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5. Dealing with the Legal Business, Take Two
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92 5 Deal ing with the Legal Busi ness, Take Two Take a look at this link,” said the email from my friend Sarah. “It’s a re al ity show look ing for straight women and their gay male friends.” “Are you and your friend the real Will & Grace?!” read the web site to which the link took me (I quote it ver ba tim). “Are you a gay guy liv ing with your straight best girl friend? Are you a straight girl whose best friend hap pens to be gay? Do you fin ish each other’s sen tences? Have you al ready for warded them this flyer and are on the phone freak ing out? Gay guy and straight gal ‘couples’ who have out go ing per son al ities, ac tive work and so cial lives and most im por tantly......a super close re la tion ship. Cou ples from all walks of life are en cour aged to apply in clud ing pro fes sion als, crea tive types, and ex ec u tives. Room mates are a plus but not nec es sary.” “Should we go?” she wrote. “I don’t know,” I an swered. “I don’t like the punc tu a tion of this an nounce ment. Also, we’re not room mates.” “Thank God.” It was 2007, and the show, we found out when we ar rived at the audition, would be, un sur pris ingly, about friend ships between straight women and gay men and was to be called Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys. The au di tion ba si cally in volved us gos sip ing with each other on cam era about the guy Sarah had gone out on a couple dates with who had been an amaz ing kisser but who, she had dis cov ered, re fused to open a bank ac count be cause he was Dealing with the Legal Business, Take Two 93 cer tain that in the com ing world col lapse every one was going to go back to the bar ter system, so that was that for him. “Do you have any ques tions about the show?” the guy run ning the au di tion asked when we were done. “Are we going to be voted off ?” Sarah asked. “I don’t think I could han dle that.” “No. There won’t be any vot ing.” “Are we going to have to live in a house with other peo ple?” I said. “No, you can stay in your own house.” “Good, be cause I hate other peo ple enough al ready with out hav ing to live with them.” But af ter ward, though we waited for our phones to ring, we kept hear ing noth ing, so we had to as sume the pro duc ers had made the bi zarre de ci sion not to use us. When I got a call in Jan u ary of 2010, there fore, I was sur prised to hear the voice on the other end of the line iden tify it self as that of the di rec tor of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys. “Yeah,” she said, “the pro ject took a while to get off the ground, but it’s been picked up for next sea son, so I’m call ing some of the peo ple who were inter viewed to see what’s up and try to fig ure out the right cou ples to cast. We’ll be shoot ing from Feb ru ary through April.” We talked for a while, and when I men tioned that since my pre vi ous inter view I had got ten en gaged her ears perked up (at least such was my tele phonic im pres sion). “Con grat u la tions!” she said. “Have you set a date for the wed ding yet?” “We’ve tried a couple times,” I an swered, “but we keep hav ing to can cel. So our plan is to do it at some point this year.” “Would you be will ing to get mar ried on cam era?” “Gee,” I said, think ing quickly. They hadn’t cho sen the cou ples yet, and the op por tu nity for them to shoot a gay wed ding would have to weigh heav ily in our favor. “If we could do it with out inter fer ing with the ac...