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Anyone excited about watching the final year? God help me, but after watching several trailers, I think it looks kinda good. BTW, what's the real story about Luke Grimes (James) leaving? After watching the most recent preview, I hope it was not homophobia.
An interesting story all the way through. A couple of highlights: [quote]BuzzFeed spoke to nearly two dozen former TMZ employees, and it’s clear that Bieber’s tape was not the only near-priceless piece of dirt in the proverbial TMZ vault. (TMZ did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) According to these ex-employees, the sealed testimonies from the Michael Jackson molestation trial hide there as does footage of various celebrities — Bieber, Lohan, Travolta — behaving badly. The vault isn’t a secret at TMZ — even the lowest on the staff ladder have heard whispers of its existence. As to what goes up on the site and what stays vaulted, that’s a finer, more esoteric calculus — and one in which celebrities and their publicists have come to live in fear. [quote]Levin, according to one source, is “one of those gay men who’s just never been able to get along with women.” He’s stacked his organization with young, bro-ish men who help make the tone and feel of the website masculine and definitively non-gay. It’s not that Levin’s homophobic — he’s spoken openly about triumphing over his fears of being outed in his early career, and how he’s operated as a gay man in the contemporary mediascape — so much as he’s savvy as to the ways in which any hint of effeminacy on the site could repel the target demographic.
Now has Ebola. God said, "Ha!".
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I heard she was relevant during my infancy.
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This is some strange shit. Sarah serves up a word salad so big even Elaine Benes would take a pass. Slurring her words, rambling from one non sequitur to the next, swaying her body around as if she cant keep her balance. She is either stoned, or drunk or on pills or all three.
Could it be...good?
I'm string beans from a can, boiled until we're gray.
Does this queen (John Douglas Eason) get it right? You know, I like a lot of individual things in this apartment - furniture pieces, artwork, fabrics. And, it's certainly cohesive with a clear idea. Yet, I like the parts more than the sum. He did a good job with the small kitchen. He has a clear color scheme - white, black, gray, browns. And, yes, it does look very shelter mag, bordering on staged (but isn't a photo spread with a designer expected to look staged)? I don't know. I'm sort of past ripping on people's homes other than saying "not for me". I like to pick out what I like or appreciate bout places. Is it just me or does this look sort of small?
Where are they? And is Bullets really closing on Labor Day? Elaine Stritch DID do At Liberty for a year, just not all on Broadway. What's the difference? When is The Bodyguard coming in? Will Honeymoon in Vegas be a hit? Is there TONY buzz for TONY? FLORA THE RED MENACE! HENRY SWEET HENRY! I HAD A BALL! WISH YOU WERE HERE! Go!
This seems like it could be fucking hilarious.
"Almost Royal" - New BBC America Comedy Series Starting in June
I'm mixed and I feel somewhat superior to black people, even though my father is black. I hold other mixed people in higher regard than light-skinned black people, I don't really know why. Could it be due to my white, middle class upbringing in a smaller, majority-white city?
In 2 weeks he's going to the biggest movie star in the country.
Which famous gay has/had the highest intelligence?
I posted the other three current TV polls (Alice/One Day at a Time, Cheers/Frasier, Love Boat/Fantasy Island), and I thought this would be another fun one, between these two workplace comedies.
The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new study that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California “with greatest exposure in central and southern California”, and that Southern California's seaweed tested over 500% higher for radioactive iodine-131 than anywhere else in the U.S. and Canada: More at link.
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Photo leaked of Tom Hardy's new roles as gay twin gangsters the Krays
It's a good one. This is SEVERELY redacted from the original, which is about the length of a Dead Sea Scroll. Short version: She wants strangers to send her a ticket, get her there and provide all the necessities, including "the wages I will lose by coming": [quote]I simply cannot not come. If all I come away with is an experience of showering naked amongst others as a "shame reducer", it will have been worth it...to not hate my body as I do....to see beauty in myself as I see it in all other womyn...and I know I will come away with much more. I also appreciate the warnings of how overwhelming it will be....because it already is. But you have told me it is ok...and to do whatever I need to do once I am there to take care of myself through that. The truth is, I am terrified. Terrified to need help, to ask for it, to come and not know beforehand how my tent and gear (which I don't even have most of) will come together, but to trust that it will. To plan this not knowing beforehand how I will get there, or back. To need any of you.....or this....or the healing....and yet, I am so ready and willing to feel terrified and do it anyway. So, to combat the anxiety that is building around how to make this happen, I am looking at it one step at a time. The first thing I need is a ticket and something to offset the wages I will lose by coming. So, that is my first order of business. I need help with this. Apparently she got some money. In her update, however, she wants more: [quote]I realized, my excitement at having that ticket in my hand has had me lose focus as to what I still need to raise in order to actually get home. Travel expenses and something to counterbalance lost wages for the days I will be at fest. This is based in faith that I will have a job by the time August gets here. In the meantime, my money is running out without work. So, I am asking if those who expressed a desire to help but had to wait, would be willing to do so now?
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There are still a few left, but it was such an omnipresent sort of figure in gay life once upon a time. Look at John McCourt, Terrence Mcnally, Albert Innaurato, Wayne Koestenbaum... all of them are still alive, of course; but all of them are at least over 50. I just cannot name that many gay men under 50 who still deeply care about opera. If you revived the play "The Lisbon Traviata" today, I don't think many gay men would universally recognize the type the way they did when the play was written. Why did this type of gay man die out? I'm not sure I really mourn it, since opera queens were often (though not always) mean, sour, and snobby.
or are they all West Coast based?
My talent is boring but I can organize the hell out of messy garages, basements etc.
I was the one who posted the first few "Did you prefer..." threads asking you to compare old TV shows. I had no idea copycats would take my idea and go mad! I deserve your scorn, your eye rolls, and your most severe punishment. I'll try not to enjoy it too much.
They always shoot in these massive houses, uh, mansions. Are these their homes? Are these porn directors rich? I mean, can they be making THAT much money from a shitty porn site? Also, if it is their house, do they have special bedrooms for the fuck scenes? I mean, do they actually let the guys fuck on their living room sofa?
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Wow, no thread yet. Vicki: "What do people in Utah eat anyways?" Eddie: "I better butch it up for this gym class." Heather: "I simply know everything!" Shannon: "You fuckin' eat when I say you fuckin' eat!" Tamra: "Fancy pants. Fancy pants. Fancy pants!!!" Brooks: "Forgive me, baby." Will Ryan lose it and murder his family? Will Tamra have Mexi babies? ...plus the return of babyfat Briana!
This Making Of...special is fairly interesting. Mr. Jennifer Aniston is hot.
He permeates my thoughts. What do you think of his face and body?
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They''re all so ridiculously good looking and hot. And don''t get me started on their thick, meaty bubble butts. They REALLY get my boihole all atwitter. Many of them are bi too. Most of the guys in my gym are Dominican, and I''ve slept with at least six of them in the past year. %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ I moved to Inwood last year, and they''re all around. They''re everywhere. It''s like a wet dream come to life. I never want to live anywhere else. Seriously addicted to these men. Surely there must be a 12-step program for me. Anyone else totally in awe of Dominican men?
I have no particular interest in E! or this woman's success or failure, but this is some of the best workplace/schadenfreude reading I've come across in some time.
E! employees DESTROY network prez Suzanne Kolb on Nikki's site
I think I may be even more gay now
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Which of these sitcom characters raises your
I find "The Dark Knight Returns" too nasty and heavy-handed. Among my favorites are probably the whole Steve Engelhart/Marshall Rogers run from 1977 (climaxing in the great "Laughing Fish" Joker two-parter), or "The Long Halloween." But my favorite of favorites is "Batman: Year One." Frank Miller really reined in his sadistic and misogynistic streaks (with Barbara Gordon emerging as a very strong and intelligent female character), all the mythos of the storyline was resestablished in such a way that still holds 25 years later, and you just can't beat Mazzuchelli's artwork.
Season 4 premieres tomorrow! YAY! Allison and the twins are gone, and some new cast members (including a new gay character) are on deck! Anyone else excited?!?
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WHAT THE HELL! Why are their so many weirdly named parkways? What about good old AVENUES AND STREETS.. Arborway, Jamaicaway, Lynnway, Fenway, Fellsway, Riverway...Mystic River Parkway, Alewife Brook Parkway, Turtle Parkway, Enneaking Parkway... JUST CALL IT A STREET.
In 2012, one of the most massive solar storms occurred when a huge plasma cloud erupted from the sun. Had it happened a few weeks later, earth would have been in its path and ALL our electronics would have been damaged or destroyed.
For me, the old Uncle Charlies on Greenwich holds a special place in my heart. It was the first bar I'd ever set foot in back in '92 when I started grad school at NYU. I was pretty much closeted and had never even kissed a guy, but I remember the exhilirating sense of freedom and liberation (I know...MARY!) that I felt for the first time. Addicted to that feeling, I probably went there more than I should have, but it was such an amazing experience. It's where I met the guy with whom I had my first kiss, first date and first same sex encounter. It seems so long ago, but the memories are still vivid. And it was a time before big muscles and shaving every inch of the body were in vogue. Yes, I sound old. I also remember a place called Pieces that I went to a few times. Not sure that's still around. Anyone else care to share their memories?
Instead of putting the soda cans on the door of the fridge like a civilized person, she just throws the whole carton (12-pack) of cans in the fridge! It looks so white trash, how am I going to cope with this for the next 5 days? Hold me Datalounge, I'm scared!
Anybody watch it? I remember my dad addictively watching the original Cosmos and I love anything that brings knowledge of science and history to the masses. I enjoyed the first episode, though I thought the "spaceship" was kinda silly. The CGI effects and animation were terrific, Neil is a great host and I love that, right out of the gate, it tells religion to stuff it.
I blame Colby Keller for this sense of entitlement. These porn stars should EARN the money like all good whores: on all fours, with ass presented.
Sean Cody's Brandon Wants You To Give Him Money So He Can Go to L.A.
I'm counting on DL to point out the differences. I've avoided getting involved with bisexual men for years - not for any issue with their own sexual orientation but because, based on my experiences, I've always felt they were different from gay men. But I met a really great guy and we're very attracted to one another. So I thought I'd break my rule and give it a go. We've had a few dates and have a lot of chemistry. I've made it clear that I'm not a bottom, that I'm versatile, that I'm gay and that I'm a grown man. I feel strongly that his sexuality shouldn't define mine in a limiting way. I've been pretty persuasive about the joys of ass play and I haven't been aggressive and have promised to take my time with him, etc. His comfort level is my highest concern. And he has a gorgeous ass. But he's a bit of a tease, a bit coy. He says things like, "If you're lucky, maybe I'll let you do this...," etc. I suppose a certain amount of negotiation is to be expected but it makes think what I've always thought about this equation - bisexual men just want to control everything. Any experience here?
When you watch old, old TV shows and Movies the phone are something like "Murray Hill XXXXXXX' or 'Lexington XXXXXXXXXXXX' 'Crestwood XXXXXXXXXXX'. What does this mean? Did you have to spell out Murray Hill on the phone? How did it work?
I’ve kissed other dudes in my life, so it’s not really a big deal. I have this conversation a lot because there is still a lot of homophobia in the world and in adult films, when you’re sharing a scene with another dude and a lady, sometimes certain things come up: gay this, gay that. The way I define gay or homosexuals is a sexual attraction to a member of the same sex. I fully believe that people can engage in any sort of activity. Like I hate basketball, but I’ve played basketball before and it doesn’t make me a professional basketball player. That [gay-sex] scene was a very important part of the movie, because it kind of represents the power switch. I think Bret was really worried I wouldn’t want to do it. It’s part of the script. It’s not like it’s real life. I’m not shooting a porno where I have to get physically erect and have sex with a dude. [...] When I was younger, I think I was like 15 or something, I would have a moment where I was like, I don’t know, maybe I like guys, maybe I like girls, what is life? I experimented and I never really… I’m not attracted to dudes. I kinda sometimes feel bad about that, I feel like I’m supposed to be because I hang out in San Francisco so much and people make me feel really bad for being a straight, white dude and I feel like I’m doing something wrong for being a straight white dude.” – Porn actor and Lindsay Lohan’s The Canyons co-star James Deen discussing gay sex at length with Gawker.
James Deen Has No Problem With Gay Sex, “Feels Bad” About Being Straight
I must hop on an Air India flight right this instant.
Why did nobody tell me Gillian Anderson is playing Blanche Dubois in London?
Joao Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto both are still alive, although they're not performing at all. The bossa nova recordings up to the ealry 1960s are so cool - they manage to be dated and fresh at the same time. At first you think you're hearing elevator music, because the farther it gets from samba it seems distilled, but then you hear the jazz in it - the complexity within the simple form. And then later bossa nova heats up - I guess nothing Brazilian can keep the temperature down for long. Any other listeners of Brazilian music?
Are the roles they played on Broadway that iconic that it would be impossible for another performer to pull off?
Figured I'd scrape the bottom of that barrel while we're in it. Extra points for anyone who mentions Pink Lady and Jeff or Manimal.
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Passengers kicked up a stink on a flight from Beijing to Detroit this week after a family allowed their toddler to defecate on his seat, according to reports. Travellers on board the Delta Airlines flight allegedly watched in horror as the young Chinese boy's parents laid down newspaper on his chair and encouraged him to relieve himself there and then. Despite pleas from passengers and crew to take him to the cabin toilet, the boy's grandfather and grandmother - who were also on the plane - insisted on letting the boy settle there, it was claimed. Passenger Luolan Gang Wang told Sina News that once the boy had finished his business, its smell began slowly to waft through the cabin sparking a wave of disgust among fellow travellers. Following the incident, Chinese social network Weibo came alive with commenters expressing their disgust, many of whom condemned the family for embarrassing their homeland. Delta Airlines did not immediately respond to MailOnline's request for comment. It is not clear exactly when the alleged incident happened but it is believed to have occurred some time around the middle of last week. It comes months after a disturbingly similar incident in which a child was photographed passing motion on a domestic flight in China in February.
You think crying babies on planes are bad? How about pooping babies?
Look how skinny he is!
Could you give up sugar? This man has been sugar free for over 500 days
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Attached is a history of the Speedo from an Australian point of view. This paragraph caught my eye:%0D\ %0D\ ''American men have an aversion to displaying their bodies in public,'' one German visitor blogged. ''Ever since gay men came out of the closet in the ''80s and showed us who they were, straight American men went into the closet to show us what they weren''t. Before the late ''80s men wore shorter shorts and swimwear was short and fitted. Men used to be so free and liberated then. Now they are scared.''%0D\ %0D\ Amen! Americans need to get over their body aversion. The full article attached.
Bryce Paup He was something else on the field. It was beautiful to watch his amazing body move in the tight football gear and the determination on his face. He could have Pauped me any time.
We know from other threads (and life) that some are. So post the gym(s) you regularly go to and whether or not they are sexual bombs. Include the city, and the branch as well as the name of the club. I will also include a poll in order to get a read on what this situation is nationwide.
With the exception of purse dogs and poodles, this seems to be true, and I always wondered why. \ \ Cats are quiet, stealthy, passive-aggressive, unpredictable, cold, fast, cruel, agile... \ \ Dogs are loud, in your face, loyal, warm/affectionate, aggressive, playful, fierce, strong, powerful... \ \ As Michelle Pfeiffer said, because men and women started out on unequal footing, women have had to adapt in a struggle to compensate for their physical weakness, relatively speaking, and they did so just as the cat has in relation to the dog.\ \ Likewise, we have also had to compensate in relation to straight men, who have always had the upper hand, thus, the reason we gravitate toward cats and the more feminine dog. \ \ Yes?\ \ I''m actually a big dog person but I''m more or less indistinguishable, but in general it''s gay men are cat or little dog men.
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Worked a late night shift and my only dining option tonight was a McDonald's in a sort of ghettoie part of San Francisco on a Friday night. The place was packed, with the usual mixture of SF people from every culture, ethnicity, and gender combo across the spectrum. But mostly students and working-class. At night, in public places, it gets very male. I observed the populace as I waited for my Big Mac. Two young dudes, who to me are clearly a pair of straight buds, probably housemates with their textbooks and shitty sports t-shirts, were waiting in line. "Number 45!". "Oh, that's YOU, sweetness!" And the dude grabbed the other dude's ass to scoot him up to pick up his order. They were having fun with each other, were into each other, and not trying to shock anyone or be hipster ironic. At least that's the vibe I got. They're probably stuck with each other as roomates with incredibly high rents. They have chosen to be mutually affectionate. My nephew and his housemate "brahs" always refer to each other as "my lover" "my handsome prince" or "my fine Sir". Next in line was an amazingly beautiful middle-eastern man with perfect complexion, bright green eyes, long eyelashes, and fussy facial hair. You could smell his sexy cologne from a mile away. He could have been wearing makeup. I wanted to fuck him hard right there on the floor and I'm a bottom. Heard from a group of black jocks: "Oh, shit. Now, I could go for THAT! Don't mean I be gay or shit but... serious!". Another jock: "he prettier than you, bitch...". These guys practically fought over who would bring this handsome Arab guy napkins, ketchup, and straws. My take on this scene -- and I see it again and again with young guys around town -- is that none of them has ever sucked cock, or wants to. But they are appalled at the stupidity of homophobia. And they're not afraid to be affectionate with each other because life is generally claustrophobic and difficult in this city. Being thought of as gay is the least of their worries. I've never lived anywhere else, but this is a big change, even for here.Would like to think that these attitudes are happening with younger people everywhere else.
It seems like we're moving in that direction (slowly), but women have a big head start. One big reason is that pretty much every straight porno movie has some girl-on-girl action. So I think it has mainstream acceptance. Yet any hint of male-male contact, even non-sexual, still seems taboo in straight porn, and is relegated to the bisexual specialty market. Will this ever change? If so, will it be gradual? Will there be a watershed moment?
Still no homo.
The website says: There's nothing quite like the sexy, silly, naked, stupid bromances of the "Pad". It's a bunch of mostly-straight, ab-tastically hot, college-age guys living in an enormous fake-Tuscan mansion in Arizona. I don't believe they're straight.
These guys really think they are straight?!
WWE superstar Darren Young just dropped a bombshell, telling TMZ, he's gay ... and no, this isn't part of the act. Darren was at LAX Wednesday when we asked whether a gay wrestler could succeed in WWE, and Darren laughed, saying, "Absolutely. Look at me. I'm a WWE superstar and to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I'm gay. And I'm happy. I'm very happy." For the record, Darren is now the first openly gay wrestler ever at WWE ... and the first headlining wrestler ever to come out while still signed to a major promotion. Other pro wrestlers have been rumored to be gay, but that's it ... just rumors. Bottom line: this is big, big news. For all its chauvinism and testosterone-driven bravado, coming out in WWE is tantamount to coming out in the NFL. Of course, wrestling is a little different, particularly because of how physical it is, and how little clothing is involved -- but Darren is completely unfazed.
[quote]"I know a lot of secrets about Andy, but I guess the one that would surprise people the most is that he’s a top... Believe me, there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’m just saying, I think that would surprise people -- I don’t know this from personal experience, but from conversations you and I have had."
Anderson Cooper says Andy Cohen is a top...bwahaha like he would anything about being a top
Joe Flacco turns me on. I can''t find any shirtless pics, but he has a great body and sexy face. %0D\ %0D\ Who''s your favorite?
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New WGN period drama about the Manhattan Project. Starring sexy daddy (and openly gay) John Benjamin Hickey and one of the finest unsung actresses alive, Olivia Williams. Did any of you see it?
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Is anyone here a fan of his brilliant (and homoerotic!) illustrations?
The other thread is full, and we need to provide emotional support to Brandon, Cameron and Abe the only studs left whose taints are untouched by dick or dildo (at least on film). Stay strong and whatever you do don't sign up with Men.com!
Alright try to be honest bitches. If a stranger met you taking into account your normal looks, voice and mannerisms how masculine or feminine do you come across? Curious how most posters see themselves. Gay or primarily gay men only of course
What list is Gale Harold on? Is Gale Harold on the A-list or Z-list? Why does Gale Harold not have a career? Why does Gale Harold not have fans? Why does Gale Harold not have talent? Why does Gale Harold grow old? Why does Gale Harold not look like George Clooney? Why? Why!? Why!!?
I took a cooking class and I thought the chef was a hottie. I saw him in his t shirt before he put on the white coat and felt lust in my heart. He did not really flirt back but seemed receptive with smiles etc. \ \ When he left the room for a minute one of other students who knew him told me that he was straight and very married. \ \ After the class I apologized and he said that one should never apologize for being complimentary and kind. I think he meant it. \ \ I wish everyone felt this way.
Theres the guy from SNL, a gerbil, the goth kid. Is this supposed to be funny or confusing. They're so fucking stupid.
I go to Adam4Adam all the time and see these profiles where the guy says he is a "jock". So does this mean he runs marathons all the time or he just wishes he was a jock? What activities qualify one as being a "jock"? Like does going to the gym 7 days a week for an hour qualify as being a jock even though half of that time you are in the steam room getting blown?
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I just heard "A Song for You" on the radio and it almost brought me to tears.\ \ What a loss.
According to someone who has posted here in the past few days, DL has an interest in a type called "AWG" (average white guy). Who are some examples of the AWG liked on DL. What makes them "average"? Who are the non-average white guys?
An improvement I think. If the boys who can't yet embrace a gay identity stop claiming to be bi, maybe you bitches can accept that some people are actually bi. And don't get me started on "pansexual." What a joke.
- When I realized Mexico wasn't part of the United States! (hey, I was Kevin!) - Realizing that vampire bats were real - in 10th grade I went to school with a piece of snickers melted on the back of my shorts and everyone I know from high school calls me Shitstain even my mom
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He's adopted, biracial, heavily tattooed, and the most exciting QB in the NFL. Oh, and he's sizzlin' hot. Plus, he has a pet turtle that weighs 119 pounds.
Their men''s exercise wears are so form-fitting, they border on gay fetish clothing.
And why?
This guy is so hot the camera is melting. \ \ Then the guy he wrestles is really hot too.\ \ But the finish to the wrestling match is bizarre. Who would have thought?
A singlet so tight you can see his...
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Out TV/Radio personality Clay Cane is hot with dreds...
Discuss.
How about you?
I'm one of the gays that also love watching straight pron because of the guys. Seeing the other thread about straight pron stars, I thought I'd start one with the link to who is considered the hottest by this particular website. I would add James Dean and Seth Gamble to the list. Some of the ones listed have also done gay pron . . . for instance the ever-hot Wolf Hudson. Pics from the thread are not naked but may not be safe for work either. Enjoy!
Continuing a great thread with fabulous pecs.
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Did you ever have a crush on an athlete when you were growing up? For me, it was Joe Namath. Those pantyhose commercials really did something for me!
Why do people enjoy marijuana? I tried it in college a few times, and it made me HORRIBLY paranoid and nauseated. My heart would beat rapidly and I felt like I was dying. NOT PLEASANT. Does it just depend on the type of weed? Or the person? Are some people wired not to react well to it? I don't get the appeal.
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Un oh, someone in the DR slipped and told Frankie that Elaine Stritch has died. Cue the emotional fireworks!
Jesus, I had no idea the man was so short!!! He''s a fucking midget! And his head is as big as half of his body. WTF?%0D\ %0D\ I used to think he was sort of hot. %0D\ %0D\ Not any more.
