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- From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
- Subject: Re: Key West, the TV show
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:08:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.034831.21438@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kekims@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.E. Kindler ) writes:
-
- > This new show on FOX seems to have to strong gay characters. I have
- >to admit I walked into the middle of the most recent episode though and
- >missed a lot.
-
- Seems like you saw the crucial scenes though!
-
- >Denise Crosby's character had just taken on her position as
- >mayor after winning office by exposing her opponents homosexuality(?).
-
- Yes. (He was played by Nicholas Surovy in the season opener.) While
- carefully professing to find "nothing wrong with it," she did raise his
- homosexuality in a public debate, and he didn't try to hide it. This
- was enough, apparently, to swing the vote her way.
-
- >In the staff meeting she finds out more then half her staff is gay and
- >is confronted by one of the office works who later saves her butt by
- >dealing with a rather nasty fellow.
-
- Both scenes were wonderful, largely because of Anthony Mapa's enacting
- of the gay guy. First he gets on her case at the staff meeting about
- the dirty way she unseated her predecessor ("You *said* you wanted us to
- be honest with you; or was that just talk?"). Then after saying that of
- course it's his job to do his best for whoever's in office he adds, "I'm
- homosexual myself; I'm also Civil Service and you can't fire me." And
- when the mayor responds, "How, er, nice; is anyone else here, er,
- differently sexualized?" over half the hands in the room go up. She
- manages to stammer out "Is this what they call Karma?" and Mapa nods
- back with a big grin.
-
- The later scene was also a grin, as Mapa dealt with the character who
- was insinuating that he's reveal "unpleasant things" about the mayor if
- she didn't play ball. And the kid, hitherto standing silently by like a
- good little aide, bursts out with "Oh puh-leez! What are you going to
- reveal -- that she's an alcoholic?" (Which we know she is.) "YAWN." He
- has an in-your-face manner that I enjoy immensely.
-
- Jon Alan Conrad
-