Olr/ fatter - Review of Niwezijds Gay Sna, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Tripadvisor

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• “SUPERSTORE” STAR BEN FELDMAN HAS US SOLDWHILE THE SHOW’S SEND SEASON MIGHT SEEM ISSU-CENTRIC, THE ACTOR SAYS WE SHOULDN’T READ BETWEEN THE CHECKOUT LWRTEN BY CHAD THOMAS (FUNCTN() { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1453841951663-0'); }); DPE HIS MEMORABLE ROLE AS MPLED, ERRATIC PYWRER MICHAEL GSBERG AMID THE BONAIR CHARACTERS OF MAD MEN, BEN FELDMAN HIMSELF IS A MAN OF REFEMENT: HIS NT IS THE FAMO CHEF SAN FENIGER; HIS WIFE, MICHELLE MULZ, IS A HIGH-PROFILE TERR SIGNER. AND 2005, HE AND A IEND CREATED THEIR OWN BLEND OF CENTRAL COAST SYRAH—“A LABEL, MAN, JT A LABEL,” HE RRECTS ME, WHEN I MENTN I HEARD HE WAS PART OWNER OF A VEYARD. “IF YOU DON’T HAVE A NAME LIKE FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA AND YOU’RE STARTG A WE LABEL, YOU’RE SCREWED. IT JT BE AN EXPENSIVE THG TO TALK ABOUT AT PARTI.”FELDMAN MEETS ME AT A RNER TABLE UPSTAIRS AT MORRELL WE BAR, NEXT TO 30 ROCK. I’M LUXURIATG OVER BLACK TFFLE VILED EGGS AND SIPPG SAN PELLEGRO WHEN I SEE HIM MOVG UP THE STEPS TWO AT A TIME. HE WALKS OVER JEANS AND A GREY TEE UNR A ZIP-UP SWEAT JACKET, APOLOGIZG PROFELY FOR HIS TARDS. I OFFER HIM THE WE LIST, BUT HE CL, A FULL DAY OF PRS STILL AHEAD. “DEVILED EGGS?” HE SAYS, LGHG. “THAT IS AWOME.” GUS I MISSED THE MARK ON MY OWN REFEMENT. THERE ARE TFFL THEM, BEN.FELDMAN’S 36 BUT HARDLY LOOKS : HIS PLEXN IS FLAWLS, AND I RIST AN QUIRY RE: MOISTURIZERS. HIS DARK LOCKS ARE SWEPT BACK, REVEALG A HAIRLE MOST HAVE NEVER ENJOYED, EVEN BEFORE FATHER TIME SUNK HIS PCERS TO .WE’RE HERE TO DISCS SUPERSTORE, THE S ON WHICH HE STARS. THE LA TIM HAS LLED SUPERSTORE “ONE OF TV’S BT NEW EDI” AND FLAVORWIREHAS SAID THAT IS “TV’S MOST (QUIETLY) REVOLUTNARY SHOW.” (SEASON 2 STARTS TONIGHT AT 8:00 PM ON NBC.) FELDMAN’S CHARACTER, JONAH, IS A WAYWARD GRAD STUNT WHO GO FOR A DRIVE AND STOPS AT A CLOUD 9 STORE—THK WAL-MART—BEFORE CIDG TO GET A JOB THERE. HIS ELIST ATTU EARNS THE IRE OF HIS WORKERS, PECIALLY AMY (UGLY BETTY’S AMERI FERRERA).AMERI FERRERA AND BEN FELDMANIN THE SHOW’S PILOT, JONAH ASKS AMY WHY SHE N’T FD “MOMENTS OF BETY” AT CLOUD 9, TO WHICH AMY, WHO HAD HER DGHTER AT 19 AND IS TAKG NIGHT CLASS, REPLI, “TOMORROW IS GOG TO BE THE SAME AS TODAY. AND I KNOW THAT BEE TODAY IS THE SAME AS YTERDAY. SO SOMETIM, ’S JT TOUGH TO FD THOSE ‘MOMENTS OF BETY.’” AFTER A HOAX ROBBERY ENDS WH DA (EDIAN LREN ASH) KNOCKG OUT THE LIGHTS, ’S REVEALED THAT JONAH’S VERED EVERY CH OF THE STORE’S CEILG WH GLOW--THE-DARK STAR STICKERS. AMY GAZ AT JONAH, WHO SAYS, “MOMENT OF BETY?” THERE’S A NFOUNDG EVENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER, THOUGH: AMY SLIPS ON A WEDDG RG.