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Do we hate it? What is it? My college crush got a job there.
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My partner and I want to take a cruise for the first time ever. Not interested in a gay cruise, even though we are gay. Would be leaving from Florida. We are both pretty low key and in our 50s.
I'm in a total SNIT!!!
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It's actually funnier than Jimmy Fallon's show but that's not saying much. Seff was just a complete dear in headhights during the monolog. It had no flow at all. He was just rapid firing jokes right after another with a complete flat intonation. It was not conversational at all. Maybe he can do it this way when reading the news but not with a monolog. Hopefully he can get better. His vin diagrams were funny though.
Let's make some predications My guess JC Penny
Plucking a few events out of the vastness of the world and declaring them to be the news of the day is a mysterious and complicated project. Sometimes what’s news is inarguable—the outbreak of war, a head-of-state transition, natural calamity—but very often it falls into the category of the resonant incident. It isn’t a turn in the course of history, but it strikes editors as illustrative of something important. Take crime. If crimes don’t involve anyone powerful or well known, they generally aren’t considered news. But a few such crimes do become news, big news, and hold the public’s imagination in a tight, enduring grip. An excellent example is the murder of Kitty Genovese, a twenty-eight-year-old bar manager, by Winston Moseley, a twenty-nine-year-old computer punch-card operator, just after three in the morning on Friday, March 13, 1964, in Kew Gardens, Queens. The fact that this crime, one of six hundred and thirty-six murders in New York City that year, became an American obsession—condemned by mayors and Presidents, puzzled over by academics and theologians, studied in freshman psychology courses, re-created in dozens of research experiments, even used four decades later to justify the Iraq war—can be attributed to the influence of one man, A. M. Rosenthal, of the New York Times. REST AT LINK
Perennial favorite Kitty Genovese gets a new article in "The New Yorker"
Everyone in my generation heard all our lives about our parents knowing where they were when they heard John Lennon had died. That was all I could think about when I heard about Amy. She was our John Lennon.
Beiber's uncle Rob is not only gay, but he appears to be a strong advocate for gay (and liberal) causes. So while the Biebs's parents seem like total losers, it is not a family thing. I'm attaching Uncle Bieber's twitter.
Lots of commercials on radio for a diet plan using "a spice in your kitchen" to reverse diabetes in a month. What is the plan and has anyone tried it?
Daniel Craig has some serious facial lipoathrophy now and so does Matt McConaghy(sp?). Any other suspects?
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And he was whooping it up with Jane Fonda last night at an Oscar party.
What do you think her children/grandchildren will inherit?
I'm binge watching Hell on Wheels on NetFlix, and wondering why on earth we haven't discussed Anson Mount, the lead actor. Tall, dark, and handsome, and with the best Southern accent I've heard on television. He's also 40 and no mention of ever having been married--is he of the homosexual persuasion?
Continue your foolishness.
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Mine are: Chris Cuomo Tim Tebow James Franco Justin Bieber Miley Cyrus
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I live in New York. Received $80.00 check for two days of Jury Service. When I called to say no 1099 was received, was told they're issued only for $600 or more. How do I include this in my tax filing?
Poor Puddy!
So I went to the store to buy some more cartridges for my Gilette Mach 3. $15 for a pack of 4!!! That's outrageous. I looked at the disposable Mach 3s but they were also expensive. $10 for a pack of 3. This is bullshit, I told myself. So I went to the dollar store and picked up a 9-pack of generic 3-blade disposables for $3. How bad could they be? I used one this morning to shave and it was fine. Not as smooth as the Mach 3, but it did the job fairly well and my face is still intact. I think I'm going to use these from now on. I'll use on per week, throw it out and then use a new one. Shaving shouldn't be so fucking expensive.
Several Toronto school trustees want a guarantee from City Hall that there will be no nudity allowed this year in the Pride Parade At issue officials have expressed their concern about the children. Saying gay pride parades are dangerous because of exposed nudity to innocent, impressionable young minds. School Trustee Sam Sotiropoulos, who penned the motion says "I cannot sign off to participating and promoting an event where the laws against public nudity are being flouted,” “This is not Hanlan’s Point (the nude beach on Toronto Island) which has clear signs saying ‘Clothing Optional,’ ” said Sotiropoulos. “We don’t have a disclaimer at the parade and this is supposed to be a family-friendly event.” The motion was co-authored by Trustee Irene Atkinson, who said “it’s simple: I don’t believe males or females should be running around naked in the streets, and if they are, police ought to be called.” Adds city Councillor Doug Ford “You know what’s ironic? I spoke to some folks in the gay community, and they said they weren’t going because they didn’t like the idea of men running — you know, middle-aged men, with pot bellies, running down the street buck naked. And they didn’t feel comfortable that they could bring their kids there,” Doug Ford said. He added: “Do I condone men running down the middle of Yonge St. buck naked? Absolutely not. Maybe there are some people in this city that approve of that, and maybe they can bring their kids down to watch this.”
Queerty Reporting The pair were reportedly dating as early as last July when, according to a source close to the couple who spoke exclusively to Queerty, “they met in AA and were kicked out of the chapter for breaking the no-dating rules.” This was around the same time Jackson shaved his head, got a few interesting tattoos and grew a mustache amid his “mutual” split from Lapka. Speculation that Jackson switched coasts and began dating a younger man in order to “start fresh” began, and today, our source clears up come misconceptions about Jackson’s fiance: Jason Landau is NOT an actor, he’s an instructor with The Landmark Forum, a controversial offshoot of EST that’s been under investigation many, many times by state and fed gov’t for cult like activities and ponzi-scheme-like activity.
Cheyenne Jackson's New Fiancee Jason Landau, Is a Recruiter For Alleged “Self-Help” Cult
Have we ever discussed them? Woof!
I tried delivering pizzas for a couple of weeks, but after pay/tips combined I only made about $400. But I spent about $200 on gas. I used to be able to make some extra money buying/selling watches back in the 90's and early 2000's, but now everyone posts their possessions on ebay and Craigslist. So what do you do to make some extra cash?
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If yes, how were you talked into doing it the first time? Were you drunk? Did it happen while you were showering together?
I hope they don't change it too much. Hollister is my totes favorite brand. I can always find cute pieces for work, for play, or a formal evening out. With my luck, they're going to be changing everything! I hope they don't change the casual beachy feel.
I bet he's jealous of his sister's fame.
Warning: It's somewhat long, but there is a LOT of detail and it's quite well-written. Hope someone can figure it out. One of the commenters claims to know who it is, but doesn't reveal the name.
This was NEVER cute.
It's handled.
Whew... I hope they have nice personalities. Study hard, girls.
What will be the subject of our erotic discourse?
...and waffles ...and French Toast Sugary Dough based American breakfasts are gross.
The Jim Brown thread got me to thinking about the various celebrities who showed us some skin in the magazine's hey day. Who was your favorite?
Ok so I was on jack'd and im super picky so this very attractive guy messages me. We chat a bit and exchange phone numbers, pics etc. He's definitely my type. I have a sync on my phone that connects me to peoples facebook via emails and numbers stored. So I happen to stumble across his fb to find out he is married to a woman. He told me he had roommates no mention of a wife meanwhile I have several booty pics of him bent over naked showing his asshole, but he said he had a girl last nov. That he broke up with and is single, but as of feb 27th he has a new pic of him and his wife together. Should I have the right to be upset at him for almost dragging me to participate in adultery? And all I keep thinking is this guy is flaunting his abs and booty hole all over jack'd looking to get fucked. His poor wife which im sure he doesn't use protection with can be subjected to any STD. And he's a very attractive guy. What should I do I'm ignoring him, but what if I could possibly save the wife from getting an STD or HIV. Its been on my brain a lot lately. If I didn't see his fb I would have been blowing homeboys back out on the same bed he shares with his wife disgusted at the thought. I have since closed my jack'd account.
I mean Beyonce is 11 years YOUNGER than Audra. And while Beyonce is still going strong, vocal wise, Audra might have peeked pushing 45. So which diva would win a signing competition? Or would it even be a contest?
The new store called Daily Table will only sell expired food. Stores throw out millions of expired food daily that is still good and eatable. Daily Table will fill that gap.
I hate pasta ...and lasagna ...and noodles Flour and water to make a meal is just gross.
Would love some stories please:)
Safeway Von's is being absorbed by Albertsons. How could this be? Safeway is always so big and Albertsons is always so small and gross. Shouldn't it be the other way around??
51% of American disapprove of Obama's performance.
I just can't buy Nicole Kidman in this role.
God, it's so fucking rude, and annoying. No one can complete a thought. He asks a question, and before they give their first sentence, he's already talking over them, and most times to the other person in the room. Dumbfuck.
Cute little funny movie with Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler.\ \ The Divine Miss M was a pudgy little thing - but charming in this movie.\ \ Lily Tomlin was adorable too.
Is she a DL fave?
Oh my! Gay bashing! Gay hazing! Gay cheerleader! Gay rape! Gay football player!
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Will he ever break into television or films? Is Queer As Folk the peak of his career. Looking at imdb, the projects he has can't be paying him much.
This is Philly's local Fox affiliate, the one that makes national news for its ridiculous moments. They just had on news anchor Drew Dickman. Anchor Jennaphr Frederick, the one who looks like she has a touch of Down's was at it again today. Here's the video of the plowing. Gifs have already been made.
Jimmy Kimmel is catching up to Fallon in the ratings. Where is Jay when we need him? "Speaking of Fallon, last night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon drew a 1.4 rating among adults 18-49 with a total viewership of 4.456 million. That’s down 17% in both categories from the show’s February 26 results. While Fallon was down to his lowest number since taking over The Tonight Show, the other Jimmy was up strong and closing the 11:35 PM gap. With a much stronger Thursday primetime as a near lead-in and Scandal’s Kerry Washington as his main guest, Jimmy Kimmel Live got a 1.0 rating in the demo and an audience of 3.555 million. That’s a 100% leap up among the 18-49s from the night before for Kimmel and a 44% rise in viewership from the 2.456 million viewers of his February 26 show. Last night’s JKL was actually the show’s second most watched episode ever after the 3.642 million who watched the January 24, 2013 “Matt Damon Takeover” show. CBS’s David Letterman had a 0.5 rating with 2.710 million viewers, a slight upturn from the night before. Still the fourth show of the second week of Fallon’s new gig equaled the 1.4 rating that Conan O’Brien got on the fourth night of his second Tonight Show week on June 11, 2009. While the demo rating was on par, like the night before Fallon bested O’Brien’s comparable night’s 3.565 million viewers. Like in metered-market results, Fallon was ahead of the 1.14 rating and 4.066 million viewers that Jay Leno got on the comparable night of his Tonight Show return in 2010.)"
Late night with Jimmy Fallon ratings has dropped to it's lowest ratings since taking over.
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She lost her boyfriend Cory Monteith unexpectedly last summer, and now Lea Michele is finally opening up about his death in the December 2013 issue of ELLE magazine During her interview with the publication, the "Glee" star shared her true feelings about losing Cory and revealed how Kate Hudson helped her through the ordeal. On getting through Cory's passing: "I never thought I would be in this position in my whole life. Now that I am in this position, you can choose to rise, and that's what I'm going to try to do. I know that Cory would want nothing more than for me to take this situation and use it to help people." On Kate lending a helping hand to her: "I called [Kate Hudson] and said, 'I don't know where I'm going to go because my house is swarmed [with reporters].' She was like, 'Oh, you're going to stay at my house.' Like it was nothing. No one knew I was there. I'll never really be able to thank her, truly, for what she did for me." On taking time away from the cameras: "It's very hard. And you have to be very strong to come out of this alive, but I think by doing the best for myself, by showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of strength or comfort."
Lea Michele in ELLE December 2013: Kate Hudson Helped Me Get Through Cory Monteith's Death
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Photos of The Castro in the 1980s
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Tonight she became a record-breaking 15-time Oscar loser. My heart goes out to you, darling!
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My choice would be "Working Out" by Charles Hix and "Looking Good" by the same author. A few Bruce Webers. What are your choices?
YAY! He's super tall though, so not sure if that may be a problem. It's filming now, and I have no idea what else is going on - just that he made it. He's a really nice guy, by the way. IG at link:
By popular demand! Let the Nadal's ass vs the Rest of the World flame war continue!
It's been made out to be a big deal. I like it.
Sorry, Chandler, your wedding invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.
Chandler Massey: "Does Anyone Know If Walmart's Hiring?"
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CW has been running ads during Supernatural tonight. Another royalty show, this one about Mary, Queen of Scots as a teenager. What's the word?
Who's had him?
This drama series exploring the personal and professional life of a Hilary Rodham Clinton as she tackles the role of Secretary of State. Tony winner Patina Miller has been cast as Hilary's aide Huma Abedin. While Tim Daly will play Bill Clinton.
Dear god, she was bigger than ever. That poor thing is going to die young.
What level are you on? Let's visit each other's towns and whack each other's snakes.
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I heard they dated, and that he was devastated when she married Allen Ludden, and that was the reason he remained a bachelor.
I'm scared!
The idea of cold carbohydrates with wet substance to me is repellant. Yet a friend mentioned his love of raisin bran in the a.m. I'd no idea adults ate this stuff. How many of you do?
*SIGH* - the watchword of the needy and inarticulate
If so, how many inches are you? Remember, it's anonymous.
One of the gays?
Daily Mail article decrying pretty famous girls kissing each other in public as marketing tools and publicity seeking. Maybe they're just sexually liberated women who want to push open the boundaries a little and not hide their attraction to their own sex. The article goes on: 'I came out as a lesbian in the Seventies, so you might expect that I would welcome any public depiction of homosexual lifestyles. On the contrary, I think this ‘faux lesbianism’ is far from healthy.'
'Suddenly it's all the rage, women celebrities kissing each other in public...'
So many of the places are rundown -- without a designer's sure touch! And there's no kale there! [quote]“New Orleans is not cosmopolitan,” said the actress Tara Elders. “There’s no kale here.” Her husband, Michiel Huisman, the actor and musician who moved here with Ms. Elders in 2009 to shoot the HBO series “Treme” (he’s currently on the series “Nashville”), agreed. “The sign on a shop says that they’ll open at 10? You’re there at noon and it’s not open,” he said. We were sitting outside at Sylvain, a restaurant in the French Quarter that Mr. Huisman said “takes Southern cuisine and pushes it a bit more modern.” With its elegant but rustic décor, cocktails featuring noirish names (Blood in the Gulfstream, Dead Man’s Wallet), and inventive food, Sylvain wouldn’t be out of place in Brooklyn — but Ms. Elders said spots like this are still the exception. “So many of the cool places here are really rundown,” she said. “And not because a stylist designed them that way.”
The New York Times travel section discovers hipsters in New Orleans
Iranian man sentenced to having his eyes gouged out, right ear and nose cut off after hurling acid in young girl's face
Is she the phoniest, most insincere person in the business?
Now that his two Nemesis are gone (T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigel) Sondra Rhimes feels the time is right to re-introduce Isaiah's character back to the fold of Grey's Anatomy. Initially his return is tied to the exit story of Sandra Oh's character. To resolve this storyline. But if audience reaction is positive, he may stick around. Excited to see Isaiah Washington back on Grey's Anatomy
Not sure there is much in the way of eye candy this season. But I do appreciate an entirely new cast.
Since his father Mario died, Steve has been doing commercials for the family's Italy tour company. What do we know about Steve?
Wobbly sausage!
He is a really fucked up bottom, so cute and hot, and im not all that into the craziness of BDSM. I sort of want a normal relationship with him, but im scared to say im not always into using cuffs, administering throat rape, the seven anal toys he always brings with him when he comes over. Am I going to lose him if I dont keep up all the pretenses?
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Will Carol find the woman of her dreams? Will Daryl finally have a storyline? Will Rick accept Carl's offering of canned dog food? Will Glenn and the magic school bus find Ms. Frizzle? Will the sociopathic children kill and eat Tyresee to survive? Will the set design of the WD finally stop mowing the lawns? Stay Tuned
Every time she turns around she goes putt putt.
Continuation. As requested:
Jell-O, fudge? Sent from MyGlass
One Direction have already conquered the music world -- now one of the fab five is set to take the football world by storm. Louis Tomlinson has signed a deal with English second division club Doncaster Rovers in one of the most bizarre deals for some time. Tomlinson, who stars alongside Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Liam Pain, is part of biggest and most successful boy band on the planet. One Direction have broken record after record during their rise from losing in Britain's X-Factor competition in 2010 to becoming as big as the Beatles stateside. Managed by music mogul Simon Cowell, One Direction have had 61 album and single number one's world wide with their last album "Take Me Home" reaching top spot in 37 different countries. They are the only UK band to have had their first two albums reach No.1 in the U.S. and have over 18.5 million Facebook fans and 71 million combined followers on Twitter. Tomlinson, 21 was born in Doncaster and has signed a deal which means he could feature for the team at any point this season. He hopes his appearance for Rovers will help raise money for local charity Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. "This has always been a childhood dream for me," he told the club's official website. "I feel very honored to have been asked to sign for Rovers and being able to help both the club and the amazing charity Bluebell Wood is what it's all about." While Tomlinson is used to having thousands upon thousands of screaming "Directioners" cheering at him on stage, he'll be performing in far more modest surroundings at the 15,000 seater Keepmoat Stadium. As a child, Tomlinson used to attend games both as a fan and as a ball boy but his heavy work schedule means he will face a real challenge to be available for a cameo appearance. He will miss Doncaster's first game of the season against Blackpool on Saturday with One Direction set to perform in Las Vegas before the group move onto California. Tomlinson will then be touring Australia and New Zealand in September and October with the band appearing in Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne before moving onto Christchurch and Auckland. But that has not deterred Rovers, with the club fully aware of Tomlinson's ability to lure in new fans. "Louis has always been passionate about football and wanted to realize a dream of signing to his home town club where he once worked on match days," said a statement on the club's official website. "After discussions between Louis, Paul Dickov and media manager Steve Uttley, it was decided that the club could sign him and issue him with a squad number for the 2013/2014 season. "As part of the signing it is hoped that Louis will be able to appear in Rovers colors at some point this season in aid of Bluebell Wood and train with the lads. "Chairman John Ryan and the manager Paul Dickov have given Louis the number 28 shirt for this season to help him raise money for Bluebell Wood."
Begins at 2:00AM on Sunday. Savings go into banks. We are SAVING time, though actually light.
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Are you surprised he's still getting cast in relatively choice roles, considering the fierce competition from real actors out there?
I just discovered him and think he was sex on a stick in his early days. I haven't sat through his movies,which I assume are crap. Why did he get so overweight and messed up with prescription drugs? I read he had money problems at the end because of all the leeches he supported. I realize many entertainers are haunted and desperately unhappy when they're not onstage but why couldn't he get healthy, free himself of enablers and make comfortable investments? Anybody know?
Cam4 is ovah! There are no hot guys on there anymore or only foreign skanks. All the hot guys moved to Chaturate where they can chat and masturbate - the best of two worlds. Not since someone accidentally dropped a chocolate bar into a jar of peanut butter has there been such an irresistible combo. Plus they don't use flash so you can watch it on your iPhone or iPad. Sent from my iPhone 5
Not even a 5-year-old boy with cancer could persuade egotistical actor Andrew Garfield to be a presenter at the Academy Awards. The “Spider-Man” star was supposed to take the stage Sunday with Miles Scott, who has come to be known as “Batkid” after the city of San Francisco let him play superhero there. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had arranged with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to further make Miles’ dreams come true. “The academy was going to make him an official superhero during the Oscar ceremony. Andrew Garfield was going to appoint him ‘Batkid.’ But, in the middle of the dress rehearsal, Garfield decided he didn’t like his lines,” said a well-placed source. “Garfield refused to go by the script. He came up with his own lines. The producers felt that Garfield’s [rewrites] were not appropriate. Garfield had a tantrum. He stormed off. Miles and his family, who were at the rehearsal, were devastated.” The producers decided to cut the superhero initiation, but they paid for Miles to go to Disneyland. “Garfield was such a spoiled brat that he didn’t even want to be a presenter,” said my source. The academy had to call “Captain America” star Chris Evans to sub at the last minute. Garfield’s agent at CAA didn’t get back to me.
Thanks to a botched Botox procedure.
Do you live with rain? What kind? How do you cope?
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What a surprise!
Ellen Degeneres Called 'Transphobic' After Liza Minnelli Oscars Joke
What say you, DL?
I''m lesbian, 43, in good shape, financially solvent, educated and attractive. I''m very sexual and sometimes would just like to be able to hook up like gay guys do for some good, old fashioned sex. Are there any mature, attractive, adventurous, interesting women out there who would love to be wined, dined, entertained and then shagged senseless? I''m nice, drama-free, kind, thoughtful, a great cook and love fine wine and good conversation, but let''s face it, I really need some nice tits to play with and a wet, willing pussy to indulge in. Any takers? Would you?
