The new English movie Get Real, which opened April 30th in the USA, is the best coming-of-age film since Denmark's You are Not Alone. The star of the film is Ben Silverstone, and the charming, witty sensitivity of his portrayal is certain to make him into a major teen idol. Prior to the 1999 American Film Market, our On-Line Reviewer urged film buyers to see Get Real solely on the basis of Silverstone's earlier memorable work in The Browning Version and his smaller role as the young Humbert Humbert in Adrian Lyne's adaption of Lolita. Silverstone's performance as "Steven" shows that the promise he showed as a boy has been fulfilled as a teenager. If Get Real gets wide release, not only will it prove to be a break-out role for Silverstone, but it will surely prove him to be the next big teenaged heart-breaker, as well. Ben Silverstone makes one-half of a beautiful couple no matter who he is with, and soon everyone from old queens to teenaged girls will be swooning in the aisles over him. Look out, Leonardo -- Ben Silverstone has arrived.

Is Ben Silverstone Gay? Surprisingly, no according to Simon Shore, who directed Get Real. We hate to spoil the fantasies of any of our visitors, but we nevertheless urge people to see Silverstone's film; his portrayal of Gay teen Steven Carter is quite convincing, which says much for his acting ability. Live long and prosper ambiguously, Ben Silverstone! ;)

(By the way, writer Patrick Wilde, upon whose play, What's Wrong With Angry? the film is based, is Gay, according to Shore.)

Well . . . uh . . . we have no idea. They both play male prostitutes in Gay writer/director Nickolas Perry's upcoming film Speedway Junky, however. Jordan's character, Eric, is totally Gay, while JTT's Steve is "buy-sexual" -- if you buy him you can have sex with him.

In one scene, Brower plants a wet one on co-star Jesse Bradford (King of the Hill, Far From Home: the Adventures of Yellow Dog, Hackers, etc.), which Bradford's character apparently does not appreciate. Silly boy! Someone not wanting Jordan Brower to kiss them is proof that Speedway Junky must be fiction. (Brower, by the way, is a much better actor than you'd think from the crappy televsion shows he has been in; he should definitely stick to feature films.)

On Sunday, 11 July 1999, Speedway Junky is scheduled to screen at the prestigious Director's Guild of America Theater on the world-famous Sunset Strip as part of the Outfest film festival. Outfest is the largest film festival in the Hollywood/Los Angeles area, and tickets go FAST! If you are a film lover and live in Los Angeles (or were thinking about a vacation here during the summer), 9 July to 18 July, during the festival, is one of the best times to visit Hollywood.

Here is the ticket information: General Admission prices are US $9.00 for non-Outfest members and US $8.00 for Outfest members (at some membership levels, the tickets are included as part of the membership package).

There are several degrees of membership in Outfest ranging from $25 for students, seniors and people with low income, to the "Executive Producer" level at US $1000 (of which $850 is tax deductible). There are various benefits to each level of membership, and anyone interested in joining should definitely visit their website to find out more about membership. One of the benefits is . . . priority ticket purchasing. Members at the "Director" level -- $350, with $250 tax deductible -- and above -- can buy tickets to any screening at Outfest TODAY (7 June, California time). Members at the "Assistant Director level is $150, with $100 tax deductible, can begin ordering tickets TOMORROW (frankly, we consider this an excellent bargain membership for vactioners or for people who just want to see some movies and go to the Filmmakers Party). General ticket sales do not begin until 19 June, by which date some screenings may have already sold out.

However, one of the reasons that Outfest is so popular is that they are responsive to their audience members: if a film sells out quickly (which Speedway Junky may well do, considering how popular it was at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival), Outfest leaves at least four "To Be Announced" slots open and they re-open ticket sales for the most popular films and have second (or even third) screenings.

Check the Outfest website daily if you want to keep track of the availability of Speedway Junky tickets, and note the following telephone number for ordering tickets (remembering that Outfest members can order before non-members)

This is a Los Angeles, California, USA telephone number, and office hours are dependent on Pacific Daylight Savings Time.

Yes, actually. In 1995, the globe-trotting international star, best known in the USA for playing a displaced California surfer dude in Airborne, opposite Seth Green of "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer," told an interviewer that he thought of himself as "a bisexual man who had not yet had a homosexual experience."

