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Queer Eye - for the straight guy
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ajtomasi
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First they gang bang him
LOL...I saw that...Looks pretty f'ing hilarious.
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The Shadow
Guest
you would never wear clothes if I were in your life
SofaGeorge
New member
what channel and what production company?
supersizeme
New member
i believe this one may be a record for "quickest to turn into a hit on velvett" thread
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The Shadow
Guest
lots of hatin goin on today
Monkey Pox
New member
Could be funny, could be painful.
the nature boy
New member
they need 5 gay guys to dress a heterosexual? sounds like too many gay cooks spoiling the gay soup.
makedah
New member
10pm eastern/9pm central Tuesdays on Bravo. Starting tomorrow(7/15)
http://www.bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy/
http://www.bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy/
FreeballinDC
Dumper Humper
The Nature Boy said:
That's what I was thinking, 5?
Hell, look what AAP has done for 5 "supposedly" straight guys.
The ratio needs to be reversed.
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Imakarum_Mirabilis
Guest
TV sure is sucking.
It's on Bravo.
It looks funny, except that like anything else, it has to be dumbed down so that the average viewer can appreciate it. so you're not going to get intocustom made clothes and real style advice. It'll probaby devolve into a lot of stupid sexual innuendo type jokes and other than that resemble the makeovers on jenny Jones. .
But I'll chcek it out once anyway.
It looks funny, except that like anything else, it has to be dumbed down so that the average viewer can appreciate it. so you're not going to get intocustom made clothes and real style advice. It'll probaby devolve into a lot of stupid sexual innuendo type jokes and other than that resemble the makeovers on jenny Jones. .
But I'll chcek it out once anyway.
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Imakarum_Mirabilis
Guest
john937 said:
I said TV.
In general.
Cartoon Network excepted.
I avoid watching TV. I'd rather read, fuck, watch a good movie, write, or travel.
john937
New member
Saw it. Loved it. Evidently lots of others agree.
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TV Show 'Queer Eye' Smash Ratings Hit for Bravo
Entertainment - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The premiere episode of "Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy," in which five gay men with expertise in fashion, food,
grooming, culture and design remake a straight man, set new ratings
records for cable channel Bravo, the network said on Wednesday.
Citing data from Nielsen Media Research, Bravo
said the show's Tuesday debut at 10 p.m. ET set
new records for the NBC-owned network among
total viewers, households, audiences aged 18-49,
and audiences aged 25-54.
The 18-49 demographic is most favored by
advertisers as their core audience, while some
networks rely on the 25-54 audience as a more
mature target group.
Bravo said the show attracted 1.64 million total
viewers, which made it the No. 2 ad-supported
cable network during the hour. Bravo had
previously ranked No. 38 in that hour for the
season to date.
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TV Show 'Queer Eye' Smash Ratings Hit for Bravo
Entertainment - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The premiere episode of "Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy," in which five gay men with expertise in fashion, food,
grooming, culture and design remake a straight man, set new ratings
records for cable channel Bravo, the network said on Wednesday.
Citing data from Nielsen Media Research, Bravo
said the show's Tuesday debut at 10 p.m. ET set
new records for the NBC-owned network among
total viewers, households, audiences aged 18-49,
and audiences aged 25-54.
The 18-49 demographic is most favored by
advertisers as their core audience, while some
networks rely on the 25-54 audience as a more
mature target group.
Bravo said the show attracted 1.64 million total
viewers, which made it the No. 2 ad-supported
cable network during the hour. Bravo had
previously ranked No. 38 in that hour for the
season to date.
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Corky Thatcher
Guest
It's a great show. Carson Kressley, the blond fashion expert, is a really funny guy.
saw it, good stuff... however, those guys aren't even that well dressed =/. Come on.. Lucky Brand? Why don't you just take him to some other shitty stores so you can make him look even worse...I'm straight(very) and could make these guys much more societally attractive.
I thought the show was funny at times..... My gf loved it and called up her gay friend in San Fran. They already had it Tivoed to watch later.....Can't believe some people live in such cluttered, messy places.. Damn, only thing i have that is laying around are opened mail....
The show after, man their house was a disaster, devoted to dolls and dolls...Too late to stay up and watch it.
I'll watch it again to see how they make over the next Joe.