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I am wondering from those who can do it, how long does the asshole last. I mean how many times a week for how many weeks/years before it finally gives out and you have to do some of the surgery?
Continue the discussion about: Brandi Drunkville The Richards Bitches Yoyo "Ticks" Hadid Foster Lisa Vandercunt Hoysay Giraud And of course, me, here. BUT DO NOT DISCUSS MY RELIGION OR I WILL PUT A HEX ON YOUR ASS!
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He was supposed to be the next big thing.
Yes, it looks terrible. Cameron Diaz doesn't even seem to be trying. And no, Hushpuppy can't sing.
Will Mama Joyce be vindicated if Todd is really a sociopath? Will Kandi really drag a bitch? Will Malorie succeed in breaking up Cynthia and Peter's marriage? Will Apollo beat Chuck's ass for calling Phaedra a groupie back in the day? Will Porsha find some furniture for that big ass empty house she can't afford? Will Nene finally get her fried, brittle, ate up blonde toupee in check? Let the drama continue, hunny!
Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6 Part II!
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Not even a 5-year-old boy with cancer could persuade egotistical actor Andrew Garfield to be a presenter at the Academy Awards. The “Spider-Man” star was supposed to take the stage Sunday with Miles Scott, who has come to be known as “Batkid” after the city of San Francisco let him play superhero there. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had arranged with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to further make Miles’ dreams come true. “The academy was going to make him an official superhero during the Oscar ceremony. Andrew Garfield was going to appoint him ‘Batkid.’ But, in the middle of the dress rehearsal, Garfield decided he didn’t like his lines,” said a well-placed source. “Garfield refused to go by the script. He came up with his own lines. The producers felt that Garfield’s [rewrites] were not appropriate. Garfield had a tantrum. He stormed off. Miles and his family, who were at the rehearsal, were devastated.” The producers decided to cut the superhero initiation, but they paid for Miles to go to Disneyland. “Garfield was such a spoiled brat that he didn’t even want to be a presenter,” said my source. The academy had to call “Captain America” star Chris Evans to sub at the last minute. Garfield’s agent at CAA didn’t get back to me.
For fans of HBO's "Looking". Continue the discussion here.
In response to "Who did your hair?" Spacey replied, "It just happens, it's not a big deal." As the questions became more and more bizarre however, Spacey (rightfully so) was utterly perplexed: "Did you start smoking before you came here today?" and finally, "You guys are so f*****d up." Video:
Kevin Spacey Proves Just How Ridiculous Female Celebrity Questions Are
Just watch her for five minutes and you will concur. And no, I'm not Sue Simmons.
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KStew is pregnant! Come with your evidence here! (We make fun of KStew/RPatz and their stans.)
Very draggy looking, as well. I haven't seen her in years, so was kind of shocked.
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make it happen!!! WE SHOULD DO A KICKSTARTER THING!!!
Are they sexier than abs? For some reason I find them so hot - what is it about them? It's weird. Has this part been sexualized before?
Well, he was asked about the leaked pic, and he didn't think it was a big deal. Anyway, what do you think of it? He's short. Can't tell how big his meat is.
In jeans:
They met last summer on the set of upcoming movie, Tracers, and co-stars Taylor Lautner and Marie Avgeropoulos seem to be quite the happy couple.
"Taylor Lautner did his absolute best not to be distracted by the pretty cheerleaders dancing just inches away from him as he sat courtside at the UCLA Bruins basketball game in Westwood, California on Thursday. The 21-year-old appeared decidedly coy as he looked anywhere but at the ample amounts of exposed skin being paraded around, knowing full well that all eyes were trained on him. The star was perfectly well behaved during the game against the Stanford Cardinal - which UCLA won 91-74 - no doubt much to the relief of his girlfriend, Marie Avgeropoulos, with whom he's been in a relationship since last July. He did, however, cosy up with one lucky lady for a photo during the half-time show at the game held at the Pauley Pavilion. The female in question was the Bruins' mascot - a bear dressed in a cheerleader's outfit complete with yellow bow on her head. Taylor showed off the bulging biceps he worked so hard to achieve to play wolf Jacob Black in the Twilight series in his tight-fitting black T-shirt. He paired the simple top with dark jeans and black high-top sneakers, while he sported scruffy facial hair. With shooting recently wrapped on his latest flick, Tracers - the movie on which he met his now-girlfriend - the hunky actor appears to have some free time on his hands before promotion of the parkour action film gets underway in coming months. The one-time hot commodity - who turns 22 on February 11 - doesn't currently have any new projects in the works following a busy few years. His new lady love's career, on the other hand, is going from strength to strength. The 27-year-old, who previously starred in Cult, is gearing up for the premiere of her new CW sci-fi series The 100 on March 19."
THIS is how it's done:
It seems so mean.
Scary. They were strangled in their sleep. RCMP in New Brunswick believe an escaped snake killed two sleeping boys after moving through a ventilation system into an apartment above a reptile store. An RCMP statement says the two boys, aged five and seven, were sleeping over at a friend's apartment. "Police are investigating two sudden deaths of two young boys," Const. Julie Rogers-Marsh said Monday after the deaths in Campbellton, N.B. It's believed the snake escaped from a pet store called Reptile Ocean. The RCMP released the age of the two boys, but have not yet identified the pair or provided any details about who they were visiting. A python photo posted to Ocean Reptile's Facebook page. It's not yet clear how many snakes were in the store or exactly which type escaped. Rogers-Marsh said the preliminary investigation led police to believe that a python snake escaped its enclosure at the store sometime overnight. Initial information indicates the snake got into the ventilation system and then into the apartment upstairs. "It's believed the two boys were strangled by the snake," she said, noting that autopsies are scheduled for tomorrow in Saint John. Police were called to the residence on Pleasant Street at 6:30 a.m. local time. It's not yet clear how the snake escaped, but police now have the snake in their possession. Initial reports suggested the snake was a boa constrictor. City in shock "This is a tragedy," said Deputy Mayor Ian Comeau. "The city is in shock." Lisa Janes is a co-owner and curator of Little Ray's Reptile Zoo, a private zoo and education program in Ontario and the Maritimes. "We were absolutely shocked and saddened," she said Monday afternoon. "Our condolences go out to the family." She regularly handles exotic snakes and says they can be aggressive, but it's usually for one of two reasons: "They bite because they're feeling scared or threatened, or because they smell food." Janes said snakes don't usually see humans as food. In the New Brunswick tragedy, she said they could have been startled, or smelled something else that was a regular food source in the room. She pointed out that more people are killed by dogs than by snakes. Education is important to understanding and dealing with such animals, she said. In 2009, the province of New Brunswick allowed a wider variety of snakes, lizards and other exotic pets into the province. Under the change, pet stores were then able to sell non-poisonous snakes up to three metres in length. Kevin Craig, a wildlife biologist with the province's Natural Resources department, said in a 2009 interview that pet stores pushed for the change because the province's regulations were more restrictive than other jurisdictions. Corrections and Clarifications An earlier version of this story said the snake in question was a boa constrictor, and that a boy and girl had died. In fact, two boys died and RCMP believe the snake is a python. August 5, 2013 | 4:15 p.m. ET
Python kills two boys in New Brunswick, Canada after escaping from store
Both probably closeted lesbians and yet they are Republicans and are anti-gay. Should they be outed?
Photos on top left & bottom are new; photo on top right is the same one we saw earlier in the Fall.
altho he's boring as fuck.
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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The Next Big Fight — Bryan Lambert Memo to America: CAN WE DO ABORTION NEXT? First, the good news. We're winning the gay marriage thing. It'll still be a while before you can get gay-married in Alabama, but we have clearly reached a tipping point that four years ago I would have said we were about six years away from. Obviously we need to keep fighting. So as we collectively have to spend less and less progressive energy on this cultural issue, I'd like to propose we put that energy into a long-neglected cultural issue: abortion. Because we're losing on abortion just as surely as we're winning on gay marriage, and we really, really don't want to lose on this one. And the main way we're losing? Republican new-found love of regulation. Conservatives go on and on about "job-killing regulations", and there's an aspect truth to that. You can in fact over-regulate a business out of existence, and so a number of southern states have imposed or are trying to impose epic, onerous regulations to try to close down their states' few remaining abortion clinics. Alabama is the latest to try this. There are five whole places to get an abortion in Alabama, which, for the Bible Belt, is a lot. If my research is right, that's as many as we have in Minnesota. The same type of regulation may well close the only abortion clinic in all of Mississippi. Basically, the trick is to require a board-licensed physician with admitting privileges at a local hospital present for every abortion. Neither precaution is necessary, especially the latter one. Getting admitting privileges is complicated and costly, and there's nothing stopping hospitals from denying those privileges just because they don't like abortion. But the regulations SOUND helpful, and that's the sneaky part. Like many things in the world, this is largely the fault of weak-ass Democrats from the last two decades. It's long past time we stopped being ashamed of abortion and started embracing it. The "legal, safe and rare" line sounds good on paper, but it maintains the stigma on abortion that keeps doctors from learning to perform them, medical facilities from wanting to provide them, and women from being able to have them. Abortion is a method of birth control. It's an effective method of birth control. It's a perfectly valid method of determining when and if you will have children. That's a message you never hear, and should, because it's true. It's also true that abortion is an incredibly inefficient form of birth control. It's resource-intensive, which is why conservatives have been able to attack it by attacking the resources required to perform it. So abortions should be rare in the sense that it should be used when other, more efficient, more available methods of birth control fail, but that's a purely pragmatic argument, not an emotional, ick-factor, trying-to-find-a-middle-ground-with-religious-nuts argument. The emotional argument shouldn't be "Enh, abortion, I guess." It should be "FUCKING YES, ABORTION." We should be working to make abortion less resource intensive. More research on abortifacient medicines. RU-486 is TWENTY THREE YEARS OLD. Twenty three years ago we were using Commodore Amigas, but now, in the age of the iPad, we're still using a 16-bit abortion drug? You know why? Because of the stigma. The stigma is cultural. Cultural stigmas can be reversed. And it needs to be reversed, because otherwise, Roe V Wade will continue to become irrelevant. I'm sure private dodo ownership is legal too, but it doesn't matter how legal it is if you can't actually get one. And when you can't actually get an abortion, women become slaves to their reproductive cycles, second class citizens relegated to womb duty in deference to the all-important fetus. It's a battle we can and should win, but only if we actually fight it.
Fifteen years ago, Cate Blanchett was robbed of a Best Actress Oscar for [italic]Elizabeth[/italic]. It's not the first time Academy voters have made a mistake like that and it won't be the last. This year (or rather last year, 2013), Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine was good and Blanchett was very good in it. It wasn't earth shattering but it was certainly enough for a Best Actress nomination. It looked as if Cate Blanchett would win this time but Sandra Bullock was pulling a lot of votes, Dame Judi is greatly respected (and 80 years old) so she was gaining ground and everyone felt sorry for perennial loser Amy Adams, she was getting votes as well (Meryl was never a contender). What actually pushed Blanchett over the finish line was the backlash against Mia Farrow, furious woman scorned for 20 years and counting. Cate (and by extension Woody) won, while Mia and her vicious PR campaign failed. Karma in action.
I start this conversation with this caveat : As a gay man I have never felt I had a say in the abortion debate because I thought a) I will probably never a girl pregnant, and b) a woman's body is her own property and matter. I wouldn't want anyone telling me how I should run my body, unless it there was a major health concern at issue. I don't like the killing of a living thing but it's not my right to judge. But abortion, it seems is making a comeback. Lots of states are trying to severely limit access to abortion, or criminalize it out right. In fact I think North Dakota has outlawed it. And some back alley quack in Philly was performing late term abortion( or alleged late term abortions) in the worst and most unclean way. It would have been cleaner to do it in the bathroom in " Trainspotting". Now he is on trial. And should the morning after pill be available to my thirteen year old niece? Or will that access lead to fewer abortions or more randy sex. It seems that this culture is still confused about a woman's equality and her sexual repercussions . Women carry a greater burden having sex. Both from a physical strength point of view and an after effects one. Why on earth would a free country entertain the notion that you can control a woman's body,and ultimately her sexual desire, if you close off a safe exit plan? And rich woman in America, as early as the 1800's, were able to get safe, clean abortions. There is also a class problem underneath the bigger question. But I want to hear your thoughts about abortion. What do you think?
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Anyone else turned on by it? A man with a great chest wearing a v-neck shirt, or with the buttons undone just enough to partially expose his pecs is so hot.
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For better or for worse, most of the profiles we’ve read on "Mad Men" star Christina Hendricks, 37, throw in a mention or two of her enviably curvaceous figure. Video:
Wow.
The trans meltdown over Jared Leto winning is truly something to behold.
Bullshit Award Goes to Cis Straight Man For Portraying Trans Woman (Badly)
(CNN) -- Ballistic tests show bullets that killed a suburban Washington woman last month are similar to those in two other unsolved killings, police in Virginia said Thursday. "We are looking at these as if they are linked, but until we have evidence that points to only one suspect, we investigate all possibilities," Alexandria Police Chief Earl Cook said at a news conference. The slayings have alarmed the community located across the Potomac River from the nation's capital, raising concerns a serial killer may be responsible. Authorities Thursday renewed their warnings to residents to be "on guard," after announcing their findings from the forensic examinations. The new evidence shows bullets recovered in the killing of music teacher Ruthanne Lodato on February 6 have "the same general rifling class and characteristics and are similar in design to bullets submitted in two other homicides in the city,'' Cook said. Police have said a gunman knocked on Lodato's door late that morning and began shooting. The 59-year-old woman died, and her mother's caretaker was seriously wounded. The survivor helped provide a sketch of the suspect. The previous victims were also prominent in the area. Nancy Dunning, once married to Alexandria's sheriff, was killed in December 2003; and Ron Kirby, director of transportation planning at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, was gunned down last November. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI are assisting local police in the investigation, including sending a profiler. Investigators are also reviewing shootings across the nation for any similarities.
So butch. No. 14 in a saga.
Let's celebrate Groundhog Day with another thread about Colton Haynes!
Who's had him? So cute.
Marcus Bachmann Larry Craig Who else?
"Sandra, I could watch that performance till the end of time, and I sorta felt like I had.” That's rude.
Mugging, scenery chewing, over the top. Crazy acting.
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Anyone watching this show on TLC? Some nice eye candy. And I'm pretty sure Brock is gay.
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And why he's stick nosehandling Woody Harrelson's love handles and moobage. More talk about Owen, Woody and McBonGo here!
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Please forgive me -- I''m not a film buff like many of you -- but what exactly do you mean by the expression "chewing the scenery"? Can you give me/link to some examples? And where did that phrase come from, anyway?
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I didn't know that many people at 13.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with being single, but if you're in your 40s and you're ***still*** single and have never been married, it's because you've made that choice for yourself, not because life has forced it onto you. I want to tell all my unhappy complaining single straight friends this--and all of my unhappy complaining single gay friends too.
Yes, this needed its own thread.\ \ Was there no one else who could fill her slot on "Glee"? She just made a gasping, off key fool of herself at the Tonys. \ \ What an obnoxious, shrill little bitch.
So last week I went to the dermatologist for my annual mole check and to ask about treatment for male pattern baldness. During the check in process with the nurse, I added that my former doctor had prescribed Retin A for me and I was hoping the new doc could renew it. She said "I don't know if we'll have time for that at this appointment." First of all, I'm a little miffed that I'll have to make another appointment to do this. That said, I really only want Retin A for its anti-wrinkle properties. I don't have acne or anything anymore. How would you phrase this request? Can I just say "I want to look young and fresh"?
His attention whoring is sorta getting on my nerves. And he's not ageing well.
Neil Patrick Harris Documents His Trip to Mexico on Instagram
Please keep it real, and NO dissing other posters. That is all. Thank you.
It makes me feel dirty to hear those words and I lose my hard on. Anyone else wish they could tone it down just a little
Hi everyone..... ...what do you mean, "WHO?" I am international A-list film and television star Mamie Gummer! Any questions?
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then sleeping until noon. Love having Friday off.
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A Russian news website published a photograph today that it claims is the first to show US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden since he emerged from a Moscow airport in August. In the blurry image published by Life News, a casually dressed man sporting a goatee with sunglasses perched on his head is pictured pushing a supermarket trolley full of groceries across a road. A car with partly legible Russian plates and a crossing sign identify the scene as in Russia. 'The photograph was taken in Moscow,' said Life News, which is known for its close ties to the Kremlin and security services. There has been no reported sighting of Snowden since he walked out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on August 1 after obtaining temporary asylum in Russia despite protests from Washington. The 30-year-old former CIA contractor is wanted by the United States after revealing details of massive surveillance by the National Security Agency to the media. Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena has said he is living in a secret location in fear of being tracked down by US law enforcers. Life News published video extracts from an interview with Kremlin-friendly Kucherena, who refused to confirm that Snowden is living in Moscow. 'Let's take as a starting point that on the photograph that came into your possession you can't see the region or anything, only numbers (on a car number plate),' he said. The photograph, if genuine, also does not show the bodyguards who Kucherena says accompany Snowden. It was not clear when the photograph was taken, however it is likely to be several weeks old as it is now autumn in Russia and the picture shows trees covered with green leaves. Life News, which is the online wing of popular tabloid Tvoi Den, wrote on a Russian social networking page that it paid 100,000 rubles (about $3,000) for the photograph submitted via its website. Kucherena last month told Itogi weekly magazine that Snowden manages to walk around in disguise. 'He would walk past you and you wouldn't recognise him,' he told Itogi. 'It's a question of clothes and small alterations to his appearance... He really does walk freely around on the streets.' Life News pointed out that the man resembling Snowden did not seem to be economising on his supermarket shop, with a trolley containing at least half a dozen bags - despite claims by Kucherena that the American is running out of money. 'As you can see the former special services employee has picked up a full trolley of food according to American tradition. That clearly cost more than one thousand rubles,' it wrote. Kucherena told the website that '(Snowden) is living in quite a poor way as he has practically no money'. The photograph appears to show Snowden breaking Russian law by jaywalking, Life News added, an offence for which he could be fined. Life News, known for eye-catching scoops, in August published photographs showing Snowden walking out of Sheremetyevo airport with a huge grin on his face. None of the journalists keeping watch at the airport spotted him at the time and it was not clear how the website obtained the photographs.
What's it like? Do you communicate with them? It's always been a dream of mine to live in a seriously haunted house.
Well, that bums me out.
Ever picked up a guy or messed around with someone who ended up creeping you out later? Someone with violent tendencies that you wanted to get away from ASAP? Someone you regretted ever bringing back home or riding back in a car with? Post about your scary hook-up/one night stand experiences here.
Meh? Ewwwwwwwwwwwww
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I went to the one in WeHo. Why isn't zpizza more popular? It's pretty great.
Does anyone still watch this mess?
Yes, I know about the marriage to Sofia Coppola (that didn't last very long). He seems somehow kind of closeted to me.
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A New Jersey teenager claiming that her mother and father tossed her out of their home and cut her off financially is suing them for immediate support, current private-school fees and future college tuition. The parents, meanwhile, say that daughter Rachel Canning, 18, moved out voluntarily after refusing to abide by their rules. “We love our child and miss her. This is terrible. It’s killing me and my wife,” Rachel's father, Sean Canning, a town administrator and retired police officer, tells the Daily Record. “We have a child we want home. We’re not Draconian and now we’re getting hauled into court. She’s demanding that we pay her bills but she doesn’t want to live at home, and she’s saying, ‘I don’t want to live under your rules.’” The rules, he notes, include reconsidering her relationship with a boyfriend who may be a bad influence, being respectful, and abiding by her curfew. He and his wife, Elizabeth, who live in suburban Lincoln Park, about 25 miles outside of New York City, have kept their daughter’s car because they paid for it, says Canning, and he admits that they did stop paying Rachel's tuition at the private Morris Catholic High School. A hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday in the Morris County Superior Court.
Teen Sues Parents for Cash, College Tuition. Does She Have a Case?
Why are they so obsessed with genealogy?
[italic]Hi, everyone! Please spread the word that I'm here and I will start taking fan questions. Hollywood stories are the best stories.[/italic] Fire away!
@RealFayeDunaway answers fan questions on Twitter - for real
It was on in the summer of 1978 and was a sitcom actually set in the Soviet Union. It concerned a family living in a cramped apartment in Moscow. Can't find it on YT. Anybody else remember this?
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After cleaning up the streets of San Francisco and being snubbed by the Oscars, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has announced that 5 year old cancer patient Miles "Batkid" Scott will next travel to Crimea in attempt to end the invasion by Russia.
And why he's stick manhandling Freddie Smith's love handles and moobage. More talk about Guy, Freddie and WilSon here!
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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?
