The ad was for a product called Boy Butter, which its makers describe as "a creamy lubricant targeting the Gay market." In other words, you use the stuff for anal sex. According to creator Eyal Feldman, "Bravo is the perfect channel for these commercials and the best platform for a little bit of Gay TV history." We couldn't agree more, but now that the floodgates are open, hopefully ads like this will run on even more mainstream gay fare like Ugly Betty or Are You Smarter that A 5th Grader? And what about product integration? Wouldn't it be great to see the contestants on Celebrity Apprentice sell Boy Butter to tourists waiting in line for Broadway musicals? This is only the beginning, people. Put that in your "tight agenda" and smoke it.

• ADULT: June 30: Boy Butter Launches First Gay Personal Lubricant TV Commercial [E World Wire]

It's not exactly "Everyone's on pins and needles!", is it?

• Project Runway [Bravo]

[T]he company is also developing its 2007 theatrical The Nanny Diaries as a half-hour multicamera sitcom for Lifetime. It's actually a second attempt by the Weinsteins at turning the popular series of books into a TV show; Miramax TV was involved in an earlier Nanny Diaries project at CBS. New version is in development at Lifetime, which is looking for a writer. ... The company is also developing a new take on the 1980s franchise Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, along with 2929 Prods.

We have high hopes for the latter, which we presume will eventually make its synergistic way around to Harvey's own Manhattan pad while he's feverishly working out his planned Broadway adaptation of... Finding Neverland? And The Wall? Like Pink Floyd's The Wall? Indeed — but it's just business as usual for the silent partner in a bunch of stage successes:

Because Weinstein's involvement in theatrical projects has been as a supporting producer and investor, his exploits have largely remained under the radar — so much so that some in the entertainment industry may have been surprised to see the producer among those onstage collecting trophies at the Tonys on Sunday.

Wait — Harvey Weinstein won a Tony? Harvey!! And here we'd thought all this time you had just gotten into non-profits! Why don't you ever tell us these things?

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• Weinsteins unveil mega TV plans [Variety]
• Weinsteins are bound for Broadway [Variety]

As the NY Post reports, Ricci worked the red carpet like a pro, but ditched the party as soon as she learned that hostess Anna Wintour (Vogue EIC and most feared woman in New York) had opted to seat her far away from her boyfriend Kick Gurry (our new favorite "celeb" name, by the way!). And before the Gala even began, pissy Harvard boy Jeff Zucker reportedly made a very showy point to avoid Project Runway usurper Weinstein on the red carpet. Says a Post spy, "It was awkward." Awkward? More like the single most awesome sight we regret not seeing for ourselves.

As for the missing wedding ring, Liv Tyler showed up on the carpet after telling friends that "she and Langdon...married too young and that she'd started looking for a new apartment." But one bit of gossip from the drama-packed evening managed to put a smile on our face, courtesy of none other than John Mayer. After being accosted by questions regarding the status of his beachy fling with Jennifer Aniston, he told reporters, "This is not a scandal...This is not a problem. This needs no spin control. This is me living my life!" And on goes his recent trend of forcing us to like him however hard we fight it.

[Photo credits: Getty, Wireimage]

• COSTUME GALA'S SUPER-SNARKY [NY Post]
• IF LIV TYLER'S COSTUME COULD TALK [NYDN]

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Project Runway host Heidi Klum took a break from the stress surrounding the show's recent game of musical network chairs and got back to her roots as a model. Klum picked up a shift as a mannequin at the Beverly Center Bloomingdales and found it refreshing to get back to the basics of modeling; making the clothes look good and wearable. However, Klum found it difficult to remain silent when people commented that the mannequin resembled her and often added "but less annoying."

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When Bravo debuted Queer Eye For The Straight Guy back in 2003, the network's tiny audience and overall lack of buzz went away overnight, replaced by soaring ratings, critical praise and a groundbreaking moment for gay-themed television. Sure, Will And Grace had already proven that a mass audience could accept the sight of two guys kissing, but a sitcom featuring abnormally handsome straight-in-real-life actors couldn't compare to Queer Eye's cast of flamboyantly charming girly boys and their instant appeal among stay-at-home moms and former soap obsessives.

