On Wednesday, June 28th, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff hosted a reception in partnership with GLAAD to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month and to call leaders in the community to unite in the fight for LGBTQ acceptance and equality.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks onstage during a Pride Celebration
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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 15 Winner and transgender advocate Sasha Colby emceed the program, and other speakers included Second Gentleman Emhoff as well as GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. The program featured a performance from Tony award-winning nonbinary actor Alex Newell who sang Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” Sam Charney, a young LGBTQ advocate from Colorado who wrote to Vice President Harris about gun violence prevention, introduced the Vice President at the event.
In her remarks, Vice President Harris talked about the importance of celebrating the achievements of LGBTQ Americans,...
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks onstage during a Pride Celebration
Credit/Copyright: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for GLAAD
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 15 Winner and transgender advocate Sasha Colby emceed the program, and other speakers included Second Gentleman Emhoff as well as GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. The program featured a performance from Tony award-winning nonbinary actor Alex Newell who sang Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” Sam Charney, a young LGBTQ advocate from Colorado who wrote to Vice President Harris about gun violence prevention, introduced the Vice President at the event.
In her remarks, Vice President Harris talked about the importance of celebrating the achievements of LGBTQ Americans,...
- 7/4/2023
- Look to the Stars
The second wave of the 34th annual GLAAD Media Award winners was announced on Saturday night in New York City, with Netflix’s Heartstopper winning for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming – Live Action.
The LGBTQ+ romance series based on Alice Oseman’s webcomic, which follows the love stories of teenage BFFs-turned-boyfriends Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring and their peers, received rave reviews upon its release in 2022. The second season premieres on Thursday, Aug. 3.
More from TVLineNetflix Sets Heartstopper Season 2 Release Date: 'Different Vibe' in StoreHeartstopper Creator Teases a Larger Role for [Spoiler] and Drops a Big Hint About the Netflix Hit's Inevitable EndGLAAD Media Awards: Heartstopper,...
The LGBTQ+ romance series based on Alice Oseman’s webcomic, which follows the love stories of teenage BFFs-turned-boyfriends Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring and their peers, received rave reviews upon its release in 2022. The second season premieres on Thursday, Aug. 3.
More from TVLineNetflix Sets Heartstopper Season 2 Release Date: 'Different Vibe' in StoreHeartstopper Creator Teases a Larger Role for [Spoiler] and Drops a Big Hint About the Netflix Hit's Inevitable EndGLAAD Media Awards: Heartstopper,...
- 5/14/2023
- by Claire Franken
- TVLine.com
Since the late 1940s, the television sitcom has been an implicit delivery system of social instruction. These shows helped set social norms and create stereotypes like the bumbling dad and the dutiful, ever-forgiving wife. Sitcoms are designed to make us feel better and forget our problems while laughing at other people for a bit. All the while, they're creating social mores and codes in society, like silent computer programs running in the background of our lives.
Newsweek pointed out the impact TV had on an entire generation during the golden era of network television. The shows viewed by millions shaped things like fashion trends ("They all had suits") and more importantly, our perception of the world around us ("Nearly all the people were white").
However, in the right hands, sitcoms can be a force for good. Norman Lear got us talking about the impact of bigotry with "All in the Family.
Newsweek pointed out the impact TV had on an entire generation during the golden era of network television. The shows viewed by millions shaped things like fashion trends ("They all had suits") and more importantly, our perception of the world around us ("Nearly all the people were white").
However, in the right hands, sitcoms can be a force for good. Norman Lear got us talking about the impact of bigotry with "All in the Family.
- 9/16/2022
- by Travis Yates
- Slash Film
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Anne Heche, who starred in such films as Donnie Brasco, Volcano and Wag the Dog and on TV shows including Men in Trees and Hung during a troubled life and career, was taken off life support Sunday night, her rep announced.
Heche, 53, had spent several days in a coma at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills (California) Hospital and Medical Center after her Mini Cooper ran off the road Aug. 5 and smashed into a two-story home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, causing “structural compromise and erupting in heavy fire,” the L.A. Fire Department said.
She was taken from her vehicle and hospitalized in critical condition, and it took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to extinguish the blaze.
Heche suffered burns and a severe anoxic brain injury in the crash. Later, she was determined to be brain dead — legally dead,...
Anne Heche, who starred in such films as Donnie Brasco, Volcano and Wag the Dog and on TV shows including Men in Trees and Hung during a troubled life and career, was taken off life support Sunday night, her rep announced.
Heche, 53, had spent several days in a coma at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills (California) Hospital and Medical Center after her Mini Cooper ran off the road Aug. 5 and smashed into a two-story home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, causing “structural compromise and erupting in heavy fire,” the L.A. Fire Department said.
She was taken from her vehicle and hospitalized in critical condition, and it took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to extinguish the blaze.
Heche suffered burns and a severe anoxic brain injury in the crash. Later, she was determined to be brain dead — legally dead,...
- 8/15/2022
- by Mike Barnes and Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anne Heche deserved better in every way.
Her horrific treatment in the public eye led to her being pigeon-holed as the butt of a very cruel and stupid joke that bisexual people just can't make up their minds. Even now in death, publications ridicule her dating history as if it's some mystery to be solved. As if queer, bisexual, and pansexual people are a fun little eccentricity, a source of entertainment and confusion. "You mean she likes both men and women? But how!?"
Listen, just because your pedestrian little mind can't comprehend the notion of anything beyond yourself, doesn't mean those people and ways of life don't exist. They do, and they're completely valid. But until her dying day, Heche was never afforded the decency of being taken seriously as a survivor of abuse, an addict, or a queer woman.
The Punchline
I was so young when Heche and DeGeneres were a couple.
Her horrific treatment in the public eye led to her being pigeon-holed as the butt of a very cruel and stupid joke that bisexual people just can't make up their minds. Even now in death, publications ridicule her dating history as if it's some mystery to be solved. As if queer, bisexual, and pansexual people are a fun little eccentricity, a source of entertainment and confusion. "You mean she likes both men and women? But how!?"
Listen, just because your pedestrian little mind can't comprehend the notion of anything beyond yourself, doesn't mean those people and ways of life don't exist. They do, and they're completely valid. But until her dying day, Heche was never afforded the decency of being taken seriously as a survivor of abuse, an addict, or a queer woman.
The Punchline
I was so young when Heche and DeGeneres were a couple.
- 8/13/2022
- by Ariel Fisher
- Slash Film
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Kehlani is living life to the fullest with her partner 070 Shake and her daughter Adeya by her side. With a new album out — and her first headlining tour in five years — the Bay Area-born singer is truly enjoying the present moment.
“All the changes in my personal life ended up being public for everyone to see. My last album was this toxic album about being in a heterosexual relationship,...
