as you know, did the two leaders discuss meddling?“
Peskov’s response was
“No.“
(Photos, YouTube; via CNN)
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Christy Holstege
Lisa Middleton
Yes, the Palm Springs, Calif., City Council is entirely LGBT or queer after two new members were elected to the council Tuesday. Lisa Middleton made history as the first openly transgender candidate elected to a nonjudicial office in California and Christy Holstege, who identifies as bisexual, won the second open seat on the city council.
Middleton and Holstege join gay councilmembers Geoff Kors and J.R. Roberts. They beat out four other candidates in Tuesday’s election.
Middleton won about 31% of the vote while Holstege won with 30% of the vote in her favor, the Desert Sun reports. Their election means that the council is now 100% LGBT or queer, according to Equality California, which endorsed both candidates, and contributed to their campaigns.
LGBT advocates celebrated their win Tuesday night.
“By becoming the first out transgender person to be elected to a non-judicial office in California, Lisa is paving the way for others to follow in her footsteps in California and across the nation. Her first place finish out of a field of 6 candidates demonstrates that a glass ceiling for transgender people who want to serve in elected office was not only broken, but was shattered in Palm Springs.”
Trans candidate Andrea Jenkins was elected to the Minneapolis City Council while Danica Roem of Virginia beat 13-term Republican state Del. Bob Marshall to became the first openly transgender person elected and seated to a state legislature in the U.S.
Marshall wrote the controversial transgender bathroom bill. Roem will now be using the bathroom of her choice. HIS bathroom in his old office.
Danica Roem
(Photos, campaign; via NY Daily News)
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Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for killing nine black churchgoers during a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina.
According to ABC News, the jury’s decision had to be unanimous to sentence Roof to death. The Justice Department said this is the first time a death penalty verdict was rendered in a federal hate crimes case.
Roof told the jury in a closing statement,
“I still feel like I had to do it.”
The verdict comes at the end of the federal death penalty case in which he was convicted of hate crimes resulting in death, among other charges.
Melvin Graham, brother of slain churchgoer Cynthia Hurd, said after the sentence was read,
“Today we had justice for my sister…. I wish that this verdict could have brought her back.”
Graham said he supported the death penalty in this case, calling Roof’s crimes “executions.” He added that Roof took nine lives in a brutal fashion with no remorse.
“It’s a hard thing to know that someone’s going to lose their life. But when you look at the totality of what happened, it’s hard to say that this person deserves to live.”
Roof’s defense said in a statement that the
“sentencing decision means that this case will not be over for a very long time. We are sorry that, despite our best efforts, the legal proceedings have shed so little light on the reasons for this tragedy.”
The defense added that they express sympathy
“to all of the families who were so grievously hurt by Dylann Roof’s actions.”
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement,
“Roof sought out and opened fire on African-American parishioners engaged in worship. … He did so because of their race. And he did so to interfere with their peaceful exercise of religion. The victims in the case led lives as compassionate civic and religious leaders; devoted public servants and teachers; and beloved family members and friends.
No verdict can bring back the nine we lost that day at Mother Emanuel,” Lynch continued. “And no verdict can heal the wounds of the five church members who survived the attack or the souls of those who lost loved ones to Roof’s callous hand. But we hope that the completion of the prosecution provides the people of Charleston — and the people of our nation — with a measure of closure.”
Roof told the jury earlier today in his closing argument, according to ABC affiliate WCIV,
“I think that it’s safe to say that no one in their right mind wants to go into a church and kill people. In my confession to the FBI, I told them that I had to do it.
But obviously that’s not really true. I didn’t have to do it, and no one made me do it. What I meant when I said that was I felt like I had to do it, and I still feel like I had to do it.”
Dylann roof represents himself during the sentencing phase of his federal trial, Jan. 10, 2017, in Charleston, S.C.
In the government’s closing argument today, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Richardson laid out the government’s argument for the death penalty. Richardson said,
“He chose to videotape himself doing it so he could see the very last images these victims would see. He wanted to see what he would look like as he stood over them, executing them.
This is calculated. Misguided but thoughtful. He spent years acquiring this deep hatred, this deep hatred we would all like to believe could not exist in someone. But it does. You’ve seen it.
