Gless says that the gay and lesbian community has warmly embraced her since she played Christine Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey," and that many lesbians have told her that they thought that her husband of 18 years, Barney Rosenzweig, is a "beard," covering for her to mask her true sexuality.

Gless's gay cred also expanded when she played the cool and approving mother of a gay character on "Queer As Folk."

"Hannah Free," which screens at 4:45 p.m. Sunday at the Prince Music Theater (1412 Chestnut) was written by Claudia Allen, whose Chicago play, "Cahoots," starred Gless. The actress calls the film "a labor of love," shooting over 18 days with a budget of only $200,000.

Gless now appears on the USA hit "Burn Notice," in which she plays Madeline Westen, the no-nonsense mom of a former U.S. spy who was blacklisted by the government and now takes odd jobs helping people in trouble.

It tapes through September in Miami, which she calls home.

In January and February, Gless will perform a play, "A Round Heeled Woman," in San Francisco. Gless optioned movie/TV rights to the book by Jane Juska, but said that it didn't work as a series, so she turned it into a play.

Juska wrote the book about her experience after placing a personal ad in the New York Review of Books that read: "Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me."

Tickets for the Gless event screening are available at Qfest.com.

Out and about

Actor David Morse caught Roseanne Cash's show at the Keswick Theatre on Thursday.

Morse can be seen in "The Hurt Locker," a tremendous war picture now playing at the Ritz Five.

Teen hacker makes it in the Journal

15-year-old Ari Weinstein, who's about to enter 10th grade at Germantown Friends, has spent his summer hacking iPhones. The Mt. Airy teen was just profiled in the Wall Street Journal as one of a group of people who have figured out how to crack the new iPhones and download programs not approved or sold by Apple.

Weinstein's proud parents are Judy, a social worker, and Ken, who owns the Trolley Car Diner, on Germantown Ave.

Giordano takes show on the road

Big Talker 1210 AM host Dom Giordano is broadcasting this week from Texas, Arizona and North Carolina, covering immigration and traveling in a 30-foot mobile home with radio crew Ed Palladino, Rob Razzi and Ryan Southwick as well as Geno's Steaks owner Joey Vento. Vento, who is sponsoring the tour, made international news with his views on immigration, in sticker form.

Giordano and company will broadcast from Charlotte, Dallas, El Paso and Phoenix, interviewing politicians and law-enforcement types such as notorious Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio.

See you next week

Your Humble Narrator will be on vacation the rest of the week.

The column returns July 21. *

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