Deep Inside Hollywood – QSaltLake

By Romeo San Vicente

What happens at The Abbey? It looks like the usual.

Move over Fire Island a show that hasnt even aired yet but now has to move over, anyway because theres another queer-themed reality series ready to be a very bad influence on your summer viewing habits. Its called What Happens at The Abbey. It is not about a monastery. It is, however, about an exceptionally popular gay bar/restaurant in West Hollywood that happens to be located right next door to Pump, the place you all know and hate-love from Vanderpump Rules. Lots of really pretty people work at the Abbey the one thing they all have in common and their respective sexualities, genders and races run the gamut, so a good variety of attractive couplings are sampled in the shows preview trailer. Expect sex, screaming and very little sobriety (a disembodied voice yells Penis! in the trailer, so thats promising). And if the show doesnt deliver healthy amounts of all three, then were going to be bored fast. It premieres on E! Sunday May 4.

The Clawscome out

We already miss Big Little Lies. And Feudwill nearly be over by the time you read this. So now that were hooked on TV featuring female-driven misdeeds, where are we supposed to go next for a dose of bad behavior? Luckily, its TNT to the rescue with Claws. Set in a Florida nail salon staffed by a group of women who seem predisposed to setting it off, the show stars Niecy Nash, Judy Reyes (Devious Maids), Carrie Preston (The Good Wife), Jenn Lyon (Justified), and Karrueche Tran (The Nice Guys) as manicurists who find themselves involved in crime, murder and arson you know, Florida stuff. We assume there will be adult language, adult situations, violence and nudity, all the TV-MA qualities we crave the most. But if not, at least there will be Nash, a woman we would follow off a cliff, Thelma & Louise-style, if she demanded it. Clawspremieres June 11, and to get in the mood were going to go commit some victimless crimes and see if we like it.

Claire Danes, Jim Parsons and A Kid Called Jake

Were always rooting for transgender stories and creators, and were cheerleading hard right now for Transparents Silas Howard one of Hollywoods few trans directors and his new project, A Kid Called Jake. The feature film, adapted from a Lincoln Center play by Daniel Pearle, will star Claire Danes and Jim Parsons as a married couple with a transgender child. Their 4-year-old, Jake, prefers to dress up and play princess rather than as male-identified fantasy heroes, and its up to the parents to sort out a response that will allow their little one to thrive. The film is in pre-production now, and it couldnt be timelier, as the current presidential administrations cruel anti-LGBT platform has already started attacking trans children by rolling back public school restroom policies that would allow children to use the one that corresponds to their gender identity. In other words were primed for a little art as activism, especially if it makes Republicans lose their minds.

Queer seniors are making Christmas

Every time a tween, teen or Millennial star comes out in Hollywood, our heart grows three sizes, because theyll never have to worry about the celebrity closet. But theres a special place in our formerly shrunken hearts for the senior queer actors who blazed the trail, and we especially love British character actors Simon Callow (A Room With a View he was the skinny-dipping vicar) and Miriam Margolyes (you know her best as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potterfilms). Theyve both been out forever, working for nearly as long, and we adore them. Theyre the kind of people that we scan IMDB credits for look, its perfectly normal to fixate on awesome character actors, dont let anyone tell you its not and theyre the ones making us watch something weve never heard of. Chances are you will hear of their upcoming project, director Bharat Nalluris (Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day) The Man Who Invented Christmas, a sort-of biopic about Charles Dickens and the events that led him to write A Christmas Carol. Oh yes, Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) and Christopher Plummer are the leads in this one. Thats nice. Well just be catching it (in late 2018) for the co-stars.

Romeo San Vicente recommends Miriam Margolyes as the weird landlady in the even weirder New Wave disco cult musical The Apple.

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