…he fully understood the horrific nature” of his crime. Roof fled on back roads to North Carolina, knowing police were looking for him, and he avoided using his debit card, knowing it could be tracked”
Richardson said Roof was willing to plead guilty if the government would take the death penalty off the table, which Richardson said shows
“that he wants to spend his life in prison, listening to the radio, and writing more racist filth.”
(Photos, YouTube, social media; via ABC News)
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Openly gay actress and activist Ellen Page posted this last night on her Facebook page in the wake of more and more sexual abuse allegations come to light…
“‘You should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay.‘
He said this about me during a cast and crew “meet and greet” before we began filming, X Men: The Last Stand. I was eighteen years old. He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said:
‘You should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay.‘
He was the film’s director, Brett Ratner.
I was a young adult who had not yet come out to myself. I knew I was gay, but did not know, so to speak. I felt violated when this happened. I looked down at my feet, didn’t say a word and watched as no one else did either. This man, who had cast me in the film, started our months of filming at a work event with this horrific, unchallenged plea. He “outed” me with no regard for my well-being, an act we all recognize as homophobic. I proceeded to watch him on set say degrading things to women. I remember a woman walking by the monitor as he made a comment about her “flappy pussy”.
We are all entitled to come into an awareness of our sexual orientation privately and on our own terms. I was young and although already a working actor for so long I had in many ways been insulated, growing up on film sets instead of surrounded by my peers. This public, aggressive outing left me with long standing feelings of shame, one of the most destructive results of homophobia. Making someone feel ashamed of who they are is a cruel manipulation, designed to oppress and repress. I was robbed of more than autonomy over my ability to define myself. Ratner’s comment replayed in my mind many times over the years as I encountered homophobia and coped with feelings of reluctance and uncertainty about the industry and my future in it. The difference is that I can now assert myself and use my voice to to fight back against the insidious queer and transphobic attitude in Hollywood and beyond. Hopefully having the position I have, I can help people who may be struggling to be accepted and allowed to be who they are –to thrive. Vulnerable young people without my advantages are so often diminished and made to feel they have no options for living the life they were meant to joyously lead.
I got into an altercation with Brett at a certain point. He was pressuring me, in front of many people, to don a t-shirt with “Team Ratner” on it. I said no and he insisted. I responded, “I am not on your team.” Later in the day, producers of the film came to my trailer to say that I “couldn’t talk like that to him.” I was being reprimanded, yet he was not being punished nor fired for the blatantly homophobic and abusive behavior we all witnessed. I was an actor that no one knew. I was eighteen and had no tools to know how to handle the situation.
I have been a professional actor since the age of ten. I’ve had the good fortune to work with many honorable and respectful collaborators both behind and in front of the camera. But the behavior I’m describing is ubiquitous. They (abusers), want you to feel small, to make you insecure, to make you feel like you are indebted to them, or that your actions are to blame for their unwelcome advances.
When I was sixteen a director took me to dinner (a professional obligation and a very common one). He fondled my leg under the table and said,
“You have to make the move, I can’t.”
I did not make the move and I was fortunate to get away from that situation. It was a painful realization: my safety was not guaranteed at work. An adult authority figure for whom I worked intended to exploit me, physically. I was sexually assaulted by a grip months later. I was asked by a director to sleep with a man in his late twenties and to tell them about it. I did not. This is just what happened during my sixteenth year, a teenager in the entertainment industry.
Look at the history of what’s happened to minors who’ve described sexual abuse in Hollywood. Some of them are no longer with us, lost to substance abuse and suicide. Their victimizers? Still working. Protected even as I write this. You know who they are; they’ve been discussed behind closed doors as often as Weinstein was. If I, a person with significant privilege, remain reluctant and at such risk simply by saying a person’s name, what are the options for those who do not have what I have?