So is this movie really 2 hours of Clint Eastwood telling a bunch of teenagers to get off his lawn?
What kind of topics would we see?
Which ones sound the most interesting to you? I wonder if Tea Leoni will seem as stoned as a Secretary of State in Madam Secretary as she did as an MSNBC reporter in Deep Impact. The Untitled Richard LaGravanese Pilot sounds interesting, a sort of Dangerous Liaisons set amongs the Upper East Side ladies who lunch crowd. That asshole Taylor Hackford is directing, though.
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Funny stuff!
Let's name them! Raymond Burr - invented a bunch of fake ex-wives and fake kids for himself. He even received sympathy notes from fans for the death of his imaginary son! Liberace - sued a paper for saying that he was gay (and he won!) Randy Travis - marrying his old lady manager after a tabloid outed him John Travolta - entered into a sham marriage after being outed. Sued Gawker for printing the truth about him
It seems epidemic. Some kind of arrested development? Or are they considered pedophiles?
The disturbing trend of adult women having affairs with teens
If so share your story here!
Me, any picture in a history book of ancient Greeks in the nude. I had no way of knowing this at the time, but the guy who illustrated some of the Look and Learn magazine ,I pounded over, again ancient Greece was gay and has since illustrated a lot of Gay Porn. I also was infatuated with Aquaman and Mark Goddard from Lost in Space. Who did you lust after growing up?
Justin Timberlake Colton Haynes Who else?
Is anyone familiar with this case? They have security cam footage of her on an elevator in a hotel that has had a slew of suicides talking to herself, looking paranormal. She managed to get to the roof of the hotel and drowned in a water tank. Her body wasn't discovered until two months later. Those staying at the hotel told how bad the water had tasted. Here's the film news: Sony Pictures has reportedly bought a script based on the death of Elisa Lam, the former UBC student who was found dead in Los Angeles last year. The script, written by Phillip and Brandon Murphy, focuses on a man investigating Lam's death who then gets drawn in to further mysteries, according to Deadline.com. The project, currently titled “The Bringing,” is described as a horror movie. A former friend of Lam’s, who asked to remain anonymous, said he’s disappointed to see Lam’s death trivialized. “Hollywood looks like they're trying it capitalize on it while it's fresh,” he said. Lam was found dead in a water tank on top of the Cecil Hotel in February of last year after going missing in January. The county coroner's office later ruled the 21 year-old’s death as an accidental drowning. Surveillance video showed her acting strangely in a hotel elevator, pushing several buttons, hiding in a corner and then peering into the hallway. Authorities listed Lam’s bipolar disorder as a significant condition in her death. Toxicology tests turned up no signs of foul play or drug use, and the coroner declared the file closed.
Sony Buys Rights To Produce Film Based On The Horrifying Mystery Surrounding Elisa Lam's Death
You noticed that when ANGELINA won her JEAN HERSHOLT AWARD that although she mentioned her mother repeatedly, she never mentioned her father JON VOIGHT even one time ?
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What is she like in private? I've heard all sorts of stories, many of which conclude that she's a mental case.
... and they've got those gorgeous twins.
Continue talking about Aaron and his "turtle" Kevin Lanflisi!
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New York city commissioner who shares surname with Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch believes his ancestor owned her slave forebears She is the grand-daughter of Caribbean immigrants to America who has just been appointed to a top job by Bill de Blasio, New York's new mayor. He is the dashing British actor who stars as Sherlock Holmes in the hit television series on both sides of the Atlantic and plays a plantation owner in the Oscar-nominated film 12 Years A Slave. Despite their very different backgrounds, Stacey Cumberbatch and Benedict Cumberbatch apparently do not just share a distinctively English-sounding surname. Ms Cumberbatch believes that the star's fifth great-grandfather owned her ancestors on an 18th century sugar plantation on Barbados. They are "related", not by blood, but by their shared roots in the brutal transatlantic slave trade, she told The New York Times after her appointment as a city commissioner. Her ancestors were slaves on the island at the time when it was the practice for them to take the family names of plantation owners such as Abraham Cumberbatch. The star has previously discussed how his name became common among families from the Caribbean because of his forebear's role on the island. Although there are no paper records to establish the link, it now seems that New York's new chief of administrative services is among them. Mr Cumberbatch's performance in 12 Years A Slave, which has been nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture, is not the first time that he has chosen a role that harks back to his family's ties to slavery. Abraham Cumberbatch, who was born in Bristol in 1726 and died in 1785, came from a family of merchants and adventurers and built the clan's fortune from a sugar plantation on Barbados. The actor said that it was a "sort of apology" for this history when he played William Pitt the Younger, the abolitionist prime minister, in the 2006 film Amazing Grace about William Wilberforce's fight to eliminate the slave trade in the British empire. In an interview, he once said that his mother, Wanda Ventham, the actress who also played his mother in the latest season of Sherlock, encouraged him not to use his real name in his professional career because she was concerned that he could face claims from reparations by slaves of descendants. The Cumberbatch family has faced no such lawsuits. But 14 Caribbean nations last year said they would seek reparations from the former colonial powers of Britain, France and the Netherlands for the slave trade. The countries have hired the firm of London lawyers that secured compensation from Britain for Kenyans who were tortured under British colonial rule in the 1950s. The islands have said they will compile an "inventory" of damage suffered and demand an apology and financial damages. Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 and Tony Blair, the then prime minister, expressed his "deep sorrow" for the practice in 2006. The Cumberbatches are among many prominent British families who once built their wealth and standing on the slave trade. Researchers said last year that an ancestor of Samantha Cameron, the prime minister's wife, received the equivalent of several million pounds in compensation when the British abolished the trade in humans. Mr Cumberbatch was born in Kensington and Chelsea, educated at Harrow and has starred in a series of acclaimed films in recent years, including Atonement, War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Fifth Estate, in which he played Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder. In 2012 he courted controversy by lamenting that he was a victim of "posh-bashing", saying he might move to America to escape being "castigated as a moaning, rich, public-school bastard, complaining about only getting posh roles". In an interview with the Radio Times, Cumberbatch insisted he was middle class, saying that despite his public school education and classical training, "I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig." Ms Cumberbatch was born in the New York borough of Queens, graduated as a lawyer and has spent a long career in city and state government. Talking of her roots in Barbados, Mr de Blasio said that her heritage "has driven her to excellence".
New York City commissioner's ancestors were slaves of Benedict Cumberbatch's family
He's one of the hunkiest men in baseball!!! Let's celebrate his looks, especially that muscular ass.
Turns 26 today. Born October 22, 1985.
Maybe the third time is a charm...
Anyone know the music that is being played in the episode 'Bed, Bath and Beyond". The scene when Will, Karen and Jack are dancing.
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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:
This is the thread where we enjoy biceps.
I always wonder what the guys I'm around look like naked. I always think that if they're not showing a bulge, they probably hang low.
These bitches and their same old songs are so tedious at Olympics after Olympics. Phantom of the Opera. Les Miz. Swan Lake. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. What are your suggestions for musical selections that the 2018 skaters should pick for the next Games that could be a nice change of pace? I will start things off by suggesting the score to "The Goonies." You could even incorporate a fun pirate costume too.
Music without lyrics that should be incorporated into figure skating routines
Elderly woman throws more than confetti at bride.
Hint: Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony Tony Angela? Audra? Just bought my ticket. Probably too late for you, bitches.
At tonight's performance, the role of Beggar Woman will be played by a surprise guest
Ha! Meth might’ve eaten Aaron Carter’s face and any dignity he had in his being, but it didn’t eat the undying love he feels for Hilary Duff. Hilary and Aaron “dated” when they were just 13 years old and that was over 14 years ago, but every night he blasts “Come Clean,” crawls into his Lizzie McGuire sleeping bag and as he stares at the photo collage of her he pasted onto his ceiling, he faps while crying. My thoughts and prayers go out to Aaron Carter’s neighbors who every night have to block out the sound of him fap-crying while screaming out the lyrics to “Come Clean.” Aaron has let it be known on Twitter before that he wants Hilary Duff back. And yesterday, the Romeo of Florida once again figuratively threw tiny rocks at Hilary Duff’s bedroom window when he re-tweeted a picture of her and then spilled out this declaration of love, which will later be used in court when Hilary Duff tries to get a restraining order against his ass. Don’t be that stupid douche that loses the love of your life forever.. Like me… I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to better myself to get back to her. I don’t care what ANY of you think. That tweet just gave me an anxiety attack ..people who have no idea who I am and/or what I’ve been through. If you’re that interested watch my interviews or google me. At least I’m real and don’t hide behind the persona of being a celebrity and an entertainer, &try to portray positive feelings all the time On a lighter note it’s almost Easter and I want tons of candy to eat!! Lindsay Lohan probably DMed Aaron with, “Aw, I never stopped loving you either, got any coke?” But Aaron told one of his followers that he was talking about his childhood girlfriend Hilary Duff. If you think it’s creepy that Aaron is still slobbering over a girl he dated when he was 13, then you’re obviously the kind of monster who shits on true love and stabs cherubs for fun. Because true love will always prevail! 50 years from now, Aaron will be laughing at all the haters who thought he was a creepy motherfucker while cuddling on the couch with his wife of 49 years Hilary Duff as they watch their grandchildren play on the rug. You know, I think I just described the scene that Aaron is going to daydream about in his jail cell after the cops catch him licking Hilary Duff’s dirty panties in her bedroom. And welcome to your future, Justin and Selena.
Here's yet another one from "Slate": "Why I can't stand white belly dancers: Whether they know it or not, white women who practice belly dance are engaging in appropriation."
Sick and tired of whines/complaints about "cultural appropriation"
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C'mon, make it happen.
There are no words.
Rumors have swirled that Janet Jackson and her husband's marriage is on the rocks. Reports indicated that the singer is not happy with being married to Wissam Al Mana and has already filed for divorce. A source reportedly said she has already confided in her close friends and her mother Katherine Jackson that she's preparing to leave him. Another tabloid reported that Jackson will challenge the prenup and will also demand a payout from his fortune. Jackson was previously married to James SeBarge and Rene Elizonda. She also had a long-term relationship with rapper/producer, Jermaine Dupri. She secretly married Al Mana in 2012, whom she began dating in 2010. Back in October, the couple were taking steps to expanding their family by exploring the process of adopting a child from a third-world country. "She now pretty much knows pregnancy is not in the cards, so she's been looking into adopting," a source said at the time. "She's been very moved by the events in Jordan and Syria now that she's been living overseas. Not sure how soon it will happen, but there's been movement on this." Page Six also noted that Jackson even reached out to Queen Rania of Jordan to help out with the process. "Janet has always been concerned about the welfare of the world's children, and it's important to her that she affords a baby the opportunities that have been afforded her," a source told the paper.
New episode tonight, as the second half of season 3 premiers! Monday, Jan 6th, at 10pm, 9pm central!
She has such a cute face and quite a bit of talent. I hope she goes far, but since she's not a Halle Berry type, I can't help but worry.
it were actually Lorna Minnelli and Liza Luft? Imagine the possibilities! #BizarroHollywood
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Let's post pictures of amazing balls... goose-eggs, low-hangers, or just plain amazing sacks. Whatever, as long as the focus is on the balls!
"The Pitt-Hanks Continuum" is my new phrase du jour... The toughest Oscar race this year was for best actor. Right until the awards began, the race was almost certainly down to Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave and Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. (McConaughey was the eventual winner.) What also seemed certain was that Leonardo DiCaprio was not going to win this year, or possibly any time soon, unless he becomes a different kind of actor, a much less cool one. Cool guys don’t win Oscars. Although modern coolness emerged out of jazz and spread through popular music, the movies brought cool to the masses by giving audiences unparalleled access to it. Where else can you sit and stare at cool people for hours? The movies have been good to cool, and cool has been good to the movies. So why is it that so few of the actors who have embodied cool have ever won the Academy Award for best actor? Consider these icons of cool, all of them non-winners: Cary Grant, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, James Dean, Steve McQueen, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, and Tom Cruise. Paul Newman and Humphrey Bogart won late in their careers, after age had worn away some of their cool. Two other cool winners, Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, each received one of their two awards in their fifties.
Their high school essay announcement: [quote]Humans have a long tradition of exploring and forging new frontiers, both physically and metaphorically. [quote]Today, I think we can all agree that this spirit is alive and quite well...It is in this vein that Cameron and I contemplate our tickets into space – as seed capital supporting a new technology that may forever change the way we travel, purchased with a new technology that may forever change the way we transact. I'm sorry, but these guys went to Harvard?
If Bitcoin wasn't dumb enough, pretentious Winkevoss twins buy tickets for for space...
It looks fucking stupid.
I've lived in the same large studio in the East Village for 20 years. It's rent-controlled, cheap ($950) and thus immensely hard to leave. But I need a change and would love more space. I really like this area and could afford $1,200-$1,500 a month on a rental or a mortgage. Any advice appreciated.
What are your thoughts?
A hot, openly gay, Democratic lawyer who plays football with black kids...he's perfect, yet I can't help but to notice he's single. Does anyone know this "Brian Sims, Esq." of PA? He's competing in a primary today...
The last post of the other thread: "Does anyone know how Henry and Corey met? Did they star in a movie together? It just seems so random how close they are if they're dating or not."
and why?
Anyone watching? There are quite a few douches.
Continuing a great thread with fabulous pecs.
I've read rumors elsewhere that he's gay and mentioned this to my boss, who is a lesbian. For some reason she got bent out of shape refusing to entertain the notion that Daniel Craig might be gay. So, IF he is gay, does anyone have some good strong evidence that Daniel Craig is gay that I can present her?
Otters have a reputation of being cute and cuddly animals, but photos were recently re-posted on Facebook that show a side of the carnivorous mammal that will probably surprise you. Photos taken by Geoff Walsh in the Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge in DeLeon Springs, Florida show an otter biting down on a young alligator. According to Facebook comments by the refuge, the otter was able to drag the alligator to land, at which point the prey stopped resisting. They were no longer visible, but when “crunching noises” were heard, it was clear that the otter was feeding on the reptile. The Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge notes that, “Despite their disarmingly cute appearance, otters are the apex predator of many fresh water habitats.” A YouTube search reveals otters battling with various large species including this video from the BBC of giant otters fighting for an hour with a Caiman, from the alligator family.
Odder otter news: Photos capture an otter eating an alligator
At the IFC Center as part of its Francofest. 56% fresh on RT, but did get a good review in the Times. Here's the blurb from the IFC website about its series: An astonishingly prolific polymath, James Franco has already produced an impressive body of work as an actor, writer, producer and director that would make an artist twice his age jealous. His choices have never feared complexity or controversy, and each new project bristles with the thrill of discovery. We’re thrilled to present this not-even-mid-career survey includes some of Franco’s most notable performances—SPRING BREAKERS, 127 HOURS and more—and a sampling of the features he has directed, among them AS I LAY DYING, BROKEN TOWER, SAL and others. James Franco (born 1978) is an actor, director, screenwriter, producer, teacher and author. He began his career on the acclaimed show Freaks and Geeks and received a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the biographical film James Dean. Notable film credits include OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, SPRING BREAKERS, “Harry Osborn” in the SPIDER-MAN trilogy, MILK and 127 HOURS for which he received Academy Award, SAG and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor. He has directed, written and produced several feature films and numerous short works, and has published novels, poetry, short stories and magazine articles. He is currently teaching college courses at UCLA, USC and Cal Arts and acting classes at Studio 4. He will appear on Broadway this spring in a revival of Of Mice and Men.
James Franco's "Interior. Leather Bar" finally opens in New York
Let's resurrect the Visible Penis Line thread!
Anyone else love this album? For years, the only song I knew from it was "Angie" but I've been listening to "Coming Down Again", "100 years ago" and especially "Winter" over and over. Love the mellow, Sunday morning sound of it.
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What the fuck is going on? Is it just a few random obsessed posters, or is DL living in a time warp? It's out of control. Search 1980s/80s, and you'll receive 20 pages worth of threads. This isn't even a full list of threads currently open... 1 million dollars in 1980 Gay and lesbian hairstyles in the 1980's Underrated movies from the 1980''s Lucille Ball Supported Gay Rights In 1980 The early '80s (1980-3) What was it like in 1970's-1980's in the U.S. or also know as America's "Golden era"? Underrated movies from the 1980''s The 1980s Patient Zero was a publicity stunt in the 1980s during the AIDS Anyone remember the satanic cult hysteria in the 1980s? 80s Ladies â Jane Pauley (Today) or Joan Lunden Were you a 'New Age Gay' of the 1980s? What if Datalounge had actually been around in the 1980s? Movies from the 1980s few remember Question for gays who reached adolescence in the 80s The 80s Were The BEST!
Copied this off from HUFFINGTON POST (see link)
Is mid-life crisis harder on gays .... ?
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Tonight was the premier episode. I didn't care for Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis but, love Flipping Out. DL fav Gage is back too.
Go!
Was Lorna mad at Joyce for pulling focus?
It looks attractive on no one. Smaller trim beards look cute, but I don't want my tricks to look like the Smith Brothers.
I'm in the mood for a snack!
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People always point to "Cruising" as homo-hateful (I disagree, seems pretty accurate). But what other movies make us look bad?%0D\ %0D\ I watched "The Owl And The Pussycat" the other night and I heard "fairy" and "pervert" over and over.
Just because:
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Let's try not to get this thread closed down too...
It has been reported that they haven't always gotten along over the years. Why? Lorna jealous of Liza's talent? Lorna forced to play pharmacist to Mama while Liza partied it up with Halston? What gives and where does Joe fit into all this?
You know it's going to happen - someone with a smartphone is going to catch him doing something somewhere with someone. There's no way this apply pie eating, bible banging, pin-up of the decade is for real. So what will it be? I guess it's too much to pray for (hee hee) a sex tape of him blowing Richard Simmons while those mangy dalmatians tee-bone' this smug jerk. So what are some more realistic possibilities to take this hilljack down a few pegs?
Isaiah Washington is set to reprise his role as the heart surgeon/former flame of Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) in an episode airing in May. This marks Washington’s first appearance on the ABC medical drama since season 3, when his character left Cristina at the altar and the actor was let go from the series. Creator Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the character’s return is an integral part of providing closure to Cristina Yang, whose portrayer Oh is set to leave the series at the end of this season. ”It’s important to me that Cristina’s journey unfolds exactly as it should,” Rhimes said. “Burke is vital to that journey — he gives her story that full-circle moment we need to properly say goodbye to our beloved Cristina Yang.” Since leaving Grey’s Anatomy, Washington has appeared in bit parts on TV shows like Single Ladies and Law & Order: LA and will next appear in the CW’s 100, premiering this month.
Do you live with pain? What kind? How do you cope?
I'll probably go see this because I'm a slave to how pretty Baz Luhrman movies are but I just don't get why she was cast in this and how I'm going to be able to believe that a plain Jane like her was worth Gatsby and her husband going insane over. Bitch better have insane charisma.
His manny His pilot A shit-ton of masseurs Gerard Depardieu? Robert Stigwood? Allan Carr? Who else?
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Hey, you ever fucked two or more brothers from the same family? Was it all at once or one at a time? I'm working on my exes brother. Please share your stories for inspiration.
Can be from novels, TV. movies, comics, plays, whatever... but it has to be the actual character, not the person who plays him. for me: Wolverine.
Am I here?
I mean, he never said a peep about it until the mid-90s, plus he was married to a woman. How could he be gay when he obviously liked vagine enough to marry it. Besides, we all know deep down gay men really want pussy and are just scared because of childhood issues. I think that guy David Furnish is just his manager or something and they are just trying to get publicity with that gay thing.
I think it's because he's like the black version of "twee."
Connie Casserole!
Bill Maher gave Bill Kristol a conniption fit on "Real Time" Friday during a conversation about the Tea Party, who that week celebrated their fifth anniversary as a thing that exists. Video:
Maher To Kristol: Tea Party Was About 'A Black President'...Kristol To Maher: 'Total Bullsh*t!'
And he is only 39 What a lucky bitch
by: Mrs Patrick Campbell (Hollywood veteran) "Miss Keanu, along with Tammy Cruise, are two of David Geffen's 'corn-hole' sucess stories, that is, Geffen corn-holed both of them and then made them stars!" I believe you Mrs. Patrick Campbell...about Keanu and Tammy and David. But from what Van Sant said, HE had a longterm secretive affair with Keanu so, do you think David was jealous?
It seemed almost insulting. All they did was stand up in the audience and meekly wave.
I'm watching my DVD box set right now. I love this show so much. Is anyone here a fan? And WEHT James Marshall and Dana Ashbrook? they were hot.
Explain why.
I love feet. I find them sexy. I don''t necessarily feel the need to lick them or suck on toes. But seeing a hot guy with sexy big masculine feet gets me oh so horny. Seeing a guy in tennis shoes and ankle socks, seeing the articulation of his ankle leading down to his foot gets me horny. Sexy feet can make a so so guy look hot and ugly feet can me an attractive guy quite less so.
