Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brady out and about in Los Angeles Tuesday, Tom and son John Edward Thomas heading into a FedEx store, with father trying to hide son from the prying paparazzi, with uneven results. Mrs. Brady meanwhile, made a bank run, and did so playing the prop to hide purported pregnancy game.
Anna Kournikova is not someone you, um, want to throw anything at, drink included, because, attacked Anna attacks back.
Danny Cipriani, beyond being cute, out and about with rumored girlfriend Kelly Brock, in London Tuesday, Danny donning a Michael Jackson tee in tribute to the singer.
Michael Jackson, meanwhile, is reportedly not the biological father of his children Prince and Paris, their father actually Arnold Klein, Jackson’s dermatologist, who had employed Debbie Rowe, who is the biological mother. I know, it should seem simple, and yet …
In Los Angeles Tuesday, the funeral of Farrah Fawcett was held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Mourners including Ryan O’Neal, Redmond O’Neal, and Farrah’s father James, Alana Stewart, Kate Jackson, and Cheryl Tiegs. Along with readings from the Bible, the farewell included a selection from James Joyce’s At That Hour.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
War On Drugs Moves To Canada, Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Jude Law Broadway Bound, Elaine Stritch Sued, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson Public Viewing
The Los Angeles Times reports on the deadly drug war being fought at a border, the Canadian border, the result of a crackdown on cocaine in Mexico, with mayhem and murder now, sadly, commonplace, in cities like Abbotsford, British Columbia.
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards were presented last night in Toronto, with Agokwe, a drama by a twenty-three year Ojibwa writer earning six Dora awards, a revival of the Sound of Music earning three, and a production of Jersey Boys earning two.
The English production company behind Frost/Nixon and Mary Stuart are bringing the Donmars Warehouse production of Hamlet starring Jude Law to Broadway this fall, the play opening September 12th, 2009 for a twelve week run.
Who sues Elaine Stritch?
There are reports that Farrah Fawcett and estranged ex-husband Lee Majors reconciled before Fawcett succumbed to cancer last week, the two speaking this past February for the first time in twenty-three years.
Details that Michael Jackson’s body will be on display this Friday, at his Neverland Ranch, in Santa Barbara, California, for a public viewing. Details have also emerged regarding his estate and a will written in 2002, that names his three children, his mother, and a yet to be identified charity as benefactors.
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards were presented last night in Toronto, with Agokwe, a drama by a twenty-three year Ojibwa writer earning six Dora awards, a revival of the Sound of Music earning three, and a production of Jersey Boys earning two.
The English production company behind Frost/Nixon and Mary Stuart are bringing the Donmars Warehouse production of Hamlet starring Jude Law to Broadway this fall, the play opening September 12th, 2009 for a twelve week run.
Who sues Elaine Stritch?
There are reports that Farrah Fawcett and estranged ex-husband Lee Majors reconciled before Fawcett succumbed to cancer last week, the two speaking this past February for the first time in twenty-three years.
Details that Michael Jackson’s body will be on display this Friday, at his Neverland Ranch, in Santa Barbara, California, for a public viewing. Details have also emerged regarding his estate and a will written in 2002, that names his three children, his mother, and a yet to be identified charity as benefactors.
Anti-Gay Vandalism At The Department Of Labor, Fort Worth Gay Bar Raid Under Investigation, Bruno School Scandal, Gay Way, Sex, Lies, And Sanford
You may by now have heard or have read that this month, June, the traditional month to celebrate gay pride and commemorate gay history, saw a spike of sorts in anti-gay sentiment, that including the vandalizing of a number of Pride posters placed at the United States Department of Labor offices in Washington, the first time, incidentally that the Department publically recognized gay pride. The Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, who initiated the installation of the posters, a series of which included eight significant gay Americans, among them Rachel Maddow, said that she would not tolerate any anti-gay misconduct saying, in a mass email sent Friday that while she does “not believe these actions represent the majority of our employees … respect for others in nonnegotiable at the United States Department of Labor.”
In the aftermath of arrests made by police in Fort Worth, Texas, after a gay bar there was raided there early Sunday morning, police chief Jeff Halstead is insistent that his department is not now nor ever has been targeting gays, and that an internal affairs investigation into the police led inspection of the Rainbow Lounge, which resulted in seven arrests and the injuring of twenty-six year Chad Gibson, will determine what went wrong and disciplinary actions will follow. Despite Halstead’s assurances, activists and advocacy groups both local and national are concerned that the city of Fort Worth may not be the most welcoming to homosexuals, an idea that troubles City Councilwoman Kathleen Hicks, who said, she is “very concerned” and that she does not want the city to garner a “reputation as a place that is not inclusive.”
Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno, GQ, a Los Angeles high school, and Ramon Cortines, who is the Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent – see if you can comprehend the story. Seriously, just see.
The Toronto Star offers an analysis of the greater Toronto area neighborhoods and just how gay they are, and again, see if you can comprehend the story.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, in an “emotional and lengthy” interview with the Associated Press Tuesday revealed that the “three” meetings with Maria Chapur, his mistress, he admitted to last week was far from the truth. The tale of heightened hypocrisy has taken yet another turn, Sanford stating that Chapur had come to the United States, at least twice in the last year, the twosome meeting in New York City for “romantic weekends,” contradicting an admission previously made.
In the aftermath of arrests made by police in Fort Worth, Texas, after a gay bar there was raided there early Sunday morning, police chief Jeff Halstead is insistent that his department is not now nor ever has been targeting gays, and that an internal affairs investigation into the police led inspection of the Rainbow Lounge, which resulted in seven arrests and the injuring of twenty-six year Chad Gibson, will determine what went wrong and disciplinary actions will follow. Despite Halstead’s assurances, activists and advocacy groups both local and national are concerned that the city of Fort Worth may not be the most welcoming to homosexuals, an idea that troubles City Councilwoman Kathleen Hicks, who said, she is “very concerned” and that she does not want the city to garner a “reputation as a place that is not inclusive.”
Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno, GQ, a Los Angeles high school, and Ramon Cortines, who is the Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent – see if you can comprehend the story. Seriously, just see.
The Toronto Star offers an analysis of the greater Toronto area neighborhoods and just how gay they are, and again, see if you can comprehend the story.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, in an “emotional and lengthy” interview with the Associated Press Tuesday revealed that the “three” meetings with Maria Chapur, his mistress, he admitted to last week was far from the truth. The tale of heightened hypocrisy has taken yet another turn, Sanford stating that Chapur had come to the United States, at least twice in the last year, the twosome meeting in New York City for “romantic weekends,” contradicting an admission previously made.
Monday, June 29, 2009
President Obama Asks Gays To Be A Bit More Patient
President Obama extended an invitation to gay and lesbians leaders Monday, to a reception held in the East Room of the White House, meant literally to mark the anniversary of Stonewall, and meant figuratively to quell growing anger and resentment by the LGBT community who feel that they have been betrayed and compromised by the Administration who, by all appearances, have adopted an inane passive/aggressive stance towards gay rights, including and most importantly the military ban on gays serving openly and on gay marriage.
Obama told the audience that he understood their frustration, saying “I know many in this room don’t believe progress has come fast enough, and I understand that. It’s not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago,” a rather remarkable series of sentences that to my knowledge, for the first time with the White House, that correlates the struggle for civil rights fought by blacks in the fifties and sixties to the struggle for equal rights fought by homosexuals for decades.
As for the timeline, the President took time to explain that change takes time, offering that “as commander in chief I do have a responsibility to see that this change is administered in a practical way and a way that takes over the long term.”
Obama told the audience that he understood their frustration, saying “I know many in this room don’t believe progress has come fast enough, and I understand that. It’s not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago,” a rather remarkable series of sentences that to my knowledge, for the first time with the White House, that correlates the struggle for civil rights fought by blacks in the fifties and sixties to the struggle for equal rights fought by homosexuals for decades.
As for the timeline, the President took time to explain that change takes time, offering that “as commander in chief I do have a responsibility to see that this change is administered in a practical way and a way that takes over the long term.”
Gene Simmons Says Adam Lambert Should Have Not Come Out, Michael Urie Won’t Come Out, Gays On Daytime Drama, Josh Duhamel, Chace Crawford’s New Do
Gene Simmons, yes, that Gene Simmons, in a new interview with Inside TV Blog, promoting the new season of Gene Simmons Family Jewels, that admittedly I watched only till realizing son Nick was not – contrary to rumors – gay, suggests in said interview that owing to the climate of homophobia prevalent beyond the Los Angeles city limits, Adam Lambert should have never come out, and in doing so, Simmons suggests, effectively compromised what could have been a career as big as the Beatles. Gene, who, along with Kiss, performed memorably with Lambert on American Idol, says he “would be the first one to vote for equal rights for gay women and men, and get the church and the state to stop telling everybody how to lead their lives.” I could editorialize at this point, plenty, but I trust my readers.
Michael Urie, marvelous, mischievous, and resilient Michael Urie talks to New York magazine’s Tim Murphy and explains the whys and wherefores influencing his decision not to come out, preferring to teeter along the edge of ambivalence, rather than draw attention to his sexual preference.
Perhaps, just perhaps, Michael believes in the adage about a picture saying more than words ever could, Mr. Urie pictured here at Sunday’s New York City Pride Parade along side two of my favorite sexy and out men, Scott Nevins and Randy Jones.
According to reports, the daytime drama One Life To Lives’ venture in territory best deemed the gay has already claimed causality, Patricia Mauceri, a fourteen year veteran of the show fired because she expressed a concern and an unwillingness to participate in a story line involving a gay character. Mauceri has attempted to push back from the story, insisting that she is not homophobic, but rather her “character” is.
Deadly dull Josh Duhamel tells anyone who will listen that the infamous nude pictures of the circumcised Duhamel, taken in 2006, were not that big of a deal. See, again, I could editorialize and point out the obvious puns, but I trust my readers and am better than that.
The decidedly not deadly dull Chace Crawford, dreamy, delicious, and, from what I hear, delightful, returned to Manhattan set of Gossip Girl Monday, back at work for the upcoming season three, Mr. Crawford sporting a new, sexy hair style, one that is, um, let us be honest, is several shades of gay.
Michael Urie, marvelous, mischievous, and resilient Michael Urie talks to New York magazine’s Tim Murphy and explains the whys and wherefores influencing his decision not to come out, preferring to teeter along the edge of ambivalence, rather than draw attention to his sexual preference.
Perhaps, just perhaps, Michael believes in the adage about a picture saying more than words ever could, Mr. Urie pictured here at Sunday’s New York City Pride Parade along side two of my favorite sexy and out men, Scott Nevins and Randy Jones.
According to reports, the daytime drama One Life To Lives’ venture in territory best deemed the gay has already claimed causality, Patricia Mauceri, a fourteen year veteran of the show fired because she expressed a concern and an unwillingness to participate in a story line involving a gay character. Mauceri has attempted to push back from the story, insisting that she is not homophobic, but rather her “character” is.
Deadly dull Josh Duhamel tells anyone who will listen that the infamous nude pictures of the circumcised Duhamel, taken in 2006, were not that big of a deal. See, again, I could editorialize and point out the obvious puns, but I trust my readers and am better than that.
The decidedly not deadly dull Chace Crawford, dreamy, delicious, and, from what I hear, delightful, returned to Manhattan set of Gossip Girl Monday, back at work for the upcoming season three, Mr. Crawford sporting a new, sexy hair style, one that is, um, let us be honest, is several shades of gay.
NYC Pride Bashing, Obama To Lift HIV Travel Ban, Katherine Jackson Granted Guardianship, Autopsy Details, David Gest, Bernard Madoff Sentenced
Joseph Holladay, visiting New York City this weekend for Pride festivities from Boston, was alleged attacked – robbed and pistol whipped – by a group of individuals who used a number of anti-gay slur, prompting the city police to investigate the incident as a possible hate crime. Holladay, thirty-six, was assaulted early Saturday morning, along East 85th Street.
Has the Obama Administration begun lifting the United States HIV+ travel ban? An innocuous appearing update on the website belonging to the Office of Management and Budget late Friday afternoon suggests that it has.
Katherine Jackson, the matriarch of the Jackson family, has been granted temporary custody of Michael Jackson’s three children, Prince Michael Jr., Paris Michael Katherine, and Prince Michael II. Papers filed in court by attorneys representing the Jackson family argue that the children’s legal mother, Deborah Rowe, has no real relationship with them, and a decision to award custody to Rowe would be detrimental to the health and well-being of the three.
Meanwhile, the most lurid details have been released by the British press on the autopsy report of Michael Jackson, leaked according to the papers, by unnamed sources.
David Gest, ex-husband of Liza Minnelli and friend to Jackson for over forty years, says stress and an unhealthly trust in the most untrustworthy killed Jackson.
Bernard L. Madoff received the maximum sentence available by law for his lead role in an estimated sixty-five million dollar Ponzi scheme, federal Judge Denny Chin handed down a one-hundred and fifty year sentence Monday morning in Manhattan court room. Calling Madoff and his actions “extraordinary evil,” Chin said that given the complex history of the scheme that spanned some twenty years and whose victims were many, talk of forgiveness and of Madoff’s redemption lacked real meaning. Madoff, who is seventy-one, will return to a New York City district correction center until federal officials are able to determine where he will serve out his sentence. Of note, Madoff’s wife Ruth issued a somewhat surprising statement, meant, apparently, to create a distance between herself and her husband, saying that “all those touched by this fraud feel betrayed, disbelieving the nightmare they woke to. I am embarrassed and ashamed. Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused. The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years.”