Kehlani is living life to the fullest with her partner 070 Shake and her daughter Adeya by her side. With a new album out — and her first headlining tour in five years — the Bay Area-born singer is truly enjoying the present moment.
“All the changes in my personal life ended up being public for everyone to see. My last album was this toxic album about being in a heterosexual relationship,...
- 6/6/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez’s banner year continues.
The Pose star, who made history as the first transgender performer to land a best drama actress Emmy nomination, has been named by The Advocate as its 2021 person of the year. The honor comes on the heels of Rodriguez releasing a single titled “Something to Say” and as she preps for the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Netflix film tick, tick…Boom!, in which she plays Carolyn. She’s also got more to say on the music front as she finishes polishing an EP.
In the magazine’s cover story, Rodriguez, who previously ...
The Pose star, who made history as the first transgender performer to land a best drama actress Emmy nomination, has been named by The Advocate as its 2021 person of the year. The honor comes on the heels of Rodriguez releasing a single titled “Something to Say” and as she preps for the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Netflix film tick, tick…Boom!, in which she plays Carolyn. She’s also got more to say on the music front as she finishes polishing an EP.
In the magazine’s cover story, Rodriguez, who previously ...
- 11/9/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Illustration by Jeff CashvanMovie-lovers!Welcome back to The Deuce Notebook, a collaboration between Mubi Notebook and The Deuce Film Series, our monthly event at Nitehawk Williamsburg that excavates the facts and fantasies of cinema's most infamous block in the world: 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. For each screening, my co-hosts and I pick a flick that we think embodies the era of all-night moviegoing down the “Forty-Deuce” and present the theater at which it premiered.Over the years, we’ve occasionally gone "off" the Deuce to a nearby theatre; likewise, we’ve invited guest curators to present a film of their choosing. Back in July of 2013, our first guest—the queer film, video, and performance collective Dirty Looks (whose "On Location" program was a Huge inspiration for our series)—took over and presented Jerry Douglas’ pioneering, all-male adult title The Back Row, which premiered at the 55th Street...
- 5/25/2021
- MUBI
Halston, the famed American designer and subject of Netflix's new miniseries Halston, hung out with some of the biggest stars of the film and art. One of his best friends was actress Liza Minnelli, and their friendship helped inspire his designs and her iconic style alike. We're excited to see Ewan McGregor and Krysta Rodriguez depiction their famous friendship onscreen, though it's different than how things really went down. Here's what the real duo were like.
It was actually Minnelli's godmother, Kay Thompson, who first introduced the future best friends, and it all started when Minnelli spotted a Halston design. Minnelli recounted that fateful trip to Bloomingdale's and her subsequent introduction to Halston in Harper's Bazaar: "It was cut differently - thinner and longer. It was chicer. And I thought, 'Oh, wow, this is great' ... We got along instantly, and he became my fashion mate. I did what he said.
It was actually Minnelli's godmother, Kay Thompson, who first introduced the future best friends, and it all started when Minnelli spotted a Halston design. Minnelli recounted that fateful trip to Bloomingdale's and her subsequent introduction to Halston in Harper's Bazaar: "It was cut differently - thinner and longer. It was chicer. And I thought, 'Oh, wow, this is great' ... We got along instantly, and he became my fashion mate. I did what he said.
- 5/14/2021
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
Distributor World Pictures cut three minutes of an intimate scene.
Russian cinemagoers will soon be able to see the full version of Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, following a backlash against a censored version that was released by local distributor World Pictures.
The UK film, which stars Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as a gay couple, was originally released in Russia last month with three minutes cut from the feature by the distributor, namely a scene in which the married couple unsuccessfully try to have sex.
But following an outcry from director Macqueen, several Russian film critics and the Russian LGBT community,...
Russian cinemagoers will soon be able to see the full version of Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, following a backlash against a censored version that was released by local distributor World Pictures.
The UK film, which stars Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as a gay couple, was originally released in Russia last month with three minutes cut from the feature by the distributor, namely a scene in which the married couple unsuccessfully try to have sex.
But following an outcry from director Macqueen, several Russian film critics and the Russian LGBT community,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
In a recent interview with The Advocate, Happiest Season’s writer and director, Clea Duvall, said, “When someone comes out, it’s not even necessarily just about the person’s coming-out. It’s like a tree; its branches splinter off and it becomes a part of other people’s journey too.” That idea is part of what makes Happiest…...
- 11/23/2020
- by Marah Eakin on Film, shared by Marah Eakin to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
According to The Advocate, an 11-year-old piloting a school bus led local cops on a joyride chase through the streets of Baton Rouge over the weekend. Not only that, but the kid—who, per the article, “was so small that he apparently had to stand up to reach the pedals”—managed to evade police for over half an hour,…...
- 10/15/2020
- by Andrew Paul on News, shared by Andrew Paul to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Given that it is Pride Month, it might be a good time to discuss “American Idol” Season 18 winner Just Sam‘s acknowledging her sexuality in an interview with the New York Post last month. That makes her the first openly LGBTQ+ contestant to claim the prize.
PREDICTDaytime Emmy nominee Kelly Clarkson could become the second ‘American Idol’ alum to get halfway to Egot
The 21-year-old former subway busker who lives in Harlem with her grandmother told the newspaper, “I am a child of God, so that’s always gonna be first. That’s actually the only label that I ever want to have,” she said. “But I like what I like, and that’s just that, you know? And it’s not men. Like, at all.”
Since she was crowned, the first Idol winner to hail from New York City has posted on social media in honor of Pride Month:...
PREDICTDaytime Emmy nominee Kelly Clarkson could become the second ‘American Idol’ alum to get halfway to Egot
The 21-year-old former subway busker who lives in Harlem with her grandmother told the newspaper, “I am a child of God, so that’s always gonna be first. That’s actually the only label that I ever want to have,” she said. “But I like what I like, and that’s just that, you know? And it’s not men. Like, at all.”
Since she was crowned, the first Idol winner to hail from New York City has posted on social media in honor of Pride Month:...
- 6/23/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Hollywood icon Rock Hudson gets a new twist on his history in Netflix's Hollywood. If you're wondering whether the real Rock Hudson ever got married, you're in for a sad answer. Despite being gay, Hudson did get married in the 1950s. Although Hollywood gives him a much happier romance, the real Hudson's marriage was disastrous on all fronts.
In 1955, Hudson married Phyllis Gates, the secretary of his agent, Henry Willson. Gates actually does appear in a few scenes in Hollywood, though only in her capacity as Willson's secretary, not as Hudson's love interest; the show's alternate history has Hudson (played by Jake Picking) falling in love with a (wholly fictional) screenwriter, Archie Coleman (played by Jeremy Pope). In her 1987 book, My Husband, Rock Hudson, Gates said she had lived with and dated Hudson before he proposed and she had believed their marriage to be a love match at the time.
