Howard Dean Drops Out Of LGBT Fundraiser, Mark Stafford Found In Argentina, Calvin Klein Towels Off And Tones Down, Facebook Film, Broderick Babies

Howard Dean, according to a report, joins a growing number of invited guests who have uninvited themselves to an upcoming Democratic National Committee LGBT fundraising event Thursday evening to be hosted by Vice-President Joe Biden. Dean’s spokesperson cites a “family commitment,” but a silent staged protest has been at work for weeks, one aimed at expressing the growing anger and frustration at the Obama Administration’s perceptible reluctance to attain real progress in terms of repealing the military ban on gays serving openly, and the Administration’s recent defense of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Found, finally, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, a bit of an “iconoclast,” according to an interview the Republican Stafford gave to the State, not in Atlanta, Georgia or along the Appalachian Trail as had been reported, but in Argentina. Well, Buenos Aries to be precise, “a great city,” according to Sanford. The story, from the sudden disappearance last Thursday, to his wife’s pronounced indifference, to his staff being utterly unaware as to where the Governor was, went under the radar last week, the Iranian election and aftermath capturing most of the news cycle’s attention, but now, five or six days later, where in the world was Mark Sanford and why was he there are the questions of the moment. Well, that, and it is my favorite story of the year to date.

The Calvin Klein three males, one female, sexual escapade advertisement for denim that had hung on a wall above a corner in Manhattan’s East Village, has been replaced with another Calvin Klein, this a more moderately sexually suggestive ad of a lone female, dripping wet, in a string bikini.

Late yesterday Varity reported that David Fincher – whom I like a lot – was attached to a Facebook movie project, written by Aaron Sorkin, with a the working title The Social Network, about the site’s beginnings as a student residence plaything to a world wide social networking power. Rumored under consideration to star in said project as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, which will begin production in the fall, is Hollywood hobo Shia LaBeouf.

I know you have waiting, with proverbial bated breath, but wait no longer, as Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker have revealed the names of the couple’s just born in surrogacy twin girls – Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge Broderick. People magazine, always on there when you need them most, thankfully has two baby name experts to explain it all.