Freddie Prinze Jr. says he almost quit acting, thanks in part to Kiefer Sutherland. In an interview with ABC News, the former teen heartthrob said, "I did 24[and] it was terrible. I hated every moment of it. Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face. I think everyone that's worked with him has said that." The biggest celebrity feuds The two worked together during Prinze's season-long arc on the Fox drama in 2010. "I just wanted to quit the business after that. So, I just sort of stopped,"
There are different names for this but basically it's very intense itching of the scrotum, often in the middle of the night. My dermatologist told me that there's no known treatment. Has anyone else had it? Been able to overcome it? Snarky comments welcome.
What level are you on? Let's visit each other's towns and whack each other's snakes.
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What was he like? I was 11 when he died, so I don't really have any recollections of him. I recently read that Ann Coulter was one of the writers for his magazine George, which piqued my interest. Was he smart? Wikipedia says he failed the bar exam twice. Didn't he date Sarah Jessica Parker?
The below example was posted in that thread about Sean Cody's Brandon begging for money. Apparently the Internet has now become a tool for the desperate. What losers! Isn't this just the internet version of the homeless bugging for food and spare change? Only this seems to be mostly white dudes. Do you think this will become a trend? It certainly doesn't seem to work looking at this poor fool! If they're family and friends don't care enough to help them, why should strangers on the internet be expected to give a shit.
It's a storm of epic proportions here in the Northeast. Sheets of rain, thunder, lightening. Very alarming.
He may not be conventionally hot but there's something attractive and sexy about him
Told you I was hard core.
Why is 60% of your time in New York City spent navigating around assholes? Why are there so many unhappy people here who try to make you unhappy too?
Robert Pattison has recently claimed he''s allergic to vagina, but can anyone remember back in 2005/2006 when this hot stud (JARED LETO) said he was "as Gay as a Goose"?? \ I''m surprised no one picked up on that and everyone on DL still thinks he''s straight?? Are we blind or what?
Fabulous show! Just saw them in Los Angeles. Adam Lambert is perfect as a stand-in for Freddie Mercury. He twirled, strutted and preened like Cher imitating Liza Minnelli. He worked the runway like Naomi Campbell circa 1995. And he sang/screamed the sh*t out of those songs. Queen performed all of their best-known songs. There were even very nice Freddie Mercury visuals throughout the show, including Adam and Freddie duetting part of "Bohemian Rhapsody." Crowd was 60% for Queen and 40% for Adam and everyone left happy. It was the absolute opposite of the train wreck that you vicious DL b*tches predicted.
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I think many of you are going to deny it but it is true, straight women and gay men are very much alike because we are all attracted to men. And as such we are basically defined by our preferences. An example of this is that the majority of anorexics and bulimics are female with a small minority of males. The men who are anorexics or bulimics are predominantly gay or bisexual men. And the reason for this is because there is an aspiration to look nice among homosexual and bisexual men, a sentiment that is not present or exists to a lesser degree among heterosexual men. And the reason being for homosexual men, their object of affection are men who are by nature lookist(There's research to back this up, by the way) You see, we are all defined by our likes (men), since we are so much alike, why do you look down on us and hate us so much? I mean we are more likely to know how you feel.
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I've struggled with this all my life. Years of psychiatry, medication, support groups and books haven't done much. Does anyone have examples of things they have done that successfully boosted their sense of self-worth to share? Or, from a different perspective, behaviour you have observed in others struggling with this - that they just don't recognize makes it worse for them?
In what fucking world is this considered a good show? It is HORRIBLE!
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Hello loungers It's going to be my first time crossing the pond, as NYC-based friends of mine have persuaded me to spend 9 days in their city in the first half of September. Now, I have been searching high and low to find accomodation that doesn't look like shit straight from the '80s while still having to fork up $250 per night - without much luck, so far. When visiting a city, one does not want to be too far removed from the center (Manhattan, Brooklyn). Some areas are apparently a no-go or straight up ghetto (this coming from my friends who are born and raised in the city). My question: could anyone recommend me something? Booking.com and airbnb have little to nothing to offer. I don't mind paying $150 per night, but $250 is ridiculous.. Thanks in advance!
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I'm sweating and hyperventilating at Rupert Graves' beauty. He has some super intense eyes. My God, I don't know why I hadn't watched this earlier.
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When it came to shows about four women living together...
Still want to see Ryan Carnes and Ryan Paevey cover each other in baby oil and play Human Slip and Slide.
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This will give her a chance to show her dramatic acting chops, rather than just belting out a tune.
The EAR ONS case in Northern California/Sacramento fascinates me and frightens me. Never caught and not much public attention despite his horrifying MO. Polly Klaas still gives me shivers. So, too, does the case of Cary Stayner (Yosemite) and his brother.
See below and linked. Perhaps he just has an obsessive and unhinged overreaction to something that may be quite natural? Researchers from the universities of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK have found that the color of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have found that diet may be crucial to achieving the most desirable complexion. Using specialist computer software, a total of 54 Caucasian participants of both sexes were asked to manipulate the skin color of male and female Caucasian faces to make them look as healthy as possible. They chose to increase the rosiness, yellowness and brightness of the skin. "Most previous work on faces has focused on the shape of the face or the texture of the skin, but one of the most variable characteristics of the face is skin color," said Dr. Ian Stephen who is now at the University of Bristol. Melanin, the pigment that causes the tan color when skin is exposed to the sun makes the skin darker and more yellow, but participants in the study chose to make skin lighter and more yellow to make it look healthier. "What we eat and not just how much we eat appears to be important for a healthy appearance. The only natural way in which we can make our skin lighter and more yellow is to eat a more healthy diet high in fruit and vegetables.
Is there a scientific basis for the Yellow Skin Troll's fetish?
Vote for one then discuss below.
Hmmmm. What do we think of this?
[bold]Even Emma Stone and Colin Firth can't rescue a feeble, icky 1920s rom-com apparently written by an alien [/bold] Can we all stop making excuses for Woody Allen now? I’m not talking about the twists and turns of his personal life, or the allegations that he abused his daughter decades ago. I don’t know what happened between Allen and Dylan Farrow and neither do you, and we’ve all spent too much time discussing it. I’m talking about Allen’s increasingly bizarre and disconnected films of the last 15 years or so, which appear to have been made by a visitor from another planet who has heard human beings described (to use an old gag) but never actually encountered any.
“Magic in the Moonlight”: It’s time to stop making excuses for Woody Allen
Planning a trip for a few days. Any recommendations? Any "cheap" dates I can acquire?
Provide names and receipts of why. 1. Aaron Rodgers..... google Kevin Lanflisi (his lover/personal assistant/roommate). 2. Sean Avery ...... pics of him and Andy Cohen on '1 year anniversary' get-a-away sharing a towel shirtless. 3. Colton Haynes.... pics of him kissing his ex-boyfriend Jerreth. 4. Taylor Lautner.... click on the link below 5. Harry Styles .... google Larry Stylinson
Let's Drop Names On Hot Celebs We KNOW Are Gay Yet Still In The Closet!
NO, this is not a hate racist question. I just want to know why they ALL pick and choose black men. It's rather odd, don't you think? Is there some sort of racial undertone going on with them?
anyone seen this play? What do you think of TM's stance?
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Madonna darling, your timing was a little off. She has long been hailed the queen of media manipulation, but Madonna, along with so many other celebrities over the past few days, has made what can only be described as an epic fail. Two days after the world was violently jolted by the Malaysia Airlines disaster, Madonna and her brood of children, a party numbering six in total, boarded a flight from New York to London. According to reports, the pop star sat herself in first class while her entourage slummed it down in business class, which for anyone who has bravely tried to cross the curtain will know, are heavily guarded and very separate territories aboard any aircraft. According to reports in Britain's The Sun, another passenger told the paper: "Madonna took everyone by surprise when she waltzed down the aisle to talk to her kids during the safety demonstration. “Everyone was sat down just before take-off listening to the emergency exits information. Members of the cabin crew immediately told her she needed to go back and sit down but she wouldn’t listen. “Instead, she ventured further back into business class to visit her kids who were sitting there. “The other passengers seemed amused at what was going on because she was just ignoring everyone’s pleas and did what she wanted. “The air hostesses were getting quite annoyed with her but Madonna didn’t seem to notice them and just carried on chatting until the plane was about to take off.” Madonna is a woman who is meant to know all about how important timing is, so it beggars belief that she would behave in such a manner given how anxious air travellers have been since the brutal destruction of a passenger jet over the Ukraine, Madonna darling, even you are not THAT important. But Madonna has not been alone. PS was chided by Geoffrey Edelsten's bride-to-be Gabi Grecko after suggesting she refrain from her relentless self promotion on Twitter, complete with bikini photos and banal commentary. Grecko was busily uploading just hours after news of the MH17 disaster was filling the Twittersphere. But compared to Madonna, Grecko is a newbie to the fame game - unlike Elle Macpherson. The Body - or at least one of her many minions - was busy uploading shots of herself downing her "Elixir" supplements on social media just as the MH17 carnage was filling people's timelines. While unintentional, it certainly left a sour taste in PS's mouth. The lesson in all of this: every now and then the real world will come crashing into the world of celebrity and the best thing stars can do is sit back, take stock and remember they may well be living in a bubble, but it's a bubble that is easily burst.
He hawks his wares in LasVegas. which of you have "patronized" his fare?
As the OP I DIDN'T WRITE THIS. I'm just copying and pasting this response from another thread. I thought it would be an interesting topic for the different generations on DL to discuss. The writer wrote 'I can guarantee that no gay who worships Cher, Barbra, Liza, Judy, Bette, etc. is under 60 years of age. Those women were all popular when Christ was in Pampers. Most of the gays I know who are under 50 like rock, classic rock, indie rock, alternative, industrial, etc. I know no gays under 60 who worship those women. I am 32 and I like all types of ROCK MUSIC, not that overblown, overproduced squawking by those ancient, plastic-surgeried, has-been divas. Fuck them all up the ass!' So Dlers fire back!
I don't mean on air--I mean within the next 5 years or so.
I have just watched the 1984 versison of STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE with Ann-Margret and Treat Williams, which I imagined would be Tennessee-lite, but was very involving and emotional, with great art-direction and that late 1940s look. Is it a quality production of the play, is Ann a creditable Blanche? I have liked Ann in several items lately (like The Two Mrs Grenvilles) and her 1966 The Pleasure Seekers, and she seems to be ticking all the boxes here, even if too shrill at the start but by the second half she is terrific. No one could ever be as good as Vivien Leigh but Ann has a creditable stab, with all those lines we know: about the Tarntula Arms, and "I dont want realism, I want magic", "deliberate cruelty is unforgiveable" and of course "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" for that great climax. Beverely D'Angelo is good too as Stella. Stanley though is Treat Williams who seems to have bulked up and looks sexy enough. He plays him as an infantile brute. Treat was fun in The Ritz and in Hair, but Brando he ain't. Looking at it again it seems a very cruel work, as Blanche is stripped of everything and Kowalski gets away with raping her, as she is carried off to the looneybin. I noticed it is based on Tennessee's play, so may not be the full actual text, but its well directed by John Erman, with Travilla dressing Ann, Sydney Guilaroff doing her hair, and Marvin Hamlish doing that good score. I'd love to have seen Dunaway and Voight, or Lange and Baldwin. Any other famous Blanches? The only one I saw on the stage was Claire Bloom's in London in 1974.
Shocking that he doesn't believe in labels. Especially with him being such a role model to the LGBTQ community. To now turn around and say he doesn't want to be defined. And doesn't believe in labels. See inside this thread for more of what he has to say about labels.
Does Tony Dungy have love in his heart for Aaron?
What is it about them that is so hot? Anybody else like them?
My first viewing!!! Do I get a gay card!!! Watch with me!!! Steve Guttenberg is roller skating thru Times Square!!! He has nice arms!!!
What a beautiful mess. Let's get this out of the way: The movie is classic Luc Besson... but it's also extra ridiculous and absurd. It aspires to be so much more than it is, and utterly fails... but it's a compelling failure. It's fun... but perhaps not as much fun as it should have been. The worst part is the ending... it leaves you sorta going ".... huh." But so much interesting visual beauty, and amazingly choreographed action happens before that. Completely silly and unrealistic, you can't even ding it for that... it clearly knows it. Not much of it makes much sense, but it sort of doesn't matter. I think the best way to see this movie is to be completely stoned. Anyone else see it?
The hot detectives of the 80s battle it out...
I believe it's "Camelot" (1967), with its horrible twee, artificial, earth-toned fakitude overwhelming every scene. Got anything worse, bitches?
And shows everyone why people here…. say what they do about her. RIP? You decide. Cancer doesn't excuse everything.
He sure was pretty when he was young.
Since you're hogging the Taxi vs. WKRP thread, which of NBC's Thursday night 1980s families was your favorite?
Can anyone identify this photo? I found it online but it had no accompanying information. It looks like it MIGHT be in Philadelphia, south on Broad Street, facing City Hall in the background.
Creepy!
Dear Feminists (this includes libfems, radfems, terfs, fun feminists, the whole fractured lot out there…) This may come as a surprise to many feminists out there but I have to remind them that gay men are men (or males). But from reading everything written by them it obviously appears that they don’t know this. Feminists can bash straight men all they want. I don’t care either way. I’m not a pro-men, MRA type and I don’t or rarely see eye to eye with them. I can’t relate to straight men. They’re not part of my life and I honestly don’t find them interesting in any way, shape or form. So this is where this text is coming from. As I read as these feminists rants and tumblr posts everywhere, feminists only see one type of men: men. In their eyes, men are one big monolithic entity with no complex variety to it. They can never make the distinction between the gay men (or even bi men) and heterosexual men. ‘For women, all men are potential rapists.’ No, gay men don’t rape women. It should therefore read as ‘For women, all heterosexual men are potential rapists.” By not making the distinction between straight men and gay/bi men or gender fluid men, feminists repeatedly erase the existence of gay men since they don’t rape women or are for the most part not part of their problem. This is NOT an oversight. Feminists, seething with anger, apparently see all men alike. Or they don’t see gay men, like society, as masculine or even men. They see them as effeminate, quasi-women. There are enough gay men out there for them to realize that we do exist but apparently it’s not the case. I’m sure everyone will say something like “Of course, gay men don’t rape women. When we say ‘men’ we mean straight men in general.” But gay men are men, in general. This lack of distinction just doesn’t wash anymore, certainly in our pc world right now where everyone is so touchy with labels. It seems gay men don’t count or they fall into a terrible blind-spot feminists don’t care to notice is clearly there. The problem is widespread and there’s an endless number of examples on Tumblr and on the internet but I’ll choose just a few examples to demonstrate my point: “I’m so angry that the sex-pos movement is encouraging women - who already experience internalised misogyny and learned submission - to celebrate sexualised inequality and to embrace their internalisation of female sexual masochism as “empowerment.” It’s so manipulative and scary and disgusting. And men are fucking loving it.” It should actually read : “And **straight** men are fucking loving it.” — “what better proof of patriarchys existence is there than women that claim to be “empowered” by giving men boners.” should read as: “what better proof of patriarchys existence is there than women that claim to be “empowered” by giving **straight** men boners.” —— Instead of using only ‘men’ you can use: straight men str8 men strhate men heterosexual men het men whatever… but don’t just use ‘men’ ‘kay? So, in closing, feminists you can bash straight men with all your heart’s content, I don’t care, but please don’t lump gay men, heck even bi and gender fluid men, into the same simplistic monolithic all-encompassing ‘men’ category in your writings. Please make sure there’s a distinction: i.e. gay men don’t rape women! It makes you all appear clueless, inline with patriarchy’s definition of masculinity, insensitive to the existence of gay men, who, in the end, are men too.
From the New York Post: Anderson Cooper and his partner, Benjamin Maisani, will be relaxing in historic splendor in Connecticut’s affluent Litchfield County this summer. Multiple sources tell us the CNN anchor has splashed out on a massive, 10,127-square-foot Tudor revival stone mansion, called Rye House, for the mid-to-high seven figures. The tony estate — sold by Karen Shaw, a former Miss Connecticut who starred on “Dallas” and “The A Team,” and her husband, Marc — was built in 1908 and designed by Wilson Eyre, a founder of House & Garden magazine. The home includes an Olympic-sized swimming pool and tennis court, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Its 18 rooms feature original chestnut wood paneling, limestone fireplaces and a hand-carved marble staircase. There’s also a private four-bedroom guest wing. The 280-acre grounds boast Japanese pagoda trees, wisteria, magnolias, a walkway with stone pillars and a grape arbor. The Shaws, who bought the house 15 years ago and lovingly restored it, have been renting it out for $1,800 per night, sources said. Depending on which local you ask, Cooper bought the property in leafy Litchfield for anywhere between $5 million and $9 million. The anchor will be in good company: The Litchfield area has been home to Meryl Streep, “The Normal Heart” playwright Larry Kramer, Henry Kissinger, NBC Sports vet Dick Ebersol and Susan Saint James, and HBO documentary doyenne Sheila Nevins. Anderson and Maisani already own another unusual property, an 8,240-square-foot Greenwich Village firehouse they bought in 2010 for $4.3 million. In April, Cooper also listed one of two waterfront properties in Quogue for $2.99 million. In November, Cooper, who makes around $11 million a year at CNN, signed a contract extension through the 2016 presidential election. Despite being the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, Cooper recently told Howard Stern, “My mom’s made clear to me that there’s no trust fund.” Reps for Cooper did not return calls. Pics of the huge home at link.
Anderson Cooper and bf Benjamin Maisani buy GIGANTIC multi-million dollar mansion in CT.
My current butt is not big or round enough.
As requested:
What exactly is it? I know eldergays pay for this service, but what does it entail?
I am watching Suzanne Pleshette in " Rome Adventure". She is so bad in this movie. And I don't remember ever watching her in a movie I liked her in -even "The Birds" which is probably her best film role. Certainly her most famous. But she was so watchable in " The Bob Newhart Show" . She has great chemistry with Bob Newhart. And she is beautiful. Didn't she date Johnny Carson or was that Angie( I slept with JFK )Dickinson? P.s. Can't stand Troy Donahue although he perfect in Godfather, Part 2. And he isn't really as handsome other people. He just looks like a frat boy in the mold of Greg Marmalard.
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She's sort of grandiose. Why'd she lose custody of her kid?
Dish the dirt!
Well gurl, this eventful season is about to end in read off! Will Peter, the newest housewife, finally check the Moose? Will Apollo be able to get enough brain cells working to not slip up and admit he is a sinister white collar criminal? Will we discover that Phaedra has a top row of the teeth? Is Mama Joyce going to drag someone else before this all over? YASSSSSSS!
Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6 Part 4!!!
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...just repeating of headlines. Don't they realize they're destroying what's left of their brand?
So hot with that bulk on him. He was showing no bulge whatsoever, but he was practically ripping out of that shirt.
Did she and Bernadette Peters have the same hairdresser during this period?
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner Rita Moreno has to have Pizza Hut in the car
So you have a hairy chest, hairy back and hairy butt. Why are you shaving it all off for the smooth look. Us smooth guys who would LOVE to have chest hair want to know why you are spending time, pain and money for this smooth look. Why?
My God, have you seen Bradley Cooper's latest look - 40lbs heavier and looking pretty damn hot. The Oscar nominated Actor can look good in ANYTHING, at any weight and still look absolutely gorgeous!!
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Child molester on the lam is apprehended; goes down with gun a-blazing.
Per a request on the Oscar Pistorius thread. Apparently, this guy is also the East Area rapist in Sacramento. I grew up there when he was active in the city and the place was gripped, terrorized. Police helicopters buzzed the city almost nightly for what seemed like months and months. He was incredibly bold, breaking into homes with a male present, tying him up, and making him watch the rapes. Around this time ('76 - '79), I started seeing a lot of homes with wrought iron bars on the windows. My own parents had them installed. I moved out of state for many years and had no idea he was linked to the Night Stalker through DNA. Chilling.
The Golden State Killer -- New information released to the public
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Do we all agree that Mira Sorvino is woefully miscast in this film?
When did they meet? Did Halls already have the kids? Did Bomer have much of a career at the time they got together?
Piper Perabo stars in the new tv series for the USA network called "Covert Affiars." She plays Annie Walker on the show. Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Peter Gallagher also star in the show.%0D\ %0D\ The show seems to be very popular right now because it''s getting great reviews. Let''s talk about the show on here.%0D\ %0D\ Any gossip information? Behind the scenes stuff, etc.
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Sorry, I just needed to vent.
She's got her claws out for a lot of the contestants. They better look out.
Gross.
First photo of that Israeli chick as Wonder Woman in the new Batman-Superman film
I frankly don't really remember girls being nasty in high school. (graduated 1994) The boys were always the bullies. BUT I've been volunteering at a teen summer program and yikes!!! Those girls are cruel to each other.
Is he gay?
I just finished the book "Thing of Beauty" (which I recommend) It's a great look at a different era. It was sad how many people in her life insisted that she couldn't be gay b/c she was so pretty. It also sounded like her narcissistic mom really did a number on her and made her a raging borderline. It sounded like there was some growth. Did any of you know any of these characters? I'm particularly fascinated by Way Bandy and some of the photographers. Also, the book didn't say it, but I get the distinct impression that Patti Hansen was the one who introduced her to heroin.
Sick. Not surprised though.
This bitch has blown up the pop charts with her trap anthem "Fancy" and her collaboration with Ariana Grande. What do the queens at DL think of her? She's Australian but she raps like she's from South Atlanta.
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A friend of mine just got back from the Lake Como region, where she said her Italian friends all swear up and down that not only does everyone in the area know that George Clooney is gay (despite the engagement), but that he's had an affair for years with some sort of male psychiatrist or psychologist who practices in Florence. Have any of you heard about this before?
According to Popnography, Robert Downey Jr. tells Rolling Stone magazine that his rumored bisexuality was something he manufactured: "A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual. That's OK. Being relaxed about sexuality is something you're born with...[My bisexuality] was manufactured. I didn't have an identity. I was playing around. I expressed it. I grew up in the Rocky Horror Picture Show world, where even my butch friends turned out to be androgynous on Saturday nights."
When I lived there (1978) it was still illegal to sell alcohol to a homosexual.
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What sayeth the Datalounge?
Simon Halls's Bag of Oranges
I mean you come home, and greet your cat, and he's like, "Shut up, homo." I think cats would be really verbally abusive if they could talk.
What the hell happened?