In 1955, Hudson married Phyllis Gates, the secretary of his agent, Henry Willson. Gates actually does appear in a few scenes in Hollywood, though only in her capacity as Willson's secretary, not as Hudson's love interest; the show's alternate history has Hudson (played by Jake Picking) falling in love with a (wholly fictional) screenwriter, Archie Coleman (played by Jeremy Pope). In her 1987 book, My Husband, Rock Hudson, Gates said she had lived with and dated Hudson before he proposed and she had believed their marriage to be a love match at the time.
- 5/5/2020
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
There was a special mix of shame and liberation when you visited a gay bookstore that contained adult material. When I ventured into my first one in the Nineties, you might start out flipping through an Edmund White or Andrew Holleran novel before slowly making your way to the magazines: After Out and Genre and The Advocate, there was the sexy stuff like Bluebook, Mandate, Torso, and Inches. If you were lucky, they also had a selection of VHS tapes or albums or DVDs to rent and buy, as well as a stash of poppers,...
- 4/27/2020
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge was the hit sequel to Wes Craven’s classic original, helping lay the template for the many Elm Street films that followed. But these days, Freddy’s Revenge is primarily known among horror aficionados as a bizarrely homoerotic movie. You can be sure people also noticed back in 1985, too, as it was called “the gayest horror film ever” by gay magazine The Advocate. And now, a new documentary called Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street goes into what actually happened during the pic’s production and how it affected the life of its star Mark Patton.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, the gay ‘subtext’ is pretty much just text. The lead is Jesse, who the film strongly, repeatedly and unsubtly insinuates is a repressed gay man. There’s a scene where he meets his teacher at a leather bar,...
For those of you who haven’t seen it, the gay ‘subtext’ is pretty much just text. The lead is Jesse, who the film strongly, repeatedly and unsubtly insinuates is a repressed gay man. There’s a scene where he meets his teacher at a leather bar,...
- 1/10/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Howard Cruse, author of the acclaimed graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby and founding editor of the anthology Gay Comix, died Tuesday of cancer at the age of 75, Cruse’s daughter Kimberly Kolze Venter announced.
Cruse came to prominence in the 1970s with the strip Barefootz, which appeared in a number of underground magazines and titles, but it was the 1980s title Gay Comix — an anthology created by Cruse to publish work by openly gay creators — that arguably made his reputation. Wendel, his strip about a young gay man in Reagan’s America for The Advocate during the same period, won him even more acclaim.
But he may be best known for Stuck Rubber Baby, which told the story of Toland Polk, a gas station attendant in the American South of the 1960s who gets caught up in the civil rights struggle of the period as he explores his own sexuality.
Cruse came to prominence in the 1970s with the strip Barefootz, which appeared in a number of underground magazines and titles, but it was the 1980s title Gay Comix — an anthology created by Cruse to publish work by openly gay creators — that arguably made his reputation. Wendel, his strip about a young gay man in Reagan’s America for The Advocate during the same period, won him even more acclaim.
But he may be best known for Stuck Rubber Baby, which told the story of Toland Polk, a gas station attendant in the American South of the 1960s who gets caught up in the civil rights struggle of the period as he explores his own sexuality.
- 11/27/2019
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Variety has hired seasoned journalist Adam B. Vary as senior entertainment writer to cover the business of genre storytelling and fandom across movies, television and streaming platforms.
Vary will write a weekly column as well as produce cover stories and inside features, break news on Variety.com, and contribute to Variety’s new video studio.
He will join Variety’s Los Angeles headquarters on Dec. 2.
“I could not be more excited to join Variety, and to work with Claudia Eller and her incredible team covering a time of extraordinary change in the entertainment industry,” Vary said.
For nearly seven years, Vary worked as a senior film reporter at BuzzFeed News, breaking news, writing business and investigative features on industry figures such as Kevin Spacey and Brad Renfro, longform profiles that included Chris Pratt, Joss Whedon, James Gunn, and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, retrospective stories on films like “Clue” and “A Christmas Story,...
Vary will write a weekly column as well as produce cover stories and inside features, break news on Variety.com, and contribute to Variety’s new video studio.
He will join Variety’s Los Angeles headquarters on Dec. 2.
“I could not be more excited to join Variety, and to work with Claudia Eller and her incredible team covering a time of extraordinary change in the entertainment industry,” Vary said.
For nearly seven years, Vary worked as a senior film reporter at BuzzFeed News, breaking news, writing business and investigative features on industry figures such as Kevin Spacey and Brad Renfro, longform profiles that included Chris Pratt, Joss Whedon, James Gunn, and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, retrospective stories on films like “Clue” and “A Christmas Story,...
- 11/12/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Did the death of Judy Garland trigger the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the gay liberation movement as is suggested in the new biopic “Judy”? The truth is, it depends who you ask.
To this day, the legendary singer’s death less than a week before the 1969 riots continues to be recognized as a considerable factor in the gay uprising that led to 13 arrests and many injuries at the gay bar Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Garland’s adoration in the gay community was of mythical proportions decades before her death from an accidental overdose of barbiturates on June 22, 1969. “She is an Elvis for homosexuals,” Barry Walters wrote in a 1998 article in The Advocate. He, like many, many others, believe her tragic end “may have” helped to ignite the five-night Stonewall rebellion.
Not many businesses welcomed openly gay people in the ’50s and ’60s. The...
To this day, the legendary singer’s death less than a week before the 1969 riots continues to be recognized as a considerable factor in the gay uprising that led to 13 arrests and many injuries at the gay bar Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Garland’s adoration in the gay community was of mythical proportions decades before her death from an accidental overdose of barbiturates on June 22, 1969. “She is an Elvis for homosexuals,” Barry Walters wrote in a 1998 article in The Advocate. He, like many, many others, believe her tragic end “may have” helped to ignite the five-night Stonewall rebellion.
Not many businesses welcomed openly gay people in the ’50s and ’60s. The...
- 9/30/2019
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Fans of “Billy on the Street” and “Difficult People” already know that Billy Eichner is one of the smartest and funniest men in show business, but his role in “The Lion King” will introduce the comedian to a whole new audience. Eichner voices the meerkat Timon, best friend to constant thorn in his side Pumbaa (Seth Rogen); crooner of such iconic songs as “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” and “Hakuna Matata.” The character was famously originated by openly gay actor Nathan Lane, five years before coming out publicly in The Advocate in 1999. Eichner, who is also gay, recently spoke to Buzzfeed about taking on a role so defined by another actor.
“I’m glad that [director] Jon Favreau kept the tradition of Timon being played by a gay actor, with a certain type of comedic sensibility, alive,” Eichner said.
In the original “Lion King,” many people read antagonist Scar (Jeremy Irons...
