NEWS - Clamoroso al Cibali! Ecco perché: 1) il sesso nelle serie tv non sarà più lo stesso 2) HBO non sarà più la stessa 3) i tempi di produzione seriali non saranno più gli stessi (forse)
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NEWS - Rivoluzione tv! HBO introduce la coordinatrice sessuale sul set delle serie tv!
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NEWS - Niente Ball(e) americane! Da stasera "Here and Now" su una famiglia Usa progressista piena di...Oscar
Su Sky Atlantic HD torna la grande serialità targata HBO. Da oggi 27 febbraio arriva, in prima visione esclusiva dalle 21.15, "Here and Now - Una famiglia americana", una nuova, ambiziosa produzione del canale via cavo americano firmata da Alan Ball, Premio Oscar per lo script di American Beauty e creatore e showrunner di serie tv di culto come Six Feet Under (9 Emmy Awards), True Blood e Banshee. A guidare il cast, i premi Oscar Tim Robbins (per Mystic River) e Holly Hunter (per Lezioni di piano). I dieci episodi della prima stagione ruotano attorno a una famiglia di Portland (Oregon), i Bayer-Boatwrights, famiglia all’apparenza esemplare, multietnica e progressista. Greg (Tim Robbins), rispettato professore di filosofia e scrittore, la sua maniacale moglie Audrey (Holly Hunter), una consulente che si occupa di risolvere i conflitti nel liceo locale, e i quattro figli della coppia: i tre adottivi, provenienti dal Vietnam, dalla Liberia e dalla Colombia, e la loro unica figlia biologica, la diciassettenne Kristen (Sosie Bacon). Mentre Audrey sta organizzando la festa di compleanno per i sessant’anni del marito, le crepe cominciano ad affiorare. I Bayer-Boatwrights si troveranno infatti ad affrontare una serie di cambiamenti importanti e sfide emotive quando uno dei ragazzi, Ramon (Daniel Zovatto), inizierà a notare delle cose che sono invisibili allo sguardo degli altri. Si tratta di malattia mentale o di qualcos’altro? Prodotta da Alan Ball, Peter Macdissi e David Knoller, attraverso il punto di vista privilegiato di una famiglia così atipica, la serie indaga il sistema culturale americano anche attraverso il ritratto di un’altra famiglia, musulmana e contemporanea, quella di Farid Shokrani (Peter Macdissi, Six Feet Under, Banshee), lo psichiatra che prenderà in cura Ramon e che ha un’improbabile e inspiegabile connessione con il ragazzo. Le due famiglie al centro degli episodi riflettono il potenziale multiculturale dell’America odierna. Nell’affrontare i problemi personali, politici, culturali, spirituali e psicologici che si abbattono sui membri delle famiglie protagoniste, in maniera provocatoria e a tratti tristemente comica la serie prova a dare una risposta alla domanda: cosa vuol dire essere un “altro” negli Stati Uniti di oggi? Nel cast anche Jerrika Hinton (Grey’s Anatomy), Raymond Lee (Mozart in the Jungle) e Joe Williamson (Looking).

GOSSIP - Faccelo vedè! Alexander Skarsgard in vacanza a Capri rischia di mettere in mostra il suo Big (o little) lie...
Alexander Skarsgard puts his muscular physique on display while hanging out on a yacht with friends on Sunday (June 25) in Capri, Italy. The 40-year-old actor was looking a bit sunburned after vacationing on the island for the past few days. He was seen showing off his ripped body in a pair of short shorts at the pool earlier in the weekend. Alex is expected to get an Emmy nomination when they are announced in a couple weeks. He has been earning a ton of buzz for his work in Big Little Lies and you can look for him to get a nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie category.

SGUARDO FETISH - Knock on Wood! La protagonista di "Westworld" si traveste da Bowie (80s-style) su "Elle" Canada

Evan Rachel Wood of Westworld shows her glam-rock side on the cover of Elle Canada‘s May issue, on stands April 10th. 

Here’s what the 29-year-old actress and singer had to share with the mag:

On her three-year-old son with ex Jamie Bell: “Bless him. He’s a gypsy by proxy because his parents are. He’s only three now, but he’s starting to understand. He hears one of my songs and he knows that that’s me, and he has seen me on TV and he’s starting to put the pieces together. His parents are very different. My ex-husband is lovely and very British and straightedge, and then he’s got this glam-rock weirdo for a mom.” 

