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Harvard has an optional term bill fee, much like the one proposed by the plaintiffs in this case, and yet it would be difficult to argue that controversial groups on our campus cannot find funding. The academic wasteland of homogeneity and stifled expression the staff suggests the plaintiffs will bring about seems unlikely...
...time (depending on how you count and categorize them). Most are post-Ellen additions, and they are no longer limited to bit roles and punch lines (though TNT dropped a stereotypically gay "character" from World Championship Wrestling after receiving complaints about gay bashing). ABC's Oh Grow Up and Wasteland feature gay leads with actual, if tentative, love lives (Ford, a lawyer who's just left his marriage, and Russell, a closeted soap actor). Action has two gay regulars; one is Bobby G., a ruthless studio head whose massive male endowment symbolizes his show-biz power and the hetero fear...
...season of protest over the underrepresentation of racial minorities, series creators have managed to add gay characters without getting much pressure to do so. One factor is that while coming out is still daunting to actors, there are a number of openly gay TV writers and producers, including Wasteland's Kevin Williamson (who worked a regular character's coming-out story line into Dawson's Creek last season), Oh Grow Up's Alan Ball and W&G's co-creator and co-executive producer Max Mutchnick. In addition, the pioneering DeGeneres is developing a show for CBS. The network says...
Mutchnick, Ball and Williamson are mum on how much of their characters' love lives audiences will see this season, and network execs' willingness to show air kisses among actual gay characters is vague and jittery at best. Weirdly, both Wasteland and Oh Grow Up have sent their gay men on dates with men who turned out to be straight. Williamson says Russell will have an active love life, but Ball and Mutchnick say they're not that interested in entering the bedrooms of their straight or gay characters. True, that's convenient. But in a sense, to focus...
...writing her anthropology thesis on the "second coming of age" of her "lost" demograph--sorry, "generation"--and the ensemble illustrates it, suffering romantic and career woes and showing how sad it is to be young and gorgeous in the city. Reminiscent of Melrose Place's earnest, unfortunate first season, Wasteland adopts Dawson's chatty self-awareness but lacks its flashes of sweetness and magic...