I just said this yesterday to my colleagues at work, and a few of my friends. Should I take the easy way out and just kill myself? But they all really did deserve it.
Growing up my mother's family was very close. And then suddenly they weren't. Horrible things were said, people did terrible things to each other and for the last 15 years or so my parents and I have had pretty much nothing to do with them. And while it hurt at first, I don't really think about them anymore. Now most of my parents generation has turned 70 and there's this sudden push to reconnect. A lot of discussions about how we all need to stop focusing on the past and the negative and all get along. There's emails, Facebook friend requests, all sorts of shit and I feel like an awful person, but I just have no interest in having anything to do with these people who acted so terribly to me and my parents. Am I a bad person?
Wes Anderson is the most overrated filmmaker currently working, so this takedown was a pleasure to read. Money Quote: There are hints that Fiennes has it in him to portray a worthwhile human being here—tender, smart, impulsive, humane, and witty—but this potential is smothered by Anderson’s chronic preference for guest stars and demented art direction. As a filmmaker, he has been tending that way for some time: in Moonrise Kingdom, the arty glee with which its island was depicted began to eclipse any response to it as a human or social gathering place. But in this film, the tendency is an avalanche of sickening sweetness. So the picture is a remorseless succession of pretty frames with frosted colors that might come from a Viennese patisserie. The vision is unique and inventive, but indigestible and likely to overwhelm some viewers. There is a production designer credited, Adam Stockhausen (he was on 12 Years a Slave, too, though you wouldn’t guess it). The esteemed Milena Canonero did the costumes. But I think Anderson is the visionary in charge. Still, to be a visionary does not eliminate the possibility of some attendant blindness.
Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" gets eviscerated
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I thought she said she never wanted to look cheap?
discuss.
I refuse to watch any movie this little turd dropping stars in. I used to like Will Smith but now hate him for foisting his crotch fruit upon the population. I don't know what it is exactly that I find so repulsive about Jaden Smith. Maybe the arrogant smirk he always seems to have. Maybe the blatant and unabashed nepotism. Maybe the fact that he's essentially a beard baby for his father. Whatever it is, I get an immediate and violent reaction whenever I see his face on a commercial. I feel the same way for Shia LaBouef.
I know a few bi men who identify as straight. They''re completely comfortable within themselves and acknowledge that they like guys/girls equally, yet if you asked them they''d say they were straight....Is this common amongst bi men?
Gay?
Describe your degree of "outness". This is for primarily homosexually-inclined people. If you are not attracted to the same sex, click "show results" to see the poll. I want to explain the poll options before you vote: 1) "I don't hide it from anyone" means exactly that. You never edit pronouns, obscure facts, omit details or deflect questions that might reveal that you're gay. If you're ever mistaken for straight, you correct them. 2) "Everyone knows except acquaintances and strangers" means you're out to "everyone that matters": family, friends, co-workers, except you might just let strangers and acquaintances assume you're straight, just because it's less awkward and often unimportant. 3) "Out to everyone except one specific group": this means roughly the same as #1 and #2, except for personal reasons you exclude one group. Most often these are people who are not out at work (for fear of descrimination) or people who choose not to tell parents or siblings and limit or cut off contact instead. 4) "Out to friends, but no one else". This is vague, but a sort of catch-all for people who are closeted in more than one area of life. This would be people who are closeted at work and among at least some family, or people who are only out to their gay/gay-friendly friends. You must have gay friends or very gay-friendly friends for this category. 5) "I don't identify as gay, but I don't hide my same-sex attraction". This is tricky but I know some of you will demand this option. This could include g0ys, "post-gay" hipsters, genuine bisexuals and anyone who avoids the gay label but still is open about their same sex attraction. To answer this category, you must be open with at least the majority of your friends and family. 6) "I neither discuss it much nor hide it". In this category, some of the people that you're genuinely close to know that you're gay, but to the world at large, most people that you know and just whenever it's convenient, you're ambiguous or silent about your sexuality. You avoid pronouns and keep your "private life" private. Still, you have gay friends, but you're likely to introduce a love interest as just a "friend" in some situations. 7) "I've only told some/certain people". This would describe people who've come out to some people under very personal circumstances, but are still mostly closeted at large or ambiguous to most people. You may or may not have gay friends but you compartmentalize them and never mix them with your straight friends. 8) "I've told very few people". The difference between this and #7 is a matter of degrees. You've told one or two people, excluding sexual encounters. Maybe you've told one co-worker and swore them to secrecy, and one sibling but made them promise not to tell Mom and Dad. Maybe you let it slip out once while drunk with a friend. You have no platonic gay friends that you socialize with regularly. You pretend to be straight in mixed company but don't actively date or pursue the opposite sex. 9) "I lead a double life". You have a straight life and a gay life, and they never mix. You are meticulous about keeping it all "straight". You actively date or are in a LTR with a member of the opposite sex (who may or may not know the truth), but you also have gay friends on the side, sexual or platonic. You enjoy homosexual pleasure in secret and project a straight image at all other times. 10) "I tell no one". You believe that no one knows that you're gay, or you desperately wish it were so. You have secret sexual encounters but no connection to gay people or gay life. You never plan to come out.
I've read a lot about a severe winter starting in late 2013 and escalating in January 2014. What are your 2014 predictions or interesting ones you've heard.
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For me, it was a copy of Philip Jose Farmer's novel "A Feast Unknown," a bizarre gay fantasy featuring disguised versions of Tarzan and Doc Savage. I cannot tell you how many times I jerked off to that book.
The Peacock network believes Jimmy Fallon's ratings success gives them extreme bargaining power. They put the word out to celebs, agents and publicists...if they want to be on Fallon they can't appear on ANY other network...and not just shows that go head-to-head with Jimmy, but morning shows as well.
College biology class. The (bearded hot) professor claims this is HS material but I don't remember this ever being taught. Soooo confusing!!!!
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My mom taught me to always pack an extra pair of underwear and an extra pair of socks for a vacation. My friend is mercilessly making fun of me, asking how often I crap myself.
Returning to Chelsea?
Prince Andrew is romancing "The Croatian Sensation," more popularly known as Clooney's ex-flame. Would the Queen approve of this potential new daughter-in-law?
Isn't Prince Andrew gay? Why is he spending his B-day with Clooney's ex-piece?
I keep seeing guys do this on cam4 and it turns my stomach every time. Perhaps I'm not gay after all?
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Please state your reason(s) for selecting that person.
They need to do more Hermoine Gingold skits.
For the deaf.
If anyone cares ... While Hollywood is still basking in the Oscars’ golden glow, A-list actress Scarlett Johansson is reportedly glowing in a different way. E! News first reported the “Her” actress is pregnant with her first child, and according to sources for TMZ, Johansson is already roughly five months along. Way to keep that baby bump hidden, ScarJo! Johansson and French journalist fiance-turned-baby daddy Romain Dauriac announced their engagement in September, but aren’t rushing to set a date. “I’m not doing any wedding planning,” she told “Good Morning America” in January. She was previously married to Ryan Reynolds and got divorced in 2011 after three years of wedlock.
This is a serious question. Does it seep out right away or a couple of hours or does it come out when she pees? Is it "absorbed"? One of you has to know.
Yaaaaaaassss bish! Beyonce slayyyyeed all your faves from Lady Gag, Shitty Spears, LordeNOT, with this music video for "Drunk In Love" I LIVE!!!!!! She is thee Queen of Music, bow down to Mother Bey! #BeyHive
Has there been any? Discuss.
It links to your iTunes library, and I have some of my own material uploaded. Will people be able to access my songs if they look at my Spotify?? I really don't want that.
We all know Beyonce snatched wigs, weaves and lacefronts this past weekend with her self titled album "Beyonce" so which song and music video are you favs? When I listen to "Pretty Hurts" I think of Kenya Moore and I love XO and I like the video for "Yonce" but not really digging the song. Overall the album and delivery is EXCELLENT! Below is the link for the video songs and music videos for those who haven't listened or seen them yet.
Which One Of Beyonce's Songs & Videos Is Your Favorite From Her Latest Album?
around 1:30 in the clip. Even Marg Helgenberger notices.
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This whole Arizona thing, the hell that is put onto cake shops across the country (lol) - what exactly can't they deny? Can they produce cakes for gay couples but not have to put two grooms on the top?
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Dish the dirt!
Brandon Howard says he's the chip off the ol' block.
God, I love this woman. Breathtaking speech. The woman was ON FIRE.
Xmas 2014
Anyone going to watch it? As a Los Angeles native who's lived in SF, NYC, London, and Vancouver, I've always been drawn to Chicago. If it wasn't for the horrendous weather, I'd live there.
Before you post, be sure you check out the statue at the link. It really IS creepy--there's no denying that. ******** A statue of a man in his underwear has created a scandal at an all-female college in Massachusetts. More than 300 students at Wellesley College have signed a petition to have the statue, appropriately titled "Sleepwalker," removed from the campus. "[T]his highly lifelike sculpture has, within just a few hours of its outdoor installation, become a source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault for many members of our campus community," says the petition. "While it may appear humorous, or thought-provoking to some, it has already become a source of undue stress for many Wellesley College students, the majority of whom live, study, and work in this space." According to the Boston Globe, the statue was installed in a busy area of the campus on Monday as part of an exhibit by sculptor Tony Matelli at the college's Davis Museum. The museum's director, Lisa Fischman, defended the statue and its placement on the Wellesley College website. "We placed the Sleepwalker on the roadside just beyond the Davis to connect the exhibition — within the museum — to the campus world beyond," Fischman wrote. "I love the idea of art escaping the museum and muddling the line between what we expect to be inside (art) and what we expect to be outside (life)." Junior Zoe Magid, who started the petition, found Fischman's statement unsatisfactory. "We were really disappointed that she seemed to articulate that she was glad it was starting discussion, but didn't respond to the fact that it's making students on campus feel unsafe, which is not appropriate," Magid said. "We really feel that if a piece of art makes students feel unsafe, that steps over a line." Most students interviewed by the Globe found the statue troublesome, but at least one member of the Wellesley community appreciated it. "I find it disturbing, but in a good way," said Sarah Wall-Randell, an English professor at Wellesley. "I think it's meant to be off-putting – it's a schlumpy guy in underpants in an all-women environment."
Wellesley students terrified by creepy hyperrealistic statue of man in his underwear
In his need to demonize the poor, Paul Ryan told the following story at CPAC: [quote]"She once met a young boy from a very poor family, and every day at school, he would get a free lunch from a government program," Ryan said. "He told Eloise he didn’t want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids," he continued. "He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand." It didnt take long for commentators on TPM to discover this "story" was lifted almost verbatim from the book An Invisible Thread: "Miss Laura," he said, "I don't want your money. I want my lunch in a brown paper bag." "Okay, sure. But why do you want it in a bag?" "Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?"
Expected to plea bargain. He will definitely get jail time, she was get off with probation.
[quote]Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Ash Wednesday Quiz.
Della
If you wanted to dress like a male version of Myrtle Snow how would you accomplish the look?
Fashion Void
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Top, bottom? Did he ever have a black boyfriend? How bad are his issues?
LOUISVILLE — A federal judge said Wednesday afternoon that he would issue a final order within 24 hours requiring Kentucky to immediately recognize same-sex marriages performed outside the state.
Michigan’s gay marriage trial ended on an explosive note today, with the state’s final witness saying he believes unrepentant homosexuals are going to hell. His views emerged following a question from plaintiffs attorney Ken Mogill, who is fighting to overturn Michigan’s ban on gay marriage. “Is it accurate that you believe the consequence of engaging in homosexual acts is a separation from God and eternal damnation?” Mogill asked the state’s expert, then added, “in other words, they’re going to hell.” “Without repentance, yes,” answered the expert, Canadian economist Douglas Allen, the last witness to testify on behalf of the state in a trial that could make Michigan the 18th state to legalize gay marriage. Allen, an economist who has researched 60 same-sex parenting studies during a 15-year period, testified today that he believes Michigan should uphold its ban on gay marriage. He argued that science is a long way from determining whether this family structure is good or bad for kids and that messing with public policy would be premature. “The state should be very cautious in making such a fundamental change to such a fundamental issue where there’s no evidence on the child outcome issue,” Allen said in court today. “We’re a long way from understanding what the child outcome results are in a conclusive way.” A spokeswoman for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who is opposed to gay marriage and is defending the voters’ decision in 2004 to define marriage as being between one man and one woman, said Allen’s religious beliefs do not taint his testimony. “The trial ended on Dr. Allen’s comment that the science on this remains unsettled,” said Joy Yearout, spokeswoman for Schuette. “He was very clear that his personal beliefs have no impact on his research or the data it produces.” Allen, who has testified in three other same-sex marriage trials, is the last witness to testify in the nine-day-long trial in which two lesbian nurses are seeking to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage. The state is fighting to uphold the ban on gay marriage, arguing voters have already spoken on this issue — banning same-sex marriage in 2004 — and that their decision should stand. But the plaintiffs argue the ban is unconstitutional and are fighting to reverse it so that they can marry and adopt each other’s children. The trial has focused largely on the outcomes of children raised in same-sex families. The state has argued that children thrive best when raised by married moms and dads. The plaintiffs have countered that there is no evidence to show that children raised in same-sex households fare better or worse than those raised by heterosexuals. Allen, the last academic expert to testify on the child outcome debate, disagrees. He has analyzed 60 same-sex parenting studies from 1995 to 2013 and says his research shows there are differences in outcomes of children raised in same-sex households versus those in traditional family settings. Allen testified that his data, a 2013 report based on Canadian Census data of 8,632 people, show that children raised by same-sex parents do not perform as well in school as those raised by married moms and dads. Among his findings: • Girls in a gay households (2 dads) are only 15% as likely to graduate from high school compared to girls raised by moms and dads. • Girls raised in a lesbian household are about 45% as likely to graduate from high school compared to those raised by married moms and dads. • Boys in lesbian homes are 76% as likely to graduate high school compared to boys raised by married heterosexuals. • Boys raised in gay households (2 dads) are 60% as likely to graduate compared to boys raised by married heterosexuals.
State's last witness says unrepentant homosexuals are going to hell
I always find it a little creepy when two brothers marry two sisters. Could it be a cover for something?
No spoilers please! So, in tonight's episode, Thomas gets to ship off with Lord G. to NY. And according to Mary, will be ogling the handsome deck stewards on the trip over. Will Thomas get his fill of seamen? And the rapist Mr. Green returns. As does Alfred. Edith goes to London to have an abortion, but chickens out. And Rose continues her interracial dalliance. Oh, and the Dowager Countess almost buys the farm! And speaking of the farm ... Mary and cute Mr. Blake end up having a mud fight after hauling water to a bunch of dehydrated pigs.
What a weird person to have become a celebrity. She's so repugnant.
This blog lists the M4M group sex parties in New York Man I'd love to live in NYC
Adventures in Group Sex - Listing of Daily Gay Group Sex Parties
With the Games coming up,just wondered if there were any tolerant Gay countries in the former Eastern block? Wondered what Gay life was like over there and how you met etc?
Hi guys, I'm 23, HIV negative, get tested regularly, and choose to hook up with HIV negative partners only. I understand that some guys lie about their status and you should treat everyone like they're HIV positive - this is why I only do oral sex for hookups. I was wondering what is the best way to turn down a guy who reveals his HIV positive status to you, either online or in person. I don't want to be rude or sound harsh - I just want to tell them that this is the way I practice safer sex in my life. But I find it hard to come up with a good way to say it without going into deep details or some debate. "Sorry, I only hook up with HIV negative guys" - is that ok? I've tried this before, and some guys respond with "oral is such low risk, why not?" or "you're being paranoid, undetectable is extremely low risk" etc. I know that being undetectable is very low risk, but I also know that I just wouldn't be comfortable and wouldn't be able to get into it with this cloud of worry. Maybe I'll get over it when I'm older, but that's just not the case right now. For the HIV neg guys, how do you turn down HIV positive guys? And HIV positive guys - do you get offended when guys refuse to play with you because of your status? What's a good way to convey the message without sounding like an asshole? Thanks in advance.
Hollywood is always on the lookout for blockbuster stories, and this coming Monday it will get the juicy details about how a producer working in Tinseltown since the late 1970s led a double life as an arms dealer and Israeli intelligence operative. Arnon Milchan, the Israeli producer of such smash hits as "Fight Club," "Pretty Woman," and hundreds of other films, is opening up for the first time ever about his involvement in clandestine deals to acquire arms for Israel and his work to promote the country's alleged nuclear program. The film tycoon sat down with Israeli investigative journalist Ilana Dayan for the season premiere of her current affairs show "Uvda" ("Fact"), in which he discusses his efforts to engage Hollywood colleagues in his work for Israel's Defense Ministry. Keshet's show is scheduled to air Monday, November 25, on Israel's Channel 2. This isn’t the first time Milchan's role in Israeli arms dealings and intelligence has surfaced: Just two years ago authors Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman published a book titled “Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan" – which alleged that Milchan was an operative for Israel's Bureau of Scientific Relations. The bureau, headed by spy-masters Benjamin Blumberg and Rafi Eitan, gathered information for secret defense-related programs, including Israel's alleged nuclear program. The bureau was closed after Jonathan Pollard was arrested for spying on behalf of Israel in 1986. The "Uvda" report does, however, contain some shocking new details about Milchan's work, including claims that other Hollywood bigwigs like the legendary, late director Sydney Pollack and at least one other Academy Award-winning actor, both figured into his work for Israel. The report reveals that Pollack, who died in 2008, acquired arms and other military equipment for Israel in the 1970s. When asked if Pollack knew about the details of the deals, Milchan tells Dayan, "Pollack knew, but I didn't want to scare him because he's American… He could have said 'no.' He said 'no' many times, but he also said 'yes' many times." Milchan also tells Dayan that he used at least one big-name actor's star quality to lure U.S. scientist Arthur Biehl – an expert on nuclear weapons and a co-developer of the hydrogen bomb – to a meeting. According to the report, Milchan invited Biehl to the actor's home under the pretense that the actor was seeking scientific advice for a project he was working on. Milchan said he thought Biehl would cooperate because, "Anyone who lives in California is a 'star-fucker…' They hear 'star'…they come running." The producer also confides in Dayan that his double-life wasn't always easy to lead, particularly when what he really wanted was to dedicate himself to filmmaking. "In Hollywood they don’t like working with an arms dealer, ideologically," he said. "[They don't like working] with someone who lives off selling machine guns and killing. Instead of someone talking to me about a script, I had to spend half an hour explaining that I'm not an arms dealer..." Milchan continued, "If people knew how many times I risked my life, back and forth, again and again, for my country. And suddenly, [I have to] defend myself – 'I'm not an arms dealer, I don't sell guns, I don't sell rockets ' I should have been aware of that, of what I'll go through, and said, 'Fuck you.' You know what, I did it for my country and I'm proud of it." The show also features interviews with Robert De Niro, Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and other major Hollywood players. Meanwhile, New Regency films, Milchan's company, is working on four films slated for release in 2013-14, including "Noah," a Darren Aronofsky-directed take on the Biblical flood story starring Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins.
The producer behind '12 Years a Slave,' Arnon Milchan, admits to double life as Israeli secret agent
Who is he talking about?
Deion Sanders said every team he played for had at least one gay player
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So the small clinical trial did well...will be interesting to see where this goes in the long run.
The subject of the latest debunked Obamacare horror story is finally talking, and of course it's to Fox News. Julie Boonstra is a Michigan resident with leukemia, and she appeared in an Americans For Prosperity ad against Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Gary Peters, saying that Obamacare made her cancer treatment unaffordable because of out of pocket spending. Subsequent fact checking, though, found that her monthly premium payments were essentially cut in half, and the limits the law imposes on out of pocket expenses means that at worse, she'd break even between those costs and her premium saving. The ad also implied she lost access to her doctor, though fact checking determined that her doctor is included in the plan she picked on the exchange. So with no real basis to the story she presented in the ad, how does Boonstra respond? The only way she can, the way Republicans always go, playing the victim. "They're not scaring me. Cancer scares me," she said. "I battle cancer every day. They're not going to intimidate me." [...] "Under my old policy, I knew what I could afford every single month because I wasn't hit with extra charges. Now I don't know what I have to pay month to month," she said. "Leukemia tests are extremely expensive." Just to set the record straight, pointing out factual inconsistencies is not intimidation. No one is saying that Boonstra isn't experiencing real angst over having to change health insurance in the middle of her fight with cancer. No one is diminishing her fight with cancer, they're just pointing out some basic truths which show that her story just doesn't add up. And as Brian Beutler points out, if the Koch brothers achieved what they're trying to with this and other ads—repeal—then she would really become a victim. The protections she now has under this law—to never be kicked off her health insurance plan, to never have to worry about having health coverage because of her leukemia, having her annual out of pocket expenses limited, and never having to worry about reaching an annual or lifetime cap where her coverage is just cut off—would be gone if the campaign she's participating in succeeds. Which is, yes, insane. If Boonstra is a victim, she's the willing victim of the Koch brothers and AFP who would ultimately throw her to the wolves. But if she hates the law that much, fine, whatever. What she's doing, though, jeopardizes every other cancer patient in the nation.