Let’s remember the epidemic of violence against women in our society disproportionately affects low income women, particularly women of color, trans and queer women and indigenous women, who are silenced by their economic circumstances and profound mistrust of a justice system that acquits the guilty in the face of overwhelming evidence and continues to oppress people of color. I have the means to hire security if I feel threatened. I have the wealth and insurance to receive mental health care. I have the privilege of having a platform that enables me to write this and have it published, while the most marginalized do not have access to such resources. The reality is, women of color, trans and queer and indigenous women have been leading this fight for decades (forever actually). Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Winona LaDuke, Miss Major, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, to name a few. Misty Upham fought tirelessly to end violence against indigenous women, domestic workers and undocumented women. Misty was found dead at the bottom of a cliff three years ago. Her father, Charles Upham, just made a Facebook post saying she was raped at a party by a Miramax executive. The most marginalized have been left behind. As a cis, white lesbian, I have benefited and have the privileges I have, because of these extraordinary and courageous individuals who have led the way and risked their lives while doing so. White supremacy continues to silence people of color, while I have the rights I have because of these leaders. They are who we should be listening to and learning from.
These abusers make us feel powerless and overwhelmed by their empire. Let’s not forget the sitting Supreme Court justice and President of the United States. One accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, whose testimony was discredited. The other proudly describing his own pattern of assault to an entertainment reporter. How many men in the media – titans of industry – need to be exposed for us to understand the gravity of the situation and to demand the fundamental safety and respect that is our right?
Bill Cosby was known to be predatory. The crimes were his, but many were complicit. Many more chose to look the other way. Harvey was known to be predatory. The crimes were his, but many were complicit. Many more chose to look the other way. We continue to celebrate filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was convicted of drugging and anally raping a young girl and who fled sentencing. A fugitive from justice. I’ve heard the industry decry Weinstein’s behavior and vow to affect meaningful change. But let’s be truthful: the list is long and still protected by the status quo. We have work to do. We cannot look the other way.
I did a Woody Allen movie and it is the biggest regret of my career. I am ashamed I did this. I had yet to find my voice and was not who I am now and felt pressured, because “of course you have to say yes to this Woody Allen film.” Ultimately, however, it is my choice what films I decide to do and I made the wrong choice. I made an awful mistake.
I want to see these men have to face what they have done. I want them to not have power anymore. I want them to sit and think about who they are without their lawyers, their millions, their fancy cars, houses upon houses, their “playboy” status and swagger.
What I want the most, is for this to result in healing for the victims. For Hollywood to wake up and start taking some responsibility for how we all have played a role in this. I want us to reflect on this endemic issue and how this power dynamic of abuse leads to an enormous amount of suffering. Violence against women is an epidemic in this country and around the world. How is this cascade of immorality and injustice shaping our society? One of the greatest risks to a pregnant woman’s health in the United States is murder. Trans women of color in this country have a life expectancy of thirty-five. Why are we not addressing this as a society? We must remember the consequences of such actions. Mental health issues, suicide, eating disorders, substance abuse, to name a few.
What are we afraid to say and why can’t we say it? Women, particularly the most marginalized, are silenced, while powerful abusers can scream as loudly as they want, lie as much as they want and continue to profit through it all.
This is a long awaited reckoning. It must be. It’s sad that “codes of conduct” have to be enforced to ensure we experience fundamental human decency and respect. Inclusion and representation are the answer. We’ve learned that the status quo perpetuates unfair, victimizing behavior to protect and perpetuate itself.
Don’t allow this behavior to be normalized. Don’t compare wrongs or criminal acts by their degrees of severity.
Don’t allow yourselves to be numb to the voices of victims coming forward. Don’t stop demanding our civil rights. I am grateful to anyone and everyone who speaks out against abuse and trauma they have suffered. You are breaking the silence. You are revolution.”
(Photo, YouTube; via Facebook)
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Church goers in L.A. showed some deeply held religious convictions when a Joel Osteen impersonator showed up at an actual Joel Osteen event at The Forum in Los Angeles and fooled the faithful.
Actor/Comedian Michael Klimkowski looks a lot like our favorite Houston Megachurch televangelist.
The multi-millionaire Osteen’s televised sermons are seen by over 7 million viewers weekly and over 20 million monthly in over 100 countries. His sermons also broadcast 24 hours a day on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. You might remember the charming Osteen from when he shut his church doors to Hurricane Harvey survivors.
Osteen espouses the popular theology “Prosperity Gospel”, a belief among some Christians who hold that there us contract between God and humans: If humans have faith in God, he will deliver lots of cash, cars and a top credit rating.
The Real Thing, photo by Robert M. Worsham via Wikimedia Commons
The real Joel Osteen:
“I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin. But, you know, every time I say that, people say, well, you are a gay hater and you’re a gay basher. I’m not. I don’t… I don’t dislike anybody. Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. But my faith is based on what I believe the scripture says, and that’s the way I read the scripture.”