'Queer Eye' Gives Unblinking View Of Trendsetters
By Robin Givhan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 18, 2003; Page C01
The arrival of the Bravo cable show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" represents a moment of truth for the fashion industry.
The show, which debuted Tuesday, introduced viewers to a team of five gay men, whose mission in each episode is to aid a straight man whose aesthetic sensibility is stunted. Focusing on fashion, grooming, food and wine, interior design, and culture, the stars assess the home and personal appearance of the straight man -- announcing with wit and bite precisely where he has gone wrong. They then proceed to sprinkle on the glamour dust.
While "Queer Eye" engages in generalizations, and several of its stars -- particularly Carson Kressley, who is in charge of fashion -- use nellyism as a form of slapstick, it also shines a light into the fashion industry's backroom. It brings a reality of fashion out of the closet, along with the reassurance that there is nothing to fear from either the fashion message or the messenger.
In the first pair of episodes, the show's stars had two willing victims who seemed eager to polish their rough edges, although one of the men -- Adam Zalta -- was inexplicably attached to his thick eyebrows, which had grown into one massive caterpillar stretching across his forehead. The hirsute situation was remedied with the help of an aesthetician and a pot of warm wax.
The cheeky band went on to recommend a seaweed wrap and an exfoliating scrub, introduce him to pastry bags and kosher foie gras, upgrade his suits, make over his home and show him the payoff in remembering his wife's birthday.
The show exploits the stereotype that gay men have an additional gene that gives them particular skill at coordinating stripes and plaids, and allows them to intuit that mid-century modern furniture would see a resurgence. Whether fine style is the result of nature or nurture has yet to be proved, but the long-held assumption that the style industry is populated by a significant number of gay men is correct. A great many of those men are on the front lines at fashion houses as designers and stylists. And so, to some degree, gay men have been making over straight men at least as far back as the rise of the power suit.
Some of these designing men have made flamboyant pronouncements about pencil-thin trousers, velvet suits and translucent shirts. But others are far more subtle in their style recommendations. They championed three-button suits and then one-button versions. They popularized unconstructed blazers and square-toed loafers. They encouraged straight men to engage in monochromatic dressing in which their ties matched their shirts. They persuaded them to exchange their briefcases for messenger bags. And they have trained many a straight man to run a quarter-size dollop of gel through his hair before rushing out the door.
Most folks in the fashion industry are not particularly guarded about their sexuality -- although they do not announce it to the public at large. They are not as fretful as actors, who often fear they won't be accepted as romantic leads if moviegoers know that in their personal lives their significant other is a man. Designers do not have to worry so much about their image. Except for a handful of designers, the bottom line of a fashion company is more dependent on a general brand image than on the personal life of the man who sits at the sketch pad.
The challenge for the fashion industry most often comes in advertising in which designers aiming for provocative images often end up evoking homoerotic ones. Abercrombie & Fitch has long been notorious for its pictorials, as shot by Bruce Weber, of buff and naked young men romping and roughhousing. It's well known that the catalogue has been a favorite coffee table book among some gay men. But publicly, the company plays coy because it needs to have it both ways. Play to gay customers without alienating the straight ones -- that is, those who define manliness by whether one prefers cheesecake or beefcake.
When Kressley prances onto the screen -- and indeed he does have a rather high-stepping strut -- he is extreme. And at times, his fashion advice is a little shaky, as when he suggested that one makeover recipient forgo a belt and roll down his trouser waistband for a cummerbund look. The only visual effect of that trick is to suggest a man too lazy to put on a belt. But in all of his hyperbole, Kressley -- in the character of "fashion savant" -- is the jester, willing to go to any length to get a laugh. And quite often, he is successful. His camp behavior plays to and satisfies any preconceived expectations.
The rest of the team is then free to be more understated, more natural and to go about the job of catering to their straight man without having to be coy about their own private preferences.
The show after, man their house was a disaster, devoted to dolls and dolls...Too late to stay up and watch it.
I'll watch it again to see how they make over the next Joe.
'Queer Eye' Gives Unblinking View Of Trendsetters
By Robin Givhan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 18, 2003; Page C01
The arrival of the Bravo cable show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" represents a moment of truth for the fashion industry.
