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How does Donny's brother masturbate?
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Please try to not flame Neil Patrick Harris here. But doesn't it seems odd that he is already leaving Hedwig? He will be in for barely 4 months. Is this the new norm for star contracts??
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[bold]Hamas Gambled on War as Its Woes Grew in Gaza[/bold] By ANNE BARNARDJULY 22, 2014 GAZA CITY — When war between Israel and Hamas broke out two weeks ago, the Palestinian militant group was so hamstrung, politically, economically and diplomatically, that its leaders appeared to feel they had nothing to lose. Hamas took what some here call “option zero,” gambling that it could shift the balance with its trump cards: its arms and militants. Now, this conflict has demonstrated that while Hamas governed over 1.7 million people mired in poverty, its leaders were pouring resources into its military and expanding its ability to fight Israel. If it can turn that improved military prowess into concessions, like opening the border with Egypt, that may boost its standing among the people of Gaza — although at an extraordinarily high cost in deaths and destruction. “There were low expectations in terms of its performance against the recent round of Israeli incursions. It’s been exceeding all expectations,” said Abdullah Al-Arian, a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar who is currently in Washington. “And it’s likely to come out in a far better position than in the last three years, and maybe the last decade.” Hamas had been struggling. The turmoil in the region meant it lost one of its main sponsors, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, whom it broke with over his brutal fight against a Sunni Muslim-led insurgency,and weakened its alliance with Iran. It lost support in Egypt when the Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted and replaced with a military-backed government hostile to Hamas. Unemployment in Gaza is around 50 percent, having risen steeply since Israel pulled out its troops and settlers in 2005 and severely tightened border restrictions. Hamas appeared powerless to end the near-blockade of its border by Israel and more recently Egypt. It could not even pay its 40,000 government workers their salaries. The group was so handicapped that it agreed to enter into a pact with its rival party, Fatah, to form a new government. But that seemed only to make matters worse, sowing division within its own ranks, with some in the military wing angry at the concession, while providing none of the economic relief Hamas had hoped for. When Hamas sent a barrage of rockets into Israel, simmering hostilities, and back and forth strikes, erupted into war. At first, when Hamas rockets were being intercepted mainly by Israel’s Iron Dome system as Israel hit Gaza with devastating force, the group strove to persuade its supporters that it was having enough impact on Israel to wrest concessions: Its radio stations blared fictional reports about Israeli casualties. But as it wore on, the conflict revealed that Hamas’s secret tunnel network leading into Israel was far more extensive, and sophisticated, than previously known. It also was able to inflict some pain on Israel, allowing Hamas to declare success even as it drew a devastating and crushing response. Its fighters were able to infiltrate Israel multiple times during an intensive Israeli ground invasion. Its militants have killed at least 27 Israeli soldiers and claim to have captured an Israeli soldier who was reported missing in battle, a potentially key bargaining chip. And on Tuesday its rockets struck a blow to Israel — psychological and economic — by forcing a halt in international flights. Hamas once again looks strong in the eyes of its supporters, and has shown an increasingly hostile region that it remains a force to be reckoned with. Hamas, Mr. Arian said, has demonstrated that “as a movement, it is simply not going anywhere.” But Hamas’s gains could be short-lived if it does not deliver Gazans a better life. Israel says its severe restrictions on what can be brought into Gaza, such as construction materials, are needed because Hamas poses a serious security threat, and the discovery of the tunnels has served only to validate that concern.
Hamas's choice. Let's not forget WHY the Gaza war is happening
Never heard of him before a few days ago. He sorta looks like the love child of Jesus and Brad Pitt. What do we think, bitches?
I think not!
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The worldwide mourning just wouldn't happen: Paris Hilton; Tori Spelling; Vladimir Putin; The Kardashian-Jenners; The Osbournes; Miley Cyrus; Courtney Love; Bethany Frankel; Donald Trump; Dick Cheney; Donald Rumsfeld; Kate Gosselin; Alec Baldwin; Omarosa Manigault; The Jolie-Pitts...
Or is it mostly a Euro-Asian thing? I've never seen a black guy who couldn't manage a good bulge in his pants.
He's a retired intellectual property lawyer. Good-hearted and well-meaning. But GD it, just about every time I go out onto my patio (he lives next door) to water plants or clean stuff up (multiple times per week, depending on weather -- more, obviously, in the growing months), he suddenly 'appears'. He has this booming voice and yells HELLO! so loud (to announce himself) I practically crap myself. I know he isn't trying to be cute and sneak up on me, but it amounts to it. Don't like that. Also don't like being bugged when I'm doing yard work. I don't have a gate and it wouldn't be practical/aesthetic to put one in. The few times I have ventured onto their yard, uninvited, to chat with him and his wife, I haven't been received well. I got the message: it's OK for him to invade my privacy, but not vice versa. I gotta tread light with this guy and his wife. I take off during the year for weeks at a time and they take care of mail, cats, etc. while I'm away. I do the same for them when they travel. Yes, he's probably bored and lonely, but damn it, so am I sometimes and I don't go bugging people uninvited. I'm beginning to hate going out to water. I've tried the body English thing and being somewhat brusque, but he doesn't seem to get it. Sorry this is so long. Solutions? Suggestions? I've thought about turning the hose on him, but that's not practical, ha ha! TIA!
David Gregory’s time is nearly up at “Meet the Press,” sources told Page Six, and he could be replaced as moderator of the nation’s longest-running TV show soon after the November midterm elections. While NBC News President Deborah Turness has publicly supported the embattled Gregory, there are serious concerns about the losing battle to turn around the show’s sinking ratings. Viewership is down a whopping 43 percent compared to when Gregory ascended to the moderator’s chair in December 2008, after the death of Tim Russert. The show finished in third place behind CBS’s “Face the Nation” and ABC’s “This Week” in the second quarter of 2014. An NBC source said, “The discussion is whether to make a change before or after the midterm elections. Just after the midterms would give the new moderator time to settle in.” According to insiders, NBC political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd is the rightful heir to Gregory, but he has not been officially offered the job. Other names said to be in the frame include “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie, who comes from a political background but is unlikely to be released from the flagship morning show where she’s hugely popular. Guthrie is also due to give birth to her first child next month and will return to “Today” after maternity leave. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” team Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have also been said be angling for a Sunday slot, but NBC insiders said there are concerns about putting a partisan host in charge of “Meet the Press,” as Scarborough is a former Republican congressman. After the Washington Post recently reported that NBC had commissioned a “psychological consultant” to interview Gregory’s wife and friends, NBC publicly stood by Gregory, who denounced the psychologist claim as “gossip reporting gone wild.” An NBC spokesperson told us Tuesday night, “We heard the same false rumors and suggest you take them with a grain of salt, as we did.”
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NSFW. Penis.
Spreading her R&B/Urban Soulfulness on the midway.
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The endlessly fascinating world of HKN is not quite so fascinating anymore. Is this because there's just so much a person can take when it comes to the sorry state of affairs in the land of delusion? The name-calling is growing old and repetitive. The We Believe! mantra is becoming more and more transparent. And, well, honestly, just how many laughing gifs can a person stomach in one day? And then we have the subjects of this thread themselves. Unless one of them comes out or learns to act or finds some talent, the fact is that they will not be able to hold our attention much longer. Then again, one can always hope. Right?
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It's so awkward. They are not supposed to greet you unless you acknowledge them first- a privacy ethic. So there's that clumsy moment between when you see each other and when you decide how to react.
Somewhere in Greenwich Village, it’s reported that Leonardo Di Caprio’s apartment lighting is synching up with his circadian rhythms. At least that’s one of the features his health-centric building advertises. On a recent visit to the Delos Living loft-style apartments in New York City, which are designed with posture-supportive flooring and ultraviolet lights to sterilize airborne microbes, I got a sneak peak into the lifestyles of the rich and health conscious. As the elevator doors opened, Deepak Chopra, prominent alternative medicine practitioner, stepped out in a t-shirt. He too, lives in the building currently offering a penthouse for $50 million. self improvement than today’s batch of celebrities who no longer simply sell us a new vodka, perfume, or eye shadow, but instead offer how-to guides using their own lives displayed via perfectly curated lifestyle blogs. The queen of selling us the good life is of course, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, whose personal blog, Goop, provides recipes for her white pear kimchi, or the chai gingerbread shake in her winter cleanse. She’s even pushing the trendy new way to end a marriage.
[quote]"I know a lot of secrets about Andy, but I guess the one that would surprise people the most is that he’s a top... Believe me, there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’m just saying, I think that would surprise people -- I don’t know this from personal experience, but from conversations you and I have had."
Anderson Cooper says Andy Cohen is a top...bwahaha like he would anything about being a top
It's been seven months since Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete left The Talk, and now Remini is finally ready to spill the beans about their surprise exits. On Monday, Remini blamed co-host Sharon Osbourne, 59, for getting them axed from the CBS talk show. "Sharon thought me and Holly were 'ghetto'. . . we were not funny, awkward and didn't know ourselves," Remini, 41, tweeted. "She has the power that was given to her." (Remini was tweeting in response to a radio interview Osbourne had done with Howard Stern, 58.) Osbourne denied Remini's claims via Twitter Tuesday, saying: "In response to Leah Remini's continuous comments that I had her fired from The Talk, let me just go on the record to say I had absolutely nothing to do with her departure from the show and have no idea why she continues to take to Twitter to spread this false gossip." Leah knows that I have never been in the position to hire or fire anyone on the show," Osbourne added. "That being said, my only wish is that Leah would just stop all this negative, unprofessional and childish behavior. It's been seven months. . .it's time to move on. Leah is a very talented actress and I only wish her happiness and success." She concluded: "I know that better things are to come if she can just get beyond all this negativity." Remini didn't stop tweeting, though. On Wednesday, she argued that Osbourne "just wants publicity out of this" and said she has no intention of keeping quiet. "If someone wants me to stop, they should call a lawyer and tell them what I am NOT telling the truth about," Remini told her followers. "We can go from there."
Kim Kardashian on brother Rob's battle with depression and weight gain over the past several months. I don't have sympathy, my personality is like, 'All right, you complain, you don't like it, get up and do something about it.'"
