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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Hairspray Live Gets Rosie O’Donnell & Sean Hayes

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sean-hayesUS TV Network NBC is busy readying its next live musical event, and this time they’re going for a pretty modern one, with a television event featuring Hairspray. The cast already includes Jennifer Hudson, Harvey Fierstein, Kristin Chenoweth, Ariana Grande, Martin Short, as well as newcomer Maddie Baillio in the central role of Tracy Turnblad.

Now a couple of more have joined the throng, with Rosie O’Donnell and Sean Hayes signing on to star, according to Variety. Hayes is set to be Mr. Pinky, owner of Mr. Pinky’s Hefty Hideaway, while O’Donnell will play the role of the gym teacher.

Hairspray follows teenager Tracy, who becomes part of a fight to integrate a local Baltimore dance TV show, which normally only allows black people on once a month, during ‘Negro Day’. Mr. Pinky arrives on the scene after Tracy becomes a dancer on the show, as he wants her to be the spokesperson for his shop.

The live event is scheduled to happen in December.

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Sean Hayes Marries Partner Scott Icenogle

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sean-hayes-wedding-picHe’s ‘Just Jack’ no longer.

Only a couple of months ago it was revealed that Sean Hayes was probably an engaged man after he was spotted wearing a ring, however at the time his reps said, “Sean Hayes and Scott Icenogle have been together for eight years. They are not yet married but they have been engaged for quite some time.”

The ‘not yet married’ hasn’t lasted long, as it’s been revealed, as Hayes announced via Twitter that, ‘Here’s a #TBT photo of @scotticenogle and me getting married last week. Took us 8 years but we did it!’

It’s a very casual announcement for a big milestone in his life. It would probably have been better for him if the sitcom he’s recently been appearing in, The Millers, hadn’t been cancelled in the same week as he married though.

We wish both him and Scott extremely well! [Read more…]

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Sean Hayes’ Gay-Themed Sitcom Sean Saves The World Gets Cancelled

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sean-saves-the-worldLike The New Normal and Partners before it, another gay-themed US sitcom falls before it even got to a second season. In this case production has been shut down on Sean Hayes’ Sean Saves The World after only 12 episodes have aired, with another two in the can.

It effectively means its been cancelled, although NBC hasn’t officially made that announcement yet. The network had ordered 18 episoded, but took the decision to cease production on the final four.

The show followed Hayes as a gay dad who’s recently been given full-time care of his daughter, Ellie, and must now raise her as child as a single father.

It’s not known if NBC plans to air the two remaining episodes or not – there’s a good chance they won’t , as the show would have been on hiatus for the Winter Olympics anyway, so this would allow them to give it a clean break.

However NBC isn’t completely giving up on everything gay, because as we reported yesterday, they’ve just ordered a pilot for a comedy about a lesbian who gets pregnant just as her straight male best friend gets married.

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Trailer For Sean Hayes’ New Gay Single Dad Sitcom Debuts

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Over the weekend, Sean Hayes’ new sitcom, Sean Saves The World, was picked up to air on US TV this autumn. Hayes seems to have spent the last few years trying to escape the shadow of Will & Grace, but now he seems happy to channel his inner Jack, although slight less camp this time around.

Now a trailer and a couple of clips from the sitcom have been released, giving us a look at Hayes as a gay man raising a teenage daughter as a single dad.

To be honest it all looks a little generic, but it could fun. We’ll get to see more later this year.

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Cheyenne Jackson Replaces Sean Hayes In A New Movie

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Cheyenne JacksonIt not very often that one openly gay actor gets replaced by another one in a movie, but that’s what’s happened with the indie 6 Dance Lessons in 6 Weeks. Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes was due to star opposite Gena Rowlands in the movie, but he’s had to drop out (probably because he’s busy working on a pilot for a possible new TV show), and has been replaced by the hotness that is Cheyenne Jackson.

Jackson will play high-spirited dance instructor Michael Minetti (Cheyenne’s years on Broadway in the likes of Xanadu, The Performers and Damn Yankees should have prepared him well to get his dance on). As you may have guessed from Hayes being replaced by Jackson, Michael is gay.

