Page 1 Roundup (06/29)

The Daily News: Two subway supervisors suspended in aftermath of A train derailment 

The New York Post: Knicks fire Phil Jackson — and lay out next steps (whatever any of that means)

The New York Times: Are people finally starting to realize Mitch McConell is the absolute worst of the worst?

The Wall Street Journal: Last Call for Minibottles? A Little Booze Battle is Nipping at Maine 

New York Times copy desk to top editors: ‘You have turned your backs on us’ (even worse than what they did to my desk) / Read HERE.

Netflix Developing New Installment of 'Tales of the City'

Chloe Webb, Laura Linney and Marcus D'Amico

I've shamefully never read any of the Armistead Maupin books. And I only saw the famed 1993 miniseries in recent years, eschewing the Showtime sequel because it recast the adorable Mouse (as well as Mona and Brian). But word that Netflix is developing a new installment of "Tales of the City" with Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis on board -- with a script penned by Michael "The Hours" Cummingham -- certainly has piqued my interest.

Thomas Gibson and my pal Kevin Sessums

The original cast was filled with handsome men, including Marcus D'Amico (Mouse), Billy Campbell (Dr. Jon Philip Fielding) and Thomas Gibson (Beauchamp Day). I remember when "Will & Grace" and "Dharma & Greg" came along, I was so bummed that Gibson hadn't been cast as Will instead of the other way around. (In retrospect, the less-handsome Eric McCormack made for a better uptight queen.)

Billy Campbell and the original Mouse

I had just moved to Washington when the first installment premiered on PBS and everyone was talking about it later that night at Trumpets (just up the street from JR's), only I hadn't known it was on. This was pre-Internet and being new to town, my subscription to Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide hadn't started yet -- and I didn't have friends to tell me about it. Although I felt a bit out of it, all was not lost. I met my (first) Latin lover that night at the bar, Señor Rafael! I'm not sure who they will get to fill the lead male roles. But with "Looking" off the air and Shonda Rhimes threatening to bring Russell T. Davies's heinous "Cucumber" and "Banana" to the U.S., this reboot can't come along soon enough.

Mouse 2.0: Paul Hopkins

Billy Campbell has another Mouse in the house (what was my problem with this recasting?!)

Forget About Going to Town

Damian and I were just in Washington and marveled that unlike New York City, it still has a big gay dance club. Not for long. Read HERE.

Straight Talk

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UPDATE: Wanted to say thanks to everyone for their kindness at this extremely difficult time. I'm just really upset because he was my first nephew/niece and I love him dearly. I just want to make it clear up front that I am NOT heterophobic in ANY WAY whatsoever. I'm just very concerned about my nephew and what kind of life he will have as a result of this choice. One thing's for sure, it's not going to be an easy one; no one wants to be straight. (How do straight people even have sex? Which one's the guy and which one's the other guy?) I fear his having to spend a lifetime worrying about unwanted pregnancies, arbitrary sports teams and morbid obesity; about his having to be in a relationship with someone he fundamentally has nothing in common with -- he wants to watch "the game," she wants to go shopping -- whose brain thinks and operates in a completely different way from his. I'm worried about his having to be constantly ready to get into a physical altercation any time someone challenges his "masculinity." Most of all, though, I'm just concerned that he has chosen a lifestyle that will be so much less interesting and fun. I'll still love him, though. He's my family.

Hunky Water-Colored Memories

Having written a memoir, this column about why it’s totally normal for family members to recall major life events differently seemed right up my alley. But thanks to son Walker, it turned out looking at the pictures was the best part.

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The way he were 

Wrestle Wednesday