Archive through September 23, 2003
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Archive through September 23, 2003
Madelane | Friday, September 12, 2003 - 10:30 am     I checked the schedule on Bravo's website and my boyfriend Tivo was just wrong. Men! |
Kitt | Friday, September 12, 2003 - 02:32 pm     My TiVo taped yesterday's QE for me too, but of course it was a repeat. Maybe next Tuesday's is new. |
Tishala | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 05:17 pm     Remember: all new Queer Eye tonight. |
Texannie | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 06:26 am     I just love this show! I giggle and laugh and feel so happy during it! I have the biggest crush on Thom! He is so witty and charming. I got so tickled at his comment last night when Tom (the straight guy) was saying "I just wasn't happy with how I looked, I am gaining wait, I needed a change" and Thom says "so you decided to call 5 queer guys to help you out!" but it was just the way he said it. I am laughing over how blatant the product placement has become. It's making Rocco look subtle! |
Kitt | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:18 am     This time my TiVo didn't tape it, because it thought it taped it last week (when actually it was the repeat)! I've had to set it to tape it when it's on today instead. My crush is on Kayan, he's so innocently affectionate, I love men like that. |
Squaredsc | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:45 am     kitt, kyan is mine, lol. another great show last nite. and the lil boy was hysterical. but i want to know how they get the bathroom tile soooo clean and bright? now matter how much i scrub mine never looks that good. |
Texannie | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:59 am     Love Kyan too, but he is definitely fixated on nose hair! LOL Poor Jai..what exactly does he do? Don't lose him...he's great, but what????? The poor girl that got the wasabi roll!!!! LOL |
Squaredsc | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 11:57 am     rofl texannie, that was hysterical. wayyy too much wasabi. |
Jan | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:11 pm     This show is so successful that tomorrow on the View thay are doing a parody of it! They are going to have three STRAIGHT guys makeover a QUEER guy.Should be a little bit of fun |
Texannie | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:55 pm     Another thing that tickles me are the "snaps"...we did this in my sorority 25 years ago!!!! LOL |
Fabnsab | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 02:12 pm     I always wonder what Jai really does too, Texannie. I just kinda think he is there for all the little extra details that make a house a home or a person a social success, like when he got the take away cards for Butch, the artist. Those are the special touches that don't fall into a particular category. I saw one episode with Blair, the original culture guy. Jai commands the screen so much more than Blair did. It may be in the editing but they made the right decision. I want to add that ,although I like Ted, I think he is off the mark alot with his food choices. He gave Adam a pate mousse to make. Pate is an acquired taste. It would have been ok if it was one of many things but all he had was pate on different types of crackers and such. The people didn't like it. Then last night, he gave Tom sushi, another acquired taste, and didn't even show him how to do it properly. One sushi roll should make 9 pieces, six maybe, but 4!? Those were too big. He should go easy on these guys who never cook and give them things that are crowd pleasers for your average Joe's because thats who they're working with. |
Nathalia | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 02:27 pm     Not sure if this has been mentioned yet..but the Fab Five will be on Oprah this coming Monday! |
Texannie | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 03:03 pm     Fab..exactly about Ted!!! I do like to think I am not terribly picky..but sushi, raw bar, pate???????? LOL Not exactly your standard party fare, and these guys weren't even hosting enough parties for their guests to be bored with the "standards"! |
Texannie | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 10:59 am     The View did their version "Straight Eye for the Queer Guy", with all this talk of stereotyes and what is offensive...THAT was offensive!!! I was highly insulted by the whole skit. The queer guy was so over the top. Yes, Carson will make sexual inuendos, but this guy's comments made your skin crawl. The straight guys were awful and uncomfortable. And the "reason" for the makeover was to help the guy be more butch and play basketball. I thought it was a very cheap, demeaning shot. |
Max | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 11:34 am     gosh, now i'm glad i missed it. |
Bastable | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 02:40 pm     Mods, I know I'm overstepping a tad here, but if you ever get a moment, could you please change the title of this thread to reflect the actual title of the show: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Thanks! It's been driving me ka-ray-zeee! |
Tishala | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 03:45 pm     I agree Annie. The View skit was horrifying--even though guest hostess Kennedy tried to pretend that it was all in good fun and that they thought there ws nothing wrong with the gay guy...whatever. It was simply repugnant. |
Bastable | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 07:20 pm     Mods, you are awesome! Thank you for attending to my latent OCD. |
Madelane | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 07:23 pm     Kitt, my boyfriend Tivo tried to do the same thing but I caught him and set it up to tape it last night. So I just watched the Tom Minogue episode today! I agree with everyone. They must do so much they can't even show some things, like Tom getting his hair cut. The View skit sounds horrifying. |
Kellee | Friday, September 19, 2003 - 06:13 am     I am going to defend the View...this is there year of the Viewer..they are granting makeovers and such..so this guy obviously wrote in and said that he wanted help with the basketball thing..Derek..the gay guy..is the one who initatiated the whole thing...and really I think it turned out the way he wanted it to..so I do not see the harm in it... |
Texannie | Friday, September 19, 2003 - 06:28 am     Kellee...think you are correct..here is what The View said on their recap.. Next, we put a twist on Bravo's hit makeover show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The View enlisted a team of straight guys and had them transform one of our gay viewers into a macho, macho man! Derek, who is completely comfortable with who he is, told us that he always had a fear of joining athletic activities. So Nathaniel, Brian and Kevin taught Derek how to dress in sporty clothing, talk like a "baller" and shoot hoops with the best of them. Derek had a great time learning how to be a confident player and The View appreciates him being such a great sport for participating in our spoof of Bravo's popular show. Maybe the guy was more of a willing participant that I thought. It sure did look more like a "skit" to me though. |
Tishala | Friday, September 19, 2003 - 10:01 am     Annie, as a retroactive defense of their offensive "skit," that summation by the View folks is fine. But of course they had to tell us on the air that it was all in good fun and that Derek was fine just as he is, etc. One thing Queer Eye does really well (to me) is to start with an idea of gay vs. straight masculinity only to undermine those suppositions as the show progresses. The View was not interested in that--it seemed like the joke was on Derek the whole time and that it created (or reinvogorated) a pathologized version of gayness that seemed overdetermined by its retrograde ideologies. That said, I don't pretend to have any answers about this. |
Texannie | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 05:46 am     Well, I thought I had posted this yesterday, but it's not here! LOL Anyway, the Fab 5 were on Oprah yesterday and were just too cute for words!!! Thom did a room makeover that was absolutely breath taking. Carson did clothes for 3 guys, Jai taught a guy to swing dance, Ted taught a guy to cook crab cakes, and Kyan did a 2 makeovers (didn't get to see them.) The boys were just hysterical, very gracious about their sudden fame, and they looked fantastic!! I really wished that I could have seen Oprah after the Show yesterday too. |
Squaredsc | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 06:32 am     thx texannie, wish i could've seen them. |
Just4fun | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 09:22 am     Could anyone tell me if we get, or will be getting this show in Montreal, Canada? |
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