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The Riches

The new Eddie Izzard show, “The Riches,” is about to start on F/X.

“A wild new playground for a TV drama,” says Newsweek.

& Apparently the son likes to wear dresses.

“Could be worse,” says the wife.
“He could be on crack,” says Izzard’s character.

But Eddie Izzard as a con man – somehow, it’s perfect. It gives him a chance to be the eight million people he can be – the kind of broodiness I’ve seen him do on Broadway, but then that big used-car salesman schmaltzy guy he does, too – which has nothing to do with him being a transvestite, & everything to do with him being a really good actor.

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AMC Blogging

Scene One, 1:05PM
“You’re Zarf – everyone knows you!”
& That was that, the whole of Betty’s scripted lines.

Scene Two, 1:24PM
Now we know who everyone is. (Two scenes so far, but it’s only 1:24.)

Scene Three, 1:36PM
Wherein Jenny Boylan explains making lemonade out of lemons.

Scene Four, 1:45PM
Wherein Betty calls me an oddball, gives me props, and Jenny shows she really IS a hippie.

Scene Five, 1:53PM
Bianca checks out Andy, Tommy, and Betty as they depart; Zoe doesn’t feel alone.

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Cliff-Hanger

As it turns out, today’s All My Children was really more a tease than anything else, so another 24 hours of waiting to see how it all got edited.

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All My Children Cast Photo

top row, left to right: Brigitte, Jenny Boylan, Andy Marra, Eden “Bianca” Riegel, & Betty.

Bottom row, left to right: Tommy, Jeffrey “Zarf/Zoe” Carlson, June, & David Harrison.

& Here’s the GLAAD newsclip about it.

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Betty on All My Children

Betty and six other trans people will be the support group that the MTF character Zarf/Zoe goes to visit on two upcoming episodes of All My Children: March 9th & 12th. The other six were Tommy, Brigit, June, Andy Marra of NCTE, David Harrison, & as the group’s moderator, Jennifer Finney Boylan.

But the interesting thing about the episode is that each of these people are only playing themselves; each of them gets to speak about their own lives & their experience being trans. As far as I know, this is not just trans history in the making, but soap opera history as well.

Do tune in.

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No Love Lost

I’m really astonished at the remarks Tim Hardaway made, in public, as a public figure. I’m glad to hear he got canned from the All Star game as a result, but I’m just really surprised. I probably shouldn’t be: after all, it was the jocks who often made me nervous in high school because I was different. But I also knew a lot of jocks who were really cool guys & who used their status to stand up for people who were different.

But wow. Tim Hardaway is a bigot. For some reason, that’s always so much more disappointing when it comes from a woman or a person of color or whatever other form of minority. & Yet years ago, when I was working at City College, bell hooks told me she’d never teach a class about James Baldwin again because she was so horrified by the homophobia expressed by her (largely African-American) students. I hope she has, & does, anyway.

I hope someone sat him down to watch Brother Outsider by now, at least, and that John Amaechi sells a truckload of books and educates as many basketball fans as Hardaway represents.