Recognizing how much he looked like the pastor, including the trademark hair, Klimkowski’s sketch comedy troupe, Dabs Den, decided to pull a punk.
Before the Osteen event started at the huge Forum venue, Kimkowski, wearing a sleek shiny suit and speaking with a Southern drawl, gets through parking security with his Osteen looks and fake charm. He tells every Osteen fan he encounters: “God bless you”, as they gasp and ask to take selfies with him. He even one tells one woman, just before taking a selfie with her:
“My arms are long. I’m 6-3, Jesus was 5-5”.
He even makes it to the backstage area at the Forum, and finally in front of the stage, where audiences are making their way to their seats. Klimkowski continues to fool them. Osteen’s bodyguard is the one who recognizes that Klimkowski isn’t the filthy rich pastor, and security ushers him out, telling him he’s going to jail.
The confrontation recorded at the end of the video is with Osteen’s head of security. Though that guy asserts they’re going to the jail, the “real police” just thought it was funny. Especially because the talented Klimkowski never drops character and kept getting approached by fans even as he and his cameraman sidekick were being detained.
Watch Here:
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Actor and activist George Takei says he’s baffled by claims that he groped a male model in 1981. Model Scott R. Brunton claimed the incident occurred when Brunton was 23 years old.
Brunton was living in Hollywood and working as a waiter at the time, trying to make it as an actor and model. He claims he met Takei at Greg’s Blue Dot bar and they exchanged phone numbers.
He then claims he went to drinks with Takei, having just broken up with his boyfriend at the time.
Brunton says,
“All of a sudden, I begin feeling very disoriented and dizzy, and I thought I was going to pass out. I said I need to sit down and he said sit over here and he had the giant yellow beanbag chair. So I sat down in that and leaned my head back and I must have passed out.
The next thing I remember, I was coming to and he had my pants down around my ankles and he was groping my crotch and trying to get my underwear off and feeling me up at the same time, trying to get his hands down my underwear.
I came to and said, ‘What are you doing?! I don’t want to do this.’ He goes, ‘You need to relax – I am just trying to make you comfortable. Get comfortable.’
And I said, ‘No. I don’t want to do this.’ And I pushed him off and he said, ‘OK, fine.’ And I said I am going to go and he said, ‘If you feel you must. You’re in no condition to drive.’ I said, ‘I don’t care I want to go.’
So I managed to get my pants up and compose myself and I was just shocked. I walked out and went to my car until I felt well enough to drive home, and that was that.“
In response to the allegations, Takei wrote on Twitter:
Friends,
“I’m writing to respond to the accusations made by Scott R. Bruton. I want to assure you all that I am as shocked and bewildered at these claims as you must feel reading them. The events he describes back in the 1980s simply did not occur, and I do not know why he has claimed them now. I have wracked my brain to ask if I remember Mr. Brunton, and I cannot say I do.
But I do take these claims very seriously, and I wanted to provide my response thoughtfully and not out of the moment. Right now it is a he said / he said situation, over alleged events nearly 40 years ago. But those that know me understand that non-consensual acts are so antithetical to my values and my practices, the very idea that someone would accuse me of this is quite personally painful.
Brad, who is 100 percent beside me on this, as my life partner of more than 30 years and now my husband, stands fully by my side. I cannot tell you how vital it has been to have his unwavering support and love in these difficult times.
Thanks to many of you for all the kind words and trust. It means so much to us.”
Yours in gratitude,
George
But Takei, was talking to Howard Stern just last month and Stern asks him if he ever grabbed anyone by the genitals to which Takei responds,
“Hey, boner…“
(Photo, via Instagram; via Gay Star News)
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November 12, 1958– Megan Mullally:
“I’ll quit coffee. It won’t be easy drinking my Bailey’s straight, but I’ll get used to it. It’ll still be the best part of waking up.”
She had me at Karen Walker, and Mullally has had a special place in my heart ever since. During the first eight seasons of Will & Grace, weren’t there times you just wanted to smack the two leads for being so damn annoying? But, Jack and Karen were never less than completely hilarious. Mullally won a pair of Emmy Awards, like bookends, seven SAG Awards, plus three Golden Globes for her delicious portrayal of Karen Walker. I think we all need a nice big double dirty martini to celebrate her birthday today.