This time going after Adult Swim. The late night programming on the Cartoon Network, known as Adult Swim, plans to air the non-animated show "Black Jesus" portraying Jesus as a "black guy living in the hood." The show depicts him living in Compton Gardens and makes a mockery of our Lord. The foul language used in the trailer, including using the Lord's name in vain, is disgusting. In addition, there is violence, gunfire and other inappropriate gestures which completely misrepresent Jesus. This is blasphemy! "Black Jesus" is set to premiere on August 7 at 11:00 pm ET/ 10:00 pm CT, unless we intervene. Adult Swim plans to blaspheme Jesus on a weekly basis. This mockery will be similar to "South Park" and "Family Guy," but much worse since the entire program will be based on lies about Christianity. 1MM will defend our Savior because He is Holy! Adult Swim is obviously not a family network, and this program is set to air later in the evening when children should be asleep, but that is no excuse. Adult Swim has crossed the line by belittling the Christian religion with foul jokes. We need to send a loud and clear message to Adult Swim, its owner Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (a Time Warner Company), and all potential advertisers of "Black Jesus" that this kind of programming is insulting and completely unacceptable. Adult Swim is not ridiculing any other religion currently and wouldn't dream of mocking Mohammed or Muslims. If we speak with one voice now, we can keep this program from ever seeing the light of day. Christians must take a stand and not be silent. Networks like Adult Swim continue to mock Christianity, and we will not stand for it. Christians should no longer sit idly by and allow this blasphemy to continue without speaking up in protest. "Black Jesus" is anoher attempt to distort the truth about Christianity. There is power in numbers! Forward this to everyone you know in a fight to keep this show off the air.
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A Florida couple were arrested after they had sex on a public beach Sunday, according to WTVT Channel 13. Several children were among the stunned onlookers. Jose Caballero, 39, and Elissa Alvarez, 20, were charged with lewd and lascivious behavior. A woman recorded the incident and turned the video over to Bradenton police. "I've lived here since 1978, and I go to the beaches, and I've never seen anything like this," she told the TV station. Caballero is a personal trainer who served several years in prison for cocaine trafficking, according to the New York Daily News. To read the full story, go to myfoxtampabay.com.
It is now just two weeks until my systers and I make our way to the lush and plentiful land where wimmin are welcomed (and penised persons are banished)! Let the crones be crowned and let breasts be cast!
THE LAND IS CALLING: Michfest 2014 is RIGHT around the corner.
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Has all the recent news made you nervous about your travel plans.
Curves like a woman? How do his ass and tits compare to, let's say, Anthony Recker's or Matt Damon's?
Does "model" and "photographer" Stevo Bobbio have tits and ass like a woman?
Body lotion, parfum, rollerball.
Can't her big ass come up with anything else? She's a wonderful singer, worthy of better album titles that will stand the test of time.
Adele's new album to be titled '25', following her previous two albums '19 ' & '21'
I'll take "Give me a fucking drink now" for $100, Alex.
[quote]Syfy, Space and Temple Street Productions announced today that Hannah John-Kamen, who starred in the West End musical Viva Forever, Aaron Ashmore, who played Steve Jinks on the long-running Warehouse 13, and Luke Macfarlane, who portrayed Scotty Wandell in the popular Brothers and Sisters, have been cast as the leads in the upcoming original space adventure drama series Killjoys. [quote]From Temple Street Productions, the producers of Orphan Black, and Michelle Lovretta, the creator of Lost Girl who will serve as writer and showrunner, Killjoys follows a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants throughout the Quad, a distant system on the brink of a bloody, multi-planetary class war. Chris Grismer (Vampire Diaries) will direct the pilot and additional episodes. [quote]Commissioned by Space and produced by Temple Street Productions for Space and Syfy, the 10-episode, one-hour series will begin production in Toronto on August 5. Killjoys will premiere on Syfy and Space in 2015. [quote]In Killjoys, Hannah John-Kamen stars as the gorgeous, complicated, and deadly Dutch. A top-level Killjoy, she’s a much loved and charming presence in her community, with a unique gift for earning people’s trust and respect regardless of their class. Under her banter and protective flirtations, there is pain, maturity, and a deep solemnity resulting from a dark secret past. [quote]Aaron Ashmore takes on the role of John Jaqobis, a peacemaker who hates conflict. Cheerful and kind-hearted, John prefers not to fight, but his sarcastic wit has put him into the fray enough over the years to teach him how to do it well, and dirty. [quote]Luke Macfarlane stars as D’avin, a handsome, rugged, sarcastic, and incredibly loyal former soldier. He dreamed of enlisting in the military since boyhood, and his hard-won expertise in tactics, maneuvers and hand-to-hand combat make him an instant asset to the Killjoy team.
His hotness Luke Macfarlane will be back on TV on a regular basis
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If a guy had a great upper arms, rock solid muscle with veins popping out. But had a huge pot belly Hot or not?
Still want to see Ryan Carnes and Ryan Paevey cover each other in baby oil and play Human Slip and Slide.
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I've finally embraced my atheism and am interested in expressing a philosophy of kindness and reason toward other people. 1)What are the best ways to do this and 2) If you don't believe in a higher supernatural power, what holidays do you celebrate and how?
Frank Skinner is a popular English comedian, and has been doing a weekly radio show for a few years now (you can get it as a podcast). There are no guests or preordained topics, just a freeform chat with his 2 co-hosts, but it's one of the most consistently entertaining and funny podcasts I've found. The reason why I'm posting about it here is not so much Frank himself but rather one of the 2 sidekicks, Emily Dean; she's a fashion editor in her day job, and has a very Datalounge sensibility - her partly self-ironic snobbishness often reminds me of this place.
Sorry Seth. You have jumped the shark, gone over the top or whatever. You've taken to talking so fast that you swollowyourwords. I have no idea what you are talking about most of the time. Any what's with the "tsk tsk tsk" noice you keep making. That is so stereotype gay. I didn't know that any gay men acutally made that sound, but it's what srt8 guys do when they want to make fun of gays, so don't perpetuate that stereotype. Can't you act more manly on the air?
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Well gurl, this eventful season is about to end in read off! Will Peter, the newest housewife, finally check the Moose? Will Apollo be able to get enough brain cells working to not slip up and admit he is a sinister white collar criminal? Will we discover that Phaedra has a top row of the teeth? Is Mama Joyce going to drag someone else before this all over? YASSSSSSS!
Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6 Part 4!!!
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Starts this week... Who else is excited to see Mike Vogel's hot ass?
Let's say there were two candidates you had to vote for in an election One was an extreme right-wing Tea Party candidate The other was socialist democrat who proclaims he is a functioning addict. Drinks himself to a drunken stupor and does drugs regularly. Those are your only two options. Spoiling your ballot or not voting is NOT an option. You have to chose one of the two. Who would you vote for?
How did you find out? Do you think your mother ever knew?
I have a summons for tomorrow. School starts for me next week, and I have my first exam two weeks after that. Aside from dropping trou and presenting hole to the judge, any advice?
The Voice of the Night
It would be difficult to come with a more on-the-nose metaphor for New York City's income inequality problem than the new high-rise apartment building coming to 40 Riverside Boulevard, which will feature separate doors for regular, wealthy humans and whatever you call the scum that rents affordable housing. Extell Development Company, the firm behind the new building, announced its intentions to segregate the rich and poor to much outrage last year. Fifty-five of the luxury complex's 219 units would be marked for low-income renters—netting some valuable tax breaks for Extell—with the caveat that the less fortunate tenants would stick to their own entrance. The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved Extell's Inclusionary Housing Program application for the 33-story tower this week, the New York Post reports. The status grants Extell the aforementioned tax breaks and the right to construct a larger building than would ordinarily be allowed. According to the Daily Mail, affordable housing tenants will enter through a door situated on a "back alley." Any of the unwashed folk who complain about such a convenient arrangement, of course, are just being ungrateful. As the Mail points out, fellow poor-door developer David Von Spreckelsen explained as much last year: "No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations," said David Von Spreckelsen, senior vice president at Toll Brothers. "So now you have politicians talking about that, saying how horrible those back doors are. I think it's unfair to expect very high-income homeowners who paid a fortune to live in their building to have to be in the same boat as low-income renters, who are very fortunate to live in a new building in a great neighborhood." In these economically fraught times, it's easy to forget that the super rich earned their right to never see you, hear you, smell you, or consider your pitiful existence. Expecting them to share an entrance would be unfair.
NYC Approves Apartment Building With Separate Entrance for Poor People
This happened not too far from me although I live in eastern Ontario. I see CNN has now picked up the story. Very sad. (CNN) -- The mayor of a community just outside Montreal died of anaphylactic shock Sunday after being attacked by wasps while on vacation. Lucie Roussel, the mayor of La Prairie, was 51, according to a release issued by the city. Roussel had served as mayor since 2003. A lawyer by training, Roussel is survived by her two children, Constance, 20, and Antonin, 19. Roussel was attacked by approximately 15 wasps, according to a spokeswoman for La Prairie, Chantal Charron. However, Charron said the mayor was not allergic to wasps. Canadian broadcaster CTV spoke with Roussel's former colleague Reine Hebert, who spoke of the loss. "I'm thinking about her family. They lost their father a few years ago. You can't do that to the family. I mean it's so sad." Hebert continued, saying "It's sad for the people, it's sad for her two children, for the whole city." Several politicians expressed their condolences online after word of Roussel's death became public, including the mayor of Montreal, Denis Coderre, who tweeted about the death, saying it was "very sad," and offered his condolences to her family and her two children. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.
How to keep your Rent Stabilized apartment.
I just saw the episode where the woman won't leave Daddy's room because "he promised me marriage!" This is eventually thwarted by the woman's son hustling her away. Her son is a 45 year old complete dork, who seems absolutely TERRIFIED of Rose's bag of skimpy undies, fleeing in terror when she comes on to him. Are we supposed specifically to infer that he's gay?
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Which very well-known celebrity reporter, who has turned himself into a bit of a star, has a very kinky profile and naked pictures on a gay hookup site? Naughty But Nice Rob saw the images – our eyes are burning – showing him totally naked and very excited. It was shockingly thick and around 9 inches. His profile reveals he likes kinky group sex and “anything goes.” He adds that he doesn’t smoke but does do drugs. Additionally, he writes that he is on the “HIV-preventing miracle drug” PrEP, so he doesn’t practice safe sex! Guess who? Trust me, you know him!
