THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #700, distributed 08/27/01 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Get "All Over The Guy" who wrote and stars in a new gay romantic comedy; Hear "uppity" feminist blues & "more-than-pop" debuts from the "AudioFile"; Fear and marriage rights enter the Australian election campaign, the most homophobic member of the U.S. Senate announces his retirement, discrimination is combated in Northern Ireland and Wales, anti-gay attacks disrupt Copenhagen Pride and Jerusalem's Open House, plus other GLBT news "TWO" FEEDS via the PRSS EACH MONDAY @ 14:30 ET on A72.3*, EACH TUESDAY @ 16:00 ET on Pacifica`s KU band, and is mailed on cassette to non-satellite-equipped stations and to individual subscribers *==> Weekly feeds are scheduled by PRSS on A72.3 through June 2002 <== -------- AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS ------ STILL FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! => RUNDOWN <= Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 SEGMENT #1 – NewsWrap: With nationally-broadcast comments by Conservative Party Prime Minister John Howard and leader Kim Beazley of the opposition Australian Labor Party, legal recognition of same-gender couples is now a significant issue in that country's federal elections campaign; the U.S. Senate's most active homophobe for more than 30 years, Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina, announces his retirement at the end of his current term in 2002 [with 2 brief soundbite samples from his anti-queer tirades], while openly-gay Democratic Rhode Island state Representative Mike Pisaturo is taking the first steps toward a run to become that state's Secretary of State, and Virginia has its first openly-gay major party nominee for a seat in the state legislature: Republican Danny Smith; Northern Ireland's Human Rights Commission releases a major report documenting extensive lesbigay discrimination and calling on both the British government and the Northern Ireland Assembly to enact sweeping legal reforms toward equality, while the Wales National Assembly joins with Stonewall Cymru to establish the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Forum Cymru to combat discrimination there; the BBC's Radio 1 has generated considerable controversy by airing a chart-topping Jamaican reggae song, "Chi Chi Man", whose chorus calls for burning gay men alive, while anti-gay hate attacks mar Copenhagen Pride and the first visit by the city's mayor to the gay and lesbian Jerusalem Open House; and, political speech takes a queer turn in Germany as a member of the anti-gay Christian Democratic Union Party copyrights the quickly-popular phrase used in announcing he is gay by Berlin’s Social Democratic Party Interim Mayor Klaus Wowereit ("and that's a good thing"?) [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & CHRISTOPHER GAAL] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:05 SEGMENT #2 - "AudioFile" billboard [:15] + Boasting an impressive supporting cast that includes Andrea Martin, Lisa Kudrow, Sasha Alexander, Adam Goldberg, Doris Roberts and Christina Ricci, the new romantic comedy "ALL OVER THE GUY" (from Lions Gate Films) is the latest offering from rising director Julie Davis and executive producer Don Roos, the gay writer/director of "The Opposite of Sex". The glue that really holds this snappy "boy meets boy" story together, however, is its writer and star, DAN BUCATINSKY. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE has some preview clips, and is all over Bucatinsky – who explains why he transformed his original hetero couple one-act play "I Know You Are, But What Am I?" into this mainstream audiences-targeted gay-themed film. Bucatinsky also discusses his real-life long-term relationship with Roos and being out in Hollywood; costar RICHARD RUCCOLO (probably best known for his role in the ABC-TV sitcom "Two Guys and a Girl") also chats briefly about playing Bucatinsky's love interest in the film (with outro music from "Every Kiss Is A Revolution" by DAVID BROWN) [8:25] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:40 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by openly-gay actor SIR IAN McKELLEN [with intro music from "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor's Life For Me") from Disney's "Pinocchio", followed by a quick barb from now-outgoing homophobic U.S. SENATOR JESSE HELMS, and tagged with a few bars from RAY CHARLES' "Hit The Road, Jack"]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :35 SEGMENT #4 - The music of all three of this month's "AUDIOFILE" picks has roots that run deep in a variety of styles, including blues, Broadway, folk, pop and rock. But these recently released CDs by SAFFIRE (excerpts from the title cut and "Blues For Sharon Bottoms" from "Ain't Gonna Hush"), AMY FIX ("Photograph of Jane" and "Beautiful Dyke Ways" from "Spoon"), and ANTHONY RAPP ("Living Alive" and "Just Some Guy" from "Look Around") have something quite new to say as well [with brief comments by Fix, Rapp, and GAYE ADEGBALOLA of Saffire, hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE, and written & produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM] . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:40 = artist contact info = SAFFIRE AMY FIX ANTHONY RAPP c/o Gaye Adegbalola 322 West 48th Street Disgraceland Records PO Box 7142 New York, N.Y. 10036 PO Box 218101 Fredericksburg, VA 22404 amy@amyfix.com Nashville, TN 37221 saffireblu@aol.com www.amyfix.com paigowprod@aol.com www.uppityblueswomen.com www.anthonyrapp.com Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:45 ----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or *news stories* is encouraged to email Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at TWOradio@aol.co ----------------------------- thanks! --------------------------------- STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", YOU'LL GET "ALL OVER THE GUY" WHO WROTE AND STARS IN A NEW GAY ROMANTIC COMEDY, AND ENJOY THE WORDS AND MUSIC OF "UPPITY" FEMINIST BLUES AND "MORE-THAN-POP" DEBUTS FROM THE "AUDIOFILE"... 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