The City of Brotherly Love is buzzing with rumors that the next season of Bravo’s hit culinary show TOP CHEF will be filmed right in their backyards. Chicago, Miami, and San Fransisco have all been showcased, now it seems time for the home of Tastykake and Cheesesteaks to get their chance…

While sources are slim (no pun intended) and their isn’t much fat to this story (okay, so yeah we are being punny), inside blabbermouths are indicating that the 215 area code will be hosting Padme and Co. very, very soon.  You heard it hear on GFN first kids! 

Anyone with any more skuttle on this story, feel free to e-mail us STAT!

While I reported in a previously post that I had been long absent from GFN because of a lengthy involvement in the straight adult film world - it simply wasn’t true.  I have been busying myself with a new career in the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.

 A few weeks ago, I took the short-term role as Director of Media Relations for the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.  Not only does this job allow me to use my strengths and talents for muckraking, skullduggery, and illusions; but I also get two work with a fantastic team of movie-nerds! 

So the next few posts will be all kinds of information about the upcoming festival!  Inside scoops, behind-the-scenes gossip, poorly worded press releases….All the juicy information you are hungry for!

I’ve been absent from my blogging for a few weeks. What have I been up to? Pornography! Tons and tons of pornography!

Last weekend, not only did I have a lesbian wedding, but I also attended www.Poporn.com’s huge Party With The Porn Stars weekend.  It was like a trip to a foriegn country for me!  No gay men for miles! I didn’t shave all weekend!  So relaxing!

For a series of reasons, that I won’t go into here, I actually spent a lot of time with some of the adult entertainment starlets, like:

Jessica Drake

Kaylani Lei

Alketra Blue  (which was actually what my parents were going to name me if I had been a girl)

 Click on the gals names to go to my scintillating interview with them. Suprisingly, I got paid pretty well to do the interviews. Those straight folks will pay thru the roof for porn!  Thru the roof!

It might not be as glamorous as oil, but the mad thinkers have discovered  new hope to ensure we can remain gobbling down energy like pigs! An acre planted with corn can produce 18 gallons of oil a year; an acre of palm, 700 gallons; an acre of algae – the green slimy stuff you get in your ponds, lakes, oceans or the Gay Disney hot tube on day 4 – can produce 20,000 gallons!!!

 

  Watch an egghead scientist in an official white coat explain how it all works.  Or read about its promise – including this: “algae can gobble up pollutants from sewage and power plants.�  Sounds fantastic! Sign me up! 

 

Looking for a cheap thrill?

Debuting tomorrow night on NBC, Fear Itself is a 13 installment series of 60 minute scary flicks. Part of the Peacock’s attempt at year-round original programming, the new anthology series is styled as a showcase for small films from more than a dozen horror/suspense genre writers. As a fan of the classic TV shows Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, and Outer Limits; this show makes us scared and excited! Just like muscle-bears!

The series executive producers were also the execs on the show’s more grisly cousin, the 2005-2007 Showtime series, Masters of Horror, and also produced Masters of Science Fiction, which tanked after four episodes on ABC in 2007.

Expect plenty of high-profile thespians to be involved in the project, like Brandon Routh (Superman Lives, pictured) Elisabeth Moss, Cynthia Watros (Lost) Eric Roberts (Julia’s evil brother), Stephen Lee and Stephen R. Hart.

The GFN Television Team also hopes this unique series will inject the networks moribund programming schedule with some life and creativity. If we see one more show about sassy women living in New York, our eyeballs will burst into flames! Agh! Hopefully this show heralds a new age in Hollywood were writers will be encouraged to step out of the box when pitching ideas.  

Following the landmark ruling by the California Supreme Court, same-sex couples from across the country have a new reason to visit The Golden State. GETTING HITCHED!For gays and lesbians wondering what California’s top-rated gay-friendly hotels are, VibeAgent.com reviewers, or Vibe Agents, have already done the work.

 VibeAgent.com is the first and only web site that combines comparison shopping for the best hotel deals, hotel recommendations based on personalized criteria and extensive social networking features. Meaning, same-sex couples can not only find the top-rated hotels to stay, get married, or honeymoon, but also find the best deals on those hotels as well.  Tough times call for thriftiness!