“THE WRERS PUT A GIANT OBSTACLE THE PATH,” SAYS FELDMAN. “‘ARE THEY GOG TO GET TOGETHER?’ IT ISN’T ABOUT THAT,” HE NTU. “I DIDN’T WANT TO BE ON THE ‘WILL-THEY, WON’T-THEY’ SHOW. I WANTED TO BE ON THE ENSEMBLE SHOW WHERE ’S JT AS GOOD IF THE WHOLE EPISO IS ABOUT A DIFFERENT CHARACTER.”THOUGH CREATOR JT SPZER WAS A WRER AND PRODUCER ON THE OFFICE, THIS IS NOT JIM AND PAM. SUPERSTORE EMPLOYS A BEVY OF HILAR, ENARG CHARACTERS WHO MIGHT GET MUTED IF A RELATNSHIP TOOK CENTER STAGE.LREN ASH PLAYS GFF AND NTROLLG ASSISTANT MANAGER DA, WHO, AFTER GROSSLY MISTERPRETG SIGNALS OM JONAH, ATTEMPTS A ROMANTIC RENZVO.“THAT SCENE WAS DIFFICULT,” FELDMAN SAYS. “JONAH ISN’T DISGTED BY DA, ’S THE IA OF WHAT’S HAPPENG. AND LREN DON’T WANT TO PLAY THIS AGGRSIVE, OBNOX CREEP, SO PLAYG WH THE LEVELS OF WHAT’S FUNNY AND WHAT’S REAL BEME A NUANCED PROCS.”WHEN WHEELCHAIR-BOUND GARRETT (PARKS AND REC’S COLTON DUNN) REMARKS THAT CLOUD 9 “LOV PUTTG EMPLOYE WH DISABILI ON THE VER” OF THEIR RPORATE MAGAZE, JONAH EXCEDLY RIFFS, “AND GETTG A BLACK GUY  A WHEELCHAIR WOULD BE LIKE THEIR HOLY GRAIL.” GARRETT FEIGNS ANGER, AND JONAH SISTS HE “LISTENS TO DRAKE” AND “WATCH BET” BEFORE GARRETT SAYS HE’S JT MSG WH HIM. JONAH ADMS, “I’VE NEVER WATCHED BET.”STORE MANAGER GLENN (MARK MCKNEY OF MID-‘90S SNL) IS A EPLY RELIG MAN WHO NFERS WH MATEO (EDIAN NI SANTOS) ON HOW TO ARRANGE A SECTN FOR GAY WEDDG RATNS. “PEOPLE ASSUME ALL CHRISTIANS ARE HOMOPHOB,” GLENN PLAS. “YOU N’T IMAGE HOW HARD IS BEG STEREOTYPED.” MATEO, A FILIPO-BORN GAY MAN, PS, BEFORE GOOD-NATUREDLY REPLYG, “SURE.”I TELL BEN I SEE JONAH AS AN ECLECTIC MIX OF DOUCHS AND LOVABILY. “IF YOU ASKED THE WRERS TO SCRIBE BEN FELDMAN, THEY’D E THE SAME ADJECTIV,” HE LGHS. “I’M BEG THE CHARACTER THEY’RE WRG, BEE OF ME, BUT I’M MORE ME BEE OF .” HE CLARIFI: “WE DO THE FULL-ST TERVIEWS AND I’LL QUOTE SHAKPEARE AND EVERYONE WILL THROW SH AT ME. THEY MAKE FUN OF ME FOR EVERYTHG.”BEN FELDMANSEASON 2 OF SUPERSTORE PICKS UP WH THE STRIKE RULTG OM GLENN GETTG FIRED LAST SEASON’S FALE—HE BYPASSED CLOUD 9’S NO-MATERNY-LEAVE POLICY BY GIVG PREGNANT TEENAGER CHEYENNE (SHAMELS’S NICHOLE BLOOM) A SIX-WEEK “PAID SPENSN”—BUT THE STRIKE ULTIMATELY VOLV TO SHOUTS ABOUT “MAKG SURE THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED THE WOMEN’S BATHROOM!” AND “STATEHOOD FOR PUERTO RI!”“THIS SEASON, PEOPLE ASK IF WE’RE AN ‘ISSU’ SHOW,” FELDMAN SAYS. “BUT IF YOU AND I WERE TALKG ABOUT GUN LAWS OR POLICS, AT NO POT WOULD WE SAY, ‘WOW, WE’RE VERY TOPIL RIGHT NOW.’ THE WRERS ASKED, ‘WHAT DO PEOPLE TALK ABOUT, AND WHAT’S OUR FUNNY SP ON ?’”SHORTLY BEFORE GRADUATG OM ITHA COLLEGE, FELDMAN NABBED A ROLE AS AN UNRSTUDY ON BROADWAY  THE GRADUATE. “I HAD NO TERT DOG THGS ONT OF MERAS. MOST OF THE KIDS, WHEN I GO BACK AND TALK AT ITHA NOW, ARE SNOB-LIKE THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE STAGE.”