Has the Obama Administration begun lifting the United States HIV+ travel ban? An innocuous appearing update on the website belonging to the Office of Management and Budget late Friday afternoon suggests that it has.
Katherine Jackson, the matriarch of the Jackson family, has been granted temporary custody of Michael Jackson’s three children, Prince Michael Jr., Paris Michael Katherine, and Prince Michael II. Papers filed in court by attorneys representing the Jackson family argue that the children’s legal mother, Deborah Rowe, has no real relationship with them, and a decision to award custody to Rowe would be detrimental to the health and well-being of the three.
Meanwhile, the most lurid details have been released by the British press on the autopsy report of Michael Jackson, leaked according to the papers, by unnamed sources.
David Gest, ex-husband of Liza Minnelli and friend to Jackson for over forty years, says stress and an unhealthly trust in the most untrustworthy killed Jackson.
Bernard L. Madoff received the maximum sentence available by law for his lead role in an estimated sixty-five million dollar Ponzi scheme, federal Judge Denny Chin handed down a one-hundred and fifty year sentence Monday morning in Manhattan court room. Calling Madoff and his actions “extraordinary evil,” Chin said that given the complex history of the scheme that spanned some twenty years and whose victims were many, talk of forgiveness and of Madoff’s redemption lacked real meaning. Madoff, who is seventy-one, will return to a New York City district correction center until federal officials are able to determine where he will serve out his sentence. Of note, Madoff’s wife Ruth issued a somewhat surprising statement, meant, apparently, to create a distance between herself and her husband, saying that “all those touched by this fraud feel betrayed, disbelieving the nightmare they woke to. I am embarrassed and ashamed. Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused. The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years.”
Sunday, June 28, 2009
New York City Pride, San Francisco Festivities And Follies, Liza Minnelli Makes Paris Pride Gayer, Brunette Britney, Ed Westwick, Joe Jackson
Tonight, June 28th, marks the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, generally regarded as the realization of the modern gay rights movement. Pride festivities took place today in New York City – the site of the Stonewall Inn – and embattled New York Governor David A. Paterson participated in the parade down Fifth Avenue, along with State Speaker Christine Quinn, who will announce her re-election tomorrow. Both Paterson, straight, and Quinn, gay, are animated advocate for gay marriage and are anxious for the state to pass legislation soon to make it the seventh in the union to sanction same-sex marriage, and yet the issue, as the New York Times suggests, on a day of celebration, and one that commemorates our insistence on equality, has likely been lost amid the chaos of the current state legislation, and will not come before lawmakers until the fall session.
San Francisco’s Pride, like New York’s, seemed to take partly place almost as though time, since Stonewall, has stood still, the anger and outrage of the gay community obvious, mostly about Proposition 8, but married with optimism and resilience that are hallmarks of homosexuals. The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on the thirty-ninth annual parade as well as a gallery of the day best deemed gay.
Saturday saw Pride celebrated in Berlin and Paris, the lovely Liza Minnelli on hand in Paris, atop a float no less, which even for the gays feels a tad over the top.
Big, breaking news that is slightly silly, as Britney Spears has gone from blond to brunette, announcing hair color change while out and about Sunday in Los Angeles with her agent and boyfriend Jason Trawick. It is rumored the twosome is engaged, and will likely marry in December.
Ed Westwick, minus Chace Crawford, celebrated his twenty-second birthday Saturday in New York City, with Gossip Girl co-star Jessica Szhor on his side, the two, along with invited guests, bowling, Mr. Westwick growing a great thatch of chest hair over the summer hiatus.
The BET Music Awards were held this evening in Los Angeles, the death of Michael Jackson an obvious distraction, although, oddly not for Michael’s father, Joe Jackson, whose erratic behavior might be a product of mourning, but, um the interview he did pre-award ceremony, so very wrong on so very many levels.
San Francisco’s Pride, like New York’s, seemed to take partly place almost as though time, since Stonewall, has stood still, the anger and outrage of the gay community obvious, mostly about Proposition 8, but married with optimism and resilience that are hallmarks of homosexuals. The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on the thirty-ninth annual parade as well as a gallery of the day best deemed gay.
Saturday saw Pride celebrated in Berlin and Paris, the lovely Liza Minnelli on hand in Paris, atop a float no less, which even for the gays feels a tad over the top.
Big, breaking news that is slightly silly, as Britney Spears has gone from blond to brunette, announcing hair color change while out and about Sunday in Los Angeles with her agent and boyfriend Jason Trawick. It is rumored the twosome is engaged, and will likely marry in December.
Ed Westwick, minus Chace Crawford, celebrated his twenty-second birthday Saturday in New York City, with Gossip Girl co-star Jessica Szhor on his side, the two, along with invited guests, bowling, Mr. Westwick growing a great thatch of chest hair over the summer hiatus.
The BET Music Awards were held this evening in Los Angeles, the death of Michael Jackson an obvious distraction, although, oddly not for Michael’s father, Joe Jackson, whose erratic behavior might be a product of mourning, but, um the interview he did pre-award ceremony, so very wrong on so very many levels.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Fred Phelps Plans Funeral Protests, Anderson Cooper And A Mystery Man, Little Tommy Brady, Madonna, Mercy, Jesus, Shia, Alan Cumming Goes Green
It is hardly surprising, still sickening, nonetheless the hate mongering, treasonous Westboro Baptist Church, home to Fred and Shirley Phelps, intend to protest the funerals of both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, citing the usual litany of sinful behavior, although “whoremonger” is a new variation on an old theme. . Although given the recent anemic performance of the WBC, who at times cannot gather enough protesters to qualify for the car pool lane, I not sure outrage is in order.
While it looks a little like Julio Recio – Anderson Cooper’s longtime “friend” – the question as to the identity of the mystery male companion is moot, made so by the sight Saturday of the smoking hot Anderson and the equally smoking hot man, and how, by the way, cute is that they’re dressed alike?
Gisele Bundchen, on Friday, in Los Angeles, looking like she going to make a run for it with Tom Brady’s son John Edward Thomas, and I say looking like because, you know, I joke.
Mercy rides Madonna’s back, while momma Madonna makes with the rumors that she and ex-husband Guy Ritchie are attempting to reconcile.
Meanwhile, Jesus, in black briefs, walks on the runway for Dolce and Gabbana.
Guess which Hollywood hobo, rocking a vintage tee shirt, being all bicoastal, roaming the streets of Manhattan this Saturday of Pride?
Some exciting big, bouncy Broadway musical casting news, Alan Cumming and Evan Rachel Wood confirmed to appear in the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, now scheduled to begin preview February 25th, 2010. Cumming will play the Green Goblin and Wood will play Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker’s girlfriend.
While it looks a little like Julio Recio – Anderson Cooper’s longtime “friend” – the question as to the identity of the mystery male companion is moot, made so by the sight Saturday of the smoking hot Anderson and the equally smoking hot man, and how, by the way, cute is that they’re dressed alike?
Gisele Bundchen, on Friday, in Los Angeles, looking like she going to make a run for it with Tom Brady’s son John Edward Thomas, and I say looking like because, you know, I joke.
Mercy rides Madonna’s back, while momma Madonna makes with the rumors that she and ex-husband Guy Ritchie are attempting to reconcile.
Meanwhile, Jesus, in black briefs, walks on the runway for Dolce and Gabbana.
Guess which Hollywood hobo, rocking a vintage tee shirt, being all bicoastal, roaming the streets of Manhattan this Saturday of Pride?
Some exciting big, bouncy Broadway musical casting news, Alan Cumming and Evan Rachel Wood confirmed to appear in the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, now scheduled to begin preview February 25th, 2010. Cumming will play the Green Goblin and Wood will play Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker’s girlfriend.
Does Homophobia As A Word Still Serve, Ambitious American Climate Change Bill Passes House, Robert Hilburn Remembers Michael Jackson, Mrs. Sanford
Is homophobia a word no longer able to hold meaning? In the aftermath of the self-hating self-proclaimed Perez Hilton hateful hurl of not one, but two gay slurs, is homophobe or any variation of the word useful, or is the word misused, burdened by the weight of implied meanings?
According to this article from Saturday’s Toronto Star, the answer is that the word means less than nothing, burdened by the weight of multiple uses, impossible to define, the piece pointing out that homophobe was introduced into the popular vernacular as a shorted version of the phrase homosexual panic (a much better, more effective parlance I think) and that to assume it can stand for political policies that discriminate against gays – think DADT – and function to describe self-loathing homosexuals – think Perez – and a multitude of other instances, seems slightly less than realistic.
I agree that the word homophobia itself has been asked to take on too many meanings, thereby lessoning the understanding the word maintains. Homosexual panic, for example, although cumbersome, is obvious and rich in its definition. But the article’s suggestion that the “new gay liberation movement” need a new vocabulary to match seems, well, a tad beside the point. And, unfortunately, the idea, as it is presented, is more fodder for fools and miscreants who think that using the word “fag” or the phrase “that’s so gay” fall under their inalienable right to free speech.
The Washington Post reports on a story that flying far below the radar, the United State House passed a climate change bill Friday, by a vote of 219-212, that is as ambitious as it is involved, the legislation creates a complex system of greenhouse gas emission trading regulations, while aiming to offer a number of private and public incentives meant to curtail and change the way energy is used. The bill now goes to the Senate.
Robert Hilburn, the great music critic for the Los Angeles Times, a writer whose words and insights, when I was growing up, I devoured, offers an assessment of Michael Jackson, that might state the obvious – fame, and its game, is one no should play carelessly – but because Hilburn had over many years developed a personal relationship with Jackson, the piece is rewarding to read in ways that may surprise, serving a reminder, for example, of Michael’s rocky relationship with Jackie Onassis.
The New York Times has a fascinating profile on Mrs. Jenny Sanford, wife of embattled South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. While neither Jenny nor those closest to her chose to cooperate with the article, the Times manages to create a portrait of someone whose strength and wherewithal is at odds with the more popular assessment of Sanford as woman betrayed, hurt in a way that seems impossible to recover from, fragile and weak. In fact asked by reporters as she, four children in tow, set to literally sail, if she were okay, Mrs. Sanford replied “you know what? Not only will I survive, I’ll thrive.”
According to this article from Saturday’s Toronto Star, the answer is that the word means less than nothing, burdened by the weight of multiple uses, impossible to define, the piece pointing out that homophobe was introduced into the popular vernacular as a shorted version of the phrase homosexual panic (a much better, more effective parlance I think) and that to assume it can stand for political policies that discriminate against gays – think DADT – and function to describe self-loathing homosexuals – think Perez – and a multitude of other instances, seems slightly less than realistic.
I agree that the word homophobia itself has been asked to take on too many meanings, thereby lessoning the understanding the word maintains. Homosexual panic, for example, although cumbersome, is obvious and rich in its definition. But the article’s suggestion that the “new gay liberation movement” need a new vocabulary to match seems, well, a tad beside the point. And, unfortunately, the idea, as it is presented, is more fodder for fools and miscreants who think that using the word “fag” or the phrase “that’s so gay” fall under their inalienable right to free speech.
The Washington Post reports on a story that flying far below the radar, the United State House passed a climate change bill Friday, by a vote of 219-212, that is as ambitious as it is involved, the legislation creates a complex system of greenhouse gas emission trading regulations, while aiming to offer a number of private and public incentives meant to curtail and change the way energy is used. The bill now goes to the Senate.
Robert Hilburn, the great music critic for the Los Angeles Times, a writer whose words and insights, when I was growing up, I devoured, offers an assessment of Michael Jackson, that might state the obvious – fame, and its game, is one no should play carelessly – but because Hilburn had over many years developed a personal relationship with Jackson, the piece is rewarding to read in ways that may surprise, serving a reminder, for example, of Michael’s rocky relationship with Jackie Onassis.
The New York Times has a fascinating profile on Mrs. Jenny Sanford, wife of embattled South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. While neither Jenny nor those closest to her chose to cooperate with the article, the Times manages to create a portrait of someone whose strength and wherewithal is at odds with the more popular assessment of Sanford as woman betrayed, hurt in a way that seems impossible to recover from, fragile and weak. In fact asked by reporters as she, four children in tow, set to literally sail, if she were okay, Mrs. Sanford replied “you know what? Not only will I survive, I’ll thrive.”
Friday, June 26, 2009
Jackson Autopsy Inconclusive, Liza Minnelli Worries Autopsy Results Will Wreak Havoc, Jackson’s Death Disrupts Internet, Twelfth Night
Late Friday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Coroners office release the tentative results of Michael Jackson’s autopsy, and while finding no signs of external trauma, the exact cause of death is not likely to be known for weeks, maybe a month. Details of the initial finding were not forthcoming, except in the most general of terms.
Michael’s good friend, Liza Minnelli, meanwhile, this morning, said “all of us who knew him well really know what he was like … and I’m sure when the autopsy comes, all hell’s going to break loose,” Minnelli adding “thank God we’re celebrating him now.”
Google is reported the demand for information on Jackson yesterday overwhelmed the supply, several searchers finding only error pages, while some sites, and including the Los Angeles Times was unresponsive. Twitter too, failed, it’s serving crashing repeatedly throughout the day, and tweets about Jackson, which averaged one-hundred thousand per hour, altogether knocking Iran off Twitter’s trending track.
Last night, Thursday, was opening night for the Public Theatre’s production of Shakespeare in the Park, this year featuring Twelfth Night, starring Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, and Raul Esparza. Hathaway and all were feted by first nighters including Hope Davis, Jane Krakowski, Mike Nichols and wife Diane Sawyer. The reviews, including Charles Isherwood writing in the New York Times, were all more than glowing.