Woman in debunked Obamacare horror story finally speaks ... to Fox News
Can a guy self suck & still be straight?
In an effort to extend an olive branch to those who advocate making pot legal, Canada Conservative government is suggesting making pot possession a ticketing offence. The proposal would not take any existing laws off the books, but would add a new ticketing power. This would neither be decriminalization nor legalization, but rather an improvement on the status quo in which police must choose between ignoring a situation or laying criminal charges. Laying charges for pot strains police and court resources. Plus convictions for pot possession carry heavy consequences for individuals – including potential barriers to travel and employment – that would be avoided with tickets. Why can't US follow this lead and instead of making Pot legal, just ticket those busted with small amounts. What's wrong with that?
Premieres Feb. 23 on CBS. Brendon/Rachel Mark/Bopper Cord/Jet (cowboys) Dave/Connor Flight Time/Big Easy (Globetrotters) Jennifer/Caroline Joey/Meghan John/Jessica Leo/Jamal Margie/Luke Natalie/Nadiya
All the laughter all the tears! I want to see Bo and his flip-flops Mandesa and her feets Ryan's Chicklets Jennifer's weave Keith's hair Harry's Jr.. All this and more, tonight on AMERICAN IDOL!!
"From a football standpoint, if the guy can help us win, come help us win," Cousins, who is a devout Christian, is quoted by MLive as saying during an appearance at Michigan's NorthPointe High School. "Now, there are a lot of teammates in my locker room right now who may not have a homosexual lifestyle, but they have sins, too. They’re not perfect. So I don’t say they can’t help us win. Nobody’s perfect.“ He then added: "To that degree, we'd welcome him into our locker room and say come help us win, and hopefully I can love him like Jesus and hopefully show him what it means to follow Jesus."
Kirk Cousins Of Washington Redskins Says He'd 'Welcome' Gay Teammate: 'Nobody's Perfect'
The Tommy Hilfiger model. He's a sweet meathead.
Has Mariah Carey had her blacklisted for eternity for having such a stank attitude? This ho has been reduced to removing her wigs and posting pics of her natural hair on Instagram.
I want to spotlight an actual gai iling this weekend and i want to know where to go
(as Kellan would spell it) See his pecs and nipples ripple.
"I'll NEVER stop posing shirtless," vows Kellan Lutz - Part Too!
CHICAGO — Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Tuesday told an Illinois county clerk that he and others around the state have the right to immediately issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Madigan issued the guidance in response to a question from Macon County Clerk Stephen Bean, who questioned the legal effect of the ruling in Lee v. Orr on Feb. 21 by a federal judge in Chicago. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman determined Illinois’ original ban was unconstitutional. A state law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect June 1, but the ruling by the federal court means there’s nothing to stop couples from marrying now. Coleman said the ruling only applied to Cook County because it challenged the practices of that county’s clerk, David Orr. However, in a letter to Bean, Madigan said because current restrictions on gay marriage are unconstitutional, same-sex couples asking for a marriage license in any county can be given one. Madigan noted there have been a stream of federal court rulings saying bans on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. “Even though the ruling in Lee is not binding on you, the protections guaranteed by the Constitution must exist without regard to county lines, and the Lee decision along with the federal court decisions noted above, should be persuasive as you evaluate whether to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples,” Madigan wrote to Bean. Cook and Champaign counties have started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. However, county clerks in central and western Illinois have said they’ll wait until June 1 to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Adams County Clerk Georgia Volm has said she would wait in order to ensure that the licenses, once issued, are valid. Madigan said county clerks should consult with their state’s attorneys, consider federal rulings on the issue and the cost and potential litigation in the event of a lawsuit challenging any denial. She said if requests for licenses are denied, “couples may opt to obtain their marriage licenses in Cook County to be married there, or they may file a lawsuit.” Gov. Pat Quinn, in a statement, said every county clerk in Illinois should quickly follow Madigan’s guidance. “Following this guidance, the Illinois Department of Public Health will now accept all marriage licenses issued by any county clerk in Illinois,” Quinn said. Under current law, the public health department helps ensure that new marriages comply with state laws.
Illinois AG: All county clerks can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
Stephen most recently played the young hustler on "Hung" where he showed off his incredible body.
Can't wait for this camp classic-to-be.
Guess which state? Just guess.
Did your mother force you to take piano lessons? How long did you take lessons? How good are you now at playing the piano? What is your best tune you can play on the piano? Was it pointless to take piano lessons? Answer then discuss below!
One of the most stupid things that I've ever heard from a head of State.
"This elderly singer who was a sex symbol in the '60s and early '70s used to pay for sex acts with men so he could be discreet about his sexuality. As he is getting older and dealing with health issues, he finally came out to his wife a few months ago. The wife claimed she has known their entire marriage and agreed to stay because she claimed that she still loves him and always has, and claims she'll be his best friend for as long as they live." My first thought was Sedaka, but was he ever considered a "sex symbol"?
Have been catching it on TV Land. Say what you will...the show was well written and wholesome in an age when most things are not. Why didn't this get more acclaim while it was airing?
Please tell me he's not running for president.
It just started 8 minutes into it and I switched to Anderson. They let the guy who rendered "Under The Rainbow" unrecognizable through to the next phase? I'm sick of that shit being rewarded. Shame on you, Harry Connick Jr. I still want Keith Urban lying in bed waiting for me to come home, though. I'll probably be back during Hollywood Week.
A farmer in Herkimer County, N.Y. couldn't figure out why his cows seemed more anxious than usual. When they weren't producing as much milk as usual, he set up a surveillance camera. What he saw shocked him: two men were rolling in the hay with his livestock, CNYCentral.com reported.
Reid Fontaine, Michael Jones Accused Of Sexually Abusing Cows
My sister''s husband. He''s terribly good looking, but he has BDF for dayuzzz! Also has large ears, some of the biggest, meatiest hands I''ve ever seen on a man, and a rather pronounced bulge. Every time I see him, I find myself pulling down his underpants with my eyes and imagining just how big and thick that piece of meat must be. I''ve JO-ed a few times thinking about him and what I imagine his cock to look like. I sometimes feel guilty over this, but I can''t help myself from fantasizing about his dick. Does this make me a bad person?
What the fuck? I have lost 45lbs over the last several months by eating only fruit, vegetables and grilled chicken or fish. I decided to have one 'cheat meal', a couple spicy salmon rolls at a nice sushi place. It was delicious, and a nice change, as I hadn't eaten rice for months. Also, I rarely eat out, so it was a fun treat. I stepped onto the scale the next morning and was horrified. How the hell did that happen? Of course I went right back to my regular healthy meals, but it's been three days and I'm still up by 6lbs. Is this what happens when you diet and then eat a few hundred calories over what you are used to?
Diabetes is rampant is my family and sugar is highly addictive for me so starting tomorrow I'm giving up sugar. I'm nearing middle age and I think my sugar consumption has caught up with me. My waist is a few inches bigger. I already make most foods from scratch so I know meals will be fine. I just eat too many sweets too frequently. I'm worried about the cravings I'll be having in the next few weeks. Any advice on how to get through it?
How many bottles do you think she had?
Those raised dark dots high on his cheeks and just below his temples... are they freckles? Moles?
I'm conflicted about this.
Who are or were they? Anyone have any firsthand knowledge or gossip?
She has yet to go wrong on the Red Carpet!
Lupita Nyong'o: Who Is This Girl's Stylist!?!
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A chef takes on Fast Food for the first time. And hates a lot of the crap some of you worship. Imagine being an adult and tasting your first big Mac? clue: he hated it.
I was at the gym today and "Another One Bites the Dust" and We Will Rock You" played back to back. I'm 28, so I had no idea that "Queen" did both songs (along with "We Are the Champions") with Freddie Mercury as the lead until a quick wiki search. So my question is: How big was "Queen" here in the states and was it well-known that Mercury was gay? BTW, what a voice.
Yes, of course, I think she's cute, but I also think she's a viable candidate for "the next Meryl Streep." Anyone agree?
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God knows he had the money. The overbite couldnt be overlooked. He was at least partially hot othewise. DEAL BREAKER?
Do people actually do this? It's disgusting. I can't imagine putting things in my mouth and chewing them up until they become wet globs of goo and then swallowing it. And then it comes out the other end all stinky! Plus, it makes you fat. How vile!
I've not tried it yet--I hear mixed things about it. I like Vera Farmiga a lot.
I bought one so I would not have to use dryer sheets anymore. It seemed like it was working fine, but tonight I decided to take it out just because I liked the smell of the Downy dryer sheets I used to use better. Well, the Bounce dryer bar cannot be removed from the inside of your dryer without leaving a sticky residue behind. I am going to have to spend a lot of time cleaning that stuff now so it doesn''t mess with my clothes. I did a search on the Bounce dryer bar on Google, and you would not believe how many websites with complaints pop up! You have been warned!
Concerned consumer who hates static cling
She had the same comedic style as she does now, and was pretty good. But that haircut ?!?
Elton aside, the video had some sexy men and in retrospect, some very gay visuals. And this was around the time John got married, too.
Who was turned on by the "I'm Still Standing" video in the 80s?
Have you ever?
Recent media reports have speculated that Grammy winner Janet Jackson is separating from her husband Wissam Al Mana, but a source close to the couple sets the record straight. The source tells Entertainment Tonight of Jackson and Mana's relationship, "The rumors about their marriage are a lie. They are very happy and very much together. In fact, the couple has recently purchased an even larger home in New York." The couple confirmed their marriage to ET back in February 2013, adding that they wed in a "quiet, private and beautiful ceremony" that was held in 2012. "Our wedding gifts to one another were contributions to our respective favorite children's charities. We would appreciate that our privacy is respected and that we are allowed this time for celebration and joy," Jackson and Mana said in their wedding announcement. This coming April, Jackson, 47, will be traveling to Brazil to continue her work for amfAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research).
This guy next to us at Mohawk Bend (Bahn Mi pizza!) was talking about Washington being "Rome" and how there's an empire (there IS, as in now), and he was saying like how he was in college and he learned that from a visiting professor from Yale. He was then saying something about the European Union (which isn't a country, BTW) being a pretty good "idea". Just curious but am I missing something here? Is he talking about Hollywood and like how everyone watches its movies and TV? Rome is Italy's capital, and Washington is America's capital. I know they have buildings in Washington that look like they're from Rome or something (old-fashioned looking, like the opposite of Santa Monica buildings). Is Rome significant in the European Union? Is it like Washington in that way? Like politics and the military being there? I haven't taken courses in politics or geography yet. Maybe next fall.
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Governor Vaginal Probe is in a whole heep 'o trouble. Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department, says McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were indicted Tuesday. The 14-count indictment includes conspiracy, wire fraud and other charges.
Former VA Gov. Bob McDonnell, Wife Indicted On Federal Corruption Charges
He comes across remarkably self-assured for his age (if also slightly douchey). He has this handsome gymnast buddy from whom he seems inseparable. I wonder if the two of them have tasted each other's dicks. (It would be interesting and kind of fitting if he turned out to be gay, what with his mom's gay icon status.)
I seriously hate everything about the god-forsaken place. Its crappy American-wannabe stores, its garage sale-like "businesses". Do you ever wish you were not here.
"Look at how she has operated in the past with these types of responsibilities. She was in charge during the Benghazi debacle. If a person reads the Senate Intelligence (Committee) report and the House Foreign Affairs (Committee) report released (last) week, it is damning for Hillary Clinton." "She has a real problem when it comes to Benghazi," says Bachmann. Clinton, she adds, must answer for what happened. In addition, she says, Clinton is "the godmother of Obamacare," trying "behind closed doors" to push through something similar when Bill Clinton was president. "Effectively she would be Obama's third and fourth term in office." That might scare enough people to vote for the Republican nominee. "I think there was a cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt." (Presumably she means because of slavery and the lengthy denial of civil rights to blacks.) "People don't hold guilt for a woman," she says, adding that while people vote for women for virtually every other office "I don't think there is a pent-up desire" for a woman president. She says while Obama was "new and different," Hillary Clinton has been around a long time and is less likely to stir the juices as Obama did.
Conned by women. Only Google Translator understands.
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So is he officially the new Ty Pennington? Will Miss Tina be an uncredited guest on his show too?
[italic]She won't elaborate on her love life. The best she offers is a vague assessment of romance or friendship (I'm not sure which). "I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are," she says.[/italic]
Shailene Woodley: I fall in love with human beings
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I get why trust in the government is declining in America, but I don't get why trust between people is declining still? We are safer from violent crime than anytime since the early 70's and late 60's, so why is it that we are not trusting more? The good news is that we are still more trusting than other countries, including many western european ones. Why do you think trust is declining?
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The history of America's most famous gayborhood.
Russia and Ukraine.
Because the original was so popular. Original thread at link.
Dogfucker.
With all the informaton about the severe effects of obesity, I have a hard time understanding why anyone woulf let themselves get fat. Why would someone want to put poison in there mouth? It makes no sense. Put down the fork and go out and exercize. Sorry but it has to be said. Listen to Michelle Obama. She's got her head on straight when it comes to this issue. For that I'm thankful. Fatties are FINALLY getting called out. Didn't use to be that way and look what happend.
Why is the US government threatening to ignite WW3 over a tiny country most of us have never heard of? Follow the money...
By the time Naked Sword debuted Boyrfriends 2 on February 20, lovers Tony Orion and Aleks Buldocek had already announced their break-up on Twitter. "We are following different ways," Tony Orion tweeted to gay porn blogger Men of Porn on Feburary 11, 2014. "I'm moving to NYC and he [Aleks Buldocek] is staying in Chicago with his Daddy Paul [Steele]." read link for more.
What sayeth the DL?
In her new tell-all, the Partridge Family matriarch says she was very in tune with the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll lifestyle of her day. Sometimes she’d even flee the show’s set for a quickie with playboy hubby Jack Cassidy. “At the height of ‘The Partridge Family,’ now and again Jack would pick me up from the studio in the car, then drive us into the garage adjacent to our house, where he would have intercourse with me in the backseat,” she says. Jones also says her stepson David Cassidy was definitely his father’s son. According to the tell-all, both Cassidy men were very well endowed. “David’s brothers called him Donk, for Donkey,” she writes. She also reminisces about exotic escapades they enjoyed “wherever and whenever we wanted,” including one go-round on the floor of a sailboat, dalliances in bathtubs and in backstage dressing rooms. The actress and author claims her sex encounters often involved other stars, and reflects back on one crazy night in the late ’60s, after she and Jack had dinner with Anthony Newley and Joan Collins at their home. According to Jones, Newley bragged to her and her hubby that he was in possession of a few porn flicks and suggested the four of them get naked and have a kinky movie night. Jones says she declined the invite. The book also has a chapter about the night Jones and Jack Cassidy swung by Sammy Davis Jr.’s Beverly Hills home, where lines of cocaine were waiting on every tabletop and porn played on TV screens throughout the house. While the ’60s may be over, the 79-year-old Jones says she isn’t done yet. “I still want to make it clear that I believe that a woman can remain sexual right through her 70s and 80s and beyond. I am living proof of that.” Jones writes. “Despite my advanced years, that hasn’t changed a bit, although it can take longer than before for me to achieve sexual fulfillment these days.” Well, “Come on, Get Happy,” Mrs. Partridge!
Well, fuck them! Fuck them right up the ass!
Set in "the mean streets" of Battle Creek, MI. I assume a 17 year old jock with hot feets will be the core character, no?
Bryan Singer to direct new CBS series
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Ella Fitzgerald. Amazing voice, amazing career. No big scandal, but what a lot of great music. Queen LaTeefa would be great in the role.
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[quote]I'm always just so damn desperate to find anything that can make a movie. I'm serious. This one is not a grand statement and it's not particularly important to me. ' The director's own words. So why should we care?
The New Yorker: [quote]The biggest loser, in terms of goodwill, was Matthew McConaughey, whose weirdly confessional speech started with a taste of old-time religion that had me hoping he’d play a Pentecostal preacher in a movie (a fictionalized version of Marjoe Gortner, from the great documentary “Marjoe,” came to mind); it followed with an evocation of his late father that was a little crude but sincerely loving; but it ended with a tribute to himself, as his own ever-deferred future hero, that had the unintended effect of making him seem trapped in his own superseded adolescent wisdom. In an industry of mentors and master-artists, benevolent influence and tough love, he came off as a vain and boastful self-made man.
The McConnaisance's collapse is complete
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She is such a bitch.
Wow.
The Minnelli ancestral home...
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This will be her FIFTH time losing the Academy Award this year. Some salt? Every other nominee already has an Oscar. Even more brutal: She JUST lost last year. A consecutive loss. Maybe she can take comfort in the fact that most experts have her as (a distant) runner-up. Hey, momentum has been swinging her way lately, maybe if voters had another month. But no. Perhaps the 6th time will be the charm. (She should've won for Junebug, but damn that was a competitive year, and Weisz or Williams were as deserving) And, being sincere here, I know Phillip Seymour Hoffman was a dear friend, and they worked on many projects together, and received multiple Oscar nominations for the same movies, so my deepest sympathies. I guess that means she's out of a job, though. She was the lead in PSH's next directorial gig. Ouch. It's only February and she's already lost an Oscar, a friend, and a job. Let us take a moment for Amy Adams on having a shitty 2014. Perhaps it can give us some perspective on our own lives.
You fight to the end girl!
Quote of the Day "I am pro-life. I care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes to bed without being able to be a part of the Texas dream, every woman and man who worry about their children's future and their ability to provide for that future. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else." -- Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis (D), quoted by the Dallas Morning News, borrowing a phrase from anti-abortion activists.
Wendy Davis: "I am pro-life. I care about the life of every child"
and she is as obnoxious as she ever was. Horrid kid, becomes horrid adult famewhore.
I had no idea!
100 Famous Celebrities with Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
How do I get him to love me back? He says he's not interested in women, and it just tore my heart out and made me so angry! Of he would just try it, I know he would like it. Men can't resist poon. He just needs to be exposed to it, right?
L*I*Z*A For the very young who don't know how great she was, this is what we elders saw.
LIZA MINNELLI LIVE at the Olympia in Paris. Complete concert from 1969
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This would typically illicit waterlogged memories from childhood of watching the elevators open and the blood rushing out in "The Shining". My parents were very lax with rules when I was growing up and I was somehow able to watch the following film on TV at a very young age by myself (bad idea!). %0D %0D I have to say the scenes from a film that have potentially scarred me the most are from the 1982 Jill Clayburgh film "I'm Dancing As Fast as I Can". I think I might've been about seven or eight years old. In the film, Clayburgh plays real-life Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Barbara Gordon. Against her doctor's orders she tries to detox in her apartment from a severe addiction to Valium, cold turkey. Her live-in boyfriend (who is, himself, an alcoholic and played by the extremely creepy Nicol Williamson) is helping her by, essentially, not letting her leave the house. There's a scene where he is passed out drunk and she is trying to creep out of her apartment. He catches her, beats the ever-living shit out of her and then when she comes to, she's tied to a chair in their bedroom, bruised and bloodied. It might be the domestic abuse that arises out of what was a simple addiction plotline, but it is so horrifying as to almost eclipse the dark hell of withdrawal Clayburgh portrays. I think a man punching a woman is extremely difficult to watch for some reason.%0D %0D She eventually gets out of the situation by pretending that they have a dinner engagement with another couple. She convinces her boyfriend that she'd better call them and make up some excuse so they don't come looking for her. When he agrees and gets the couple on the telephone, she starts screaming for help. They eventually come over and save her. %0D
The weatherman, who joined "GMA" in 2006 after 18 years with ABC's New York City affiliate, will take on a new role as a host and managing editor at the Weather Channel.
Sam Champion Leaving 'Good Morning America' For Weather Channel
Today on The View they were discussing the TV film of "The Trip To Bountiful" and Whoopi said there was a movie made with Geraldine ummmm and other people had to fill in "Page" As if the bitch really forgot.
The Arizona Senate has passed a Republican-backed bill that expands the rights of people to assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays and others. Democrats and civil rights groups opposed the bill being pushed by social conservatives, saying it would allow discriminatory actions by businesses. But GOP Sen. Steve Yarbrough of Chandler says his push was prompted by a New Mexico case where the state Supreme Court allowed a gay couple to sue a photographer who refused to take pictures of their wedding. He says he's protecting religious rights. Democrats sponsored eight hostile amendments during Wednesday's debate that were rejected by Republicans who control the Senate. A similar bill is making its way through the House.
