These are good points, of course. But what I really love about Vicious is that, while the characters are stereotypes in the extreme, it's showing a gay couple who have been together for nearly 50 years, and I think that's lovely. Besides which, it's well written comedy. It takes an awful lot for me to enjoy a sitcom, usually I just find them embarrassing.
Anyone seen this yet?
It's Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi's new sitcom. Two of the grand old gays of the British stage. It's really funny, actually.
Originally, it was meant to be titled Vicious Old Queens, but Sir Ian protested.
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As an aside, here's Ian McKellen talking about coming out:
Aww, now I got flashbacks to the school I went to this year... Twice, my best friend and I went up on a little hill and screamed in the middle of the night. Once this winter when I was having a rough night and he took care of me and encouraged me, and then again a couple of days before school let out, to celebrate the year we'd had. I miss him.
Maybe that's what I should do for the rest of the evening... House is so quiet when all the guests have gone home and you're slightly tipsy on red wine.
!!!! :D SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!! Fantastic. Simply fantastic. Yay for Issac forgiving him, and apologising for his own manner, and being a fantastic human being in every possible way! I love this story so much! And you! And your characters, and everything, and you are a beautiful and magnificent person for writing it!
CHAPTER ONE
The Boy with the Lavender Eyes
‘Hi. I’m Mark.’ The boy smiled a crooked smile. Somewhere in his early twenties, he was far from classically beautiful. He was quite skinny, and quite a bit shorter than Ben’s six foot two. His nose was slightly asymmetrical, his face round. He wore his hair in an uneven side-cut with faint traces of green dye, washed out, and he had an industrial piercing in his right ear and a tunnel in the left. In spite of his unorthodox, bordering on punky app
Benjamin Connor’s rise to fame hardly surprised anyone, not even himself. He thrives in the spotlight and enjoys his work as an actor, but his world is turned topsy-turvy when he meets Mark, an unknown musician from Camden. As their relationship blossoms, Ben must decide whether to face the bigotry of Hollywood or keep his odd, interesting, gorgeous little punk a secret for the sake of his career. And for how long can such a high-profile individual keep a secret anyway?
Yeah, Ender's Game is not for children... You could probably count it as YA fiction, though. It even won an award to that effect, if I'm not mistaken.
Ooh, I just noticed that Card is co-producing the film. That's good news.
Both inventions have caught on rather well in the other hemisphere, though.
I love Yellow! Cause there you basically have two semes striving for dominance. My kind of 'ship.