Judging by the hundreds of shirtless pix of the soon-to-be-23 McDermott which grace Internet sites around the world, there are thousands of men who would be quite happy to help Shane have his first Gay experience, assuming he hasn't already had it (and we can hope, can't we?)

As for Seth Green, he recently stated in an interview with "Buffy" co-star Allison Hannigan that friend Breckin Meyer, of Clueless, Can't Hardly Wait, and Dancer, Texas, Pop. 81 fame, was a "star whore." According to Ryan Phillippe, however, Meyer, with whom he had a sexy three-some along with Salma Hayek in the original director's cut of 54, Meyer apparently picked up Phillippe out of sympathy when the latter was waiting for a bus (a bad thing in Los Angeles) after they had separately attended an audition, and Meyer offered him a ride. Phillippe has finally revealed that Breckin Meyer was the previously un-named friend with whom he used to go carousing, engaging in the odd bit of tresspassing and pranksterism. Green has merely said that when Meyer first showed up with Phillippe, he said, "He followed me home. Can we keep him?" We can think of a lot of people who would be more than happy to keep any of the three stars. Reese Witherspoon, however, has claimed dibs on Ryan, who is her fiancee and the father of their child, who is due in September.

Gawds, we hope not, but he did take Monica Lewinsky to the London premiere of Gods and Monsters. Maybe he was just asking her for information on getting stains out of dresses. . . .

No. Ben Jorgenson is not a Gay teenager -- he just played one on television (and his screen father thought that his character was Gay in Break, too). But Ben is sooo cool about Gay issues that he has no problems "playing Gay." In fact, when Ben auditioned for the role of Kevin Sheffield on "All My Children" he wanted to act like his Gay roomie, but the producers thought the characterization was too effeminate, so he had to "butch up" Kevin. Ben is so cool that we have started a Ben Jorgenson Micro-Page.

Ben currently co-stars on Procter & Gamble's "As the World Turns," playing the key role of Chris Hughes.

OKAY, FANS, LISTEN UP: we are an UNofficial site for a lot of your favorite actors, but we don't get paid anything by any of them or any of their "people," nor do we get paid by any of the movie studios or television networks whose films and shows we promote. We run our website as a FREE public service for you, our visitors, and we hope to keep things that way. Unfortunately, that means that we cannot afford to buy a new scanner for transparencies (i.e., those stacks of wonderful COLOR pictures which we have piled up here, gathering dust) or a new video card to grab frames of your fave from movies or television shows, or a new high-speed modem so that we can update our web site constantly, instead of every other week or so, etc., etc.

In order to buy all of that neat hardware so that we can upgrade our page, we have caved in and gone commercial. That's right, folks, after almost two-and-a-half years without ANY ads on our web page, we have placed a few selected advertisements here and there within the actual text of our pages. These, unlike those annoying "pop-up" advertisements, are selected by us because we think that they offer goods and services of interest to you. If you "click through" to the businesses which we advertise (and especially if you BUY something), THEY will pay us -- not much, but we hope that if enough of you click through (and hopefully shop online) we will earn enough to buy the equipment that we want in order to upgrade these pages, add more color pics, video and audio clips, etc. If you like our web site, please patronize the businesses which we advertise here so that we can improve our pages.

Remember, the ads which actually appear in the text of our pages are placed there by us, not by Geocities or anyone else, and we have selected which ads go where as part of our own twisted design aesthetics. Clicking through to those ads helps us to help keep you informed of your favorite performers and the movies, plays, and television shows in which they appear. Please patronize these advertisers. (Or else send us lots and lots of money so that we don't need to accept advertisements.)

Um . . . we haven't a clue . . . except that the first girl he says he fell in love with was named "Vanessa." Jackson does however play ice princess Blaine Tuttle in Cruel Intentions, and does a very good job of playing "the beast with two backs" with co-star Eric Mabius. As Pacey Witter, of course, Joshua was the first person to stand up for Jack McPhee on "Dawson's Creek" when Jack was forced out of the closet. (Of course, too, it was the least Pacey could do under the circumstances!) Moreover, Pacey, who as fans will recall, always insisted that his brother was Gay, recently told Dawson and Jack, in response to Jack's question if he would help to cater a wedding at the Ice House, "For sixty dollars, I'd cater both your asses."