“THEY THK YOU’RE A SELLOUT?” I OFFER.“TOTAL SELLOUT. I SAY, ‘GUYS, I PROMISE YOU, TEN YEARS OM NOW YOU’RE GONNA BE DNG FOR CO-COLA MERCIALS. GET OFF MY ASS.’”OF ALL HIS PROJECTS, FELDMAN’S HAVG THE MOST FUN ON SUPERSTORE. “EVERYBODY THIS ST IS BT IENDS.” HE ADDS, “THERE ARE NO DOUCHEBAGS. TYPILLY, THERE’S A ST MEMBER EVERYONE’S TALKG SH ABOUT. WE DON’T HAVE THAT.” HE PS. “UNLS ’S ME.”AS I DOWN MY LAST VILED EGG, I ASK BEN FOR ANY FAL THOUGHTS. WH AN EVERYMAN’S GR, HE SAYS, “JT FUCKG GO NUTS AND WATCH THIS SHOW SO THAT WE N GET PICKED UP FOR ANOTHER SEASON.” TAGS:CELEBRY,TELEVISN (FUNCTN() { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1453841951663-2'); }); (FUNCTN() { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1453737959964-0'); }); GALLERIES JETBLUE DEBUTS ITS MT CABS FOR NEW TRANSATLANTIC ROUT
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“SUPERSTORE” STAR BEN FELDMAN HAS US SOLDWHILE THE SHOW’S SEND SEASON MIGHT SEEM ISSU-CENTRIC, THE ACTOR SAYS WE SHOULDN’T READ BETWEEN THE CHECKOUT LWRTEN BY CHAD THOMAS (FUNCTN() { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1453841951663-0'); }); DPE HIS MEMORABLE ROLE AS MPLED, ERRATIC PYWRER MICHAEL GSBERG AMID THE BONAIR CHARACTERS OF MAD MEN, BEN FELDMAN HIMSELF IS A MAN OF REFEMENT: HIS NT IS THE FAMO CHEF SAN FENIGER; HIS WIFE, MICHELLE MULZ, IS A HIGH-PROFILE TERR SIGNER. AND 2005, HE AND A IEND CREATED THEIR OWN BLEND OF CENTRAL COAST SYRAH—“A LABEL, MAN, JT A LABEL,” HE RRECTS ME, WHEN I MENTN I HEARD HE WAS PART OWNER OF A VEYARD. “IF YOU DON’T HAVE A NAME LIKE FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA AND YOU’RE STARTG A WE LABEL, YOU’RE SCREWED. IT JT BE AN EXPENSIVE THG TO TALK ABOUT AT PARTI.”FELDMAN MEETS ME AT A RNER TABLE UPSTAIRS AT MORRELL WE BAR, NEXT TO 30 ROCK. I’M LUXURIATG OVER BLACK TFFLE VILED EGGS AND SIPPG SAN PELLEGRO WHEN I SEE HIM MOVG UP THE STEPS TWO AT A TIME. HE WALKS OVER JEANS AND A GREY TEE UNR A ZIP-UP SWEAT JACKET, APOLOGIZG PROFELY FOR HIS TARDS. I OFFER HIM THE WE LIST, BUT HE CL, A FULL DAY OF PRS STILL AHEAD. “DEVILED EGGS?” HE SAYS, LGHG. “THAT IS AWOME.” GUS I MISSED THE MARK ON MY OWN REFEMENT. THERE ARE TFFL THEM, BEN.FELDMAN’S 36 BUT HARDLY LOOKS : HIS PLEXN IS FLAWLS, AND I RIST AN QUIRY RE: MOISTURIZERS. HIS DARK LOCKS ARE SWEPT BACK, REVEALG A HAIRLE MOST HAVE NEVER ENJOYED, EVEN BEFORE FATHER TIME SUNK HIS PCERS TO .WE’RE HERE TO DISCS SUPERSTORE, THE S ON WHICH HE STARS. THE LA TIM HAS LLED SUPERSTORE “ONE OF TV’S BT NEW EDI” AND FLAVORWIREHAS SAID THAT IS “TV’S MOST (QUIETLY) REVOLUTNARY SHOW.” (SEASON 2 STARTS TONIGHT AT 8:00 PM ON NBC.) FELDMAN’S CHARACTER, JONAH, IS A WAYWARD GRAD STUNT WHO GO FOR A DRIVE AND STOPS AT A CLOUD 9 STORE—THK WAL-MART—BEFORE CIDG TO GET A JOB THERE. HIS