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Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LMAO....can't get away from icky stuff on the board today! roflmao ;)

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 11:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ewwwwwwwwww... I forgot about the "fecal matter" and the tongue scraping. That was gross! Thanks for letting us know what David's occupation is, Woofy!

Penpoint
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03-27-2001

Friday, June 11, 2004 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm beginning to think that a couple of the Queer Eyes need a makeover. What is happening with Jai's hairstyle? It's going beyond the ubiquitous "bedhead" look. And Ted! Ted looked just fine with his original slightly nerdy-professorial style; spiked hair, or whatever he's trying to do, is unfitting on him--makes him look sick. And the worst clothing disaster was on the holiday reunion show--Thom wore a horrendous orange and green suit.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, June 11, 2004 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Penpoint, I've always thought Carson needs to do something about his hair!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone watch tonite??? What an absolute hoot!!!
The gay guy looked very familiar to me.

btw, Kitt..Carson had a new really nice do.

Penpoint
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03-27-2001

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 9:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And Jai looked really good with short, groomed hair. In fact, on tonight's show the Fab Five all looked somewhat better than they have recently. It was like they weren't trying so hard to look trendy with the "bed head" look. Of course, maybe that look is over.

Penpoint
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03-27-2001

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 9:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And Jai looked really good with short, groomed hair. In fact, on tonight's show the Fab Five all looked somewhat better than they have recently. It was like they weren't trying so hard to look trendy with the "bed head" look. Of course, maybe that look is over.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I would like to put Wayne on Paxil or something. He was making me nuts. But it is good to know Carson has a gag reflex. Why so little Kyan recently? Wayne needed to have something done with that hair and skin, but nada.

Pen, I still think Carson is having hair problems.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 1:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone know when this one is going to be rerun? I missed it.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 7:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tish, he and Kyan had "spa night"! LOL
I loved all the sexual innuedoes last night! The way the were talking about him during at the loft cracked me up too. "the gays love their frosted glass!"
I couldn't get Wayne's personality. He was so lively during class but then at the bar he seemed so..was it scared? What a little curmudgeon he was! The sponge scene was too funny.

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 10:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
carson08_brideOfFrank.jpg

"Carsen's extreme hair-do makeover"

:-)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 6:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Can I have that jacket??!!!

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 9:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just love this show!! Too funny, the beer and poker night!! I just love watching the coments, I know what to do for every straight guy, put in beer can openers... Carson comments on his dress Ocean 91/2 sunglasses in side, and flip flops faux pas... so carson says "I dunno I'd do him" ROFLOL!! Love these guys!!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 9:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was just cracking up through the whole show!! AND yea for going back to haircuts!!!!!
What about Jai in the handcuffs! How did he get them off???

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm looking forward to seeing the UK version next week. I knew they were doing one but didn't know the series had started. Maybe BBCAmerica will grab it.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 7:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I'm not surprised no one is watching, Tuesday being Reality blizzard night!! However, I'm not lovin the UK version, I miss the guys, what Bravo thinks its just the concept and not the personalities?

oh well...

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 8:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Couldn't get into it either. Loved them in the tanning salon though! LOL
QE was originated here first, wasn't it?

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It was on? My TiVo didn't grab it... I'll have to see if I can find a repeat and force it to. Thanks for the reminder.

(Yes, QE was here first!)

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, July 16, 2004 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finally managed to see it, the UK one, and loved it!! It's hard not to see Kyan, but other than that I think those guys have great potential. Barra was so sweet too. And he and the house looked great at the end of it. Having captions on British speakers always amuses me, we're not that hard to understand!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What an incredible show tonite!!! I am so in love with the straight guy!! What a sweet and wonderful gentleman and story. The whole show made me laugh, cry and just feel good!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I knew it was a special show!!!

Bayside man finds 'Queer Eye' angels

BY GALIA GARCIA-PALAFOX
Staff Writer


After a years-long depression, John Kilcooley found five "gay angels" who changed his life with new clothes, shoes, furniture and a different attitude that he said got him a new job.

Kilcooley, 66, of Bayside, said he was a sad, retired widower who had lost interest in most things. He had been just existing.