On her move to Nashville: “L.A. is wonderful, and it has given me so many amazing things, but I’ve also got a lot of demons here. I was ready to break it up a little bit. I wanted to give my kid some grass to run around on. Again, he’s got two actor parents. I was like, ‘You don’t need to live in L.A. full-time. Let’s go somewhere a little “normal” for a bit.’”

On her band Rebel and a Basketcase: “We’re a baby band. My first love was singing and music, and it still kind of is. I love acting, and it’s a deep, deep love. But music is like my religion. If I didn’t have music, I would die.” 

On writing uplifting music: “It’s easier to focus on the bad stuff, you know, than to pull yourself up and sing about something nice. Our new single is called ‘Today,’ and it’s just a big battle cry about not letting the dark forces ruin your day. You make today and you make the changes, and as long as you’re here and you’re fighting, you’re going to be okay. I’m excited for people to hear that song. I think it’s a really good time for it.”

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GOSSIP - Mistress of "Playboy". Lizzy-attizza Caplan sulla rivista per soli uomini (vestita) dispensa consigli all'acqua di rose: "il miglior sesso è con chi ti piace". E poi: "mi piacciono gli uomini in boxer classici bianchi e che mi facciano ridere". E infine rivela: "per le scene di sesso mi aiuto con qualche drink!"

On-screen she does not hold back and, it seems, off-screen things are no different.

Lizzy Caplan has ditched her clothes and any Hollywood pretence for the new issue of Playboy Magazine.The 32-year-old has dished what she looks for in a man and their underwear, about her first sexual experience and what alcohol was her go-to for her first nude scene. While she was happy to bare all when it came to her opinions and past, however, the Masters Of Sex star did not bare all of herself. In the Playboy pictorial, Lizzy posed up in vintage-style sexy lingerie but did not go the full Monty for the Fifties-inspires shoot. Of course, the star is no stranger to getting nude as she stars in the Emmy Award-winning show Masters Of Sex. While Lizzy told the magazine she is now used to having to strip off in the name of her character - she plays sexologist Virginia Johnson - the first time she filmed a nude scene she needed a little help in the form of one too many cocktails.

The star joked on her nude appearance on True Blood: 'I think I drank Grey Goose, kept in the freezer from the night before and mixed into a bottle of Vitaminwater - a surprisingly delicious cocktail. I drank the entire bottle and had to get my stomach pumped. 'I was encouraged to get loose. Unfortunately that's not an option on Masters, even for the more intimidating nude scenes, because they're always in the middle of the day, with nine pages of intense dialogue. 'For the True Blood scene I had to walk across a room wearing only tiny panties and climb on a guy, and that was it.'

Even without the nudity, portraying a real life person on the dramatic Masters has been nerve wracking. Specific tastes: The star (seen here Tuesday) said she likes men to wear tighty-whitey undies'. Because I was mainly known for doing comedy, not drama, I just couldn't shake the idea that the people who had hired me would quickly get wise to the fact that I was the wrong person for the job, that I was in over my head. Luckily, that's what the real Virginia Johnson felt when she showed up for her first day with Dr. Masters, so it worked for me.' Getting serious for a second, Lizzy also told the magazine that it would be 'naive' to think the treatment of women has 'come that far since the 1950s' when her show is set.'There's nothing on our show around the feminist issues that I don't feel has a huge echo today. If anything, it makes me angry about today. 'I've never said this out loud before, but I don't know if we'll get there in my lifetime. Until we can convince our own side - women - that this is a good thing for all of us, I don't see how we stand a chance convincing all the men.'

Being a comedian, Lizzy could not help to lighten the mood mid-interview however, joking about what underwear she likes men to wear. 'I like it when guys don't wear those boxer briefs that go to mid-thigh and look like bike shorts. It's harder and harder to find. '

'I prefer old-fashioned tighty-whities or even just boxer shorts. When you discover a man who wears tighty-whities, you hold on to him. It's so old-school.' And tighty-whities are not the only thing a guy should have. 'A guy who wants a chance with me has to have a sick and dark sense of humour.'I've had a handful of serious relationships. I take that s**t very seriously. Before breaking up I will try everything to make it work, because if I love somebody, it means a great deal. 

