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SUMMER TV PREVIEW - 'South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today' and 'Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film' - Television program review - Book review
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Channel surfin': the sun is shining, the birds are singing. Who cares. There's too much good stuff on TV.
THE GIRLS OF SUMMER
Logo brings skin and surf to your summer in the all-lesbian reality series Curl Girls By Michele Kort "SURFING IS LIKE SEX," says a sly Michele Fleury, one of the six stars of Logo's new dykes-on-boards reality series, Curl Girls. "Everyone thinks they look really good doing it--but they usually don't." Reality shows about lesbian surfers, on the other hand, are for fans of sex--or at least fans of sex among flat-abbed, well-tanned women who also can grab a rail, hang 10, or shoot a curl. Originally an hour-long documentary in 2005, Curl Girls got such a positive response from the lesbian audience that Logo morphed it into a six-episode "docu-soap" that's part Work Out, part L Word at the shore. The six "girls" bring varying levels of surfing expertise to El Porto beach in the LA. suburb of Manhattan Beach, Calif. There are old-timers like 32-year-old Michele--who's been surfing since age 16--as well as surfing newcomer Gingi, 25, who doesn't catch her first wave until episode three. Also on hand in their bikinis and wet suits are serious surfer Erin, 30, an attorney; clothing designer Vanessa, 33, the self-described "comic relief," who attended this year's Dinah Shore White Party in a banana suit; the tall, modelesque Jessica, 24, a human resources exec who had to relearn surfing skills after a serious car accident; and the tough-but-vulnerable Melissa, 30, an online advertising sales rep and extreme-...See the full content of this document
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