Arizona Senate OKs bill that allows refusal of service to gays
I know we joke about her alot here, but how do we really feel about her as an actress?\ \ She''s been great in so many movies from the early 80s-90''s, but I''ve never gotten her acclaim for "Sunset Boulevard." It was surprisingly competent, but not the revelation so many made it out to be. And her voice was good, but far from stellar. Then she did that Julie Andrews impression in "South Pacific", which the less said about the better. \ \ I do wish she would get another showy movie role or two. She hasn''t had a real meaty part in a long time.
(is there a current thread?) I received a payment from a class action law suit last year. I remember having to fill out some IRS form to get the check. Am I supposed to get a 1099 or something for this? I didn't get anything yet.
Let's talk about them.
It's important, and the other thread got closed... so present away, men!
I bought this book and am glad I did. This author knew James Dean and all the rest. Francot Tone was into being s***t on. I'm in hurry. Just wanted to mention it before I forget
Any fans of this 2011 indie film, about the 2 old lesbians who go on the run to the Canadian border, when the grand-daughter of the blind one wants to put her in a home, and take her house, where she has lived with her partner of 31 years? Its funny and sad and the 2 gals are fabulous - Olympia Dukakis as the foul-mouthed Stella, and Brenda Fricker as the simpler, almost blind Dotty. On the way they pick up hitchhiker Ryan Doucette, who is marvellous too as the dancer/hustler, and that scene at the Candian border customs in a riot as he is body-searched. He is presented in a sexual way too, which is rather interesting. Spoiler ahead .. Of coure one of them has to die, but they they are over 80 - its one movie where we are left wondering what the characters do after the movie is over. It also reminded me of Brokeback Mountain quite a bit, not only in its sadness, but the pickup trucks, great locations (Nova Scotia looks terrific) and performances. I liked it a lot.
Anyone watching? I feel like I'm missing something... what's wrong with Josh? I understand the ghost story-line, but not the wolf one. What did I forget?
She the top box office star for years and was also a national phenomenon. She should have gotten more than two seconds in a montage.
Mine is the Dyatlov Pass incident.
MSNBC will replace Dylan Ratigan's 4 p.m. show with a new program featuring a rotating cast of anchors, Politico reported.
MSNBC 3 PM: S.E. Cupp, Steve Kornacki Reportedly Among Rotating Cast Of Anchors For New Show
I'm talking about words like "boypussy" and "man-cooch" and the deathless "mussy." Are you offended by them or not?
Doug Ford (Rob's brother) saying the coverage on the mayor has been “unprecedented,” and that American journalists from Fox News he has spoken to think Toronto reporters “are a joke.” “They’ve (Fox News) told me personally, each and every one of them that they’ve never seen anything like it, the biased attacks against the mayor,” he said. "They (Fox News) have told me very very clearly they have been in presidential campaigns, they have never seen dirty campaign run against one individual." "Has the media been fair to Rob Ford. 100% not."
Those annoying music videos by horrid non talents. It is a periodic pop up that manages to elude pop up blockers. They supposedly give away money to these idiots for 'hits' on their videos. How does vube make money are they charging the deluded talent per hit? Are they asking for an entry fee?
Well? Hmmmm?
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I know the really long original threads are gone forever, but there was a recent one getting going that was still active in the past couple of weeks. I lost all the threads on my Thread Watcher - does anyone still have it on theirs and can post a link?
The little tramp will be Prom King yet! I wonder if he'll take Stu as his date? Link NSFW
High School Whore Noel Returns to Sean Cody to Gat Barebacked and Creampied!
Came across a pic of two male models embracing (naked, so pic is NSFW) and have been trying to ID the models, especially the one on the right with the blue-gray eyes. Perhaps the model experts on DL can help?
I've heard this for years, but always thought if you were a "good person", people would want you on their side, help you out, and value you. Not buying into that anymore, at least not from a professional standpoint. Over the past four years, I have seen countless examples of ruthless, manipulative, calculating people getting ahead by lying, being two-faced, stealing work, or simply kissing the right people's asses. It's not in my nature to be cut-throat, so I'd rather have a comfortable life and personally rewarding career than go for the top of that professional mountain. I would get a blog, but it's much simpler to just write this paragraph.
No longer youth hostels many welcome travelers of all ages. I find it a really cheap way to travel when funds are low. I rarely book the massive dorm rooms and often end up alone in a double or quad. Bathrooms vary from ensuite to gang showers down the hall but it all works. I stayed at one that was a former military barracks and it was just as spartan and institutional as expected.
This was a Republican's dream, wasn't it? I mean, they're going to play this for all its worth. Have they brought up the downsizing yet? I know they're knocking him for not pulling a Bush and invading Russia or some stupid shit.
Inspired by our gal Casey. Do they really take dumps in their cells? Are they allowed make-up? Do they have to do prison jobs? Are they allowed to have TVs and computers?
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Let's continue all things Andy Cohen here.....
Probably too young to have a sexual identity back then when the fathers of Russia had other ideals for those posing in selfies.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya -- The greatest Soviet/Russian lesbian nail tech in history
It's Back in Feb Aviva is stil insane Carol gets the villain edit The Countess was reduced to friend of housewife status Epic Sonja meltdowns as she goes broke Heather being a controlling bitch and of course RAMONA RAMONA RAMONA!! I think there are one or two new ones as well..
Continue here. Discuss Liza's blue dress and Joey's love of it.
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Cute. I always liked him in that short-lived show called [italic]Duets[/italics]
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"I’ve been beating myself up all day. Then I thought...what would Idina Menzel say, She'd say, Let it go, let it go! Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy Frozen took home two Oscars Sunday night!”
It's like they're struggling to break free.
Henry Cavill's gigantic tit muscles arrive in Michigan for Superman/Batman filming
Who is the bigger mess?
Alec Baldwin lashes out at MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, calling her a "a phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air."
He is so hot! Does he play for our team?
There's a grease fire with your name on it.
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The Barkhad Abdi poverty and Jonah Hill earning only $60,000 for Wolf thing got me thinking. So 10% to an agent, 5% to a manager, what else PR rep? Do they all need lawyers? Some seem to have them and some don't.
Name them.
Could Charlie Rose and Gayle King become the next hosts of "The Early Show"? The New York Post reported on Monday that Chris Licht, the vice president of programming at CBS News and the former executive producer of "Morning Joe," is in talks with Rose --who has a long history with the network-- to take the helm of the perennially last-place morning show. The paper said that Licht wants King to be the Mika Brzezinski to Rose's Joe Scarborough. One thing is for sure: the Rose rumors do not appear to be baseless. The man himself acknowledged to Newsweek's Howard Kurtz in a Monday interview that he is talking to CBS. "I'm having conversations with CBS because I'm a member of that family," he said. "I'm intrigued by the fact that they want to do it differently. They understand that their success will not lie in duplicating what's already on morning television." If Rose actually were to take over the program, it would certainly be evidence of CBS doubling down on its recent approach with the show, which has been to emphasize hard news at the expense of the softer items the other morning shows are known for. It would also be the third major overhaul of "Early" in less than a year. In November 2010, the show fired all of its anchors. In May, executive producer David Friedman was let go. The King rumors appear to be a little flimsier. There is no direct evidence that she has begun talks with CBS like Rose has. The two do not make an immediately logical morning show pair, either. But if the duo were to claim their seats at the "Early Show" desk, it would be one of the more audacious and intriguing scenarios the genre has seen in some time.
Looks like Gayle King and Charlie Rose could be the new CBS Morning Show hosts.
Yeah, That'll work. WASHINGTON — Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers who are perhaps the best-known patrons of conservative Republican politics, are bespectacled and in their 70s. They look genial enough. But Democrats are embarking on a broad effort that aims to unmask the press-shy siblings and portray them, instead, as a pair of villains bent on wrecking progressive politics. On Thursday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is starting a digital campaign that will use Internet ads and videos, as well as social media, to tie Republican Senate candidates to the policies and actions of the Koch brothers. Its slogan: “The G.O.P. is addicted to Koch” (pronounced coke). Up first on the list is Alaska, where Democrats will try to link Dan Sullivan and Mead Treadwell, the Republican Senate candidates, to an oil refinery in the state owned by Koch Companies Public Sector. The refinery is set to cease gasoline and jet fuel production, which would lead to the layoffs of roughly 80 refinery workers. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, foreshadowed the campaign by taking to the Senate floor on Tuesday — an unusual move — for the second time in two weeks to accuse the Koch brothers of unfairly meddling in the political system by helping to pump more than $30 million dollars so far in television advertising and other activities into the most competitive congressional races across the country. On Wednesday, he attacked them again during his weekly news conference. Many of the ads by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group backed by the Koch brothers, are especially critical of President Obama’s signature health care law. But whether the words of Mr. Reid, a member of an institution with historically low approval ratings, and even the efforts of other Democratic groups, will be any match for what the Kochs can spend remains an open and urgent question for Democrats. “Harry Reid can stand on the floor at the United States Senate and howl at the moon all night long if he wants,” said Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist. “But the reality is that he is powerless to stop millions of Americans from watching ads that tell the personal stories of real people who have been hurt by Obamacare. He’s basically spitting in the ocean and fooling himself into thinking that he’s making waves.” In an interview in his Senate office on Wednesday, Mr. Reid said his outspokenness against the Kochs stemmed from his concern for the middle class. “Right now, because of people like the two brothers, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is getting squeezed out of existence,” he said. “They’re against everything that’s good for America today.” Koch Industries, meanwhile, accused the Senate majority leader of trying to change the subject from what it says are the destructive Democratic policies that many of the ads it supports are simply highlighting. “Attacking Koch is nothing new and appears to happen whenever Senator Reid and the Democratic leadership want to distract voters from their abysmal record and failure to meaningfully address the issues in this country,” said Robert A. Tappan, director of external relations for Koch Industries. “Congress has a 13 percent approval rating for a reason. We are confident Americans will see through this tactic.” Mr. Reid said his focus on the Koch brothers was both personal and political. “How could I do nothing? How could I let these people try to buy America?” he asked. “Don’t I have an obligation, of someone that has been designated to run the Senate, to speak out when I see two people trying to buy America?” Democrats say the strategy of spotlighting the Koch brothers’ activities is politically shrewd. The majority leader was particularly struck by a presentation during a recent Senate Democratic retreat, which emphasized that one of the best ways to draw an effective contrast is to pick a villain, one of his aides said. And by scolding the Koch brothers, Mr. Reid is trying to draw them out, both to
But given the historical fact that the final results are almost always worse for the president and almost never better, we really need to focus on the Obama vote share rather than his lead or lack of one against Romney. If Obama is, indeed, getting 44 percent of the vote, he is likely facing, at least, an 11-point loss. If he is getting 47 percent of the vote, he is looking, at least, at a 6-point defeat. (Given the fact that six of the eight incumbent presidents not only lost the undecided, but finished lower than the pre-election survey predicted, it would be more likely that Obama’s margin of defeat would be greater than even these numbers suggest.) There are other indications of a Republican landslide in the offing. Party identification has moved a net of eight points toward the GOP since the last election. In Senate races, there are currently eight Democratic-held seats where Republicans are now leading either the Democratic incumbent or the Democratic candidate for the open seat. The predictions of a close election are all based on polling of registered voters — not likely voters — and fail to account for the shift in votes against the incumbent that has been the norm of the past presidential contests.
Dick Morris: "Mitt Romney will win the election in a landslide."
Full House actress Candace Cameron Bure & Mark Ballas Wonder Years actress Danica McKellar & Valentin Chmerkovskiy Swimmer Diana Nyad & Henry Byalikov Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes & Tony Dovolani Pop star Cody Simpson & Witney Carson The Price is Right host Drew Carey & Cheryl Burke Olympic ice dancing gold medalist Meryl Davis & Maksim Chmerkovskiy Olympic ice dancing gold medalist Charlie White & Sharna Burgess Para-snowboarder Amy Purdy (who lost both her legs after contracting menigitis) & Derek Hough Former NHL player Sean Avery & Karina Smirnoff Singer Billy Dee Williams & Emma Slater Big Time Rush bandmember/actor James Maslow & Peta Murgatroyd
Insiders said some top stars skipped the big Vanity affair over the way the magazine handled an article on Gwyneth Paltrow. The Oscars’ hottest and most exclusive afterparty, the Vanity Fair bash, was held in West Hollywood Sunday night, with a handful of A-listers, including Gwyneth Paltrow, failing to show. The absences came after the backlash that hit the mag’s editor, Graydon Carter, when he tried to do a tell-all profile on Paltrow. In an editorial in the March 2014 Hollywood Issue, Carter admitted he canned the piece after an extremely upset Paltrow called him personally and then charmed him into dropping it. Now Confidenti@l has learned from a well-placed source that CAA agents may have suggested to top talent that they should consider another party instead — like Madonna’s ultra-exclusive post-Oscars bash. Although Paltrow is represented by Tracey Jacobs at UTA, her publicist is Stephen Huvane. Stephen’s brother, Kevin Huvane, is an uber-agent and managing partner at CAA, which reps Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey and Sandra Bullock, who all skipped the VF bash. However, Anne Hathaway, who shares a publicist with Paltrow, did attend the magazine’s party, along with host Ellen Degeneres, who smooched her wife Portia de Rossi and Bono all at once. “They couldn’t pull everyone. That would have been too obvious,” our source says. Although Stephen Huvane assures us there is no connection, our source insists there is. “That is absolutely not true,” Stephen counters. “CAA doesn’t even represent Gwyneth, so your logic doesn’t make sense. Gwyneth didn’t go to any of the big parties on Oscar night,” he says. Graydon Carter, editor in chief of Vanity Fair, admitted in an editorial that Gwyneth Paltrow charmed him into dropping a tell-all profile. It’s not as though Paltrow’s invite was lost in the mail. Vanity Fair told E! News last month that Paltrow, a fixture at past VF parties, had been invited to attend this year, too.
Picture: 12 Years a Slave (7 for 12YAS; 6 for Gravity; 3 for American Hustle; 1 for Her) Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey (9 for McConaughey; 6 for Leonardo DiCaprio; 1 for Chiwetel Ejiofor; 1 for Bruce Dern) Best Actress: Amy Adams and Cate Blachett (6 votes each for Adams and Blanchett; 3 for Sandra Bullock; 2 for Judi Dench) Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto (12 votes for Leto; 5 votes for Barkhad Abdi) Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o (8 votes for Nyong'o; 7 votes for Jennifer Lawrence; 1 vote for Sally Hawkins; 1 vote for June Squibb) Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron (14 votes for Cuaron; 3 votes for Steve McQueen)
Even though I thought I would. I overheard (full disclosure: I was eavesdropping) a conversation between the President, VP, and Controller, discussing the legal obligations and an employment lawyer to consult yesterday. I am on vacation next week, and assumed they would drop the bomb today. I guess it takes a few days to assemble the paperwork. I do have (legitimate) access to the company's finances, so I think it is mostly a financial issue. We are heavily in debt with angry vendors sending us to collections all the time. But it sucks because the Prez and VP are both gay men too - I know it's silly, but I kind of feel a bit betrayed, especially by the VP, who I actually like a lot. Yes, I know your employer isn't your friend and you can't count on them. But it still hurts. It felt like the longest day of my life - waiting for the 'can we talk to you?'. I am not sure whether to be grateful for the delay or not. FYI: I have suspected this for a while, and been actively looking for the last six months. I was the one who started the "internal reference" thread, linked below, as I kind of saw this coming.
I''m thinking, at the most, six times.
"Amish Mafia" returns to TLC with a two-hour special this Sunday. "Breaking Amish" has moved their kids from Manhattan to Florida when the season begins in May.
Are there any?
My Yahoo email account is basically unusable now...you click on everything and absolutely NOTHING happens, or if it does happen it's after a delay of 30 seconds. Unfuckingbelievable.
She's disappeared.
Check it out:
Eleven L.A. County Sheriff's patrolmen descended on Justin Bieber's ass this evening and they are executing a gangbang.
Cops are Currently Raping Justin Bieber's Ass
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When Lupita Nyong'o won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 39-year-old tweeted, '#AngelinaJolie just filed adoption papers #lupitanyongo #Oscars -@chelseahandler.'
Chelsea Handler accused of racism after 12 Years A Slave tweet
He absolutely doesn't look like the ballet dancer, he looks like the spitting image of Darren Aronofsky.
Personally, my favorite BUSH is ROBIN; she never caused ANY damage.
BARBARA BUSH says "There's Just One Person Who'd Be A Great President For 2016"
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I happened upon this strange ad in the "Strictly Platonic" section of Craigslist. It is bizarre and I ended up showing it to my partner who agreed with me. Is this girl Asperger's or what? What exactly is she looking for? Lonely eighteen year old girl by myself in the dorm for a day. - w4mw - 18 (Corvallis- On Campus) age : 18 Hi. I've never really posted on here, and frankly I'm a bit afraid to. I'm eighteen years old and a freshman staying in the dorms. My roommate will be gone until Sunday afternoon so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to hang out with a close friend while I have the room to myself. Unfortunately, I've always kinda been missing the friend part of the equation. I can be pretty awkward and shy at times. I'm introverted so I don't do too well in groups. I would prefer to hang out with only one person at a time (Sorry couples D=). To describe my appearance, as that seems to be a key point in most of these, I'm a larger girl with a better face than body. I'm not a blob though, and do have some vague feminine shape. I've been told I have pretty eyes as well. You don't have to look like anything really. You could be a shapeless ether for all I care. (I would prefer you to be human though). Actually, I would prefer if you were low-key. I don't really like drawing attention to myself, so if you're some huge burly biker, or cover most of your skin in various metals and inks, sorry. Nothing wrong with those things, though o.o I'm sorta nerdy, I've watched my share of anime and played some games in my life. At the least, I identify with that group more than any other. I don't really know what I am. I don't really fit into anything. Sticking to the whole, "I don't like to draw attention," motif, I would prefer if you were around the average college or graduate student age. Probably the higher 20s is the limit. Then again, if you just look that age that's cool too. I like to think of myself as pretty mature, I would like it if you were too. It would be cool if you're smart, but I'm already being picky. Please don't be really, overtly stupid though. I come from a pretty conservative background, and don't think too fondly on illegal substances and such. I don't smoke, and the drinks I've had have been few. If those are the only ways you can have fun, I would not like to hang out with you. On that note, I'm actually pretty laid back. I'm very open/accepting about sexuality. Just haven't really done much of anything like that. But if anything related to it comes up in conversation, don't bother tip-toeing. YOU HAVE TO BE COMFORTABLE WITH SHARING SILENCE. Sorry for the caps, but it's really important. We might talk, but I'm not outgoing enough to maintain that all day--or for however long you stay. Please bring something that you like to read/ or something for you to do (maybe some homework, idk). Yeeeeep. That's one giant wall of text. Sorry.... For guys just reading this for possible subtle invitations{ FOR SEX, if ya didn't get that} (I assume guys do it, 'cause I do it all the time. My mind is like that.) Please note, that won't happen. I mean, we could cuddle or something. I don't really get much personal contact, so that'd be nice. But I'm not comfortable with anything beyond. Soooo, to all those who stuck with me through this novel to the end, just send me a message. I don't know what you should write in it. Maybe your interests? What you'd like to do? When to meet? Idk. I just want to make sure you're not a rapist/and or murder. (Or any other particularly unsavory character.) Yeeep. Sooo, go do that if ya think it's worth it.
That the Bible mentions gays at all? Or that it hardly mentions them?
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Is he gay? He's a cutie. Talented too.
Any tips?
I decided to try out some coconut recipes and bought coconut oil, unsweetened coconut flakes, and coconut flour. I'm going to make some coconut baked chicken. I'm not much of a cook and want to try new recipes. Any recipe recommendations using coconut?
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Today a young male teacher and coach at the elite "Peddie School" in New Jersey jumped to his death after allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with a student. No word yet if the student was a boy or a girl.
Would You Spend $50,000 A Year To Send Your Child To "The Peddie School"?
Hmmmm.....
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A week and a half after standing on the Senate floor and arguing against SB 1062, Arizona’s attempt to legalize discrimination against LGBTs, state Senator Steve Gallardo has come out as gay. “I’m gay, I’m a Latino, and I’m a senator,” Gallardo told reporters in the Senate Caucus room this afternoon. “And it’s okay.” Last week the 44-year-old lawmaker announced he’ll be running for a seat in Arizona’s Seventh Congressional District, and says he “couldn’t care less” if being openly gay hurts his chances at victory. “This is about standing up and doing the right thing,” he said. He said watching demonstrators protesting SB 1062 in the capitol last month inspired his decision to come out. “Seeing the people out there, protesting, I thought it’s time,” he said. “It’s time to let people know about me, and to send people a message. “After I stood up on the floor and argued against 1062, as I’ve done on many bills before, I sat down and said, ‘Wow. This bill affects me. It affects me directly.” Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the bill last week, but Gallardo says the debate was “actually a game changer.”