I first made note of Mullally when she played a call girl in Risky Business (1983) starring young Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. Mullally went on to have a nice run of funny guest appearances in various popular sitcoms: Wings (1990-97), Seinfeld (1989-98), Mad About You(1992-99), Caroline In The City (1995-99), and 3rd Rock From The Sun (1996-2001).
Just when it seemed that guest spot roles on television series would be her thing, Mullally turned to the stage and made her Broadway debut in 1994, playing Marty in a revival of Grease with Rosie O’Donnell, and appeared in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying opposite Matthew Broderick in 1995. She can be heard singing on the cast albums of both productions. She opened in her own one-woman musical show, Sweetheart, in Los Angeles in 1999.
In 2009, I saw her in the Seattle pre-Broadway try-out of the Mel Brooks stage musical Young Frankenstein playing Elizabeth, the role made famous by Madeline Kahn in the original film, tough shoes to fill, but I loved her in the role and she has received nearly unanimous outstanding reviews.
Mullally also performs in her own musical group called The Supreme Music Program. Their songs offer lush vocals and unique arrangements using unexpected instruments from many genres. It’s Post-Modern Cabaret with elements of Blues, Pop, Country, Traditional Folk, Rock, and even Classical. The band has released three albums.
Mullally is in another band, Nancy And Beth, along with actor Stephanie Hunt of Friday Night Lights. Hunt and Mullally became friends while filming the independent movie Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) in Austin. Their sound is sort of Andrew Sisters meets Grace Slick. Their first single is titled Pussy And Weed.
Mullally was born in Los Angles, but grew up in Oklahoma City with an actor father and a mother who was a professional model. She dated actor William H. Macy while attending Northwestern University. Her first marriage, in the mid-1990s, was to talent agent Michael Katcher. In 2003, Mullally married actor Nick Offerman, who guest-starred on Will & Grace in season four.
Mullally currently lives the Hollywood Hills with her husband and a pair of poodles, Willa and Elmo. Their gorgeous eclectic modern house, with furniture designed and built by Offerman’s own company Offerman’s Woodshop, was featured in Elle Décor magazine.
After a dozen years of marriage, Offerman and Mullally turned their raunchiest and nuttiest personal experiences into a stage show Summer Of 69: No Apostrophe that toured to rave reviews in summer 2015.
In 2015, she wrapped her fifth season on NBC’s Parks And Recreation (2009-15) with her husband, and ABC’s short lived, but clever Happy Endings (2013-15). Last season, Mullally worked on the limited series You, Me And The Apocalypse for NBC and Children’s Hospital on something called Adult Swim and starred in an acclaimed sold-out run in openly gay playwright Adam Boc’s The Receptionist at L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre, the longest run of a show in that theatre’s history. Last year, I was pleasantly surprised to see her pop up in a nutty guest spot on a show I am quite fond of, Life In Pieces. Last winter, Mullally was part of the terrific ensemble of the charming film Why Him?, a comedy with James Franco and Bryan Cranston.
Last year, up popped a delight, surprisingly fresh viral Will & Grace reunion mini-episode, getting the cast together, and getting the original set re-assembled in project aimed to remind viewers to get out and vote. The 10-minute video had more than seven million viewers after its debut on the day of the first Presidential debate in September 2016. Unlike other reunion shows, the characters just picked up where they left off, all of them looking pretty much to the way they did a decade ago when the series ended, and so did their character dynamic. And, I was ready for a little Karen Walker, I can tell you that.
Photo, PacificCoastNews
After the success the reunion special, NBC announced the series’ return, with a 16-episode ninth season. The season premiered in September and it swiftly became the network’s number one comedy. NBC has renewed the Will & Grace for a tenth season.
They are back on December 5 with a special Christmas episode.
They played rivals on Will & Grace as Karen Walker and millionaire Beverley Leslie, but in real life, Mullally and tiny gay actor Leslie Jordan are BFFs. The industry buzz about her is that she is super nice and fun to work with.
“I’m not a diva, but I played one on TV.”
Mullally commented in an interview in The Advocate:
“I consider myself bisexual, and my philosophy is, everyone innately is.”
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