And, intelligently, Bravo capitalized on the show's success by producing endless reality shows featuring gay characters and themes. They started launching shows about styling hair (Shear Genius) to cooking (Top Chef) and, of course, their flagship runaway hit, Project Runway. And as we all know by now, Lifetime (who coincidentally picked up a Queer Eye spin-off starring Carson Kressley) has jumped on the glamour bandwagon by stealing PR away in an effort to exhibit a similar "cool" factor. It was inevitable that TLC would follow suit, and their decision to feature Jennifer Lopez in this upcoming snoozer will undoubtedly appeal to all 6.5 million drag queens who impersonate her on a nightly basis. Our only concern? How exactly will they film Marc Anthony during the day? Don't vampires tend to whither under bright lights? Fingers crossed their solution doesn't include featuring him solely in bedroom scenes (shudder).

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• J.LO TO GIVE CABLE'S TLC A GLIMPSE OF HER TWINS' TLC [NYDN]

NBC Universal Chief Executive "Jeff Zucker has been a friend of mine for many years," Weinstein said today at a lunchtime programming presentation hosted by Lifetime Networks at a posh midtown Manhattan restaurant. "Over the next three years, once I finish my servitude of cleaning his house, driving him to work every day, baby-sitting the kids and taking [his wife] Karen shopping, I think we will be friends again. ...

Weinstein declined to comment on [an NBCU lawsuit] Monday, but said, "I don't think there's anything to worry about."

"As I've said before, Jeff Zucker has been one of my best friends for many years," he added. "The show was never going to be renewed for Bravo anyhow. ... We wanted to grow the show; we have the rights to leave."

Good God — Harvey's glorious cutthroat miracles never cease. Never mind his tease (in the same breath!) that he wants to be reincarnated as network playboy Ben Silverman; we worship at the altar of a man who suggests his alleged breach of contract can be remedied through cleaning Jeff Zucker's house. Or by watching his children! As if Harvey wasn't a threat to "accidentally" gulp down a pair of Zucker kids while reaching for M&M's during My Name is Earl. "No problem," he'd respond to the criminal charges. "Georgina and I will crank out a couple new ones for him. Jeff and I go wayyyy back. He'll understand."

• Weinstein promises 'servitude' to make up with Zucker [LAT]

"Harvey hates us passionately, always did...He despises Bravo because he thinks we didn't pay him enough."

As the NY Post reports, Lifetime will be shelling out $1 million per episode to the Weinstein Co for Runway, while Bravo was set to pay only $600K per episode for the next two seasons. And sources say Weinstein had dollar signs in his eyes since Runway's early days: "The situation came to a head after Season 3 when Macy's...dropped its show sponsorship after Weinstein insisted that a representative from Wal-Mart, where he had a DVD deal, appear on the finale." Coupled with Weinstein's alleged resentment towards Zucker and co. for undermining his involvement with the show, the Post blames Harvey's ego and greed for all the animosity. For Weinstein's sake, we certainly hope one of his "five true friends" includes whichever judge is assigned to this case.

• IT'S MY PROJECT! [NY Post]

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• Peeps Show II [WashPo]

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"That Christmas tree tinsel dress is fierce, but those gloves are a hot mess. You're a tranny from Transylvania! Did I get it right? I love that guy."

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• Saturday Night Live

This example is the first in an ongoing series that puts a spotlight on those moments, a feature that we're going to call Scrambled Eggs. Feel free to play along at home; if you spot a Scrambled Egg that you'd like us to feature, please send an email our way and we'll credit you here on the site. So, with that in mind, please enjoy our first installment.

Well, guess what, Rami! You can proceed to suck it, cause Christian now has $100,000, a spread in Elle, and a fierce Saturn hatchback to help him learn. Cause he WON, bitches! He turned this mother out. Guess Christian let it slip on Regis and Kelly after all! How does that feel, Rami? Probably less than feroche.

• Project Runway

"Are you happy with the winner?" he asks, as his munchkin co-host scans their faces for traces of victory or bitter resentment. Though three respond with a stony silence even more deafening than the one executed by Tim Gunn upon first witnessing Sweet P's wrestling outfit, one (and this is where we start shouting POSSIBLE SPOILER! MAKE IT SPOILER! IN FASHION, SOMETIMES YOU'RE IN AND SOMETIMES YOU'RE A SPOILER!) professes, with a shit-eating grin, to be "happy with the winner...of course!" A feroche red herring? A slip of the fierce? We won't know until the German lady sings, in the second half of the two-part finale airing March 5.

• Live with Regis and Kelly
• Project Runway

Even more shocking, however, is Gunn's frank disparagement of Hillary Clinton's personal style, which he suggests is probably better suited for a Secret Service agent nearing retirement. Siding with the impossibly pretty John Edwards that she would be best to throw her infamous pink jacket onto a small mountain of calf-length power suits and set the pile ablaze, we still doubt Gunn was suggesting the Presidential hopeful is beyond salvation. On the contrary, all she really needs is to to be locked in a room with Christian for a few hours, upon which the Project Runway frontrunner would put his bionic tailoring skills to good use, giving her a 17-piece, high-concept Three Musketeers outfit that would all but certainly tip fence-sitters into her super, super, super chic camp.