It's kind of a shame that there's no gay exploitation film subgenre - so here's one I've made up. (Since imaginary films are less bound by budget concerns than real ones, it has quite a name cast). 3 lowlife criminals (Jamie Bell, Daniel Radcliffe and Jack O'Connell) kidnapp a business tycoon's son (Logan Lerman, though I also like one of the Sprouse twins as a casting alternative) in order to extract money. Bell is the cold sociopathic leader, O'Connell the boisterous hot-headed thug, and Radcliffe, while still quite ruthless, is the most "normal" of the gang, and more of a follower. They hold him captive in a hideaway house, always wearing bandanas. The way they treat him is marked by class resentment. In addition, O'Connell calls him "pretty boy", saying things like "He reminds me of that kid who was put in our cell, remember? We had a lot of fun with him", then asking him "Would you like to know what we did to him?". Bell tells him not to touch him, though. But when Bell and Radcliffe leave O'Connell alone with him the next day, they return to find Lerman bent over a table, crying, with his pants down at his feet, as O'Connell, with his back to them, is doing up his belt and cheerfully saying "You were awesome, baby - my dick's in pieces". Bell gets angry with him at first, but then, to Lerman's horror, decides that now that he's been "defiled" already, there's not much harm in him and Radcliffe having a turn too. So they rape him as well. They position themselves on both sides of him, and Bell makes him suck his cock as Radcliffe fucks him in the ass; then finally fucks him too. From now on Lerman is regularly raped, both anally and orally, by all 3 (seen in a montage sequence of facial closeups, with some shots of grimy hands on clean ones, or grabbing shoulders or hair, thrown in). One day as Radcliffe is fucking him from the front, Lerman reaches up and tears the bandana from his face, then French-kisses him (making him cum on the spot). He tells the baffled Radcliffe that he's come to enjoy the sex with him - much as he hates it with the other two - and has even fallen for him. He goes on to say that he hates his father, who plans to disinherit him, and that he wants Radcliffe to kill his partners once they have the ransom, then set off with him. Once he's processed it all Radcliffe agrees to it. The next day, when they're having sex again, Radcliffe is being tender and gentle with him, but Lerman tells him that he wants it rough like before - so Radcliffe slaps him and gives it to him hard, leading them both to noisy orgasms. Afterwards, Lerman tells him that he doesn't want to have sex with the other 2 again, and begs him to protect him from them. But Radcliffe explains he can't do that, as it would raise too much suspicion. When he leaves the room, Bell is already waiting outside, entering as he leaves. The door closes behind Bell saying "Hands and knees, bitch." Finally the ransom money is dropped. The transfer works to plan, and the 3 take it back to the hideaway. On arrival, O'Connell says he wants to have some more fun with Lerman while he has the chance (it's unclear if they're planning to release or kill him). When he's gone, Bell calmly tells Radcliffe that he's been planning to get rid of O'Connell for a while, and now would be a good opportunity. Radcliffe takes up the suggestion - but not before shooting Bell himself first. Then he enters the room where O'Connell is doing Lerman from behind, both kneeling on the floor. When O'Connell sees him he says that he can use the boy's mouth. Radcliffe steps up in front of Lerman. When O'Connell, his voice already strained, says "Open your mouth, you whore", Radcliffe shoots him in the head. Afterward Lerman, still on his knees, starts caressing, then fellating, Radcliffe's gun. Finally he opens his fly and gives him a blowjob. Radcliffe is nearing orgasm (closeup on his face), and just as he says "I'm gonna cu..", Lerman blows his brains out from below with his own gun. Then he takes off with the money, leaving the 3 corpses of his kidnappers behind.
This is the best dog name ever! Go little pooper go!
ALERT: Don't look if you're very hungry!
Has anyone had any dealing with Meg Ryan? Despite her perky, girl next door persona she seems much more complicated than that. Anyone dealt with her, or know of someone who has?
WTF? Maggie Gallagher just admitted she doesn’t think of herself as a heterosexual. In a rambling new blog post, littered with very poor syntax and excessive verbiage, the NOM co-founder writes: Here’s my view: When Christians tell me that homosexuality is “socially constructed” and therefore not a “real” permanent feature of human existence, I generally respond “I know gay people exist the same way that I know that Methodists exist. I’ve met them.” In other words, not all categories that are real are founded on fixed unchangeable essences. Sexual orientation as a concept is a way of organizing “given reality” (sexual attraction) into a communal identity, the strongest kind. It is therefore not at all like race, and but rather more akin to religion. Such deep and profound wisdom. The sage continues: I never ever think of myself as a heterosexual, nonetheless my own ideas about my experience of sexuality (“we are born male and female and called to come together in love in this thing called marriage”) are core enough to my identity and my sense of what is required for communal good that I am willing to suffer rather than renounce them, if necessary. They are not positions I hold, they are part of who I am. Hold up! Did Maggie Gallagher, crusader for homophobia, just admit to possibly being a lesbian? No. Not at all. She just doesn’t label herself as a heterosexual. But she still is one, by definition, and she’s willing to make a martyr of herself over it “if necessary.” Now we can’t help but wonder… If she believes this strongly about her own heterosexuality, does she think it’s possible for gays and lesbians to feel similarly about their homosexuality? “I do not have strong feelings” she writes towards the end of her blog post. Which begs the question: Why the hell did she feel the need to write this nonsense?
The Veep is fucking Chris Meloni! And the Finnish prime minster, the funniest character ever on the show, is back!
I'm surprised it hasn't popped up on DL yet (at least I don't think it has) Somewhat SFW. I'm very bad at telling if pics have been shopped. It looks like it was taken for Instagram. If not, it deserves a caption contest.
I've been watching the "Father Knows Best" marathon today on Antenna TV (aka the mesothelioma channel). I'd never seen the show before. That Billy Gray who played the son Bud sure was hot. He even looked like trade, dressed in tight t-shirts and jeans. Was he considered hot back in the day? And WHET Billy Gray, anyway?
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Ok, DL rip him apart....
Wacky, quirky, highly entertaining film. Tilda Swinton will get a Best Supporting Actress nomination. Chris Evans should have done a love scene with Ed Harris.
Classic.
To show support during this time of racial strife!!!
I got dragged to this by my same friend who dragged me to see Pacific Rim, so I wasn't very excited. My excitement did increase a bit when I noticed Sally Hawkins and Aaron Taylor-Johnson were in it, though. I loved it. The film is beautiful and they used Godzilla perfectly. I didn't HATE Pacific Rim but it felt like a video game to me. This movie is a true emotional experience. There was some awkward dialogue (which rely I guess is unavoidable in a movie about giant monsters) but the acting was superb. Contrary to what the trailers show us, Taylor-Johnson is the lead, not Cranston. They both deliver though, and Cranston is used very wisely. Godzilla looks great if not a little chubby. The CGI is flawless. I'm not sure what prompted the makers of this to actually give a shit about making a good movie out of what probably should have been a dumb popcorn flick, but I'm thankful! Still not gonna let my friend drag me to see Transformers, though.
Is he the new Cody Cummings ?
Who's Who in AHS: Freak Show The cast is revealed Photo: Getty At Comic-Con, Ryan Murphy finally gave fans something to salivate on — no not a teaser but a cast of characters, revealing just who Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and everyone else is portraying on the fourth season of American Horror Story. Jessica Lange is Elsa Mars Emma Roberts is Maggie Sarah Paulson is the dual role of Siamese twins Bette and Dot (a vision to behold) Michael Chiklis is Evan del Toreado Kathy Bates is Ethel Darling Angela Bassett is del Toreado's ex-wife Desiree Dupre Evan Peters is del Toreado’s son Jimmy Darling As for the show's villain, that role will be played by John Carroll Lynch. The actor previously portrayed suspected serial killer, Arthur Leigh Allen, in David Fincher's Zodiac and was last seen on FX's The Americans. If an unofficial leaked call sheet is to be believed, Lynch's character is a "twisted clown." That same call sheet also revealed a few other parts, including Grace Gummer as Penny the Candy Striper, Ann McKenzie as Eudora Tattler, and the return of two AHS alums, Ben Woolf and Naomi Grossman as Pepper. (The Huffington Post believes that given Asylum's timeline, Freak Show could reveal Pepper's origin story and connect the two seasons.) As for other casting news, we know that Wes Bentley is Bates' tormentor, Dennis O'Hare is going to play a "collector of freaks," and AHS alums Jamie Brewer, Frances Conroy, Gabourey Sidibe are set to return in unspecified roles. Also joining the series this year is Finn Wittrock, who had a small part in Murphy's adaptation of The Normal Heart. There was no mention of Neil Patrick Harris, who recently professed his desire to be on the show. But we can't really believe he would join the series?
Ryan Murphy reveals cast and major characters for American Horror Story: FreakShow
... and it's not even July! Months and months of heat and glaring sunlight to go, and drought and smoke and probably water rationing. Fuck it, I should be able to spend at least four months of the year in the mountains, or at the seaside.
You can listen to the segment at the NPR link below. Neda Ulaby did a report on gay representation in the media. At the end she said 4.4% of all TV characters are gay, while only 3.3% of the population is gay. Her source for the 3.3% figure? The Republican Gallup organization. Does anybody honestly believe that onlt 3.3% of us are gay???
I love them, hot and slutty!
I have gotten many comments from friends and acquaintances saying that my refusal to date bi men is a sign of bigotry, and that I am subjecting them to the same unjustified prejudice that the rest of society heaps on gay people (especially gay men). However, while I acknowledge that bisexuality exists, I simply lose all interest in a guy who is bisexual, or is a MSM and self-identifies as "straight". It's sort of like when you meet someone who spouses radical right wing ideas or has OCD in a bad way. It's just not attractive. Does that mean that I hate bisexual men? Well, no. I just don't want to have anything to do with them, especially in a romantic sense. Have I slept with bisexual guys? Of course, but I never took it seriously and it was a matter of "let's get down to it and then, I'm out of the door". I have never spoken badly of bisexual men, but I have also never, ever heard anything positive about them. I have an ex who is bi, but whenever I think of him with contempt, it isn't because he was bisexual, but because he is the human equivalent of rotting shit. Still, I must admit that coming to know that he was bisexual when our relationship was already on the rocks, didn't help matters. So, is not wanting to date bi men a sign of intolerance and bigotry in gay men? I don't think so. Do you?
Summary of last thread and this new thread (I can see the future): He's hot. He's yummy. Anything new on him? Is he still doing porn? Where is he from? He's not really from there? What's his real name? That accent sounds....? He's really from New York.
As a top!
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Same show, but different.
You with your pageboy, your opera glasses, your velvet cloak, your lorgnette, your high-button shoes, your pearls -- it's so five minutes ago, I don't even know how your wife puts up with it.
I love that look! Both to observe and to participate in....in fact whenever I am naked without socks, I feel a little naked.
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$40k for 9 scenes - around $10k a scene. And if you''re thinking of doing porn and no-one will ever find out, read on...\ \ He''s gay, but says a lot of guys on Sean Cody are straight because the money is so much better than straight porn.
For all the theater loving queens on DL, I never see much mentioned about Eileen Heckart. Always loved her when I saw her on TV or in a film.
I have a coworker, who's Indian, who told me he's getting married next year. Its an arranged marriage and he never met he girl. I dont mean to sound intolerant or anything but this practice seems a little old and sexist. How and why does this practice still keep going?
The troubled actress is trying to sell her idyllic Connecticut country estate- for very little profit. **WARNING** You will have to arrow thru the pages
...why they hate us?
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nothing more than a fantasy of bottoms. Most guys dont like or aren't interested, right?
WHen it comes to baby boomers, they are like a second-rate college obsessed with the larger state university that they envision as their rival, while the large state school sees a large neighboring school as its focus and the smaller neighbor like a sad little cousin.
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Finally Scarlett Johanssen is an actual STAR ! Of course, she can't act for shit.
My bf and I are about to hit our first anniversary. He's starting to "accidentally" call me his husband and talk about the very long-term. He places me on a pedestal, and treats me so much better than my previous guy. I love him and care about him very much, but this seems not at all in line with what I'm feeling. There's not a way out of this that doesn't break his heart, is there?
Two dramas taking place in the American Past...
One of my friends is a committed vegan, and has been for years. She discovered this summer she's got a lump on her thyroid--the biopsy came back inconcclusive, but her doctors have told her its likely that given her excess soy consumption that the lump is related to that. Even if the lump is not cancerous, she is likely going to have to have half or more of her thyroid removed. Is this link between excess soy consumption and subsequent thyroid problems well known? I had not heard of this before (I'm a meat eater).
Peaches set the music industry on its ears when it started out. The Peaches stores began opening in 1976 and at their peak there were approx 35 branches. \ \ Part of the Peaches tradition was to have large concrete squares along the sidewalks surrounding their stores. Musicians would be asked to sign and put their handprints into the squares like Mann''s Chinese Theater.\ \ They sold crates for albums that looked like old peach crates with the Peaches logo on the end labels.They also did brisk business in Peaches logo t-shirts. \ \ Peaches went belly up in 1985. Their downfall is they gambled and thought that consumers would not buy a thing called a Compact Disc.
Flashback-Peaches Records and Tapes-Were you a customer there?
They celebrate Christmas? WTF? And KFC is apparently a much sought after delicacy for Christmas parties. Is there a weirder country on Earth?%0D %0D "KFC for that special Christmas meal, anyone? In Japan, the answer is a resounding yes.%0D %0D So popular is Kentucky Fried Chicken over the festive season that the fast-food chain%E2%80%99s Christmas Party Barrels can be ordered up to two months in advance in Japan. %0D %0D %E2%80%9CI entered the company in around 1980 and at the time it was pretty tough because there would be these long queues outside the stores,%E2%80%9D said Ichiro Takatsuki, a company spokesman. %E2%80%9CBecause of that over the past decade we%E2%80%99ve been taking orders. We started in November, but people would call and ask if we were taking orders yet, so we started earlier.%E2%80%9D%0D %0D Through one of the most successful advertising campaigns, which started in 1974, KFC Japan has made eating its chicken meals at Christmas a national custom. This happens on December 23, 24 and 25, but particularly Christmas eve. Sales for the three days are equal to half normal monthly sales, the company says.%0D %0D Japan is well known for taking foreign products and ideas and adapting them to suit domestic taste, and Christmas is no exception. A highly commercialised and non-religious affair, lots of money is spent annually on decorations, dinners and gifts. KFC is arguably the biggest contributor, thanks in part to its advertising campaign. %0D %0D %E2%80%9COne of the reasons the campaign lasted so long is that the message is always the same: at Christmas you eat chicken,%E2%80%9D said Yasuyuki Katagi, executive director at Ogilvy and Mather Japan, the advertising agency. %0D %0D Lining up without an advance order, particularly on December 24, is possible but risky as the chicken is freshly fried and thus volume is limited.%0D %0D On a visit to a KFC in the busy central Tokyo district of Shinjuku, staff members said that the queue will snake around the side of the building to a sushi restaurant located halfway down the next street for people to pick up their orders. In this KFC, orders are stronger than last year, and staff are expecting to produce about 7,000 chicken pieces on December 24.%0D %0D Overall demand is also stronger than last year, KFC Japan says, adding that it is not possible to give specific numbers for their 1,240 restaurants.%0D %0D Other fast food joints, such as Japan%E2%80%99s Mos Burger also try to cash in on the custom. Traditionally a burger chain, the company is currently advertising chicken for Christmas. However, people mostly seem to opt for KFC.%0D %0D Yoshiaki Hirose, a Tokyo businessman, ordered his Party Barrel a couple of weeks ago. %E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s like a Christmas standard,%E2%80%9D he said. %E2%80%9CKFC holds a premium position [over other fast food chains], so it%E2%80%99s nicer for celebrating, without being overly expensive. You want to have a party with your family, save your wife from having to cook, and you can pick it up from your local shopping street on your way home from work.%E2%80%9D%0D %0D It all started in the early 1970s when KFC was new to the market, Japan%E2%80%99s economy was in its fast-growth stage and was absorbing and adapting appealing areas of western culture fast. It turned out to be perfect timing for KFC. According to the company, a representative of a Christian mission school had ordered chicken at a Tokyo KFC as they could not get hold of any turkey. A bright employee suggested the situation could be made into an ad campaign."%0D
Is he really? His fans and some of his "friends" keep saying that he is bisexual and very promiscuous with women, and only says that he is gay because he is HIV positive (which is a weird reason to call yourself gay, isn't it?).
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is claiming that President Obama actually wants Republicans to impeach him so that Democrats will avoid losing the election in November. In an interview with World Net Daily, Rep. Steve Stockman said, “President Obama is begging to be impeached. For all I know, Obama is preparing to process 5 million illegal immigrant kids and teenagers into the United States. He wants us to impeach him now, before the midterm election because his senior advisers believe that is the only chance the Democratic Party has to avoid a major electoral defeat. Evidently Obama believes impeachment could motivate the Democratic Party base to come out and vote.” Stockman’s big solution to the border crisis is for Congress to shut down the White House, “The only way we’re going to stop Obama from opening the border is to take away the money he needs to operate. What we should do is shut down the White House.” It should be noted that Rep. Stockman concocted his scenario based on a theory that he invented. Facts and reality are nowhere to be found. In a bit of jaw-dropping hypocrisy, Stockman gave his interview to a website and a writer who have been pushing for Obama impeachment for years. All of the impeachment talk has been generated by the Republican Party. John Boehner threatened Obama with impeachment in January. Impeachment is the favorite fantasy of the Republican Party. Republicans have wanted to impeach Obama from day one, and those feelings only intensified after the president won reelection in 2012. Last year, Michele Bachmann called for the impeachment of President Obama by claiming that the president has been making impeachable actions since he came into office. The White House hasn’t begged for the president to be impeached. They have been speaking the truth about the motives behind John Boenher’s lawsuit against President Obama. Republicans are trying to blame Obama for their own desire to impeach him. They can’t find an impeachable offense, so they are ready to claim that they will impeach the President Of The United States because he wants them to. The Republican reasoning is childish. Their logic is non-existent, and facts don’t back up anything that they are saying. The truth is that Democrats led on the generic congressional ballot in three major polls last week. Control of the Senate is looking like a 50/50 tossup. There is no wave building for the Republican Party. In fact, it is more than possible that the 2014 election ends up maintaining the status quo with Republicans controlling the House and Democrats maintaining the Senate. Republicans overplayed their hand with the Boehner lawsuit. They took it one step too far, and Democrats know a good thing when they see it. The country doesn’t want Obama impeached, and no amount of excuse making about how the impeachment talk is all Obama’s fault can get the Republicans out of the very deep hole that they have dug for themselves. The GOP is screwed and they have their own obsession with impeaching President Obama to blame for their troubles.
House Republican Claims That President Obama Is Begging The GOP To Impeach Him
We now have a few trolls spouting this. Rip it a new asshole, DL'ers.
They are one of the most famous couples on Earth, yet intensely private — rarely allowing a glimpse of anything but the picture of a marriage and partnership that is constantly, blissfully happy. But a source who has been close to Beyoncé and Jay Z for years tells The Post that all is not well — and hasn’t been for quite some time. This is the first peek behind the firewall that is Beyoncé and Jay Z Inc. — what drew them together, why they’re headed for a split and why love was never the thing that held them together. “There’s still something there, even though it’s not going to last,” says the source. “Business is always part of the equation. They know they’re the king and queen of hip-hop — and really, all of music. Neither wants to lose that.” Their current “On the Run” tour is predicted to gross $100 million, according to Forbes — which also ranked Beyoncé the world’s most powerful celebrity of 2014, with Jay Z ranked sixth. Billboard ranked the couple No. 1 on their February 2014 Power 100 list. Their combined net worth, according the International Business Times, is nearly $1 billion. But in the weeks since Beyoncé’s sister Solange was caught attacking Jay Z in a hotel elevator after the Met Gala, the couple’s tightly controlled image has been crumbling. And while they’ve been pushing back, kissing on stage and playing happy family on Instagram, the source says Jay and Bey are permanently broken, and that both are at fault. “Knowing them as I do, obviously there’s a little something to certain rumors,” the source says. “When your man or your woman isn’t getting it done for you, and I’m talking emotionally, not necessarily sexually … they keep things quiet.” Not for much longer. When Jay Z and Beyoncé first got together in 1999, she was a star but a sheltered one. At 19, she still lived with her parents in Houston — dad Matthew, who quit his job at Xerox to manage her career with Destiny’s Child, and mom Tina, who became the group’s stylist. She hinted at being a virgin, and it’s reported that she left school at 14. Jay Z, then 30, had emerged from the Brooklyn projects as a hip-hop powerhouse. Having released his critically acclaimed debut “Reasonable Doubt” in 1996, he had a breakthrough commercial smash with 1998’s “Vol. 2 … Hard Knock Life.” A year later, Jay Z was arrested for allegedly stabbing producer Lance “Un” Rivera in a dispute over bootlegging; Jay pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and walked away with three years’ probation. Jay Z and Beyoncé have always been circumspect about the beginnings of their romance, even as they stoked intrigue with their collaborations. After breaking with Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé’s next project was a duet with Jay on his “’03 Bonnie and Clyde,” and in the video, they played a hip-hop version of the outlaw couple. When Beyoncé released her first solo album, 2003’s “Dangerously in Love,” Jay appeared on two tracks — including the first single and video for “Crazy in Love.” It was a master stroke of marketing: She gave him class, he gave her cred. Jay Z was infatuated with Beyoncé, says the source, but the bottom line was business; he knew he could do big things for her, and together they could be a juggernaut. For Beyoncé, however, it was a slower burn. According to an interview with the website Celebuzz, her uncle Larry Beyince said that initially his niece had no interest. “He was after her and she wasn’t,” Beyince said. “She told me she wasn’t too fond of him … I guess she wasn’t attracted to him.” The source says Beyoncé was most interested in Jay’s mind. “Jay’s a kingmaker; she recognized that. This was a come-up for her, no question. She had to learn the ropes as presented by Jay — but really, this was mostly about business.” As for dating others, he says, “they each had guilty pleasures.” The source believes that, along the way, she did really fall for Jay Z, and her parents, who had groomed Beyoncé to be a star from a very young age, were fine with it — for a time.
Continue talking about 'mos in football, baseball, swimming, hockey, figure skating, basketball, etc
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I'm getting high, listening to the Eagles and Led Zeppelin. I miss everything about that time. And yes, I was "out" in high school, which led to even the jocks wanting to experiment with me. It was never an issue... good times. Anyone else miss it?
Discuss.
I''m pretty excited that I''m about to witness my first and last Balloon Fiesta (Albuquerque, NM). Newscasters and locals practically cum each time they say "balloon." \ \ It''s embarrassing, really.
Eight is Enough star STILL living in a dilapidated trailer Things have gone from bad to worse for “Eight Is Enough” star Susan Richardson The down-on-her-luck actress still lives in a run-down trailer in a Pennsylvania campground and gets by on a paltry $2,000 monthly pension. But now she’s been hit by the devastating one-two punch of losing her mother and her dog at the same time! “My mother, Rachel, and my beloved dog, Honey Bunches of Oats, died on the same day!” said a heartbroken Susan, 62 “My dog died early in the morning and my mother passed later that night. She hadn’t even been sick! It nearly sent me over the edge! Oh, my God, I miss them so much.” Susan – who played fourth oldest sibling Susan Bradford on the hit TV series from 1977 to 1981 – lives in a 28-foot 1960 Avion trailer in the Birchview Farm Campground in Wagontown, a place which has been called “a dilapidated dump.” Her acting career hit the skids after “Eight Is Enough,” and Susan wrestled with addictions to both cocaine and painkillers. She eventually beat her drug demons, and moved to Wagontown to be close to her mother, who lived in the nearby town of Collegeville. But recently she’s suffered from a number of new health problems. She’s diabetic, has had three strokes and lost all her teeth to an incurable digestive tract condition. The condition triggered spasms in her esophagus, and caused her to regurgitate stomach bile, which eroded her teeth and caused infection, she explained. “The dentist had to pull all my teeth,” she said of the ordeal. “Fortunately, I now have false teeth that my daughter bought for me.” At one time, the disorder also triggered such intense stabbing pain that Susan stopped eating, and dropped from 167 to 107 pounds. “I’ve gained some of that weight back, but it’s still hard for me to get food down,” she said, adding that she underwent additional surgery on her esophagus in July. Choking back tears, Susan revealed her neighbors thought she’d died last winter. “Someone called the police to the campground, telling them there was a dead old lady in one of the trailers. And they arrived at my place!” she recalled. “The snow had drifted all the way up to the top of my camper. The police showed up and they ended up digging me out. “I had no electricity or heat for five or six days. "But I survived…just like I always do,” she concluded.
Shelly Winters. Marie Osmond. Pre-clam munching Meredith Baxter. ALL IN ONE EPISODE!
Lots and lots of balls.
Sharpened labia of the night / Their breasts two strained and livid dots / Demons of piqued wicker drone...
