IT's All relative in The Advocate

The Advocate has some articles about It's All Relative and Chris Seiber and John Benjamin Hickey
Relatively revolutionary

“Just presenting a gay couple matter-of-factly might be the most revolutionary thing we are doing,” explains Chuck Ranberg, the cowriter, cocreator, and co–executive producer who previously spent five seasons working on Frasier. “They are middle-class, they go to work, they’re not out dating, they are not always hot for each other, they have to cook, go to work, pay the bills.”

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Wow! Not out dating! Not always hot for each other! This gay marriage thing sounds REALLY exciting! Sign me up!

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Exactly, darling Namo. Like I posted once before:

Sitcom lesbians are nearly always young, pretty, preferably blonde and have big knockers. They are allowed to kiss. Particularly during sweeps week.

The only acceptable gay men on TV have to be fey, fruity and bitchy and make either oh-so-clever comments about show tunes or passable imitations of Thelma Ritter. They are not allowed to hold hands.

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The show could very well be great. I've been in the Lenny Clarke posse for a long time. I think Hickey is sexy. It's just that when people say that depicting the boredom and lack of sex in a marriage (and I am not saying that that isn't true, every married couple I know of who have been together two or more years -- gay or straight -- no longer has sex) is revolutionary, well, count me out of your revolution.

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Updated On: 9/30/03 at 04:25 PM