People will bitch about my saying it, but the U.S. media is becoming dangerously controlled, influenced by and populated with Brits. From the NBC News president to news network talking heads to satirists to magazine, newspaper, blog editors and now presidents of major networks, able to influence coverage and public opinion. Sure, Aussies are there also, but it's Brits that are becoming a dominant force in fifth estate (U.S. media). No other country on Earth would allow such a strong positioning of Americans into their news media. Why isn't this ever talked or written about? It may seem harmless and, for now, it may be. But this is a risky thing to allow in the long run. The Brits are no doubt our friends and close cousins of American society, but in many ways, we're allowing our media to become compromised by outside influence.
Major studios fail to show positive LGBT characters.
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It had to happen. Can Eddie fake continuous love and affection for the cameras? Their every move is followed by the tabloids. Now celebrity couple LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian will let their everyday lives play out on TV with their own reality series. VH1 has ordered LeAnn & Eddie (working title), a six-episode half-hour series to premiere on VH1 in Fall 2013/Winter 2014. Scott and Deirdre Gurney’s Gurney Prods., which is behind monster unscripted hit Duck Dynasty, is producing. LeAnn & Eddie will chronicle how singer-actress Rimes and actor Cibrian navigate their careers while also co-parenting Eddie’s two sons. It also promises for the duo to poke fun at what it’s like to be a high-profile couple with more than a little misinformation out there about them. “We are really excited to be working together on a unique show that will give you a glimpse into who we really are or better yet who we’re really not,” Rimes and Cibrian said. “We’re thrilled to partner with VH1 and The Gurneys to put our spin on a project full of love, humor and music.” Rimes and Cibrian will executive produce the series through Country Cuban Productions, along with the Gurneys, John Ferriter for Octagon Entertainment and Scotty Abrams for Maniac Filmworks and Music. “This is going to be a really fun show in which we hope to reveal what their lives are really like – from the normalcy of their home life, to what drives them artistically, to the chaos of their celebrity life,” said Tom Calderone, President of VH1.
Take that, Brandi! LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian to star in their own reality series
when she dishes on her role in Rio 2?
They always shoot in these massive houses, uh, mansions. Are these their homes? Are these porn directors rich? I mean, can they be making THAT much money from a shitty porn site? Also, if it is their house, do they have special bedrooms for the fuck scenes? I mean, do they actually let the guys fuck on their living room sofa?
straddle the raised part uncomfortably and sit there like they are only taking up 1 seat when their have to sit across 2. Too much soda and fast food, huh?
I find "The Dark Knight Returns" too nasty and heavy-handed. Among my favorites are probably the whole Steve Engelhart/Marshall Rogers run from 1977 (climaxing in the great "Laughing Fish" Joker two-parter), or "The Long Halloween." But my favorite of favorites is "Batman: Year One." Frank Miller really reined in his sadistic and misogynistic streaks (with Barbara Gordon emerging as a very strong and intelligent female character), all the mythos of the storyline was resestablished in such a way that still holds 25 years later, and you just can't beat Mazzuchelli's artwork.
"Don't nobody kissing' like you Don't nobody kissing' like you, bang bang bang" Is that the worst example of grammatical obscenity we've heard in a long time?
What are your memories of the public reception?
It's like they're struggling to break free.
Henry Cavill's gigantic tit muscles arrive in Michigan for Superman/Batman filming
Best Matt Damon movie ever. Agree or disagree?
is turning into the LMN, since Lifetime is abandoning that format As young girls, we wished upon a star that someday a prince – preferably one of TV royalty – would sweep us off our feet and we’d live happily ever after. But then we grew up and learned the hard way that heartthrobs can be real heartbreakers. In Investigation Discovery’s (ID) original new series HEARTBREAKERS, hunky Hollywood actors from the ‘80s and ‘90s reunite on screen to portray real-life dreamboats who turned into total nightmares. Directed and written in a sensational, Aaron Spelling-esque style reminiscent of classic primetime soaps, HEARTBREAKERS takes true stories ripped from the headlines to show what really happens when the perfect catch turns out to be the perfect criminal. Featuring Kevin Sorbo, Jack Wagner, Judd Nelson, Rob Estes, Tracey Gold, Nicole Eggert, Jamie Luner, Christopher Knight, and Antonio Sabato, Jr., HEARTBREAKERS makes its world premiere debut on ID on Wednesday, August 13 at 10/9c. “Our viewers simply cannot get enough true stories of love gone wrong,” said Henry Schleiff, Group President, Investigation Discovery, Destination America, American Heroes Channel and Discovery Fit & Health. “With HEARTBREAKERS, ID has hit on a unique hybrid that marries those true stories our viewers crave with all the romance and drama that they love in their favorite primetime soaps, featuring an amazing line-up of television and movie legends in the most over the top, deliciously devilish roles they have ever played.” HEARTBREAKERS is rooted in real stories that are already truly unbelievable on their own. The series also features interviews and behind-the-scenes commentary with the actual people involved, layering in context and additional information about each case. And not to disappoint, HEARTBREAKERS provides a nod to the actors’ previous lives in the primetime soap world, dropping little golden surprises that are sure to appeal to the fan’s sense of nostalgia: anyone for The Brady Bunch’s pork chops and apple sauce HEARTBREAKERS premieres on Wednesday, August 13 at 10/9c.
Anyone excited about watching the final year? God help me, but after watching several trailers, I think it looks kinda good. BTW, what's the real story about Luke Grimes (James) leaving? After watching the most recent preview, I hope it was not homophobia.
Chris Miklos, dead at 40, according to Modern Bear on Facebook.
It completely messes up wait times at restaurants.
...... or know what it's called? My great grandmother use to tell a story about cheating death. When she was young and living in Jerusalem she became very sick and her parents were told she would die. Her mother went to her rabbi who found a woman who was conected to their temple who taught her how to perform a ritual that changed my great grandmother's name so the Angel of Death couldn't find her. She survived and fifteen years later her husband's doctor found that he had cancer.. She was told there was nothing that could be done to save him, he would soon die. She performed the name changing ritual to trick the Angel of Death and he lived for another ten years. I had thought that the ritual/ceremony was just one of her stories but I've heard versions of the same story from several people over the years, primarily from people who had lived in Jerusalem. Has anyone heard of this? Or know what it's called?
I have no idea who Sam Smith is, but that song is tiresome and sounds like it's being sung by a black drag queen with a church choir as backup. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't get in my car and turn on the radio without this fucking awful, melodramatic torch song blaring. It's even played on rotation on the satellite top 100 streams. Apparently Sam Smith is a white guy, I just looked him up. Which makes this God-awful song even more irritating. MAKE IT STOPPPPP!
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Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi star as a couple. Seems like a great pairing. I love both of them.
He became a childhood favourite to a generation of fans when he starred in Boy Meets World. But while Ben Savage has returned to the role of Cory Matthews in a spin off show, he is doing it with a very different looking profile. For the 33-year-old appears to have had a nose job if his pointy looking schnoz on Girl Meets World is any guide. It is certainly a much different look to the rounded conker his fans know and love from his early days on the show. A long time in the making, fans are looking forward to seeing grown up history teacher Cory and his chemistry with daughter Riley, who is played by Rowan Blanchard and is the main character on the new show. Explaining the concept, Ben said: 'While fans of the show I think a lot of Boy Meets World fans are sort of expecting the show to pick up where it left off. 'And for us, really, I don't want them to be disappointed, but this show, Girl Meets World, is for a new generation. It's not so much a continuation of Boy Meets World as it's a brand-new slate for a brand-new generation of kids. However he said he is hoping that the programme can be enjoyed by the whole family. He said: 'Some of the best emails and notes and messages and tweets I've gotten are from former Boy Meets World fans who tell me how much they're excited about watching the new show with their own children. 'It's really a nice feeling to know that they grew up with us, and now their kids are going to get to grow up with Girl Meets World. Disney have just released the first trailer promoting the show's summer debut, and it shows Ben and on-screen wife Danielle Fishel bringing up their own family in New York City.
Ben Savage Gets A New Pointy Nose For His New Show
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Did you just see a poor woman accidentally fall from a rope swing? If you did you’re a victim of a predatory passive aggressive personality type. This is the best example of a PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PREDATOR at work. Do NOT feel sorry for this woman! She knew EXACTLY what was going to happen. This is the way she controls people. By GUILTING them into feeling so sorry for her they then become compliant with her needs. As soon as she lands she falsely exclaims “I can’t feel my legs…wahwahwah.. HOLD MY HAND.” He wasn’t going to hold her hand any other way. This woman is no victim, she is a PREDATOR! Manipulating someone else’s emotions and hurting yourself to make someone else feel bad in order to control them is especially rotten. Its a stunt done in thousands of ways by millions of people. There are sooo few “accidents”. Often accidents are simply someones repurposed rage. For example your neighbor “accidentally” forgets to water your plants while you’re on vacation and they all die. It wasn’t an accident. The person was resentful that you burdened them with this chore AND that you went on a vacation and passive aggressively punishes you by letting something you care that you’ve put in their hands without their request die. This case is similar but even more twisted. This woman knows that there is a VERY strong chance this will not end well but she’s willing to take the risk because of the potential of an opportunity to manipulate other people through their guilt. She takes the jump, suffers very real pain, and although she may consciously feel regret she could not be happier because her, potentially subconscious, plan of passive aggressive control of others has them hooked! She should be pushed off a higher cliff by children. This “victim” is CONNIVING! She’s the ultimate predator, willing to risk physical pain to have her needs met. She’s no different then any other mega sociopath. You just thought you saw a tragic woman hurt herself and you felt bad and maybe laughed. If you did, she tricked you. In either of those reactions she wins. I wonder if this woman is a candidate for Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy? Im pretty sure this behavior qualifies as Maunchausen Syndrome but the BY PROXY version is so much more INSIDIOUS! She’s definitely willing to hurt herself to make you feel bad so she can control you. Im forced to wonder if she would hurt others in order for you to feel bad and thus be able to control you as well. See, and here you thought you saw one thing, and it turns out it was something quite different entirely. All you needed to be was curious enough to look beyond the surface.
Even though he supported Michael Vick. What an idiot.
