MOLLY RINGWALD:
Molly Ringwald has a book coming out today, and The Advocate did an interview with her as part of the publicity tour. You'll want to read the whole thing, it's pretty cute. She talks about Prop 8, gay fans, being an outsider, the Magnetic Fields, Here are some of our favorite parts:
Have you always been conscious of your gay fan base?
Since most my friends are gay, it would be hard not to be aware of it now, but I don’t think I realized it early on in my career because I don’t know that I definitely had that fan base until later. I became pretty aware of it in the ’90s, after some time had passed, and especially when I was living in New York and doing a lot of theater.
Though there were no gay characters, homosexuality was addressed in those early films through the frequent use of the word “fag.” Your character, Samantha, called Anthony Michael Hall’s Geek a “fag” in Sixteen Candles. “You die, fag” is scrawled on Bender’s locker in The Breakfast Club. And though it’s never spelled out, some of those outcast characters I mentioned — Duckie in Pretty in Pink, Brian in The Breakfast Club — almost seem like gay characters, in a way.
Yeah, completely! I totally know what you mean, and if those films were done today, those characters probably would’ve been gay. But sometimes I wonder if John was even aware of that. I don’t know that he was. What made those movies so interesting and so hard for people to replicate is that for some reason John was still somehow emotionally in the mind-set of those teenagers. Usually you can hear when an adult clearly wrote something for a kid character, but John’s movies don’t sound like that because he was still emotionally in that place. So you know how some kids can be gay and not know it? Or maybe they kind of know it but aren’t facing it? I feel like maybe John was writing those characters like that.
Did you know Molly Ringwald was on season 1 of The Facts of Life? I did, because my undying love for that show was one of the first hints that I was gay (or should've been). I made my parents buy me a tv for my room so I would never miss an episode on Nick at Nite. Those were the days! Of course, Ringwald's stint on the show was short — just season 1 — and the show did a 180 after she left. But things almost went differently:
Advocate: Your character was phased out at the very beginning of season 2, but surely you remember the sexual tension between Blair and Jo when Nancy McKeon joined the cast.
Molly Ringwald: [Laughs] You know, Nancy McKeon sort of replaced me in a way. They were trimming down the cast to just four girls, and originally I was going to be one of those girls. But then they changed their mind, decided to go with Nancy McKeon, and booted me out.
ANYONE BUT ME:
Episode 7 of season 2 is out today!
GLEE:
Glee is on tonight! Here's an interview with Chris Colfer, who is excited about getting a boyfriend on the show, to warm you up. (@nypost)
STEREOTYPES:
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet, two of the stars of Modern Family who play a gay couple, live tweeted their trip to a basketball game over the weekend. Ferguson apparently played into some gay stereotypes and OutSports called him out (see what I did? that pun works on multiple levels, people!). I realize that not all gay men are ignorant about sports, and maybe Ferguson's tweets were offensive to those who understand things like ground rule doubles. But seriously, have you guys watched Modern Family? Ferguson, who plays Mitchell, and Stonestreet, who plays Cameron, are SO EFFING FUNNY. Just saying. (@advocate)
LILO:
If you follow Lindsay Lohan on twitter, you probably noticed her recent freakouts, which were mostly about her father. It looks like she and her sister are seeking restraining orders against their dad after all the drama last week. I was going to try and get a screenshot of her crazy Michael-Lohan-related tweets, but she has been so active on Twitter that I couldn't even find it anymore. (@celebritygossip)
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