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Nathaniel Grey
Entertainment Editor
June 15, 2012

The Gifts of Prometheus

Prometheus star Logan Marshall Green joins Milk's James Franco and Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg in the film version of the novel Black Dog Red Dog. Another project will feature Logan as Tennesse Williams in the film Lonely Hunter, a planned 2013 biographical film about Southern novelist Carson McCullers, played by Sucker Punch vet Jena Malone. After the success of her book 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,' she lived in Paris for a few years where she hung out with the likes of Williams and Truman Capote. For those who saw Prometheus and found Logan an new object of their adorations, here's a little trinket you can ad to your fantasies. Logan has a twin brother named Tyler Marshall Green.

I was most surprised to learn that the new BBC America miniseries Inside Men, debuting June 20th is not about a Gay proctologist. Featuring Luther vets Steven Mackintosh and Warren Brown plus Outcast's hunky Ashley Walters the series centers on million dollar/pound robbery at a security firm.

Who could have imagined an interest in a reunion of people involved with the 1975 box office bomb musical At Long Last Love. Leave it to director Peter Bogdanovich to bring back it's cast members, The L Word vet Cybill Shepherd and Burt Reynolds for his next film One Lucky Moon. With no Cole Porter songs in sight, this intentional comedy looks at a Western Town amusement park which is in the way of a new mall development. The cast also features Willie Nelson, Tom Petty and an actress whose name has been the envy of drag queens the world over, Collen Camp.

On the subject of drag queen. It's Sequin-poloza time as LOGO starts another season of RuPaul's Drag Race on June 18. Among the many positive things that can be said about Ru Paul, he's a rare drag performer who has equally good taste in male and female clothing. You'd think the guy was going to a movie premiere when he recently popped into the WeHo Target store. Also on June 18, author Dan Bucantinsky signs copies of his book 'Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?' at the Barnes & Noble at The Grove at 7pm.

It's a trio of Gay role vets in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's upcoming film on porn star Linda Lovelace. Going simply by the title, Lovelace, the film stars Will & Grace vet Bobby Cannavale, Howl star James Franco and The Birdcage scene stealer Hank Azaria. Currently filming around LA, the picture features an amazing cast with Mamma Mia alum Amanda Seyfried, The Hunger Games Wes Bentley, Kaboom's Juno Temple, plus Sharon Stone, The OC's Adam Brody as porn star Harry Reems and Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker as Gloria Steinem. Now isn't that hard to swallow.

Am I the only one who raised an eyebrow at the recent 'The Final 14' episode of The Glee Project? The concluding music video, featured finalists singing Lady Gaga's The Edge of Glory as they arrived in Hollywood. One at the Pantages Theatre, another cruising down Sunset Blvd or passing the Paladium and other cliched images. Yet for some reason, they chose to show transgender, female to male pre-op contestant Tyler, buying a hot dog from a street vendor. Really? That's not a Freudian slip, that's a Freudian Kaftan.

Singer Leann Rimes joins the Gay Mens Chorus of LA in a performance at Beverly Hills' Saban Theatre on June 23rd. The next day brings a beef-tacular event on June 24 when downtown's LA Live hosts the premiere of the Magic Mike. Based on the earlier career of actor Channing Tatum, who also stars, the event will hopefully offer live appearances by fellow cast members White Collar's Matt Bomer, True Blood's Joe Manganiello, CSI Miami's Adam Rodriguez, Beastly star Alex Pettyfer and Matthew McConaughey. In non- male stripper roles there is Queer As Folk alum Michelle Clunie, Comedian Gabriel Iglesias and Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough. The film, unlike it's lead stars, opens wide on June 29th.

Someone who could be a stripper, Mark Wahlberg is expected at the June 21st Grauman's Chinese Theatre premiere of his new comedy film Ted. Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane voices the character of Mark's real living Teddy Bear which came to life through a childhood wish. Now an adult with a girlfriend, Mark's character finds the obnoxious truck driver personality plush toy is becoming a problem. Other cast members who may appears at the screen are Black Swan vet Mila Kunis, V star Laura Vandervoort, Avatar's Giovanni Ribisi, and Community's Joel McHale.

If you are a Muppet fan or just a fan of improvisational comedy, DO NOT MISS the two show of Henson Alternative's Stuffed and Unstrung, formerly known as Puppet Up, at the Largo at the Coronet on June 25. Following the wake of sold out shows in New York and Chicago, the show features about a half dozen puppeteers who, with the help of co-creator comedian Patrick Bristow, take audience suggestions for comedy skits while selecting from 40 different Henson puppets. Their most recent show had me in hysterics throughout. One skit, about a Gay son who returns home as a zombie, had the mother notice him on her lawn with other members of the living dead. The skit ended with her genius line of "Oh darn, leave it to Gay zombies to organize."

On the subject of horror. One week after MTV debuts the spin-off reality series Snooki and JWoww, TLC brings the new Tori Spelling reality show called Craft Wars on June. 26. WOWW, Halloween came early this year. On the following night MTV airs the latest version of The Real World this one set in the island of St. Thomas. Is that the one named after Marlo?

Comic Book and Spider-Man fans will be lining up around the Regency Village Theater in Westwood Village on June 28 for the premiere of The Amazing Spider-Man. Someone who that would surprise no one if seen wearing Spider-Man tights or even Underoos, Russell Brand, gets his own late night chat show starting June 28 on FX.

The brooding and beautiful star of Gus Van Sant's Elephant, John Robinson joins Lou Taylor Pucci and Jeffrey vet Steven Weber in the independent The Movie about a young man's experiences in LA. Robinson will be seen with The Lord of the Rings icon Sean Astin and Twilight's Michael Welch in the military thriller The Boys of Abu Graib. The story follows a solider at the notorius Iraqi prison who befriends an Iraqi detainee.

A beauty of another kind is actor Matt Barr who many fell in love with from his not frequent enough shirtless scenes in the recent mini series Hatfields and McCoys. Barr is both star and Executive Producer for a planned film version of the Jim Dent book 12 Mighty Orphans.

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