John Travolta Can't Stop Former Pilot's Lawsuit Over Secrets (Exclusive) 1:44 PM PDT 7/22/2014 by Eriq Gardner A California appeals court allows Douglas Gotterba to challenge the validity of a confidentiality agreement. Douglas Gotterba, who worked for John Travolta's aircraft company Alto in the 1980s, will get the opportunity to argue in a lawsuit that he holds no confidentiality duties to the actor. On Tuesday, the airline pilot was given the go-ahead sign by a California appeals court. Gotterba worked for Travolta for six years. According to press interviews he's given, he claims that his relationship with Travolta was more than professional. He stopped working for the actor in 1987, at which point he entered into a written termination agreement with Alto. Nearly 25 years later, Gotterba came forward to "tell the story of his life and those involved in it," including his personal relationship with Travolta. According to Gotterba, he was "unwillingly thrust" into the gossip tabloids by public revelations from another former Travolta employee. Upon hearing that Gotterba had spoken to the National Enquirer and was planning a book, Travolta's attorney Martin Singer sent out cease-and-desist letters. The lawyer warned Gotterba about breaching the confidentiality provision of his termination agreement. Gotterba's own attorney then demanded to see the asserted confidentiality provisions. He eventually saw what Singer was relying upon when the parent company of the National Enquirer forwarded the relevant portion of a four-page agreement. But the airline pilot maintains that this agreement is "not authentic," that it is merely an early draft of another three-page agreement that didn't contain the confidentiality clause. So Gotterba sued Travolta and Alto seeking a judicial declaration about which agreement was valid and whether confidentiality was really enforceable. In response, Alto aimed to kill Gotterba's lawsuit by bringing an anti-SLAPP motion. In instances where someone's First Amendment rights are at stake, California law provides defendants with an early exit as well as the possibility of recovering legal fees. In this case, the defendants asserted that Travolta's right to petition was protected. The question for the trial judge and then the appeals court was whether Gotterba's lawsuit was based upon Singer's demand letters. California appeals court Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert says that it is not based upon Singer's "sabre-rattling" but rather "the validity of the asserted termination agreements." He adds, "Although the prelitigation letters may have triggered Gotterba's complaint and may be evidence in support of the complaint, they are not the basis of the complaint." The justice says that to hold otherwise "would lead to the absurd result that a person receiving a demand letter threatening legal action for breach of contract would be precluded from seeking declaratory relief to determine the validity of the contract. Declaratory relief would be limited to situations where the parties have not communicated their disagreement."
John Travolta Can't Stop Former Pilot's Lawsuit Over Secrets
I wish she would fall on her ass. I'd just step over her.
I'm the ashtrays and cigarettes!
Finally people outside DL are noticing!!!
I love him!
Do you ever get the feeling they are silently evaluating you when you are around them? Perhaps keeping a secret file on you?
Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story" series is known for pushing boundaries and scaring the hell out of viewers, and it looks like his latest installment is preparing to pack on the weird. FX CEO John Landgraf attended the TCAs this week and said fans of the show can expect a darker Season 4 than what they saw with "American Horror Story: Coven." “Some years it’s going to be big and bright and brash and campy the way 'Coven' is," Landgraf said. "Other years it’s going to be dark and brooding -- like 'Asylum' was. I guess I would put 'Freak Show' half-way in between the two. It’s got a little bit more humor and a little bit more camp, but its got a brooding period feel to it also." "Freak Show" is set to premiere in October and Murphy is bringing back stars Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates for the fourth go-around of the horror series. Taking place in Florida in the '50s, Landgraf promises the newest season has a very different look from what we've seen so far. "The characters are really distinctive, really original, some are really strange," Landgraf said, "but I think really compelling, I love what I’ve read so far.” Speaking of strange, if this set photo of Paulson playing conjoined twins Bette and Dot is anything to go by, we think anyone worried Murphy was losing his touch when it comes to terror should just relax. He's still got it.
Where are they? And is Bullets really closing on Labor Day? Elaine Stritch DID do At Liberty for a year, just not all on Broadway. What's the difference? When is The Bodyguard coming in? Will Honeymoon in Vegas be a hit? Is there TONY buzz for TONY? FLORA THE RED MENACE! HENRY SWEET HENRY! I HAD A BALL! WISH YOU WERE HERE! Go!
So what was the answer?
Beyoncé and Jay Z have more than 99 problems and only “divine intervention” can save the troubled marriage, a source close to the powerful couple has told The Post. While Jay Z seemingly is the one most at fault, he’s also the one doing all in his power to keep the couple together, even hiring marriage counselors who are believed to be traveling with the super duo on their tour, the source said. “They are trying to figure out a way to split without divorcing . . . This is a huge concert tour and they’ve already gotten most of the money from the promoters up front,” the source said. Despite the tens of millions the couple will pocket from the current tour, this will certainly be their last and the end of the tour could officially spell the end of the marriage, the source said. “There are no rings, if you haven’t noticed,” the source said, admitting that he thought things would get better after the birth of the couple’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter. “For just a split moment, things got real for them and she was even talking about adding to the family,” the source said. “But, after a while, Jay was out doing Jay and Bey was out doing Bey. They made the classic mistake of thinking a child would change everything and help to rekindle the initial fire, and it didn’t.”
ooh he hit a part II only took a year !
It's pretty obvious that (almost) no one cares anymore. Can you think of anyone in the wings who would really shock the general public?
Closet case?
He is now 45 with very little money and very few job opportunities. He's aging, has no wife nor any children. He's on the z-list with no real following. And as for Queer As Folk, he basically whored himself out for a job if he is in fact straight. Where do you think he will be years from now?
My father gave me $15k. I refused to take it, and told him I did not feel right, or good about taking money from him and my mother. He told me to take the money and use it. Buy a car, spend it, start a business. Do something with it. I don't know why he did this, and I know my sisters would shit if they ever found out about it. I've spent the last few days looking online for possible business ideas. All I've found are websites telling people to start a successful website and sell it. Start a website, make it popular and make money with AdSense. Start a website and make money with PPCs, (pay-per-clicks). I can barely navigate Datalounge, so much as start websites. So I'm hoping to get some advice from Dataloungers. No one here bullshits--when it comes to money. So what kind of business should I look into?
(ABC News) - A 5-year-old Massachusetts boy battling cancer said all he wants for his upcoming birthday is a box of birthday cards. Danny Nickerson, of Foxboro, Massachusetts, will turn six on July 25. He was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor this past October -- one of the most chemotherapy-resistant cancers. As a result, he has since stopped going to kindergarten. The boy gets lonely from time to time, and is always happy to get cards with his name written on them. “He can recognize his name now,” Carley Nickerson, Danny’s mother told ABC News. “When he saw his name on the package from magical fairies on Easter, he was so happy.” But the packages and cards stopped after Easter. “He had 33 radiations from November through December last year,” Nickerson said. “We are now getting chemo therapy every two weeks.” Doctors tell Nickerson that less than 10 percent of the children diagnosed with this type of cancer live longer than 18 months. “I don’t really believe in that. He is doing great,” Nickerson said. “Every day is a blessing for us,” So far, Danny has received about 40 letters. “I gave him to key to the P.O. box,” Nickerson said. “He was so excited when he opened it.” Nickerson said Danny loves Lego and Super Mario. “I wish Lego makes Super Mario toys,” Nickerson chuckled. “That would really make him happy.” Danny’s birthday is July 25. All cards can be mailed the Nickerson’s home addressed: Danny Nickerson, P.O. Box 212, Foxboro, MA, 02035.
Help fulfill Danny's birthday wish
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Make sure you click on the photo, ensuring that it's full size. Browsers instantly scale it down. It's a close up of her face from a few weeks ago. It's amazing, all that money and she can't get a proper wax. Maybe it's her five o'clock shadow.
The Ramoncoaster is in full swing. Will she pop someone's eye out with some more plasticware? Aviva is shedding "friends" faster than body parts. Given her on again/off again appearance in the opening credits, will she stick around for another season? Will her dad's dick finally fall off from some nasty STD? Heather's only significant contribution is still her hot husband. Will he and Mario finally get some drunken alone time? Will Sonja's tooth get lost (permanently) at the bottom of a champagne bottle? Will Carole finally finish her transformation into Steven Tyler? Will Lumann be un-demoted and be brought back as a full housewife? Will we get to see some of her short, thick Frenchmen? Will Kristen--oh who cares. Zzzzzzzz!
This woman is the ultimate frau. For those of you who work with fraus: have you heard about this late night tv ad sensation..."Dump Cakes" and "Dump Dinners"?
Who is Kathy Mitchell and why is she pushing "Dump Cakes" on us?
I live across the street from an apartment building. About an hour ago, some guy was arrested and dragged out of the building. Turns out he's the boyfriend of a tenant, and he was there to beat up one of her neighbours. He wanted to beat the woman up because she called the cops on his girlfriend. Apparently the GF was walking around in the parking lot around 11AM completely nude. It was a hot and sunny day, and she wanted to enjoy the sun, or so she explained. When the neighbour called the cops on her, she put up a fight. She was supposedly on meth during the altercation with the cops, and the nude walkabout. I was at work, so I missed the nudie show, but I got the entire BF arrest. I really hate this neighbourhood.
He may not be conventionally hot but there's something attractive and sexy about him
I'm not a lifetime follower of professional sports in the United States. But I have been a late bloomer with some interest for a little of MLB and a little of NFL. Who - whether it's players and/or coaches/managers/owners - are the homophobes? I ask because of the recent thread on Tony Dungy.
And the police are defending him, woot!
Man pounds the bastard molesting his son into a 'bloody puddle'
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Gets a rave review in Guardian. I find it fascinating that Linklater kept the filming a secret for so many years (for those who don't know about the film, it chronicles the life of a boy and his family over 11 real years). He is a great director and I love that he is not a shameless self-promoter. He just sort of keeps it really quiet and announces his films when they're ready to be shown. Any other DLers like his work?
This list seems rather thin. What would you add?
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and then interviews Leonard Maltin!!!!!! so on point!!!!!
What did he say?
Sitcom about two senior gay partners airs in Metro New York on WNET-13, 10:30-11:00 this evening. Check local listings.
OK, I'm finally ready to get rid of cable because it just isn't worth the expense. I'm keeping cable internet, in fact I'm increasing the speed. So what now? What online TV services do you use/like best? My experience with Netflix was that it was mostly old direct-to-video movies no one wanted to see in the first place. One of the other services (Hulu?) wanted you to BUY newer movies instead of just watching them once. Hulu/ Vudu/ Amazon Prime/ Something else? What works for you?
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I broke my toe, and so I've been laid up the last 36 hours. I searched for some cool new music and found a couple of gems. Yes, they gave me Percocet. I narrowed down from 8 to 2. These were the two that blew me away- especially the video for the former, and the live Letterman appearance for the latter. The first is by Future Islands, "Seasons Change" and the song takes a few plays before you love it, but the video is jawdroppingly gorgeous and the dude is HAWWWTTT! They even show him without the cowboy hat. Dude is awesome sexy cowboy hot! The second is Kiesza. Inside.