 The GFN Glamour Travel team tested VibeAgent out for ourselves.  The last time we tried Priceline, a few of us ended up in a Red Roof Inn in Sacramento. NEVER AGAIN.

The top ranked romantic same-sex friendly hotels at five of the most popular California destinations according to VibeAgents are as follows (DRUM ROLL PLEASE):

 San Francisco:

1) Le Meridien San Francisco

2) Clift Hotel

3) Mark Hopkins Intercontinental

4) Hotel Vitale-Embarcadero

5) Parc Fifty Five Hotel

 Los Angeles:

1) Mondrian West Hollywood

2) Hyatt West Hollywood

3) Le Montrose Suite Hotel

4) W Hotel Los Angeles Westwood

5) The Beverly Hills Hotel

 San Diego:

1) Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina

2) Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter

3) Bristol Hotel

4) Hotel Del Coronado

5) Marriott San Diego Hotel and Marina

 So if you are travelling to California to get hitched, check out VibeAgent. Next week, we will test its ability to rate hot hotels for Gay Days Disney!

 

So, how much do you hate me? 

I got to see Sex And The City: The Movie, last night.  Several days before you will be forced to stand in line behind dozens of screaming and sagging women dressed to young for their own good.  Lucky me!

The good news is…The girls all still got it. It’s been nearly 5 years since we last sipped Cosmos with Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte. These 4 urban sophisticates spoke to an entire new generation of women. Eschewing the roles laid before them by previous media-models, these girls stylishly navigated the treacherous waters of single life in the biggest city in America. Hearts were broken, shoes were bought, and there was an overabundance of frank sexual discussion. For those looking for something similar in their silver screen debut, you won’t be disappointed.    

This gyno-caper revolves around Carrie’s much-anticipated wedding to Mr. Big (who’s real name is finally revealed…) Carrie being Carrie, the nuptials quickly become an opportunity for more high-end product placement then you can image. Vera Wang, Vivienne Westwood, Louis Vutton, Prada, Bahlanik….The first hour is pure porn for the shopaholic. The plot and character development is a bit light in the first hour, until an unexpected tragedy derails Carrie’s ultimate wedding and refocuses our fierce four on their romantic lives. While Sex And The City was always infused with high-fashion and serious glamour, the real reason we watched was for the sex. The sex, the romance, and (hopefully) eventually love… While Carrie reels from the ultimate shock, the rest of the girls deal with their own juicy problems: A surprise pregnancy, a surprise weight-gain, and an unsurprising sexual indiscretion all interlink to make mayhem in the lives of these Manhattanites. The flow of the action is familiar to any seasoned SATC viewer: Drama, brunch. Drama, shopping. Drama, dinner. Drama, drinks.  For the most part, we get to revisit with all the girls, their special gays, and their husbands/boyfriends/regular sex partners.  Even Magda the sturdy stereotypical maid returns!  Yah Magda! While recapping and revisiting the lives of 4 busy beavers, we have ZERO time to make new friends.  The inclusion of Jennifer Hudson’s assistant Louise seems forced and a desperate attempt to reach a younger audience. Hudson never gets to add any color or youth to the mix, her character is relegated to a minor role of supporting Carrie through Bradshaw’s life reconstruction. You’d almost think they threw here in to make the film a little less white…Oh wait, Charlotte’s baby is Chinese. 

   But who cares about new characters? Sex In The City is a reunion movie, a big screen return for four post-modern female archetypes that transformed the world-wide lady landscape. These four girls revolutionized the way men perceived women, the way women perceived “funky spunk,� and the way society defined single and sexy. In a summer when Harrison Ford can dust off his fedora and nearly break every bone in his aged body, don’t we also deserve one last shopping trip with Carrie?   

 Mattopoly has a new find!  

 

Meet  Condomafia… check out their web site and see what they are all about. The snappy lil logo sold me. I’ll take whatever they are selling! 