'But when it's over, there's a DO NOT RESUSITATE sign hung around the relationship's head.'

Of course, being Playboy, the 20th question was rather cheeky: 'When did you master sex? And what's better than sex?' Not even pausing, Lizzy responded: 'Immediately. Nah, no one does it immediately. I was very lucky to have an ideal first sexual experience. It was good and sweet and safe. What's better than sex? Sex with someone I like.'

GOSSIP - "Voglio un figlio col Manganiello": Sofia Vergara confida di voler una "Modern Family" col compagno, ex di "True Blood"
Sofia Vergara is simply lovely on the cover of Redbook magazine’s June 2015 issue, on newsstands May 26. Here’s what the 42-year-old Hot Pursuit and Modern Family actress had to share with the mag:
On having a baby with Joe Manganiello: “Joe is younger than me. He’s 38. He’s never had kids. How am I going to say no? I tell him if we’re going to do this, we have to do it, like, now, because I don’t want to be 50 with a baby.”
On knowing Joe was the one: “I finally realized that relationships don’t need to be so much work. Ever since we met, it’s been so easy. I’m very suspicious. I’m like, ‘It’s not normal that we’ve been together for nine months and we haven’t had a big fight or anything.’”
On what she’s learned about men: “I have learned that I have to let them be men. I think it’s very important not to try to take over on everything – even if you think you can do it easier or better. If you don’t let them do things, you create a cycle and then you complain that they never do anything.”

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CORRIERE DELLA SERA
In "Banshee" il male si insinua in un recinto protetto
"Vale la pena dare un'occhiata a «Banshee - La città del male», la serie americana che tra i suoi produttori esecutivi vanta una firma molto prestigiosa, quella di Alan Ball. Dopo la raffinata saga della famiglia di «sotterramorti» raccontata in «Six Feet Under» e dopo «True Blood», il fantasy popolato da vampiri e altre creature sovrannaturali, Ball è tornato alla tv con un telefilm realizzato per il canale Cinemax (legato al celebre HBO). «Banshee», di cui su Sky Atlantic è iniziata la seconda stagione, prende il nome da una minuscola cittadina dove tutti si conoscono e ai cui margini vive una piccola comunità Amish, un gruppo di protestanti di origine tedesca che vive di agricoltura e rifiuta il progresso tecnologico, basando la propria identità e la propria organizzazione sociale su indissolubili legami familiari (venerdì, ore 21.10). Il punto di partenza della serie è un furto d'identità: un misterioso ex detenuto esce di prigione e si spaccia per Lucas Hood, appena nominato sceriffo della città. Il suo obiettivo è ritrovare l'amante e complice Anastasia, che vive proprio a Banshee insieme alla nuova famiglia che si è costruita. Le cose non filano proprio lisce e presto la cittadina si rivela piena di lati oscuri e terribili segreti, soprattutto legati al boss criminale Kai Proctor, che Hood deve gestire. Va a finire che il male s'insinua anche nel recinto protetto della comunità Amish e nella riserva indiana che costituisce l'ambiente principale della seconda stagione. Se una delle tendenze più forti delle serie contemporanee è quella di puntare tutto sull'approfondimento psicologico dei personaggi, sull'evoluzione dei loro caratteri, «Banshee» segue una strada diversa: racconta la sua storia con uno stile visivo molto forte, sfacciato, e basa il suo fascino su colpi di scena continui e sequenze d'azione molto d'impatto. Tra i suoi creatori c'è anche il romanziere Jonathan Tropper". (Aldo Grasso, 20.04.2015)

NEWS -  HBO "GOT" Talent! 
"Game of Thrones" potrebbe durare più del previsto...

Articolo tratto da "Uproxx"
The Season 4 finale of Game of Thrones was watched by seven million people. That’s compared to the four million suckers who tuned into True Blood‘s series finale, or the 710,000 who saw Shosh freaking out over Josh Charles in the most recent episode of Girls. Point is, Game of Thrones is a massive, massive hit, and HBO wants it to stick around for longer than seven seasons, which is showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss’ stated preference.
Yeah, about that.