“I’m glad that [director] Jon Favreau kept the tradition of Timon being played by a gay actor, with a certain type of comedic sensibility, alive,” Eichner said.
In the original “Lion King,” many people read antagonist Scar (Jeremy Irons...
- 7/13/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In the last three months, four of Hollywood’s 12 most sought-after tax havens for film and TV production have passed laws significantly restricting access to abortions or nearly banning them altogether — forcing many major Hollywood studios and production companies to reconsider upcoming shoots.
Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and Ohio are among the 12 states that provide the best tax incentives to film and TV productions that shoot in the state, according to Film Production Capital, a Louisiana-based brokerage and consulting film that specializes in state tax incentives for film, TV and animation projects. In the last three months, all four have passed some form of anti-abortion law as a conservative wave sweeps state legislatures for a potential legal challenge that would get a more right-wing Supreme Court to reconsider the four-decade-old Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide.
In addition, two more of the top 12 tax-friendly states have anti-abortion legislation on the...
Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and Ohio are among the 12 states that provide the best tax incentives to film and TV productions that shoot in the state, according to Film Production Capital, a Louisiana-based brokerage and consulting film that specializes in state tax incentives for film, TV and animation projects. In the last three months, all four have passed some form of anti-abortion law as a conservative wave sweeps state legislatures for a potential legal challenge that would get a more right-wing Supreme Court to reconsider the four-decade-old Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide.
In addition, two more of the top 12 tax-friendly states have anti-abortion legislation on the...
- 5/31/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
Laine Hardy‘s life is likely to be forever changed now that the 18-year-old Louisiana lad is officially the Season 17 winner of “American Idol.” His buccolic existence in the small burg of French Settlement in southern Livingston Parish is about to be upended. His days of four-wheel-driving and bass-fishing will soon take a backseat to promoting his new single, “Flame,” recording an album thanks to his spanking-new recording contract and going on tour.
While he had tough competition from his fellow finalists, Alejandro Aranda and Madison VandDenburg, anyone who knows “Idol” could tell this teen from the swamps was catnip for those texting young fans sending all their votes to him. Laine also had an advantage after auditioning last season and getting cut during the early rounds. This time, he went to an auditon in Idaho to accompany another hopeful but the judges encouraged him to try out, too. And...
While he had tough competition from his fellow finalists, Alejandro Aranda and Madison VandDenburg, anyone who knows “Idol” could tell this teen from the swamps was catnip for those texting young fans sending all their votes to him. Laine also had an advantage after auditioning last season and getting cut during the early rounds. This time, he went to an auditon in Idaho to accompany another hopeful but the judges encouraged him to try out, too. And...
- 5/20/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Welcome to this Raw review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have some interesting news regarding Nxt on this show, so let’s get to it before Harry Potter farts himself to death.
Match #1: Braun Strowman def. Baron Corbin (Tables Match) The following is courtesy of WWE.com:
Baron Corbin can always be counted on for a good strategy, though without his friends at his side, his luck doesn’t tend to match up. Facing a very angry Braun Strowman in a Tables Match, the former General Manager-Elect of Monday Night Raw relentlessly worked the battered ribs of his longtime foe, stayed on the attack after a strong opening and kept the action as far away from any stray tables as he could in the hopes of whittling Strowman down to claim the win the win. It didn’t work, but it was enough to make things interesting.
Match #1: Braun Strowman def. Baron Corbin (Tables Match) The following is courtesy of WWE.com:
Baron Corbin can always be counted on for a good strategy, though without his friends at his side, his luck doesn’t tend to match up. Facing a very angry Braun Strowman in a Tables Match, the former General Manager-Elect of Monday Night Raw relentlessly worked the battered ribs of his longtime foe, stayed on the attack after a strong opening and kept the action as far away from any stray tables as he could in the hopes of whittling Strowman down to claim the win the win. It didn’t work, but it was enough to make things interesting.
- 2/19/2019
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Previous | Image 1 of 3 | NextSean Hayes of ‘Will and Grace,’ co-author of ‘Plum!’.
Chicago – Tis the season for a holiday children’s book, and actor Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”) and husband Scott Icenogle have co-written “Plum!,” the story of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the quest to get her wings. The couple appeared at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville (Illinois) to sign books and greet admirers.
Sean Hayes will always be Jack on “Will & Grace,” especially as it has been recently rebooted on NBC-tv. He was born right here in Chicago, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Glen Ellyn. After leaving Illinois State University, he took his training as a classical pianist and improv at The Second City and moved to Los Angeles, where he was featured in a Doritos Super Bowl commercial and as the lead in “Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss,” both in 1998. Remarkably, he...
Chicago – Tis the season for a holiday children’s book, and actor Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”) and husband Scott Icenogle have co-written “Plum!,” the story of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the quest to get her wings. The couple appeared at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville (Illinois) to sign books and greet admirers.
Sean Hayes will always be Jack on “Will & Grace,” especially as it has been recently rebooted on NBC-tv. He was born right here in Chicago, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Glen Ellyn. After leaving Illinois State University, he took his training as a classical pianist and improv at The Second City and moved to Los Angeles, where he was featured in a Doritos Super Bowl commercial and as the lead in “Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss,” both in 1998. Remarkably, he...
- 12/5/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Remedy, a medical drama from writer Katie Lovejoy (Dracula), Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Productions and 20th Century Fox TV, where Vendetta is based.
Written by Lovejoy, Remedy is an aspirational drama about Remedy Shaw, a young female medical professional with a rare neurological condition that allows her to literally feel her patient’s pain. As she enters the impersonal, evidence-based medical system for the first time, she discovers that her unique ability to empathize with patients allows her to do more than cure sickness; it heals people. And in the process, she may even heal herself.
The series is inspired by 30-year old Missouri woman Megan Pohlmann who has mirror-touch synesthesia, an extremely rare neurological condition that enables people to feel others’ emotions and physical pain. She uses her skills to help others as a nurse.
Lovejoy executive...
Written by Lovejoy, Remedy is an aspirational drama about Remedy Shaw, a young female medical professional with a rare neurological condition that allows her to literally feel her patient’s pain. As she enters the impersonal, evidence-based medical system for the first time, she discovers that her unique ability to empathize with patients allows her to do more than cure sickness; it heals people. And in the process, she may even heal herself.
The series is inspired by 30-year old Missouri woman Megan Pohlmann who has mirror-touch synesthesia, an extremely rare neurological condition that enables people to feel others’ emotions and physical pain. She uses her skills to help others as a nurse.
Lovejoy executive...
- 10/12/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Longtime YouTube star Tyler Oakley, who has become one of the platform’s most prominent Lgbtq voices, has increasingly harnessed his platform for advocacy work in recent years.