Michael’s good friend, Liza Minnelli, meanwhile, this morning, said “all of us who knew him well really know what he was like … and I’m sure when the autopsy comes, all hell’s going to break loose,” Minnelli adding “thank God we’re celebrating him now.”
Google is reported the demand for information on Jackson yesterday overwhelmed the supply, several searchers finding only error pages, while some sites, and including the Los Angeles Times was unresponsive. Twitter too, failed, it’s serving crashing repeatedly throughout the day, and tweets about Jackson, which averaged one-hundred thousand per hour, altogether knocking Iran off Twitter’s trending track.
Last night, Thursday, was opening night for the Public Theatre’s production of Shakespeare in the Park, this year featuring Twelfth Night, starring Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, and Raul Esparza. Hathaway and all were feted by first nighters including Hope Davis, Jane Krakowski, Mike Nichols and wife Diane Sawyer. The reviews, including Charles Isherwood writing in the New York Times, were all more than glowing.
Lisa Marie Presley On Michael Jackson, Police Search For Jackson Cardiologist
Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and friend, has just posted an entry on her MySpace page titled He Knew, about Jackson, and like Presley, who I like a lot, the piece is poignant and pointed, as well as being revelatory, and restraining from being lurid or scandalous. You can read it, in its entirety, here.
While at this hour, the Los Angeles County Coroners office is still performing an autopsy on Jackson to confirm the exact cause of death, authorities are apparently eager to locate a Doctor Conrad Murray, a cardiologist who was present Thursday when Jackson went into cardiac arrest, but who has since disappeared. Late Thursday Los Angeles police impounded Murray’s luxury sedan that had been left at Jackson’s rented Bel Air home.
TMZ.com is now reporting that Murray has in fact returned to Los Angeles and is being questioned by police.
While at this hour, the Los Angeles County Coroners office is still performing an autopsy on Jackson to confirm the exact cause of death, authorities are apparently eager to locate a Doctor Conrad Murray, a cardiologist who was present Thursday when Jackson went into cardiac arrest, but who has since disappeared. Late Thursday Los Angeles police impounded Murray’s luxury sedan that had been left at Jackson’s rented Bel Air home.
TMZ.com is now reporting that Murray has in fact returned to Los Angeles and is being questioned by police.
Zac Efron Pumps, Robert Pattison’s Pale Legs, T.R. Knight Is Your BGFF, Tom Brady And Bundchen Bunch Outing, Andy Murray Likes It Ice Cold And Kinky
It is just Zac, Efron that is, and he is only filling up at a gas station in Hollywood, rocking a Modern Amusement ensemble and some sexy white briefs, but still, it is Zac and we need him at this moment most.
Robert Pattison, still in New York City, meanwhile, looking remarkably unremarkably, pale, pasty legs and all, well excepting he is Robert Pattison of course.
Also Thursday, newly liberated T.R. Knight, and former co-star, newly pregnant Ellen Pompeo shop the Los Angeles Design Center, Mr. Knight in preparation for his role this fall in the Los Angeles production of Parade.
It has been quite the week of family fun and public outings for Tom Brady, son John Edward Thomas, and wife Gisele Bundchen, who may or may not be pregnant, as no formal announcement has yet to be made, contrary to the dictate of an occasion like conception. Early Thursday afternoon, Gisele was out and about in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, lunching with friends, and late Thursday afternoon she joined Tommy and John, for a walk in the Pacific Palisades area of the city, on both occasions, our Miss. Bundchen not that happy.
It is week one at Wimbledon, and England’s great white hope Andy Murray and his team of coaches and of trainers engage in activities alarmingly homoerotic in nature, including a foursome ice bath and forced displays of public foot fetishism and submission.
Robert Pattison, still in New York City, meanwhile, looking remarkably unremarkably, pale, pasty legs and all, well excepting he is Robert Pattison of course.
Also Thursday, newly liberated T.R. Knight, and former co-star, newly pregnant Ellen Pompeo shop the Los Angeles Design Center, Mr. Knight in preparation for his role this fall in the Los Angeles production of Parade.
It has been quite the week of family fun and public outings for Tom Brady, son John Edward Thomas, and wife Gisele Bundchen, who may or may not be pregnant, as no formal announcement has yet to be made, contrary to the dictate of an occasion like conception. Early Thursday afternoon, Gisele was out and about in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, lunching with friends, and late Thursday afternoon she joined Tommy and John, for a walk in the Pacific Palisades area of the city, on both occasions, our Miss. Bundchen not that happy.
It is week one at Wimbledon, and England’s great white hope Andy Murray and his team of coaches and of trainers engage in activities alarmingly homoerotic in nature, including a foursome ice bath and forced displays of public foot fetishism and submission.
Despite Boycott Democratic Fundraiser Raises Money And Attention, Camille Paglia Proves Her Irrelevance, Isaiah Washington Supports The Gay
Despite an ad hoc protest that included a number of prominent guests, including Democratic Chairman Howard Dean, boycotting Thursday evening’s Democratic Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Leadership Council, hosted by Vice-President Joe Biden, the event, in its tenth year, managed to raise at least one million dollars. Amid a climate of contrived celebration, as the failure of the Obama Administration to tackle the military ban on gays serving openly and the defending of the Defense of Marriage rankles not only gays in America, but those dedicated to ensuring equal rights for all, or at the very least, the semblance that equality is available, those in attendance listed to Biden acknowledge the frustration felt by all who regarded Barack Obama as an instrument of undiscriminating change. Biden, in a twenty minute speech, said that he hoped attendees “don’t doubt the president’s commitment,” offering assurances that Obama was determined to address the “unfinished business of true equality for all our people. “ Perhaps most pointedly, Biden said “I don’t blame you for your impatience.”
Late 20th Century academic oddity Camille Paglia, who never met an idea she did like to suffocate of any significance, was in Toronto this past week, as a part of Royal Ontario Museum’s Directors Signature Series, held to correspond with the city’s Pride celebrations, where, in a interview with Xtra.ca, she lashed out at gay activists, whom she terms “childish,” at political correctness, at traditional modeling of lesbian relationships, and more, although couched as her statements were, in a kind of failed academia semantic speak, what her point might have been was likely lost.
Isaiah Washington showed support for gay marriage by participating in the NO H8 campaign, the Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley series enacted to protest the passing of Proposition 8. Washington, fired from Grey’s Anatomy in 2007 for allegedly attacking then co-star T.R. Knight in 2006 with a series of anti-gay slurs, however on the set of the NO H8, Mr. Washington said, somewhat cryptically, “what has been purported about me has nothing to do with who I am.”
Late 20th Century academic oddity Camille Paglia, who never met an idea she did like to suffocate of any significance, was in Toronto this past week, as a part of Royal Ontario Museum’s Directors Signature Series, held to correspond with the city’s Pride celebrations, where, in a interview with Xtra.ca, she lashed out at gay activists, whom she terms “childish,” at political correctness, at traditional modeling of lesbian relationships, and more, although couched as her statements were, in a kind of failed academia semantic speak, what her point might have been was likely lost.
Isaiah Washington showed support for gay marriage by participating in the NO H8 campaign, the Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley series enacted to protest the passing of Proposition 8. Washington, fired from Grey’s Anatomy in 2007 for allegedly attacking then co-star T.R. Knight in 2006 with a series of anti-gay slurs, however on the set of the NO H8, Mr. Washington said, somewhat cryptically, “what has been purported about me has nothing to do with who I am.”
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Judy Shepard Refuses Perez Hilton Offer, Perez Hilton Offends. Michael Jackson Celebrity Condolences, Fan Memorials, Patrick Wolf On Prop 8
As articulate and thoughtful as one could be, Judy Shepard released a statement Thursday morning via the Matthew Shepard Foundation website, refusing and refuting an offer made by one Mario Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton, to donate to the Matthew Shepard Foundation, any and all proceeds Perez might make from a civil lawsuit pending, the aftermath of an incident that took place in the early hours of Monday morning, in Toronto, Ontario, at an after part for the Much Music Video Awards.
Mrs. Shepard says that despite the generosity of the offer – an offer, incidentally, that was made unbeknownst to anyone at the Foundation, appearing suddenly this morning on Hilton’s blog – “because the lawsuit presumably involves the physical attack prompted by Mr. Hilton’s admitted use of an anti-gay slut, the Foundation will be unable to accept any funds obtained in such a manner.”
Hilton, meanwhile, continues the charade that he is of this world, posting an obscenity on the then breaking news that Michael Jackson had suffered a heart attack. The post has since been edited, after an outcry of protests, but the original – too offensive for words- is here, posted only as evidence.
While the Los Angeles County Coroner at this hour performs an autopsy on Michael Jackson, a number of celebrities, including Britney Spears, Cher, Lisa Marie Presley, Madonna, and Elizabeth Taylor, express their condolences.
Some pictures from an improvised fan memorial that has been created in front of the Jackson family home in Encino, California.
Patrick Wolf, currently on tour, talks about the new album, The Bachelor, and the influence the great, late director Derek Jarman and Jarman’s muse Tilda Swinton, continues to have over Wolf. And at a recent concert in New York City, Patrick, who has never formally come out, took on Proposition 8 and the abject absence of equal rights for gay men and women in the United States.
Mrs. Shepard says that despite the generosity of the offer – an offer, incidentally, that was made unbeknownst to anyone at the Foundation, appearing suddenly this morning on Hilton’s blog – “because the lawsuit presumably involves the physical attack prompted by Mr. Hilton’s admitted use of an anti-gay slut, the Foundation will be unable to accept any funds obtained in such a manner.”
Hilton, meanwhile, continues the charade that he is of this world, posting an obscenity on the then breaking news that Michael Jackson had suffered a heart attack. The post has since been edited, after an outcry of protests, but the original – too offensive for words- is here, posted only as evidence.
While the Los Angeles County Coroner at this hour performs an autopsy on Michael Jackson, a number of celebrities, including Britney Spears, Cher, Lisa Marie Presley, Madonna, and Elizabeth Taylor, express their condolences.
Some pictures from an improvised fan memorial that has been created in front of the Jackson family home in Encino, California.
Patrick Wolf, currently on tour, talks about the new album, The Bachelor, and the influence the great, late director Derek Jarman and Jarman’s muse Tilda Swinton, continues to have over Wolf. And at a recent concert in New York City, Patrick, who has never formally come out, took on Proposition 8 and the abject absence of equal rights for gay men and women in the United States.
Michael Jackson Dead At Fifty
It is a breaking story, with a number of details yet to be determined, and one that most everyone seems to find incredulous, but sources are reporting that Michael Jackson has died. According to a number of reports, still unconfirmed, Jackson was found unconscious at his home in Los Angeles, taken to the UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He was 50. Apparently, Jackson was in Los Angeles, where he had rented a home in Bel Air, and had begun rehearsals for what were to be a series of fifty sold out concerts in London, England later this year, to celebrate and commemorate his many years in entertainment.
Tiny Town In Iowa Tries To Cope With Tragic Killing Of Mr. Ed Thomas
The tiny town of Parkersburg, Iowa, Thursday is trying to understand what, for now, is incomprehensible. Mid-morning Wednesday, a former Aplington-Parkersburg High School football player, twenty-four year Mark Becker, walked into the school’s weight-room – a red, well worn shed, down a bit from the school, a substitute while the school rebuilds what was destroyed in a tornado that tore through Parkersburg - passed a number of current students, and shot the football coach, fifty-eight year old Ed Thomas several times, before killing him, then walked out. Becker was later arrested outside his parent’s home.
Thomas, who coached Becker, according to all reports, was Parkersburg. He was more than the high school football coach, more than the town, likely more than he ever knew. As word spread of his death, it seems, according to reports that all just sort of stopped. Everyone cried: men, women, teenagers, all anxious for an answer. After the tornado touched down last summer, it was Thomas, most insist, who saved the town, who worked to rebuild and restore what was lost, finding along the way what was never there to begin with too, a sense of civic and personal pride. In thirty-seven seasons, Thomas won two-hundred and ninety-two games and two state titles, impressive, and made more so when you realize the school has never had more than three hundred students enrolled at any one time. I doubt the story is about football, though. It never is.
Thomas, who coached Becker, according to all reports, was Parkersburg. He was more than the high school football coach, more than the town, likely more than he ever knew. As word spread of his death, it seems, according to reports that all just sort of stopped. Everyone cried: men, women, teenagers, all anxious for an answer. After the tornado touched down last summer, it was Thomas, most insist, who saved the town, who worked to rebuild and restore what was lost, finding along the way what was never there to begin with too, a sense of civic and personal pride. In thirty-seven seasons, Thomas won two-hundred and ninety-two games and two state titles, impressive, and made more so when you realize the school has never had more than three hundred students enrolled at any one time. I doubt the story is about football, though. It never is.
Farrah Fawcett, American Attorney General Wants Matthew Shepard Act Passed, Homosexual Exorcism, Rosie’s Radio, Tom Brady And Son, Cam Gigandet
Farrah Fawcett has died. She was 62. Fawcett lost her battle to cancer, dying at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, Thursday morning, at approximately 9:30 AM, PST, a facility she had recently been readmitted to. Farrah was first diagnosed with cancer three years ago, and her illness, much like her life, was led very publically. Farrah was and always be a pop culture icon, for better or worse, an angel, a pinup, an inspiration to gay men and women, and something beyond her understanding.
American Attorney General Eric Holder spoke before a Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday morning and said that a new, stronger hate crimes law needed to be passed soon that would allow the federal government to prosecute any and all cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender, or disability. Holder made the comments as lawmakers in the United States continue, inexplicably, to debate the impact and merits of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, still awaiting passage into law.