Oh God, she's still a delusional mess! In a new interview with the San Francisco Examiner, Jackson talks about his upcoming part in Ryan Murphy’s HBO pilot about open relationships. Jackson, himself in sober recovery, will play a meth addict. Teasing the new HBO show, the actor, who has already appeared nude onstage, admits he has no caveats when it comes to getting naked for his HBO role "only" if it’s “germane to the story.” In September, Jackson filed for divorce. A month later, he publicly began dating a fellow actor. At the same time, Jackson shaved his head, grew a mustache and got Elvis Presley lyrics tattooed on his arm. The media labeled the drastic transition for the once clean-cut actor as a sign of a midlife crisis. “I have had quite a difficult and transitional year. Despite this newfound reputation as a 38-year-old bad boy, Jackson said settling down and raising a family is something he’s always wanted.“I have known I was going to be a dad as long as I can remember,” he said. Addressing the daily barrage of twitter and Instagram selfies Jackson has been posting of himself kissing his new boyfriend. Cheyenne tagged his latest selfies WeAreWellAwareHowAnnoyingWeAre
Seriously, all she ever knew how to do was to walk up and down the stage really fast. That hardly qualifies as dancing, darling!
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So what do we know about him?
Young, old, male or female. What are the sluts in your life like? What do they do for a living? Are they fun, or bitter? Are they proud sluts, or do they try to hide their slutty lives? Tell Datalounge about your BFS!
A federal appeals court panel in Virginia became the second one this summer to strike down a state ban against same-sex marriage Monday, making it more likely that the Supreme Court will settle the issue as early as next year. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond ruled 2-1 that gay men and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry that is paramount to state marriage laws. The ruling affirmed a district judge's decision rendered in February. "We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable," said Judge Henry Floyd, originally appointed a district judge by George W. Bush and elevated to the circuit court by President Obama. "However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws." The circuit court has jurisdiction over Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The panel's decision will not take effect for at least 21 days while circuit clerks defending the state's ban decide whether to appeal to the full appellate court or the Supreme Court. Like the first appeals court panel to rule on the issue this year in Utah and Oklahoma, the three-judge panel was deeply divided. But Floyd, considered the swing vote, came down on the side of same-sex marriage. Judge Roger Gregory, originally appointed by Bill Clinton in 2000, joined the majority. Presiding Judge Paul Niemeyer, a George H.W. Bush nominee, dissented. "I do strongly disagree with the assertion that same-sex marriage is subject to the same constitutional protections as the traditional right to marry," Neimeyer said. "I would reverse the district court's judgment and defer to Virginia's political choice in defining marriage as only between one man and one woman." The Virginia case, which involves two couples seeking to marry in the state and two couples seeking to have their marriages from other states recognized, now gives the Supreme Court a choice. It can hear the Utah or Oklahoma cases from the 10th Circuit, wait for Virginia's to be appealed, or defer action even longer for other gay marriage cases scheduled for appellate hearings in August, September and beyond. One way or another, legal experts agree the high court likely will accept a case for its 2014 term beginning in October or the 2015 term that follows. Niemeyer joked about that during oral arguments in May, calling his courtroom a "way-station" en route to Washington. The justices paved the way last year for what has become an unbroken string of federal and state court victories for gay marriage proponents. They ruled 5-4 that the federal government cannot deny benefits to legally married same-sex couples without violating the equal protection and due process clauses of the Constitution. Since then, district judges in 18 states have struck down bans on gay marriage or ruled that marriages performed elsewhere must be recognized in their states. Only the Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia cases have been heard by appeals courts so far. "The Fourth Circuit has affirmed that equality is not just a California value or a New York value – it's a fundamental American value," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's leading gay rights organization. The 10th Circuit appeals court includes Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming, as well as New Mexico, where same-sex couples already can marry. The precedent set by the Utah and Oklahoma rulings applies to all those states, but the panel blocked them from taking effect pending appeal. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has said he will seek seek Supreme Court review. Other appellate court cases involving marriage bans in Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin will be argued in August and September. Appeals also are pending from Arkansas, Texas and Colorado.
I think I may send her a message via her email. STFU!
I am always about 3-4 years behind on TV, but I am really enjoying "24". And damn, I now have a TV crush on Kiefer Sutherland. Any gossip on him other than that he got a DUI and went to jail for a month and a half? He has a music label Ironworks and I thought that would break my crush but I love white people R&B too, which is apparently its specialty. At the least, anyone else find him sexy?
I need the name of this song please. The lyrics are as follows: "So trust me here, no one can be trusted, it's the same the world over...let's plant some gulags, roses with their thorns...bitter and sweet, clinging together in every human form. So good luck and Godspeed we're finally on our own." I tried Google but had zero luck.
All That Chat would explode. But I know someone on here can help. \ \ Question inside.
I didn't know they saved them for me to see later! I was posting a new listing to have my pool vacuumed, and up pops a list of all my old ads -- everything from apartments I had available to rent to blowjobs I was seeking. How embarassing. Can I remove these records of my darker moments?
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Only choose between one by voting below, then discuss here.
Who''s gay, who''s bi? What are the secrets in the world of hip hop?
What sayeth the Datalounge?
Go.
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Discuss World Cup eye candy and other matters here.
who brought it better on stage? Not the band, the frontman role.
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Continuing the tradition!
Live Cam at Link. The old girl is only a few kilometers from the scrapyard, but she looks pretty good (all things considered), and she's going out in style.
He's STILL around! Apparently they haven't received the message that he's been panned from TV to websites. He looks like your slightly creepy, drunk uncle. How/why are these commercials? Who's the demo they're going for?
Any recommendations?
Only for those who have never smoked, Not for those who smoked and just quit. To all those who have never smoked, what kept you from starting to smoke?
This is just a gem. In an intensely awkward congressional hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, freshman Rep. Curt Clawson misidentified two senior U.S. government officials as representatives of the Indian government. The two officials, Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar, are Americans who hold senior positions at the State Department and Commerce Department, respectively. Although both Biswal and Kumar were introduced as U.S. officials by the chairman of the Asia and Pacific subcommittee, Clawson repeatedly asked them questions about "your country" and "your government," in reference to the state of India. "I'm familiar with your country; I love your country," the Florida Republican said. "Anything I can do to make the relationship with India better, I'm willing and enthusiastic about doing so." Apparently confused by their Indian surnames and skin color, Clawson also asked if "their" government could loosen restrictions on U.S. capital investments in India. "Just as your capital is welcome here to produce good-paying jobs in the U.S., I'd like our capital to be welcome there," he said. "I ask cooperation and commitment and priority from your government in so doing. Can I have that?" The question prompted a lengthy pause and looks of confusion from State Department and congressional staff attending the hearing. "I think your question is to the Indian government," Biswal said. "We certainly share your sentiment, and we certainly will advocate that on behalf of the U.S." It's extremely uncommon for foreign officials to testify before Congress under oath. Even so, it's unclear if at any point Clawson realized his mistake, despite the existence of a witness list distributed to the various members detailing Biswal and Kumar's positions. Clawson's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. During the hearing, [bold]he repeatedly touted his deep knowledge of the Indian subcontinent and his favorite Bollywood movies.[/bold] None of his fellow colleagues publicly called him out on the oversight -- perhaps going easy on him because he's the new guy. The Tea Party-backed lawmaker won a special election last month to fill the seat of Trey Radel, who resigned after being convicted for cocaine possession. Clawson pitched himself as an outsider with private sector experience and touted his role as chief executive of an aluminum wheel company. Thursday was Clawson's first day sitting on the subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. He was named to the full committee July 9. Subcommittee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) promoted Clawson's deep international business acumen and knowledge of four languages in welcoming him. "Our newest member of this committee, Curt Clawson ... speaks four languages and all kinds of other great stuff," Chabot boasted. The gaffe comes as members of Congress seek to strengthen U.S. ties to the world's largest democracy following the election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this spring. Lawmakers are circulating letters to have Modi address a joint session of Congress. Following Clawson's opening statement, Rep. Eliot Engel, the full panel's ranking Democrat, appeared eager to point out that Biswal and Kumar work for the United States. "Thank you both for your service to our country, it's very much appreciated," New York's Engel said. Update: While Clawson's office did not respond to a request for comment, the congressman apologized in a statement to USA Today later on Friday. "I made a mistake in speaking before being fully briefed and I apologize. I'm a quick study, but in this case I shot an air ball," he said.
Tea bagger Congressman from FL mistakes U.S. govt. officials for Indian govt. officials
Name an actor and the movie that he or she, clearly, did solely for the paycheck
Who pays for all that travel? Number 16 in a saga.
With all the minorities, immigrants streaming in, women, more middle class and lower middle class voting. That's it. Repubs are done.
What is it, new makeup artist? Gained or lost a few pounds? I can''t put my finger on it.
Anyone else? Vodka alcoholic, 25 years. Yes, I'm in the process of punching and deleting. It sucks. This person, my partner of several years, has advanced cirrhosis of the liver and isn't expected to live a whole lot longer. Therefore I stay, but am able to keep my distance somewhat as we have separate homes. Regardless, he is such a horrible, mean, very confused, violent drunk. Lately, he is so much more confused and paranoid. He imagines entire days that never happened. When he isn't drinking, he's lovely. Those days are rare. He knows he is dying and after a very expensive detox and even more expensive failed rehab, began drinking two days later and has pretty much said fuck it. He doesn't care. He is too far gone. Because I know he will not live that much longer, I cater to him, I love him, and I treat him far too well. No, I'm not a doormat, or at least I wasn't until I met him. I have never been in an alcoholic, co-dependent, or abusive relationship before.
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The endlessly fascinating world of HKN is not quite so fascinating anymore. Is this because there's just so much a person can take when it comes to the sorry state of affairs in the land of delusion? The name-calling is growing old and repetitive. The We Believe! mantra is becoming more and more transparent. And, well, honestly, just how many laughing gifs can a person stomach in one day? And then we have the subjects of this thread themselves. Unless one of them comes out or learns to act or finds some talent, the fact is that they will not be able to hold our attention much longer. Then again, one can always hope. Right?
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Sitcom about two senior gay partners airs in Metro New York on WNET-13, 10:30-11:00 this evening. Check local listings.
He always seems to play sadistic characters. He used to be so hot
Which actors, athletes, celebrities set your gaydar off .... ?
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It would be difficult to come with a more on-the-nose metaphor for New York City's income inequality problem than the new high-rise apartment building coming to 40 Riverside Boulevard, which will feature separate doors for regular, wealthy humans and whatever you call the scum that rents affordable housing. Extell Development Company, the firm behind the new building, announced its intentions to segregate the rich and poor to much outrage last year. Fifty-five of the luxury complex's 219 units would be marked for low-income renters—netting some valuable tax breaks for Extell—with the caveat that the less fortunate tenants would stick to their own entrance. The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved Extell's Inclusionary Housing Program application for the 33-story tower this week, the New York Post reports. The status grants Extell the aforementioned tax breaks and the right to construct a larger building than would ordinarily be allowed. According to the Daily Mail, affordable housing tenants will enter through a door situated on a "back alley." Any of the unwashed folk who complain about such a convenient arrangement, of course, are just being ungrateful. As the Mail points out, fellow poor-door developer David Von Spreckelsen explained as much last year: "No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations," said David Von Spreckelsen, senior vice president at Toll Brothers. "So now you have politicians talking about that, saying how horrible those back doors are. I think it's unfair to expect very high-income homeowners who paid a fortune to live in their building to have to be in the same boat as low-income renters, who are very fortunate to live in a new building in a great neighborhood." In these economically fraught times, it's easy to forget that the super rich earned their right to never see you, hear you, smell you, or consider your pitiful existence. Expecting them to share an entrance would be unfair.
NYC Approves Apartment Building With Separate Entrance for Poor People
It's like they're struggling to break free.
Henry Cavill's gigantic tit muscles arrive in Michigan for Superman/Batman filming
For those of you who were born before the 80's, have you actually noticed any significant changes in America since the 70's? For instance, in terms of things like individualism, entertainment,socializing, etc. I was born in 1987 and I keep hearing how different American values were back then and how after the Reagan era, things really changed. After Reagan's era, it became OK to be selfish and ok to disregard your neighbors in favor of your own selfishness.
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He's hot. It's that deep voice and those eyes. He got veneers sometime in the last year or so, but he really didn't need them.
1) When DL wasn't overwhelmed with these fucking 'Which Did You Prefer' threads OR 2) DL as currently overloaded with these fucking 'Which Did You Prefer' threads ....
Man whoever he is fucking is one lucky bitch. Not bad for a guy from small town Ontario (Thunder Bay) In real life I hear he is a sweet guy, but always seems to play a psycho!
From wikipedia: The sexuality of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th President of the United States, has been a topic of historical debate and scholarship, particularly since the late twentieth century.[1] Lincoln was married to Mary Todd from November 4, 1842, until his death on April 15, 1865, and fathered four children with her. According to several historians, there was no indication during Lincoln's lifetime that anyone suspected him of homosexuality[2] and few researchers have argued to the contrary. In a 2005 book, psychologist C. A. Tripp described Lincoln as having a problematic and distant relationship with women, in contrast to his warmer relations with a number of men in his life; Tripp writes that two of those relationships had possible homoerotic overtones.[3] Tripp's view has been particularly criticized for flawed historical methodology.[4] Some Lincoln biographers, including David Herbert Donald, have strongly contested claims that Lincoln was homosexual or bisexual.[5] In opposing such claims, Donald cites Lincoln's letters for context, in which he frequently referred to acquaintances, even political enemies, as "my personal friend".[6]
Stop trying to mainstream this word, you freaks!
I think it helps to be unmedicated if you want to work in animal rescue, Reiki massage/healing, or be a minister.\ \ What jobs do you know of where being bonkers is an asset?
I do. I've had them since I was a fat child. Now I'm a thin adult in my late 20s and they're still here, smaller, but still there. I guess what they say is true about the fat cells never going away. I've learned to embrace my titties. There are dudes into feminine shaped males like myself. But now I need to think about what's going to happen when they start sagging. A bro perhaps?
He is now 45 with very little money and very few job opportunities. He's aging, has no wife nor any children. He's on the z-list with no real following. And as for Queer As Folk, he basically whored himself out for a job if he is in fact straight. Where do you think he will be years from now?
One cheated. Another one cheated. And another one cheated a LOT.
Cody was recently on Dancing with the Stars. Thoughts?
He's just appeared in a very nationalistic Russian TV ad for beer. US actor David Duchovny has stirred up a storm of debate in Russia by appearing in an ultra-patriotic beer ad in which he fantasises about being Russian. The “X-Files” and “Californication” star appears in a glossy ad for a Russian beer brand that is inspired by his eastern European origins. “There is another country, where I got my family name from, and sometimes I wonder, what if things turned out differently, what if I were Russian?” the actor says in the ad posted Friday on YouTube. Duchovny has said in interviews that his father had Polish and Russian roots but recently wrote on Twitter that he is in fact Ukrainian. In the ad set to Soviet rock hits, the actor is shown as a ballet choreographer, a cosmonaut, a rock star or an ice hockey player and experiencing Russian traditions such as the banya, or steam bath. “Being Russian, I’d have many things to be proud of,” he concludes in the ad. Deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees defence, posted a link to the ad on Twitter, saying: “If you forget about what it is advertising, as a whole it’s made with love.” But US news site Globalpost.com slammed Duchovny for appearing in what it called a “poorly timed, nationalistic ad” released shortly after the Malaysian airliner was downed in Ukraine. Rossiya-24 state television in turn criticised Duchovny for appearing in the ad after calling himself a Ukrainian. “That didn’t stop the actor from appearing in an ad with a huge budget about pride in the Russian motherland,” a Rossiya-24 newsreader said acidly. In April Duchovny wrote on Twitter: “I grew up thinking I was Russian only to find recently that I’ve been Ukrainian all along. Never too late to change.” Much of present-day Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire. The ad was one of the top trends on Russian Twitter over the weekend and has been viewed more than 900,000 times on YouTube. Some viewers said they found the ad moving but others criticised Duchovny for taking part. “Has David Duchovny gone completely mad? Maybe he’ll be next to get a (Russian) passport after Gerard Depardieu,” wrote one Twitter user, Tatyana Samosudova. Duchovny is not the only Western star to appear in made-for-Russia ads. Bruce Willis advertises a bank while Depardieu has promoted a bank and a kitchen chain since gaining Russian citizenship in 2013. Watch the advertisement via Youtube below.
First of all, Jindal (LA) and Scott (FL) are spineless assholes, and will do whatever their instincts say is right for the moment. But, they are starting a movement. A lot of southern states will follow, and soon other challenges will be afoot. Could this be the start of a major split?
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Can someone explain the success of this talent- and charm-free, mostly tone-deaf "singer"? Was it the fact that she just happened to be the spawn of one of the biggest American singers? I can only imagine Frank must have called in some BIG favors to make that one happen.
This is the guy who single-handedly shortened World War II. It was really sad when he was arrested because he was gay and died as a result. I think this is a really good argument for gay marriage. There are so many gay geniuses out there that could help society why no allow gay marriage?
Gee, I wonder why he cast this guy Dave to star in Below Deck, Bravo's new cruise ship reality show? Was he that big a fan of his work? Just how transparent is Andy? Obviously Dave wasn't a part of the real crew. Dave even admits he's the "new guy" who was just hired for the show so he has to try to fit in. Andy must have told the producers that Dave had great crew experience and that's why he NEEDED to be hired. Dave's boyfriend is also a porn star who's been making porn for over 8 years. First the Million Dollar Listing boys and now this, why must Andy raid his personal porn collection to cast his shows?
What's the name of the cute guy who said he and his sister were in foster homes from age five and are grateful to their current mother and father?
You'd think the fewer people in the house to work for, the happier they'd be.
I know they're mostly nerds, but that doesn't mean some of them aren't hot and/or bothered.
John Travolta Can't Stop Former Pilot's Lawsuit Over Secrets (Exclusive) 1:44 PM PDT 7/22/2014 by Eriq Gardner A California appeals court allows Douglas Gotterba to challenge the validity of a confidentiality agreement. Douglas Gotterba, who worked for John Travolta's aircraft company Alto in the 1980s, will get the opportunity to argue in a lawsuit that he holds no confidentiality duties to the actor. On Tuesday, the airline pilot was given the go-ahead sign by a California appeals court. Gotterba worked for Travolta for six years. According to press interviews he's given, he claims that his relationship with Travolta was more than professional. He stopped working for the actor in 1987, at which point he entered into a written termination agreement with Alto. Nearly 25 years later, Gotterba came forward to "tell the story of his life and those involved in it," including his personal relationship with Travolta. According to Gotterba, he was "unwillingly thrust" into the gossip tabloids by public revelations from another former Travolta employee. Upon hearing that Gotterba had spoken to the National Enquirer and was planning a book, Travolta's attorney Martin Singer sent out cease-and-desist letters. The lawyer warned Gotterba about breaching the confidentiality provision of his termination agreement. Gotterba's own attorney then demanded to see the asserted confidentiality provisions. He eventually saw what Singer was relying upon when the parent company of the National Enquirer forwarded the relevant portion of a four-page agreement. But the airline pilot maintains that this agreement is "not authentic," that it is merely an early draft of another three-page agreement that didn't contain the confidentiality clause. So Gotterba sued Travolta and Alto seeking a judicial declaration about which agreement was valid and whether confidentiality was really enforceable. In response, Alto aimed to kill Gotterba's lawsuit by bringing an anti-SLAPP motion. In instances where someone's First Amendment rights are at stake, California law provides defendants with an early exit as well as the possibility of recovering legal fees. In this case, the defendants asserted that Travolta's right to petition was protected. The question for the trial judge and then the appeals court was whether Gotterba's lawsuit was based upon Singer's demand letters. California appeals court Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert says that it is not based upon Singer's "sabre-rattling" but rather "the validity of the asserted termination agreements." He adds, "Although the prelitigation letters may have triggered Gotterba's complaint and may be evidence in support of the complaint, they are not the basis of the complaint." The justice says that to hold otherwise "would lead to the absurd result that a person receiving a demand letter threatening legal action for breach of contract would be precluded from seeking declaratory relief to determine the validity of the contract. Declaratory relief would be limited to situations where the parties have not communicated their disagreement."
John Travolta Can't Stop Former Pilot's Lawsuit Over Secrets
Not doing a poll, since there can be multiple choices. 1. Movie theaters 2. Bowling alleys 3. Horse and dog racing/racetracks 4. Commercial radio 5. CDs and DVDs 6. Newspapers (on paper) Anything else, please feel free to add.
Speaking on The Talk, the former X Factor judge said: “Don’t you find there are – not naming names – a lot of people inside this industry and outside who have women as beards? “They live a lie. I’m not condemning them, but it’s sad that people do have to do that and they don’t have the wherewithal or the strength to live the lives that they were born to lead.” She also weighed in on Simon Cowell, who earlier this week rejected “antiquated” claims that he is secretly gay. Osbourne said: “So many people do ask if Simon Cowell is gay… I don’t know why! It just comes with his aura. “He does have a very gay-ish – which I think if fabulous – air about him.” Last week, Southwark Crown Court heard that Tulisa’s manager Gareth Varey had an exchange with Mahmood, who posed as a film producing Sheik, during which Varey said he knew men who had slept with music producer Cowell. In a secret recording, Mahmood asked Varey whether Cowell was gay, to which he responded “yes”. Cowell’s management said: “Simon was referred to during the trial without forewarning, resulting in widespread media coverage of untrue claims regarding his private life. “In 2014 the question of whether someone is or is not gay is antiquated. (As it happens he isn’t, though if he were, he would simply have said so). “However, the issue was the false suggestion made by Mr Varey that Simon – who is renowned for his honesty and candidness – had thus not been truthful in the public arena and this is what we have been obliged to clarify.” What do you think about this?
Given that Marvel has a long-term plan. It most likely will last another few decades given that nothing socially or politically happen in the U.S. like a civil war or something like that.
Could it someday become an alternative to clothing (NSFW)?
Mine is the Dyatlov Pass incident.
... damned if I haven't already heard people talking about this already. It's July.
Could life imitate art yet again, or -- more specifically -- could a title come true? Deadline Hollywood reports HBO is in talks with Lisa Kudrow and director Michael Patrick King to bring "The Comeback" back, the duo's comedy from 2005 that's become a cult classic. Though it only lasted one, 13-episode season, "The Comeback" earned respect from most critics and has developed quite the following since it went off the air. Recent successful resurrections have given new life to many TV shows with rumors constantly swirling of comebacks, "Arrested Develpment" being the most notable example. This makes the news of the Kudrow comedy's possible return even more apt. "The Comeback" was very much ahead of its time, being a single camera reality show spoof. Relevancy shouldn't be an issue, even almost a decade after its original airing. Valerie Cherish still has plenty to teach us. On March 19, Kudrow retweeted a Slate story suggesting "The Comeback" deserves another season. It even went so far as to suggest HBO should make it available on the company's streaming service, HBOgo.
