Here TV announced
Tuesday that Mariel Hemingway--already a lesbian icon
from her performance in Personal Best--will
play a lesbian Secret Service agent in an original
movie set to air on the network in early 2006. Her
Line of Fire will star Hemingway as Lynn
Delaney, who must rescue the vice president (David
Keith) and a press secretary (Jill Bennett) after their
plane crash-lands in hostile territory. Here Networks
CEO and founder Paul Colichman said in a statement,
"We are thrilled to take an exciting and successful
genre, such as action films, and place a lesbian character
as the central lead of the story.... This film
reinforces our dedication to creating and producing
genuine, multidimensional gay and lesbian characters that
represent the wide spectrum of our community." Brian
Trenchard-Smith (Here's Tides of War) will
direct the script by Sherry Adamo.