It's strange--my pit, crotch, and leg hair has reduced by almost 50% over the past 2-3 years but my I've still got a full head of hair. Any thoughts on why this could be? I'm a little nervous of what I'm reading online because a lot of sources are suggesting thyroid issues.
Season 4 premieres tomorrow! YAY! Allison and the twins are gone, and some new cast members (including a new gay character) are on deck! Anyone else excited?!?
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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:
Video proof here!
Would someone make a mint coming up with a gay combat/action game?
James Caan looks like total shit in the film. He has awkward broad shoulders, but he's so fucking skinny. And his arm, shoulder and back hair ain't helping. I never realized how fucking nasty he was...and how hot Al Pacino was.
I am NOT "cisgendered." I reject that label. Why? From what I've read, "cisgendered" is a label that began in academic discourse as a way of describing people who weren't trans. But the meaning of it was akin to what we might call "normatively gendered." That means your gender identity is within a limited range of what society considers to be acceptably "normal." Normative is a word of negation and resistance. It rejects the boundaries delineated as "normal" by illustrating their discursive construction, i.e. not essential. However, while "cisgendered" operates within a broader language of gender as a means of description, it is also prescriptive and limiting. The reason I place it in quotations is because it sets up a binary that is antithetical to the purpose for which it is employed in popular discourse. If gender isn't binary, if it is fluid and can transgress boundaries, than a binary between cisgender and transgender cannot exist. If it does, then we must delineate what "real" transgender or "true" transgender means, and who is allowed to inhabit it. If "cisgendered" means your gender identity matches the social construct attached to the sex you were assigned at birth, than there cannot be a male gender identity that acts outside those normative social boundaries. And if you say there is variation on gender identity, but "cis-" just means you were born with a penis and identify and live as a man, than you negate the many variations on what it means to "be a man" or even to "live as a man." You are imposing your concept of those things onto me, enforcing a binary that is paradoxical. Moreover, you are denying the gender fluidity of those who have a penis and identify as male, but prefer women's underwear or wear makeup or transgress norms in innumerable other ways. Adding more labels -- like "cisgendered male transvestite" -- in order to justify your act of aggression defeats the purpose of simplifying things with words like "cisgendered." What is perhaps most disturbing in being called "cisgendered," is that it imposes an identity on me. Doing so invalidates my complicated experience of gender. Don't tell me that I am somehow normatively gendered for my body when my life experience has led me through periods of deep confusion about my gender identity and living as gender queer. How is living gender queer normative? How does that reconcile with the sex and gender roles society associates with having a penis? Moreover, you don't get to make a reductive statement about my gender identity or how I embody my gender while trying to argue for recognition of the diversity of other peoples' embodied genders. If you are going to argue for a less simplistic reading of others' embodied genders, than you have to do so with mine too. That includes recognizing that as a queer person, I'm automatically not inhabiting the normative roles society has constructed for those with a penis. My behavior, and sexual and romantic attachments aren't normative for "men." My intuitiveness isn't normative. My choices of profession haven't been normative. My mode of speech isn't normative. [italic](continued)[/italic]
FX does it again! The premiere tonight was killer.
Could life imitate art yet again, or -- more specifically -- could a title come true? Deadline Hollywood reports HBO is in talks with Lisa Kudrow and director Michael Patrick King to bring "The Comeback" back, the duo's comedy from 2005 that's become a cult classic. Though it only lasted one, 13-episode season, "The Comeback" earned respect from most critics and has developed quite the following since it went off the air. Recent successful resurrections have given new life to many TV shows with rumors constantly swirling of comebacks, "Arrested Develpment" being the most notable example. This makes the news of the Kudrow comedy's possible return even more apt. "The Comeback" was very much ahead of its time, being a single camera reality show spoof. Relevancy shouldn't be an issue, even almost a decade after its original airing. Valerie Cherish still has plenty to teach us. On March 19, Kudrow retweeted a Slate story suggesting "The Comeback" deserves another season. It even went so far as to suggest HBO should make it available on the company's streaming service, HBOgo.
HBO In Talks with Lisa Kudrow to Bring 'The Comeback' Back for Season Two
Former friends Spike Lee and Michael Rapaport are now warring over gentrification in Brooklyn borough of New York City and the quality of films they pro due. Rapaport fired the latest verbal missile at Lee during a visit Tuesday to HuffPost Live. Rapaport, who is producing and directing his new film My Man is a Loser, denounced the filmmaker a “s— stain” who is playing the race card when he discusses gentrification in New York. Then, he went on to disparage Lee’s filmmaking career. “When’s the last Spike Lee film you saw?” Rapaport asked host Marc Lamont Hill. “Nobody goes to see them s—-.” Despite coming to talk about his new film, Rapaport instead appropriated the balance of his interview time addressing Lee, who during a May interview on HuffPost Live called Rapaport “stupid” and said he “doesn’t know what he’s f—— talking about.” Lee also discounted Rapaport’s talents as a director, to which Rapaport fired back Tuesday, “I’m going to see him sooner or later,” Rapaport said, which some took as a a threat. “I wanna see you say ‘you’re stupid and your movie sucks’ right to my face.” Lee, whose industry beefs are legendary and go way back to the time he slammed Morgan Freeman fiercely for his subservient role in Driving Miss Daisy, responded to Rapaport saying a month earlier that Spike Lee had no business talking about Brooklyn’s gentrification since Lee lives on the Upper East Side in the neighboring borough of Manhattan.
Does anyone have any idea who he is?
Sad, isn't it?
I have not seen 1 or 2 in 6-7 years and decided to watch on HBO on Demand. I always thought the 2nd film was better (and wasn't it more critically acclaimed than the 1st?) but my god the first one is by far the best. Much more plot driven than part 2, but much more exciting... James Caan is sexy has hell too! Any fans? (I love mob films)
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100% on Rotten Tomatoes with many top critics already predicting Best Picture.
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As they got older, and had to settle for anyone that would have them, as opposed to being able to pick and choose. Do you know anyone like this? What are they like--humble in their old age and growing old gracefully, or bitter and still convinced they're hot shit?
.... the 3rd major of the year. Starts tomorrow, ESPN 4:00 am to 3. Woods tees off at 9:04, defending champ Mickelson at 2:05 I'm betting he doesn't even make the cut.
Federal Appeals Court(DC) strikes down Health Care Law subsidies in states that did not set up exchanges. Both Laurence Tribe(who didn't think it would happen) and Jonathan Turley(who thought there was a real possibilty) said before the ruling that this would be a true death blow.
I want Frank Grillo to purge my ass tonight.
The bankrupt city of Detroit is shutting off water at a rate of 3,000 residents per week. It also recently increased water rates by nine per cent. Nearly half of the 329,000 accounts are in arrears and the average cost of a Detroit water bill is double the national average. Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, flagged Detroit's plan to deal with delinquent accounts to the United Nations earlier this year. The UN calls the plan to shut off water a clear violation of human rights. "I've seen this in the poorest countries in the world," Barlow said. "This is what we call failed states, but to see this in North America, it's a disgrace." "We're sitting on the Great Lakes, supplying a fifth of the world’s surface water. It’s appalling," Barlow said. Barlow will be part of a convoy bringing what she called "good Canadian, public, clean water" across the river to Detroit on July 24. "Our water is their water," Barlow said. Maude Barlow Maude Barlow will lead a convoy of Canadians bringing water to Detroit on July 24. (Council of Canadians) She is also preparing an appeal to the White House. "We’re going right to the top," Barlow said. She has one question for President Barack Obama. "There are potentially 500,000 people who are going to spend a good part of the summer, in the heat, in the summer, without water. Is that OK with you?" she said Do you agree?
What is it about them that is so hot? Anybody else like them?
So many people get worked up about these harmless and often quite funny posts. Where do you stand? I'm firmly in the pro-M and G camp. I find them delightful.
He narrowly escaped a DUI charge last October, and now The Fosters star Jake T. Austin is facing a new set of legal troubles. The 19-year-old former Disney star has been charged with one count of misdemeanor hit and run following a four-car crash last November in Sherman Oaks, California, TMZ reports. According to the website, Jake's car - a 2010 Audi with New York number plates - reportedly drove into three parked cars around 3am, causing 'major damage' to the vehicles. The official incident report, obtained by TMZ, allegedly indicates the Audi is registered to the actor, whose real name is Jake Szymanski. Witnesses said that after the car crash, a passenger in the vehicle threw a bottle of vodka at a nearby building. Eyewitnesses also said they saw the people inside the car call a service to pick them up while another eyewitness said one of the passengers matched Jake's description. He faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted and a possible probation violation for his DUI.
I follow Todd Sanfield and Justin Clynes. Any other recommendations?
Have you bullying bitches driven them away?
Tom Hopper is a 29-year-old English actor who has appeared in several television programs and films including Merlin, Doctor Who, Casualty and Tormented. His current screen role is in the Neil Marshall drama series Black Sails. He is best known for playing Sir Percival in the BBC series Merlin.
I just don't. I certainly don't care ten threads worth.
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The world is abuzz with news that actor Laverne Cox has become the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. If I understand the current state of the ever-shifting ethic and rhetoric of transgenderism, that is not quite true: Bradley Manning, whom we are expected now to call Chelsea, beat Cox to the punch by some time. Manning’s announcement of his intention to begin living his life as a woman and to undergo so-called sex-reassignment surgery came after Time’s story, but, given that we are expected to defer to all subjective experience in the matter of gender identity, it could not possibly be the case that Manning is a transgendered person today but was not at the time of the Time cover simply because Time was unaware of the fact, unless the issuance of a press release is now a critical step in the evolutionary process. As I wrote at the time of the Manning announcement, Bradley Manning is not a woman. Neither is Laverne Cox.
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it clears out!
Boy...these days when you have primetime this place doesn't just slow down...
I'm probably late to the party but just saw him on "The Last Ship" in a t-shirt that left nothing to the imagination. What a fucking hot stud!! Any possibility he has dabbled in the mansex?
He's one hell of a survivor! (& yes, the lady in her bra is there...maybe that's what did it)
The 16 year old plays Alex on the show. Apparently the producers are meeting right now to determine how the show can deal with the situation.