HBO In Talks with Lisa Kudrow to Bring 'The Comeback' Back for Season Two
David Gregory’s time is nearly up at “Meet the Press,” sources told Page Six, and he could be replaced as moderator of the nation’s longest-running TV show soon after the November midterm elections. While NBC News President Deborah Turness has publicly supported the embattled Gregory, there are serious concerns about the losing battle to turn around the show’s sinking ratings. Viewership is down a whopping 43 percent compared to when Gregory ascended to the moderator’s chair in December 2008, after the death of Tim Russert. The show finished in third place behind CBS’s “Face the Nation” and ABC’s “This Week” in the second quarter of 2014. An NBC source said, “The discussion is whether to make a change before or after the midterm elections. Just after the midterms would give the new moderator time to settle in.” According to insiders, NBC political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd is the rightful heir to Gregory, but he has not been officially offered the job. Other names said to be in the frame include “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie, who comes from a political background but is unlikely to be released from the flagship morning show where she’s hugely popular. Guthrie is also due to give birth to her first child next month and will return to “Today” after maternity leave. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” team Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have also been said be angling for a Sunday slot, but NBC insiders said there are concerns about putting a partisan host in charge of “Meet the Press,” as Scarborough is a former Republican congressman. After the Washington Post recently reported that NBC had commissioned a “psychological consultant” to interview Gregory’s wife and friends, NBC publicly stood by Gregory, who denounced the psychologist claim as “gossip reporting gone wild.” An NBC spokesperson told us Tuesday night, “We heard the same false rumors and suggest you take them with a grain of salt, as we did.”
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Anyone go to the Up Your Alley Fair in SF yesterday?
He's gay, right? I'm watching him give the forecast on Good Day NY in my doctor's office. He's incredibly muscular, really well-groomed, and has a certain "pingy" quality about him. So what's the verdict on this gorgeous weather hottie?
Wow. Easily one of the best movies I've seen in the theater in ages. Surprisingly great... I loved the first one and this one is just so much better. Just amazingly well crafted. Anyone else see it this weekend?
Why couldn't they cast anyone attractive? There are attractive engineers in real life too. Regardless of content, it is really hard to watch because of the ugliness and eye-bugginess of the cast. Is this how straight men feel about watching Girls?
Why does the network insist on continuing this sham, year after year?
Premieres Sunday July 13. Caroline, Kathy, and Jacqueline are out. Dina is back along with 2 new women.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested the foster parent of a 10-month-old girl who died after being left inside a hot car in Wichita, Kansas. Lt. Todd Ojile said Friday the 29-year-old man was booked on suspicion of aggravated endangerment but has not been charged. No charges are expected against the other foster parent, a 26-year-old man who was inside the house. Ojile says the 29-year-old man had "somehow forgotten" leaving the girl in the back seat after picking her up from the baby sitter late Thursday afternoon. He went inside the house with a 5-year-old child but left the baby strapped in the car seat outside. . Ojile says they didn't remember the child was outside until something on television jogged their memories. The girl had been in the car for about 2 hours.
Mother beats lesbian daughter, gets charged with hate crime.
The old thread was closed... and there's just not enough eye candy in this world, so this thread is here to fix that! No nudes, just totally gorgeous men:
Great list.
.. allegedly Her mother's highly emotional funeral was just too much for Bobbi Kristina Brown. Following the event, she "disappeared" for a time and was found "using drugs," two sources have told The Daily Beast. Her family didn't find her until Sunday morning, just before they were to leave for Whitney's burial, the sources added. “Everyone was freaking out and calling Bobbi Kristina’s cell,” one source, a longtime family friend told The Daily Beast, the website for Newsweek magazine. “It was so much commotion and activity after the funeral that Bobbi Kristina just slipped away. Ms. Cissy was beside herself." PHOTOS: Bobby Brown Leaves Whitney's Funeral Cissy and others won’t admit out loud that Bobbi Kristina "has a drug problem,” said the friend. “But they know it and have been trying to keep her straight even before Whitney passed. But losing your mother and the life you’re accustomed to all in one day is enough to send anybody off the deep end.” A spokesperson tried to downplay the situation, and said the teen isn't on drugs. PHOTOS: Bobbi Kristina And Cissy Houston Arrive At Private Viewing For Whitney "There was some confusion about Bobbi Kristina’s whereabouts last night for a short time, but she's OK,” a Houston family spokesperson said. “She needed some time alone. She is going through a very hard time as you can expect.”
This macho actor surprised everyone when he left his successful long running series recently. Although he IS married, he has a little secret. He works out in a predominantly gay West Hollywood gym and doesn’t mind showing off his physique. Other gym members report that he takes loooong showers exposed and aroused, looking desperate for attention. But he doesn’t get much because of his obvious shortcomings!
About his new show... [quote]Gawker's Jordan Sargent claimed Last Week Tonight was "the new Daily Show", while simultaneously criticizing the Daily Show for abandoning those "who have moved on from caring about Fox [News] and Republicans."
On Thursday, the NFL punished Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice with a two-game suspension after the player allegedly knocked out his fiancée during an altercation in February. While many around the league have been highly critical both of Rice's conduct and of what's been perceived as a lenient punishment, ESPN panelist Stephen A. Smith sought to temper that criticism during a "First Take" segment on Friday. In a long-winded statement, Smith acknowledged a man has "no business putting [his] hands on a woman," then slowly worked toward the conclusion that women should also do their part not to give men a reason to beat them. "We know [abusing women is] wrong," Smith concedes, though toward the end of his monologue he casts doubt on who, exactly, is to blame for said abuse, given "the elements of provocation." More at link......
ESPN Host: Women really shouldn't provoke domestic abuse
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It must be a day ending in Y.
Oh look, Mark Consuelos is on vacation again with a group composed of almost entirely gay men
What the fuck happened to this website? Why are fringe trolls infesting the place? There seemingly can't even be the most innocuous topic posted without some damaged troll popping-in to take some sort of twisted, p/c issue with it. I've been around here over a decade now and I STILL don't know who Aaron Rodgers is or why Gale Harold is so talked about. The obsession with the Golden Girls is bizarre but it's not as constant. Nothing is fun or clever about the Datalounge anymore because all the witty guys have been run off. Mediapoilis, what happened? Was it the $18 or just bad monitoring?
Will it catch on like Bollywood?
It opened with John Barrowman. They're really bad, get on a stream now, it's craptastic!
I found her. She used to be tv movie actress. She went with Richard Thomas. Enjoy
Have you ever bowled with human pin-setters? Really, before about 1958, there were guys hiding down there who put the pins back up each time. Must have been a really crappy job. Thank you AMF - I remember when they put it in our lanes, ~1961. Unbelievable. I also discovered about 40 years later that you were supposed to tip. Sorry guys.
Im intrigued by the fact that there are soooo many gay men addicted to it. Do they really put crack in it keep people addicted? I think Ive only had two my entire life. I really don't understand how you get hooked on something that tastes like real Coke mixed with sink water. Please explain.
This will be a tough choice. Only chose one of the women as the better actress. Discuss.
He is friends with Jeff because Jeff is Harry's agent, he is supposed to introduce him to a lot of important people in LA. Harry wants to be known as a songwriter, he wants to become 'friends' with people who can help him become famous as an individual when the time is there. You can keep calling Jeff his boyfriend, but that doesn't make it the truth. The only truth is that Harry is a smart ass who knows exactly how to charm the right people into doing a lot for him. Even if those people have their own agenda as well. Harry has talked his way right into the Azoff family. What more does he need? Well, maybe a secret girl- or boyfriend who loves him for who he is, and not for how famous he is. Someone who doesn't care about him being in LA all the time. So this person must have the possibility to see him, even though he is always staying at different places around the world. Someone whom he wants to stay faithful to, even though he knows that he could sleep with a lot of beautiful people. But why would a guy his age want to do that? Does that mean that his love interest is famous as well, and that he/she can pull the same card? Open your eyes, there is only one person who would fit in his life right now. He has never made a secret of his feelings.
Stockton, Fresno, dusty outer Sacramento, and so forth.
Don't get me wrong, I love and need warm socks in winter. But while the weather is still warm, I just love lacing up my Asics sockless. BF complains of my stinky shoes and granted they have to either be turned into "water/camping shoes" or thrown away sometimes after summer...but it feels so much better to me. Regardless, if you do think it's tacky, do you still do it?
Will Daryl finally find the man of his dreams? Will Carol admit her lesbianism? Will Rick & Carl go nuts over Judith's return? Will Glenn and Tara connect? Will Maggie be the third wheel? Will Tyresee lose weight? Will the hunters make an appearances?
If you watch movies from that era everybody is always slapping each other across the face. Especially when a woman gets emotional they just hit her.
New tenants moved into a house next door to me. They have been dealing drugs from the house since they moved in. I don't want this in my neighborhood and especially not next door. Police are aware of the situation, but can't do anything unless they are caught in the act. I have informed the landlord and he said he doesn't know how he can kick them out, but he knows they are dealing and doesn't like it. Very frustrating.
The Ramoncoaster is in full swing. Will she pop someone's eye out with some more plasticware? Aviva is shedding "friends" faster than body parts. Given her on again/off again appearance in the opening credits, will she stick around for another season? Will her dad's dick finally fall off from some nasty STD? Heather's only significant contribution is still her hot husband. Will he and Mario finally get some drunken alone time? Will Sonja's tooth get lost (permanently) at the bottom of a champagne bottle? Will Carole finally finish her transformation into Steven Tyler? Will Lumann be un-demoted and be brought back as a full housewife? Will we get to see some of her short, thick Frenchmen? Will Kristen--oh who cares. Zzzzzzzz!
I have two straight friends who''ve confessed to getting oral sex from men but say they were freaked out about the idea of reciprocating or, worse, taking it up the ass.\ \ On the other hand, I have another "straight" friend who only wants to get fucked - absolutely nothing else - when he hooks up with a guy. He just loves to have his ass opened up and his girlfriend isn''t into it using toys, etc..\ \ Anyone else know similar guys?
Not safe for work by any means.
David Pevsner - Hot Jewish Daddy!
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How did you find out? Do you think your mother ever knew?
During the Canada Day festivities Homophobic Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Ford was at one point confronted by local resident Joe Killoran — a Toronto-area teacher who was apparently out for a jog when he crossed paths with the mayor's entourage. Killoran hurled questions and accusations at Ford while the mayor's staff attempted to intercede. "Answer one of the million questions people have for you," Killoran said. "People have a million questions about your lying and your corruption." Ford did not respond to Killoran. Someone in the crowd asked if he was working for one of Ford's political rivals. "Do I look like I'm with a campaign?" Killoran, who was shirtless at the time, responded. "I'm an East York guy out for a jog." The more important question? Is this hairy bear hot or what? See video below for confrontation.
Shirtless Hairy Bear Jogger Confronts Homophobic Toronto Mayor Rob Ford - You are homophobic!
It's weird because he can actually carry it off with his hairy daddy thing--he's still about the hottest guy in porn right now, with his huge muscles, his hair, his gorgeous eyes, and his quiet super-confidence. But I would also say that right now he's the fattest major gay porn star working right now.
Any questions?
Really? It deeply moves something inside my soul.
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Once an A-list star, he now does a supporting role about once a year. I heard he came from money. Is he a trust fund brat?
He is 35,unmarried, rarely attends public events with a girl on his arm, no hint of a girlfriend. If he is gay coming out just might help his career at this point. I also think he is very handsome.
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Anyone else love this recording? This was the music that Madonna heard prompting her to want to work with William, culminating into "Ray of Light"
William Orbit - Strange Cargo "Hinterland"
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Who will it be? Serena, Nole....Will Federer or Nadal surprise us or will it be someone new? Let's post here
If your hubby had a small or skinny dick? It would be so sad to know that's all you're gonna get forever.
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I get so tired of this fucking shit! Why can't you be for both, or neither? Enough.
Is a half-hearted hand job worth the extra $50? Please advise.
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Didja ever notice how Dorothy was so committed to her aesthetic of oversized, shapeless clothes that she even maintained it all the way into her accessories by carrying only oversized, shapeless purses? The strain of these large leather sacks seem like they must have caused fatigue on Dorothy''s shoulders, but I guess stylistic integrity meant more to Dorothy than comfort.
Outside of pregnancies from rape, incest, or danger to the mother, there is no reason to murder a baby. Fuck a woman's right to choose, she is made to carry a baby. Biology is quite simple.
Sherri Shepherd does not want anything to do with her unborn surrogate baby ... because she believes her estranged husband defrauded her into having the kid in the first place so he could get child support ... this according to multiple sources connected with the couple. TMZ broke the story ... Sherri and her husband Lamar Sally each separately filed legal docs to end their marriage. The big complication -- a baby will be born this month to a surrogate who signed a contract with Sherri and Lamar. Now our sources say ... the baby was conceived with Lamar's sperm, but NOT Sherri's egg. Now here's where it gets tricky. We're told Sherri does not want custody or even to be considered a parent ... because she doesn't want to get stuck with massive child support payments. Sherri wants a judge to rule she has no parental rights or responsibilities -- which would shut the door to child support. She claims Lamar defrauded her -- that he got her to sign on for a surrogate birth knowing full well he would divorce her and then nail her to the wall for child support. Our Lamar sources say Sherri tried to get pregnant in vitro and when it didn't work she got deeply involved in the surrogacy process. Another twist ... Sherri has filed for divorce in New Jersey and Lamar has filed in California. This is not a coincidence. We did some digging, and found New Jersey courts generally do NOT recognize surrogacy agreements, which means Lamar would probably be shut down. Not so in Cali.
Sherri Shepherd says she won't pay child support for baby born via surrogate since it's not hers
What did you think of last year's "Child's Play" film? Another gay man behind a horror franchise. Hot one to boot!
I annoyed the fuck out of my parents trying to act like Shields and Yarnell.
If so, why are the French so very slender? I do not understand. I have friends in Paris who drink all day - champagne or Kir Royale with lunch, cocktails, hearty red wine at meal times. Yet they are slim as hell. I drink a couple glasses of white wine and the next day I look like Frogger. Is it genetics?
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Musclebound, thuggish looking black guys get me weak in the knees. There, I said it. I just think that these guys are the ultimate in masculinity and hotness. Is my fetishizing racist or does it make me open-minded? I debate this within myself constantly, and I never get a clear answer. What do you think? The guys in the SFW pic are the types I''m talking about.
Does objectifying muscular black men make me a racist or open-minded?
He deserves to be scrubbed and showered vehemently.
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Thanks to one of the posters from the last thread for suggesting this thread title! Continue chatting about Kevin and Aaron the phony
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(without signing up for stuff?) Suze are you there?
The secondary night-time soaps battle it out now...
Even though he was a bit of a slack-jawed stoner himself. "John Boy Walton on acid," Liam Gallagher once lamely called him. WHET? I couldn't seem to find any recent pics. Has he lost his looks? Is he more famous in the UK?
It seems to be the new trend in home buying. What do you think?
I've been a big fan of stevia for a few years now. It has really curbed my use of cane sugar. Last time I bought it, I noticed something new at my grocery: Monk Fruit Sweetener. According to Wikipedia, it is 300 times sweeter than sucrose, just like stevia. Before I buy a box to try, have any other DLers used monk fruit natural sweetener? Good? Bad? Nasty?
I feel sorry for Susan Boyle--she obviously has never been able to afford to care for her feet before recently, and so she's got bad toenails. But you'd think the rest of them could have afforded to take better care of their feet. Who knew Paris Hilton had hammertoes?
Yes, again... even though it's been done before, it's fun to see how things change. Since most are in the US, this is by region. The regions are kind of nebulous (one state might belong to two), so just pick the one that feels right. Use the state you most identify with growing up in ("where you're from"), not where you are now.
Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi star as a couple. Seems like a great pairing. I love both of them.
Does Fausto have pec implants? Those nipples look like they're about to jump right off his chest.
Several years ago I was a movie extra, which was fun and it kinda paid the bills. I was working late on set and a few extras and crew and I decided to go out for drinks after we wrapped up. A British actor/extra friend wanted to know if he could invite a friend of his who was lonely and a bit blue. I said, 'sure, why not.' When everyone arrived at the bar, my British friend introduced his friend, who was also (at that time) a struggling British actor, named Andrew. To be honest, I wasn't impressed. He seemed lonely, depressed, needy, and I got the impression he hadn't showered for several days. He had a beard and his hair looked like it hadn't been combed or washed in weeks. He was nice enough though, though he seemed like he was already a bit drunk. I took pity on him really. We chatted for most of the evening, and after I told him that I was gay, he mentioned that he was "bisexual" - having had girlfriends, but the occasional fling with a guy - for him it was "finding love wherever I can find it." He also said that he and his girlfriend weren't working out at the moment and he would really like to find a horny guy, perhaps that night. He was rather clingy and would follow me wherever I went. If I decided to go to the bar area, sure enough, a minute later Andrew would follow. If I decided to walk over to a table, yep, he followed. He was very puppy doggish. He even invited me to dance a little, which we did, and we even started to be touchy-feely with each other. He even whispered a few sexually explicit things to me. I guess I was leading him on a bit. I rather lost interest in him when a very stunning guy walked into the bar. I decided to try to pick this Adonis up, and, truth be told, kinda forgot all about my new English friend. I chatted with this surfer guy for about 10 minutes, before Andrew butted in -in a rather needy angsty way. This obviously made things uncomfortable, and, unfortunately, it soured me getting in the pants of the Greek God. I was rather pissed at Andrew and well... sorta told him I thought he ruined that conversation. Andrew, looking sad said "oh, I thought you were interested in me!" and huffed off a bit rejected and jealous. To be honest, I felt bad. The next day, our mutual friend invited us both to lunch. It was really awkward. I could tell Andrew was pissed at me. I apologized to him for not giving him the attention I guess he thought he deserved, and for me being rude. He warmed up again after my apology, but made it clear that he and this girl he was dating may work out, maybe. I took this as a hint that he was no longer interested in me. My impression was that he was extremely sensitive, gentle, emotional, and rather clingy. I ran into him again, perhaps twice more socially, but forgot about him until he was in a Facebook movie a few years later. He was certainly more successful than I was!!
Has he ever gone this long without a woman?
At least he got laid a lot, which is more than I can say for myself.
and his muscle mafia? I''ve got to know. I am not new to the online porn world. But why do I buy this site and it''s premise hook, line and sinker? Surely someone has busted him or revealed his identity by this point.\ \ Maybe because the site is so expensive and you can''t just join and steal all the videos. Maybe it''s because I only get a snippet here and there through torrents I am able to download.\ \ Someone please disabuse me of my fascination.
He's been on morning Joe more often recently. He doesn't seem very smart. He's handsome but he asks stupid questions.
I know Jenny is everyones favorite friend but mine is Lisa Kudrow. I feel she made the most interesting acting choices. I mean the Comeback, Wonderland! hello!
Because a hairy chest is still a thing of beauty...
Son of the Revenge of the "Lets Post Pics of Guys Presenting Their Hairy Chests" thread
Which of you bitches are planning on not voting? Which one of you bitches will be voting Republican? What do you bitches think will be the outcome of the election? A full Republican Congress?
5,000 years of bloodshed and tribal wars and religious massacres and expulsions. Jews vs. pagans, pagans vs. Christians, Muslims vs. everybody. We've been had. That scrubby, unattractive piece of desert is damned, not holy. Anybody ever read "The House Next Door" by Anne Rivers Siddons? That land of Nineveh/Palestine/Israel is like the aura of the house; nothing but bad news and turns people on one another.
That was as extreme as the Republican platform. I will start. Guaranteed minimum income. Free Health care for all. Free abortions on demand on every street corner.
From IMDB: [quote] Julie Andrews was asked to reprise her stage role of Guenevere, but had become such a popular film star by this time that she was unable to accept the role.
Love her or loathe her, her 2011 album will forever be linked to this period in history, a period that gays made huge leaps in power and gaining equal rights starting in the early 2010s. The song "Born This Way" will be forever remembered when looking back at this time in history. It'll be used as a backdrop in documentaries about this era. It got a whole generation that is pro-gay to become activists (NOH8, anti-bullying, etc). What else will be linked to this historic period in time for gay rights when it comes to pop culture? "Modern Family"? Obama will have his face plastered in history books when it comes to the first sitting president to advocate for marriage equality, and not only that, a sitting president making the statement in an election year! What else? A different lover is not a sin Believe capital H-I-M I love my life, I love this record and Mi amore vole fe yah I'm beautiful in my way, 'Cause God makes no mistakes I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way Don’t be a drag, just be a queen Whether life's disabilities Left you outcast, bullied or teased Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way No matter gay, straight or bi Lesbian, transgendered life I'm on the right track, baby I was born to survive I'm beautiful in my way 'Cause God makes no mistakes I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way, yeah
When marijuana eventually gets legalized throughout the US, do you think other drugs will take its place for Big Prisons, drug lords, etc.? Should we legalize the others, like crystal meth, heroin, etc.?
Who do we like, and who do we hate?
Dick dock was recently mentioned on another thread. I've spent some time in ptown but have never gone down there. Does anyone have any stories? Be them hot, creepy or gross...lol For those that do not know, dick dock is a popular cruising spot under the tea dance deck...
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Poof! Gone. Was it deleted because people started naming names and posting maps to their vacation house? I was curious to find out if any DL'ers ran into this group last week.
It starts tonight (7/13). From Guillermo del Toro and the guy who does Bate Motel. Starring Corey Stoll, the man with the biggest dildo collection I've ever seen! I'm interested. It's a vampire story that's NOT about some kind of love triangle.
until they have to turn her microphone off. Video at link.
Nancy Grace FREAKS OUT about porn on GMA when discussing the Oscar Pistorius case
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Curious as to how many people out there have needed extra help dealing with the crap in our world.
I'm thinking of things like MacArthur Park and One Less Bell to Answer. Melancholy, boppy seventies songs. Any ideaS? I'm making a play list.
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So many of them just vanish utterly when their time is up: Tom Chase, Travis Wade, Eric Hanson, Kevin Williams, Trent Reed, Jake Andrews, Zak Spears, Lane Fuller, Derek Cameron... all of them were big stars fifteen years ago and now you never hear about them. Chase, Andrews, Spears and Cameron all did some work in the last ten years, but I haven't heard of any work they've done for five years or more. Are they all escorts now? Or do they find jobs outside of the sex industry?
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What''s the dirt on this E! fashion guy? Does he have a boyfriend? How old is he?
Myth: Ann-Margaret Made Jews Into Lampshades. DRUNK WOMAN LEAVES DAVID DUCHOVNY IN VAGINA, REMOVED TEN YEARS LATER (Photos)
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I've always wondered how some people have a sexual aura about them without being naked or stupidly obvious about it (i.e. pursed lips, lidded eyes, etc.) Any ideas on what makes someone sensual?
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It's like the topic says: which male actors and celebrities are bisexual? I don't mean out bisexual like Alan Cumming but the ones who you know or who are rumored to be bisexual.
I need to show an Esther Williams musical as part of a gift for my grandmother. Now I know you queens aren't that old, but some of you seem to love old Hollywood. What was her best, or most entertaining musical, to show for a group party?
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Let me tell you about this woman that I worked with at an upscale Manhattan hotel.(Her pic is at link) Unattractive, crude, more than a few pounds overweight and very dishonest. Threw the race card out there whenever things didn't go her way. Her favorite expression if she got mad at someone is to say "They can suck my dick." Is so manly in her behavior and dress that once when she was in the public restroom in the lobby a concerned woman rushed up to the front desk to report that they had just spotted a man in the women's room. It was no man, it was this employee. Liked to have loud, threatening fights with her girlfriend Keisha on her cellphone in front of her co-workers during work time. Showed up at employee outings in appropriate attire and often swigging from liquor bottles. Got a male employee in big trouble for playfully referring to her as Whoopi because of her resemblance to Whoopi Goldberg. They both had a similar dreadlock hairstyle at the time. She ran to HR and claimed this employee was racist for calling her this.She quietly confided to some co-workers that the real reason she got the guy in trouble was because she felt Whoopi Goldberg is ugly and she was upset with the comparison. (For the record, WG is better looking than this woman.) Just stopped coming to work for more than two weeks and had her mother call in with some lame excuse for her even though she is a grown woman who should have called herself. Has only a HS education (don't even know if she ever managed to graduate) from a failing NYC public school. Every time, there was any type of managerial opening, she ran to HR to apply for it. She was totally unqualified for these posts but she felt she deserved them. Then when she didn't get the post, she'd have a chip on her shoulder blaming racism as the real reason. Finally, her suck-up boss and other cowardly powers that be gave her one of those meaningless Assnt. Mgr. titles just to keep her happy. She finally got into trouble for physically assaulting a Chinese menu guy that had been caught sneaking into the building and was slipping menus under guest room doors.The policy was to fill out a trespassing form, contact their bosses at the restaurant and if they are uncooperative then to call police. She decided instead to kick this tiny Asian guy's ass leaving him with bruises and cuts before calling the police. Management sent her home for the day but didn't end up firing her. I'm sure they didn't want it to appear that they were being racist. I could go on and on with other tales about this troublemaking walking disaster.I hate companies with spineless management that won't effectively confront these types of employees.
