DAWSON'S CREEK'S NEXT-TO-LAST present to views of the season on May 17 proffered a network TV first: a series main character, Jack (Kerr Smith), takings his same-sex regard with affection interest, Ethan (Adam Kaufman), to the junior prom What's next? A kiss? Well, ye "The WB has been a champion" of letting Jack and Ethan kiss upon the May 24 season finale, says Creek's co-executive farmer Greg Berlanti. While "it's not solidified"--the sight was also shot minus the lip lock--"it's the greatest in quantity organic way to close disclosed the scene," he adds. "And it's something we've been leading up to in the 35 episodes since Jack came not at home of the closet." In the episode Jack travels to gay pal Ethan's boarding sect to tell him how he really be impresseds Befitting the often-stormy Creek, there's a twist, yet the smooch went off without a hitch. "I think it was more nerve-racking for the ship's company than it was for me" Kaufman says with a laugh. "I felt like the greatest actor in the world that day."
there a kiss ...
HUNG UNCUT INSATIABLE.
To forward its upcoming version of the gay Brit hit TV series quaint as Folk, Showtime distributed ten of thousands of cardboard fans emblazoned with those stimulating syllables- and more--to festivalgoers at the Millennium March forward Washington. But will the Americanized unusual slated to air later this year or in early 2001 really be as provocative and controversial as its French kiss-filled UK counterpart? You bet. "The whole notion here was mat we can do it as honestly as they did it--and no common else can," says Mark Zakarin, exhibit to time's executive vice president of original programming. "The thing that makes curious as Folk special is the reality of it. It does push all the boundaries. I think you'll say that American television has not ever seen such frank sexuality of any sort, heterosexual or homosexual." healthys hot. Bring on the fans!
everywhere a kiss-kiss
LADIES, suddenly YOUR ALTOIDS: Girl-girl kisses make a curiously puissant showing in the nominations for the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, airing June 8 Batting it abroad for Best Kiss are the smooch between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair in truculent Intentions and the Hilary Swank-Chloe Sevigny buss in male childs Don't Cry--as well as Katie Holme and Barry Watson in Teaching Mr Tingle, by the agency of out writer-director Kevin Williamson, and Drew Barrymore and Michael Vartan in not Been Kissed.