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...about sex," says gay-boy-next-door Michael (Hal Sparks) in QAF's two-hour pilot (Showtime, Sundays, 10 p.m., starting Dec. 3). That is an exaggeration, but just barely. This adaptation of the controversial 1999 British cult hit series about a group of young gay friends is also about challenging gay and straight shibboleths, about relationships and responsibility...
...There are more gay characters on TV now, but they're mostly clowns or eunuchs," says Ron Cowen, who executive produces the show and co-wrote the pilot with his life partner, Daniel Lipman. The two have battled the networks to get gay characters on the air since they wrote the Emmy-winning An Early Frost, the first TV movie about aids, back in 1985. When they created NBC's Sisters in 1991, says Lipman, they tried unsuccessfully to make one of the leads gay. So they were attracted by the British QAF's "unapologetic" attitude--about things like drug...
...three jukeboxes that functions like, well, a jukebox--only without the quarters. You can select your songs in a flash (they start playing instantly) and queue up new tunes even as the old ones are playing. The Nomad would be perfect for a long road trip with your co-pilot playing deejay--except, of course, for that pesky four-hour battery life. (Remote Solutions solves that problem by shipping its jukebox with a car-outlet adapter...
...papers in the Oval Office when he heard what he thought was a housefly and jumped up to get a swatter. Wilson then looked out the window and saw a biplane zooming down on the White House, with Lincoln Beachey perched at the controls. Beachey, then considered the best pilot in America, buzzed the White House again and again and flew stunts around the Washington Monument, to the awe of Wilson. Today the airspace above the White House is designated P-56 by the FAA--the P standing for "prohibited area"--and it is rigidly policed by air-traffic controllers...
Larry Aaronson is not a typical teacher. He used to teach in Pilot House, an alternative program that was popular with students and parents. And he was the only teacher in Pilot who actively supported the restructuring...