Now, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard -- a University Of Wyoming student who was beaten, tortured, and left to die as a result of his sexuality -- Oakley is gracing the cover of The Advocate magazine. The storied Lgbtq publication calls Oakley “an icon for a new generation of activists,” and he shares the cover with five other burgeoning figures: transgender musician Gio Bravo: basketball player couple Layana White and Haley Videckis, who sued Pepperdine University for discrimination; Los Angeles poet Edwin Bodney; and bisexual filmmaker Shayna Maci Warner.
In The Advocate, Oakley discusses how his social media presence and activism are Lgbtq increasingly overlapping. “I went to school thinking maybe someday I’ll work for a nonprofit.
Now, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard -- a University Of Wyoming student who was beaten, tortured, and left to die as a result of his sexuality -- Oakley is gracing the cover of The Advocate magazine. The storied Lgbtq publication calls Oakley “an icon for a new generation of activists,” and he shares the cover with five other burgeoning figures: transgender musician Gio Bravo: basketball player couple Layana White and Haley Videckis, who sued Pepperdine University for discrimination; Los Angeles poet Edwin Bodney; and bisexual filmmaker Shayna Maci Warner.
In The Advocate, Oakley discusses how his social media presence and activism are Lgbtq increasingly overlapping. “I went to school thinking maybe someday I’ll work for a nonprofit.
- 9/26/2018
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Benny Medina, the TV producer and music manager whose clients include Jennifer Lopez and formerly Will Smith and Mariah Carey, will not be charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney in an alleged 2004 sexual assault.
The case was declined by the L.A. D.A.’s entertainment sexual assault task force Friday owing to the statue of limitations, according to the charge evaluation worksheet, and that the unnamed alleged victim recently died. No other information was given in the report.
This is a different incident from one that came to light in November, when Sordid Lives: The Series actor Jason Dottley claimed in a story published in The Advocate that Medina attempted to rape him in 2008 at the producer-manager’s Los Angeles mansion. Medina, through his lawyers, denied the allegation.
Medina, who continues to work with Lopez, executive produced Smith’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Tyra Banks Show,...
The case was declined by the L.A. D.A.’s entertainment sexual assault task force Friday owing to the statue of limitations, according to the charge evaluation worksheet, and that the unnamed alleged victim recently died. No other information was given in the report.
This is a different incident from one that came to light in November, when Sordid Lives: The Series actor Jason Dottley claimed in a story published in The Advocate that Medina attempted to rape him in 2008 at the producer-manager’s Los Angeles mansion. Medina, through his lawyers, denied the allegation.
Medina, who continues to work with Lopez, executive produced Smith’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Tyra Banks Show,...
- 9/21/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
TLC announced today that its second annual Give A Little Awards, an extension of the network’s national multiplatform campaign dedicated to empowering individuals to make a difference in the lives of those in need by giving a little time, support and compassion, will be held on September 20 in New York City.
Presented in partnership with Redbook magazine and Love Is Louder, a project of The Jed Foundation, this event will shine a light on advocates who work tirelessly to prevent bullying. TLC star Jazz Jennings, TV personality/host Kelly Osbourne and recording artist Jessie Chris are among those being honored this year, in addition to three national contest winners who are purposefully sowing seeds of kindness and standing up against bullies in their communities: Kristin Caminiti (Kindness Grows Here), Dianne Grossman (Mallory’s Army) and Jaylen Arnold (Jaylen’s Challenge).
Hosted by beloved wedding dress designer and star of...
Presented in partnership with Redbook magazine and Love Is Louder, a project of The Jed Foundation, this event will shine a light on advocates who work tirelessly to prevent bullying. TLC star Jazz Jennings, TV personality/host Kelly Osbourne and recording artist Jessie Chris are among those being honored this year, in addition to three national contest winners who are purposefully sowing seeds of kindness and standing up against bullies in their communities: Kristin Caminiti (Kindness Grows Here), Dianne Grossman (Mallory’s Army) and Jaylen Arnold (Jaylen’s Challenge).
Hosted by beloved wedding dress designer and star of...
- 8/31/2018
- Look to the Stars
For Portia de Rossi, being in the presence of Ellen DeGeneres was like a love song come to life. "She took my breath away," de Rossi recalled of running into her future wife at a 2004 photo shoot in an interview with The Advocate a year later. "That had never happened to me in my life, where I saw somebody and [experienced] all of those things you hear about in songs and read about in poetry. My knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that." Technically, they had met about five years earlier in 2000. According to de Rossi's version of the story, "there was definitely a lot of chemistry between us, but I didn't...
- 8/16/2018
- E! Online
Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein and their Vendetta Productions are staying at 20th Century Fox Television. The duo have inked a two-year overall deal with 20th TV and its cable/digital division, Fox 21 TV Studios. Under the new pact, Turner and Klein will continue to develop new projects for network, cable and streaming services.
“Sheldon and Jen are gifted producers with smart, commercial instincts and they are brimming with ideas,” said 20th TV president of creative affairs Jonnie Davis. “We love working with them.”
Added Bert Salke, president of Fox 21 TV Studios, “Sheldon is a fantastic writer and he and Jen have been developing with Fox 21 since the early days of our company. I have known both of them forever, and was excited to continue our relationship.”
Vendetta moved to 20th TV two years ago after a three-year stint at Sony TV. One of the projects they developed and...
“Sheldon and Jen are gifted producers with smart, commercial instincts and they are brimming with ideas,” said 20th TV president of creative affairs Jonnie Davis. “We love working with them.”
Added Bert Salke, president of Fox 21 TV Studios, “Sheldon is a fantastic writer and he and Jen have been developing with Fox 21 since the early days of our company. I have known both of them forever, and was excited to continue our relationship.”
Vendetta moved to 20th TV two years ago after a three-year stint at Sony TV. One of the projects they developed and...
- 8/8/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Ricky Martin believes the “stars were aligned” for him to play Antonio D’Amico, Gianni Versace’s longtime partner, on “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.” Unbeknownst to creator Ryan Murphy, the singer/actor is good friends with co-stars Edgar Ramirez and Penelope Cruz, and Ramirez had already told Martin that he had been cast as the late fashion designer before Murphy, with whom Martin worked on “Glee,” came calling to have dinner.
“I went there and he said, ‘I have a project I want you to be part of.’ And the thing was Edgar had told me he was going to be playing Gianni,” Martin tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview (watch the exclusive video above). “I was like, ‘That’s fantastic! Whatever you need from me. Whatever you need, let me know.’ Two weeks later, Ryan calls me and he tells me he has...
“I went there and he said, ‘I have a project I want you to be part of.’ And the thing was Edgar had told me he was going to be playing Gianni,” Martin tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview (watch the exclusive video above). “I was like, ‘That’s fantastic! Whatever you need from me. Whatever you need, let me know.’ Two weeks later, Ryan calls me and he tells me he has...