Arizona state senator Steve Gallardo comes out as gay, “and it’s Okay”
"Chozen" is about a gay white rapper who gets out of prison and embarks on a quest for redemption and success with a new message and new skills. It will begin airing in January 2014.
FXX to air CHOZEN - animated series about a gay white rapper
This doesn't bode well for the state of his hole. Don't think I'd want to rim him now.
Justin Bieber's dirty fingernails
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Interesting looking group:
'SURVIVOR:CAGAYAN'Cast: Meet The Castaways of Season 28
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He writes “Sex saunas need to be history. The time has come to close them down.” For the GLBT community to be accepted into the mainstream, gay sauna must be shut down. The reason being they are “thorns in our side that mark our community as different for the wrong reasons.” “If we don’t, we feed the haters and we hand the bigots who remain a vocal minority ammunition with which to attack us,” The notion that there exist within our communities a series of places that actively promote the convening of gay men for participation in sex of shades various and in groups of all sizes rather revolts me – and I ‘ve been round the block a few times, believe me. I’m no prude, not even close, but the days when we gathered in clandestine fashion for the want of a network or a sexual outlet are surely long gone,” To read more go to link below!
Prince Harry Comrade says "Shut down gay bathhouses if you want the gay community taken seriously!"
The Rancid Honeytrap is taking Glenn on with a vengeance and Glenn is having any of it. I love this blogger, who is as he says: "Bilious, herbivorous, queer small a anarchist." [quote]Note how childish, dumb and technically inept it is. Also how homophobic. Then wonder what kind of person attracts fans such as these and even, on occasion, incites them. This incident is no anomaly. They say a picture speaks a thousand words, and this nicely encapsulates what The Friends of Glenn Greenwald have been saying to me for six months now. It rarely gets better. [quote]As anyone who has ever been insufficiently deferential to Glenn Greenwald in public knows, the alleged civil libertarian/savior of journalism cultivates and periodically incites a pack of internet brownshirts who enforce discipline on his behalf. Most of the commentary on this has come from Greenwald’s right, because until recently that’s where most of his acrimony was directed. But as his status increases and his affiliations change, the rare lefties calling him to account are getting a taste of this as well. Recently British independent journalist Jonathan Cook capitulated completely on some very tepid criticism he had offered only days before, after a swarming by Glenn’s fans and a self-serving lecture by Greenwald himself. [quote]I have become something of an expert on Greenwald’s frothy minions since he first sicced them on me six months ago via this fallacious rant on my blog, in which he deliberately mischaracterized practically every point I had made and obliquely suggested that I kill myself. Since writing the post that sent Greenwald into a tizzy, I have been the target of routine trolling on Twitter, usually in the form of extremely childish verbal abuse, but also in the form of lengthy, angry interrogations, akin to visits from Jehovah’s Witnesses vexed by my stubborn unwillingness to see the light. The research wing trawls through old tweets and blog posts looking for things that can be damningly quoted out of context. I am the subject of six Twitter ‘parody’ accounts, at least one of which simply mixes real tweets with fake for the sole purpose of mischaracterizing me. Glenn himself even cracks wise with this Tarzie parody — which of course endorses its smeary intent — though since vomiting on my blog six months ago, he never replies to me directly.
Are Friends of Glenn [greenwald] making homophobic attacks on his rivals?
Keri Russell is in it. It's all 1980s Cold War bullshit. It's a Republican lovefest. Will people just let go of the Reagan era already? For fuck's sake. The title card has a hammer and sickle in it (Communist symbol). The show was created by a retired military guy. The shit written on IMDB's message board is a Republican wankfest. Tired of seeing the promos.
Glenn "The Lyin Libertarian" Greenwald doesn't care about civil liberties, he cares about making money off of being able to bitch about them.
Sad. I wonder if her bff Meryl is rushing to her side.
I shit you not.
Guss who's going to play Annie in the re-make movie: Quvenzhané Wallis
If Adam said to you, "Hey, man, I need a rim job," would you spread those tattooed cheeks apart and get busy?
Who will get the final spot? People like Cory Monteith, James Gandolfini, Jean Stapleton, and Bonnie Franklin were associated more with television than feature films. So who is the biggest movie name that is deserving of the final spot?
Just nasty.
Inquiring minds wanna know.
Disgusting or sexy? Thoughts please.
Could they sock it to Vladimir Putin?
Especially about the gender roles/identity of famous people. If so, why do you think that is?
I've read about two interviews where he's been an obnoxious douche as well as other things about him having a massively inflated ego.
I believe I was infected within the last 6 months most likely, as I get tested regularly. I'm single in a sizable US city. Do I go back and tell all of my partners from the past 6 months?
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I was thumbing through "Wolves of Midwinter" at the bookstore. I don't think she listens to her editor anymore.
When I was a kid, my jerk older brother told me to jack off with Tiger Balm, and that it was "so awesome". The first stroke was fine, but I thought my dick was going to burn off after the second stroke. I tried to get it off with a towel and it got worse. I jumped into the shower and when the water hit it, it got even more painful. I was screaming and freaking out, so when my mom ran in I was in too much pain to be embarrassed. Some of it got up inside my urethra, because, of course, my brother told me to put a whole bunch on me. I had to lay there in burning pain while my mom inspected my penis. (horrible) Then she thought we should go to the ER where the Dr had flush it out or something. I remember him looking into the hole and using a q-tip and also a little tiny hose thing with water. I had to ice my balls too. Now I don't use anything but fragrance free lube. My dick hurts just thinking about it.
Amazing what people are posting on Guys With Phones these days:
Victoria Justice Louise Roe Bella Thorne
Reactions are hilarious. They think he's a woman until he turns and shows his face.
At least they don't bind their feet anymore.
Japanese women wanting to stay little girls 4-ever
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While filming a new movie, was Michael Fassbender seen pissing?
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Now that he's going to do a television, it seems to me impossible that even he could ever say to himself that coming out would damage his career. There are plenty of out younger men on TV whose careers have not suffered (Sean Hayes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, NPH, Matt Bomer). And he's going to be 53 in just a few weeks. Surely he cannot be so deluded as to think that at this age his coming out would cut him out of young heterosexual heartthrob roles.
I mean if Putin's bringing the Cold War back that would surely be big for old Yakov, who IIRC was from Ukraine.
Post your experiences and let's debate this in a mature and adult fashion, as is the custom on Datalounge.
So why does he keep posing for these kinds of pictures? Oh Joe!
Can someone explain this hullabaloo over DeBlasio's closing of charter schools in NYC? Are charter schools better than public schools and does this mean some kids are getting better educations than others? The protesting mothers come off as very annoying and entitled.
I don''t know who he is, but it''s been 10 minutes since anyone started a thread about him.
Well, the new season is coming up. Didn''t the Community Shield occur especially early this year?
Lovers or just friends?
I want the northeast to give up snow and ice
With more athletes coming out we should do a thread about gay athletes. Carl Lewis has to be a 'mo...right?
What does clicking "remember me" do? I always figured it saves it to a cookie on your computer, but now I'm not so sure. I have some websites where the password already is filled in, and it still has the remember me checkbox unchecked. And also, if I check that box, and then down the road I change the password, does the cookie value get changed at that time as well?
Just started running on Me-TV, starting with season one, episode one. Wow! That Kent McCord is a fine piece. And Martin Milner has thick fingers and deadpan delivery. Way different from Neely O'Hara's Mel. Bright colors and crystal clear photography. I've seen one episode and added it to my dvr queue.
Order now.
2014 Spring/Summer men's fashion show
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About 30% of all computers in the world are still running Windows XP one month before Microsoft pulls all support for it. That means that security holes in XP will be unpatched after April 2014. Today 95% of all bank ATMs are STILL running Windows XP. Banks have struck a deal with Microsoft to continue support for Windows XP on those devices for another year to give them time to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8. Windows Walking Dead XP!
This thread is dedicated to my future gay husbands, Nathan Owens and Charles Michael Davis!
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The four eldest girls - Jana, 24, Jill, 22, Jessa, 21, and Jinger, 20 - divulge their darkest secrets in a new tell-all book titled Growing Up Duggar In their new book they look at other family members with skeletons lurking in their closets, including their mother's 'dangerous' battle with bulimia and their father's inherited anger issues.
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Three DL Obsessions at Once: Liz, Liza and Whitney (plus Michael Jackson)
I am instructed to look for a "boutique" hotel.
I say "stupid" not because I''ve seen it, but the commercials for it make me nauseous with the acappella "dah dah da dah dah dah dahhh" music, tight shots of the cast members looking pensively into the camera or repeating some mega cheesy line, the dark haired woman who seems like she poses for every shot of every scene she''s in.\ \ Seriously, it must be the most douchey show on television if it resembles the commercials in the least.
Such as an Anthony Recker or Tom Brady? How would (or do) straight guys and gay guys act and react. I've never really been in a locker room other than briefly at school so I'm not aware of the behavior or "code".
Supposed to have happened around the time of Hook. Who got her on it? How did she get off it? has she ever relapsed? Is it true or is it just a story?
Instead of swallowing goldfish or cramming themselves into phone booths, these days they're all about "the difficult brown."
Take it away, boys. Video:
Or are they titillated by this fascinating new topic coming at them? The media has seized upon us as one of the last provocative, hot button issues. Everyday it's 'gay athletes', 'gay marriage', 'gay adoption'. I have to admit, I'm a little saturated on the issue myself (though I'm old enough to find it amusing, because when I was growing up it was a taboo subject everywhere... that is, until AIDS).
He's the quarterback for the New Orleans Saints (NFL football for those if you who don't know).
Because we lost the original thread and it appears it was useful reference tool. If Blanche raised her family in Miami, why do all her children live in Atlanta?
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It's rarely witty and never wise. Why is that? Does DL really find recycled 30-year-old jokes that funny?
Kevin Spacey stars in ‘House of Cards,’ a political thriller that starts Feb. 1 By Emily Yahr, Friday, January 25, 10:57 AM There are a lot of locals with high hopes for the new political thriller “House of Cards,” given that the Washington-themed show is likely to become the largest production ever filmed in Maryland. And there are a lot of people outside the Beltway who are just as interested in how the series fares: Its success might alter the concept of traditional television programming. It’s safe to say that the entire TV industry will carefully track the launch of the show, which premieres on Netflix on Friday. The online subscription service behemoth has dabbled in original content before, but it’s hoping to make a big splash with its first major original series. Filmed around the Baltimore area and based on the 1990 BBC miniseries of the same name, about a devious politician clawing his way up the ladder, the project has big names attached, including director David Fincher (“The Social Network”), writer Beau Willimon (“The Ides of March”) and two-time Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey. Netflix reportedly paid around $100 million to land the project.
These boys are our local broadcasters, and extremely hot!
The Ponce Brothers of Chicago: We are blessed
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It may not be verbatim, but the gist is there:%0D\ %0D\ There''s only one thing Blanche Devereaux knows how to do when she''s backed into a corner and that''s come out fighting like a cat! Unless she''s had too much to drink, in which case she slides down the wall and makes love on the carpet.
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They are choice and possibly a predisposition, but not a disease. Can you name another disease cured by having a sky fairy and going to meetings? Stop pretending.
I feel like we never hear about her anymore. She sure faded fast.
although he's looking a little flabby and sunburnt.
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I think Liza has a lock on the "Worst Dressed" crown, but what about the best? The fashion was boring overall - black, white, neutrals, midnight blue, hardly any color. Nothing startling or shocking, except Liza going braless at her age.
In what form?
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[quote]Amy Locane-Bovenizer's three-year prison sentence just isn't enough for some. The Melrose Place star's punishment, handed down last week following her conviction for vehicular manslaughter and assault, was appealed today by the Office of the Somerset County Prosecutor in New Jersey. [quote]"Our office is extremely disappointed with the judge's decision to drop down the sentence and on top of that, to impose the very bottom end of the third-degree sentencing range," prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said in a statement, per the New Jersey Star-Ledger. [quote]With the judge determining that Locane-Bovenizer's disabled young child shouldn't be made to suffer more than he had to for his mother's crime, she was sentenced to three years apiece on the manslaughter and assault counts, with the sentences to run concurrently. Locane-Bovenizer had been facing a possible five to 10-year sentence on the vehicular manslaughter rap alone for the 2010 DUI crash that killed 60-year-old Helene Seeman. [quote]"The sentence sends a bewildering message to our society about the consequences of driving while intoxicated, improperly places focus upon the defendant's personal circumstances and, quite frankly, revictimizes the true victims in this case," Soriano continued. "It is the position of this office that the judge mistakenly applied the law in sentencing this defendant. The filing of this appeal is the very least, we believe, to which the victim's family is now entitled." [quote]Per the Star-Ledger, the victim's widower, Fred Seeman, yelled at Locane-Bovenizer following her sentencing Thursday, "Having a sick child doesn't give you a pass to kill my wife!"
Boozebag Amy Locane's light sentence outrages victim's family
Another one of his 'modelling clients'?
He is "too busy with football and life" for a girlfriend and "it's hard."
In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the pope said that "matrimony is between a man and a woman," but moves to "regulate diverse situations of cohabitation (are) driven by the need to regulate economic aspects among persons, as for instance to assure medical care," according to a translation by Catholic News Service.
Count down to destruction? Will that insufferable Carol Costello ever be shown the door? And when will that all-star hottie, Jason Carroll, be given something worthy of his looks? Off with Uncle Don Lemon, too.
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The purpose of this thread is to make this one of the top Google hits for anyone searching for "Is Aaron Schock Gay" or "Aaron Schock Gay". The other purpose of this thread is to let anyone searching for information that Aaron Schock is gay know that he is INDEED gay, he has had more cocks pass through him than through the gloryhole onboard the USS Intrepid, and is a traitor to BOTH the gay community whose semen he can't get enough of AND to the Conservative Christian community that he claims to represent. Feel free to trash this shameless cockgobbler here.
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I also hate Google for promoting content from Yahoo Answers -- which is virtually NEVER correct and only ever seems to contain information from the type of people who talk just to hear themselves talk -- to the top of nearly every search I perform at Google.
I always take it as a sign that the person is faking. What do you think?\ \ This comes up today because the mother of the young woman missing in Tennessee made a great show of crying hysterically, heaving, being barely able to speak through her tears, except there were no tears.\ \ Excerpt of her TV appearance begins at 50 seconds in the video below.
Blanche becomes an Internet sensation and is besieged by young admirers after a nude photo she sexted ends up featured on popular website GILF.com.%0D\ %0D\ Meanwhile, Dorothy and Rose plan a charity benefit.
I can't access it at all. Keeps popping up a message about new and improved speed. Then wants you to accept but when I do it times out. It's pissing me off.
Last week, OWN announced that Oprah got Lindsay Lohan to agree to an interview and an 8-part reality shit show. The “docu-series” will follow LiLo as she tries to rebuild her career while trying not to fuck up again. Yeah, they’re calling it a “docu-series.” TMZ says that OWN paid Lindsay Lohan $2 million for the interview and the reality show. The deal was signed while LiLo was drying out at Betty Ford. Oprah’s also giving LiLo two assistants and a stylist. If you work for Oprah and wonder if she hates you, you’ll know for sure if she calls you up and says, “I’m reassigning you to Lindsay Lohan.” Surprisingly, Dina Lohan found the time to talk to E! News about LiLo’s deal with Oprah I say “surprisingly,” because I figured she’d be too busy dreaming about all the booze and pill money that’s about to drop into LiLo’s checking account. Top shelf booze days are here again! “Oh, it’s fantastic. If anyone is going to help mentor you, it’s going to be Oprah,” Dina told us over the weekend. Asked whether she’ll appear on the program, the elder Lohan hinted that was a likely scenario. “Possibly! It’s about family…and I’m family,” she said. As for how LiLo is doing as she finishes up her last few weeks in treatment, Dina noted her daughter’s in a really good place. “She’s happy, she’s healthy and she’s amazing. She’s doing really well,” she said. You can say that Oprah has said “fuck it” to making her network a beacon of serious journalism and is embracing trash just to get viewers. But let’s look at the positive. Lindsay Lohan getting $2 million is good news for the back alley pharmacy industry.
Was it Bea, Estelle, Rue or Betty?
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Why did we not hear about this? [quote]Sock Puppet Sitcom Theater is pleased to present The Golden Girls from 1985. Blanche rents rooms in her house to Rose and Dorothy. When Dorothy’s mother, Sophia, has to leave her retirement home after it burns down, she moves in too. In the mean time, things are heating up with Blanche and her boyfriend Harry. Will he pop the question? Will she say yes?
I realized today that as I was watching GG yet again, that now I try to determine who, in the scene, is still alive rather than who is dead.%0D\ %0D\ The answer is usually: Betty White.%0D\ %0D
I saw several interviews with Bea Arthur in which she came off as a surly, menacing, inarticulate BITCH. Made me feel depressed, in a way. She was not like the sassy, brash, yet caring character she played on TV at all. Seemed like a miserable and bitter woman, who was almost HOSTILE to the interviewer. :( Hmph. Now I cannot watch GG without thinking about this. IN contrast, Angela Lansbury came off as a gracious lady.
I want to look away, but I just can't.
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They were well known for gathering around a cheesecake, but weren't there just as many chocolate cake episodes?
Which of them had work done? What procedures, and when? I always wondered if Rue McClanahan had a nose job as a young woman - her nose looked sort of phony to me. Were they having procedures during the run of the show? Are there any seasons where you can tell by comparing the finale of one season to the premiere of the next that somebody had a face lift during the summer hiatus?
I cry everytime I see this episode. I think it''s the best GG episode, and one of the best sitcom episodes ever done. It balances hysterical humor with drama perfectly. The Bea-Estelle bedroom scene towards the end gets me everytime. %0D\ %0D\ The only one that comes close to this is the Roseanne "Auntie Barbara" episode.%0D\ %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ %0D
The more obscure the better. After you answer the question, ask your own. No Googling! According to Rose, The Journal of Abnormal WHAT is published in St. Olaf?
*Episode where Rose dreams that she & the others are brought back to life as frozen heads on a plate*: I always wondered how they did that scene of their heads on the plate at the kitchen table. Was it done by special effects, or were they all crouching under the table and sticking their heads through a hole?
I'm thinking Miami Shores?
Or is she still grieving over that sister of hers who was driven to suicide by Julia's narcissism and uncaring?
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Another reason to hate Cate? The husband of Cate's agent was apparently a very aggressive abuser of girls and was a well known actor in Australia.
Cate Blanchett Thanks Wife of Alleged Child Molester in Her Acceptance Speech
After reading this article, I wonder what he's more embarrassed by, being accused of being a serial sexual predator, or messing up Idina Menzel's name at the Oscars? There should be no reason for him to be embarrassed about being gay. What's embarrassing is that he's been dishonest about it all these years. Even more embarrassing is that if he did come out as gay, people would wonder if those accusations of sexual misconduct were true all along. I wonder if his kids know? I wonder if his daughter would be upset if she learned that all this time, Mommy and Daddy had an "understanding"? Somehow, I wonder if all the men suing John Travolta suddenly for sexual misconduct was set up by the Church of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs in order to keep him in line? This screams like one of their dirty tricks....
Now, before you go ape-shit, and clutch your pearls so tight that you kill yourself, it''s not what you think.\ \ Here''s the thing. At first, my sister was disgusted by the whole idea of even fingering ass, but I''ve finally convinced my sister to try it. After listening to me talk about it so much, she said she almost feels as if she''s already engaged her tongue...so why not. \ \ But my stubborn brother-in-law, who didn''t even know what rimming was, said his "ass ain''t no pussy", when he discovered what it meant. He wants no part of it. He''s so vanilla that he doesn''t even let her touch his nipples, let alone his ass. \ \ Any ideas?
The Somalian actor has gone through his $65k "Captain Phillips" salary.
It was the end of an era, and seeing that last episode just brings it home. It's on now, and I only managed to make it through the first segment.
Anyone remember Susan Harris's short-lived, post-"Soap" and "Benson"/pre-"Golden Girls" sitcom about a dual career couple living in a Chicago high rise? It starred Richard Crenna and Patty Duke as the couple, with Anthony Edwards (who was hot back then) and Helen Hunt as their kids. The kitchen set used in the show (seen beginning at the 4:15 mark in the following video) was preserved after its cancellation and later used as the "Golden Girls" kitchen, with the only major change being the exterior backdrop seen through the kitchen window, which was switched from a view of neighboring Chicago high-rise buildings to that of palm trees and bushes for "The Golden Girls".
