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Deep Inside Hollywood
The Animated Michael Jeter
by Romeo San Vicente 2003-06-04
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Fans of Tony Award-winning Michael Jeter, who died in March, take heart: The
diminutive gay actor had completed enough of his work in his last movie, The Polar
Express, so that director Robert Zemeckis won't have to replace him.
Jeter's twin characters in the animated Express—6'6' Smokey and 4'4'
Steamer—are CGI inventions created with motion-capture technology, which
translates the actor's voice, movement, and facial expressions into the figures
on-screen. Undergoing the same technological metamorphosis for the
holiday-themed family film are Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. But be patient for that
Bosom Buddies reunion —this complicated animation stuff takes time, and Express
isn't due for release until November 2004.
Will the Director Please Stand Up? Favorite TV gay-player Eric McCormack will soon
be making his big-screen directing debut. McCormack has made a deal with Disney
to direct, write, and star in What You Wish For, a romantic comedy based on an idea
from his wife, AIDS activist Jane Holden. The film is about a Midwestern husband
and wife who think they're happily married—until a chance for an affair with a favorite
celebrity crops up. McCormack isn't talking specifics about the script, so no word yet
on which spouse is getting the sex-fantasy romp. Currently on break from Will &
Grace, he'll write the script over the summer and shoot the comedy during next
year's hiatus. The busy McCormack has also signed on to reprise his role as a
filmmaker in a sequel to the 1998 comedy Free Enterprise, which stars William
Shatner.
Big-Screen Queer Ready to see Brian Kinney kissin' girls?
Queer as Folk's Gale Harold, who's given Kim Cattrall her only competition in the
bedding-men-on-TV department, falls for females in two upcoming films, Particles
of Truth and Rhinoceros Eyes.
Particles, which recently premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival, is the
feature debut of director-slash-star Jennifer Elster, and Harold plays her love
interest—that is, if you can call a character who's a recluse and sits in his car a lot a
'love interest.' Rhinoceros, still in post-production, stars Harold as a singing and
dancing detective and co-stars Hedwig and the Angry Inch's Michael Pitt. Sounds
more than a little queer to me.
See More Seacrest
The prettiest thing on TV, Ryan Seacrest, is getting his own syndicated show.
Thanks to his hosting of some obscure show called American Idol, the radio
DJ-turned-overnight reality-TV sensation has made a deal with Twentieth Television
to host a one-hour program that would run five days a week. Although the details are
still sketchy, the show is being described as a news magazine and variety hybrid.
Seacrest will also produce the as-yet unnamed show, which is expected to explore
elements of American pop culture. But don't worry—Seacrest, who made this year's
edition of People magazine's '50 Most Beautiful People,' is expected to return for
the all-but-certain American Idol 3. Expect to see Seacrest and his new show turn up
on your TV screens in January.
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