Ru Paul
RuPaul's Drag Race, Logo's campy take on America's Next Top Model, may not be as well known as the CW hit, but it's luring some high-profile guest judges that would make other reality shows jealous. When Season 4 of the competition show — which pits drag queens against each other — kicks off in January, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rose McGowan, Loretta Devine, Kelly Osbourne and...
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RuPaul’s Drag U
Forget the plucked eyebrows and tucked candies. We can all learn something from RuPaul's Drag U.
Kicking off its second season last night, the crazy campy confection from the cross-dressing queen of workin' it — hailed as a lesson in helping "biological women unleash their inner diva" — does more to promote acceptance than a Pride month-long marathon of "very special" Glee episodes...
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Chaz Bono
Chaz Bono was a pop cultural symbol long before he physically became Chaz: first as Hollywood royalty born to entertainers Sonny and Cher, then a gay-rights activist and now the most famous transgender person in the world. But on Becoming Chaz, a 90-minute documentary that premiered Tuesday on OWN, the symbol becomes human...
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
Maybe I just needed a brief respite from the summer glut of crime dramas, but what a relief to watch a few hours of guilty-pleasurable TV that takes itself the opposite of seriously.
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Fans of high-camp/big-heart TV are in for a treat Monday night, as Logo unveils RuPaul's Drag U, a garish yet unexpectedly touching spin-off of the similarly over-the-top gender-bending RuPaul's Drag Race, that America's Next Top Model clone (though much more entertaining) where drag divas claw it out for top honors.
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RuPaul's Drag Race
If you've wondered why RuPaul's Drag Race didn't debut earlier in the reality competition craze, RuPaul says you can blame George W. Bush. The "Supermodel" singer asserts that the "mean-spirited times of the Bush era" weren't right for the show — maybe a Rudy Giuliani administration would have been more drag-friendly? We talked to RuPaul about the challenges facing Drag Race contestants and how Project Runway villain Santino Rice ended up on the panel of judges.
TVGuide.com: What are you looking for when casting?
RuPaul: We want showgirls. We want kids who are working in clubs for a living and doing drag. At this point, it's not about pre-op, or post op, or anything like that. It's drag — straight-up. We choose kids who exemplify what it's all about: It's ...
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Project Runway by Barbara Nitke/Bravo Photo
And by Gay Olympics, I’m obviously talking about Project Runway, which aired quite possibly its gayest episode ever in this week’s drag-queen challenge, an attempt to urge the designers to go theatrical and over-the-top without risk of penalty. I was only disappointed that they didn’t let guest judge RuPaul do an homage to Tim Gunn’s “Make it work” by reprising her signature theme of “You better work … Work it, girl!”For the most part, the designers did work it. Although the annoying Blayne, who should have been bounced a week earlier for his hideous shorts outfit for Brooke Shields, worked my last nerve (and those of everyone around him) with his endless wannabe-cutesy efforts to coin that “-licious” catchphrase. It made Leanne want to “barf-licious,” and caused another of the designers to bark, “Shut the hell up.” My sentiments exactly. Sadly, his gay pterodactyl drag outfit, despite its droopy wings, lande...
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Todd Bridges and Jenni Meno, Skating with Celebrities
American IdolYes, the teases before the breaks had me hooked, and just like Tuesday night, the biggest shock was saved for the end of the show. Sporting high heels, Barbie eyebrows and a highly muddled sense of gender, Zachary bravely took on Whitney Houston's "Queen of the Night." Didn't Simon Cowell just tell a contestant the other night to shave his face and become a female impersonator? And haven't we already been treated to a plethora of guys in wigs? What is it with Idol and the RuPaul wannabes? I found it amusing that Zachary called America "racist." Somewhere long-suffering "beautiful person" Sarah W. from The Bachelor is nodding her head in sympathy. Huge props to Idol producers for the best use of music f
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