“This is the hard part of what we do,” sighs HBO programming president Michael Lombardo. “We started this journey with David and Dan. It’s their vision. Would I love the show to go 10 years as both a fan and a network executive? Absolutely.”
So if the producers prefer seven seasons and HBO prefers more, what happens? A conversation…Like amicable spouses who avoid a sensitive area of disagreement, this issue is something HBO and the showrunners haven’t discussed thus far…“We’ll have an honest conversation that explores all possible avenues,” Lombardo says. “If they weren’t comfortable going beyond seven seasons, I trust them implicitly and trust that’s the right decision—as horrifying as that is to me. What I’m not going to do is have a show continue past where the creators believe where they feel they’ve finished with the story.” (Via)

This isn’t exactly a surprise. Game of Thrones is the reason HBO is about to earn enough money to fill the Iron Bank of Braavos from HBO Now, not to mention all the merchandising and exposure from stunts like the Game of Thrones Exhibition at South by Southwest. Plus, without Game of Thrones, what is their signature show? True Detective was a sensation, but ratings were half of what Thrones pulls in. The Leftovers is too miserable, Veep and Silicon Valley too inaccessible for the average Bazinga Bang Theory fan.
HBO needs more Game of Thrones, but they don’t want a movie.

HBO isn’t keen on a Thrones film even if it’s a potential box office blockbuster, however, because the format switch could be construed as snubbing their loyal subscribers. (The showrunners won’t comment on the matter.) “Certainly there have been conversations where it’s been said, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to do that?’” Lombardo said. “But when you start a series with our subscribers, the promise is that for your HBO fee that we’re going to take you to the end of this. I feel that on some level [a movie would be] changing the rules: Now you have to pay $16 to see how your show ends.” (Via)

If it meant watching MOTHERF*CKING DRAGONS ON THE BIG SCREEN, It’d be willing to pay $50, which is how much movie tickets are going to cost by the time the show ends after 19 seasons.

NEWS - Attenti al lupo! Da stasera su Mya "Hemlock Grove" del guru horror Eli Roth (Netflix li fa e poi li sparge...) 
Parte l’8 gennaio in anteprima assoluta su Mya “Hemlock Grove”, la serie sui licantropi targata Netflix firmata dal mago del genere horror Eli Roth (già dietro le quinte di “Hostel” con Tarantino). L’appuntamento è per ogni giovedì in prima serata. Nella fittizia cittadina del titolo viene trovata una ragazza del liceo parzialmente smembrata nei pressi dell'acciaieria dismessa di proprietà della famiglia Godfrey. Le indagini dello sceriffo locale fanno emergere dettagli che fanno sospettare che la ragazza possa essere stata uccisa da un animale. Nella cerchia dei sospettati finiscono presto Roman (Bill Skarsgard), problematico rampollo della famiglia Godfrey che inizia ad indagare per conto suo, e Peter Rumancek (Landon Liboiron), un giovane e misterioso zingaro da poco trasferitosi nella cittadina, che viene accusato da una ragazzina del luogo di essere un licantropo…Nel cast spicca il volto di Famke Janssen (“Nip/Tuck”, “X-Men”) nei panni della matriarca di casa Godfrey. Roth firma da produttore esecutivo. La serie che si basa sul romanzo omonimo di Brian McGreevy è stata confermata da poco per la terza stagione e vanta il record di essere stato il primo titolo originale della storia di Netflix ad essere candidato agli Emmy Awards. Le musiche sono di Nathan Barr, compositore di “True Blood”, serie che in qualche modo può ricordare la commistione di creature sovrannaturali con gli umani. Le riprese sono avvenute nell’Ontario canadese (Hemlock Grove è stata ambientata a Port Perry). Il telefilm è stato lanciato con l’efficace claim “Even demons have demons”. “Variety” ha così commentato l’avvento del serial: “è come se qualcuno volesse fare a pezzi i ragazzi di ‘Dawson’s Creek’ e già solo per questo viene da tifare per lui! E’ la consacrazione del fatto che le generazioni attuali convivano con l’orrore che spesso non ha spiegazioni, se ne impossessa e le rende vittime quasi senza che se ne accorgano. ‘Hemlock Grove’ è una soap gotica dove la domanda ‘What are You?’ sostituisce definitivamente il classico ‘Who are You?”.