- 5/16/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Brian Falduto, an actor and musician best known for playing Billy (or "Fancy Pants") in the Jack Black musical film School of Rock, opens up about his experience growing up as "the gay kid" from the film in an emotional essay for The Advocate.
Saying that he's now "Ok with it," he explains that, because of his role in the film, which came out 15 years ago in October, he was labeled as "gay" early on. "No one in my life was taking the time to stop and tell me that it was Ok to just be me....
Saying that he's now "Ok with it," he explains that, because of his role in the film, which came out 15 years ago in October, he was labeled as "gay" early on. "No one in my life was taking the time to stop and tell me that it was Ok to just be me....
- 3/16/2018
- by Lauren Huff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Black Panther” actor Florence Kasumba has confirmed that she filmed a scene in which her character, Ayo — head of security for King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) — flirted with a female general (Danai Gurira). “If the makers would have wanted everyone to see the scene, it would have been in the movie,” Kasumba told Vulture, noting that additional scenes also did not make the final product, now in theaters. “What their reason is, I can’t tell you, because nobody told me about whether [that scene is] in or not.”
In April, Vanity Fair‘s Joanna Robinson wrote about viewing a rough cut of the Ryan Coogler-directed epic, which featured a moment where “we see Gurira’s Okoye and Kasumba’s Ayo swaying rhythmically back in formation with the rest of their team. Okoye eyes Ayo flirtatiously for a long time as the camera pans in on them. Eventually, she says, appreciatively and appraisingly,...
In April, Vanity Fair‘s Joanna Robinson wrote about viewing a rough cut of the Ryan Coogler-directed epic, which featured a moment where “we see Gurira’s Okoye and Kasumba’s Ayo swaying rhythmically back in formation with the rest of their team. Okoye eyes Ayo flirtatiously for a long time as the camera pans in on them. Eventually, she says, appreciatively and appraisingly,...
- 2/16/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Anthony Rapp has spoken out about why he exposed Kevin Spacey for allegedly making inappropriate sexual advances toward him when Rapp was only 14.
The longtime movie, TV and Broadway actor, who’s 46 and openly gay, went public with the alleged incident in a BuzzFeed article published Sunday, just hours before Spacey apologized and came out as a gay man.
“I came forward with my story, standing on the shoulders of the many courageous women and men who have been speaking out, to shine a light and hopefully make a difference, as they have done for me,” the actor said in a statement to People.
The longtime movie, TV and Broadway actor, who’s 46 and openly gay, went public with the alleged incident in a BuzzFeed article published Sunday, just hours before Spacey apologized and came out as a gay man.
“I came forward with my story, standing on the shoulders of the many courageous women and men who have been speaking out, to shine a light and hopefully make a difference, as they have done for me,” the actor said in a statement to People.
- 10/30/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Kevin Spacey is being criticized for “hiding under the rainbow” after he came out in the same statement in which he apologized for alleged unwanted sexual advances towards actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was just 14.
In an interview with BuzzFeed published Sunday, Rapp, now 46, alleged then-26-year-old Spacey invited him to his Manhattan apartment for a party in 1986. (They were both starring in hit Broadway plays at the time.) Rapp says he was the only teen at the party and spent most of the evening in a bedroom watching television. After the party ended, he said, Spacey came into the room,...
In an interview with BuzzFeed published Sunday, Rapp, now 46, alleged then-26-year-old Spacey invited him to his Manhattan apartment for a party in 1986. (They were both starring in hit Broadway plays at the time.) Rapp says he was the only teen at the party and spent most of the evening in a bedroom watching television. After the party ended, he said, Spacey came into the room,...
- 10/30/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Kevin Spacey has come out as gay as part of his response to Star Trek and Rent actor Anthony Rapp coming forward Sunday with an allegation that the House of Cards star made an unwanted sexual advance towards him when Rapp was just 14.
“I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. I’m beyond horrified to hear his story,” Spacey says in a statement posted on his Twitter account late Sunday night. “I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave as he describes,...
“I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. I’m beyond horrified to hear his story,” Spacey says in a statement posted on his Twitter account late Sunday night. “I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave as he describes,...
- 10/30/2017
- by Patrick Gomez
- PEOPLE.com
Another actress has come forward to level sexual harassment allegations against ousted Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, bringing the number up to at least 30 accusers, according to the Associated Press.
English actress Sophie Dix claims that Weinstein invited her to a private room at the Savoy Hotel in London when she was 22 years old in 1990 where she was forcibly shoved onto a bed while Weinstein "tugged at her clothes," according to her account given to The Guardian.
Having just been cast in what looked to be her breakthrough role alongside Colin Firth in The Advocate (originally released...
English actress Sophie Dix claims that Weinstein invited her to a private room at the Savoy Hotel in London when she was 22 years old in 1990 where she was forcibly shoved onto a bed while Weinstein "tugged at her clothes," according to her account given to The Guardian.
Having just been cast in what looked to be her breakthrough role alongside Colin Firth in The Advocate (originally released...
- 10/12/2017
- by Patrick Shanley
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Omar Sharif in 'Doctor Zhivago.' Egyptian star Omar Sharif, 'The Karate Kid' producer Jerry Weintraub: Brief career recaps A little late in the game – and following the longish Theodore Bikel article posted yesterday – below are brief career recaps of a couple of film veterans who died in July 2015: actor Omar Sharif and producer Jerry Weintraub. A follow-up post will offer an overview of the career of peplum (sword-and-sandal movie) actor Jacques Sernas, whose passing earlier this month has been all but ignored by the myopic English-language media. Omar Sharif: Film career beginnings in North Africa The death of Egyptian film actor Omar Sharif at age 83 following a heart attack on July 10 would have been ignored by the English-language media (especially in the U.S.) as well had Sharif remained a star within the Arabic-speaking world. After all, an "international" star is only worth remembering...
- 7/24/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Wolf of Wall Street sets f-bomb record, Chris Pine makes use of a bidet as a weapon, Chris Kluwe has a chance for justice
Henry Rollins doesn’t care that much about what a bigot on Duck Dynasty said. He wasn’t going to watch it anyway. But he does say that while he accepts the outcome, that doesn’t mean the argument is over. “On the flip side of things, one of you supremely talented graphic artists should start a comic book series starring the Duck dudes as homosexual bears. Talk about crossover potential. The thing writes itself. At the next major gay pride event, there should be hard-bodied men in camo hot pants, ridiculous beards pasted to their chins, blowing through duck calls. Dick Dynasty is a gay porn series just waiting to happen.”
On the Chris Kluwe front, the Vikings have hired former Minnesota Supreme Court...
