I thought we were ok with gays on TV
Offline After Ellen Degeneres got her own show and Queer Eye became all the rage, and two cowboys had anal sex on the big screen, I really thought we were getting over homophobia in the media. I guess the battle isn't won just yet.
Grey's Degayed: Brooke Smith Axed; Melissa George No Longer a LesbianIt's true. Sources confirm that Brooke Smith, who plays Dr. Erica Hahn (a doctor who recently realized she is gay), has been axed from Grey's Anatomy.
Even more, I'm told by those who work on the ABC series that the gay-themed storylines and gay characters are being downplayed and even erased from upcoming scripts.
And that goes for the series' latest newcomer, Melissa George of Alias, who joins the show this month...
"Melissa came on as a lesbian character," a reliable insider tells me, "but they changed the script and now she isn't. She starts off flirting with Callie but it never goes anywhere."
Grey's has included a prominent bisexual/lesbian storyline this season in the blossoming relationship between Hahn (Smith) and Callie (Sara Ramirez). I'm told that that storyline will end abruptly in this Thursday's episode, which will be Smith's last appearance on the series.
"They don't really give her a goodbye," an ABC source tells me. "It ends rather abruptly."
E.W.'s Michael Ausiello first broke the news of Brooke's dismissal today. "I was very excited when they told me that Erica and Callie were going to have this relationship," Brooke told E.W. "And I really hoped we were going to show what happens when two women fall in love and that they were going to treat it like any heterosexual couple on TV. And so I was surprised and disappointed when they just suddenly told me that they couldn't write for my character any more."
ABC also dismissed Rebecca Romijn—who plays transgender Alexis Meade—as a series regular from Ugly Betty at the end of last season. Could this be a new trend with the network, or just another unfortunate scandal Grey's will withstand?
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Don't watch the show (or TV in general at all) but I read it wasn't because her characters a lesbian she's gone.
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I'd like to state uncategorically that Brooke Smith was not fired because of her character's change in sexual orientation. She was fired because of her reluctance to put the lotion in the fucking basket. The producers have stated that this was a very difficult decision, given that Ms. Smith was an American girl, raised on promises, and it's quite painful to disappoint such people. Nerd points are available for picking up on the references above.
Furthermore, memorial services for at least one of my anticipated future erections have been announced following the confirmation that Melissa George will not be making out with another woman on national television.
(I'd also like to state that I don't actually watch Grey's Anatomy.)
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COuld we have a nerd to cool person translation?
God, it's so painful, something that's so close and still so far out of reach...
Nor do I. If it's true that this isn't about her character being a lesbian character, then this is the second time in about three months that I've been snookered by celebrity news. This is why I don't care about celebrity news.
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DAMMIT HAMBY!!!!! You made the gay chubby dating ads show back up again!!!
Your god's silence speaks loud and clear
SCORE!
Actually, I am showing a Christian dating site... curious.... very curious...
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Mine was showing a black gay dating site.
Maybe it's like that amusement park planet on the old Star Trek...shows you what you want but don't tell anybody about.
Burn.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
DDA, you haven't awarded me my nerd points yet. I'm hurt
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Oh, I should point out that I couldn't think of a reference from the movie, so I just went with the song. I didn't spot any more nerd references.
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Could somebody please explain? I don't understand nerd/geek stuff in the slightest.
I didn't actually see you comment on the Silence of the Lambs thing, there. I wouldn't worry about it in any case. You're definitely way high up in the nerd points standings.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
I didn't comment on Silence because I couldn't think of anything clever. I commented on the excerpt from "American Girl" by Tom Petty by quoting lyrics from later on in the song.
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The Petty song is playing just before the Senator's daughter is kidnapped by serial killer (lotion in the basket or it gets the hose again) freak. Which has now ruined the song for me.
I crave nerd points too.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
Well I'll be damned... so it is...
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