NEWS - Tutto torna, anche i morti! Da stasera su Sky Atlantic la serie francese "Les Revenants", sorta di "j'adore dell'aldilà"
(ANSA) - ROMA - Un universo fatto di suspense, di fiction, di fantasia. Che parla di amore e di morte. Che si interroga sul concetto di comunita' e sul destino del mondo. Sulle esperienze piu' intime. E' cinema di genere rivisitato da un autore. In un paese di montagna nel cuore delle alpi Francesi, dominato da una diga gigantesca, lo stesso giorno, svariate persone di eta' e status differenti, visibilmente disorientate, cercano di tornare nelle proprie case. Non sanno che sono morte gia' da qualche anno, che non sono invecchiate e che nessuno le aspetta. Da stasera arriva in esclusiva alle 21.10 su Sky Atlantic HD Les Revenants, la serie tv francese acclamata in tutto il mondo e vincitrice di numerosi premi nazionali e agli Emmy Awards 2013 come Miglior serie tv drammatica. Ideata da Fabrice Gobert, e' un adattamento dell'omonimo film Quelli che ritornano di Robin Campillo del 2004 (ha richiesto cinque anni di realizzazione, ottenendo l'interesse delle grandi case di distribuzione internazionali). Dopo il successo internazionale della serie, e' ora in lavorazione il remake americano: a curare il rifacimento saranno Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel) e Raelle Tucker (True Blood). Tra i protagonisti di Les Revenants, Camille, un'adolescente morta in un incidente d'autobus durante una gita scolastica; Simon, un giovane deceduto il giorno del suo matrimonio; Victor, un bambino che non parla con un passato oscuro e tanti altri parteciperanno a questa misteriosa riapparizione. Determinate a riprendersi un posto che non esiste piu', le persone che erano scomparse scoprono a poco a poco di non essere gli unici redivivi e che il loro ritorno si accompagna a strani eventi sempre piu' frequenti. Forse e' l'inizio di uno sconvolgimento ancora piu' importante. Nelle note di produzione Caroline Benjo e Jimmy Desmarais spiegano: "Les Revenants era un progetto di un'altra ampiezza, ma i produttori avevano ben compreso che Fabrice (Gobert) avrebbe saputo dare una grande originalita' a delle situazioni quotidiane. La parola "realismo" tornava spesso nel corso delle discussioni e, riferita a un mondo in cui i morti non sono definitivamente tali, poteva sembrare paradossale. Questa parola traduceva le preoccupazioni di Fabrice e dei produttori di rendere il mondo della serie sufficientemente credibile, per quanto possibile che noi, spettatori, credessimo al ritorno in vita di Camille, Victor, Simon. La scommessa e' stata vinta: superato questo punto di partenza, sono stati sviluppati gli intrighi attorno ai personaggi principali. Fabrice ci ha sorpresi, episodio dopo episodio, per la ricchezza di situazioni che ha saputo esplorare, dal respiro che ha dato quel carattere alla serie e quel ritmo con cui essa si avvia verso l'ultimo episodio. Le sorelle gemelle di nuovo riunite, la giovane fidanzata tornata dall'oltretomba, il bambino che non parla piu', il prete che ha abbandonato l'abito talare, l'uomo innamorato e inquieto, l'assassino, quel paesino isolato tra le montagne, quel lago, quella foresta, e altrettanti personaggi, ambientazioni e  tematiche che fanno la ricchezza dell'universo di Les Revenants". "Fabrice Gobert e Fre'de'ric Mermoud - concludono - hanno messo in scena brillantemente gli 8 episodi della prima stagione, creando con Patrick Blossier un universo visivo forte e sorprendente, completato dalla magnifica colonna sonora originale firmata da Mogwai". 

NEWS - Anche Hopkins passa dall'altra parte: sarà il protagonista di "Westworld" (reboot del già cult "Il mondo dei robot") della coppia Abrams-Nolan

News tratta da "Entertainment Weekly"

Another Oscar winner is coming to HBO: Anthony Hopkins has been cast in the cable drama’s TV reboot of the sci-fi classic Westworld.

