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Hooray, right?
This time, the popular and fun "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," to be henceforth referred to as QEFTSG, is getting a spin-off.
This time, straight girls go under the Fab Five’s collective microscope.
The gay-guy-making-over-straight-girl show is slated to launch next year. This time, the show is set in Los Angeles, as opposed to QEFTSG’s native New York.
How different the show may be is yet to be determined. One of the fun things about QEFTSG is seeing straight guys squirm as the Fab Five relentlessly flirt with them, or struggle to come back with a line strong enough to stand up to one of their quips.
The basic makeover includes a wardrobe overhaul, a cooking lesson complete with a wine expert’s touch, a total update to one’s rusty old medicine cabinet, and some romantic, heartfelt lesson the straight guy can apply to the straight girl he loves.
Who doesn’t giggle at the sight of Jai Rodriguez, the culture expert, giving a slow-dance lesson to a less-than-graceful goofus of a guy?
How will this concept translate to straight girls?
Girls tend to be less threatened by gay men. Personally, I prefer dancing with gay men than with straight ones (I never worry about being groped). And, girls are less awkward than men about grooming and cooking in general.
Where in L.A. can the Fab Five find a chick who dresses badly, has a home that looks like a tornado hit it and isn’t instantly comfortable around gay guys?
I have the perfect candidate.
Courtney Love.
She’s an artist, a spectacle, a train wreck and on a path to destruction. She needs some help. Ergo, the perfect candidate.
She’s an L.A. "lady," so to speak. Her latest musical offering, "America’s Sweetheart," is tanking big-time. Her daughter, Frances Bean, is in her grandmother’s custody as Courtney bounces in and out of court and from coast to coast playing shows and promoting her record.
Courtney has taken up residence at the Chateau Marmont, the famed L.A. hotel where John Belushi among others have ODed.
In general, her entire sense of style needs work.
To say the least.
On Friday, FOX News reported that an interview with Courtney and daughter Frances, published in the May issue of Blender Magazine, will get the former Mrs. Cobain in even more hot water.
Frances complained that Janet Jackson’s stunt at the Super Bowl was different from her mom’s recent breast-baring antics, because what Janet did "was in front of children!"
Maybe wait a few years to explain to Frances what those ads for Viagra during the big game are selling.
Courtney talked with the Blender reporter about her recent dating frustrations.
"Sometimes, mommies need to get laid, too," Love tells her daughter.
"But Mommy," the girl shoots back, "You intimidate men!"
Did I mention Frances is 11?
Kids are so wise.
Wouldn’t you love to see Courtney back off the Botox and collagen, maybe perform a set unplugged, then make a corner in her hotel suite that’s just right for little Frances?
A girl can dream.
Courtney tells Blender that in spite of all the strife, she’s optimistic about her future.
"I will survive this. I will rock my way out of this [expletive]," she declares.
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe with a little help from the Fab Five.
It would be fun to watch.
But I can’t wish that on people that nice.
Alex Richmond would hate her friends if they submitted her for a televised makeover, unless if she got some really, really good swag out of it. Her column runs on Mondays and Wednesdays. Write to her at arichmond@trentonian.com