His sister thought he needed some help, so she signed him up to be a participant in the television show, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

Kilcooley was chosen for the show – his episode is scheduled to be aired Tuesday night -- taken out of his apartment and put in a hotel for four days while the Fab Five "arranged" his life and refined his taste and style.

"They came here, saw what a mess my apartment was, took me ballroom dancing," Kilcooley said.

His two-bedroom apartment, looks now like a bachelor's place, with new furniture and black and white pictures of a view of Manhattan up on the wall.

Kilcooley's old clothes were thrown out and replaced with sport jackets, blazers, shirts and ties from Brooks Brothers. "Everything is interchangeable, so no matter what I put on, I look good," he said.

With his new wardrobe, Kilcooley said he feels much more self-confident, so much that when he bumped into a friend who owns a real estate agency, he offered him a job and now he's about to close his first deal.

"I really look good. I never thought I would say that," he said.

Even his gusto is now different. The instant coffee he used to drink is no longer appetizing to him. The TV guys made him try fresh brewed coffee and now he grinds his own coffee.

"I never realized coffee could be so good," Kilcooley said.

But above all, Kilcooley is happy about his new attitude and self-confidence. "They completely changed my attitude."
Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-eye0720,0,7706801.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
that's a great article, it was funny because you could tell he was too nervous to make the coffee last night - cant wait to see the repeat of this one too!!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He was a sweet guy, wasn't he? I hope he manages to keep it up, although this must have been a wonderful boost it's so easy to slip back into being a hermit.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I forgot all about this show last night and to look for the rerun! There's just too much on Tues. nights STILL!

Angelsluv
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07-20-2001

Friday, August 20, 2004 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bravo is promoting that the new episodes begin on August 31st, and they will be showing Queer Eye UK version beginning September 1st (Guess weekly).



Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, August 20, 2004 - 3:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Excellent! I look forward to the UK ones too.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The new series started last night, did anybody watch? The guy was cute but they dressed him awfully. And he needed to relax, poor boy!

Queer Eye UK starts tonight.

Conejo
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08-23-2002

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 6:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I watched 'part' of an episode last night (I believe it was a new ep, but not sure.) I loved this show when it first came out, but now it just seems too 'fake'. Why are they running everywhere they go? Why do the Fab 5 always seem to find a reason to touch/rub the straight guy or run their fingers through his hair? It just seems that so many of the scenes are sooooo corny. Like they are trying so hard to be funny, hip, cool and know everything there is about everything.

If anyone needs a makeover it's Ted, IMO.

I made it through about half the episode - and had to change the channel. I think I'm done with 'Queer Eye'.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
People seem to be agreeing with you. The producers have said it needs a makeover too. I still really enjoy the shows but it all depends on the guests, a lot of them just seem to be using it to get something for free.

And I don't think anyone's watching the UK version except me.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The problem with the show is that, at the height of its zeitgeist, it started reruns for months and months, then aired four new episodes, and then started reruns again. The recent new shows haven't been as exciting, perhaps, but I fault the producers for allowing so much helium to escape from the Queer Eye balloon.

I kinda like the UK edition, but I have never understood that British "aesthetic," if you can call it that. Even when they make over the houses, they look crappy to me.

Conejo
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08-23-2002

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree about the reruns being aired again and again and again - it got real old, real fast. Maybe I was just so excited to see a show featuring gay men interacting with a straight men that made the first season so appealing - and now that appeal has worn off.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tishala...."The recent new shows haven't been as exciting, perhaps, but I fault the producers for allowing so much helium to escape from the Queer Eye balloon."

I love the way you articulated the problem. Impressive. Too many reruns. It is not as fresh now. I am still a fan. I tivo it and speed through some segments. I favor the decorating and end scene.


Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's a typical Discovery channel network problem, they do that all the time and I end up stopping watching lots of shows I used to love because of it. I don't think Bravo is a Discovery group channel, but maybe it's a cable thing.

The British "aesthetic"! That's an interesting way to put it! Remember in general space is limited, houses are small, budgets are small and the best quality stuff is hard to find because no one can afford it. We would never have the lovely wooden kitchen cabinets that even homes in less expensive neighbourhoods have here, for example, because we simply haven't got the spare wood (and we try not to cut down trees just for fun ).