He is a cool guy who doesnt deserve the DL treatment (or the crap he gets from Meeka for that matter)
Did I mention it also stars Kate Hudson?
It would end in tears, right?
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Has anyone been there? Are there deserts? What's it like? Do the people even pretend to be Mediterranean, or are they gazing towards the Stans, Azerbaijan, Iran?
Are men in any Asian country known for having bigger cocks? Or are they all tiny? Filipinos are definitely the smallest.
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THIS happens!
Just when you thought ladies fashions couldn't get even more peculiar...
Thanks to one of the posters from the last thread for suggesting this thread title! Continue chatting about Kevin and Aaron the phony
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BLIND ITEM: Which celebrity reporter has naked pictures and kinky profile on sex site? Which very well-known celebrity reporter who has turned himself into a bit of a star, has a very kinky profile and naked pictures on a gay hookup site. NAUGHTY BUT NICE ROB saw the images – our eyes are burning, showing him totally naked and very excited. It was shockingly thick and around 9 inches. His profile reveals he likes kinky group sex and ‘anything goes.’ He adds that he doesn’t smoke but does do drugs. Additionally, he writes that he is on the “HIV-preventing miracle drug” PrEP, so he doesn’t practice safe sex! GUESS WHO….TRUST ME, YOU KNOW HIM!
1. Trakai, Lithuania 2. Bath, England 3. Bruges, Belgium 4. Pingyao, China 5. Bernkastel-Kues, Germany 6. York, England 7. Noyers-sur-Serein, France 8. Dunnottar Castle, Scotland 9. Brasov, Romania 10. Provins, France 11. Loch Ness, Scotland 12. Sighisoara, Romania 13. Barga, Italy 14. Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland 15. Mystras, Greece
15 Gorgeous Spots That Take Us Back In Time...Without The Crowds
The Patsy Kensit thread has me curious about other UK starts of TV, film or music that are fairly well known in the UK, but are unknown in the States. I know that many of the people on the TV shows that *have* reached the US (e.g. Downtown Abbey, Call The Midwife) have been recognizable performers in the UK. Who would you put on that list? And why are they famous - or what should we Americans look for, or pay attention to, when it comes to their work?
This is the guy who single-handedly shortened World War II. It was really sad when he was arrested because he was gay and died as a result. I think this is a really good argument for gay marriage. There are so many gay geniuses out there that could help society why no allow gay marriage?
And I don't mean just because he plays a child's game for a living. Here in New York, people are acting like he's a beloved family member because he plays for the hapless Mets. Everyone says he's such a great guy. He looks great ... not arrogant at. He's self-effacing. He acts like he deserves to be "Miss July" in a car repair shop calendar. He gives gift baskets of his baseball memorabilia as a consolation prize the morning after he autographs them. That's after giving them the gift that keeps on giving: a rear view. Plus, he's looking real great of late. His face looks like a model's. I can believe he's pulling a genuine one over everyone. He has somehow convinced people that he's worthy of a second look.
I want some good beach time in Fire Island this year. I haven't been there in many years, and I don't really have friends who have shares. So I thought I'd just rent a hotel or bed and breakfast. Any suggestions? Is the Grove Hotel really nasty, as I've heard? Thanks for the help!
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You with your pageboy, your opera glasses, your velvet cloak, your lorgnette, your high-button shoes, your pearls -- it's so five minutes ago, I don't even know how your wife puts up with it.
Betty White once said of playing Sue Ann Nivens, "Of course, I loved Sue Ann. She was so rotten. You can’t get much more rotten than the neighborhood nymphomaniac." It is true that most of the more promiscuous women I've known in my life have been hard types: cynical, competitive, and sometimes downright mean (particularly toward other women). Is the same thing true for gay men?
There are rumors that Putin's presidential plane flew a similar route to that of the Malaysian airliner within 37 minutes of one another. This report has led to speculation that Washington decided to rid itself of Putin and mistook the Malaysian airliner for Putin's jet. RT reports that the two airplanes are similar in appearance.
"Gai ilings" don't shreeeeee eeeeeeee eeeeeeee eeeeeek! you pathetic tired old hissing troll. This generation of young gay men is the most urbane cosmopolitan educated and fabulous group of gay men ever. Stop your jealous attempts at trying to paint us as effemminate and lacking testosterone. We are men, too. We do everything men do. We are a generation of proud gay men, and because you can't handle the fact that you are not 19 anymore you should not act out your pathetic aging angst by attacking and violating a generation of those who come after you, if indeed you do believe that your Judy Garland era won rights HAVE paved the way for us, start supporting us and stop trying to wound us with your hateful slurrr of shreeeeeee eeeeeee eeeeeee eeeeeeeek
Did he handle it well?
ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 07/21 **#11** This actor used to be a comedian. He is B list now. He has been on a hit network show for what seems like forever. The past year or so though his life has gone downhill really quickly. Over the weekend our actor was at a hospital in NYC with a high risk wristband. There he was in clothes that were ripped and worn. He was looking as if he had not showered in weeks. He asked a passerby for help using a pay phone and couldn't figure it out and told the person he was having mental episodes and suicidal thoughts which is why he had the wristband. He said that he wanted to go home and to leave the hospital. He had no one with him, but was very kind to the person who helped him with the payphone. It was just a very sad sight to see for a guy whose character has meant so much for so long. Richard Belzer "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"
[italic]By 2017, millennials will have more buying power than any other generation. But so far, they're not spending like their parents did.[/italic] There's a lot more discussion at the link, but here's the raw list: 1. Pay TV 2. Investments 3. Mass-Market Beer 4. Cars 5. Homes 6. Bulk Warehouse Club Goods 7. Weddings 8. Children 9. Health insurance 10. Anything you tell them to buy While some of these are cheap shots (I mean, what young person of ANY generation was buying HOUSES? I didn't buy my first Condo until I was 30, my first House until I was in my 40s)... there's still some interesting discussion at the link:
[italic]"Didn’t you learn from the midterm election in 2010? Remember how in the glorious afterglow of electing the first black president, a lot of us got lazy and complacent and didn’t show up to vote? Remember what happened?" [/italic] Seriously... read this:
"I didn't expect anything from her. Hugging and kissing doesn't mean I wanted to f–k her. I said that explicitly in my text," Stein said. "When is it wrong to hug people?"
If she had not been into penised persyns, she would have been a Mitchfest Goddess. RIP. Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, who has “embarked upon her silver ship to the Summerlands” aged 65, was a self-styled witch and High Priestess of the Church of All Worlds credited with coining the term “polyamory”, the practice of having a romantic relationship with more than one person, which has now entered the Oxford English Dictionary. With her husband, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, she dedicated her life to studying the “Dark Arts”, helping him to run the world’s only registered wizard academy, the Grey School of Wizardry, in Sonoma County, California, where novices, split into four houses — Winds, Undines, Gnomes and Salamander — can learn such skills as alchemy, horse whispering, wand-making, spell-casting and advanced “mathemagics”. The pair first met in 1973 at a Gnostic Aquarian Festival in Minneapolis, where Oberon (then plain Tim Zell) was a keynote speaker on “Theagenesis”. They were married the following year in a pagan “handfasting” ceremony performed by Archdruid Isaac Bonewits and High Priestess Carolyn Clark. Shortly afterwards they won first prize in the “most primal” category at a fancy dress competition held at a Sci-Fi festival in Washington, DC. They lived first in St Louis, where Morning Glory studied Wicca, eclectic shamanism and Goddess history, and helped to produce and edit the neopagan magazine Green Egg. She was ordained a priestess in the Church of All Worlds, which her husband had founded in 1962. The Zells (they added “Ravenheart” later on) spent much of their early life together on the move, travelling around in a converted school bus which they named “The Scarlet Succubus”, before moving to a hippie commune in Northern California. They lived there for eight years, among other things raising “unicorns” by carrying out minor surgery on the horn buds of goats — a procedure which they attempted to patent. (more at link)
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I heard the Mormons own Ancestry.com - that they're facinated by knowing, and cataloging info on every person they can. I want to join, but don't want to give any $ to such an anti-gay company, or organization. Anyone know the true story?
He seems to be quite forgotten, and doesn't get any credit for being one of the first gay American actors to come out - and as a former Disney star, no less. The fact that his sexuality was arguably one of the reasons why he was fired would only add to his potential gay icon status. Yet while, say, George Takei (who came out very late in life) is ubiquitious, Kirk has an extremely low profile. Do you think it's because his sexual history is too controversial, so today's PC gays would rather pretend he doesn't exist (or is it just a matter of personality)?
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Looking at some of his movies, both animated and live-action makes me think so. There's no shortage of beefcake and gay-coded moments, and heterosexuality is depicted in the most chaste manner possible. Hell, "Someday My Prince Will Come" is a gay man's fantasy in song.
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Bodybuilder and bimbo girlfriend arrested after having sex on public beach in broad daylight in front of dozens. Grandma takes video of them, which gets them arrested.
his hotness is safe on the ground
Dustin Lance Black just had to make an emergency landing on a Virgin Atlantic flight in Russia
The "Finding Nemo" one is bril.
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I do. I really try to only leave once a week for groceries. I hate being around people. Sometimes I'll go a day or two without things I need just because I don't want to leave my house. Also, if someone knocks on my door I get instantly stressed and go stand in my bathroom until they go away. I'm 25, in good shape. I do workout and way healthy. It's not like Im ashamed to be seen. I think I'm just a crazy person right?
Who would be her equivalent today?
President Barack Obama says he supports statehood for the nation's capital. Obama was asked Monday about the prospect of the District of Columbia becoming the 51st state during a town hall at a city school. The president said, "I'm for it," adding that he has been "for quite some time." Obama added that: "The politics of it end up being difficult to get through Congress, but I think it's absolutely the right thing to do." Obama has previously spoken in favor of giving the District voting representation in Congress, and the White House has consistently supported giving the local government full control of the city's budget and laws. Following his re-election in 2012, Obama added District license plates with the phrase "Taxation Without Representation" to his official vehicles.
Even a lack of cabbage whites this year. Last year was a disaster for monarchs and swallowtails.
Martha Stewart minion (shown here manipulating butt with some big guy to make a big sausage...but I assure you it's SFW). Who`s had him?
- When I realized Mexico wasn't part of the United States! (hey, I was Kevin!) - Realizing that vampire bats were real - in 10th grade I went to school with a piece of snickers melted on the back of my shorts and everyone I know from high school calls me Shitstain even my mom
...to pound my boygina mercylessly. Is that wrong?
