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Deep
Inside Hollywood
by
Romeo San Vicente
A
Taylor-Made Role for Courtney
Hole
frontwoman/actress Courtney Love is hammering out a
deal to play Lili Taylor's lesbian lover in the almost-ready-to-shoot
indie flick Julie Johnson. The movie, to be directed
by Bob Gosse, who did the little-seen Niagara Niagara
(1998), tells the tale of a New Jersey housewife (Taylor)
who leaves her husband to pursue her dream of becoming
a computer scientist. Along the way, she finds she has
a taste for women. Grunge widow Love, who has confessed
to getting some girl-girl action in her past, will play
an experienced lesbian who helps the ex-housewife explore
her Sapphic side. The film is supposed to start production
in New York next month.
Must-See
Gay TV
Queer
couch potatoes have a few things to look forward to
next season. Fox just ordered 13 episodes of a new Odd
Couple-like sitcom in which former Roseanne
star John Goodman plays a beer-guzzling, sports-loving,
single dad who shares a house with an anal-retentive,
divorced dad and his offspring-and it's the slob who's
the gay one! The co-creators of 3rd Rock from the Sun
are behind the series, so you can count on it being
funny.
Talk
about the "Fox" Network! Trick cutie Christian
Campbell has just been cast in the pilot of The $treet,
the new Wall Street drama from Sex and the City
creator Darren Star. Campbell, who will play a young
trading trainee, joins Saving Private Ryan actor
Adam Goldberg in the ensemble series about stockbrokers.
Gay
actor Michael Jeter, most recently seen as a death-row
inmate in The Green Mile, is set to join Top
Gun babe Kelly McGillis in a dark detective drama
pilot for CBS called Cold Shoulder. Jeter, who
was a regular on the sitcom Evening Shade, will
play a recovering alcoholic who's a friend of the McGillis
character, an ex-cop trying to get her life back on
track.
Having scored major Nielsens with guy's-guy programs
like King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond,
CBS also has two high-profile vehicles in the works
that gay viewers should appreciate. One stars the divine
Bette Midler-rumor has it she's gonna play a travel
agent, though no word on whether the pilot will be ready
to shoot this year-while the other brings lesbian groundbreaker
Ellen DeGeneres back to the tube.
And
HBO, whose lesbian-themed If These Walls Could Talk
2 won the cable network its highest ratings in three
years for an original movie, is now talking about a
third installment of the femme-centric franchise. This
time the focus will probably be on domestic abuse. Walls
3 would air in 2002 at the earliest.
Ready
for Her Close-Up
She
may be an icon, but the girl needs more beauty sleep.
A certain actress with a hefty gay following is rumored
to have looked so tired in the footage of her recent
feature foray that the studio had to shell out big bucks
to a special effects company to digitally erase the
dark circles under her eyes and clear up her bad complexion.
Her contract requires her to have a great makeup artist
at her disposal, but that didn't help much. Too bad
the studio couldn't digitally clear up her acting: Her
splotchy performance kept audiences away in droves.
Romeo San Vicente would like to do some insider tricking,
er, trading with Christian Campbell. You can reach Romeo
in care of this publication or via e-mail at RomeoDeep@aol.com.
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