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I watched it earlier On Demand and thought it has potential. Did you like it?
Is it as good as it was pre-Katrina?
This story first appeared in the Aug. 1 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Jerry Levin knows how wrenching it can be to merge two giant media companies. In 2000, the then-CEO of Time Warner appeared onstage at a press conference with Steve Case, then-chairman of AOL, to announce a $164 billion merger. The news stunned both Hollywood and Wall Street. AOL Time Warner stock soon plummeted, shareholders revolted and Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner's current CEO, would later call the deal "the biggest mistake in corporate history." Now Time Warner is dealing with a new suitor in Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, which is offering $85 per share for TW, or $80 billion. And Levin, who now lives in Washington, D.C., and Maine and is involved in health care startups, acknowledges that such high-stakes Wall Street power plays can affect the fragile ecosystem of talent in the entertainment industry. "It's unsettling," says Levin. If Fox were to succeed in taking over Time Warner, "there will be this massive dislocation," he predicts. PHOTOS Saying Goodbye: TV Shows Ending During 2014-15 Season Many in Hollywood agree. If there's anything that creative types fear, it's uncertainty. And word that Murdoch, 83, is on the prowl for the home of Warner Bros., HBO and the Turner networks has sent a wave of anxiety through a town whose citizens perpetually dread unemployment. "You hear an announcement, you say, 'How is it going to affect me?' " admits CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves. He says he flashed back to 1989 when Warners bought Lorimar Television, where he then worked. "They kept two different television labels going for about a year and a half, and then they decided it didn't make sense to have two labels and they combined them." Producer Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad) concurs: "You're always worried, 'Is this going to reduce the number of buyers?' " Fox maintains that if a deal goes through, it would keep the Fox and Warners film and TV units (and their Century City and Burbank studio lots) separate, instead saving $1 billion in costs by combining sales and "backend" staffs. But not everyone is buying it. An exec at one of the two studios acknowledges that the proposed deal probably would be bad for filmmakers, saying, "There would be one less buyer." In fact, argues writer-producer Marshall Herskovitz (thirtysomething), a Fox-Time Warner combination only would underscore an industry trend. "We've seen in the last 15 years that the consolidation of these companies and their increasingly tight hold over intellectual property have a deleterious effect on the creative community," he says. Competition "has been diminished almost to the point of nonexistence. If Fox decides to pay screenwriters less money, Warners doesn't say, 'Great, look at the great screenwriters we can get.' Instead they say, 'Great, let's pay less money also.' Now imagine what happens if Fox and Warner Bros. are the same company." The two companies are viewed as having dramatically different cultures: The Fox film studio, which released 14 films in 2013 (plus eight via specialty label Fox Searchlight), is known for keeping a tight rein on budgets for everyone but favored filmmakers such as James Cameron. Warners, which released 18 films last year, has a reputation for investing heavily in filmmaker-driven tentpoles. On the TV side, WBTV, with 60 shows in production, is known for genre fare (Arrow) and broad comedy (The Big Bang Theory); 20th TV has about 40 shows, many edgier (Homeland, American Horror Story). PHOTOS Emmy Awards 2014: The Nominees Levin acknowledges that the media companies feel compelled to get larger to combat growing competition from such distributors as the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable and AT&T-DirecTV, both of which are awaiting government approval. But he points to a further complicating factor in the Fox culture -- the mercurial Murdoch. "Rupert is extremely bright," he says. "But if you cross somebody at Fox, you cross Murdoch. It's off with your head. And so, there's also that kind of financial gun held to people's heads." Fox, for instance, is home to the right-leaning Fox News, while Time Warner's CNN and HBO tend to feature left-leaning programming (CNN would be sold in a Fox deal). Others contend that the differences between the two studios have been exaggerated. Certainly, a current Fox hit like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, costing $170 million to produce, would not look out of place on the Warners slate. And in some ways, a merger could benefit the two movie studios. Even if some future Fox-TW entity kept its existing film units separate, it might merge its marketing and distribution operations, both domestically and internationally. The two studios currently compete head-to-head for key playdates around the world, and that influences the movies that get made. "Much of creative development is about winning that opening weekend, which is why you have more X-Men, more Hobbits, more Batmen. That is bad for filmmakers," one exec argues. But if the newly merged company had more control over where it placed its bets on the calendar, "you could program better," he says. And that, in turn, could lead to more confident counterprogramming and, potentially, riskier filmmaker-driven movies like Fox's The Fault in Our Stars or Warners' Gravity. As for the two studios' marquee properties, some execs are fantasizing about a future in which Fox's X-Men crossed over into a movie with Warners' DC Comics characters like Batman. PHOTOS Exclusive Portraits of 'Hercules' Star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Within the TV ranks, though, where Warners is the industry's biggest player, with its stable of blue-chip producers like Chuck Lorre and J.J. Abrams, few are greeting the prospect of a Fox takeover with any enthusiasm. Both Warners and 20th TV develop hundreds of scripts each year and sell shows to all broadcast and cable networks. But a merger could diminish the volume of development, which would translate into fewer jobs for writers, producers and actors and layoffs for executives. (A merger also could result in top projects being channeled to the Fox network from both WBTV and 20th TV, whose chiefs Dana Walden and Gary Newman recently expanded oversight to include Fox.) Consolidation on the TV side also likely would further the current trend toward talent developing scripts outside the traditional studio systems via upstarts like MRC (House of Cards), Gaumont (Hannibal), Alcon (Syfy's The Expanse) and more. These companies fund development, package projects and then take them to market, and more of them likely would spring up if Warner Bros. or 20th TV decreased output. One top agent predicts that the current merger uncertainty could even inhibit development at both studios. "Creative people don't want to go in and pitch until they see what is happening," the agent says. "At Fox right now there is a wait-and-see attitude; and to some extent with [Time Warner's most watched cable net] TNT because we want to make sure we know what is going to happen there." Few can predict how the various networks would coexist. Speculation is that Fox would use Turner's lucrative sports licensing deals for the NBA and Major League Baseball to better position its Fox Sports 1 network to compete with Disney's ESPN. PHOTOS Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films Many creatives, acknowledging that the merger talk is far above their pay grade, are adopting a wait-and-see attitude. "Right now, I don't think there's any impact on anything that's going on during what I'd call an intense period of speculation," cautions UTA co-founder Peter Benedek. "Until such time as the people you're selling to are different, there's no difference." But writer Tom Fontana, of TV's Oz, who has two limited series in development at Fox, expresses what might be the prevailing feeling in Hollywood: uncertainty mixed with skepticism. "I'm not business-savvy enough to fathom the full impact of a potential Time Warner-Fox merger," he says. "But whenever Mr. Murdoch is involved in anything this substantial, I go to Mass." Borys Kit and Georg Szalai contributed to this report.
How Rupert Murdoch-Owned Time Warner Would Impact Hollywood: Creatives Speak Out
This looks AWESOME!
Space Station 76 Pokes Fun at 1970s Futurism
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Where is the thread? Why was it deleted? We''re not allowed to talk about a gay reality TV show on a "gay" site? WTF?
Sophisticated mama, come on you disco lady, yeah, stay with me tonight, mama, yeah.
....and even she knows that she has ZERO talent?
I can already predict the results of the internal investigation: no one did anything illegal, because municipal police in the US are never found guilty of anything ever in internal investigations. Why do they even bother having them?
It would end in tears, right?
Big nose, big hands... I bet he has heavy, low-swinging cock 'n balls.
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It's being remade by New Line Cinema. Please help them cast it!
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Best Matt Damon movie ever. Agree or disagree?
LA has a large Russian Orthodox Jew population and they are always walking to church wearing those ridiculous hats and hair tendrils... I'm talking about the average Russian who wears jeans. I never hear them talking about God or church.
What's that line of dialog that sums up why men cheat? It's something like 'seeing himself reflected in young eyes.'
My, those were heady days.
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Is this a site for actual licensed massage therapists, or are these guys escorts?
For those of you in long term relationships, have you ever looked at your boyfriend/girlfriend and thought that you just can't fuck this person anymore. For whatever reason... Did you end up breaking up, cheating, or just going through the motions?
Do you think you''re a pretty good housekeeper?
As this board appears to be dominates by posta about New York, LA and "flyover states"..
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This list (see link) is almost ridiculous enough to make me think it's a hoax, but I've been on DataLounge long enough to know better. DLers, please share your thoughts on this woman's "allergies" to the likes of spearmint and "fish or seafood of any kind."
Why do people find this very dull part of the world appealing? There is NOTHING TO DO. And the nearest city is Waterbury!
Over the last few months I''ve axed plans to go out with at least two guys after they began talking about whatever reality trash they were watching.\ \ I know it''s a little extreme but it tells me right away, or so it would seem, that this is a guy I''ll never have much in common with intellectually. \ \ Is that a little too extreme or justified? Either way, I just can''t do it. I can''t date a guy who goes on and on about the "real housewives" or the "Kardashians" etc. etc. etc.
Tell it like it is, bitch!
I'm in the middle of this lurid mess. Instant camp classic. Fassbender goes down graphically on Penelope Cruz- but we don't even get to see The Dick! Cameron Diaz has hit the proverbial wall- HARD. She's lept right over "cougar" to "Granny Porn".
I am enjoying it thoroughly. Anyone watching? I like the actress playing the lead character and her clones, and really enjoy the gay foster brother (I've always had a thing for hot campy guys). Maria Doyle Kennedy does "woebegone and stern" very well (The Tudors; Downton), but I have a feeling she'll get a chance to show more as the foster mom/grandmother as this goes on. Is the setting supposed to be Toronto?
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The new season starts tonight... will it recover after the world's suckiest season finale last year? Will "Neverland" save this show? Will the spin-off survive? Will Henry be found and saved? Will Mr. Gold forever be evil? Does anyone in here still watch or care?
I think not!
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Which is your favorite cam site? What is it you like about it? Are you a paid or a lurking member?
I've been watching many of his films last few days and I think he's quite hot and do quite well in sexy, seductive roles. Does anyone like him or is a fan? What are your thoughts on him? I find the fantastic Four, an underrated film, he performed exceedingly well in it.
Who the fuck is that Rick Snyder lover Tiffany? Why are the Republicans trying to defeat their own, Kerry Bentivolio, by calling his Republican primary challenger a real conservative?
A wonderful introduction to the joys of Betty.......
Men obsessed with building muscles are significantly more likely to objectify women, be hostile toward women, and have sexist attitudes, new research finds. This link may come from their own negative body image, the scientists added. "We have previously found that men who hold stronger oppressive beliefs are more likely to think that thinner women are attractive," study researcher Viren Swarmi, of the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, told LiveScience in an email. This sexism and objectification by men can lead to a more negative body image for women, can hinder women in the workplace and can even cause women to perform worse on cognitive tests.
Older for sure. I always find men in their 30's sexy. Their masculinity is full-fledged at that point. I don't like younger men which I think is why I don't like Bieber. He's a perpetual 13 year old. Thoughts?
Isn't time to kind of give him a rest. He will be appearing on next season's Arrow. Why does DC have such a hard on for him? It is getting nearly as bad as their previous obsession with Jaime Reyes.
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Now that I'm living "back home" in Pennsyltucky, I thought I'd check out the local gay pride celebration today. But when I looked on the website, I was appalled at all the *rules* of proper attire and behavior listed for the event! Ugh! I said to myself. There's nothing the Germans (this area is heavily influenced by the PA Dutch, i.e., German, culture) love more than rules. Hell, tell these people to jump, and they'll compete to see who jumps the highest. This part of PA is a Republican stronghold. So, I'm walking my dog around the block, and I see a gaggle of gays/lesbians chatting about how wonderful and "kid friendly" gay pride is this year -- not like (in hushed tones) laaast year, and thank God they got it cleaned up so our children could attend. Needless to say, all of this crew had children. Hell, the one gay male couple are about to get four siblings next week, and they also have a grown adopted daughter who just got her M.A. I couldn't believe it. I was taking to the one guy (see four siblings, above), and I told him that all the things he loved about this year's pride are the reasons I would never go to it. As far as I'm concerned, that's not gay pride -- that's gay shame. I told him that gay pride should be and is meant to be an adult event -- leave the children at home! I'm not going to gay pride to celebrate your pseudo-hetero lifestyle, married with kids. What say you, DLers?? Oh -- and be sure to check out the attire rules (as well as the other rules, on the previous page) on their website.
Gay Pride? (I know -- tl;dr, but give it a try anyway).
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Is anyone as excited as me to see it this weekend?
Inspired by the "Comic-Con 2012 - Wolverine" thread. This is one of my favorites--three superheroes in an elevator. Look closely and you'll notice they're wearing only boots and the tiniest of briefs (and nothing else).
He has to have at least lurked here, if not posted, at least in the past. Right?
This delicious trade was caught in an altercation in a cheap Vegas room in what police said was an "uncle-nephew" relationship -- and it's got Momma's mussy SELF-BASTING like a rotisserie chicken!
This thread is dedicated to my future gay husbands, Nathan Owens and Charles Michael Davis!
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Legit condition, or way over self-diagnosed by people who crave attention? Thoughts?
Or Wolferine, if you prefer. Hot or not?
Holy crap! 24% on Rotten Tomatoes, and hard core sex scenes. I'm not sure Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, and John Gielgud can survive this one.
(From a discussion on the Janet Jackson thread....) Could it really be true? Was there a time when Bono was actually attractive - or you thought he was? Is there a time when Bono was something other than a pretentious twat?
Savile told hospital staff he performed sex acts on corpses in Leeds mortuary Former TV presenter said he posed with bodies in lewd positions and stole glass eyes, Broadmoor nurse tells investigators Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary. The late Top of the Pops presenter had free access to the mortuary from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, an official investigation has found, concluding that Savile's interest in the deceased was "not within accepted boundaries". One former Broadmoor nurse told investigators that Savile claimed to have performed sex acts on bodies and "mucked about" in the mortuary, posing in photographs with the deceased after placing them in lewd positions. The former nurse said: "He [Savile] was saying that they used to put the bodies together, male and female, and he also said that they took photographs and also that he got involved in some of the photographs … I was a little bit upset because I had no concept, in those days, of necrophilia. Several of the Broadmoor patients would have been diagnosed with that, but I didn't fully understand what it meant, and partway through I just wandered off. "[Savile] talked about gamaroosh ... It means oral sex ... that he [Savile], he would go down on them and gamaroosh and muck about." Separately, the independent investigation was told that Savile had removed glass eyes from the bodies and used them as jewellery. One witness said: "I looked at his hands and he had these gross, big silver rings with bulbous things and I sort of went, 'Yes, mm,' always be polite to your superstar, 'Yes, Jim.' And he said: 'D'you know what they are? They are glass eyes from dead bodies in Leeds mortuary where I work and I love working there, and I wheel the dead bodies around at night and I love that.'" Savile was said to have been best friends with the chief mortician of Leeds general infirmary, who is now dead, and had regular unsupervised access to the mortuary from the late 70s until the mid-90s. The investigation, published by the Department of Health, established that Savile had publicly disclosed his interest in the dead, that he was friends with the chief mortician, and that there was a lack of stringent procedures regarding access to the mortuary until the late 80s at the earliest. It concluded: "In light of the claims about the glass eye jewellery and Savile's interference with the bodies of the deceased, it is evident his interest in the mortuary was not within accepted boundaries." A Home Office pathologist confirmed to the inquiry that it would have been possible for Savile to pose with the bodies before the rigor mortis stage, a chemical change which causes a corpse's limbs to become stiff. Dr Jennifer Bolton told the investigators: "A degree of posing would be possible with some support of the body in the pre-rigor mortis phase and by the simple laying of one body on top of another once rigor mortis was fully established.
For years he was the meanest film and (especially) theater critic in New York, obsessing in his reviews about how physically unattractive actors were (especially Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, and Wallace Shawn). It was incredibly amusing to read this unrestrained bitchiness, but it did seem very unprofessional.\ \ Why did New York magazine let him get away with being so nasty?
I remember Sting from a vanity project about his life when his wife was giving birth to one of their kids. While she was grunting and groaning in the background like constipated wolverine, the camera lingered on him as the "slap and cry" confirmed the birth. The camera moved in, and a single tear trickled down from Sting's eye, as in: This is all about me. "Look at me! I'm emotional. What a performance! One of my best." I liked The Police but rarely listen to Sting anymore. He is one of the most pretentious pop stars out there and now he wants to brag in the international press how he's going to shaft his kids. He's a roadshow Warren Buffet. “I told them there won’t be much money left because we are spending it! We have a lot of commitments. What comes in, we spend, and there isn’t much left. I certainly don’t want to leave them trust funds that are albatrosses round their necks. They have to work. All my kids know that and they rarely ask me for anything, which I really respect and appreciate.”
These Right Wing Christian Charities are extremely critical of Obama Would you support the President if he asked the IRS to audit all all these right wing Christian Charities? After all why should they get tax breaks, when all they do is criticize Obama. Why should they get a tax break for that?
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Portia seems particularly fed up. Or will America's fave lesbian couple separate quietly to save face? Can you imagine if they split up? It'll be Iggygate x1000 on ellen's show everyday. Of course, that's assuming ellen doesn't dump Portia for a younger, prettier girl, as is her pattern.
If Woody Allen had written this as a parody, it would be acclaimed as brilliant.
Instagram narcissist/exhibitionist Cody Deal addresses accusations of narcissism in new blog post
The Holocaust deniers must be jumping for joy... Did the Nazis make lampshades out of human skin? June 4, 2004 Dear Cecil: Now, I'm no Holocaust denier. I firmly believe the Holocaust occurred and the Nazis committed great atrocities during WWII. What I have a hard time believing is the accusation that Nazis made lampshades from human skin. Genocide is repulsive, but making lampshades out of human skin is more in line with what crazy serial killers do. I can see Nazis experimenting on Jews for their research and stealing their gold teeth for money, but what would they do with a lampshade made from human skin? Bring it back home as a gift to the hausfrau? Is this just an urban legend born out of Allied propaganda, or is there any truth to this? — Andres, via e-mail Cecil replies: At first I was skeptical about your skepticism, Andres. You're saying that methodically exterminating five to six million people, performing bizarre experiments on them, and plundering their bodies is, at some level, comprehensible, but making lampshades out of their skin — now that's crazy. Personally I wasn't seeing any great leap, depravitywise. However, on investigation, I think you may be right. While the Nazis kept many grisly mementos of their victims, including tattooed skin, the lampshade claim may be a myth. By far the best-known account of human souvenirs comes from the camp at Buchenwald. Here's the story as best I can piece it together: (1) Even by Nazi standards, Buchenwald was out of control. Its original commandant, Karl Koch, was by all accounts corrupt and cruel. Inmates loathed him and his apparently sadistic wife, Ilse, whom they dubbed "the Witch of Buchenwald." Meanwhile, medical personnel were keeping human souvenirs — in 1942 SS higher-ups ordered them to quit making "gifts" such as shrunken heads. A story arose that Ilse had had tattooed prisoners killed so lampshades and other articles could be made from their skin. (2) In 1943 the SS conducted an internal investigation and tried the Kochs on charges including embezzlement and incitement to murder. (Karl had arranged for the shooting of two inmates who knew he'd contracted syphilis — the SS brass, if not necessarily the rank and file, paid at least lip service to the notion that prisoners weren't to be killed frivolously.) The SS judge, Konrad Morgen, found Karl guilty and ordered his execution, but acquitted Ilse. Later at her war crimes trial Morgen testified that a thorough search of her home found no human-skin lampshades or the like. Ilse didn't live at Buchenwald after 1943. (3) Shortly after U.S. troops liberated Buchenwald in 1945, director Billy Wilder made a documentary about the camp to publicize Nazi atrocities. A widely circulated still photo from the film showed a table covered with preserved human remains, including two shrunken heads; several pieces of what appears to be tattooed skin; and an ordinary-looking table lamp. The film's narration says that among the items found was "a lampshade, made of human skin, made at the request of an SS officer's wife." The press went nuts, and soon the lampshade became emblematic of Nazi barbarism. (4) Ilse Koch and others from Buchenwald were tried in 1947 for war crimes. Prosecutors submitted as evidence a shrunken head and three pieces of tattooed human skin but apparently no lampshade. Much of the testimony against Koch was hearsay, although at least one former inmate said he'd seen a tattooed-skin lampshade. Koch was convicted, but her life sentence was commuted on review, in part because of doubts about the witnesses' credibility. She was later tried by a German court, again sentenced to life, and committed suicide in prison in 1967. (5) Five pieces of tattooed skin are kept at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) and one at the National Archives (NA), both federal facilities in the D.C. area. All six items are from Buchenwald; three have been positively identified as human, and another is now being tested. The NA item was once labeled "human skin lampshade," but an archivist there says it has no perforations or other indications of such use. Two of the NMHM items have holes on the left side as though from a hole punch. A third, which is large and irregularly shaped, has pinholes around the perimeter at one- to three-centimeter intervals. How the holes got there is unknown, but a photo shows the skins stuck up on an exhibit board at Ilse Koch's 1947 trial. The NMHM curator reserves judgment, but to me nothing suggests these items were part of a lampshade. The lamp from the movie still has vanished; however, as photographed it doesn't match the lamp described by witnesses at the trial — it has no visible markings at all. Absent compelling evidence to the contrary, I tend to the view that appalled liberation forces heard the survivors' tales, found the tattooed-skin souvenirs, and thought: Whoa, lampshades. In short, the story may be a legend. Deniers will now claim: That proves the Holocaust didn't happen! No, it doesn't, losers. All it means is that, even in a gamy business like this, it's still possible to separate fiction from fact. Late addition Occasionally you hear about human-skin lampshades in private collections. I won't claim to have surveyed the field, but I did speak to Norm Sauer, a professor of forensic anthropology at Michigan State University. Professor Sauer was part of a team of experts that a few years ago examined a number of alleged human souvenirs that had been donated to the Holocaust Memorial Center, now located in Farmington Hills, MI. Among the items were a lampshade (and it really was a lampshade, consisting of panels on a wire frame), two chess sets, and a bar of soap, along with some collections of ashes, bone fragments, and so on. Although some of the bone fragments did appear to be human, most and possibly all of the household objects were not. The chess sets were made of animal but not human bone; the lampshade possibly was deer or goat but not human skin. Tests of the soap were inconclusive. (The alleged practice of rendering human fat into soap is a story unto itself; the common opinion now seems to be that while it may have been made experimentally once, human soap was never produced in quantity.) You never know what will turn up, but without tests, don't assume that just because a lampshade or other item is claimed to be of human origin, it is. Update In The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans (2010), New York magazine contributing editor Mark Jacobson tells of a lampshade discovered in the wreckage of post-Katrina New Orleans that testing showed to be made of human skin. (Here's an excerpt.) According to a Publishers Weekly review quoted on Amazon, "evidence linking it to famous allegations that Nazis made lampshades from concentration camp victims is scanty, and Holocaust museum curators dismiss such claims." — Cecil Adams
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Ben McKenzie to Play Young Commissioner Gordon in Fox’s Batman Origin Series February 8, 2014 | 02:30PM PT AJ Marechal, TV Reporter “Gotham” has found its Detective James Gordon. Fox and Warner Bros. TV have tapped Ben McKenzie to star in “Gotham,” casting the “Southland” alum as a young version of DC Comics’ famed Commissioner Gordon. Fox topper Kevin Reilly announced at the net’s winter TCA session that “Gotham” will feature the origin story of Gordon along with Gotham City’s notable villains. A young Bruce Wayne will also be featured, as “Gotham” follows Wayne from his pre-teen years to the moment when it puts on the Batman cape for the first time. Bruno Heller penned the pilot script for “Gotham,” which has a series commitment at Fox. He will exec produce with Danny Cannon, who also helmed the pilot. McKenzie is no stranger to the Fox family, as the thesp landed his breakout role on the net’s sudsy drama “The O.C.” McKenzie also has experience working in the Batman universe, having voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in 2011 animated pic “Batman: Year One.” The actor is repped by CAA, Management 360 and PJ Shapiro, Ziffren and Brittenham.