 

Condomafia’s mission is to make protection more approachable and they believe protection begins with the condom. In an effort to wipe out AIDS, Condomafia donates 10% of its profits to a variety of AIDS-related causes. So scoop up as many of their fashionable and fun t-shirts! Give them as gifts to your  friends, neighbors, family, co-workers, tricks, the cute girl at the gym you’ve been eyeing..…Or anyone who is a little slow on learning about safe sex! Like your sister who keeps popping out the nieces and nephews.

 

This week, upstart porn company  CockyBoys.com filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against satellite media monopoly Sirius Radio.  The complaint follows the May 8th appearance of CockyBoys.com web exclusive performer Jesse Santana on the Sirius Out Q channel hosted by show hosts Derek and Romaine. In a purported attempt to “get to know� Jesse, the talk show hosts sprung questions on him regarding somewhat complicated current events ranging from the Myanmar Cyclone, to the proposed Gas Tax Holiday and even the reasons Madonna faces challenges in her attempt to adopt a child from Africa.  How well do you think Jesse did with those challenging questions?  Hmmmmm? 

 

Hosts Derek and Romaine apparently have a number of issues and disputes with Jason Sechrest, the publicist who scheduled the interview.    In an effort to discredit Sechrest, Derek and Romaine set out to demean and embarrass Jesse. 

 

               

 

 

 

Cockyboys.com executive Kyle Majors said, “I doubt many politicians could answer these questions if sprung on them out of the blue.  Jesse, caught by surprise, struggled with answering some of them which gave Derek and Romaine the fodder they were seeking. Although Derek and Romaine justify their conduct by claiming they were nice to Jesse, promoted his movie, and thought the questions were fair, anyone who actually hears the interview can tell that Derek and Romaine were setting out to get Jesse.  From their condescending tone, to the line of questioning, to the snide comments made during and after the interview, it is very clear the talk show hosts set out to try to make a mockery of Jesse to settle their seeming ‘high school’ like grudge with Sechrest.�

 

HONEST TO GOD, THIS WAS THE MAN’S QUOTE!  He continues…. 

 

“Whatever the reasoning, the attack on Jesse was completely inappropriate and unprofessional.  Jesse is perhaps the nicest and most professional performer in the business.  He approaches the adult industry like a profession, and goes out of his way to treat people with respect and dignity,� added Majors. 

 

APPROACHES THE ADULT INDUSTRY LIKE A PROFESSION….. 

 

Cockyboys.com planned to offer a free one year membership to everybody over the age of 18 who could demonstrate they had cancelled their Sirius service. TAKE THAT SIRIUS!  

 

“The problem�, Majors explained, “is that the only alternative for a satellite radio consumer is XM Radio.  If the two are allowed to merge, consumers have no alternative.  Perhaps this seems like a non-issue when the companies offer so many channels.  But what happens if you object to the management of the company?  I don’t want my dollars to go to a company that would employ Derek and Romaine.� 

 

 

 

 

A supermodel over the age of 35? No way, lady. You hit 25 and the send you to the glue factory in the fashion world.

But the reality television production monster must be feed, so the wacky gang at TV Land has partnered with renowned Wilhelmina Models, Inc. to discover the next new face of the fashion world: a woman 35 or older who exudes sophistication, beauty and confidence! I’d nominate my Mom but I am still irked with her from our Mother’s Day debacle.

The search will be the focus of TV Land’s new original reality series, “She’s Got The Look,” which premieres on June 4th. (Sidetracked - Do you remember ROXETTE? They sang “She’s Got The Look” !!! What a great song….-sigh-)

The series follows 10 contestants – all 35 years old and older – as they vie for a modeling contract with Wilhelmina, a spread in SELF Magazine, and a 22 year old Norwegian poolboy!“She’s Got The Look� is hosted by supermodel Kim Alexis.

The show’s judges are fellow supermodel and the first African American woman to grace the cover of “Vogueâ€� Beverly Johnson, celebrity stylist Robert Verdi and Wilhelmina President Sean Patterson. I know Beverly Johnson is nice and normal, so I hope Patterson or Verdi is bonkers. You need a bonkers judge to be a hit reality show. Like Paula Abduhl.