The Manifested Glory Ministries has come under attack after a video was uploaded to YouTube showing an exorcism being preformed on a sixteen year old boy to rid said boy of a “homosexual demon” that apparently has possessed the teenager. The church, in Bridgeport, Connecticut founded by a husband and wife – Kelvin and Patricia McKinney – had a number of online blogs, which have since been removed, and while gay advocate and state child social services are demanding an investigation, Church officials deny any wrong doing.
Helped in part by an appearance on the Howard Stern Show, Rosie O’Donnell has signed to host a Sirius Satellite radio show this fall, to be broadcast from a studio being built on property outside her home.
Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, and Tom’s ever so adorable son John Edward Thomas, whom he had with former girlfriend Bridget Moyahan, suddenly a very public family, the threesome shopping Wednesday afternoon at the Los Angeles Niketown.
Cute Cam Gigandet and girlfriend Dominique Geisendorff, proud parents of new daughter Everleigh Ray, also out and about Wednesday, the threesome spotted shopping in Santa Monica.
American Attorney General Eric Holder spoke before a Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday morning and said that a new, stronger hate crimes law needed to be passed soon that would allow the federal government to prosecute any and all cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender, or disability. Holder made the comments as lawmakers in the United States continue, inexplicably, to debate the impact and merits of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, still awaiting passage into law.
The Manifested Glory Ministries has come under attack after a video was uploaded to YouTube showing an exorcism being preformed on a sixteen year old boy to rid said boy of a “homosexual demon” that apparently has possessed the teenager. The church, in Bridgeport, Connecticut founded by a husband and wife – Kelvin and Patricia McKinney – had a number of online blogs, which have since been removed, and while gay advocate and state child social services are demanding an investigation, Church officials deny any wrong doing.
Helped in part by an appearance on the Howard Stern Show, Rosie O’Donnell has signed to host a Sirius Satellite radio show this fall, to be broadcast from a studio being built on property outside her home.
Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, and Tom’s ever so adorable son John Edward Thomas, whom he had with former girlfriend Bridget Moyahan, suddenly a very public family, the threesome shopping Wednesday afternoon at the Los Angeles Niketown.
Cute Cam Gigandet and girlfriend Dominique Geisendorff, proud parents of new daughter Everleigh Ray, also out and about Wednesday, the threesome spotted shopping in Santa Monica.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Mark Sanford And Sin
Republican Governor Mark Sanford’s salacious emails to his Argentina mistress, Maria, have been published by The State, who broke the story of the wayward politician. The story, which I have posted about earlier, is now sadder and scarier, and amid calls that he resign, I seriously worry about the state of Sanford’s mental faculties. The press conference, which I tried to follow via Twitter, was a disaster: incoherent, rambling and tedious, poorly planned – seriously, who ever thought it a good idea to have mostly African-American teenaged giggling girls behind the Governor need to be fired immediately – but I suppose that buried among the lies and recriminations is a lesson that sanctimonious moralizing – Sanford has been historically hateful towards homosexuals – fails and fails hard.
Dustin Lance Black And Angela Lansbury Honored In NYC, Eamon Farrell Marries Stephen Mannion In Canada, Perez Hilton Sues, Shia Likes Weed
An event this Thursday in New York City, coinciding with Pride festivities, titled Hollywood and Broadway, Salute to Pride, which will honor a number of actors, including Lance Bass, Allison Janney, and Patrick Wilson for their support and work of gay rights. The event, sponsored by the beleaguered State Senate, will also feature a speech by both Dustin Lance Black and Cleve Jones, and is scheduled to start at 5:30 PM in front of City Hall. Admission is free.
Eamon Farrell, Colin’s brother, married his longtime boyfriend Stephen Mannion in Vancouver, British Columbia, in early June. Contrary to earlier claims, Colin was not on hand to act as best man.
Like the Sarah Palin of gossip mongers, Perez Hilton know not when to stop, announcing that he intends to file a civil lawsuit against the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, whom Hilton alleges assaulted him in Toronto, Ontario, post-Much Music Video Award show, early Monday morning. Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, and who refuses to apologize for using ugly gay slurs in self-defense, filed the suit in Los Angeles Wednesday against Polo Molina, which claims that he endured “humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and physical distress.” Sort of like what I endure forced to keep reading and reporting on the story that will not stop.
Shia LaBeouf, Hollywood hobo, at Los Angeles International Airport, departing for places unknown, dons an ironic and unfortunate tee shirt.
Eamon Farrell, Colin’s brother, married his longtime boyfriend Stephen Mannion in Vancouver, British Columbia, in early June. Contrary to earlier claims, Colin was not on hand to act as best man.
Like the Sarah Palin of gossip mongers, Perez Hilton know not when to stop, announcing that he intends to file a civil lawsuit against the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, whom Hilton alleges assaulted him in Toronto, Ontario, post-Much Music Video Award show, early Monday morning. Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, and who refuses to apologize for using ugly gay slurs in self-defense, filed the suit in Los Angeles Wednesday against Polo Molina, which claims that he endured “humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and physical distress.” Sort of like what I endure forced to keep reading and reporting on the story that will not stop.
Shia LaBeouf, Hollywood hobo, at Los Angeles International Airport, departing for places unknown, dons an ironic and unfortunate tee shirt.
Adam Lambert’s On With The Show Album On, Navratilova Sued By Ex, Mr. And Mrs. Brady Are Whole, Jarret Stoll Not, Jonathan Rhys Meyers Misbehaves
Adam Lambert can complain all he wants, but Wilshire Records, an independent label from Los Angeles, is releasing an eleven track demo tape Lambert recorded pre-American Idol. The album, titled On With the Show, is being defended by the record label, who insist that it is a professional effort and is in no way meant to benefit randomly from Lambert’s new found success.
Martina Navratilova, fifty-two, is being sued by former wife Toni Layton, who is claiming the tennis star ended the marriage a year ago without warning, inflicting “emotional, mental, and physical trauma” on the fifty-six year old.
With the due date of December 14th confirmed, mother to be Gisele Bundchen, looking decidedly un-mother to be, and husband, father of the child Tom Brady, looking decidedly hot, were in Whole Foods Tuesday, in Los Angeles, offering a rare display of public affection.
Not that Tommy is the paradigm of personal perfection, but perhaps he could offer one Jarret Stoll, Los Angeles King center, a lesson in love, Stoll ending an engagement to model Rachel Hunter via a mass email to the guests invited to the nuptials that had been scheduled for August.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who vehemently and rather violently denied he was or ever had been in rehab after reports circulated early this year that the Tudors star had, was arrested and detained Tuesday after a fight in a bar at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France. Mr. Rhys Meyers was reported intoxicated, and when the bar staff refused to serve him, a scuffle ensued.
Martina Navratilova, fifty-two, is being sued by former wife Toni Layton, who is claiming the tennis star ended the marriage a year ago without warning, inflicting “emotional, mental, and physical trauma” on the fifty-six year old.
With the due date of December 14th confirmed, mother to be Gisele Bundchen, looking decidedly un-mother to be, and husband, father of the child Tom Brady, looking decidedly hot, were in Whole Foods Tuesday, in Los Angeles, offering a rare display of public affection.
Not that Tommy is the paradigm of personal perfection, but perhaps he could offer one Jarret Stoll, Los Angeles King center, a lesson in love, Stoll ending an engagement to model Rachel Hunter via a mass email to the guests invited to the nuptials that had been scheduled for August.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who vehemently and rather violently denied he was or ever had been in rehab after reports circulated early this year that the Tudors star had, was arrested and detained Tuesday after a fight in a bar at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France. Mr. Rhys Meyers was reported intoxicated, and when the bar staff refused to serve him, a scuffle ensued.
Mark Sanford Affair With Argentina Women Revealed, Gisele Bundchen Due Date Revealed. Academy Awards Reveal Expanded Best Picture Category
South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford has just concluded giving a press conference, that ran behind schedule, at which Sanford tried to offer an explanation as to the wherefores and the whys of his absence from last Thursday to Monday. According to conference, which I am trying to follow, Sanford has been having an affair, with someone in Argentina, that has been ongoing for eight years, thereby explaining both the destination and his wife’s indifference. Sanford has asked for privacy, not for himself, but for said wife and his four children, all boys. He also announced that he is retiring as head of the Republican Governor’s Association effective immediately, but did not indicate whether he would resign as governor of the state.
According to reports Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen will welcome a new baby on December 14th, 2009, just after Brady’s New England Patriots play the Carolina Panthers and just before they play the Buffalo Bills. Therefore, I am thinking that if it is a girl, Carolina, if it is a boy, Bill, although Bill Brady is too thirties star of westerns.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has decided to expand the best picture race from five nominated films to ten, the announcement greeted with an odd ambivalence.
According to reports Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen will welcome a new baby on December 14th, 2009, just after Brady’s New England Patriots play the Carolina Panthers and just before they play the Buffalo Bills. Therefore, I am thinking that if it is a girl, Carolina, if it is a boy, Bill, although Bill Brady is too thirties star of westerns.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has decided to expand the best picture race from five nominated films to ten, the announcement greeted with an odd ambivalence.
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.
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.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Perez Hilton Fails To Understand, Michael Urie Merriment, Chris Pine Is A Closeted Peter Lorre, Miley Cyrus, Chace Crawford, Ellen And Portia, Gisele
Violently self-promoting Perez Hilton has released yet another in a series of statements, this one as impossible to understand as any of the others, but it might have something to do with Hilton offering non-violent resistance, marching for equality this October in Washington, D.C., and protesting that he is the victim. Oh, and defending his use of the f-g word, because according to Hilton, he is no homophobe.
The irrepressible and unsinkable Michael Urie, never a victim of anything at all, currently appearing in The Temperamentals, answers all the questions asked – well not all, but enough, for now, the self-professed cavalcade of merriment mentioning that he would like Phylicia Rashad to play him in a movie.
Miley Cyrus, currently filming The Last Song, and the producer Adam Shankman, took some candid pictures of them, which were prompted posted on Shank man’s Twitter, to the horror and outrage of many, who thought the photographs too sexually suggestive. Um, if memory serves, Shankman, who directed Hairspray and Prop 8: The Musical might be, um, a very, very gay man, so the pictures with Cyrus are harmless. The pictures of Adam with Miley’s co-star, Australian hotness Liam Hemsworth, well that is another story.
The beautiful Chris Pine, about to appear on stage in the Geffen Theater production of Farragut North, which opens Wednesday evening, based on the 2004 campaign of Howard Dean, and, disputing claims that his charm is based solely on looks – handsome he is – talks about the craft of acting and suggests that there is a closeted Peter Lorre inside Chris, one hoping to come out and play “the fun, darker, weirder roles.”
Questionable heterosexual Chace Crawford was in Milan, Italy at the Emporio Armani Men’s spring 2010 show where he looked seriously sexy.
Happily married Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi say they were prefer to be cool aunts to then to raise children, DeGeneres saying that “I don’t think we are going to have children.”
Gisele Bundchen, in Los Angeles Tuesday, visits an area chiropractor and declines to say a word or smile.
The irrepressible and unsinkable Michael Urie, never a victim of anything at all, currently appearing in The Temperamentals, answers all the questions asked – well not all, but enough, for now, the self-professed cavalcade of merriment mentioning that he would like Phylicia Rashad to play him in a movie.
Miley Cyrus, currently filming The Last Song, and the producer Adam Shankman, took some candid pictures of them, which were prompted posted on Shank man’s Twitter, to the horror and outrage of many, who thought the photographs too sexually suggestive. Um, if memory serves, Shankman, who directed Hairspray and Prop 8: The Musical might be, um, a very, very gay man, so the pictures with Cyrus are harmless. The pictures of Adam with Miley’s co-star, Australian hotness Liam Hemsworth, well that is another story.
The beautiful Chris Pine, about to appear on stage in the Geffen Theater production of Farragut North, which opens Wednesday evening, based on the 2004 campaign of Howard Dean, and, disputing claims that his charm is based solely on looks – handsome he is – talks about the craft of acting and suggests that there is a closeted Peter Lorre inside Chris, one hoping to come out and play “the fun, darker, weirder roles.”
Questionable heterosexual Chace Crawford was in Milan, Italy at the Emporio Armani Men’s spring 2010 show where he looked seriously sexy.
Happily married Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi say they were prefer to be cool aunts to then to raise children, DeGeneres saying that “I don’t think we are going to have children.”
Gisele Bundchen, in Los Angeles Tuesday, visits an area chiropractor and declines to say a word or smile.
Perez Hilton Refuses To Apologize For Gay Slurs Insisting He And He Alone Is The Victim
Perez Hilton has issued a statement Tuesday regarding the GLAAD statement Monday requesting an apology for the hateful, hurtful homophobic language used by Perez early Monday morning. According to Hilton, he is “saddened GLAAD chose to victimize me further by criticizing me for how I non-violently dealt with a very scary situation. While I doubt I will get an apology from GLAAD, nor do I expect one, I would just hope people know how difficult it is to intellectualize a situation and think rationally.”
One, I have linked the statement from the Insider – another in a series of televised celebrity brothels – which ends the report on Hilton’s statement with “meanwhile, Josh Duhamel, husband of Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie opened up about the confrontation at the premiere of Monday night at the Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen premiere,” as though the two events are inexplicably linked and that somehow Josh could offer a whole new understanding.
Two, the idea that Mr. Perez Hilton, a self-hating homosexual, could trade his sexuality for another piece of self-promotion is, well, simply sickening.
Three, Hilton, despite his best and vain attempt, is not now nor has he ever been a martyr, a gay Gandhi, an abject object of persecution, offering non-violent resistance. To even suggest that is, well, to insult the idea of social activism alone.
