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even months after singing live for the kiddies at the White House Easter Egg Roll, some of the cast members of Fox’s “Glee” have donned Pout-by-Victoria’s Secret bras, American Apparel panties and, weirdly, Christian Louboutin pumps for a photo spread in the November issue of GQ. Fox, its high school musical “Glee,” self- appointed TV watchdog group the Parents Television Council and GQ each hit the publicity mother lode Wednesday when the photos somehow leaked (GQ had planned to release them later in the week, in what we’re sure would have been an unquestionably dignified fashion) and PTC leapt to action. The photo gallery destined
for GQ’s November issue (on newsstands Oct. 26!) shows “Glee” cast members Lea Michele and Dianna Agron prancing about what GQ tells us is Hollywood High School in their undies and a few scraps of clothing they’re having one heck of a time keeping on. See them cling to shreds of clothes while straddling benches in the locker room, straddling “Glee” hunk Cary Monteith, licking lollipops in ways Mommy didn’t teach them, while checking out books in the school library. Whatever happened to hall monitors? “How the hell did a show about high school theater geeks come to be the biggest TV show in America?” GQ faux-wonders in the intro to the photo shoot and, we’re sure, decidedly less revealing interview with the three cast members. (In the interest of
accuracy, “Glee” is not the biggest TV show in America. ABC’s Monday “Dancing With the Stars” performance show is the biggest show in America. We’re sure GQ will want to correct that.) For its part, Parents Television Council got untold amounts of free publicity on Wednesday from The Reporters Trolling for Hot TV Stories With Great Art Elements to Slap on Their Blogs, when the professional tsk-tskers e-mailed their outrage toward the show’s producers for having
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FALL IN LOVE WITH THE DRUMMER: Cory Monteith is fully clothed in one of the few photos from the GQ magazine “Glee” spread that can run guilt-free in a family newspaper.
agreed to the “hyper-sexualized GQ photo shoot.” Among PTC’s complaints, it
says the photo shoot “borders on pedophilia.” “Many children who flocked to
‘High School Musical’ have grown into ‘Glee’ fans,” PTC President Tim Winter bemoaned in his organization’s missive. “They are now being treated to
seductive, in-your-face poses of the underwear-clad female characters posing in front of school lockers, one of them opting for a full-frontal crotch shot. By authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show’s direction. And it isn’t
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good for families.” Over at GQ, Editor in Chief Jim Nelson took a break from dancing the Happy Dance on Wednesday to issue a statement of his own: “The Parents Television Council must not be watching much TV these days and should learn to divide reality from fantasy. . . . As often happens in Hollywood, these ‘kids’ are in their twenties. Cory Monteith is almost 30! I think they’re old enough to do what they want.” I ask you: Do we need yet another illustration as to why no good can come of having thespians who are staring at “3-0” playing teens on TV shows? “Glee” is on something of
a tear this season, averaging more than 13 million viewers; during the same weeks last year, it averaged only 8.7million viewers. And yet, Fox primly declined to comment about the sexy GQ “Glee” shoot and story. Ditto “Glee” exec producers. Sigh. PTC, on the other hand, was just brimming with comments: “With a demonstrated
market of eager fans for an entertaining, musical- themed program like ‘Glee,’ we wonder why the show’s creators feel the need for such graphic sexualization of women,” Winter said. He added: “Interestingly, the photos of the male character showed him wearing a shirt, tie and vest.”
No sanity in sharing
Good news Washington! Comedy Central has lined
up plenty of portable potties to accommodate even the most optimistic estimates for attendance at its Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall the afternoon of Oct. 30. “The organizers have arranged and contracted for facilities that exceed the recommended amount by the National Park Service,” Comedy Central said in a statement Wednesday in response to our inquiry. “We are confident that our rally guests
will be comfortable." This had been of some concern since, earlier this month, the New York Times reported the Marine Corps Marathon had gone to great lengths to make sure its portable toilets would not be used by rally attendees. (The annual Marine Corps Marathon is happening the morning after Comedy Central’s rally.) Marathon director Rick Nealis told the paper that instead of using the usual plastic-strip ties that keep interlopers out of traveling toilets on the eve of the race, he planned to go that extra mile and would, for the first time use “real, live padlocks” on the 100-ish potties he was setting up
Saturday afternoon, now it will come around 10 p.m.” Nealis said the whole sharing thing really did not work for him.
“One of the problems was,
what if everybody did use [the porta-potties] and you ran out of toilet paper . . . runners would be tweeting, and on Facebook, and that’s not something, on our level of expertise . . . that they’re expecting from the Marine Corps Marathon."
Satellite rallies Soon after Comedy Central
stars Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced they were coming to Washington for their Rally to Restore Sanity and
“The Parents Television Council must not be watching much TV these days and should learn to
divide reality from fantasy.” — GQ Editor in Chief Jim Nelson
around the Mall on Oct. 30 in advance of the race, to make absolutely sure no Stewart or Colbert fans could enjoy them. “I understand that they were
having problems ordering porta- potties, that they might have to go as far as Baltimore to get them, but I just didn’t want to share,” Nealis told the Times in what in journalistic circles is called The Money Quote. But when Washington Post
TeamTV Comedy Central bureau chief Emily Yahr called Nealis that afternoon, plans had changed. Even though National Park
Service spokesman Bill Line assured TeamTV’s Mall bureau chief David Montgomery there will be enough toilets for rent in the greater Washington/ Baltimore area to accommodate both events, the Marine Corps Marathon decided it was taking no chances. It amended its order to make sure its traveling toilets would be delivered to the Mall after all the Stewart and Colbert fans have gone away. “We realized the smarter thing to do is just to have them delivered later,” Nealis explained. “So where I might have the delivery come at 2 p.m.
March to Keep Fear Alive, respectively, Facebook pages for satellite rallies started cropping up for cities around the country. This week, organizers of a rally in Los Angeles told the Hollywood Reporter they had secured a permit to host their event at Los Angeles’s famed MacArthur Park, where they plan to stream the D.C. event on a big screen. Other rallies are being planned in Chicago and San Francisco, among other places. Are they being organized by Comedy Central? you ask. We did too. “While we’re flattered by the outpouring of enthusiasm for the ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’ and the way it has inspired satellite rallies across the country and globe, neither Comedy Central nor ‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’ or ‘The Colbert Report’ are affiliated with any rallies other than the October 30 ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’ on The National Mall in Washington, D.C.,” a Comedy Central spokesman told the TV Column via e-mail.
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