Wedding Wars: A TiFaux Event

Posted by Dan December 11th, 2006 at 03:44pm In Guilty Pleasures The Gays

A while ago, Maggie advised me of the upcoming A&E made-for-TV movie Wedding Wars, starring John Stamos.  It promises to be the gayest event of the holiday season.

The film stars John Stamos and Eric "McSteamy" Dane as brothers, gay and straight respectively.  Stamos' character Shel (no relation, presumably) is a fabulous party planner who is set to plan the wedding of his campaign manager brother Ben.  When Shel finds out that Ben is behind the governor's speech against gay marriage (Ben is betrothed to the governor's daughter, Maggie), he decides to go on strike for equal rights.  Somehow, one lonely gay's plight becomes a national cause.

Gay mayhem ensues — presumably leaving high school theater productions unrehearsed, hair salons unmanned and the cast of Disney on Ice reduced to Goofy and two dwarfs.

I'm curious to see how Stamos plays gay — if he'll throw in some swishy mannerisms just to sell it a little bit or if he'll just maintain his current level of butch.  Not that he's some sort of lumberjack now — he has a Ryan Seacrest level of well-coiffed masculinity — but we'll see how it goes. 

Also, I'd like Shel to have some sort of actual love interest and have a real screen kiss.  That wish is both political and self-serving.

As I watch it, I expect the following: 

1.  Stamos in snugly-fitting t-shirts.

2.  The nagging feeling that Dane and Stamos should be holding hands the whole time.

3.  At some point there will be a "shocking" outing of a character — thereby showing that we're all the same after all.  Or something. 

So let's all watch and then report back tomorrow.  It's probably going to be awful, but it'll probably be a well intentioned liberal love-fest and that's good enough for me. 

Heroes isn't on again until next year, so you won't be missing anything.  Showtime's at 9 on A&E.