Four, he, Hilton, is in fact an illiterate, anti-intellectual idiot, who traffics in self-parody, who cheapens the perception of what it is to be a gay man, publically and with great deliberation. That he fails to recognize that employing homosexual slurs as a defense is unacceptable at the best of times, regardless of the situation, but being gay and employing them is something further right of wrong.
One, I have linked the statement from the Insider – another in a series of televised celebrity brothels – which ends the report on Hilton’s statement with “meanwhile, Josh Duhamel, husband of Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie opened up about the confrontation at the premiere of Monday night at the Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen premiere,” as though the two events are inexplicably linked and that somehow Josh could offer a whole new understanding.
Two, the idea that Mr. Perez Hilton, a self-hating homosexual, could trade his sexuality for another piece of self-promotion is, well, simply sickening.
Three, Hilton, despite his best and vain attempt, is not now nor has he ever been a martyr, a gay Gandhi, an abject object of persecution, offering non-violent resistance. To even suggest that is, well, to insult the idea of social activism alone.
Four, he, Hilton, is in fact an illiterate, anti-intellectual idiot, who traffics in self-parody, who cheapens the perception of what it is to be a gay man, publically and with great deliberation. That he fails to recognize that employing homosexual slurs as a defense is unacceptable at the best of times, regardless of the situation, but being gay and employing them is something further right of wrong.
Moderate Mormon Petition To Love Gays, NYC Prep Top Drawer, Twitter To Transform Into Instrument Of Capitalism, Facebook Wants To Dominate
A new petition launched by a more moderate faction of the Mormon, many of whom did not participate in the LDS’s role in defending and passing Proposition 8, is urging Church elders to “soften the stance” taken towards gays in general and Mormon gays in particular. The online petition – available here at www.ldsapology.org – asks in part for an openness to forgiving and understanding. And as you might have guessed, those two tenants of Christianity are not ones the more vocal members of the Mormon Church are interested in, with outcries that no one has anything to apologize for already loud and clear.
I know that I should resist, but what with sexual confusion, trust funds, and the Upper East Side, it seems futile, so Bravo’s NYC Prep, debuting tonight, you already own me.
Truthfully, I fail to understand Twitter. It seems cheaper and less personal than texting, a lazier, less focused Facebook, a tool mostly seized upon by middle aged men who work the murky waters of marketing and research. And the more popular and recent thought that the Twitter is in fact a conduit of social change feels just like that – an undeveloped thought. When, last week, everyone was encouraged to change their location to Iran it seemed widely reminiscent of last year’s movement on Facebook to include Hussein as a part of their name. I think, ultimately, Twitter is about promoting you and little more, and as a weapon of self-promotion, Twitter is random and effective, and a lot like spam, or phish, except that maybe for the moment the cool kids do it.
News that Twitter needs a business model and quite quickly, to raise funds and be, well, profitable, and that the plan will involve promoting itself as a means for others to do the same should not be surprising then, Bloomberg News reporting Tuesday that Twitter is planning, for a price, to allow companies like Dell Computers, Nike, Starbucks, and Whole Foods to utilize the whole understanding of micro-messaging to millions in a more, well, capitalist way. So those lonely middle management marketing men, forced into early retirement, who make up the base of all Twitter users now have hope.
Meanwhile, Facebook and Google – both of whom still haven’t found what they were looking for: the illusive online advertising bonanza – are in a bit of battle, one that is likely to make a mess, leaving a mark.
I know that I should resist, but what with sexual confusion, trust funds, and the Upper East Side, it seems futile, so Bravo’s NYC Prep, debuting tonight, you already own me.
Truthfully, I fail to understand Twitter. It seems cheaper and less personal than texting, a lazier, less focused Facebook, a tool mostly seized upon by middle aged men who work the murky waters of marketing and research. And the more popular and recent thought that the Twitter is in fact a conduit of social change feels just like that – an undeveloped thought. When, last week, everyone was encouraged to change their location to Iran it seemed widely reminiscent of last year’s movement on Facebook to include Hussein as a part of their name. I think, ultimately, Twitter is about promoting you and little more, and as a weapon of self-promotion, Twitter is random and effective, and a lot like spam, or phish, except that maybe for the moment the cool kids do it.
News that Twitter needs a business model and quite quickly, to raise funds and be, well, profitable, and that the plan will involve promoting itself as a means for others to do the same should not be surprising then, Bloomberg News reporting Tuesday that Twitter is planning, for a price, to allow companies like Dell Computers, Nike, Starbucks, and Whole Foods to utilize the whole understanding of micro-messaging to millions in a more, well, capitalist way. So those lonely middle management marketing men, forced into early retirement, who make up the base of all Twitter users now have hope.
Meanwhile, Facebook and Google – both of whom still haven’t found what they were looking for: the illusive online advertising bonanza – are in a bit of battle, one that is likely to make a mess, leaving a mark.
New Poll Concludes That Ideas Gays Are Hateful Heathens More Than Wrong, Glass Ceiling Also Colored Pink, Ed McMahon Dies
The Barna Group, a southern California Christian based research group, released a study Monday suggested that popular held stereotypes by the Christian community about gays are simply wrong, and that “people who portray gay adults as godless, hedonistic, Christian bashers are not working with the facts,” that statement made by George Barna, the head of the company who conducted the poll. Barna continued that most of the data collected indicated that homosexuals are “interested in faith but not in the local church and do appear to be focused on the traditional tools and traditions that represent the comfort zone of most churched Christians,” adding that there is “less of a spiritual gap between straights and gays than many Americans would assume.”
The findings and the conclusions reached come just as new front line campaign begins in California, a grass roots movement set to gain support to have the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage overturned, and that will attempt to demonstrate that gay men and women are entitled to enjoy the same rights and benefits as heterosexuals, and that the covenant of marriage is a part of those rights.
A new study conducted by the Catalyst group found that despite an implied progressive attitude, the bias and discrimination faced by the LGBTQ community in corporate Canada still exists, and that many who identify as gay continue to hesitate in coming out at work for fear of either limiting or stalling their careers altogether. The date speaks of the “straight old boys club” as one whose membership continues to grow, frustrating the advancement and opportunities of gay men and women. The study also concluded that most gay men and women will resist identifying as homosexuals to their employers, believing that they risk being marginalized if they do.
Ed McMahon has died. He was 86. According to reports, the former “second banana” to Johnny Carson succumbed to a pneumonia related illness early Tuesday morning.
The findings and the conclusions reached come just as new front line campaign begins in California, a grass roots movement set to gain support to have the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage overturned, and that will attempt to demonstrate that gay men and women are entitled to enjoy the same rights and benefits as heterosexuals, and that the covenant of marriage is a part of those rights.
A new study conducted by the Catalyst group found that despite an implied progressive attitude, the bias and discrimination faced by the LGBTQ community in corporate Canada still exists, and that many who identify as gay continue to hesitate in coming out at work for fear of either limiting or stalling their careers altogether. The date speaks of the “straight old boys club” as one whose membership continues to grow, frustrating the advancement and opportunities of gay men and women. The study also concluded that most gay men and women will resist identifying as homosexuals to their employers, believing that they risk being marginalized if they do.
Ed McMahon has died. He was 86. According to reports, the former “second banana” to Johnny Carson succumbed to a pneumonia related illness early Tuesday morning.
Monday, June 22, 2009
GLAAD Very Not Happy With Perez Hilton, James Franco Abstracted, Cher and Christina Aguilera, Broadway Bares Roundup, Tim Murphy Hugs It Out
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have released a statement on the utter garbage spewed from the mouth of Perez Hilton Monday morning, whom, via a video blog post directed against Will. i. am. member of the Black Eyed Peas, who Perez had previously alleged assaulted him, said “I don’t need to respect you and you’re a f-g. You’re gay, and stop being such a f--got,” awkward and odd statements from a man who mere months ago positioned himself as the unofficial spokesperson for the gay community and who led the charge against Carrie Prejean and her unique brand of hate.
According to GLAAD, those utterances “are vulgar antigay slurs that feed a climate of hated and intolerance toward our community.” GLAAD added that statements such as the ones made by Hilton legitimizes the use of a antigay insult “that is often linked to violence against our community and sends a dangerous message that it is okay to attempt to dehumanize people by exploiting antigay attitudes.” While condemning the violence directed towards Hilton – he was alleged assaulted by the band’s manager – GLAAD has requested Perez apologize for his hateful, homophobic insults and have asked that when reporting the story, the offending words are edited. No comment has yet been made by Hilton, whose sense of self-importance and fictional relevance may soon be coming to an end.
Cleveland, Ohio’s Museum of Art opened its new east wing, and to mark the moment, screened Erased James Franco, the man himself on hand, along with the director, Carter, who explained the film is “about how absence replaces presence and becomes a work of art.” Abstract and experimental, the film, which is not likely to be released commercially, is scheduled to play a number of festivals, including New York and Toronto later this year.
Cher has confirmed that she will appear opposite Christina Aguilera in a new film titled Burlesque. This will be Cher’s first appearance in a movie in ten years.
Broadway Bares – an annual event that is an extension of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS – as I posted previously, was held last night, its nineteenth, with notables Nick Adams, Gavin Creel, Mo Rocca, and the unsinkable Michael Urie on hand, AfterElton.com offering a pictorial roundup of the evening’s nearly nude festivities.
Meanwhile, the one, the only Tim Murphy, New York Magazine’s own, offering his decidedly Tim take on the night, and I am calling it – the best line, “you’re like a little snack.” Please give Tim his own twenty-four a day cable show, now!
According to GLAAD, those utterances “are vulgar antigay slurs that feed a climate of hated and intolerance toward our community.” GLAAD added that statements such as the ones made by Hilton legitimizes the use of a antigay insult “that is often linked to violence against our community and sends a dangerous message that it is okay to attempt to dehumanize people by exploiting antigay attitudes.” While condemning the violence directed towards Hilton – he was alleged assaulted by the band’s manager – GLAAD has requested Perez apologize for his hateful, homophobic insults and have asked that when reporting the story, the offending words are edited. No comment has yet been made by Hilton, whose sense of self-importance and fictional relevance may soon be coming to an end.
Cleveland, Ohio’s Museum of Art opened its new east wing, and to mark the moment, screened Erased James Franco, the man himself on hand, along with the director, Carter, who explained the film is “about how absence replaces presence and becomes a work of art.” Abstract and experimental, the film, which is not likely to be released commercially, is scheduled to play a number of festivals, including New York and Toronto later this year.
Cher has confirmed that she will appear opposite Christina Aguilera in a new film titled Burlesque. This will be Cher’s first appearance in a movie in ten years.
Broadway Bares – an annual event that is an extension of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS – as I posted previously, was held last night, its nineteenth, with notables Nick Adams, Gavin Creel, Mo Rocca, and the unsinkable Michael Urie on hand, AfterElton.com offering a pictorial roundup of the evening’s nearly nude festivities.
Meanwhile, the one, the only Tim Murphy, New York Magazine’s own, offering his decidedly Tim take on the night, and I am calling it – the best line, “you’re like a little snack.” Please give Tim his own twenty-four a day cable show, now!
Sam Adams Cleared, South Carolina Governor Missing No On Cares, Chris Brown Plea Deal, Antonio Villaraigosa, AIDS Discovery, Mexican Pride
Embattled Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams will not, thankfully, face criminal charges in connection to an alleged affair that apparently was comprised of two separate kisses, Adams had with Beau Breedlove, a then seventeen year intern. According to State Attorney General John Kroger, no independent evidence corroborating could be found to support Breedlove’s claim.
The Governor of South Carolina, Republican Mark Sanford, has been missing since Thursday, and even his wife cares not. Seriously, she, along with his constituents, are not concerned, although late Monday he was apparently located,in or around the Atlanta, Georgia area.
A plea deal has been brokered in the alleged assault case involving Chris Brown and then girlfriend Rihanna, the singer agreeing Monday to plead guilty to a felony charge in exchange for either six months in jail or community labor.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Monday he will not run for the Governor of California, and will instead concentrate on the immediate duties at hand in terms of running the city. The announcement comes a week or so after it was revealed that the Mayor had been having a affair with a local newscaster, and leaves only two main candidates for the Democratic leadership – Attorney General Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, both of whom work tirelessly on behalf of gay rights in the state, in particular on overturning Proposition 8.
Scientists from the University of Montreal announced that they discovered and identified the “hiding place” in the human body the AIDS virus locates itself and are hopeful that that the discovery will lead to a way to destroy the reservoir without damaging or destroying the immune system.
Mexico, a culture historically associated with a kind machismo perceived to be at odds with homosexuality, is seemingly welcoming gay culture in a way few thought possible, the country celebrating Pride this past weekend, Mexico City a place literally and figuratively of freedom.
The Governor of South Carolina, Republican Mark Sanford, has been missing since Thursday, and even his wife cares not. Seriously, she, along with his constituents, are not concerned, although late Monday he was apparently located,in or around the Atlanta, Georgia area.
A plea deal has been brokered in the alleged assault case involving Chris Brown and then girlfriend Rihanna, the singer agreeing Monday to plead guilty to a felony charge in exchange for either six months in jail or community labor.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Monday he will not run for the Governor of California, and will instead concentrate on the immediate duties at hand in terms of running the city. The announcement comes a week or so after it was revealed that the Mayor had been having a affair with a local newscaster, and leaves only two main candidates for the Democratic leadership – Attorney General Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, both of whom work tirelessly on behalf of gay rights in the state, in particular on overturning Proposition 8.
Scientists from the University of Montreal announced that they discovered and identified the “hiding place” in the human body the AIDS virus locates itself and are hopeful that that the discovery will lead to a way to destroy the reservoir without damaging or destroying the immune system.
