American General Stanley A. McChrystal is en route to Washington where he will meet with President Obama Wednesday, the president to make decision between dismissing comments made by the general deemed insubordinate or to terminate the top commander at a paramount time in Afghanistan. McChrystal is the subject of Rolling Stone interview – titled The Runaway General – in which he is critical of the Obama administration, including the president, although most of the more damming critique is actually made by his staff officers. The interview was to take place over two days in April, however because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, the freelance writer ended up embedded with the general and his staff for almost a month.
Missed by most of the American media in the Rolling Stone story is author Michael Hastings opening account of the general and his aides in a hotel room in Paris in mid-April, McChrystal expressing dismay at fulfilling an obligation to have dinner with a French politician. After the general leaves the room, Hastings asks an aide who the dinner is with. “Some French minister,” replies the aide, “It’s fucking gay.”
Ramin Setoodeh, the openly gay author of the homophobic Newsweek article that suggested out gay actors cannot play straight, but straight actors can play gay, is leaving the magazine and will become of part of People magazine’s senior writing staff beginning mid-July.
Parkpop, a free, all-day concert event in the Netherlands have announced that they are not going to allow Beenie Man, a Jamaican artist known for his violent anti-gay lyrics, to perform at the festival this week. Beenie Man was inexplicably chosen to replace American Snoop Dogg, who was banned from the show in an effort to cultivate an “open and friendly atmosphere.”
An elegant Nick Jonas spotted Monday night after making his West End debut in the revival of Les Miserables, joined by brothers Joe and Kevin.
Tuesday, a casual Nick was seen wandering Soho.
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