• Late Night with Conan O'Brien [NBC]

In it, two of the remaining designers were to be eliminated before the Fashion Week finale shows to come. We'll never say which, of course, lest some surly, spoiler-averse Runway fan leave a gift on our doorstep of a beloved pet with a stiletto heel jutting through its skull. Given free run of the Metropolitan Museum in which to find their inspiration, some rose to the challenge (Christian's "super super super super super super super chic" Three Musketeer's outfit), and some did not (Sweet P's utterly un-peacock-like Cinderella smock). As for gigglebear Chris, he finished early, earning himself a nice nap—that is, until a deeply disappointed Tim chose to rouse him from his snorey slumber by tiptoeing up to his ear, and shouting, "BUT IS IT WOWABLE?!?!?!" at eardrum-lacerating decibels.

• Project Runway [BravoTV.com]

Make it work! Where's Andrae?! Models, this is also a challenge for you as well! TRESemme Hair Salon and Loreal Make-Up Room! Hi guys! You have 30 minutes to sketch! Fierce! That collar is matronly! Mood Fabrics! Designers, we're going on a field trip! I'm concerned! One day you're in, the next day you're out! I'm just thinking about what the judges will say! It looks expensive! [Indecipherable Austin Scarlett squeal]! You haven't seen the last of [insert name of person you'll never hear from again]! Auf Wiedersehen!

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• Project Runway [BravoTV.com]

• Project Runway

This week, contestants were set loose, like Gays in a candy store, in a candy store. While the audio is nice, you really don't need it to figure out from the judges' expressive faces whose designs sent them over the moon (two words: licorice bodice), and whose left them with a sugar-coma bellyache (eight words: Walking Tootsie Roll with Hershey Kiss elbow pads). Where was the joy, indeed, Mr. Kors—or for that matter, the Mounds?

• Project Runway

You know what's funny about that? Nothing! Couldn't we have at least pulled Tim Gunn's inadvertent joke about all the bad decisions he's made at 3 a.m.? What's that? We're informed we could not. So it's staph infections, tears, and failure for you. Enjoy!

• Project Runway

We picked up the phone and called Jack, who had this to say:

"It's very baby steps. I really like him a lot. And geography is a bit of an issue, but we'll see where it goes. I like him a lot. I assume he likes me a lot. Unless he's lying...(laughter)... He's adorable. I like keeping it incestuous, keep it in the Bravo family."

SO we immediately had to call Dale, who told us,

"Yeah, we randomly met over Myspace. And then we bumped into each other at the OUT100 party and clicked. He's hilarious. We're just gonna roll with it and see what happens. And he's cute as %&#@. We have the same sense of humor. We giggle a lot, and you know, anytime you end up going through the Bravo-reality-show...we just looked at each other and said, 'yeah...'"

As Bravo's executive yenta Andy Cohen kvells until his head explodes from all the cross-promotional love in the air this Chrismukkah, let's take a moment to remember the millions of single Gays (and lightly delusional hags), whose weekly rendezvous with either of the two Fantasy Boyfriend templates—Dale (bearishly Semitic with a touch-of-danger mohawk), and Jack (WASPy, gymtastic body, with a touch-of-danger elbow tattoo)—was the closest thing any of them had to an intimate relationship. Still, that photo is the cutest thing we've seen since injured baby hedgehogs, rendering us incapable of wishing the two anything but many happy years and Chinese girl babies together.

• Jack and Dale: Dating [blogs.outzonetv.com]

Second, the very presence of male models sent many designers aflutter, hands trembling and hemming pins accidentally swallowed as they resisted every urge to drop to their knees and beg to service the adonises gifted to them by a merciful and beneficent Tim Gunn. As a side note, somewhat surprisingly, Elisa did not take the opportunity to take her model's hand-measurements or spit-mark his inseam, choosing instead to modestly turn away from the exposed boyflesh as a gesture of respect to the mate she left light years away on her home planet.