Ben McKenzie to Play Young Commissioner Gordon in Fox’s Batman Origin Series
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Which are the least active? What are the reasons for the relative activity or lack of activity?
Well? We know it's mostly British influenced films, but what other non-white culture had the greatest influence on Hollywood.
BEHIND closed doors, a furious Tom Cruise is at the center of two explosive scandals that could blow the lid off his private life, The National ENQUIRER has learned. While the Hollywood megastar has long insisted that he is not homosexual, nightmare rumors – said to be about the 52-year-old father of three – about his sexuality have made it into print. The incredible claims and outrageous allegations involve same sex love affairs, and appear in author Amy Sohn’s blockbuster book “The Actress,” which its publisher has promoted as a “big, juicy literary novel.” But The ENQUIRER can reveal that “The New York Times” and other websites have labeled the book a “roman a clef” – a novel about real people clothed as fiction – and they claim its main character is three-times divorced Cruise! In “The Actress,” Sohn offers a thinly veiled version of Cruise’s life, complete with sham marriages and “fake looking relationships with women,” say reports. Now sources close to Cruise have told of the Hollywood icon’s secret anguish at the sex slurs. Privately, he is blasting the latest lies and false claims that threaten to taint his straight-arrow image. “Tom is fit to be tied!” said an insider. “He is upset when fabricated stories about him are published as if they were the truth. He’s also upset that this novel suggests he is leading a closeted homosexual life.” Referring to the novel’s main character in its July 7 review, “The New York Times” said “obviously he is modeled on Mr. Cruise.” But the article also pointed out that the character, unlike Cruise, isn’t associated with the controversial religion Scientology. The character “has no religious affiliation with a famously litigious church that might go after the author or publisher,” the review noted. An insider added: “Tom must be beside himself over this book. It dredges up all the old gay rumors once again. This is a headache that will simply not go away!” Adding to the big-screen icon’s woes, a lawsuit involving his former Scientology auditor and the church’s legal affairs adviser, Marty Rathbun, could reveal even more secrets, said the source. The suit is set to be heard by a judge in Texas, and was filed against Scientology by Rathbun’s wife, Monique. In it, Rathbun claims she was harassed and even followed to work. Tom with Church of Scientology leader, David Miscavige Chad Slater made false statements about the actor’s sexuality “Marty previously claimed that Scientology spied on the actor’s every move,” added the insider. “If Tom is called to testify in the case, he could face some serious questioning about his private life – and it could settle the issue of whether or not Tom is gay.” Marty Rathbun was a Scientologist for 27 years. At one point, his title was “Inspector General of the Religious Technologies Center.” Before leaving the church in 2004, Rathbun, 57, conducted “audits” – a form of Scientology counseling – with a slew of celebrity members, including Cruise. In an interview with London’s “Independent,” Rathbun said Tom invited him to L.A. for auditing sessions in 2001 while the actor was divorcing his second wife, Nicole Kidman. At the time, the “Top Gun” star was also battling gay porn actor Chad Slater over outrageous, false statements about his sexuality. Cruise – who vigorously pursues those who question his sexual orientation – took on Slater after the hunk was quoted in a French magazine as saying he had an affair with Cruise. Slater later recanted. Experts say it’s possible information about Cruise’s private life could be divulged during testimo- ny in Monique’s court case. Top attorney Alison Triessl, who is not involved in the suit but studied it for The ENQUIRER, said: “Any conversation they (Rathbun and Cruise) had during the course of their friendship outside of the auditing process, regardless of how personal they may have been, may very well come out at trial.” Another former Scientologist agreed that Tom has plenty to fear if Rathbun testifies. “As Tom’s auditor, Marty knows everything about him. Nothing is hidden,” Margery Wakefield, who wrote the book “Testimony” about her Scientology experience, told The ENQUIRER. Scientology may also have maintained a secret file on Cruise, said a source. As The ENQUIRER reported in August 2013, a Scientology staffer reportedly provided Scientology leader David Miscavige with detailed, daily reports about the Cruise household for years, former officials said. Later, Cruise – without his knowledge or consent – was reportedly secretly videotaped via hidden cameras during his “auditing sessions.” The ENQUIRER also reported that ex Katie Holmes was also audited, according to sources, and the church has those tapes as well. Those tapes were also personally delivered to Miscavige, according to former Scientologist Claire Headley. “David seemed to know everything,” the source added. “And some of those secrets have the possibility of emerging in the Rathbun lawsuit.” ‘WE NEVER DISCLOSE SECRETS’- CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Responds -- A lawyer for the Church of Scientology has blasted Rathbun to The National ENQUIRER in the past, saying he has “pursued his personal vendetta against” the church for years, “making numerous false, defamatory statements.” The lawyer also charged that Rathbun admitted he perjured himself in a court case involving Scientology. Reps from the church pointed out that auditors are Scientology ministers who “have a duty to keep such communications secret, much like a Roman Catholic priest has a religious obligation not to divulge the contents of confessions.” In the past, a church rep has also told The ENQUIRER: “The church treats the secrets of parishioners imparted to it as sacrosanct. It never discloses them.” The church has also previously denied that it audiotaped or videotaped subjects without their consent. Nor does the church keep “secret files” on its members.
Since the other threads are closed, here's a new one!
I really loved both the novel and movie of Up the Down Staircase! Bel Kaufman, a former New York City schoolteacher whose classic first novel, “Up the Down Staircase” — shot through with despair and hopefulness, violence and levity, bureaucratic inanity and a blizzard of official memorandums so mind-bendingly illogical as to seem almost Kafkaesque — was hailed as a stunningly accurate portrait of life in an urban school when it was published in 1965, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 103.
Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103
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People will bitch about my saying it, but the U.S. media is becoming dangerously controlled, influenced by and populated with Brits. From the NBC News president to news network talking heads to satirists to magazine, newspaper, blog editors and now presidents of major networks, able to influence coverage and public opinion. Sure, Aussies are there also, but it's Brits that are becoming a dominant force in fifth estate (U.S. media). No other country on Earth would allow such a strong positioning of Americans into their news media. Why isn't this ever talked or written about? It may seem harmless and, for now, it may be. But this is a risky thing to allow in the long run. The Brits are no doubt our friends and close cousins of American society, but in many ways, we're allowing our media to become compromised by outside influence.
I nominate The Big Cube, an LSD scare film from the 60s. It's so camp.
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Let this next story serve as a cautionary tale for those of you who like to play with sex toys while drunk! A 38-year-old went to hospital complaining of fatigue, severe weight loss and lethargy. Upon a closer examination, doctors discovered a 5-inch sex toy that had been pushing up against her bladder for 10 years, the Daily Mail reports. Doctors were shocked to discover a strange foreign body protruding into her bladder from her vagina. Surgical removal of the item at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary revealed it to be a five inch (11cm)-long sex toy. Medical staff were even more taken back when the woman revealed she had used the sex toy with her partner ten years ago. She also admitted she was under the influence of alcohol at the time – and claimed she couldn’t remember removing it or not. The woman had a normal IQ, no signs of depression or psychosis and had not been subject to any abuse, according to the case report. But the sex toy had caused her potentially life-threatening damage. [A previous case report from 2009 describes how doctors discovered a 3 x 5 cm foreign body in a 72-year-old woman's vagina - but she and the doctors were unable to work out what is was] … After removing the sex toy, doctors managed to repair the damage and the woman was later discharged. One doctor at the hospital, who was not willing to comment on the patient’s specific case, confirmed it was highly unusual for such a large foreign object to go unnoticed in the majority of instances – by patients or their partners. This is because the vagina is full of nerve endings and is extremely sensitive, he says. The patient’s case – reported in The Journal of Sexual Medicine – is the first time a sex toy has been left inside a woman for as long as a decade.
DRUNK WOMAN LEAVES VIBRATOR IN VAGINA, REMOVED 10 YEARS LATER (Photos)
So many of them are hot, nice, and down to earth. They look like they'd make great bfs. They take their jobs (and thankfully their workout routines) seriously, but aren't bullies with a badge, which essentially characterizes cops. How can I meet a gay fireman tod date? Where do they hang out in New York City?
Just a few years ago, this jack-toothed queen was being arrested for sucking cock and buying coke/crack in Central Park. Now, he's like the British Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Omnipresent, refusing to go away, perpetually employed because, somehow, for some reason, he is considered their "aviation expert".. (Maybe he was a pilot at one point, or some air industry exec.?) He's a typical Brit, loving to sensationalize and tabloid'ize every sub-story of every story. Yesterday, he actually interrupted Anderson Cooper by saying, regarding the air crash victims' bodies being returned to the Netherlands: "You know Ahndasun, today, we are ALL DUTCH!" - He was obviously ripping-off the famous French headline from 9/11, but he said it with such pride, certain he would make headlines for having come up with it, that you could see he was bursting with self satisfaction. Why is this person here? What is it about ethically questionable, universally disliked Brits that CNN insists on forcing upon us?
She's the one that doesn't believe in vaccinations.
I hate my fucking job and my boss and I don''t know how much longer I can take it without doing something rash.\ \ I have been actively looking for a new job, but haven''t gotten a response from any of the ones I''ve applies for and there''s not a lit out there right now.
Frustrated and ready to have my Dr take me out on disability
New show on SyFy... you have to think that the double-entendre was done on purpose, right?
At first thought, I''d think it would be the straight guy, since he''s built to be dominant and fucks pussy on a regular basis, but on second thought, the straight guy may want to play a submissive role when he''s with a man, just to have a nice change from being the dominant one with pussy. Your thoughts on the matter?
Grab an umbrella; Old Man Winter; like a sauna; a cool-down; black ice; rumbles of thunder; get out and enjoy the sun; you'll need your sunglasses; thermometer heading up; football weather; soggy; just a sprinkle; you'll need a jacket; a scorcher; bus stop weather tomorrow
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It might be the worst film adaptation of a pretty good Broadway musical ever. I understand that John Huston hated the song "Tomorrow" and would only allow it sung over the credits. But why did he and the producers take so many of the show's other good songs (like "NYC" and the title song) out and replace them with such shit like "We Got Annie" and "Let's Go to the Movies" and "Dumb Dog"? Why did they film the Warbucks mansion in what looked to be a giant mausoleum? Why were the choreographed numbers so chaotic and filmed with so many zillions of children? In case you've forgotten the horror, here's "We Got Annie."
What Uber happened to them? Some day, very soon, the competition from advanced eugenics will destroy every yellow-skinned white man in every city in every country. These yellow-skinned white men are worth neatly a million dollars a day because they are so rare.
She thinks everything is tremendous. But I don't know who she is. A Gumm sister?
It's strange how the 70s are to us what the 30s were to 70s. Misty, watercolor memories, indeed.
The line between parody and reality is so thin when it comes to rich, fabulous, screaming people, so we're interested to see how Hulu's upcoming original series Hotwives of Orlando succeeds at skewering the eminently skewer-able. Between Casey Wilson, Kristen Schaal, and the catchphrase "I'm so good at being Phe Phe," it has a lot of promise. The series takes you inside the uber-exclusive and glamorous world of six "hot housewives" in Central Florida's sexiest city, Orlando. The show follows the ladies as they fight over pretty much everything except for their love of shoes, plastic surgery, and the pursuit of spending all of their husbands' money. This upcoming series is part of Hulu's foray into original scripted programming. The first season will begin airing on July 15, 2014. The show is a scripted parody of the reality television franchise The Real Housewives on Bravo.
Is he so self hating that he's killing himself with drugs to hide all the pain.
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Read the "Whoops! Hamas broke the ceasefie" thread title as "Whoopi broke the ceasefire" I need to stop drinking
According to a University of British Columbia study, New York is the unhappiest U.S. city (out of cities with a population greater than a million). Pittsburgh is SECOND. Louisiana has three entries in the top ten of happy metropolitan areas (Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport). Those cajuns must know something about good living.
New York is the unhappiest city in the U.S.
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Will they ever pay Louis Burgdorf what he is worth in drawing power for the lead that clearly is propping up sleeveless and the squint in the morning. It does get boring just Meeka just sit there and snap in and out of the day dreams about all the food she is depriving herself of...
There seems to be conflicting information. Some people say exercise on an empty stomach, because they believe you'll burn more calories. Others say exercise after eating so you have the energy to exercise. What are your opinions and experiences?
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It's so big he's licking the head and chatting at the same time! Online NOW!
As requested here is a new gym sex thread...
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Never mind your personal favorites and who you have a fondness for. Who are the actresses who have caught the imagination of audiences and the business, affected how other actresses look at their acting, and spun imitators? I say, for starters (and I don't even much like some of them): Faye Dunaway Julie Christie Julia Roberts Jodie Foster Who else? (In the period immediately before this, and into this period, too, there also were Audrey Hepburn - enormously influential - and Liz Taylor, among others.)
Patsy Stone Pam from "True Blood" Cristal Connors Helen Lawson I think there's a pattern here...
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From Another thread Self-taught multi-media artist Siobhan Meow is infamous for collaborating with her cats in the creation of artworks and using their feces, urine, and fur as materials. Since the 1990s, Meow has been rescuing cats—at one point, housing as many as 100—and thinking of them as muses for her paintings, ceramic sculptures, and photography. ABOUT SIOBHAN MEOW Self-taught multi-media artist Siobhan Meow is infamous for collaborating with her cats in the creation of artworks and using their feces, urine, and fur as materials. Since the 1990s, Meow has been rescuing cats—at one point, housing as many as 100—and thinking of them as muses for her paintings, ceramic sculptures, and photography. She summarizes the focus of her work as “Feline Portraiture and Character Studies.” Meow is also known for her involvement in a squat house in New York’s East Village, from which she runs a rescue and foster care facility called Furry Love Kitten Kat Farm.
Streep has a house in Tricase, Puglia. I believe Helen Mirren, Gerard Depardieu, and Evan Green also own houses in Puglia. Fantastic region. Where else do celebs have foreign homes?
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Model for Seinfeld's Kramer sues writers.
In preparation for spring training and the 2014 MLB season. ----- 2014 HOF Maddux, Glavine, Thomas elected to Hall of Fame Braves pitchers, White Sox slugger make it on first ballot; Biggio falls just shy
Robin Williams is Eisenhower! James Marsden is Kennedy! John Cusack is Nixon! Jane Fonda is Nancy! Oprah is... someone who is not Oprah! Yes, it looks as bad as it sounds on paper!
Frauleins, do you know where your hubbies are today? Not golfing... Married guy breeds tatpig (NSFW)
Suki : where were you last night until 3am? Coop: Just out walking. Why are you being such a bitch?
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What would make your list?\ \ Mine would have to be:\ \ (in no particular order)\ \ GHOST\ \ PRETTY WOMAN\ \ BEACHES\ \ DIRTY DANCING\ \ FORREST GUMP
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07/14/2014 Back in April we reported that James Franco was set to play Michael Glatze, founder of the (now shuttered) gay twink magazine XY and the short-lived publication Young Gay America who went "ex-gay" and became a poster boy for that movement. Now Variety reports that Zachary Quinto and Emma Roberts have signed on to the film: Quinto will play the former boyfriend of Franco’s character. Roberts is set to reteam with her “Palo Alto” co-star as his girlfriend. Chris Zylka (“The Amazing Spider-Man,” “Piranha 3DD”) is also attached to the film as another past love interest. The script for “Michael” is based on “My Ex-Gay Friend,” a New York Times Magazine article by Benoit Denizet-Lewis (author of “Travels with Casey”) about Michael Glatze, a Christian minister from Wyoming who was so entrenched in gay culture before rejected his homosexuality, he founded a gay youth magazine. Justin Kelly will direct. Gus van Sant is the executive producer, along with producers James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Michael Mendelsohn, Ron Singer and Scott Reeve.
Zachary Quinto Signs on to James Franco Film About 'Ex-Gay' Activist Michael Glatze
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This show is DL catnip. Any thoughts? Anyone sampled Ross?
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I've become increasingly curious about it. I'm still gay, but it's a freak curiosity. Any of you done it? Discuss.
This city is FULL of single gay men, all ages, and very few of them seem to ever couple up long-term. They were single years ago, single today, and will be single a decade from now. They seem to be nice enough guys, OK looking, can be social in conversation. I keep wanting to match them up with each other Yenta-style, but they would either recoil with disgust or give me a confused blank look. What's the main reason? Poll...
As I understand it, George Bush & Congress passed a law intended to reduce the problem with sex-trafficking. Minors from Central American are now using the enticement of a loophole in that law to flee violence and sexual exploitation in their home countries, and stay in this country longer than they otherwise would have. Obama has deported more undocumented immigrants than any other president, but is stuck enforcing this law. He has asked Congress for funds to manage the influx of these youngsters, and The Rs in the House, so far, refuse to put up the money. Have I got this right? How is this Obama's fault, not that the lack of fault ever stopped the Rs from attacking him?
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I've finally embraced my atheism and am interested in expressing a philosophy of kindness and reason toward other people. 1)What are the best ways to do this and 2) If you don't believe in a higher supernatural power, what holidays do you celebrate and how?
well, this sucks. I saw an ad online for a speed dating night in weho and I thought I'd check it out. Turns out I'm two years too old to go. Yes, like DC Comics, I'm the new 52. I thought, eh, I look a few years younger; I can go. Then I read the fine print in the ad that strongly urged anyone out side of the age range not to come. "We have other events for other age ranges." I'm thinking, 'what? 51 to 65 or 70?' I know this happens to everyone re: getting old. But it's so depressing! I feel like I wasted the best part of my life by not trying harder. But then people say don't try. Just live your life and you'll meet someone. That doesn't always happen though. Maybe I can still become rich and just buy someone.
This might end up being very very good.
Mad Max Starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron - Comic-Con First Look
Go Colty!
Mayor Rob Ford was the only member of council to vote Thursday against a proposal for a Cyndi Lauper type True Colors LGBT homeless shelter He did not explain his opposition, either in public or to other members of council. The 37-1 vote came just a day after Ford refused to stand during a council ovation for the organizers of the World Pride festival. He said later that he is “not homophobic,” but he would not explain why he did not join his colleagues in applause. Ford has barely concealed his antagonism to the gay community. Though he has always insisted that he is not homophobic, he has become more open about his feelings over the last year — drawing accusations that he is attempting to bait anti-gay voters. He used a homophobic slur to describe Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in the 2013 video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine. He made an emotional and unsuccessful effort this winter to get the city to take down the rainbow Pride flag it raised during the Olympics in solidarity with the gay community in Russia. He admitted at the beginning of his campaign that he skips the Pride festival out of personal preference, not strictly because of his schedule. And he has objected to AIDS/HIV funding saying "It is very preventable, if you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably, that’s bottom line.” “These are the facts, “How are women getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bi-sexual men,”
And her job is to critique fashion? Bitch, please!
Name them. I'll start with Jesse Metcalfe. Inspired by the "Young Moobs" thread.
Here we go.
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A famous restaurant in New York City decided to hire a firm to figure out why they kept getting bad reviews. What this firm discovered is quite interesting. Below is a transcript that the restaurant posted on Craigslist after they discovered what it was...
Restaurant Research Shows That the Customer Isn't Always Right
Seth Green, Daniel Radcliffe, David Archuleta, George Stephanopoulos, Elijah Wood, Emile Hirsch, Johnny Galecki, Martin Short, Tom Cruise...
This woman is the ultimate frau. For those of you who work with fraus: have you heard about this late night tv ad sensation..."Dump Cakes" and "Dump Dinners"?
Who is Kathy Mitchell and why is she pushing "Dump Cakes" on us?
Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristy Swanson doesn''t agree with Joss Whedon that revisiting the 1992 movie is a bad idea.\ \ In fact, the 40-year-old actress is touting for a role in Warner Brothers'' remake.\ \ "If they wanted me to be a part of it, I think that would be fantastic and that it would be a blast," she told Entertainment Weekly.\ \ Her enthusiam isn''t shared by Buffy creator Whedon, whose response to the remake announcement came via a sardonic written statement to E! Online, in which he called it "a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths."\ \ But Swanson has no such reservations, adding: "There are die-hard Joss Whedon fans who absolutely love him to death, and rightly so; he''s a brilliant man, no doubt. I love everything Buffy. I don''t care who''s doing it."\ \ Swanson''s co-star Luke Perry has so far declined to give his reaction.
Original Buffy Kristy Swanson Fishes for a Job with the Buffy Reboot
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To start this thread off: this is not a peane (he said peen, huh huh huh) to prison rape. Not at all. I just watched the movie "Snitch" starring the Rock. I know this was fiction, but we all know it happens every day. He had to watch helplessly as (not literally, but he knew it was happening)his son was beaten and raped by hardened criminals. (The fact that the rapist was black was quite telling, BTW.) When young guys are sent to prison, why isn't there some kind of protection system set up with the prison managers that would look protect these kids from the lifers, killers and rapists? I don't know how these prison keepers sleep at night, knowing what is going on and that they could stop it. I know that they think that's not part of their job, but to know what's going on and just let these kids get victimized -- and almost always being infected with HIV -- is unfathomable to me, and more than that, just shameful.
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How did this woman ever become famous? It's hard to think of someone less remarkable than Joyce DeWitt. Her pineapple hairdo was far worse than Ann "Hold Me David I'm Scared" Romano's bundt cake hair. And while Chrissy was supposed to be the dumb one, Janet/Joyce always had this vaguely dumb/confused look on her face.
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Consumer Reports recently ranked the burgers and I had the opportunity to try the top two. \ \ In and Out which has been highly touted on this website was just not good, the meat was not flavorful or beefy tasting...it just seemed so lacking in every way. \ \ Even worse was the dry hockey puck served by 5 brothers. I was able to watch them cook my burger and they used the dreaded burger smasher that they claim keeps the patty bun sized in in actuality robs the patty of juice, fat, and flavor. They also REFUSED to salt my patty before placing it on the grill. If you want your meat salted it must be after cooking. The fries were nice, but the burger was all around BAD. \ \ If those are the top two I can''t imagine how disgusting McDonalds must be to rate at the bottom.
