Big Love.Will gay audiences fall in love with a show about a Viagra-popping polygamist po·lyg·a·mist n. One who practices polygamy. Noun 1. polygamist - someone who is married to two or more people at the same time polyandrist - a woman with two or more husbands juggling three wives in suburban Salt Lake City? Gay creators Mark V. Olsen Mark V. Olsen (born in ???) is a U.S. TV producer and screenwriter. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series Big Love along with writing and life partner Will Scheffer. and Will Scheffer's Big Love--HBO's latest Sunday night serial, debuting March 12--is an engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. peek at the loves that dare not speak their name. Can the struggle of polygamists be compared to the challenges facing gay people? Olsen: We have no agenda on this show. There were three things we wanted to dramatize--self in marriage, self in family, and self in society: What is it like to be marginalized and deemed off the table of legitimate discussion for who and what you are? Some of the struggles of the characters are very analogous to the gay community of 15 or 20 years ago. These characters are dealing with a lot of self-loathing. And it's ingrained by a society that says you are freaks. Do you plan on introducing any gay characters? Olsen: We are toying with it as additional story lines for a second year--if we are blessed with a second year. In an early episode, two wives from the neighboring polygamous polygamous as a male or female, having more than one mate. household play footsie Footsie A slang term for the FTSE 100 index. Notes: The Footsie consists of 100 blue chip stocks that trade on the London Stock Exchange. See also: Blue Chip Stock, FTSE, Index, Standard & Poors, S&P 500, Wilshire 5000 equity index Footsie (FTSE) under the table. Scheffer: [Laughing] That was a little hint about those characters. Olsen: Clearly that was in our heads in that scene. [Polygamist] Elizabeth Joseph, who addressed the Utah chapter of NOW in '97, advocated polygamy polygamy: see marriage. polygamy Marriage to more than one spouse at a time. Although the term may also refer to polyandry (marriage to more than one man), it is often used as a synonym for polygyny (marriage to more than one woman), which appears as the ultimate feminist lifestyle. She describes the deep, satisfying, soulful pleasure of getting home late at night and having another sister wife rub your feet for you. |
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