Henry Rollins doesn’t care that much about what a bigot on Duck Dynasty said. He wasn’t going to watch it anyway. But he does say that while he accepts the outcome, that doesn’t mean the argument is over. “On the flip side of things, one of you supremely talented graphic artists should start a comic book series starring the Duck dudes as homosexual bears. Talk about crossover potential. The thing writes itself. At the next major gay pride event, there should be hard-bodied men in camo hot pants, ridiculous beards pasted to their chins, blowing through duck calls. Dick Dynasty is a gay porn series just waiting to happen.”
On the Chris Kluwe front, the Vikings have hired former Minnesota Supreme Court...
- 1/5/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Birthday shoutouts go to Chandler Massey (above), who is 22, Colin Firth is 52, Ryan Phillippe is 38, Johnathon Schaech is 43, Siobhan Fahey is 54.Here's something special for fans of Doctor Who. Ae member Carlos has started a Doctor Who Forum for fans of the show to discuss this season. Speaking of, how great did Rupert Graves look on the last episode, 25 years after Scudder? Out Aussie Rules footballer Jason Ball has launched a petition calling on the Afl to do more to wipe out homophobia. Zac Efron talks to The Advocate about his gay fans and the inevitably of playing a gay role: "I’d never take a role just for the sake of playing gay, but I’m always looking for a role that’s challenging, different, and entails some risk, so there’s no doubt in my mind that one of those characters will be gay at some point in the future.
- 9/10/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Matt's Movies Harvey Weinstein is talking up movies he had nothing to do with and is not distributing. "Is this some sort of reverse psychology marketing strategy?"
Towleroad a filthy gay love song for Joseph Gordon-Levitt
/Film Anthony Mackie could be up for the Falcon role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. We could end up with two Hurt Locker guys in The Avengers 2
Press Play has a smart piece on the new Sigourney Weaver Clintonesque drama Political Animals.
Salon on the "adorable nihilism" of Bunheads with Sutton Foster. I keep wondering if I should write about this show. Are any of you watching?
The Advocate on Bollywood's problem with gay characters
Cinema Styles warns us not to be alarmed by all the media pieces telling us that today's generation doesn't care about old movies.
It's Batman's World...
Interiors Film Journal analyzes the physical space of The Dark Knight's opening bank robbery.
Towleroad a filthy gay love song for Joseph Gordon-Levitt
/Film Anthony Mackie could be up for the Falcon role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. We could end up with two Hurt Locker guys in The Avengers 2
Press Play has a smart piece on the new Sigourney Weaver Clintonesque drama Political Animals.
Salon on the "adorable nihilism" of Bunheads with Sutton Foster. I keep wondering if I should write about this show. Are any of you watching?
The Advocate on Bollywood's problem with gay characters
Cinema Styles warns us not to be alarmed by all the media pieces telling us that today's generation doesn't care about old movies.
It's Batman's World...
Interiors Film Journal analyzes the physical space of The Dark Knight's opening bank robbery.
- 7/17/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
On Saturday March 23 the 2012 GLAAD Media Awards kicked off in New York City with a gala event hosted by "Glee" stars Naya Rivera and Cory Monteith.
The first of three events -- the other two will take place in Los Angeles on April 21 and San Francisco on June 2 -- included a who's who of the Lgbt community and its allies like actress Dakota Fanning, hip-hop icon Russell Simmons, "Top Chef" star Padma Lakshmi, Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir, the Food Network's Ted Allen, Wendy Williams, Jay Manuel and Isis King from "America's Next Top Model" and more.
GLAAD's Acting President Mike Thompson noted in a blog he penned for HuffPost Gay Voices:
"The events, which help fund GLAAD's storytelling and media advocacy work, not only celebrate and recognize the best of the best in Lgbt-inclusive journalism, film, music, television, and more; they also serve as a benchmark for the media industry,...
The first of three events -- the other two will take place in Los Angeles on April 21 and San Francisco on June 2 -- included a who's who of the Lgbt community and its allies like actress Dakota Fanning, hip-hop icon Russell Simmons, "Top Chef" star Padma Lakshmi, Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir, the Food Network's Ted Allen, Wendy Williams, Jay Manuel and Isis King from "America's Next Top Model" and more.
GLAAD's Acting President Mike Thompson noted in a blog he penned for HuffPost Gay Voices:
"The events, which help fund GLAAD's storytelling and media advocacy work, not only celebrate and recognize the best of the best in Lgbt-inclusive journalism, film, music, television, and more; they also serve as a benchmark for the media industry,...
- 3/25/2012
- by Noah Michelson
- Huffington Post
Stars gathered Saturday (March 24) in New York for the annual GLAAD Media Awards.
Lady Gaga was honored as Outstanding Music Artist while "Dancing with the Stars" took home the award for Outstanding Reality Program. Former contestant Carson Kressley picked up the honor for the show. Oprah Winfrey, too, was recognized for her episode "Coming Out on the Oprah Show: 25 Years of Unforgettable Guests."
"Glee's" Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera hosted and also did their part by auctioning off kisses on stage in support of the organization. Former "Growing Pains" star Tracey Gold also spoke, saying "there is nothing unnatural about being gay" -- a stance held by her former co-star Kirk Cameron.
Dakota Fanning, "Jersey Shore's" Vinny Guadagnino, Padma Lakshmi, talk show host Wendy Williams, rap icon Russell Simmons and "Smash's" Megan Hilty were also on hand.
Additional awards will be handed out in Los Angeles on...
Lady Gaga was honored as Outstanding Music Artist while "Dancing with the Stars" took home the award for Outstanding Reality Program. Former contestant Carson Kressley picked up the honor for the show. Oprah Winfrey, too, was recognized for her episode "Coming Out on the Oprah Show: 25 Years of Unforgettable Guests."
"Glee's" Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera hosted and also did their part by auctioning off kisses on stage in support of the organization. Former "Growing Pains" star Tracey Gold also spoke, saying "there is nothing unnatural about being gay" -- a stance held by her former co-star Kirk Cameron.
Dakota Fanning, "Jersey Shore's" Vinny Guadagnino, Padma Lakshmi, talk show host Wendy Williams, rap icon Russell Simmons and "Smash's" Megan Hilty were also on hand.
Additional awards will be handed out in Los Angeles on...
- 3/25/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Subject: Colin Firth, 50-year old English actor
Date of Assessment: March 30, 2011
Positive Buzzwords: Underrated, mainstream
Negative Buzzwords: Stiff, posh, bore
The Case: The good news, as accurately declared by Colin Firth in his recent (Best Actor) Oscar acceptance speech, is that his career really has just peaked. The bad news, however, is that in the event of a career peak, a downward slide might be inevitable. In the best case scenario, it is entirely possible Firth could parlay his Oscar win into more exposure for the sorts of roles that he's played before and for which he hasn't yet received proper recognition.
