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Q of fers the next Sandra Bernhard experience
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard's take-no-prisoners
approach to performing has always deserved a
regular prime-time television outlet. In 2001,
A&E gave her a talk show, "The Sandra
Bernhard Experience,"
that was just too bril-
liant to live for very
long — so it didn't.
But now another
chance has come
along on the gay cable
channel Q Television
Network.
The progressive,
witty, sharp-tongued
Bernhard has already
begun co-hosting duties on the "Queer Edge
with Jack E. Jett" talk show, a "temp job" that
will last for 40 episodes. In the meantime, the
network is negotiating with the entertainer to
develop her own series, though what that might
entail is still under discussion.
But with Bernhard at the wheel, expect bold
opinions, fascinating guests, and a healthy dose
of the unexpected.
Thompson's animated Buddy
Former "Kids in the Hall" star Scott
Thompson is finding that mining the past can
open doors in the present. His "Kids" character
Buddy Cole, the old-
school flamboyant gay
bar owner, will soon
be made even more
cartoonish than he was
before. Here TV has
announced a half-hour
adult animated series
called "Buddy's," cre-
ated by Thompson and
centered on the adven-
tures of Cole.
The show will take Buddy off his "Kids"
barstool and out into the world, where he'll have
to deal with local "family values" officials and
the complications of becoming an unwilling
parent to his orphaned niece.
The show is currently in development and
should see the light of day sometime later this
year. And if it's half as funny as Thompson's
"Kids" sketches were, "Buddy's" might just end
up being the coolest program on Here.
Fincher grabs hold of 'Torso'
Director David Fincher ("Fight Club") is
working on his "Torso" for Paramount Pictures.
The stylish filmmaker has taken on the thriller
based on a graphic novel by Brian Michael
Bendis — one of the top writers in comics —
and openly gay comics writer Marc Andreyko,
whose gay-inclusive "Manhunter" has received
wide acclaim.
"Torso" tells the true story of the move to
Cleveland by Eliot Ness, after his days of hunt-
ing A1 Capone, to be the city's public-safety
officer. When human torsos begin appearing in
the river and Ness receives taunting notes from
the killer, he puts together a team of ex-officers
to nab the murderer.
The project has just been announced, so look
Scott Thompson
for the finished product sometime in 2007, not
long after "Zodiac," another true-life serial killer
project that Fincher's working on with
"Brokeback Mountain" star Jake Gyllenhaal.
Gays with a 'Secret'
Who better to suss out who's keeping a big
secret than a group of gay panelists?
That's the logic behind the Game Show
Network's recent announcement that it will
begin airing a revival of the classic show "I've
Got a Secret." On "Secret," a contestant appears
before a panel, the audience is told the contes-
tant's secret, and the panelists have to guess
what it is.
In this updated version, though the twist is
that the show's panel will be composed solely of
openly gay media personalities. The lineup con-
sists of radio host/humorist Frank DeCaro,
comedian Susanne Westenhoefer, retired major-
league baseball player Billy Bean and
Broadway actor Jermaine Taylor. Bil Dwyer
("Extreme Dodgeball") will host. Look for the
queer-centric "Secret" later this year.
A fond farewell
The name Dr. Stanley Biber may not be a
household word to most Americans, but to
many transsexuals he was a king.
Biber, who said he performed more than
4,500 gender reassignment operations during his
career, died Monday, a friend and funeral home
operator said. He was 82.
"We've lost a tremendous friend in our com-
munity," said Mary Winder, owner of th Cormi
Funeral Home in Trinidad, a town of 9,300 near
the Colorado-New Mexico border.
Winter said Biber was her family's doctor for
generations.
'He was just a great man," she said.
An Iowa native, Biber moved to Trinidad in
1994. As the town's only general surgeon, he
delivered babies, removed appendixes and per-
formed other more routine operations. He said
he performed his first gender reassignment sur-
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gery in 1969 after talking to a New York physi-
cian who had some experience with them and
getting sketches from Johns Hopkins University.
Word spread, and at one point he was per-
forming 150 such operations a year, he said. He
stopped doing the surgeries in 2003 and closed
his practice in 2004, saying insurers refused to
renew his malpractice coverage.
Published reports have said that Biber at one
time performed up to half the world's gender
reassignment operations annually.
Residents of Trinidad said the town was
largely accepting of Biber's sex change practice.
Mayor Harry Hayre said Biber was a pillar of
the community.
"I consider him probably one of the outstand-
ing leaders in Trinidad in the last century,"
Sayre said.
Biber's protege, Dr. Marci Bowers, under-
went gender reassignment surgery several years
ago and now performs an average of five such
operations a week in Trinidad.
"I think he put the operation on the world
map," Bowers said. "He made it safe, repro-
ducible and functional and he brought happiness
to an awful lot of people."
No services were scheduled.
_
Dr. Stanley Biber, a small-town doctor who once performed half the world's gender reassignment operations, is pictured
in his office in 2004. Dr. Biber died on Monday.
7query
.AiaiiL
By David Webb
From your experience, what area of
Dallas city services most needs
improvement?
"Code Compliance in
our specific neigh-
borhood of Oak Lawn.
There's a lot of aban-
doned property that
the owners clearly
are riot taking care
of. The city should
pay closer attention
to that."
"When you try to call
someone everything
is automatic, and you
have to keep punch-
ing options. By the
time you get to a per-
son, you've forgotten
what you wanted to
ask. We need to talk
to someone faster."
Gregory Pynes
Meeting planner
Claire Vinck
Class coordinator
"I really can't think
of any problems. I'm
sure there are some
that need improve-
ment, but I'm not
aware of what they
are."
Herb Hayes
Salesman
;'l haven't had any
problems with the
city Everyone has
been very cordial and
did what they needed
to do."
Eric Salinas
Bartender
"The roads. There's a
lot of potholes, and
lanes need to be
widened."
Kathy Felps
Software consultant
Have a suggestion for a question you'd like us to ask?
E-mail it to staff writer David Webb at webb@dal-
lasvoice.com.
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