Well, The News & Observer talks sense
...and they out the gay character! Not Jason Priestly (the brother in law), and not Larenz Tate (the "buddy with street smarts and a fat bankroll"), but the other guy. He's the gay friend. But anyway, from 01/08.
The only thing more predictable than the plot and dialogue is the overbearing soundtrack, which seems to be a big reason for the show's existence. It's called licensing, folks. Here's betting that a "Love Monkey" CD featuring the Rolling Stones, the Killers and Beck is already boxed and ready to be shipped.
That disc would definitely include pretty boy singer Teddy Geiger as Wayne, whom Tom takes on as a client in his new job at a smaller label. We're expected to buy this pre-blues John Mayer-sound-alike as a new Dylan who reignites Tom's passion for music. These two guys bonded over their mutual admiration for Sid Vicious and CBGB's? Please.
posted by Kornbluth @ 11:33 PM
3 Comments:
At 4:18 PM,
Zen Wizard said…
I am betraying my age here, but I always thought that John Mayer sounded like a dead-ringer for Michael Franks, who was a jazzy white guy singer in the Eighties who got airplay on a lot of urban stations.
But now that you mention it, he sounds like John Mayall and Michael Franks got in that telepod chamber in The Fly.
Is the "token gay friend" to the 21st Century what the "token black friend" was to the 20th??
So if Happy Days was produced TODAY, would Sticks Calhoun be gay??
At 5:31 PM,
Kornbluth said…
If Happy Days were made today, both Potsie and Ralph Malph would be gay. And they would have a love child. And that love child would be AC Newman.
At 3:02 PM,
Zen Wizard said…
He does appear rather like the DNA of Potsie and Ralph placed in a blender, and set on, "Puree'."
Or, like if that "Hitler's Children" experiment had been done in Ireland rather than Sweden.
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