All washed up

Actor Camryn Manheim: "I had 12 earrings in my ear, I rode a motorcycle, and a had a tattoo. As fate would have it, I'm a heterosexual, which all of you know is no picnic. I think I would have had a lot more lovin' in my life if I were gay. I did 'The L Word' and they put me on it and they didn't even let me play a lesbian! Isn't that crazy? I played a straight girl. I just don't have enough clout in Hollywood, apparently."


ADDENDUM: From the summer 2005 "On Our Backs," which I read for the articles: "Guinevere Turner may be the most important lesbian in Hollywood ["Go Fish", "American Psycho", "The Notorious Bettie Page" and "Blood Rayne"]... Turner has been vital to numerous groundbreaking LGBT projects, including TV's first lesbian ensemble drama, 'The L Word.'"

Interview excerpts: "Friends of mine are like, 'Hell, yeah, when we go to that city and that film festival, I'm going to fuck the cutest one that comes on to me!' Whereas, I'm like, 'Ew, they're totally fucking a cardboard cutout of me.' I was in London... [with a woman in a band relatively famous at that time in England.... Just about when she was going to really get into it, she says in a British accent, "I can't believe I'm about to go down on Guinevere Turner'.... It had already gone too far. I couldn't get rid of her at that point."

Turner's writing contract with "The L Word" was not renewed for the next season. "I don't know why I wasn't asked back."

On "Queer As Folk": "I heard a rumour that initially on 'Queer As Folk' they didn't have lesbians -- they were forced by the network to add them. [The writers] decided, 'We're going to make them really boring, so you'll realize we don't want to write about lesbians.'"