Deadline reports that ‘Gena Rowlands co-stars as Lily Harrison, a retiree who hires Minetti to give her private dance lessons in her St. Petersburg Beach, FL condo. The unlikely pair soon develop a friendship apart from dance.’ The relationship starts with lies – she pretending her husband is still alive, him saying he’s married to a woman – but soon deepens into something more, with both coming to understand things about the other beyond the stereotypes.

6 Dance Lessons is based on the hit play by Richard Alfieri, which has had a Broadway run and has been seen in 20 countries. Arthur Allan Seidelman directs the film version from a screenplay by Alfieri. Jackson will next be seen opposite Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in HBO’s Behind The Candelabra.

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Sean Hayes To Star In A New Father-Daughter Comedy TV Pilot

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sean-hayesIt’s six years since Will & Grace left out TV screens. Since then the show’s outrageous Jack, Sean Hayes, has come out, had success on Broadway, made various appearance in films and TV shows and branched out as an executive producer on the likes of TV’s Grimm and Hot In Cleveland.

Now he might be returning to our television screen in his own show, as NBC has ordered a pilot episode for a new father-daughter comedy series in which he’ll star. Deadline reports that the show ‘centers on Sean (Hayes), who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter, who just moved in, while navigating a temperamental new boss at work.’

There’s no info on whether the character is gay or straight. Back in 2011 Sean helped develop a show about a gay couple raising a 12-year-old, but that series wasn’t picked up. While they didn’t want that series, NBC (which also aired Will & Grace), is keen to get Hayes back on our screens, so hopefully this new show will have more luck.

Sean will next be seen on our screens in a guest role in the second season of Smash, which will reunite him with Will & Grace star Debra Messing.

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New Three Stooges Trailer – Pratfall madness

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It took a while for the Farrelly Brothers to get their Three Stooges movie off the ground, and this trailer suggests why, as it’s a risky mix of biopic and zany comedy, and brings the Stooges right up into the modern day. You’ll have to take a look below to see if you feel stooge type comedy works when it’s about iPhones, but Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulis sure look like they’re having fun. It really makes you wonder what it would have been like when Larry, Curly & Moe were set to be played by Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro. It hits cinemas May 4th.

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The Three Stooges Teaser Trailer

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It took a while for the Farrelly Brothers to get their Three Stooges movie off the ground, and the teaser trailer suggests why, as it’s a risky mix of biopic and zany comedy, and brings the Stooges right up into the modern day. You’ll have to take a look below to see if you feel stooge type comedy works when it’s about iPhones, but Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulis sure look like they’re having fun. It really makes you wonder what it would have been like when Larry, Curly & Moe were set to be played by Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro. It hits cinemas May 4th.

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First Look At The Three Stooges

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The first pics from both the Farrelly brothers’ The Three Stooges and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie had popped up online. You can see the Stooges one above, via USA Today, which is the first image we’ve had of Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe, Sean Hayes as Larry, and Will Sasso as Curly that we’ve had where they aren’t in silhouette. The guys certainly look the part, and we’ll be able to see if they can pull off the Stooge magic next April.

Below you can see the first shots and a behind-the-scene image from Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s feature length stop-motion version of his 1984 short. It’s been in the works for year, and as stop-motion takes so long still won’t be in cinemas until October 2012, but you can see the first official pics here (via EW).

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First Three Stooges Poster Emerges

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The Farrelly Brothers had a surprising amount of difficulty getting The Three Stooges off the ground, with both financing and cast issues resulting in the initially explosive trio of Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro ending up as the less starry Chris Diamantopoulos (Moe), Sean Hayes (Larry), and Will Sasso (Curly).

They’re a talented bunch, but as they’re not a-list, it’s probably why Fox has gone for the silhouette approach with this first poster – after all, the Stooges, even in black, are more famous than the people playing them. There undoubtedly will be a lot more for us to see before the movie opens next April.

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