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Queer Eye seals global deal
NBC's makeover hit goes Down Under and beyond
It's official — the Fab Five have taken over
the world. As if the American summer phe-
nomenon couldn't get any hot-
ter, Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy is well on its way to
landmark international suc-
cess. Not only does both
NBC and Bravo score
record-setting ratings with
the makeover series, but
NBC Enterprises have also
licensed deals in the U.K.
and Scandinavia — both
acquiring the U.S. episodes
and format rights to pro-
duce local versions of
the show. And now
another QE signifi-
cant negotiation
has been sealed.
According to the
Hollywood Reporter,
NBC recently final-
ized "its biggest
deal yet" for
Australia's
Network Ten.
Queer Eye is such a
hot property that
NBCE will main-
tain the rights to
produce the Down
Under version, and the network gets
to sell both versions internationally.
Pink programming has never looked
so lucrative and stylish.
Miss Horne, if you're nasty
Okay, it's official: Craig Zadan
and Neil Meron are working too
much. It's impossible to keep track
of how many proj-
ects these two out
super-producers
have going, but
even so, this new
one will sound
sweet to queer ears.
Janet Jackson will
star in the Zadan-
Meron produced
Lem, a musical TV
movie about the
life of diva Lena
Horne. Set to air on
ABC sometime in
May 2004, the film is
based on Horne's autobiography
of the same name. Just don't
expect to hear the real Lena
singing. That job will be handled
by Jackson as she covers Horne's
classics, giving her an opportunity
to show more range than the pop
niche she's carved for herself. It
will also give her a chance to flex
hdr acting muscles in something
more substantial than a Nutty
Professor movie.
Cantone playing it straight?
Mario Cantone as Anthony, Kristin Davis'
best gay friend on Sex and the
City, may redefine the words
"hissing" and "bitchy" when
he appears on that show, but
now it looks like he'll get to
redefine the word "straight"
if his own sitcom makes it to
____ the small screen. The gay
actor has just signed a deal
with 20th Century Fox's
. Imagine TV to star in and co-
_ executive-produce a sitcom
v aimed for the fall 2004 sea-
son. Current plans for the
Cantone-created show
include two characters, one
gay and one straight, with the
actor possibly playing both men, a
la The Patty Duke Show. Just cross
your queer fingers that this funny
homo's project doesn't meet the
same fate as Rupert Everett's
dead-in-the-water sitcom, Mr.
Ambassador. Or Nathan Lane's Life
of the Party. Or Nathan Lane's
Encore! Encore! Or...
Baldwin meets Halston
Beefy Alec Baldwin may not be
the first actor who
comes to mind to
play skinny, glam-
orous, couture
queen Halston, but
he's the one who got
the part. Baldwin
will be playing the
famously flamboy-
ant late designer,
a.k.a. Roy Frowick,
in the soon-to-shoot
biopic Simply
Halston, based on
Steven S. Gaines'
1991 book. In the
planning stages for way too long,
the film finally has a director
attached (openly gay Dan
Minahan, who co-wrote I Shot
Andy Warhol and directed the
indie Series 7), and a cast that
includes Tony winner
Jane Krakowski as
Liza Minnelli,
Halston's partner in
Studio 54 hijinks. Is
the butch Baldwin
up to the task of
inhabiting the sissy
who made even his
signature fragrance
bottles phallus-
shaped? Who
knows? At least they
didn't cast
Baldwin's brother
Daniel. ▼
Pictured from Top: Queer Eye's Kyan Douglas, Janet Jackson, Alec Baldwin, Halston and Mario Cantone.
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