I'm the bitchy blonde with the big tits who has the best death scene.
"Sometimes, all you can do is rely on your faith in God to guide you. That's what Roeland Park City Council member Marek Gliniecki did last night, when the long-debated ordinance to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the group of classes protected by the Kansas municipality's anti-discrimination law at last saw a council vote. From the Prairie Village Post: In an emotional statement, Gliniecki quoted into the record excerpts from a church document related to legislative proposals on the “non-discrimination of homosexual persons.” That document read in part that “the intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action and in law.” So he voted to respect the intrinsic dignity of gay persons, right? WRONG. It turns out that Gliniecki's Catholic sky god actually wanted him to oppose the ordinance that would respect the intrinsic dignity of gay persons. There were other council members who felt the same way: Mel Croston, Michael Rhodes and Sheri McNeil. Another council member, Becky Fast, did not turn up to cast a vote. In Roeland Park, there are eight council members. Mayor Joel Marquardt votes in the event of a tie. But since Fast didn't show, the four votes were all that the opposition needed to beat the ordinance-supporting votes, cast by Jennifer Gunby, Megan England and Teresa Kelly. Ordinance defeated, 4-3. At its core, the ordinance was asking a simple question of the council: Do you believe that the LGBT community deserves the same rights as everybody else in this country? If so, vote for the ordinance. If not, vote against it. But it turned out to not be so simple. The council spent four months giving air time to religious people concerned that its passage would violate their First Amendment rights, despite the fact that the voted-on version included an exemption for religious organizations. In the end, the vague concerns of religious bigots were deemed more important than protecting an entire class of people from discrimination. Ironically, the vote fell on the same day that President Obama signed into law an executive order protecting all federal employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity — an order that does not include exemptions for religious entities. "We're on the right side of history," Obama said. " The contact information links for the ones who voted against this ore in the original story linked here. Tell them what you think.
City Council Votes: Gays Don't Deserve Equal rights in Roeland Park, Kansas
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The episode is called "Perky's Visit". Just re-watched it on Logo TV. Julia and Suzanne's mother visits for Thanksgiving and Anthony is suspected of murder (subsequently exonerated; the gay partner did it instead. Ugh). How must Meschach Taylor have felt to act in that episode? I guess Linda Bloodworth-Thomason had good intentions, but it just comes off as "let's all blame the ex-con n***er for the murder since who else could have done it?". Ugh, just ugh. Just really offensive. I'm just queasy now.
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I always paid cash for shitty old jalopies. Now I want a new car like a real grown up. Any advice? I can only put 5K down. Do I get a bank loan for the rest or do the loan through the dealership? I make 65K, have been at my job for 6 years and my credit score is so-so. Also, I am not a wheeler dealer type. How do I make sure I don't get a crappy deal? Any help is appreciated.
“Maleficent” will cross $600 million at the global box office Wednesday, becoming the fourth film of the year to hit that mark. The Walt Disney Studios release is now in its fifth week of release, and has made $205 million domestically and $400 million internationally, making it the biggest live-action hit of Angelina Jolie’s career. Other films that have crossed the $600 million barrier in 2014 include “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ and “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” “Maleficent” is the 20th Disney film to pass $600 million globally. The re-imagining of “Sleeping Beauty” is out in most major foreign markets, including China where it has grossed roughly $40 million. It opens this weekend in Japan, which marks its final international engagement.
Article from Salon today. The most interesting statement in the article is this one: "If there is fire to be found in this great cloud of gay smoke, it would be remarkable. The guy’s been A-list famous since 1983, and there has been no public evidence at all, none, to support the rumors." I've been saying this for years on the DL, to much disdain from fellow DLers. In my view, it is just not plausible that a mega-watt star like TC could be so famous for so long, engage in gay-sex seeking activities, and yet not a shred of evidence can confirm it (or even hint at it). Moreover, the rumor that he is gay seems to exist in a vacuum. It comes out of thin air from people who have just decided he must be gay (and that it's just so obvious), rather than from specific instances of TC being caught or observed in gay-sex seeking behaviors. TC is weird enough on his own from what we are able to observe publicly. Why we need to invent a closet for him to live in is beyond me.
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I have two straight friends who''ve confessed to getting oral sex from men but say they were freaked out about the idea of reciprocating or, worse, taking it up the ass.\ \ On the other hand, I have another "straight" friend who only wants to get fucked - absolutely nothing else - when he hooks up with a guy. He just loves to have his ass opened up and his girlfriend isn''t into it using toys, etc..\ \ Anyone else know similar guys?
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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Here is the rule of the Internet: If you combine two bizarre, viral things, you are going to get something even more bizarre and viral. In this case, it's hipster beards and flower crowns. Although hipster beards may have peaked and flower crowns may have withered away during the polar vortex, the two trends have come together to unleash an unstoppable new style for meme hairy hipster dudes everywhere: flower beards. That's right: Bearded men across the country are taking advantage of the good weather to pick some flowers to adorn their faces. The combined effect is, shall we say, peak hipster.
Here is where we talk about experiences we''ve had with rock bands or musicians in general.\ \ I''ll begin.\ \ Ben Folds is about 4 feet tall and was wearing bright purple corduroys when I met him. His GF/handler was about 45 and peroxide blonde.\ \ Lou Reed is so aloof and rude. Just horrid.\ \ Rolling Stones were the second-nicest band I have ever met. Down to earth and polite and took time to sign autographs and give away free booze from their backstage suite!\ \ Followed closely by BON JOVI. Lame but they were probably the nicest band I have ever met. Genuine as hell.
New series about a ship in a world where an epidemic has swept the world killing almost everyone. Anyone going to watch it?
Not necessarily the most fabulous, or the best-designed, but iconic - pretty much instantly recognizable by anyone as being associated with the film and with a particular cultural moment. In fact, you just describe it and people know what you're talking about (but pictures are appreciated). I'll start: - Audrey Hepburn's little black dress in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Cinderella's ballgown in Disney's "Cinderella" - Marilyn Monroe's white "subway" dress in "The Seven Year Itch" - Julia Roberts' red dress and ruby heart necklace in "Pretty Woman" - And a more cultish film, but Cher's / Alicia Silverstone's yellow plaid outfit in "Clueless" - this one's getting renewed attention because of Iggy Azalea's video for "Fancy".
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The U.S. has really become a vile and ugly place. Observing what is happening with the immigrant children, people advocating violence against them...the frenzied hatred against Obama and his family and all Dems and liberals, for that matter...the police brutality against citizens (and animals...anyone been reading about how many pets have been shot by the cops in their own backyards lately?)...it just goes on and on. Sure, there are still a lot of decent people here, but it sure appears that the lunatics have succeeded in taking over the asylum. Have never seen it this bad, ever.
Sporadically when I touch the keyboard, the screen jumps up and down for five or six seconds. Anyone know the cause and how it can be fixed? I don't want to buy a new one.
Oh God, she's still a delusional mess! In a new interview with the San Francisco Examiner, Jackson talks about his upcoming part in Ryan Murphy’s HBO pilot about open relationships. Jackson, himself in sober recovery, will play a meth addict. Teasing the new HBO show, the actor, who has already appeared nude onstage, admits he has no caveats when it comes to getting naked for his HBO role "only" if it’s “germane to the story.” In September, Jackson filed for divorce. A month later, he publicly began dating a fellow actor. At the same time, Jackson shaved his head, grew a mustache and got Elvis Presley lyrics tattooed on his arm. The media labeled the drastic transition for the once clean-cut actor as a sign of a midlife crisis. “I have had quite a difficult and transitional year. Despite this newfound reputation as a 38-year-old bad boy, Jackson said settling down and raising a family is something he’s always wanted.“I have known I was going to be a dad as long as I can remember,” he said. Addressing the daily barrage of twitter and Instagram selfies Jackson has been posting of himself kissing his new boyfriend. Cheyenne tagged his latest selfies WeAreWellAwareHowAnnoyingWeAre
1.) Robert Downey Jr - $75 million 2.) The Rock - $52 million 3.) Bradley Cooper - $46 million 4.) Leonardo DiCaprio - $39 million 5.) Chris Hemsworth - $37 million 6.) Liam Neeson - $36 million 7.) Ben Affleck - $35 million 8.) Christian Bale - $35 million 9.) Will Smith - $32 million 10.) Mark Wahlberg - $32 million
Robert Downey Jr. Tops Forbes' List Of Top Earning Actors With $75m Take
From the New York Post: Anderson Cooper and his partner, Benjamin Maisani, will be relaxing in historic splendor in Connecticut’s affluent Litchfield County this summer. Multiple sources tell us the CNN anchor has splashed out on a massive, 10,127-square-foot Tudor revival stone mansion, called Rye House, for the mid-to-high seven figures. The tony estate — sold by Karen Shaw, a former Miss Connecticut who starred on “Dallas” and “The A Team,” and her husband, Marc — was built in 1908 and designed by Wilson Eyre, a founder of House & Garden magazine. The home includes an Olympic-sized swimming pool and tennis court, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Its 18 rooms feature original chestnut wood paneling, limestone fireplaces and a hand-carved marble staircase. There’s also a private four-bedroom guest wing. The 280-acre grounds boast Japanese pagoda trees, wisteria, magnolias, a walkway with stone pillars and a grape arbor. The Shaws, who bought the house 15 years ago and lovingly restored it, have been renting it out for $1,800 per night, sources said. Depending on which local you ask, Cooper bought the property in leafy Litchfield for anywhere between $5 million and $9 million. The anchor will be in good company: The Litchfield area has been home to Meryl Streep, “The Normal Heart” playwright Larry Kramer, Henry Kissinger, NBC Sports vet Dick Ebersol and Susan Saint James, and HBO documentary doyenne Sheila Nevins. Anderson and Maisani already own another unusual property, an 8,240-square-foot Greenwich Village firehouse they bought in 2010 for $4.3 million. In April, Cooper also listed one of two waterfront properties in Quogue for $2.99 million. In November, Cooper, who makes around $11 million a year at CNN, signed a contract extension through the 2016 presidential election. Despite being the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, Cooper recently told Howard Stern, “My mom’s made clear to me that there’s no trust fund.” Reps for Cooper did not return calls. Pics of the huge home at link.
Anderson Cooper and bf Benjamin Maisani buy GIGANTIC multi-million dollar mansion in CT.
Is this a good movie?