ELIST ATTU EARNS THE IRE OF HIS WORKERS, PECIALLY AMY (UGLY BETTY’S AMERI FERRERA).AMERI FERRERA AND BEN FELDMANIN THE SHOW’S PILOT, JONAH ASKS AMY WHY SHE N’T FD “MOMENTS OF BETY” AT CLOUD 9, TO WHICH AMY, WHO HAD HER DGHTER AT 19 AND IS TAKG NIGHT CLASS, REPLI, “TOMORROW IS GOG TO BE THE SAME AS TODAY. AND I KNOW THAT BEE TODAY IS THE SAME AS YTERDAY. SO SOMETIM, ’S JT TOUGH TO FD THOSE ‘MOMENTS OF BETY.’” AFTER A HOAX ROBBERY ENDS WH DA (EDIAN LREN ASH) KNOCKG OUT THE LIGHTS, ’S REVEALED THAT JONAH’S VERED EVERY CH OF THE STORE’S CEILG WH GLOW--THE-DARK STAR STICKERS. AMY GAZ AT JONAH, WHO SAYS, “MOMENT OF BETY?” THERE’S A NFOUNDG EVENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER, THOUGH: AMY SLIPS ON A WEDDG RG.“THE WRERS PUT A GIANT OBSTACLE THE PATH,” SAYS FELDMAN. “‘ARE THEY GOG TO GET TOGETHER?’ IT ISN’T ABOUT THAT,” HE NTU. “I DIDN’T WANT TO BE ON THE ‘WILL-THEY, WON’T-THEY’ SHOW. I WANTED TO BE ON THE ENSEMBLE SHOW WHERE ’S JT AS GOOD IF THE WHOLE EPISO IS ABOUT A DIFFERENT CHARACTER.”THOUGH CREATOR JT SPZER WAS A WRER AND PRODUCER ON THE OFFICE, THIS IS NOT JIM AND PAM. SUPERSTORE EMPLOYS A BEVY OF HILAR, ENARG CHARACTERS WHO MIGHT GET MUTED IF A RELATNSHIP TOOK CENTER STAGE.LREN ASH PLAYS GFF AND NTROLLG ASSISTANT MANAGER DA, WHO, AFTER GROSSLY MISTERPRETG SIGNALS OM JONAH, ATTEMPTS A ROMANTIC RENZVO.“THAT SCENE WAS DIFFICULT,” FELDMAN SAYS. “JONAH ISN’T DISGTED BY DA, ’S THE IA OF WHAT’S HAPPENG. AND LREN DON’T WANT TO PLAY THIS AGGRSIVE, OBNOX CREEP, SO PLAYG WH THE LEVELS OF WHAT’S FUNNY AND WHAT’S REAL BEME A NUANCED PROCS.”WHEN WHEELCHAIR-BOUND GARRETT (PARKS AND REC’S COLTON DUNN) REMARKS THAT CLOUD 9 “LOV PUTTG EMPLOYE WH DISABILI ON THE VER” OF THEIR RPORATE MAGAZE, JONAH EXCEDLY RIFFS, “AND GETTG A BLACK GUY  A WHEELCHAIR WOULD BE LIKE THEIR HOLY GRAIL.” GARRETT FEIGNS ANGER, AND JONAH SISTS HE “LISTENS TO DRAKE” AND “WATCH BET” BEFORE GARRETT SAYS HE’S JT MSG WH HIM. JONAH ADMS, “I’VE NEVER WATCHED BET.”STORE MANAGER GLENN (MARK MCKNEY OF MID-‘90S SNL) IS A EPLY RELIG MAN WHO NFERS WH MATEO (EDIAN NI SANTOS) ON HOW TO ARRANGE A SECTN FOR GAY WEDDG RATNS. “PEOPLE ASSUME ALL CHRISTIANS ARE HOMOPHOB,” GLENN PLAS. “YOU N’T IMAGE HOW HARD IS BEG STEREOTYPED.” MATEO, A FILIPO-BORN GAY MAN, PS, BEFORE GOOD-NATUREDLY REPLYG, “SURE.”I TELL BEN I SEE JONAH AS AN ECLECTIC MIX OF DOUCHS AND LOVABILY. “IF YOU ASKED THE WRERS TO SCRIBE BEN FELDMAN, THEY’D E THE SAME ADJECTIV,” HE LGHS. “I’M BEG THE CHARACTER THEY’RE WRG, BEE OF ME, BUT I’M MORE ME BEE OF .” HE CLARIFI: “WE DO THE FULL-ST TERVIEWS AND I’LL QUOTE SHAKPEARE AND EVERYONE WILL THROW SH AT ME. THEY MAKE FUN OF ME FOR EVERYTHG.”BEN FELDMANSEASON 2 OF SUPERSTORE PICKS UP WH THE STRIKE RULTG OM GLENN GETTG FIRED LAST SEASON’S FALE—HE BYPASSED CLOUD 9’S NO-MATERNY-LEAVE POLICY BY GIVG PREGNANT TEENAGER CHEYENNE (SHAMELS’S NICHOLE BLOOM) A SIX-WEEK “PAID SPENSN”—BUT THE STRIKE ULTIMATELY VOLV TO SHOUTS ABOUT “MAKG SURE THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED THE WOMEN’S BATHROOM!” AND “STATEHOOD FOR PUERTO RI!”