Considering that Nick Stabile is not scheduled to return in the near future as Jack's love interest, maybe Pacey is going to keep it all in the McPhee family. . . .

As far as we are concerned, if Joshua Jackson isn't Gay, he should be named an Honorary Friend of Dorothy, anyway, just because he is so darned cool.

Readers of our Danny Masterson page may recall that in an interview with Movieline, Danny said that the oddest rumor he'd heard about himself was that he was Gay. This was news to us: we certainly hadn't heard that rumor, and we try to get all the dirt we can on everyone we can. Chad Allen (by his real name) we have read about, and Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche we've spoken to and written about, and everyone knows about Danny "Who's the Boss?" Pintauro, but Danny Masterson?! Great brother-in-law material maybe, but boy-boyfriend . . . ?!

Then we happened to run his brother Christopher's name on a new search engine on which we were listed and - POP! - up we came on a list of sites for young Gay people. We have no problems at all with that, BUT, there was an error in our site description listing which may have led some people to think that most or all of the MANY people we write about are Gay or Lesbian. Sorry to break some hearts (and happy to set others a-flutter), but it ain't necessarily so.

Many of the performers about whom we write, or whose work we review, or whose pictures we post have played Gay or Lesbian characters or appeared in Gay- or Lesbian-themed movies, but (DUH . . .) that doesn't mean they are necessarily Gay or Lesbian, although some are and are quite open about it.

Ben Affleck, that hunk of Armageddon, has played in one Lesbian-oriented film in which he kisses a male co-star and has personally directed a short film with a . . . well . . . we think it has a Lesbian theme, but the last time we checked, little Ben wasn't a Lesbian.

Ryan Phillippe, who is leaving people dripping with sweat as "Shane" in 54 STARTED his career playing Gay teen Billy Douglas on One Life to Live, and he kissed his good friend Breckin Meyer in the original version of 54, but we're fairly certain that if we asked his live-in girlfriend, actress Reese Witherspoon if Ryan is Gay, she would probably burst out laughing.

What Ryan and Ben are is cool about the subject of being Gay, and we are happy to highlight their work. As for Danny, he has said that his supposed Gayness is only a rumor, so we'll take his word for it (the more so since he lives in the Hollywood Hills with his girlfriend-the-model!), but, given Danny's work on "Cybill" and in Fox Television's "That 70's Show," we're fairly sure he's cool, too, so we're glad to feature him. (And a lot of you seem to be, too, because five to ten percent of our e-mail is about the Masterson brothers!)

As for Chad Allen . . . well, the story is that he is Gay, but we've seen him frequently around Hollywood, and only once was he not with long-time gal-pal Heather Tom. (And we'd double our number of visitors if we'd had a camera to photograph him and the guys he was with on that one occasion when he was having lunch with the guys and Heather wasn't with them!!!) Both Chad Allen and Heather Tom, are, however, very active in charity work, especially in fund-raising to fight AIDS, and they co-produced and co-starred in a production of the famous Neil Simon play Biloxi Blues which features a significant Gay character. As for their private lives, we speculate just like everybody else does, but we think EVERYONE should be grateful to them for all of the charity work which they have done through the years. (And they do make such a cute couple, even if they really are "just good friends. . . .")

What you will absolutely NOT (repeat: N - O - T) find on our web site are people who are definitely and openly UNCOOL about other people's lifestyles and sexual orientations. For example, one of THE most popular actors in the world, a certain Australian from Peeskill, New York, who early-on co-starred in a war film with Mark Lee (who later went on to star in the Australian Gay film The Everlasting Secret Family) is a dog-flesh-eating, woman-oppressing, virulently homophobic person. Even though he won an Oscar(r) for directing a film in the same year that another Australian pig (the cute, four-legged kind) was up for a nomination, we NEVER, EVER, EVER post any pictures or news (or even use the name of) the dog-eating homophobe, and NEVER see or review ANY of his films, no matter how many thousands of extra visitors we'd get if we wrote about him. We would like our visitors to feel comfortable here on our home page, and writing about two-legged swine isn't kosher in our book.

We hope this clears up any misconceptions anyone may have had about anyone whom we feature on our website.

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