Of course I would love to have met Dorothy's brother Phil. They could a had some really funny episodes of him dressing up in Blanche's cooture. Also it would've been great to meet on of Blanche's sons, maybe Biff or Skippy. Wouldn't it have been a riot if one of those were just as horndoggy as their mom and made a play for Rose? Also, and I'm sure I'm not alone on this, I wish we had got one episode with both Michael and Kate. Would a been nice to see them reminiscing about their childhoods and discussing their parent's divorce. Who do you all think shoud a appeared?
Just catching up on last week''s "Golden Girls," with the return of Sophia. She''s lost weight, but I don''t think that''s it entirely. She just looks bizarrely different.
Plead Guilty.
Who’d you rather have as mayor? Ray Nagin or Rob Ford? Ray Nagin took $200,000 in cash from companies eager for reconstruction contracts, plus free holidays and even granite — four truckloads — for his family countertop firm, Stone Age. Nagin also billed taxpayers for birthday dinners and such and generally sucked every teat he could find in a city where teats are a tradition, where the former congressman “Dollar” Bill Jefferson is serving 13 years for bribery. On Feb. 12, a federal jury found Nagin guilty, and he now awaits sentencing. Nagin, 57, a Democrat, could get two decades in prison. Put it in perspective: Ford has done nothing wrong. Seriously. He has been charged with no crime. Corruption is a crime. There is no such thing as first-degree conniption. No one ever gets busted for saying they tried crack during a drunken stupor or have plenty of home-cooking. Ford has fudged facts — though never under oath, like Bill Clinton, for instance — but who the hell hasn’t? Most of the folks braying at him are the usual suspects on the left who love spending other people’s money — the very folks Ford vowed to curb when we made him mayor. About time Ford tried to pin something on somebody else for a change.
They showed "Three on a Couch" this morning and they didn't include the best scene!
Why does Hallmark edit entire scenes out of "The Golden Girls"?
Ask a new question after you answer the previous one.\ \ In Rose''s Russian dream, what did the crowd chant when Dorothy came to the podium?
Anyone watching this guy now? I want to sew his mouth shut. God, the camera guy must have ear plugs in and and plastic covering his face from all the spit coming out of Sharpton's mouth. Learn English, fool!
How would it have been different if they were all lesbians?
Remember that movie ? What a classic !
And her job is to critique fashion? Bitch, please!
I had these threads saved in Favorites in my web browser, but when I just clicked on the links in order to send them to somebody, I got an error message saying "thread does not exist".%0D\ %0D\ PLEASE tell me these have not been lost forever! Does anybody have a link that works to them??%0D\ %0D\ WHY IS THIS SITE ALWAYS SO INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING TO NAVIGATE???
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Best: "Yes, We Have No Havanas" Blanche and Sofia compete for Fidel Santiago\ \ Worst (not including the Rita Moreno episode because that was a spinoff): Rose''s blind sister comes to visit
Sad if true.
You knew this was coming. What I can't understand is, why did they almost never talk about their children?
I would have written Pam and Mark off onto their honeymoon to Europe. Mark goes to check in at the desk and Pam sees in the lobby Bobby. He's alive; J.R. came back after he flatlined the previous season and ordered a doctor to work on him; he was in a coma, blah, blah, Katherine (also not dead) kidnapped him blah, blah, he had amnesia... Wiping out an entire season just made no sense and the show never really filled in all the holes from the dream season.
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Old thread link below. ...where will Kalinda end up? And what of the strangely perky Robyn? ...will Peter manage to promote all the pretty girls out of his line of sight? ...will Grace Florrick get into more boring, icky trouble? ...will Diane get her judgeship? ...and will Alicia ever find a man who's not kind of a sleaze? I don't really care that much about Will, because he's kind of a jerk. Cary is nothing but that self-satisfied smile, & Eli's great, because he's completely untrustworthy.
I had to work last night and forgot to DVR the telecast, so how did Liza, Lorna & Li'l Joe do? Did they sing a song? Clap from the audience? Fill me in.
The Following starring Kevin Bacon started tonight on Fox. He plays a former FBI agent. James Purefoy stars as a killer. It is being called a psychological drama.
I''ve always been one of those freaks who need to see every episode of a series once I start on it. Which is why I''m especially distressed when a show suddenly loses my interest. \ \ I loved the first two seasons of Heroes, but couldn''t even make it to the midway point of season 3. I''ve enjoyed Lie to Me until this season, and I can''t figure out if they''ve changed the stories or if I''ve just gotten bored. I like the characters on NCIS, but this season I''m turning it off and saying, "I just don''t care!"\ \ I''m not a fickle guy, but it looks like my schedule will be much freer in the evenings. I even gave up on Dancing With the Stars!\ \ What shows did you used to love, then they suddenly lost your interest?
It seems like such a no brainer? I know at one point they were considering it. Why not just the original cast back together and have it take place at their fifty year high school reunion? They could have a tribute song to Kenicke. Maybe Olivia could get on those skin tight pants again? Stockard needs another good film roll. Enough with the theater.
No matter how trivial the subject matter, it must all come back to race and so-called identity politics. Even if it's about what Rihanna is wearing on a Saturday night!
Any thoughts?
Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World By NATHANIEL POPPER and RACHEL ABRAMS FEB. 25, 2014 The most prominent Bitcoin exchange appeared to be on the verge of collapse late Monday, raising questions about the future of a volatile marketplace. On Monday night, a number of leading Bitcoin companies jointly announced that Mt. Gox, the largest exchange for most of Bitcoin’s existence, was planning to file for bankruptcy after months of technological problems and what appeared to have been a major theft. A document circulating widely in the Bitcoin world said the company had lost 744,000 Bitcoins in a theft that had gone unnoticed for years. That would be about 6 percent of the 12.4 million Bitcoins in circulation. While Mt. Gox did not respond to numerous requests for comments, and the companies issuing the statement scrambled to determine the exact situation at Mt. Gox, which is based in Japan, the news helped push the price of a single Bitcoin below $500 for the first time since November, when it began a spike that took it above $1,200. But at the same time that the news about Mt. Gox was emerging, a New York firm announced plans to create an exchange that could draw the world’s largest banks into the virtual currency market for the first time. The new exchange is being put together by SecondMarket, which rose to fame a few years ago after creating a platform for buying and selling shares of companies like Twitter and Facebook before they went public. Without the trouble at Mt. Gox, the SecondMarket plans would have been seen as a major boon for virtual currencies, providing a potential entry point into the Bitcoin market for large banks, which have so far avoided virtual currencies as their price has skyrocketed. Barry Silbert, SecondMarket’s chief executive, said that he had already talked with several banks and financial companies about joining the new exchange, along with financial regulators, and that he hoped to have it in operation this summer. But plans for any new venture will be tested by the collapse of Mt. Gox, which could shake the faith of early Bitcoin adopters. Ryan Galt, a blogger who writes frequently about Bitcoin and was one of the first to circulate the news about Mt. Gox, wrote on Monday: “I do believe that this is one of the existential threats to Bitcoin that many have feared and have personally sold all of my Bitcoin holdings.” On Monday, Mt. Gox took down all of its previous posts on Twitter, one day after its chief executive, Mark Karpeles, resigned from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for virtual currencies. A statement from the chief executives of Bitcoin companies like Coinbase, Circle, Blockchain.info and Payward, said that the “tragic violation of the trust of users of Mt. Gox was the result of one company’s abhorrent actions and does not reflect the resilience or value of Bitcoin and the digital currency industry.” The events are in keeping with the stark ups and downs of Bitcoin’s short existence. Released in 2009 by an anonymous creator known as Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin program runs on the computers of anyone who joins in, and it is set to release only 21 million coins in regular increments. The coins can be moved between digital wallets using secret passwords. While Bitcoin fans have said the technology could provide a revolutionary new way of moving money around the world, skeptics have viewed it variously as a Ponzi scheme or an investment susceptible to fraud and theft. Many leading names in the Bitcoin community were still trying to determine the scope and potential consequences of the troubles at Mt. Gox. A document detailing the purported theft, labeled “Crisis Strategy Draft,” appeared to come from Mt. Gox. While officials at the Bitcoin Foundation could not verify the origins of the document, they were preparing for the closure of Mt. Gox.
Bonnie Franklin died a year ago as of last Saturday, and as we remember her and her indelible sitcom character, Ann Romano, from "One Day at a Time," we should reflect on the many challenges that faced her. What was the greatest?
But in all likelihood he'll change his mind before preproduction.
To get your point across?
Agree or disagree?
It''s fun to look at how clothing and hairstyles have changed over the years.
What were they thinking with the cover art?
Offensive?
Did any of you know Cary Leeds? He had the biggest cock in New York, lived in a penthouse on the West side, then moved to Florida, Delray then Miami. Did porn. Into orgies, black men. Any of you knew him, any stories?
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Not really interested in the Awards themselves, I thought that I'd watch the arrivals. It has gotten to be such a circus. Sophistication and dignity are things from the past. Screaming crowds in bleachers and morons with microphones, that's what I remember.
OK, so it seems like every fictional show produced by the BBC in the past five years and exported to the U.S. has at least one biracial couple on it. It's a bit embarrassing, but even in 2014, it is a rare thing in an American TV show or movie to see a biracial couple. So, I wanted to ask all of the Dataloungers from the U.K. is this a fairly commonplace thing in your culture? In several British shows, they will have a scene in a pub where a hetero black & white couple will kiss, and nobody bats an eye: is this actually how your culture is today? I am hoping you will say it is, as it is unfortunately not the case here in many places.
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Who's had him?
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Oh well, I should have known it was too good to last.
Here's your thread. Don't fuck it up.
On a scale from 1 to 10: a 1 is someone even your grandma knows is gay, while a 10 is someone only the most clued-in people know about For example: John Travolta is a 1
The thread about overlapping plots on [italic]The Mary Tyler Moore Show[/italic] and [italic]The Golden Girls[/italic] made me realize just how much of a circle jerk sitcom writing is. The first 40 to 50 years of the form are full of re-jiggered plots from [italic]I Love Lucy[/italic], which, in turn has several episodes that are remakes of the radio version [italic]My Favorite Wife[/italic]. And they're not the only one. How many specific plots or jokes can you remember being used on two or more different sitcoms?
Depression? Babygay? And why won't his helicopter father shut up?
As we all know, summer in the city translates into a lot of guys going commando in flimsy gym shorts and flip flops. Armed w/ my trusty messenger bag (particularly at crosswalks)and doing the ole swing around (adjusting the bag to the back) by splaying your forefinger and second finger and then [italic] closing [/italic] them on hot, musky penis as you "adjust" your bag to the back well......works every time.\ \ A quick chuckle and a "Sorry, dude" extricates you every time.
I think childhood. What does DL think?
The genesis of her humor in her Dartmouth comic strip: 1.) I need a gay best friend 2.) Why can't I get laid? 3.) How do I become one of the cool kids. 4.) Isn't it hilarious that I mistook a gay guy for straight (or vice versa.) Next.
I just finished a biography on Jack Kerouac. Although his image might be a man "On the Road" he spent most of his life under his mother's thumb. Andy Warhol lived with his mother and she wanted him to "meet a nice girl". Jean Paul Sartre's mom was devastated when her father finally took his grandson in to have his curls cut. Christopher Isherwood got away, but his brother ended up sharing his bed with his mother. Anybody else and any theories?
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What were some of her exploits? Were you friends with her? Was her name Tammy, Tiffany, or Crystal?
I've had an on-going mutual crush on someone for the last four years. For circumstances I won't get into, we have not hooked up or anything (both partnered, etc). Over the last couple of years, it's been a little dormant, with both of us pretty much ignoring each other. Recently it has heated up in a major way, with my crush acting seriously different towards me (very forward, major eye contact, a bit stalkerish in a way). To be honest, I really like this person and would love to be friends if nothing else were to come of it. We have mutual interests, etc. This week, my crush seems to have backed way off and isn't acting "forward" like before. What causes people to give the cold shoulder?
Ronan Farrow’s debut on MSNBC on Monday was a ratings disaster, but that’s not all. Farrow, despite his show business lineage, came off today– his second day– like the host of a show on UHF or closed circuit TV in a community college. Physically, he comes off as small. The set doesn’t help him. His voice is high and uncertain. He reminded me (this is an old reference) of the high school stringer hired by Lou Grant who phones in a scoop. Watch this clip below. Does this seem like a show that should be on a network connected to NBC? Really? This is enough to make me turn to Fox News. Today Farrow put up Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s phone number. He urged the audience to call her if they don’t agree with her position on gay rights. (Later, he will call Justin Bieber and egg her house.) I think we did this in 11th grade to our high school principal. Meanwhile, Farrow, one day on the job, is hitting the lecture circuit. He’s already booked Fairfield (CT) University for March 18th on the topic “A New Generation of Protest: How Technology Is Changing the Art of Uprising.” His official bio says he’s the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. So much for Frank Sinatra! If only Farrow had started out as a contributor on some show first. You think of all the talented people who could host that hour and do a great job. This is going to end in tears, I’m afraid.
So, I was thinking that it could be nice to see what songs we all like. Let me start with Joyce DiDonato's AWESOME rendition of Rossini's "D'amore al dolce impero". It's amazing, but the end is just insane - I cry of happiness every time I hear it.
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They're a super-gay company, but how are their hotels? Better than Thompson Hotels?
Well, they apparently don't give a shit anymore and have flat out just cast dancers. Not one but both Gold Medal winning Ice DANCERS who's winning routine was choreographed by Derek Hough. Why any celebrity would even bother competing with them is a mystery.
Oprah tells her to cut the bullshit!
Maybe I'm naive. But I always thought of Brad Pitt as a wholesome, average guy - probably not the brightest, but genuinely interested in the world, nice, kind of a stoner type, from a solid family. His parents seem old-fashioned, Midwestern, All-American, what have you. What does Angelina Jolie see in him? And he in her? She seems very ... damaged. Beautiful, talented, but dangerous. You never hear of her having female friends, and she seems to live a nomadic life with that tribe of kids. Not to mention the strife-filled relationship with her dad, and the weird relationship with the brother she made out with at the Oscars, and the exhibitionistic romance with B. Bob Thornton. Not to sound like a school marm, but I cannot imagine Brad's parents love her. And I don't really know what they see in one another either. Wouldn't someone as frisky as Ang become bored with ho-hum yet hot Brad? Wouldn't his old-school morals be somewhat upset by her...weird ways? I think he and Jen Aniston were actually much more suited to one another -- kind of earthy average joes living large in Hollywood. He and Gwyneth made no sense, either, but she ended up breaking up with him due to her snobbery (he came from a different "class). Anyway, can someone explain the attraction? Do you think they'll last?
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All of the Housewives openings SUCK, with the exception of RHOBH!! Am I the only one here who does all sorts of poses and pretends they are in the opening as well?? Its so jazzy!! and the graphics and camera movements are so much better than the cheap RHOC or Atlanta. Life is diamonds and roses darling! (Pronounced rosets)
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Kim Myers (A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2) Meryl was 16 when she gave birth to Kim. She got Kim some work in the 80s but I don't recall anything she's done recently. Who was the daddy? She looks (and speaks) more like Meryl than Mamie.
The gossip continues on.
Huh?
According to various reports, four gay NFL players will soon come out of the closet. But veteran free safety Kerry Rhodes wants to make it clear: he will not be one of them. Pictures of Rhodes surfaced this week on Media Take Out in which the player's arms are around a man in a tank top, but Rhodes tells TMZ the shots are harmless. "Photos have been circulating of my former assistant and I that have caused some rumors regarding my sexuality, and I wanted to address the situation," Rhodes says in a statement. "I am not gay." The free agent adds that the pics were snapped during a "casual" vacation with his "entire business team." Rhodes does say he agrees with Magic Johnson overall, however: he's all for those athletes who actually are homosexual: "I know a lot of people are recently talking about athletes struggling to come out to their fans right now, and I support them, as well as wish those individuals comfort."
In four countries. Accurate?
I'm thinking of switching to either Listerine: Total Care or Biotene from Tom's Natural Mouthwash. But do they actually do what they say they do on the package? Do they actually restore tooth enamel? Is that even physically possible?
Do you see an Academy Award for "serious drama" in his future? I'm kind of disappointed to see him in something like "Need for Speed," which any hunky actor could do. Aaron has real talent.
He said he never had sex with a woman when we all know he sampled Rumer Willis's lady ham. I really don't believe this gay stuff. He did that It Gets Better video and everyone started saying he was gay, so he felt backed into a corner. Hopefully he'll find a nice girl someday soon.
And he's hot! Must be gay.
VIDEO: Kentucky AG chokes up announcing he won't defend state's marriage equality ban
The video for his single "All American Boy" follows a gay young man who falls for another guy, only to have it end in unrequited gay-straight attraction. Steve writes of his decision to make the video: “I fought with who I was for most of my life. In every way a young person can fight with himself. But starting today… I’m laying it out there. I’m done playing it safe. I don’t have a manager or a label or any sort of funding other than the tip money I make playing piano. I feel like music industry people wouldn’t like the idea of me “pigeonholing” myself by telling this story as I have. But I don’t believe the world sees change until it sees honesty. So I went in on my own. I went all in. There is no Plan B. I’m nervous/excited/horrified/anxious about the implications […] the choices I am making (and have made throughout my journey of discovering myself as a man and as an artist) will have on my future. But then I remind myself I never really had a choice. This is the story I’ve been aching to tell […] most of my life… it is what I hold dearest to me.”
They both asked that the case be dismissed, which the judge did. But not before complimenting the alleged assailant: [quote]Weir, dressed in an unusually somber black outfit, caught the attention of the judge, who commented 'Nice hairdo!' as he approached the bench.
I rememeber this winning a slew of Tony's back in the day. Why was it so popular?
In Job, Appointee Profits and Christie Gains Power When Gov. Chris Christie pushed to expand financial incentives to keep businesses in New Jersey, one of the first companies to benefit was a client of David Samson, a lawyer with a long and close relationship to the governor. When Mr. Christie announced government-backed financing for college and school construction projects, Mr. Samson’s firm got a piece of that business. And after Mr. Christie named Mr. Samson chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, they both benefited when Mr. Samson and the board he led approved billions of dollars in bridge construction contracts. Labor unions grateful for the hard-hat jobs threw their endorsements to Mr. Christie, and clients of Mr. Samson’s firm wound up with the work. The lane-closing scandal that has enveloped Mr. Christie’s administration and the Port Authority for months has focused intense scrutiny on Mr. Samson and the 120-lawyer firm that he helped found in 1972. A number of potential conflicts have been reported by other news media, and the agency’s executive director, Patrick J. Foye, last week said that Mr. Samson lacked the moral authority to remain chairman. A comprehensive examination of Mr. Samson’s dealings with Governor Christie and his administration, both inside the Port Authority and out, shows the extent to which their ambitions and successes became intertwined. Mr. Samson and his law firm benefited financially. Mr. Christie benefited politically. And each enhanced the other’s stature as their relationship deepened in ways that were not apparent at the time. Mr. Samson has had a long career at the nexus of law and politics in New Jersey. But since Mr. Christie took office in 2010, his firm, Wolff & Samson, has risen to become one of the biggest bond counsel firms in the state, advising scores of private clients and state agencies, and jumped up in rankings of the state’s biggest lobbying firms. The efforts of the two men became increasingly bold as Mr. Christie’s national profile increased and Mr. Samson became a central figure in the region’s construction field. Perhaps the clearest example of this symbiosis, previously unreported, came last April, when Mr. Samson presided as the Port Authority awarded two bridge construction contracts worth a total of $2.8 billion. Mr. Samson paused after the vote of the 12-member board to call the occasion “joyous and happy.” It certainly was for two clients of his law firm. One longtime client was I.M.T.T., which owns a liquid storage facility on the Bayonne waterfront. The company is half-owned by the Macquarie Infrastructure Company, one of the contractors Mr. Samson and his fellow commissioners awarded $1.5 billion to replace and maintain the Goethals Bridge. A second contract, for $1.3 billion, was to raise the Bayonne Bridge to allow clearance for the largest container ships — though Port Authority experts had seen the project as a lower priority. Mr. Samson “came in like gangbusters” and insisted on proceeding immediately, one former project official said. The Port Authority awarded that contract to a team including Skanska Koch, a division of a multinational construction company based in Sweden and another client of Mr. Samson’s firm. Wolff & Samson lawyers were then in the throes of settling a costly dispute for the company in federal court on Long Island. Mr. Samson did not recuse himself from either vote, according to minutes of the meeting. Mr. Samson’s spokeswoman, responding to multiple requests delivered by phone and email, declined to comment on the votes or other apparent conflicts that have been raised in recent weeks. Asked about the potential conflicts in Mr. Samson’s votes, his spokeswoman provided a one-sentence statement from Mr. Samson’s lawyer, Michael Chertoff, who is a former secretary of homeland security.
New York Times rips Christie a new one--not that anyone would notice.
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