Where does Neil Patrick Harris find the time?  In addition to the series How I Met Your Mother, hosting awards shows, appearing on Glee, wrapped the movies Beastly and The Best and the Brightest, and currently filming, as frightening as it sounds - The Smurfs movie, the former Dr. Doogie Howser will also be appearing in A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas. If you saw Harold & Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, you'll remember that Neil was run over by Beverly D'Angelo's character so we'll have to wait for 2011 to see how the 3rd film explains his return. Perhaps NPH falls into one of the replicating machines which White Castles uses to make their hamburgers?

Having moved from our favorite villain on Heroes to our favorite Vulcan in Star Trek, Zachary Quinto takes on comedy in the film What's Your Number heading to theatres next year. The story follows a woman's journey to determine which of her past 20 boyfriends may have been Mr. Right. Joining Quinto are a bevy of babes (the male kind) including Chris Evans (Fantastic Four,) Ryan Phillippe (Crash,) Joel McHale (Community,) Matthew Bomer (White Collar,) and Dave Annabelle (Brothers & Sisters.)  Quinto can also be seen as Louis in the September off-broadway revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Appearing with Quinto are Robin Weigert (Hawthorne) as the angel and Billy Porter (Broken Hearts Club) as AIDS nurse Belize when the show opens September 14 at The Peter Norton Space on West 42nd Street.  Get your tickets now cause it's sure to sell out. 

The Television Critics Awards will be presented July 31st and there are a number of shows with strong Gay followings or GLBT characters on the nomination list. Included are Glee and Modern Family for Program of the Year. Mad Men for Outstanding Drama series, Glee, Modern Family and Party Down for Outstanding Comedy Series, Jane Lynch (Glee) and Eric Stonestreet (Cameron on Modern Family) for individual achievement in comedy. Shocking as it is, Sarah Palin wasn't even nominated in that category. Torchwood: Children of Earth for Outstanding Movie, Miniseries or Special and one of the few shows that shine a light of hope into the dark crevices of American politics, The Rachel Maddow Show for Outstanding Achievement in News & Information. *** If you are one of the many who have cursed the producers of One Life To Live for writing out the Gay couple played by Brett Claywell and Scott Evans, your Gypsy heritage is still in question as the popular duo are still out of the show. Yet, Evans fans can catch him in the upcoming independent film The One. Evans plays half of a Gay couple, rounded out by Jon Prescott who, ironically, played sexy pool boy Chad, also on One Live To Live. The story is described as a romantic comedy about an accomplished investment banker (can you still do comedy around investment bankers???) who discovers that his true heart's desire is a sexy man from his past, only months before he's supposed to get married. And faster than you can look up the word estrogen, YES,  pending marriage to a real girl. If you don't know Scott from his soap opera resume, you might know him from the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic or as the out gay actor brother to uber-hunky Chris Evans of The Fantastic Four fame. ***

Short film director Joshua Grannell graduates to full length motion pictures with the July 10th limited L.A. release All About Evil. The script tells of a shy librarian who inherits her father's failing movie theatre. But she finds a way to keep it alive, if not her neighbors, when she starts making her own snuff films to satisfy a legion of gore film fans.  This independent production stars Natasha Lyonne (But I'm A Cheerleader,) Thomas Dekker (The Sarah Connor Chronicles,) Cassandra Petersen ('Elvira',) and Mink Stole.   *** If you missed Fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut on A Single Man, you can catch the stunning performance of Colin Firth as a  1962 Gay professor mourning the death of his partner when the DVD is released on July 6th. Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, the cast features Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven,) Nicholas Hoult (Skins,) and Matthew Goode (Watchmen.) Though in her role, Moore tries to seduce Firth's character, she discovers the allure of the same sex with the July 9th opening of The Kids Are All Right.  In this latest work from director Lisa Cholodenko (The L Word) audiences are treated to Moore and Annette Benning as a Lesbian couple whose lives turn upside down when their children's Baby-daddy sperm donor enters their life in the form of Mark Ruffalo.  ***

Mad Men returns to AMC on July 25th with no advance word on whether or not Bryan Batt's character of Sal (who we know is NOT dead afterall) will be returning.  If you want to review some visual cliff notes, AMC will air a 10-episode festival, starting with the series pilot on July 5th.  And by the way Mad Men producers..., Kristin Chenowith, despite having won the Emmy last year and plugging her desire to be your show, is still waiting for your call.  *** One of televisions best-written and acted dramas, The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgewick, returns with original episodes on July 12. *** Yes it's true!  Reichen Lehmkuhl has moved on from breaking Lance Bass' heart and has landed a new reality show. It's Logo's answer to the Real Housewives of .... reality series and is called The A List. Rumor had it titled Kept, due to the income imbalance of some of the partners on display but they probably had to change it since Kept was title of a 2004 Chi Chi La Rue DVD.  Or... so I have been told. Reichen will appear with his current (well, as of the time of filming) boyfriend former Brazilian model Rodney Santiago who is seen throughout the show, struggling to get his career going here in the states. But more importantly among the cast of successful and trying-to-be  is hunk-a-zilla LA based celebrity photographer Mike Ruiz. Yowza!  Some of you may recognize Mike from appearances on RuPaul's Drag Race (as a photographer, not a gender illusionist.) Look for the debut of this drama queens and muscle daddies on display, possible train wreck this fall. But hell, if it stops one more endless rerun of Trick, Latter Days, or Coffee Date (sorry Wilson,) then I'm all for it.  *** Since I mentioned RuPaul's Drag Race, a spin-off from that show, RuPaul's Drag U premieres on Logo July 19th. Gee, I wonder what that school's mascot would be. Oh wait, I almost missed it ..... no "mascot" just lots of mascara!  *** Lastly, my favorite piece of  this month's entertainment news is the July 25th limited release of The Book of Zombie. The independent film and classic-to-be comes from director/producer Paul Cranefield's and is described as the story of a small Utah town where all it's Mormon residents have become Zombie's. In the wake of LDS involvement in the passage of California's Proposition 8 I'd have to describe the concept of 'Mormon Zombies' as..... non-fiction. In the film, a group of non-believers who are not affected by the living dead plague, gather together and fight for survival. Of course this leaves the question, if you kill a Mormon zombie, who does the church say is responsible for all his zombie widows? Just wonderin’.  ***
 

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