• Project Runway

After some cursory Googling for contestant Chris March in the bearish altogether failed to turn up anything, we settled for Jack Mackenroth—he of the square jaw and chiseled physique, who may or may not have been prematurely ejected from the show for staph-infection-related reasons. Photographer Frank Louis captured the contestant in a variety of poses, including the above study which contained what we can only imagine was a none-too-accidental balls-slip. (Continue to Louis's website for the uncensored photo and the rest of the NSFW series.) While there is much to admire in the portraits, we prefer our images of Mackenroth to be more candid, such as this priceless screengrab of the gasp-inducing moment he first laid eyes upon featured fashion icon guest judge, Sarah Jessica Parker.

• franklouis.com via Queerty

The breakout contestant of episode one would undoubtedly be resident kook Elisa, who "imbued" her expensive fabric with intentional grass stains, "hand-measured" her models (sure to be a commonly used defense from now on in designer rape trials), and who sent something down the runway that looked, to quote one party guest, like "a blue sack that shit the NBC logo out its back." Sadly, when it came down to Elisa's peacock poop or Simone's "boring, poorly made, no 'wow!'" outfit, as Michael Kors put it, the decision was all too easy: On Runway, the crazies always win.

• Project Runway [BravoTV]

• Project Runway [BravoTV]

(In a gross miscalculation on the part of the producers, however, she doesn't send off contestants with a curt "Nabadeey," but instead the pun-groaner, "You just don't measure up.") One particularly confident candidate's pledge of "making it to Toronto Fashion Week—it's my destiny" may not exactly induce chills in viewers, but the Canadians have still managed to hit all the Runway notes, and we'll be tuning back in to find out how the contestants fare on next week's tucques-and-jumpers challenge.

• Project Runway Canada debuts; first episode is online [Reality Blurred]

According to a source who spoke with [contestant Jack Mackenroth,] "He is saying he got kicked off not because he lost a challenge, but because he got a 'staph' infection and said his face blew up like the kid from 'Mask.'"

Staphylococcal skin infections can be especially serious for HIV-positive people. Some are also potentially infectious to others.

"He says he was the fifth designer voted off," says the snitch. "He is claiming that this was at least part of the reason he was booted." [...]

"People will say things about me whether they know me or not," he said in a statement released through Bravo's PR. "Those were not my words and are fictitious."

It's no secret that Bravo executives look severely upon any breaching of contestants' iron-clad contracts: Who could forget the suspicious fate of notorious book-smuggler-gone-AWOL Keith Michael, whose abrupt departure from the series was glossed over in a voice over from Tim Gunn, explaining how he had "tragically taken his own life by plunging off the roof of the Atlas Apartments, leaving no note behind. Keith, it seems, simply failed to make it work." We suspect the truth in this matter will emerge eventually, however, when Heidi Klum's familiar kiss-off phrase is muffled by a SARS mask, and Michael Kors, Nina Garcia, and Vera Wang sit in the background, nodding their heads approvingly inside matching hazmat suits.

• HIV bias charge hits 'Runway' [NY Daily News]

As of Friday, Jack, Chris, Ricky and Steven were the out-loud, out-proud designsketeers angling for the title and prize money that were confirmed by the network as openly gay. And as it's our site's policy not to speculate about sexuality, we left it at that. But today we've had a few more fellas come forward to join the gay party:

Christian, Marion, and Rami.

If you didn't do the math, that leaves one lone straight male contestant (Kevin) and seven out of fifteen total contestants (or as Heidi would say, "Fifteeeeeeen deesigners!") are openly gay men.

Congratulations to any of you who guessed the sole male breeder was Kevin from Fairfield, NJ, who feels comfortable enough in his rigid heterosexuality to admit in the video above that his body contains Italian grandma seed.

• Project Runway Season 4: Even gayer than we'd thought [AfterElton.com]

Mark instantly fingered Chris, or, as he described him, "the one who looks like Eddie Izzard fucked Jay McCarroll," suspecting his arched eyebrow, animal prints, and bearish figure were merely red herrings carefully set to throw his female Atlas Apartments roomies off of the fact that he secretly enjoys the company of women. And while the tiny arrow pointing at Christian suggests the producers are trying to tell us something about that asymmetrically coiffed competitor, we're going to have go with contestant Marion, whose personal style appears to be directly inspired by Disney's Newsies—which any musical aficionado will tell you was one of the most hetero explorations of the genre ever made.

• Meet the Cast of Season 4 [bravotv.com]

(Not actually reported in the article, but probably not far from the truth.) Predictably, Bravo corporate mouthpiece Andy Cohen rushed to the defense of his many equally adored reality show stepchildren, taking particular issue with the way New York's reporter scoffed at the network's policy of banning any contestant-on-contestant diddling:

I thought the article was pretty good and fair... Until I got to what I think is a slam regarding the fact that nobody on these Bravo competish shows are allowed to sex it up together.