Mexico, a culture historically associated with a kind machismo perceived to be at odds with homosexuality, is seemingly welcoming gay culture in a way few thought possible, the country celebrating Pride this past weekend, Mexico City a place literally and figuratively of freedom.
Charges Filed In Perez Hilton Hysteria, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford On Chest Hair, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alice In Wonderland, Ronaldo, Lucas Glover
According to reports, Liborio Molina, thirty-six years old, has been charged with one count of assault in connection with an alleged attack on Mario Lavanderia, aka Perez Hilton, early Monday morning in Toronto. The story, typically confusing and convoluted, has something to do with the Black Eyed Peas, Hilton, Much Music, Ryan Seacrest, and Twitter, which in effect is a litany of all that is so wrong about popular culture on this date and at this time. Molina, who is the manager for the group, will appear in a Toronto court on August 5th to face charges. Oh that Perez, what with his agitating and mischief, he is such the rascal.
More news that hammers home the point that the lowest is apparently an imaginary point that no matter how you try, you will never hit, the purported Leighton Meester sex tape has been sold, a deal having been brokered between whomever had said tape and a celebrity sex site – noble parties each - with TMZ.com eagerly reporting the depressing details.
Meanwhile, Meester’s Gossip Girl co-stars and alleged boyfriends Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick are all catty with each other, Westwick responding to comment Crawford made about Ed’s “Velcro patch of chest hair.”
Dubious heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal is apparently insisting that he and Reese Witherspoon wear identical outfits, and no, that is not odd, not at all.
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen are among the newly released images from the upcoming Tim Burton created Alice in Wonderland film.
The thrillingly sexy Cristiano Ronaldo says hello to the press and stalker alike outside a rented summer home in Vale do Lobo, Portugal.
Congratulations to Lucas Glover, who is the winner of the 2009 PGA United States Open, and who managed to remain focused throughout days of bad weather, a challenging course, and the implosions of players around him. Glover, who’s secure and steady deportment belied his age (29) and who hails from Greensboro, South Carolina, worked hard all weekend to overcome the course at Bethpage, in Farmingdale, New York, and the play of Ricky Barnes and Mike Weir, who had been in contention throughout, as well as a come from behind move from David Duval and Phil Mickleson, to capture the tournament.
More news that hammers home the point that the lowest is apparently an imaginary point that no matter how you try, you will never hit, the purported Leighton Meester sex tape has been sold, a deal having been brokered between whomever had said tape and a celebrity sex site – noble parties each - with TMZ.com eagerly reporting the depressing details.
Meanwhile, Meester’s Gossip Girl co-stars and alleged boyfriends Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick are all catty with each other, Westwick responding to comment Crawford made about Ed’s “Velcro patch of chest hair.”
Dubious heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal is apparently insisting that he and Reese Witherspoon wear identical outfits, and no, that is not odd, not at all.
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen are among the newly released images from the upcoming Tim Burton created Alice in Wonderland film.
The thrillingly sexy Cristiano Ronaldo says hello to the press and stalker alike outside a rented summer home in Vale do Lobo, Portugal.
Congratulations to Lucas Glover, who is the winner of the 2009 PGA United States Open, and who managed to remain focused throughout days of bad weather, a challenging course, and the implosions of players around him. Glover, who’s secure and steady deportment belied his age (29) and who hails from Greensboro, South Carolina, worked hard all weekend to overcome the course at Bethpage, in Farmingdale, New York, and the play of Ricky Barnes and Mike Weir, who had been in contention throughout, as well as a come from behind move from David Duval and Phil Mickleson, to capture the tournament.
New York Will Deliberate Gay Marriage Bill, Gay Generation Gap, Gay Marriage Mess, Dustin Lance Black, Broadway Bares, Perez Hilton Kills Twitter
Despite reports Sunday afternoon that the special session of the New York State Senate Governor David A. Paterson called for this Tuesday would include legislation that was “time sensitive” and not, therefore, a gay marriage bill that seems to have languished in Albany since being introduced, late Sunday evening the Governor, in a phone interview with the New York Times, contradicted himself or that earlier report or both, and stressed that he would insist state lawmakers address the same-sex bill before the Senate breaks for summer.
New York Magazine seems to have declared the summer of 09 the summer of the gay, its’ annual salute to the season issue including an interesting assessment of the gay generation gap, because if there is one more divisive issue us gays need, it is an underlining of the disparity between those for whom advocacy and political engagement is a birthright and those who ruefully ignore the political as something standing in the way of looking fierce. Nonetheless, the article is an informed beginning to a conversation about acceptance, anger, and ignorance, and about a need to be connected to the past, to be at least aware of the history of the still rather young movement.
The magazine also examines, rather timely, the New York State gay marriage “follies,” offering a handy historical overlay.
This is, of course, the anniversary week of Stonewall, the fortieth anniversary and this coming weekend is Pride weekend in New York City. In addition to be the Grand Marshall of this year’s parade, Dustin Lance Black, along with CNN, will be honored on June 29th by the ninth annual Trevor Project New York Summer Gala. Caroline Rhea hosts, and there will be performances by Jewel and Gavin Creel, currently starring in the revival of Hair. Other guest will include Lance Bass, Carson Kressley, and Sarah Paulson. Black will be honored for his tireless work with LGBTQ youth and CNN for their commitment to the cause and to demonstrating a corporate acceptance of “individuals regardless of sexual orientation.”
The nineteenth annual Broadway Bares was held Sunday night, a benefit performance for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, with guests the aforementioned Creel, the irrepressible Michael Urie, and Allison Janney. The site is here, but you must be eighteen to enter and it is sort of NSFW.
Suggesting that the Much Music Video Music Awards are lame is to be more than kind. The station, birthed by the blight on society that is Moses Znamier, is, along with its seedy siblings, the Canadian versions of both MTV and E!, seriously needs to be shuttered and soon, such an embarrassment in excessive vapidity and repressed homosexuals it is. That Perez Hilton would find his way to the 2009 incarnation and highjack the night with accusations that Will.I.Am attacked and assaulted him via Hilton’s Twitter, well, it seems just so right, adding, if you will, to the lameness.
Hilton, physically and intellectually flabby, insisted he was being beaten by the Black Eye Peas front man and asked his Twitter followers to call the police and send them to the hotel he was staying at and well it all gets surprisingly worse from there. As an aside – you have a phone, but you tweet a request for followers to call the authorities. Yes, now claims that Twitter is less a inane social networking tool and more an vehicle of political and social liberation ring so true.
New York Magazine seems to have declared the summer of 09 the summer of the gay, its’ annual salute to the season issue including an interesting assessment of the gay generation gap, because if there is one more divisive issue us gays need, it is an underlining of the disparity between those for whom advocacy and political engagement is a birthright and those who ruefully ignore the political as something standing in the way of looking fierce. Nonetheless, the article is an informed beginning to a conversation about acceptance, anger, and ignorance, and about a need to be connected to the past, to be at least aware of the history of the still rather young movement.
The magazine also examines, rather timely, the New York State gay marriage “follies,” offering a handy historical overlay.
This is, of course, the anniversary week of Stonewall, the fortieth anniversary and this coming weekend is Pride weekend in New York City. In addition to be the Grand Marshall of this year’s parade, Dustin Lance Black, along with CNN, will be honored on June 29th by the ninth annual Trevor Project New York Summer Gala. Caroline Rhea hosts, and there will be performances by Jewel and Gavin Creel, currently starring in the revival of Hair. Other guest will include Lance Bass, Carson Kressley, and Sarah Paulson. Black will be honored for his tireless work with LGBTQ youth and CNN for their commitment to the cause and to demonstrating a corporate acceptance of “individuals regardless of sexual orientation.”
The nineteenth annual Broadway Bares was held Sunday night, a benefit performance for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, with guests the aforementioned Creel, the irrepressible Michael Urie, and Allison Janney. The site is here, but you must be eighteen to enter and it is sort of NSFW.
Suggesting that the Much Music Video Music Awards are lame is to be more than kind. The station, birthed by the blight on society that is Moses Znamier, is, along with its seedy siblings, the Canadian versions of both MTV and E!, seriously needs to be shuttered and soon, such an embarrassment in excessive vapidity and repressed homosexuals it is. That Perez Hilton would find his way to the 2009 incarnation and highjack the night with accusations that Will.I.Am attacked and assaulted him via Hilton’s Twitter, well, it seems just so right, adding, if you will, to the lameness.
Hilton, physically and intellectually flabby, insisted he was being beaten by the Black Eye Peas front man and asked his Twitter followers to call the police and send them to the hotel he was staying at and well it all gets surprisingly worse from there. As an aside – you have a phone, but you tweet a request for followers to call the authorities. Yes, now claims that Twitter is less a inane social networking tool and more an vehicle of political and social liberation ring so true.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Tom Brady Spends Father Day With Son John Edward Thomas, Madonna And Mercy
Hall of Fame DILF and presumptive starting quarterback for the New England Patriots, does his fatherly duty Sunday, Father’s Day, in Los Angeles, with his beyond cute nearly two year old son John Edward Thomas, who now looks more like his mother, Bridget Moynahan, near Tom’s home in the Pacific Palisades, accompanied by wife Gisele Bundchen, who might or might not be with child.
Madonna, aging awkwardly and as always in need of attention, returned to Britain Sunday, with Mercy in hand, the young four year old with the big, bewildered eyes from Malawi the object of adoption, Madonna’s that is.
Madonna, aging awkwardly and as always in need of attention, returned to Britain Sunday, with Mercy in hand, the young four year old with the big, bewildered eyes from Malawi the object of adoption, Madonna’s that is.
T.R, Knight On Parade, Tom Brady And Gisele On Display, Chris Evans Does Deep Throat, Patriotic Chris Pratt, Rachel Griffiths, Taylor Lautner
T.R. Knight, emancipated from Grey’s Anatomy, is set to star this fall in Los Angeles in a production of Parade, a musical that tells the true tale of Leo Frank, who was arrested, convicted, and lynched in Atlanta, Georgia as the Civil War ended, created by Hal Prince and Jason Robert Brown.
Tom Brady – everyone’s favorite Daddy – at Los Angeles International Airport does his husbandry duty and picks up wife Gisele Bundchen Sunday, who was arriving from working the runways in Brazil. Tom’s son, John Edward Thomas, was not in attendance.
Chris Evans, meanwhile, arrived at LAX late Saturday, rocking a Deep Throat tee and camouflage cargos, the innuendo obvious and titillating.
Anna Faris, wildly underrated, and Chris Pratt, very cute in a big bear way, on the beaches on Maui, Pratt preferring a patriotic pair of swim trucks that he fills out rather nicely.
Rachel Griffiths – Muriel’s Wedding, Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters - has given birth to a new daughter, she and husband welcoming the girl to a family that includes another daughter and son.
Taylor Lautner, in Toronto, at the Four Seasons hotel, takes time to play nice.
Tom Brady – everyone’s favorite Daddy – at Los Angeles International Airport does his husbandry duty and picks up wife Gisele Bundchen Sunday, who was arriving from working the runways in Brazil. Tom’s son, John Edward Thomas, was not in attendance.
Chris Evans, meanwhile, arrived at LAX late Saturday, rocking a Deep Throat tee and camouflage cargos, the innuendo obvious and titillating.
Anna Faris, wildly underrated, and Chris Pratt, very cute in a big bear way, on the beaches on Maui, Pratt preferring a patriotic pair of swim trucks that he fills out rather nicely.
Rachel Griffiths – Muriel’s Wedding, Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters - has given birth to a new daughter, she and husband welcoming the girl to a family that includes another daughter and son.
Taylor Lautner, in Toronto, at the Four Seasons hotel, takes time to play nice.
Rick Bebout, Deliberation On New York Gay Marriage Bill Likely Delayed Till Fall, Where Is The Leader Of The Gay Community, Deep Throat
Sad and significant news that I have been delinquent in posting: Rick Bebout died on June 10th. He was 59. Bebout, an American expatriate who came to Toronto when he was nineteen, was one of the more influential gay and lesbian figures in Canada, who in many ways helped define the then nascent community into a cultural and political force, leading the conversation from police brutality and harassment directed at the gay community to the legalization of gay marriage in Canada (his theory, that sex, that it the actual act, should never been employed to create policy still resonates), mostly form his work published in the late, lamented Body Politic, a “gay liberation” journal.
Bebout was a wonderful writer – expansive and passionate, prone to ruminations that while rambling, were ultimately rewarding. Like Jane Jacobs, another American expat, Bebout was consumed with Toronto, with what the city had been and, more importantly, what the city could be. A book he edited, Open Gate: Toronto Union Station, in fact birthed the city’s modern idea and understanding of historic preservation and the idea of heritage buildings – that work, in fact, helping in large part to stay the destruction of Union Station, one of the most magnificent architectural works not only in the city, but in the country. Bebout had been living with HIV for many years, and died from complications of a stroke he suffered on June 4th. A memorial service has been planned at a later date.
Surprising news late Sunday, from New York Governor David A. Paterson, who, after weeks of silence, announced that he was calling the State Senate to a special session this week, but that a gay marriage bill would not be among legislation up for consideration, the Governor insisting that “time sensitive” bills, financial in nature, were more urgent and needed to be addressed by the Senate that has been stalled by political deal making and maneuvering.