The casting will mark the first potential regular TV gig for the acclaimed Silence of the Lambs and Thor actor, and continues the trend of Academy Award winners taking small-screen roles. He will be joined in the project by actress Evan Rachel Wood (Once and Again, True Blood).
No, Hopkins is not playing “the Yul Brynner role.” But the descriptions for both his character and Wood’s shed some insight into the secretive project’s storyline.
The 1973 version of Westworld—from techno-thriller author Michael Crichton—was about a futuristic theme park populated with robot characters who malfunctioned and attacked the guests. (Later, Crichton would use a similar plot for his bestselling novel Jurassic Park.) In the HBO pilot, Hopkins will play Dr. Robert Ford, described as “the brilliant, taciturn and complicated Creative Director, Chief Programmer and Chairman of the Board of Westworld; Ford has an uncompromising creative vision for the park—and unorthodox methods of achieving it.” Wood plays Dolores Abernathy, “provincial, beautiful and kind. Dolores is the quintessential farm girl of the frontier West—who is about to discover that her entire idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed lie.” Wood’s character description suggests that she’s an android, and that Westworld’s robots will be similar to those in Blade Runner or the Battlestar Galactica reboot—convincingly humanoid and sometimes unaware of their own artificiality.
Right now, Westworld is just at the pilot-order stage. But with Hopkins on board and a high-powered team behind the camera (executive producers J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk, and producer-director Jonathan Nolan), the project has strong odds for a full series pickup.

GOSSIP - Dio li fa dotati (di pettorali) e poi li accoppia! Voci di flirt tra Sofia Vergara e Joe Manganiello

News tratta da "Just Jared" 
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are reportedly dating! “It’s very, very new. They’re having fun and getting to know each other,” a close source shared to Us Weekly about the 41-year-old Colombian actress and 37-year-old actor. Another source added about the couple, who were spotted dining together at the Louisiana city’s Li’l Dizzy’s Cafe, “They were very friendly and took pictures with other diners. They held each other and kissed several times.” “Sofia is Joe‘s dream girl!” a third source said. “He’s been smitten with her for years. He’s always had a huge crush on her. Things are going well for them so far.”

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NEWS -  RIP, non ci sono più i gay effeminati di una volta...

Post di Nico Lang per PolicyMic

"A couple of years ago I sat in the audience for a panel discussion on queer representation in entertainment; the presentation included a breezy tour through the gay history of the media, complete with Powerpoint slides of Rosie, Ellen and old People magazines from when you needed to be on the cover of something to come out. The overview was greeted warmly, until we got to Will and Grace, where one of the show's characters, Jack McFarland, proved a sticking point. Jack, a sassy sidekick whose flamboyance towed the line between camp and parody, has long been a lightning rod of discussion in the community. You could feel that discomfort in the room.

Our tour guide diffused the tension by reminding the mostly-male audience that Jack might be a stereotype, but many of us know a Jack in real life. The audience laughed with delight and recognition. They nodded to friends as if to say, "Oh, yes. That's true." What he didn't say is that many of us are Jacks, but I wondered how many people would laugh at that statement.

I thought of this moment after NBC announced that the network would be pulling Sean Saves the World, the freshman sitcom starring Sean Hayes, who played Jack on Will and Grace. For those who haven't seen the show (read: all of you), Sean Saves the World was about a father forced to take sole guardianship of his estranged (yet adorable!) daughter after her mother abandoned her. The show was NBC's attempt to relive its glory days by borrowing from what worked in the '90s, with Hayes playing nearly the same character, a little older and wiser, but with all the trademark pitfalls. Even the stilted laugh track made it sound like the laughter was echoing in from 15 years ago.

 But in getting (rightly) cancelled by NBC, audiences weren't just leaving '90s sitcoms behind. They were leaving behind the Jack McFarlands, a relic of the Queer as Folk era of gay TV, when a show like Queer as Folk (for all its whitewashed issues) could give us three effeminate gays in its lead cast: Emmett, Ted and Justin. The recent television movement has been a push toward post-gay representation, creating male characters who just so happen to be gay. On the critically lauded Brooklyn Nine-Nine, that's the entire point of Andre Braugher's Captain Holt. His sexuality is as inscrutable as the rest of his persona, a hard-ass who has learned to blend in to survive in a homophobic workforce. The recent new HBO addition Looking was celebrated for the same thing. Although many critics chided it for being dull (which it is), defenders of the show found it liberating that gay characters got to be boring on television just like everyone else.