Whaaaayt??

I THINK [New York writer Jennifer] Senior was dissing this??? Or was making a sly comment about it? I don't know, but I feel pretty great that under our watch, you ain't allowed to "do it" with another contestant. We're not the "Real World" and we're not checking for STD's and we're just not in that game. If Tabs gets herpes from another hairstylist that I helped cast, how am I gonna sleep at night!? Design all the dresses you want, but screw on your own clock.

We must commend Andy's attempts at preserving the virtue of his extended reality family. If, as he once hinted, he were to accidentally walk in on a gay Runway fourgy, or fail to prevent Shear Genius's Tabatha from taking a wrong turn onto Valtrex Blvd. after one red-wine-fueled night of sensual experimentation with Dr. Boogie, by his own admission, the guilt would keep him from sleeping. It's precisely the kind of high-stress scenario that might send a overtaxed reality exec running for the nearest bottle of Nuit Blanche.

* UPDATE: According to Reality Blurred, Jay McCarroll was just kidding when he claimed he was homeless.

• New York Magazine [Andy's Blog]

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Due to the overwhelming response an additional half-day has been added! Friday, April 13 12pm to 6pm 453 South Spring Street, 7th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90013 (Between 4th and 5th Street)

BE SURE TO BRING:

1. Three articles of clothing of your own design
2. A picture portfolio of your work
3. A completed application form
NOTE: THIS FORM WAS UPDATED ON MARCH 21, 2007!

OPTIONAL: You may bring a live model for your clothes if you wish. It is not required. Models must be 18 years of age or older.

Even if your sewing skills can't support a deep run through the competition, the open call can still provide a chance to make a splash in Runway's glamorous world; providing a live demonstration of your fashion-forward work glue-gunning sequins to your own genitals (scrotal bedazzling is the new hotness, ask anyone!) or sporting a Jeffrey Sebelia-inspired "Fuck Tim Gunn" neck tattoo will, at the very least, guarantee you a prominent place in the "bad audition" montages of the series' opening episode.

• OPEN CASTING CALL FOR SEASON 4 OF "PROJECT RUNWAY"! [Bravo]

The blogspots and the Bravo site, it's all fucking trash. Tim Gunn is a trashmouth. He puts people down. He wants to really ignite their trashy, cheap explosions to get these people to react. This show is like that. It's kind of trashy....You go to the blogspots. People are ripping people apart. Why rip these designers apart? Where was one ounce of camaraderie shown on this show?...It wasn't there.

If this is for ratings, if this is what makes the show the show, well...so be it. [Pause. To Crew:] That was good stuff!...Don't even go to blogspots! It's entertaining for morbid sick bastards who have nothing better to do.

Libretti's support of his fellow contestants is touching, if not slightly inconsistent with some of the thoughts expressed in an EW.com interview in which he dismissed every single one of them as amateurs. Still, that's more than can be said about the cutthroat world of blogspotting, where not even an ounce of camaraderie exists between blogspotters, lest it dilute the outrageousness of a single, Libretti-bashing rant.

• Episode 12 Bonus - Vincent's Take [BravoTV.com]

We can think of no better way to start our day than by sharing this clip (via Reality Blurred) from last night's Project Runway reunion show, in which hyperbolically self-regarding contestant and onetime softcore independent cinema star Vincent Libretti goes absolutely, positively batshit insane over the production's inability to follow his precise laundry instructions, resulting in the tragic ruination of some pricey garments. Enjoy.

• Keith says someone planted the books in his room; Vincent threatened to quit because of his laundry [Reality Blurred]
• Previously: Before They Were Insane Reality Show Contestants, They Were Insane Short Film Stars [Defamer]

Project Runway audiences will not soon forget Vincent Libretti, the middle-aged crackpot who at any moment is capable of exploding into a doggie outfit-induced fit of hysterical laughter, as fellow contestants inch cautiously away. Thanks to YouTube, we now have a glimpse of what Libretti had been up to in the pre-Runway years: He stars in Are You In?, a short film, seemingly custom-fitted to his particular brand of fruitcake talents. Playing, as one commenter aptly puts it, "a technofaggotronic Woody Allen," Libretti sputters nonsense into a headset on a city street before walking into a laundromat and stripping down for an unobstructed, rear view shot. Yes, Libretti goes full-assal, revealing a taut set of mancakes, the very sight of which would surely turn Tim Gunn five shades of red before mumbling something about the Macy's accessories wall and scurrying towards the nearest exit.

• Vincent Libretti - Are You In? [YouTube via Towleroad]