Max Munchnick, he of Will and Grace, wrote an opinions piece for The Huffington Post last week, bemoaning the obvious absence of one leader for the gay community, a “Martin Luther Queen” to quote Munchnick. Oddly – at least to me – he suggested that role belong to Barack Obama, whom, Munchnick suggested, has all but abdicated. DailyKos offers a rebuttal of sorts, rightly pointing out that the idea that the President of the United States – or any other elected official – should act as advocate is left of ludicrous. I think the more important question and the one that unfortunately is never asked, is what exactly is the gay community? Does it even exist? Is it merely an idea, a never realized conceit? Community to me implies a kind of oneness, a center, and I am not certain that can nor ever has been possible, given the simple complexity of what it means to be gay.
FBI files released to the Associated Press this week reveal a sexual prudent hysteria at work in American in the early nineteen seventies, the documents detailing a degree of involvement by a government agency aiming to interrupt what it saw as the moral collapse of society based on a sexual depravity that was the landmark film Deep Throat, a film the bureau fought hard to censure with any means possible, ironic since in 1972 the Richard Nixon led Republican Party was at work on corrupting the constitution and the war in Vietnam was at its height.
Bebout was a wonderful writer – expansive and passionate, prone to ruminations that while rambling, were ultimately rewarding. Like Jane Jacobs, another American expat, Bebout was consumed with Toronto, with what the city had been and, more importantly, what the city could be. A book he edited, Open Gate: Toronto Union Station, in fact birthed the city’s modern idea and understanding of historic preservation and the idea of heritage buildings – that work, in fact, helping in large part to stay the destruction of Union Station, one of the most magnificent architectural works not only in the city, but in the country. Bebout had been living with HIV for many years, and died from complications of a stroke he suffered on June 4th. A memorial service has been planned at a later date.
Surprising news late Sunday, from New York Governor David A. Paterson, who, after weeks of silence, announced that he was calling the State Senate to a special session this week, but that a gay marriage bill would not be among legislation up for consideration, the Governor insisting that “time sensitive” bills, financial in nature, were more urgent and needed to be addressed by the Senate that has been stalled by political deal making and maneuvering.
Max Munchnick, he of Will and Grace, wrote an opinions piece for The Huffington Post last week, bemoaning the obvious absence of one leader for the gay community, a “Martin Luther Queen” to quote Munchnick. Oddly – at least to me – he suggested that role belong to Barack Obama, whom, Munchnick suggested, has all but abdicated. DailyKos offers a rebuttal of sorts, rightly pointing out that the idea that the President of the United States – or any other elected official – should act as advocate is left of ludicrous. I think the more important question and the one that unfortunately is never asked, is what exactly is the gay community? Does it even exist? Is it merely an idea, a never realized conceit? Community to me implies a kind of oneness, a center, and I am not certain that can nor ever has been possible, given the simple complexity of what it means to be gay.
FBI files released to the Associated Press this week reveal a sexual prudent hysteria at work in American in the early nineteen seventies, the documents detailing a degree of involvement by a government agency aiming to interrupt what it saw as the moral collapse of society based on a sexual depravity that was the landmark film Deep Throat, a film the bureau fought hard to censure with any means possible, ironic since in 1972 the Richard Nixon led Republican Party was at work on corrupting the constitution and the war in Vietnam was at its height.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
San Francisco Files Federal Motion To Throw Out Prop 8, Boycott Bruno, Who Doesn't Love Lambert, Hilton Stalks Lambert, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Urie
Arguing that despite assertions from proponents of Proposition 8 that the ballot measure act was passed in order to protect and promote traditional marriage, the real intent of the amendment was to harm gays and lesbians and articulate a “moral disapproval” of them, the city of San Francisco late Thursday filed a motion in federal court asking that Prop 8 be overturned. Citing a Supreme Court decision in 1996 in that struck down Colorado’s ban on gay rights measure was unconstitutional, the city contends that Proposition 8 was motivated by nothing less than hate and that it violates that right of gays and lesbians to live free of discrimination.
Thankfully, GLAAD has gone where apparently no one, including gay bloggers, wanted to go, asking Universal to include a message at the end of Bruno, the Sacha Baron Cohen film to be released in July, that would have been of support for and tolerance of gays and gay rights. The request was denied. The film, which I saw in May, much like everything and anything Cohen does (anyone really admit to enjoying Ali G? Ever?) traffics heavily in stereotypes, and is less a liberating look at gay clichés than a lame attempt humor that is honestly offensive. Cohen, who reminds me a slightly snootier Ben Stiller, argues that like Borat the intent is to challenge popularly held beliefs and convictions, but the awkward execution effectively frustrates those goals. Instead the film justifies any number of poor perceptions about gays, including, and most horrid, the idea that all gays are effeminate and that gay sex is repulsive and unnatural. Reinforcing the negative, as Cohen does repeatedly, without context, (again, to reference Ali G) is hardly in keeping with the lofty ideal of challenging societal prejudices.
Kris Allen says that his wife has a major crush on Adam Lambert.
Perez Hilton worries, worries that Adam Lambert will fall the way of Lindsay Lohan, overspending, living large and beyond his means, a misstep away from being homeless, both continuing the unhealthy interest Hilton has with Lambert and again, confirming that Hilton is indeed an idiot.
Ryan Phillippe, the most beautiful man in the world also continues his domination as Hall of Fame DILF, out and about with son Deacon this past Wednesday.
Michael Urie, leaving a taping of It’s On with Alexa Chung Thursday, being, well, really, really happy. How much do I love this man!
Thankfully, GLAAD has gone where apparently no one, including gay bloggers, wanted to go, asking Universal to include a message at the end of Bruno, the Sacha Baron Cohen film to be released in July, that would have been of support for and tolerance of gays and gay rights. The request was denied. The film, which I saw in May, much like everything and anything Cohen does (anyone really admit to enjoying Ali G? Ever?) traffics heavily in stereotypes, and is less a liberating look at gay clichés than a lame attempt humor that is honestly offensive. Cohen, who reminds me a slightly snootier Ben Stiller, argues that like Borat the intent is to challenge popularly held beliefs and convictions, but the awkward execution effectively frustrates those goals. Instead the film justifies any number of poor perceptions about gays, including, and most horrid, the idea that all gays are effeminate and that gay sex is repulsive and unnatural. Reinforcing the negative, as Cohen does repeatedly, without context, (again, to reference Ali G) is hardly in keeping with the lofty ideal of challenging societal prejudices.
Kris Allen says that his wife has a major crush on Adam Lambert.
Perez Hilton worries, worries that Adam Lambert will fall the way of Lindsay Lohan, overspending, living large and beyond his means, a misstep away from being homeless, both continuing the unhealthy interest Hilton has with Lambert and again, confirming that Hilton is indeed an idiot.
Ryan Phillippe, the most beautiful man in the world also continues his domination as Hall of Fame DILF, out and about with son Deacon this past Wednesday.
Michael Urie, leaving a taping of It’s On with Alexa Chung Thursday, being, well, really, really happy. How much do I love this man!
Friday, June 19, 2009
Evidence And DADT, The Harrisons Of Vancouver Are Hateful Pigs, Hillary Clinton Recovering, Bo Gets A Baseball Card, Nadal Withdraws From Wimbledon
Thanks to a tip from my friend Phil Attey, a great, well-written opinions piece from Friday’s Washington Post that has the audacity to suggest that factual information should trump hysteria birthed fiction when it comes to repealing and rewriting the American policy on gays serving openly in the military. John M. Shalikashvili is a retired Army general and former Chief of Staff who writes with remarkable reason that the evidence is should determine what changes are needed and when those changes should be implemented.
Often, Canada is thought to be a mythical progressive utopia, where hate, homophobia, and intolerance are nearly non-existent, and of course the conceit could not be further from the truth. Meet Patricia and Alexander Harrison, who, along with their charming seventeen year old son, who bandied together to harass Rod Boggs and Bill Hart, a couple of over thirty years who moved into the same “upscale” complex as the Harrisons and were promptly forced to endure constant torment, between June, 2006 and October, 2008. The Harrisons, who were taken to the British Columbia Supreme court, where they were each fined seven thousand, five-hundred dollars in damages to be paid to the two men. Ah, the Harrisons – I am thankful just to breathe the same rarefied air.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is reportedly recovering from “successful surgery” to her right elbow, the former First Lady and current Secretary of State undergoing the operation Friday morning at the George Washington Hospital, in Washington, D.C.
The Obama’s released the first official portrait of Bo, the First Family’s Portuguese water dog, designed, by the way, as a baseball card.
It is unfortunate, but understandable nonetheless, that reigning Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal has, owing to tendentious in his knees, made the decision to withdraw from this year’s tournament, set to begin Monday.
Often, Canada is thought to be a mythical progressive utopia, where hate, homophobia, and intolerance are nearly non-existent, and of course the conceit could not be further from the truth. Meet Patricia and Alexander Harrison, who, along with their charming seventeen year old son, who bandied together to harass Rod Boggs and Bill Hart, a couple of over thirty years who moved into the same “upscale” complex as the Harrisons and were promptly forced to endure constant torment, between June, 2006 and October, 2008. The Harrisons, who were taken to the British Columbia Supreme court, where they were each fined seven thousand, five-hundred dollars in damages to be paid to the two men. Ah, the Harrisons – I am thankful just to breathe the same rarefied air.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is reportedly recovering from “successful surgery” to her right elbow, the former First Lady and current Secretary of State undergoing the operation Friday morning at the George Washington Hospital, in Washington, D.C.
The Obama’s released the first official portrait of Bo, the First Family’s Portuguese water dog, designed, by the way, as a baseball card.
It is unfortunate, but understandable nonetheless, that reigning Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal has, owing to tendentious in his knees, made the decision to withdraw from this year’s tournament, set to begin Monday.
Gisele Bundchen Reportedly Perhaps Pregnant Maybe, T.R. Knight Says Goodbye, Richard Simmons Get Anderson Cooper To Come Out As Liking Lady GaGa
Like their marriage, which was confirmed, denied, confirmed, denied, confirmed, finally complete, the tale of Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bundchen and their attempts to start a family of their own is one of conflicting reports, multiple misleads, and at least one suggestion that the couple, who share an implied Catholic faith, had to marry, since Gisele was already pregnant, reports rampant Friday – started by People – that the man eating model is indeed with child, Brady’s and is due December, 2009. However, if you reference an earlier posting regarding Miss. Gisele sharing modeling duties in Sao Paolo, Brazil with Madonna mattress Jesus Lutz, she seems very, um, not pregnant.
T.R. Knight – also a fan of the one minute I am, the next minute I am not – tells Us exclusively that he has left Grey’s Anatomy and that the decision to do so was not an easy one, adding that he is “extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play this character.”
Anderson Cooper does deny a great deal, including that he cannot dance, but rascally Richard Simmons has a plan. Said plan does not quite come to fruition, but Bedazzler banter ensues and Simmons does get the Coop to come out as a Lady GaGa fan, Anderson saying he does “like the Lady GaGa though.” Love Anderson lots.
T.R. Knight – also a fan of the one minute I am, the next minute I am not – tells Us exclusively that he has left Grey’s Anatomy and that the decision to do so was not an easy one, adding that he is “extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play this character.”
Anderson Cooper does deny a great deal, including that he cannot dance, but rascally Richard Simmons has a plan. Said plan does not quite come to fruition, but Bedazzler banter ensues and Simmons does get the Coop to come out as a Lady GaGa fan, Anderson saying he does “like the Lady GaGa though.” Love Anderson lots.
Leighton Meester Sex Scandal, Clay Aiken To Pen Christmas Book, Old Tom Brady Story Reappears As New, Ronaldo Rolls With A Crazy Threesome
It is has only just begun, but another Friday, another purported sex tape of the stars being offered for purchase, by misguided miscreants, involving a younger Leighton Meester. When will it stop?
Clay Aiken would like to retell Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, modernizing it, according to Mr. Aiken’s literary agent David Vigliano, who is also the president of Vigliano Associates, a publishing imprint based in New York City. According to Mr. Vigliano, the idea of Aiken and Christmas is a natural with Clay enjoying great success with his 2006 television special and an album, released in 2004, titled Merry Christmas With Love.
Why are People, Us, etc recycling an old story, from last week, that I posted, about Tom Brady having to be rescued from a flipped Kayak the Hall of Fame DILF and likely Hall of Fame quarterback rented with wife Gisele Bundchen, and promptly overturned in the Charles River? Anyone?
A story about Cristiano Ronaldo, a wink, three women, a lap dance off competition set to Aerosmith’s Crazy, in a hotel room in Beverly Hills just has to be true. It has to be, right?
Clay Aiken would like to retell Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, modernizing it, according to Mr. Aiken’s literary agent David Vigliano, who is also the president of Vigliano Associates, a publishing imprint based in New York City. According to Mr. Vigliano, the idea of Aiken and Christmas is a natural with Clay enjoying great success with his 2006 television special and an album, released in 2004, titled Merry Christmas With Love.
Why are People, Us, etc recycling an old story, from last week, that I posted, about Tom Brady having to be rescued from a flipped Kayak the Hall of Fame DILF and likely Hall of Fame quarterback rented with wife Gisele Bundchen, and promptly overturned in the Charles River? Anyone?
A story about Cristiano Ronaldo, a wink, three women, a lap dance off competition set to Aerosmith’s Crazy, in a hotel room in Beverly Hills just has to be true. It has to be, right?
Public Affairs Group Who Aiding In Proposition 8 Passage Headed To Maine, Barney Frank, Homicidal Heat
Reports Friday morning that gay marriage opponents in the state of Maine have retained the services of the same firm who helped pass Proposition 8 to help repeal Maine’s gay marriage law, set to take effect on September 1st, 2009. Schubert Flint Public Affairs, a California based company, with offices in state capital Sacramento and Orange County that operate as lobbyists masquerading as a quasi-public relations firm and who helped in large part to pass Proposition 8. The company is proudest of the work it has done in California and Nevada, representing large pharmaceutical companies and opponents of health care reform, and likes to incorporate fear as a campaign theme. The organization Maine Freedom to Marry, proponents of gay marriage, have retained the services of Joe Connelly to counter, Connelly have successfully captained a 2005 campaign to defend the state’s gay rights laws. A total of at least fifty-five thousand, eight-seven signatures of registered voters need to be obtained before September in order to suspend the same-sex marriage law and place a ballot referendum on the issue for a November election.