The show, which debuted Tuesday, introduced viewers to a team of five gay men, whose mission in each episode is to aid a straight man whose aesthetic sensibility is stunted. Focusing on fashion, grooming, food and wine, interior design, and culture, the stars assess the home and personal appearance of the straight man -- announcing with wit and bite precisely where he has gone wrong. They then proceed to sprinkle on the glamour dust.
While "Queer Eye" engages in generalizations, and several of its stars -- particularly Carson Kressley, who is in charge of fashion -- use nellyism as a form of slapstick, it also shines a light into the fashion industry's backroom. It brings a reality of fashion out of the closet, along with the reassurance that there is nothing to fear from either the fashion message or the messenger.
In the first pair of episodes, the show's stars had two willing victims who seemed eager to polish their rough edges, although one of the men -- Adam Zalta -- was inexplicably attached to his thick eyebrows, which had grown into one massive caterpillar stretching across his forehead. The hirsute situation was remedied with the help of an aesthetician and a pot of warm wax.
The cheeky band went on to recommend a seaweed wrap and an exfoliating scrub, introduce him to pastry bags and kosher foie gras, upgrade his suits, make over his home and show him the payoff in remembering his wife's birthday.
The show exploits the stereotype that gay men have an additional gene that gives them particular skill at coordinating stripes and plaids, and allows them to intuit that mid-century modern furniture would see a resurgence. Whether fine style is the result of nature or nurture has yet to be proved, but the long-held assumption that the style industry is populated by a significant number of gay men is correct. A great many of those men are on the front lines at fashion houses as designers and stylists. And so, to some degree, gay men have been making over straight men at least as far back as the rise of the power suit.
Some of these designing men have made flamboyant pronouncements about pencil-thin trousers, velvet suits and translucent shirts. But others are far more subtle in their style recommendations. They championed three-button suits and then one-button versions. They popularized unconstructed blazers and square-toed loafers. They encouraged straight men to engage in monochromatic dressing in which their ties matched their shirts. They persuaded them to exchange their briefcases for messenger bags. And they have trained many a straight man to run a quarter-size dollop of gel through his hair before rushing out the door.
Most folks in the fashion industry are not particularly guarded about their sexuality -- although they do not announce it to the public at large. They are not as fretful as actors, who often fear they won't be accepted as romantic leads if moviegoers know that in their personal lives their significant other is a man. Designers do not have to worry so much about their image. Except for a handful of designers, the bottom line of a fashion company is more dependent on a general brand image than on the personal life of the man who sits at the sketch pad.
The challenge for the fashion industry most often comes in advertising in which designers aiming for provocative images often end up evoking homoerotic ones. Abercrombie & Fitch has long been notorious for its pictorials, as shot by Bruce Weber, of buff and naked young men romping and roughhousing. It's well known that the catalogue has been a favorite coffee table book among some gay men. But publicly, the company plays coy because it needs to have it both ways. Play to gay customers without alienating the straight ones -- that is, those who define manliness by whether one prefers cheesecake or beefcake.
When Kressley prances onto the screen -- and indeed he does have a rather high-stepping strut -- he is extreme. And at times, his fashion advice is a little shaky, as when he suggested that one makeover recipient forgo a belt and roll down his trouser waistband for a cummerbund look. The only visual effect of that trick is to suggest a man too lazy to put on a belt. But in all of his hyperbole, Kressley -- in the character of "fashion savant" -- is the jester, willing to go to any length to get a laugh. And quite often, he is successful. His camp behavior plays to and satisfies any preconceived expectations.
The rest of the team is then free to be more understated, more natural and to go about the job of catering to their straight man without having to be coy about their own private preferences.
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john937
New member
The "You don't reproduce" argument is really tired in a world with 210 million orphans.
http://www.myorphanage.org/text/statisticsorphans1.html
To put that in perspective, take the whole population of New York city, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, and SanDiego.
Now multiply by 10.
http://eire.census.gov/popest/data/cities/tables/SUB-EST2002-01.php
http://www.myorphanage.org/text/statisticsorphans1.html
To put that in perspective, take the whole population of New York city, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, and SanDiego.
Now multiply by 10.
http://eire.census.gov/popest/data/cities/tables/SUB-EST2002-01.php
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fistfullofsteel
Well-known member
Good Show. Love the gay dudes. They make me laugh.
