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Monday, February 23, 2004

Reality from 'Queer Eye' to 'Cool' guy

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Yo. Forget the "Queer Eye" quintet of cheeky homosexual gents who make over straight guys via new window treatments and uncuffed pants once a week on NBC.

Terminal Caucasian dullards now get their turn.

The Showtime cable network plans to offer "Make Me Cool," a reality show that homes in on America's preoccupation with the ever-changing world of hip black culture: the clothes, the music, the language.

Essentially, four very hip black hosts will make over clueless white contestants -- and the untrendy among other races as well -- in the course of several hourlong prime-time episodes this fall.

Showtime entertainment President Robert Greenblatt is poised to take on the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" harbingers of taste, sartorial demeanor and the cocktail hour.

"I think the dialogue between different cultures and races will be more explicit and frank," Mr. Greenblatt told the Hollywood Reporter. "This will be more sociologically interesting than what fork to use and how to make a mushroom roulade."

Says Showtime spokesman Brian Byrd, "'Cool' is still very much in the works."

Showtime is owned by Viacom -- which counts CBS, MTV, UPN, VH-1, BET, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central among its many properties.

Comedy Central, in fact, debuted its own makeover spoof last night: "Straight Plan for the Gay Man" featured four regular joes advising a homosexual man on home and fashion. The show has been criticized by the Advocate, a publication for homosexual men, because it "mocks what most gay men are insecure about -- seeming 'too gay' or not 'straight-acting' enough."

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