19-year-old Troye Sivan from Australia has up till now mostly been known as a child actor (he was the title star of a film trilogy co-starring John Cleese, and once played the young Wolverine) and popular YouTuber, but this week he's released his debut single, and it immediately went to the top of the iTunes charts all over the world. The same is true for his upcoming EP (on pre-orders alone). Time magazine and others are already calling him the next Bieber - but a better comparison would probably be with Lorde, since he writes his own songs, and his single has a melancholy feel to it. Though he's certainly beloved by teenage girls, who form the backbone of his fanbase - and are obviously undeterred in their fandom by the fact that he came out as gay a year ago.
Though he is not openly out, who is his bf?
Post them. In speedos, please.
No words.
DL fave Lee spent the night greeting fans camped outside of SDCC's Hall H. This lucky person, who was sleeping at the time, will get quite a surprise once they wake up.
Lucky Comic Con attendee gets photobombed by Lee Pace's pubes
Any fans of this show here? I've been watching some episodes of the show on hulu and many of them are very good.
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Probably one of the most tragic Hollywood stories. Hard to believe it's been more than a decade already since his suicide. Is it really true that he was suffering from depression as a side effect from some acne medication he was taking? Any gay or casting couch rumours about him?
For the first time in forever I don't have to go to work tomorrow. I work two jobs so that's rare. Can someone suggest a move (or tv show) for me to watch? Something light, perhaps funny, that doesn't require too much thought? Thanks!
Musical of film 'Rocky' knocked down on Broadway Associated Press, By MARK KENNEDY 1 hour ago NEW YORK (AP) — The Broadway musical "Rocky" is hanging up its gloves after being battered at the box office. Producers said Tuesday that the show will play its final performance at the Winter Garden Theatre on Aug. 17, after playing 28 previews and 188 regular performances. Based on the Oscar-winning 1976 film by Sylvester Stallone, the musical features a score by "Ragtime" veterans Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and a story by Thomas Meehan, who wrote "Hairspray." Alex Timbers directed. The musical stays close to the film, which charted the rise and romance of amateur boxer and debt collector Rocky Balboa, who gets his shot against an undefeated heavyweight champ. Andy Karl starred as the hero. The musical never took off after mixed to poor reviews, despite a spectacular final few minutes when the boxing ring is lowered onto the first few rows. It broke the $1 million-mark only once and lately was making only half its $1,263,688 potential. The show earned four Tony Award nominations but took home no wins. The closing notice comes a day after "Holler If Ya Hear Me," a musical that that uses Tupac Shakur songs, announced it would close on Sunday after finding little love at the box office.
Is this the new word virus? "Honestly" seems to punctuate just about every conversation. Why is this needless word so omnipresent? Is it the new "literally"?
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Alec Baldwin Scolded, Vows to Stay Out of Trouble in Court Appearance 11:28 AM PST 07/24/2014 by Hilary Lewis , The Associated Press The actor was told to "be a good boy from now on" by a Manhattan Criminal Court judge in his case stemming from Baldwin's May bike-riding arrest. Alec Baldwin was scolded by a judge and vowed to stay out of trouble during a Thursday court appearance in Manhattan stemming from his bike-riding arrest in May. Baldwin was charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly got belligerent with the police officers who said they stopped him for riding a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street. The 30 Rock alum appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court the same day as Shia LaBeouf, with whom he was set to share the Broadway stage last year in a revival of the play Orphans before LaBeouf left the show over "creative differences." Their shared court date was just a coincidence, but it paired stars who have become known for acting up, not just for acting. "Looks like you have a short fuse," Manhattan Criminal Court Judge John DeLury told Baldwin while looking over the allegations against him; they're violations, not crimes. After Baldwin repeatedly said he'd pay a fine for the May 13 encounter — though the judge said he was just asking for an apology — DeLury put the case on track to be dismissed if the actor avoids re-arrest for six months. It's a common outcome for low-level cases in Manhattan. "Can you stay out of trouble, Alexander?" DeLury asked. "Sure, sure," Baldwin said. "Be a good boy from now on. Have a good day!" After LaBeouf pulled out of Orphans, he publicly tweeted private emails from Baldwin and others involved in the show. ("Sorry for my part of a dis-agreeable situation," LaBeouf wrote to Baldwin in one message; Baldwin apparently wrote back: "I don't have an unkind word to say about you. You have my word.") Baldwin, whose career has included Emmy Awards for 30 Rock and Oscar and Tony nominations, has developed an ornery reputation in real life. A voicemail of him berating daughter Ireland Baldwin came to light in 2007 (he later said the message horrified him), he was kicked off a plane in 2011 after refusing to stop playing a cellphone game, and he's had a series of run-ins with news photographers. After using an anti-gay slur in one such encounter last fall, he was suspended from his ultimately short-lived MSNBC show; Baldwin apologized and said he hadn't meant to offend anyone. In February, Baldwin wrote a New York magazine cover story decrying tabloid coverage of his comings-and-goings in New York City, saying he probably needs to move elsewhere.
Alec Baldwin Scolded, Vows to Stay Out of Trouble in Court Appearance
Police puzzled by dolls left on porches in California city LOS ANGELES Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:41pm EDT (Reuters) - Police said on Thursday they were investigating porcelain dolls that had been left on the doorsteps of at least eight homes in a Southern California beach city that homeowners said bore a resemblance their daughters. The dolls were found over the past week on porches in San Clemente, a community of more than 60,000 people about 65 miles southeast of Los Angeles, Orange County Sheriff's Lieutenant Jeff Hallock said in a written statement. "Families in each of the homes where porcelain dolls were left voiced concern that the dolls resembled their daughters," Hallock said. He said the dolls had been collected as evidence and were being examined to determine their origin for clues as to who had left them.
"FLAVAH! Flavah that''s full of LIFE! I like that!"\ \ "MMM! This is GOOD! Moah than good -- it''s LIVELY!"\ \ "I''ll tell you a secret. Caffeine sometimes makes me tense -- and tension can show on yoah FACE!"
The lost Lauren Bacall High Point ad
MMMMM. That''s RICH.
They're only up to season 5, but at ComicCon, Shout! said what they're up to, and doing the entire run of [italic]The Facts of Life[/italic] was part of it.
Just listened to the title track tonight, but still really feeling West Coast. My husband and I were out in LA from NYC last april for a wedding. We stayed at the Andaz hotel on Sunset Blvd. Our room wasn't ready so they were nice enough to offer an upgrade that would put us in a room that faced downtown LA. We opted for a higher floor that actually faced the back, the Hollywood Hills. Boy was it beautiful. One night we turned off the lights, opened the curtains and just looked out over all the homes lit up in the Hills and played Lana's West Coast. It was just perfect, considering she references Robert Plant's "Golden God" cry from the balcony of the "Riot Hyatt" which is now the Andaz.
The battle of the prime-time soaps!
Who is he???
I know gay men supposedly don't wear cologne, but what's your fave?
Thoughts?
My partner's daughter, who has several psych. problems, came to visit with her son. He's eight now, and she's over 40. We paid for the trip, because she is chronically broke. That was fine. The kid hasn't been here since he was an infant. She fed him with a spoon and bribed him with money to eat. They insisted on sleeping in the same bed, even though we had purchased and installed another bed. Every time we were out in public he acted out - aiming it at her - with such antics as holding a napkin over his face all through dinner in a restaurant. When she's not around there are no problems. Among her issues is Munchausen's - she has had at least five unnecessary surgeries, has claimed to have cancer, screamed until the doctors induced delivery of her son, and other things. She's now projected it to him, by proxy, and has announced that he is autistic. She and her husband constantly move, and by third grade the kid has been in six schools and lived in four states. He's no more autistic than I am, but has learned he can do whatever he wants with his crazy mother around. And she's announced her intention to divorce and badmouths the father in front of the kid, who she calls her little man who will always be there for her. And they are moving again, and then she wants to move to another state, again. (She's lost every job she's had, including because of theft.) I told the boy, with whom I have a good relationship, that if he had something bothering him he needed to talk about it and we would deal with it. But if he acted out - and he let me know he knew what I meant - we would leave where we were. He agreed. And of course he started smacking his mother in the tit in a restaurant. My partner wasn't there with us. She let it go on after telling him he had hurt her. I said, "That's it," and got up to leave. In the car I told him he had broken our agreement and that his behavior was not acceptable. She said I was going to "shut him completely down" and refused to talk to me. When we got home he leapt out and wouldn't go near me, and she and he sat on the curb, refusing to come in. My partner went to talk to her, she accused me of abusing her son, my partner let loose on her and said if she wanted to go we would pay for the change in airline tickets. She marched in, packed, and left without talking, walking down the street with her bags and the kid. So, we thought we would try one last time, with this visit, to see if we could set a precedent and maybe he could visit by himself in the future. Again, alone there never has been a problem. We were horrified to see what she's doing to him, and he now knows how to play the game, already. In this case ought I to have just shut up and stood as a silent witness to the messes (he would knock drinks over, for example) and antics, and ignore the creepy babying and dishonesty from her? But I couldn't do nothing, and I didn't feel obliged to just let this shit between them be her passive-aggressive control game? We're relieved she's gone - it felt unhealthy and nasty - but we're very concerned about the boy. And he's out of state. (Apparently she found a motel room because someone called us to say how she was posting all happy vacation photos from the zoo and eateries.) Do we just let the fact that she's cut us off now be our exit cue? God, I'm sorry for all this. I've made fun of other long personal posts. But I don't know where our responsibility is and if there is anything we can do in this situation. She even had the kid hospitalized in a psychiatric ward for a week saying he was out of control and dangerous, and then switched back to "He's my baby." And the father is a gambler and completely passive. Thanks.
Is this on DVD? I have always wanted to see it.
I never read the first three....can I pick up the narrative thread easily?
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This is from his famous Radio City stage show--he enters on a camel about 1:00 into this after the Rockettes dance, and then shakes the maracas and sings one of his best known songs, "I Go to Rio."\ \ WHY was he a star? He didn''t have a good voice at all, he wasn''t handsome, and he was balding and femme and wore horrible cheesy clothes. I can never watch him and understand why he was such a big deal.
let''s not even get into the fact they don;t have camels in Rio...
Toronto's crack smoking mayor Rob Ford held his annual bbq yesterday. Some in the LGBTQ were not happy with his policies (like voting no to a LGBTQ homeless shelter) decided to crash the bbq. Mayor Ford supporters were not happy to see the protest and hurled homophobic slurs at the protesters, one even being assaulted. “We were just standing there being gay holding signs ... This was an unprovoked situation where we did very little engaging with them,” said Brian De Matos on Saturday, a day after the massive Ford family barbecue. The mayor's brother Doug Ford said the LGBT protesters only had themselves to blame, as they brought it on themselves. “You can’t go into any event, a sporting event even, taunting people. I don’t agree with (what happened) but something’s going to happen. “Numerous people said he was looking for trouble.”
Which side do you support? Palestine or Israel? Or do you have no clue about the conflict and support neither side. Because you don't understand what is going on. This is an anonymous board, so you can feel free to admit your ignorance on the subject of the Palestine/Israel conflict. Vote below and discuss.
Heard he was an anchor in Miami, and got into trouble for battery/domestic violence in '09. His mug shot is so hot. Anyone know his story ?
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The "Finding Nemo" one is bril.
Artist does daily Bea Arthur sketch, inserts her into other movies & tv shows
Is there really any doubt that Fundies are mentally ill?
A new report says that David Gregory is toast as host of Meet The Press and that Chuck Todd and Joe Scarborough are battling to replace him. Lloyd Grove at The Daily Beast followed up on yesterday’s report on Gregory’s expected dumping from Meet The Press: In multiple conversations that I had with people inside and outside NBC after the item appeared, it was taken as a given that Gregory is toast. … In multiple conversations that I had with people inside and outside NBC, it was taken as a given that Gregory is toast. The principal pretenders to the MTP throne are NBC News’ chief White House correspondent and political director, Chuck Todd—who anchors The Daily Rundown, MSNBC’s weekday 9 a.m. show—and the cohosts of the three-hour-long Morning Joe program that precedes it, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. According to my sources, Scarborough, 51, a Washington-savvy former Republican congressman from Florida, and Brzezinski, 47, the supremely well-connected daughter of former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, have been aggressively angling for the job in the event of Gregory’s all-but-certain demise. NBC can keep denying it, but it is obvious that someone is sowing the seeds for David Gregory’s firing. Joe Scarborough posted a tweet stating that the story is false: There have been numerous stories with NBC News sources saying that Mika and I have been “aggressively angling” for MTP. That is false. It is possible, but not probable that two stories in two days that quote people inside NBC saying that David Gregory is going to be fired could be wrong, but it seems like a mighty big coincidence that both of these stories also named Todd and Scarborough as the two that are vying to replace him. Joe Scarborough would be a disaster for Meet The Press. MTP likes at least to create the illusion of playing it down the middle. There is no mistaking where the former Republican congressman comes from. If a report from last year is to be believed, NBC is seriously considering changing Meet The Press so that it would be more like Morning Joe. Chuck Todd wouldn’t be much of departure from what David Gregory is doing now. Todd is a frequent panelist on Meet The Press, and he is loaded with the same Beltway groupthink that plagues Gregory’s version of the show. NBC would be wise to go out of house to bring in a fresh voice for the program, but they seem hellbent on taking one of their least popular talents on MSNBC and elevating them to Meet The Press. Gregory’s stint on the show has been bad, but replacing him with a Chuck Todd or Joe Scarborough could be even worse.
David Gregory Is Toast as Chuck Todd and Joe Scarborough Fight For Meet The Press Gig
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in the history of Jersey City, New Jersey is a former high school Phys Ed teacher.
Would you celebrate?
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I mean ones that have an obvious penis headed tip. I would think it would be tough for a lesbian to take their minds off of the fact that they''re using something that is shaped like a man''s tool. It''s amazing the lesbians that are able to have sex with strap-ons. I mean, it''s essentially male. How could you get off to that? Gay guys aren''t running out buying flesh lights molded into vaginas. Lesbians really don''t have much I guess. Women are really designed for something phallic. Men have always been able to get off with men or women if they chose. Both have holes, and if you''re a guy who wishes to get fucked, a guy has that for you too. \ \ Of course lesbians could simply use a tongue or a clit stimulator. Guys can get flesh lights molded into tight assholes, and dildos are perfectly designed for them. Too bad lesbians can''t really get away with something that has some sort of male linkage. Bottom line, guys have way more options. So unfair. :(
FX does it again! The premiere tonight was killer.
I'm the ashtrays and cigarettes!
(Reuters) - U.S. telecommunications regulators on Thursday formally proposed new "net neutrality" rules that may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to users. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has come under fire from consumer advocates and technology companies for proposing to allow some "commercially reasonable" deals in which content companies could pay broadband providers to prioritize traffic on their networks. Wheeler's two fellow Democrats at the FCC concurred with him for a 3-2 vote to advance the proposal and begin formally collecting public comment, though they expressed misgivings about the plan. "I believe the process that got us to this rulemaking today is flawed. I would have preferred a delay. I think we moved too fast to be fair," said Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. "The real call to action begins after the vote today," said Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. "This is your opportunity to formally make your points on the record. You have the ear of the entire FCC. The eyes of the world are on all of us." Critics worry the rules would create "fast lanes" for companies that pay up and slower traffic for others, although Wheeler has pledged to prevent "acts to divide the Internet between 'haves' and 'have nots.'" The FCC's proposal tentatively concludes that some pay-for-priority deals may be allowed, but asks whether "some or all" such deals should be banned and how to ensure paid prioritization does not relegate any traffic to "slow lanes." "I will not allow the national asset of an open Internet to be compromised. I understand this issue in my bones," said Wheeler, formerly a private equity investor and cable industry lobbyist. "Simply put, when a consumer buys a specified bandwidth, it is commercially unreasonable and thus a violation of this proposal to deny them the full connectivity and the full benefits that connection enables." More than 100 activists protested at the FCC, with signs reading "Liberate the Internet" and "Keep the Internet Free." four onlookers were escorted out of the meeting room for shouting protests. Consumer advocates want the FCC to reclassify Internet providers as utilities, like telephone companies, rather than as the less-regulated information services they are now. Opponents have told Wheeler that stricter regulations would throw the industry into legal limbo, discourage investment in network infrastructure and still not prevent pay-for-priority deals. Numerous technology companies, including Google Inc and Facebook Inc, have spoken out against allowing pay-for-priority, although they have not called for reclassification.
I have not seen 1 or 2 in 6-7 years and decided to watch on HBO on Demand. I always thought the 2nd film was better (and wasn't it more critically acclaimed than the 1st?) but my god the first one is by far the best. Much more plot driven than part 2, but much more exciting... James Caan is sexy has hell too! Any fans? (I love mob films)
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It's Milwaukee, of course. Fucking bourgeoisie.
Should I cancel my newspaper subscriptions?
I''ll start!
I love her, no matter what DL says.
I would have gone to see her.
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Really different twist on ventriliquism.
I recently read a quote from some writer that travelling to America was like travelling to the future. He was English and I think he was referring to going there in the '50s from Britain. & it reminded me of being a child in the '70s and going to America from England and it really was very futuristic to me. So many things Americans took for granted in the mid-'70s didn't become part of our lives in Europe until years later. Multi channel all night TV. Shopping malls. Touch tone telephones. Places delivering food to your door. Late night shopping. Vast supermarkets...drive thru food places. McDonalds etc... I'm wondering if America is still way ahead of the rest of the world in so many ways....or is the great difference now something of the past, especially in relation/comparison to Europe?
Does the "son" ever top the "daddy"? Or would that be too Oedipal?
fillin' yer hole!
Does anyone know where this gif comes from?
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With a young boy.
Anybody watch this show? This was a GIGANTIC HIT Never understood its popularity, especially with men. In fact this show was watched more by men than women, even though men don't usually do aerobics. So why the popularity?
Did I mention it also stars Kate Hudson?
Anyone here working in RA? What do you like about it?
Hottest, most handsome, studliest... You get the drill. Post a pic to backup your claim.
What albums are you looking forward to? What new artists have you discovered? I'm really digging this British band that goes by the name of Arthur Beatrice. Their debut album drops Feb 24.
Anyone else love them?
Was it Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's chair? In less than ten years, Scientology is now ostracized by the masses, with books bashing the church hitting the best sellers list. Anonymous also jumped on board trying to destroy them.
You can't judge a book by its cover? Yeah well, I'm judging. Photo:
Cameron Diaz Frolics In A Bikini With Hideously Tattooed Benji Madden
Henry Cavill seems to really be singing high note praises for his male trainer in this new interview he gave. He spoke about his trainer "crushing me in the gym" where he can barely walk afterwards. What do you all think is the trainer getting some of that Superman Cavill booty? Boy, would I LOVE to be a fly on the wall.
(NOT BETTING ON IT, THOUGH) To start this thread off: this is not a paean he said peen, huh huh huh) to prison rape. Not at all. I just watched the movie "Snitch" starring the Rock. I know this was fiction, but we all know it happens every day. He had to watch helplessly as (not literally, but he knew it was happening)his son was beaten and raped by hardened criminals. (The fact that the rapist was black was quite telling, BTW.) When young guys are sent to prison, why isn't there some kind of protection system set up with the prison managers that would look protect these kids from the lifers, killers and rapists? I don't know how these prison keepers sleep at night, knowing what is going on and that they could stop it. I know that they think that's not part of their job, but to know what's going on and just let these kids get victimized -- and almost always being infected with HIV -- is unfathomable to me, and more than that, just shameful.
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“Lucky Me: My Life With – and Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine." Uh-oh... [quote]As the sarcastic title suggests, the memoir is said to paint a picture of Shirley as a cold, uninvolved, disinterested mother who abandoned her toddler because she wanted to party with The Rat Pack and “didn’t want a kid on her hands.” The Amazon description says Sachi was originally cast as Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and later became a Qantas stewardess. Looking forward to this. I hope it's trashy.
Is he gay in real life? Does he escort? He's got a great body and dick, but his best feature is his arrogance.
Some comments in another thread made me want to post this…someone talked about a guy who gets super hard right before cumming. It reminded me of a guy I blew whose cock would bend a little right before he fired his load… What's a hot thing a guy has said, or done, or a hot physical response from a guy that you've experienced just as he's about to blow?
Just watched Emmanuelle for the first time and while most of it is silly and dated, the scene where she has sex with two men on the airplane is very erotic. Maybe because the annoying music cuts out and all we hear is the hum of the plane? The two guys were hot.
How the fuck does Lilo keep getting work? This was also one of the worst, most cynical films I've ever seen. The script had no redeeming characters, clear motivations, nor focus. I'd fuck the guys but a note to Bret Easton Ellis is she's on DL- your disillusioned, privileged, white-only characters are interesting in the millennium. Your time has passed.
Let's resurrect the Visible Penis Line thread!
Post here. I'll start... You are next!
Pick the location where we draw the line and declare, "No More!"
A friend offered me a pill for arthritis pain. Any thoughts?
It's important, and the other thread got closed... so present away, men!
Go!
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Do you have one? And no, I'm not referring to your anal cavity.
%0D Ryan O'Neal is looking to reunite with estranged daughter Tatum -- while the cameras are rolling, of course. %0D Ryan and Tatum O'Neal are the stars of "Lost and Found," a docusoap set to be pitched to networks in the coming days by Endemol USA. %0D %0D Tatum O'Neal has already moved into her father's Malibu home, and together the two have launched their attempts at reconciliation. %0D %0D It's not going to be easy -- they've been icy toward each other for 25 years -- but that will likely make for good TV. %0D %0D Impetus for the reconciliation came after the death of Ryan O'Neal's on-again, off-again love, Farrah Fawcett, last year. Now, the duo will undergo therapy together, and also attempt to get to the root of the resentment that Tatum has held toward her father. %0D %0D "From the moment I met Ryan and Tatum, I knew they were genuine about telling their real story," said Endemol North America chairman David Goldberg. "Of course they've had their share of trials and tribulations that have been very public, but ultimately this comes down to a father-daughter story that viewers will be able to relate to on many different levels." %0D %0D R. Greg Johnston is on board to exec produce "Lost and Found." Johnston knows a thing or two about chronicling dysfunctional relationships, having also been a part of "The Osbournes" and "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica." %0D %0D Endemol said Ryan O'Neal "is prepared to do anything to get it right this time." His dysfunctional family relationships aren't limited to Tatum; in 2007, he was arrested in connection with an assault on son Griffin. He was also arrested with son Redmond in 2008 on drug charges. %0D %0D Tatum O'Neal, meanwhile, made headlines in 2008 after being arrested for drug possession. %0D %0D "Having thought long and hard about exposing our already very public private lives, (we) came to the decision that Endemol is the company that provided the respect and professionalism we were looking for," the O'Neals said in a joint statement. %0D %0D Show will follow the two as they go on auditions, take acting lessons, explore their dating lives, head to family gatherings and meet for therapy sessions. %0D %0D Among the family dramas that will be addressed: Tatum O'Neal's decision not to invite her relatives to her wedding, and Ryan O'Neal's anger management problems. Tatum O'Neal has also written about being molested by a friend of her father's, something Ryan O'Neal has denied. %0D %0D This reps the first joint TV project for Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, who famously appeared together in the features "Paper Moon" and "Nickelodeon." Tatum O'Neal became the youngest actor to win an Academy Award when she landed the supporting actress Oscar for 1973's "Paper Moon" at age 10. Ryan O'Neal won a Golden Globe for that movie. %0D %0D Both remain active in acting: Ryan O'Neal has recently appeared on "90210," "Bones" and "Desperate Housewives," while Tatum O'Neal was in the feature "The Runaways," starred in the MyNetworkTV telenovela "Wicked Wicked Games," appeared in FX's "Rescue Me" and was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars."
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