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Comments (0) By Michael Musto Tuesday, Dec 14 2004

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So's the cast of Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, which is so giddy that in the Avenue Q sketch, they miraculously rhyme "Tony" with "cloth cojone." As for forbidden Off-Broadway, cojone-laden NEIL LABUTE's haunting Fat Pig dabbles in some cutesy dialogue followed by sitcommy comebacks like "Very funny!" or "You're a piece of work, you know that!" It gets more fleshy, though, when darkly examining the universal fear of dating someone unpopular. (And I should know. I've dated someone unpopular.) Of course if the JEREMY PIVEN character just said, "I love you, pig woman, and that's that," there'd be no play. He has to be a giant wuss—almost as reprehensible as his co-worker (ANDREW MCCARTHY) who mocks the relationship and practically calls women sweetheart, all while—am I the only one who noticed this?—reading a gay magazine! LaBute is a piece of work, you know that.

And so am I, snort snort. Forty-foot-high me. Love it!

photo: Cary Conover

Graham Norton (left) with the new Mr. Gay.com Universe

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