Will Wednesday's 'Modern Family' be too modern? Show to feature transgender child
Also in Tattle: Molly Ringwald, Martin Scorsese, Adele and more
This Wednesday's Modern Family sure sounds like an episode that will be discussed around the water cooler.
And depending on what side of the culture wars you fight on, it will either be a piece of groundbreaking television showing off a new level of inclusiveness or a case of liberal, homosexual Hollywood forcing its agenda on America.
According to newnownext.com, the episode, titled "A Stereotypical Day," will include 8-year-old Jackson Millarker, the first openly transgender child actor on TV.
Variety.com reports that in the episode, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) allow daughter Lily (the hilarious Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) to have her transgender friend Tom over for a play-date.
Lily, however, proves not to be as open-minded as her parents had hoped.
Modern Family director Ryan Case posted this selfie with Jackson Millarker on Instagram.
TATTBITS
* Molly Ringwald (The Breakfast Club) will return to a New York stage in an adaptation of another classic 1980s film - Terms of Endearment.
59E59 Theaters said Monday that Ringwald will star in the bittersweet story of a mother and daughter that was turned into an Oscar-winning film by James L. Brooks starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. Performances begin Oct. 29.
We're guessing Ringwald would be in the MacLaine role.
Ringwald, who also starred '80s teen classics Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles, appeared on Broadway in Cabaret and Enchanted April. Off-Broadway, she has been in Modern Orthodox, How I Learned to Drive and Tick, Tick . . . Boom!
* Martin Scorsese's Silence, a historical drama about faith in feudal Japan, will open in limited release Dec. 23 with a nationwide expansion to follow sometime in January.
Silence, which stars Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson, is based on Shusaku Endo's 1966 novel. It's about two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries traveling to 17th-century Japan to spread Christianity and find their missing mentor.
Sounds Oscar-y.
* Variety will host a conference of film executives and stars to discuss solutions to Hollywood's lagging record in diversity.
Dubbed "Inclusion," the conference is to be held Nov. 1 in Beverly Hills. It will include a number of panels focused on finding ways to support underrepresented groups in film and television.
Age discrimination is also a planned discussion topic at the conference, co-sponsored by AARP. As a way to combat age discrimination, 78-year-old California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed legislation to require websites like IMDb.com to remove an actor's age upon request.
Not sure how that stops age discrimination. Will actors next be able to remove bad movies?
* According to EW.com. Adele spoke out on the Brangelina split after reports that she was broken up by the divorce.
"I don't care they broke up." she told her Madison Square Garden audience. "I couldn't give a f---ing s---. They're making out like I was heartbroken, like, 'Oh my God,' I don't care . . . I wish them both the best, but I don't care. And, to be honest, I don't think they really care about what you lot say. I think it's ridiculous, with what's going on in the world, that's front-page news? I mean, who'd have thought? It's sick."
* Forbes.com reported Monday that Disney, which already owns a lot, is mulling the possibility of making a bid for Twitter.
Let everybody sing:
"When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No re
- Daily News wire services
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