{"id":235,"date":"2006-06-09T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/235"},"modified":"2006-06-09T19:23:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T00:23:22","slug":"well-that-about-sums-it-up-doesnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/235","title":{"rendered":"Well That About Sums It Up Doesn’t It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m eating a quick dinner and watching, against my better judgment, the TV news broadcasts…and I get fed up and I flip around the satellite channels…and there’s Logo, that gay channel that very seldom has anything on it that I want to watch…and somehow the listings on the TV guide are severely truncated.  The Complete Tales of the City<\/em> is listed merely as Tales…  Round Trip Ticket <\/em>is listed as Trip.  <\/em>There’s a listing for Latter…that I suspect is for Latter Days<\/em>, one of the few same sex romances I’ve ever watched worthy of being called a romance.  So I navigate over to that timeslot and click for the program listing.  Here’s what I got:\n<\/p>\n

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Latter Days<\/strong> – Romance – Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey.  A young Mormon missionary has a homosexual relationship after moving from Idaho to Los Angles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well that about sums it up, doesn’t it?  And in that spirit, I would like to offer to the program guide editors of DirectTV my own set of quick movie summaries:<\/p>\n

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Casablanca<\/strong>:  An American expatriate has a heterosexual affair with the opposite sex lover of a wanted resistance fighter.<\/p>\n

Sleepless in Seattle<\/strong>: A man’s son from a prior heterosexual relationship calls a radio talk show in the hope of finding his father a new heterosexual partner.<\/p>\n

Love Story<\/strong>: Heterosexuality means never having to say you’re sorry. <\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights<\/strong>: Members of two wealthy families on the English moors engage in furtive heterosexual relationships and ruin each other’s lives.<\/p>\n

Ghost<\/strong>: The murdered heterosexual lover of a woman comes back to haunt her.<\/p>\n

An Affair to Remember<\/strong>: A woman has an affair with a person of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n

Romeo & Juliet<\/strong>: Teenagers have a heterosexual relationship against the wishes of their parents.\n<\/p>\n

Notting Hill<\/strong>: A bookshop owner desires a heterosexual relationship with a famous star who buys a book in his shop.<\/p>\n

Never Been Kissed<\/strong>: A young reporter has heterosexual feelings for a teacher she has been ordered to write a negative article about.<\/p>\n

Runaway Bride<\/strong>: A woman leaves many heterosexual lovers waiting at the altar.<\/p>\n

Mystic Pizza<\/strong>: Three women pursue heterosexual relationships while making pizza.\n<\/p>\n

Gone With the Wind<\/strong>: A southern man has a heterosexual relationship with a southern woman.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That ought to keep them glued to their TV screens.<\/div>\n
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So I’m eating a quick dinner and watching, against my better judgment, the TV news broadcasts…and I get fed up and I flip around the satellite channels…and there’s Logo, that gay channel that very seldom has anything on it that I want to watch…and somehow the listings on the TV guide are severely truncated.  The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-gays-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}