However, there's a certain type of character that gets the privilege to be post-gay, guys whose sexuality doesn't stand out in the same way that Jack's did. In order to get on television today, gay characters are butching it up, becoming like Captain Holt to prove they can hang with the boys, camouflaged with masculinity. Looking's characters are all fit hipster bros who call each other "dude" a lot. On the recently departed Happy Endings, the schlubby, hairy Max acted as a deconstruction of gay stereotypes. It was a running joke that Max was "less gay" than the show's straight dudes, much like gay characters on Nashville and GCB. This might be what it takes to fit in, but it looks awfully heteronormative.

Even recent shows that depict effeminate male characters use them primarily as the butt of the joke, a Lucy character who is always causing trouble. They act in counterpoint to a straighter man, who is seen as the voice of reason. The now-cancelled Ryan Murphy sitcom The New Normal provided Bryan — a shallow, judgmental television executive — primarily as a counterpoint to his angelically understanding partner David, a doctor who watches football and has no other character traits. David's role is "The Problem Solver." On Modern Family, Mitchell and Cameron have a similar dynamic, but Mitch seems to increasingly resent Cam for his effeminate tomfoolery. Their growing animosity has led many viewers to wonder if they secretly hate each other.

More than Mitchell, it's the community that has a complicated relationship with flamboyancy, much like the guys that I sat on the aforementioned panel with. It's a lot easier to pretend the queens don't exist than try to represent them, or we'd have to admit we have something in common. I remember that my mother once told me how much I reminded her of Jack and I remember how much it bothered me. I never stopped to ask myself why.

In being the newest gay show on TV, many will look to Looking to fix the problems surrounding gay representation and fill in the gaps in our media spectrum. Such is the inherent burden of representing a community, but we need to recognize why those cracks exist in the first place and why certain character types might push our buttons when it comes to masculinity and internalized homophobia. Fixing one TV show won't solve a problem that's bigger than HBO. With True Blood’s Lafayette and Glee's Kurt Hummel on shows that are on their last legs, our effeminate males are quickly becoming an endangered species.

On Girls, Lena Dunham's Hannah recently mourned the death of her complicated and quick-witted editor, David Pressler-Goings, played by the ever-androgynous John Cameron Mitchell. As David ascended to TV heaven to be with Sean Hayes, Hannah recalled that he had been her champion, the only one who believed in her work. TVs Davids, Jacks and Emmetts need champions too. They might not be represented on the air anymore, but it doesn't mean they aren't still here in real life and wondering what happened to their television counterparts".

NEWS - Jessica Stroup, da "90210" a ago della bilancia di "The Following" 2 (stasera anteprima Premium Crime) 
Jessica Stroup è il volto nuovo, dagli occhi azzurri, da tener d’occhio nella seconda stagione di “The Following”, in onda in anteprima assoluta da stasera su Premium Crime (ogni lunedì in prima serata). L’ex protagonista di “90210” interpreterà Max, la nipote del detective (ormai ex) dell’FBI Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), anch’essa nelle forze dell’ordine e, soprattutto, capace di donare serenità al tormentato zio tra una seduta all’alcolisti anonimi e l’altra. Essendo la serie firmata da Kevin Williamson, c’è da aspettarsi, naturalmente, che non sarà tutto rosa e fiori…Già modella della Carolina e testimonial della “Honda”, Jessica è passata dalle comparsate in “Grey’s Anatomy” e “True Blood” alla notorietà per il ruolo ricorrente di Erin Silver in “90210” (durante le riprese è stata accusata dai media di divulgare insieme alle altre protagoniste un’immagine distorta “pro-anoressia”, prontamente smentita). Fanatica di film horror (al cinema ha recitato in due pellicole del genere come “Le colline hanno gli occhi 2” e “Che la fine abbia inizio”), la potete sfidare a pallavolo o beach-volley, suo passatempo preferito che nell’adolescenza sfiorò i livelli agonistici.

GOSSIP - Manganiello chi? Barry Sloan di "Revenge" a petto nudo su "Cosmo" UK in concorrenza col bi-torso(lo) di "True Blood"
Barry Sloane shows off his chiseled shirtless torso in the brand new issue of British Cosmopolitan.
Here’s what the 32-year-old Revenge actor, who posed for the mag to raise awareness of male cancer for Cancer Research UK, had to share:
On checking himself for cancer: “I always check myself every couple of weeks after a shower – if guys are honest they know what it’s supposed to feel like.”
On working with Russell Crowe in Noah: “It’s only a small part but if you’d have told me five years ago I’d be working with Russell I wouldn’t have believed you. He’s fantastic he gave me some good tips.”
On his life before becoming famous: “I finished on Hollyoaks then I did The Bill and Holby City which was fun. I knew my next job had to be something cutting edge because of the stigma that unfairly is tied to soaps. I did a theatre production of Jerusalem and it was so successful it went to the West End and then Broadway. It was like a golden ticket.”
To see Barry in all his naked glory, check out the digital edition of British Cosmopolitan!