“THIS SEASON, PEOPLE ASK IF WE’RE AN ‘ISSU’ SHOW,” FELDMAN SAYS. “BUT IF YOU AND I WERE TALKG ABOUT GUN LAWS OR POLICS, AT NO POT WOULD WE SAY, ‘WOW, WE’RE VERY TOPIL RIGHT NOW.’ THE WRERS ASKED, ‘WHAT DO PEOPLE TALK ABOUT, AND WHAT’S OUR FUNNY SP ON ?’”SHORTLY BEFORE GRADUATG OM ITHA COLLEGE, FELDMAN NABBED A ROLE AS AN UNRSTUDY ON BROADWAY  THE GRADUATE. “I HAD NO TERT DOG THGS ONT OF MERAS. MOST OF THE KIDS, WHEN I GO BACK AND TALK AT ITHA NOW, ARE SNOB-LIKE THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE STAGE.”“THEY THK YOU’RE A SELLOUT?” I OFFER.“TOTAL SELLOUT. I SAY, ‘GUYS, I PROMISE YOU, TEN YEARS OM NOW YOU’RE GONNA BE DNG FOR CO-COLA MERCIALS. GET OFF MY ASS.’”OF ALL HIS PROJECTS, FELDMAN’S HAVG THE MOST FUN ON SUPERSTORE. “EVERYBODY THIS ST IS BT IENDS.” HE ADDS, “THERE ARE NO DOUCHEBAGS. TYPILLY, THERE’S A ST MEMBER EVERYONE’S TALKG SH ABOUT. WE DON’T HAVE THAT.” HE PS. “UNLS ’S ME.”AS I DOWN MY LAST VILED EGG, I ASK BEN FOR ANY FAL THOUGHTS. WH AN EVERYMAN’S GR, HE SAYS, “JT FUCKG GO NUTS AND WATCH THIS SHOW SO THAT WE N GET PICKED UP FOR ANOTHER SEASON.” TAGS:CELEBRY,TELEVISN (FUNCTN() { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1453841951663-2'); }); (FUNCTN() { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1453737959964-0'); }); GALLERIES JETBLUE DEBUTS ITS MT CABS FOR NEW TRANSATLANTIC ROUT

Ni Santos famoly plays Mateo Liwanag who ends up tellg his -workers that he is gay and has been datg Jeff, a former District Manager of the St.

”Store manager Glenn (Mark McKney of mid-‘90s SNL) is a eply relig man who nfers wh Mateo (edian Ni Santos) on how to arrange a sectn for gay weddg ratns. “People assume all Christians are homophob, ” Glenn plas. ” Mateo, a Filipo-born gay man, ps, before good-naturedly replyg, “Sure.

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In terms of bigger story l, the seri’s chroniclg of Mateo (Ni Santos), an undocumented, gay Filipo Amerin, is among s masterclass illtratns of the trici of (un-)cizenship, belongg, and tersectnaly. Glenn shows his tolerance when he learns Mateo is gay and asks him to plan a weddg sectn of the store for a gay uple, Andy and Rsell. "Weddg Day Sale": Glenn fds out Mateo is gay and when a gay uple, Andy and Rsell, approach them seekg advice.

He asks Mateo to help him put together a display for gay weddgs. Mateo is surprised that Glenn is so tolerant but go too far by suggtg J may have been gay. When showg the gay uple the display, Glenn has surpris cludg lightg and nfetti that he hop will make the display "gayer".