Most of us know Firth as the quintessential Englishman and for good reason. He's quite notorious for his straight-out-of-the-novel portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the six-episode miniseries Pride and Prejudice, in which he performed the classic Regency version of a one-man wet t-shirt contest. Indeed, there's something strange...
Date of Assessment: March 30, 2011
Positive Buzzwords: Underrated, mainstream
Negative Buzzwords: Stiff, posh, bore
The Case: The good news, as accurately declared by Colin Firth in his recent (Best Actor) Oscar acceptance speech, is that his career really has just peaked. The bad news, however, is that in the event of a career peak, a downward slide might be inevitable. In the best case scenario, it is entirely possible Firth could parlay his Oscar win into more exposure for the sorts of roles that he's played before and for which he hasn't yet received proper recognition.
Most of us know Firth as the quintessential Englishman and for good reason. He's quite notorious for his straight-out-of-the-novel portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the six-episode miniseries Pride and Prejudice, in which he performed the classic Regency version of a one-man wet t-shirt contest. Indeed, there's something strange...
- 3/30/2011
- by Agent Bedhead
The Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, also known as Galeca (for which I'm a proud member yay!), has announced its nominations for the 2nd Annual Dorian Awards, honoring 2010's best and brightest in films, TV, and performances.
"The Kids Are All Right" and "Black Swan" dominated the film category nominations with three nods each. Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" received Film of the Year, Film Performance of the Year for Annette Bening, and Lgbt-Themed Film of the Year.
Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" received nods for Film of the Year, Film Performance of the Year for Natalie Portman, and co-star Mila Kunis picked up a nomination for We're Wilde About You Rising Star Award.
I will not tell you how I voted but winners will be announced January 18!
Here's the complete list of nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):...
"The Kids Are All Right" and "Black Swan" dominated the film category nominations with three nods each. Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" received Film of the Year, Film Performance of the Year for Annette Bening, and Lgbt-Themed Film of the Year.
Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" received nods for Film of the Year, Film Performance of the Year for Natalie Portman, and co-star Mila Kunis picked up a nomination for We're Wilde About You Rising Star Award.
I will not tell you how I voted but winners will be announced January 18!
Here's the complete list of nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):...
- 1/12/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Rupert Everett spoke to the UK's BBC's Radio 4 about his views on Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general, discussing what happened to his career following his announcement that he is gay. He also took a shot at Jennifer Aniston and straight actors playing homosexual characters.When asked about the professional reaction he received after he came out of the closet, Everett responded, "Nothing very much [in terms of Hollywood reaction]. I just never got a job there, and I never got a job here, after [coming out]. I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe." Despite a general view to the contrary, Everett calls Hollywood "an extremely conservative world" that "pretends to be a liberal world."Earlier, he said he felt, "show business is ideally suited for heterosexuals, it's a very heterosexual business,...
- 12/30/2010
- backstage.com
This is fantastic. Appropos of nothing, CNN inadvertently aired the explosive diarrhea scene from Dumb & Dumber. I'd like to think that whoever was responsible for it is somehow connected to the people who sabotaged Gawker over the weekend.
So, Carrie Fisher, who off-handedly outed John Travolta last year, reiterated the same again this year in The Advocate. I don't know if Travolta is actually gay or not, and I'm not that interested. However, I do take issue with this, from Movieline:
Frankly, just about everyone knows John Travolta is gay. I know it. You probably know it. My grandmother knows it and she barely speaks English. It's time, John. It's not 1976, it's almost 2011. Every day that you put off admitting what the world already knows will just make it that much more absurd when you finally do come out.
... wait, really? Everyone knows this? I honestly had no clue, had never heard rumors,...
So, Carrie Fisher, who off-handedly outed John Travolta last year, reiterated the same again this year in The Advocate. I don't know if Travolta is actually gay or not, and I'm not that interested. However, I do take issue with this, from Movieline:
Frankly, just about everyone knows John Travolta is gay. I know it. You probably know it. My grandmother knows it and she barely speaks English. It's time, John. It's not 1976, it's almost 2011. Every day that you put off admitting what the world already knows will just make it that much more absurd when you finally do come out.
... wait, really? Everyone knows this? I honestly had no clue, had never heard rumors,...
- 12/13/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
The celebrated career of English literary giant Christopher Isherwood — perhaps best known for his monumental Berlin Stories, source material for the beloved musical Cabaret — would cast a huge shadow over anyone in his orbit. Yet Don Bachardy, who, despite being more than 30 years junior to Isherwood, was partnered with the legendary writer from not long after their meeting on Valentine’s Day 1953 until the writer’s death in 1986, established his own unique place in the artistic firmament. The 76-year-old Santa Monica, Calif., resident is a much in-demand and respected portraitist and writer in his own right. Besides painting thousands of portraits of politicians, film stars, and sundry everyday people who have sparked his interest, Bachardy also collaborated with Isherwood on television films (1973’s Frankenstein: The True Story has a cult following) and Broadway dramatizations (a short-running production of Isherwood's novel A Meeting by the River) as well as writing the 2000 tome Stars in My Eyes,...
- 7/6/2010
- The Advocate
The celebrated career of English literary giant Christopher Isherwood — perhaps best known for his monumental Berlin Stories, source material for the beloved musical Cabaret — would cast a huge shadow over anyone in his orbit. Yet Don Bachardy, who, despite being more than 30 years junior to Isherwood, was partnered with the legendary writer from not long after their meeting on Valentine’s Day 1953 until the writer’s death in 1986, established his own unique place in the artistic firmament. The 76-year-old Santa Monica, Calif., resident is a much in-demand and respected portraitist and writer in his own right. Besides painting thousands of portraits of politicians, film stars, and sundry everyday people who have sparked his interest, Bachardy also collaborated with Isherwood on television films (1973’s Frankenstein: The True Story has a cult following) and Broadway dramatizations (a short-running production of Isherwood's novel A Meeting by the River) as well as writing the 2000 tome Stars in My Eyes,...
- 7/6/2010
- The Advocate
The celebrated career of English literary giant Christopher Isherwood — perhaps best known for his monumental Berlin Stories, source material for the beloved musical Cabaret — would cast a huge shadow over anyone in his orbit. Yet Don Bachardy, who, despite being more than 30 years junior to Isherwood, was partnered with the legendary writer from not long after their meeting on Valentine’s Day 1953 until the writer’s death in 1986, established his own unique place in the artistic firmament. The 76-year-old Santa Monica, Calif., resident is a much in-demand and respected portraitist and writer in his own right. Besides painting thousands of portraits of politicians, film stars, and sundry everyday people who have sparked his interest, Bachardy also collaborated with Isherwood on television films (1973’s Frankenstein: The True Story has a cult following) and Broadway dramatizations (a short-running production of Isherwood's novel A Meeting by the River) as well as writing the 2000 tome Stars in My Eyes,...
- 7/6/2010
- The Advocate
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