L'EDICOLA DI LOU - Stralci, cover e commenti sui telefilm dai media italiani e stranieri

BELLO
Non solo addominali: Manganiello for fashion!
Joe Manganiello is seriously handsome on the cover of Bello magazine’s January 2014 issue, which is available now!
Here’s what the 37-year-old actor had to share with the mag:
On going to the gym: “There are so many things that are out of your control in this business, and I think in life in general. And one of the things that I really do have in my control is how hard, how much effort I put into the gym. There’s really nothing else on the planet – nothing that I’ve come across – that gives you as much back as you put in as the gym does.”
On being committed to his work: “Talent is such an objective thing; it’s up for opinion, and it’s up for interpretation. And the one thing that’s not is work ethic. I think that’s probably just from growing up in Pittsburg, coming from where I did, and in that part of the world, you work hard. I come from very hard working people, and I know the value of a dollar. So if someone’s going to pay me a certain amount of money to do something, then I’m going to work my ass off. Especially playing a supernatural creature – I think [Alcide] should look that way. As a kid watching all those movies and reading comic books, the chance for me to play a supernatural character…I want him to look right.”

On the final season of his hit show True Blood: “This is the first season that I actually don’t know what’s in store for me or anyone else on the show. I didn’t ask. I usually have lunch with whoever the show runner is before the season starts. I would always call them up, wanting to know. But this year I think I want to be surprised. I have theories, you know, but I don’t know anything for sure.”
For more on Joe, visit Bellomag.com!

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GOSSIP - True Poop! Alexander Skarsgard l'hanno mandato a cagare (al Polo Sud)

Guai a chi dice che ultimamente "True Blood" faccia cagare. Come punizione potrebbe ricevere la foto in questione di Alexander Skarsgard mentre si rilassa defecando, leggendo un libercolo che lo assorbe almeno quanto l'evacuazione. L'espressione facciale è perplessa, il resto - per fortuna - non si sa. Per i coprofili del caso, la foto è stata scattata al polo Sud (mica all'Aprica!) a -30 gradi ed è stata condivisa su Instagram da Inge Solheim, compagna d'avventure dell'attore nella missione "Walking with the Wounded Challenge", una che solo per aver postato uno scatto simile meriterebbe la sorte delle Pussy Riot ma senza "happy end". Una che nel post ha avuto pure l'ardire di chiedere a Skarsgard se stesse leggendo la sceneggiatura della settima stagione di "True Blood". Per una battuta del genere la tizia si meriterebbe l'asfissia annusando i moon-boot dell'interprete di Eric al termine dell'intensa e proficua giornata polare.

 

GOSSIP - Fuori i pettorali, è Natale! Manganiello sempre più nel culto. Del bicipite
Qualcuno lo fermi. Joe Manganiello ("True Blood") è sempre più a petto in fuori nello show-business e non passa mese che si faccia ritrarre da qualche rivista specializzata di bicipiti in copertina. Possibilmente a petto nudo in vista. Eccolo sull'ultimo numero dell'imperdibile "Muscle&Fitness", dalla copertina all'ampio servizio interno per la gioia delle sue fans e dei palestrati a tutti i costi.


On being focused on his body as an actor: “There’s the triangle – the mind, body, and spirit. And all too often I see actors really work the mental and spiritual side but not put anything into the physical side, they just kind of ignore it. I don’t come from that school. I come at it in ancient Greek sense, in that their culture was built on athletics and on philosophers.

On his mentality in the gym: “My training is obviously about weightlifting and building muscle, but it’s also about remaining athletic. It’s about building the body, but it’s also about teaching your body to adjust to its own weight, especially as you get bigger. And it’s practical. I come from Pittsburgh, and the people in the gym in Pittsburgh aren’t working out to look good because they’ve got a shoot coming up. They’re working out because they want to be stronger, because it helps them in life.”
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