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TLS: Take Three

Jim Howley, one of the eight bachelors competing for Calpernia Addams' attention and affection on Logo's Monday-night dating series Transamerican Love Story, phoned into the World of Wonder offices again to dish the dirt on last night's episode. Listen to Jim's new voicemail here, and visit Jim's MySpace here.

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TransMission

Thairin Smothers, producer of WOW's moving doc TransGeneration, alerts the Report that the series' top trannie, Raci Ignacio, is featured on Linda Simpson's My Comrade blog. Simpson apparently found Raci looking, you know, racy on her MySpace space (see above).

Meanwhile, as a kind of footnote, here's a photo of Smothers with Amanda Lepore at an official Party Monster party. The picture was posted on Friendster back in 2002. That Smothers – always with the trannies, bless him. Um, what's a Friendster?

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Shameless Plug

The Variety hed, "Doc org lock noms," runs atop the piece about the International Documentary Association's announcement of its 24 finalists in four categories for the 22nd Annual Distinguished Documentary Awards, so you understand why the succinct hed. The big news lies in this paragraph:

Nominees in the limited series category: CBC's "China Rises," VH1's "The Drug Years," Discovery Times' "Off to War," Sundance Channel's "Transgeneration," and PBS' "RX for Survival: a Global Health Challenge."

Yes, TransGeneration is the fabulous and moving WOW documentary series, so kudos and hat-doffing are in order for director-supervising producer Jeremy Simmons and producer Thairin Smothers. Fingers crossed.

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Shameless Plug

Been wondering what the students from TransGeneration have been up to since you saw them last? Well, wonder no more, because Gabbie, Lucas, Raci, and TJ have reunited for TransGeneration Reunion, a special where-are-they-now episode airing tonight on Sundance at 10PM E/P. Check out the students' cool photo diaries on the Sundance website, with new boyfriends, surgery pics, and tranny picnics a-plenty.

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A Program Note

The four college students you fell in love with in WOW's 8-part Sundance series TransGeneration, are back together for a reunion special, airing on Monday, August 28, with an online moderated discussion with the students on August 21. Get a sneak peek here.

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The Devil Is in the Details

Finally, we got our dealer to procure us a bootleg copy of The Devil Wears Prada (don't ask) so we could once and for all see for ourselves this TransGeneration bus ad that appears at the end of the movie that has everyone so excited for us. Well, no wonder we missed it. And we wonder how anybody who didn't know about it spotted it. You can watch the clip, but should probably find the bus in the still provided here first so you know what to look for. Of course, everything in Manhattan is a Waldo.

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Addressed to Kill

Just saw The Devil Wears Prada yesterday. Did you know that in the very, very last scene there is a NYC bus with an ad for TransGeneration on it? Very cool,

– Sid

[Ed note: Actually, Sid, yes, we did know that. But thanks for reminding us. We've been told by a couple of other people, too. In fact, we knew about it before we saw the movie, but were so carried away and uplifted and swoony from the good feeling we got toward the end that we forgot to look for the bus, damn it.]

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Change for the Bus

Hiya, hot stuff: The very last shot of DWP (you know, The Devil Wears Prada) is of a giant New York City bus with a gigunda ad for TransGeneration on the side. So y'all have the last word in the last word on style! Clink-clink, darlings. Gird your loins, world! (That's a paraphrase of a line from the beginning of the movie. Yes, I give away beginnings too.)

– Michael Musto

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GLAAD Tidings

First you heard about it, then you read about it here, watched it aired on TV, and now we've got the footage of the TransGeneration win at the GLAAD Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre the weekend before last – complete with that goosebump-inducing onstage marriage proposal. (Watch it and weep)

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Just Gimme Some Tooth

Today on what amounts to Daily Variety's party page are snaps from Saturday's GLAAD Awards ceremony honoring positive gay images in the media. There's a photo of the freshly engaged couple from WOW's GLAAD Award-winning doc TransGeneration, with the unidentified mug of the beaming, proud-as-a-papa director of the series, Jeremy Simmons, in the upper corner. It's rumored he has the best set of choppers in the industry. If he didn't, we never would have spotted him.

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Look at Us, We're Winning!

World of Wonder's winning streak continues with the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary for its TransGeneration series that aired on the Sundance and Logo channels. Accepting the trophy at the glamorous, star-studded ceremony Saturday night at the Kodak Theatre were the show's stars (from left) Raci Ignacio, Gabbie Gibson, TJ Jourian, and Lucas Cheadle; its director-supervising producer Jeremy Simmons; and producer Thairin Smothers (front). The ceremony, which honored the best in film and TV, will air on Logo April 15 and VH1 April 16.

Says Randy: "It was an amazing moment! TJ went to the microphone to speak – and proposed to his girlfriend Stacey (who was in the series) right there in the Academy Awards theater. The place went CRAZY. Standing ovation. It was a HUGE MOMENT!"

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Kodak Moments

The GLAAD Awards was a really fun experience. All four students were flown in for the red carpet extravaganza at the Kodak theatre and I managed to get some shots throughout the night. World of Wonder and the Sundance Channel are also filming an upcoming reunion show.

– Thairin Smothers

Here's Raci and her boyfriend at check-in

Gabbie on the red carpet with the cast

Lucas getting swarmed by the cameramen. Isn't he hot?

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Snap!

One of these sisters is not like the others. Rosanna, Alexis, and Patricia Arquette took the stage at the Kodak Theatre to announce the GLAAD Awards nominations for Outstanding Documentary, then Alexis, a sister who's definitely doing it for herself, presented the award to the TransGeneration group.

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King Con

No one was more surprised than us here at WOW to see one of our documentary series stars spoofed on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Who knew? Natalie Portman got dolled up as TJ from TransGeneration and had to fend off some baffling interview questions from Fred Armisen as a cuckoo "Larry King."

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Shameless, Self-Congratulatory Post

Today, at a press conference in the Queer Lounge at Sundance, GLAAD announced the nominees for its 17th annual Media Awards. And the nominees are, as they say... In the Outstanding Documentary category:

American Experience: Kinsey (PBS)
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (HBO)
Same Sex America (Showtime)
TransGeneration (The Sundance Channel/Logo)
We Are Dad (Showtime)

(Full list of nominees)

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A Program Note

Wondering what to watch tonight? Why not catch the premiere of WOW's moving series, TransGeneration, on Logo. Episode 1 begins at 10PM.