The very title of the Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia is almost too perfect not to respect the irony of what it represented. In 1958, Richard Loving married a half-black, half-Native American named Mildred in D.C., then returned to their home in rural Virginia. A month later, sheriff’s deputies entered their bedroom as [...]
NBC’s hyped ‘Smash’ wants one thing: To be the next ‘Glee.’ It succeeds ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com Smash has one goal in mind: To out-gay Glee. The much-hyped hour-long drama series (NBC is hawking it by tying in to the Super Bowl, even though the real singing competition The Voice airs after [...]
In the movies, the scene where the intrepid reporter/lawyer/medical examiner, after years of effort, finally clears the name of the wrongly convicted druggie/teen/single mom never rings true. It’s a cliche created in Hollywood for dramatic effect. Except in the case of Paradise Lost, it’s true. In 1996, HBO aired the documentary Paradise Lost: The Child [...]
ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com In a year when most people began to feel broadcast and cable television had become all but irrelevant in the era of streaming, the most proletarian of American entertainment still managed some remarkable work — both from returning series and new entries (marked with a •). 10. American [...]
Gay actor Denis O’Hare, TV’s reigning villain, is far less creepy than his roles Meeting Denis O’Hare should be scary as hell. After all, this is the man who plays two of TV’s reigning supervillains: The horny vamp leader on True Blood and a mysteriously deformed psychopath who just suffocated a potential homebuyer on American [...]
“Top Chef’ comes (finally) to Texas … but you’ll have to wait to see Big D ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com It’s been apparent to devoted viewers of Top Chef over the years that Texans know how to cook — especially those from Dallas. Right now, former all-stars Tiffany Derry, Tre Wilcox and [...]
After months of sniping, ‘A-List: Dallas’ debuts and, surprisingly, entertains STEVEN LINDSEY | Contributing Writer stevencraiglindsey@me.com Lies, deception, cowboys, swimming pool fights and plenty of rich bitches (male and female): Sounds like a certain TV show we all know and love, right? Well, these are also the same ingredients for Dallas’ newest moment in the [...]
FRAZIER MOORE | Associated Press NEW YORK — The number of gay and bisexual characters on scripted broadcast network TV has dipped slightly this season to 19 out of nearly 650 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The 16th annual “Where We Are on TV” report released Wednesday by GLAAD found [...]
Our ‘Most Eligible’ gay gets real about reality TV ON THE TOWN | Ginsburg, above left, attends DIFFA, showing Bravo audiences the gay side of Dallas. Love it, hate it or maybe just love to hate it, reality television has put Dallas right in the middle of its crosshairs with shows like Big Rich Texas, the upcoming [...]
When a gay white male playwright poses as an African-American female in order to pen a story about an alcoholic black mother, only to be discovered in that lie, the consequences aren’t going to be the stuff of fluffy musical theater. So when the non-musical drama The Submission opens Off Broadway this fall, audiences can [...]
