It wouldn't hurt to mention here that the male casting of "Popular" was consistently interesting.
Included among the supporting players were Eric Mabius (Daniel in "Ugly Betty") as the football coach and Robert Gant (of "Queer As Folk") as a very unusual principal (whose mother happens to be the old crone who supervises the school cafeteria).
Christopher Gorham (Betty's current love interest on "Ugly Betty") is terrific, as is Bryce Johnson as the captain of the football team who surreptitiously stars in the school musical "South Pacific"....to his father's utter dismay.
I'm just thrilled, Larry, to have you with whom to share observations about this terrific show!
I'm quite fascinated by all the gender-fuck going on in it, and that's another reason I can't believe such a gay-friendly, she's-a-lesbian-she's-straight-she's gay-or-is-she? attitude ran for even two years and not two minutes! I was surprised the transexual episode had a rather sad ending because Bobbi Glass (is this another JD Salinger reference along with "Cather in the Rye"?) and her clan, all played by Diane Delano, are totally ambi-sexual; they call Bobbi "Sir," she's seems like a butch lesbian, she's been in that kinky hetero(

) relationship wth the fried chicken restaurant manager who wasgoing to sell the cute boy students into white slavery, and her brother (played also by Ms Delano) the military man is truly weird. And yet, she voted down Miss Debby while at the same time Cherry Cherry bought a corporation to change their gay rights policies! It's insane, totally off the wall and it's become my new obsession. Of course, having Erik Estrada play himself and Mary Cherry being on E! with a shaved head was also sooooo perverse.