Democratic Representative Barney Frank will be in Maine this weekend, as a part of the state’s Pride Festivities, planned before the announcement that the state’s just passed gay marriage law would be formally contested, and it is expected that what was to be a reception celebrating the advancement of equal rights for gays will take on a slightly more aggressive tone, one that warns of the fight ahead.
If you’re planning to visit New York City or live in and around the area, you might want to avoid being there from August to September, the New York Times reporting Thursday that the number of murders rise in direct correlation to the temperatures rising, according to a report the paper of record conducted based on a number of trends.
Democratic Representative Barney Frank will be in Maine this weekend, as a part of the state’s Pride Festivities, planned before the announcement that the state’s just passed gay marriage law would be formally contested, and it is expected that what was to be a reception celebrating the advancement of equal rights for gays will take on a slightly more aggressive tone, one that warns of the fight ahead.
If you’re planning to visit New York City or live in and around the area, you might want to avoid being there from August to September, the New York Times reporting Thursday that the number of murders rise in direct correlation to the temperatures rising, according to a report the paper of record conducted based on a number of trends.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Hangover Homophobic, Neil Patrick Harris And David Burtka Not Having A Baby Just Yet, Gisele And Jesus Rock The Runway, Ed Westwick Rocks
While it continues to enjoy somewhat surprising success, The Hangover is coming under scrutiny for the perceptible and puerile homophobia the film traffics in, flailing unfunny “fag” jokes with an eagerness that is uncomfortable. What is interesting, according to a number of reports, and to what I had been told as far back as February, is that the creators of The Hangover had hoped to make a stunningly subversive American comedy, the original script containing a narrative where one of the main three characters, after an awkward sexual encounter with a man, comes out of the closet, an conceit that would have easily eliminated the truly bad humor at the obvious expense of homosexuals.
Contrary to a post made on Thursday, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are not about to have a baby using a surrogate mother, although Neil says that the twosome might "someday soon." They are still a cute couple, but now there is hope – hope that one day soon I will make NPH mine.
Brazilian beauties Gisele Bundchen and Jesus Lutz work the runways of Sao Paulo, Jesus the topless one.
Ed Westwick, looking impossibly heterosexual, out and about in New York City Thursday night, at Bloomingdales promoting a new line of K-Swiss Classic Kicks, for which Westwick is the spokesperson and Ed, kicking out the sexy, made his best bedroom eyes for all to enjoy.
Contrary to a post made on Thursday, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are not about to have a baby using a surrogate mother, although Neil says that the twosome might "someday soon." They are still a cute couple, but now there is hope – hope that one day soon I will make NPH mine.
Brazilian beauties Gisele Bundchen and Jesus Lutz work the runways of Sao Paulo, Jesus the topless one.
Ed Westwick, looking impossibly heterosexual, out and about in New York City Thursday night, at Bloomingdales promoting a new line of K-Swiss Classic Kicks, for which Westwick is the spokesperson and Ed, kicking out the sexy, made his best bedroom eyes for all to enjoy.
Neil Patrick Harris David Burtka Plan Surrogacy, Adam Lambert Plans Guyliner, Danny Gokey, Twitter Censorship, Chris Pine, Fresh Prince Gossip
Neil Patrick Harris and boyfriend David Burtka have been approved to be fathers and are now in process of selecting a surrogate mother. They are such a cute couple, but I guess that this news throws a tiny crimp in my plans to make NPH my husband. 
Adam Lambert thinks that being on People magazine’s list of top ten single sexy summer bachelors is “cool,” but insists that “I’m not hot!” He also talks about an upcoming collaboration with Queen, and although not having an interest – yet – in designing a clothing line, he expresses a desire to do a cosmetic line, adding that it would be “an eyeliner, nail polish line. It will be very livable. You can put it on it will stay for the whole week,” and that, truthfully, sounds so similar to every boyfriend I had my first year of university.
If you Twitter (I do, but remain wildly ambivalent), late Wednesday night you might have noticed the treading topic #gokeyisadouche, started soon after a rather nasty story about failed Idol contestant Danny Gokey, whose hate and homophobia is at direct odds with his supposed Christianity, and his family embarrassing, with a nasty deliberateness that was obviously homophobic, Adam Lambert, the night of the now infamous pre-finale American Idol dinner in Burbank. Twitter soon removed the topic, odd, because I thought they think themselves as technology for the people, of the people, etc, but maybe Twitter’s censorship is selective, and as now neither Gokey nor his family have commented.
Chris Pine, one more time, so fine, in plaid, out and about in Los Angeles Wednesday, getting coffee, which is an event much more interesting to look at that it might sound.
Best Fresh Prince of Bel Air story perhaps ever, Janet Hubert, who played Aunt Vivian on said sitcom from the eighties, and who has written a new book – Perfection is not a Sitcom Mom - to be released in February, 2010, and in it she paints a not so pretty picture of star and Scientologist Will Smith, accusing the actor of being a boy behaving very badly.
Adam Lambert thinks that being on People magazine’s list of top ten single sexy summer bachelors is “cool,” but insists that “I’m not hot!” He also talks about an upcoming collaboration with Queen, and although not having an interest – yet – in designing a clothing line, he expresses a desire to do a cosmetic line, adding that it would be “an eyeliner, nail polish line. It will be very livable. You can put it on it will stay for the whole week,” and that, truthfully, sounds so similar to every boyfriend I had my first year of university.
If you Twitter (I do, but remain wildly ambivalent), late Wednesday night you might have noticed the treading topic #gokeyisadouche, started soon after a rather nasty story about failed Idol contestant Danny Gokey, whose hate and homophobia is at direct odds with his supposed Christianity, and his family embarrassing, with a nasty deliberateness that was obviously homophobic, Adam Lambert, the night of the now infamous pre-finale American Idol dinner in Burbank. Twitter soon removed the topic, odd, because I thought they think themselves as technology for the people, of the people, etc, but maybe Twitter’s censorship is selective, and as now neither Gokey nor his family have commented.
Chris Pine, one more time, so fine, in plaid, out and about in Los Angeles Wednesday, getting coffee, which is an event much more interesting to look at that it might sound.
Best Fresh Prince of Bel Air story perhaps ever, Janet Hubert, who played Aunt Vivian on said sitcom from the eighties, and who has written a new book – Perfection is not a Sitcom Mom - to be released in February, 2010, and in it she paints a not so pretty picture of star and Scientologist Will Smith, accusing the actor of being a boy behaving very badly.
Ricky Martin Kind Of Comes Out, Clay Aiken Steps Out For Father’s Day, David Archuleta, Sanjaya Not Gay, Prince William And Harry Brothers Not Lovers
Father of two adorable sons and object of great speculation about his sexual orientation, Ricky Martin, may have come out. Speaking to the Spanish language magazine TV Aqui, said his “heart could belong to a woman or a man.” Um, Ricky, not to be rude, but um, come on in and come out, the water is fine. Well more than fine actually.
Take a cue, Mr. Ricky Martin, from Mr. Clay Aiken, who, rocking a geek sexy look, replete with sandals and spectacles, departs from New York City Wednesday morning, en route home perhaps, where this Sunday he will celebrate his first Father’s Day with new son Parker.
American Idol seems to either bring out the best in the people, the worst, or just bring them out, with multiple stories today, including news that the father of the very cute David Archuleta had been arrested in January for soliciting a massage parlor prostitute, a charge he plead not guilty to, and Sanjaya Malakar, currently appearing on the cultural catastrophe I’m A Celebrity … Now Get Me Our Of Here, apparently needing to get out or um, rather come out, at least according this report of Janice Dickerson and guyliner and denials, and well it is all so sorted. In the end, Sanjaya contends he is not gay.
The Princes Harry and William, on hand Wednesday in a rare shared press conference to talk about their wish to fight in battle, William anxious to see his first duty, and Harry eager to return, shared some salacious details on their shared living arrangements, with William saying “I feed Harry everyday. I do a fair bit of tidying up after him. He snores a lot too. He keep me up all night long,” to which Harry replied “oh God, they’ll think we share a bed now. We’re brothers, not lovers.”
Take a cue, Mr. Ricky Martin, from Mr. Clay Aiken, who, rocking a geek sexy look, replete with sandals and spectacles, departs from New York City Wednesday morning, en route home perhaps, where this Sunday he will celebrate his first Father’s Day with new son Parker.
American Idol seems to either bring out the best in the people, the worst, or just bring them out, with multiple stories today, including news that the father of the very cute David Archuleta had been arrested in January for soliciting a massage parlor prostitute, a charge he plead not guilty to, and Sanjaya Malakar, currently appearing on the cultural catastrophe I’m A Celebrity … Now Get Me Our Of Here, apparently needing to get out or um, rather come out, at least according this report of Janice Dickerson and guyliner and denials, and well it is all so sorted. In the end, Sanjaya contends he is not gay.
The Princes Harry and William, on hand Wednesday in a rare shared press conference to talk about their wish to fight in battle, William anxious to see his first duty, and Harry eager to return, shared some salacious details on their shared living arrangements, with William saying “I feed Harry everyday. I do a fair bit of tidying up after him. He snores a lot too. He keep me up all night long,” to which Harry replied “oh God, they’ll think we share a bed now. We’re brothers, not lovers.”
Reverend Kenneth Hutcherson Hates Gays And Himself
The Washington Post, in anticipation of training camp and, um, Pride, (and I am only guessing) began running an open thread this past week on gays in the NFL, and whether one or more player might locate the courage to come out. While I was going to post some of the more inane postings – one, since removed, and I am paraphrasing, spoke sadly of how America’s game – football – need not be corrupted by the effeminate in the same way America’s name had been – but this comment by former NFL linebacker Kenneth Hutcherson, who play very briefly during the nineteen seventies for the Dallas Cowboys and the Seattle Seahawks, made yesterday.
Some background: he left football due to an injury to his knee, but rumors were rampant that he had a serious addiction to prescription painkillers that made him less than a team player. His post-football career has been highlighted by hate, most all of which has been directed towards homosexuals. He is an ordained pastor, at a church just outside Seattle, the Antioch Bible Church, which he helped form. His attacks on gay often take the form of violence or at least the implication that violence is at hand, and yes, you knew it was coming, he contends being gay is a choice – the wrong one of course – and he and his congregation will help you become an “ex-gay,” for a price of course. What is the worst about Ken, you might be asking by now? Well it might be his habit of playing being black in America against being gay, with Ken, who is black, but not now, nor ever gay, suggesting that the struggle for equal rights by gays is a fraud.
To Wednesday then, Ken, when he dashes off a comment to the Post, arguing that football is like the army, you know, the game being a battle, and well, gays would be a distraction, getting in the way and all, what with their incessant showering and their love of the showers. He then goes off on a tangent – much unfocused our Reverend – about gay rights not being an issue of civil rights, and then, as I mentioned above, includes a threat of violence to anyone athlete who dare come out. “I do think some players will come out sooner or later and everyone is going to be surprised about what the results are going to be. I remember when I was with Dallas and this one girl tried out for the team. She wasn’t treated very well.”
I should mention that Kenneth is ill, cancer I believe. I should mention that he – in his actions and with his words – defames and libels both African-Americans and Christians. I should mention that he is a dangerous man, investigated by numerous levels of law enforcement. I should mention that the NFL has had and continues to have issues slightly more damaging to the image it tries to cultivate that gays. I should mention his behavior contributes to a climate of hate and of mistrust, contradicting central tenets of God, Christ, and other more popular figures of love and trust.
Some background: he left football due to an injury to his knee, but rumors were rampant that he had a serious addiction to prescription painkillers that made him less than a team player. His post-football career has been highlighted by hate, most all of which has been directed towards homosexuals. He is an ordained pastor, at a church just outside Seattle, the Antioch Bible Church, which he helped form. His attacks on gay often take the form of violence or at least the implication that violence is at hand, and yes, you knew it was coming, he contends being gay is a choice – the wrong one of course – and he and his congregation will help you become an “ex-gay,” for a price of course. What is the worst about Ken, you might be asking by now? Well it might be his habit of playing being black in America against being gay, with Ken, who is black, but not now, nor ever gay, suggesting that the struggle for equal rights by gays is a fraud.
To Wednesday then, Ken, when he dashes off a comment to the Post, arguing that football is like the army, you know, the game being a battle, and well, gays would be a distraction, getting in the way and all, what with their incessant showering and their love of the showers. He then goes off on a tangent – much unfocused our Reverend – about gay rights not being an issue of civil rights, and then, as I mentioned above, includes a threat of violence to anyone athlete who dare come out. “I do think some players will come out sooner or later and everyone is going to be surprised about what the results are going to be. I remember when I was with Dallas and this one girl tried out for the team. She wasn’t treated very well.”
I should mention that Kenneth is ill, cancer I believe. I should mention that he – in his actions and with his words – defames and libels both African-Americans and Christians. I should mention that he is a dangerous man, investigated by numerous levels of law enforcement. I should mention that the NFL has had and continues to have issues slightly more damaging to the image it tries to cultivate that gays. I should mention his behavior contributes to a climate of hate and of mistrust, contradicting central tenets of God, Christ, and other more popular figures of love and trust.
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