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INAUGURATE THIS, FRATBOY

January 20, 2005 by Tim Riley

I’ve been tough on Nancy Franklin, so to be fair here’s a lead that made me chortle: “America is having a torrid love affair with “Desperate Housewives,” and I feel so left out…” [Greg’s archives RULE.]



GOOFY GOOBERS — NOT:


“…It is not the first time that children’s TV favorites have come under the critical spotlight of the U.S. Christian right. Tinky Winky, the purse-toting purple Teletubbie, was in 1999 declared a homosexual role model by Rev. Jerry Falwell.” (NY Times, Jill Serjeant in Reuters)

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