Should I cancel my newspaper subscriptions?
He is 35,unmarried, rarely attends public events with a girl on his arm, no hint of a girlfriend. If he is gay coming out just might help his career at this point. I also think he is very handsome.
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I picked up Margo Howard's 1980s biography of her mother, Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer), at a library sale. Some fun stuff in there: - Margo writes that her aunt Popo (who became the competing advice columnist Dear Abby) was oddly competitive with Margo when she was a child. Apparently Popo didn't like to be displaced in Eppie's attentions. - The famous Ann/Abby feud began after Eppie had been doing the Ann Landers column for several months and it became a hit in newspaper syndication. Popo went to the San Francisco Chronicle and offered herself as an Ann Landers substitute, and soon SHE was syndicated (most U.S. cities had two papers then, so she became a formidable competitor to Ann Landers). They didn't speak for years. - When Ann was scheduled to do a TV panel on "Deep Throat," she knew she was against it but didn't know what the title meant or what the movie was about. Margo had to explain it to her mother. - Several women had written the "Ann Landers" column and the paper didn't want to attach any one person to it publicly, but Eppie fought that, appearing on "What's My Line?" as Ann Landers. Becoming the brand in public made her very rich -- and indispensible; the paper couldn't fire her and hire another "Ann." - Both Ann and Abby's daughters grew up to get in the advice business. Margo wrote as "Dear Prudence" and later "Dear Margo," while Abby's daughter Jeanne started co-writing the Dear Abby column very early and eventually took it over completely. While Ann and Abby eventually reconciled, the cousins do not sound close. It's not super-gossipy, but it's light and funny.
Hasn't Will Ferrell ruined enough shitty tv series from the past?
[quote]Dinners include Barefoot Contessa Penne Pasta with 5 Cheeses, Sesame Chicken & Noodles, Beef Stew Bourguignon, Tequila Lime Chicken, Shrimp Scampi & Linguine, Creamy Chicken Stew, Pasta Carbonara with Pancetta, Garlic & Ginger Chicken, and Jambalaya. The dinners for two will retail for approximately $8.99. "Nothing tastes better than a freshly cooked dinner with great ingredients," says Ina. "Your family will think you're brilliant." Frozen jambalaya??? * fart *
All That Chat would explode. But I know someone on here can help. \ \ Question inside.
Was anyone here a fan of this show?
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The Daily Mail are up in arms... [quote]Shameful! Sky man rifles through case: Fury over reporter's insensitivity at crash site targeted by looters
What list is Gale Harold on? Is Gale Harold on the A-list or Z-list? Why does Gale Harold not have a career? Why does Gale Harold not have fans? Why does Gale Harold not have talent? Why does Gale Harold grow old? Why does Gale Harold not look like George Clooney? Why? Why!? Why!!?
Who gay on the various national teams?
On the cover of Out:
The Hotness that is Michael Sam
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Live and in the flesh (though unfortunately he was fully dressed the whole time). OMG. So sexy. That man is perfect. Wish you could've seen him too, ladies.
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I feel like I've heard a story about a star of a famous television show ordering drinks for the whole bar when she heard her former TV husband had died. Was it Vivian Vance or Natalie Schafer?
Who are some stars whose careers seem to revolve around attending events and/or appearing in magazines? Olivia Palermo Alexa Chung Courtney Stodden
Now, the only real creativity is on cable. How long will the networks be able to satisfy the drooling public with reality (cheap) programming?
... Probably. And no one is quite sure why, except that Jean Kasem seems to be behind it. [quote]The Montreal funeral home told the Canadian Press on Saturday it had no record of Kasem's remains as being at the facility or that they were supposed to arrive. [quote]There was no immediate explanation for why Kasem's remains would have gone to Montreal. Gaffney said he couldn't comment on why Kasem's wife picked Montreal.
Casey Kasem's corpse is in Montreal now
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Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristy Swanson doesn''t agree with Joss Whedon that revisiting the 1992 movie is a bad idea.\ \ In fact, the 40-year-old actress is touting for a role in Warner Brothers'' remake.\ \ "If they wanted me to be a part of it, I think that would be fantastic and that it would be a blast," she told Entertainment Weekly.\ \ Her enthusiam isn''t shared by Buffy creator Whedon, whose response to the remake announcement came via a sardonic written statement to E! Online, in which he called it "a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths."\ \ But Swanson has no such reservations, adding: "There are die-hard Joss Whedon fans who absolutely love him to death, and rightly so; he''s a brilliant man, no doubt. I love everything Buffy. I don''t care who''s doing it."\ \ Swanson''s co-star Luke Perry has so far declined to give his reaction.
Original Buffy Kristy Swanson Fishes for a Job with the Buffy Reboot
There will be a lot less Glee for Chris Colfer/Kurt fans as the Fox series enters its final season, with the original cast member’s sudden announcement that he will not be continuing with the show. “Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of GLEE,” Colfer tweeted on Thursday. “Explanations will come shortly…” Colfer had been with the show since its trumpeted May 2009 debut, and during his run has collected a Golden Globe award and a pair of Emmy nominations for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel. More to come….
I wish his ass would get capped in a driveby.
Who have been your favorites you've ever heard to perform each of the major roles? Who has been criminally underrated? Who was the worst? (I have already decreed that category is already filled for Older Buddy: the choice has to be Patinkin, hands down, given how insufferable he was.)
I fill out application after application.\ \ They supposedly want to give dogs a new home, right? Well you can''t prove it by me.\ \ This is the typical scenario:\ \ I get accepted for a particular dog.\ \ And that''s when the fun starts...\ \ "We feed only raw food and insist you do too."\ \ "We are volunteers so even though that puppy has been on our site for a week, it will take a week or two or three to get back to you." And then I never hear back from them. \ \ "The dog''s foster family decided to keep it."\ \ "Yes we have other dogs - you''re approved - just pick one" And then I do and I never hear back from them. \ \ I follow up with a call or an email and still get no response.\ \ Whats with these nutcases? Do they get off on this or what?\ \ I mean - I''ve been approved, but they won''t give me a fucking dog?
He threw gays under the bus repeatedly, later urging Kerry to do so in 2004, yet gays seem enthralled by him? That kind of compartmentalization and slobbering over him I just don't get.
Who didn't see this coming?
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He is a decent guy. He was a good Senator. Also, he is a smart, funny person. Why all the hate?
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I subscribed to this magazine about a year ago because I'd always heard it was the world's best general interest magazine -- but the never bothered to read any of the issues. As close to 30, then 40, then 50 issues piled up next to my living room couch, I started feeling guilty and terrible. Then I finally found the article -- online, natch -- that hooked me: A summary account of LBJ's ascension to the presidency following JFK's assassination. A much more fascinating story than you would expect, and a genuinely thrilling read. Now I'm grateful for all these back issues. I've been going through them and earmarking potentially interesting stories. On Sunday I will wake up and stay in bed until 2PM reading as much of them as I can before I am forced to get up. Hopefully it will rain that day, wouldn't that be perfect? Anyone have any great New Yorker articles they can recommend? I have access to their online archives.
Watching "Vicious" I wondered if the PBS bleeped words that were permitted in the original production.
General bs thread and also continuation of the Louis football thread. They are all in their 20's now, they must be growing tired of this schtick... how long until the collapse begins?
Are granite counter tops over? (Hope so) What's the best room in a house to remodel in order to maximize the home's resale value? If you could design your own home (maybe you have), what type of location would you purchase in. (city, country, suburb) What's the most important thing you can do to a home you're selling to give it more curb appeal. Are lime green and pumpkin orange suitable colors for interiors?
I'm more interested in watching someone on camera than actually turning the webcam on me. But could someone answer another question: why don't people clean their houses before they turn the webcam on? Not all of them are tweaked out.
I know about Rob Halford but I don't consider Judas Priest "hair metal." What do we know about any of those over the top 80s groups such as Poison, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Ratt, etc.
We just filled Jonathan's hole with 600 replies. Here comes Round 2!
Because it's time... Because I just saw him on Nightline reporting live, and he'll be on GMA tomorrow, so no sleep for our Davey. Will he get a room at the Empire Hotel - just for old times' sake? And speaking of trois, who would be in his menage a trois? David, Peter Jennings, and Diane Sawyer working the dildo.
First of all, Jindal (LA) and Scott (FL) are spineless assholes, and will do whatever their instincts say is right for the moment. But, they are starting a movement. A lot of southern states will follow, and soon other challenges will be afoot. Could this be the start of a major split?
For some agents, Snowden says, the racy images were one of the "fringe benefits of surveillance positions" Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor turned whistle-blower, claims that “incredibly weak” oversight of U.S. surveillance programs enabled military personnel to obtain sexually explicit photos of people under surveillance and to sometimes share them with others. In an interview with the Guardian, Snowden talked about the impact of poor auditing systems within the NSA. He claimed many people sifting through monitored communications were 18 to 22 years old and suddenly put in a position of extraordinary responsibility that was sometimes abused. “In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work, for example an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising situation but they’re extremely attractive,” said Snowden. “So what do they do? They turn around in their chair and they show a co-worker. And their co-worker says: ‘Oh, hey, that’s great. Send that to Bill down the way,’” he said. Snowden, who lives in Moscow after being granted temporary asylum last year, added that this information is never reported and nobody knows about it because of inadequate oversight. He said the interception of intimate images was “routine enough” and described it as “sort of the fringe benefits of surveillance positions.” He added, “The mere seizure of that communication by itself was an abuse. The fact that your private images, records of your private lives, records of your intimate moments have been taken from your private communication stream, from the intended recipient, and given to the government without any specific authorization, without any specific need, is itself a violation of your rights.” NSA spokeswoman Vaneé Vines gave a comment to the New York Times on the allegations. The Times paraphrased her as saying that “the agency had zero tolerance for willful violations of authority or professional standards, and that it would respond as appropriate to any credible allegations of misconduct.”
Edward Snowden's last grasp for relevance: NSA workers get jollies from sexually explicit photos
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What albums are you looking forward to? What new artists have you discovered? I'm really digging this British band that goes by the name of Arthur Beatrice. Their debut album drops Feb 24.
Huffington Post is showing photos of the actual crash site with at least one very graphic photo of the dead. It amazes me at how fast this stuff gets around the world. I'm also surprised at U.S. media increasingly showing these images, particularly so soon. What are your thoughts?
Trolls are pesky at best. The most ironic thing, they further emphasize how wrong they are. Insidious.
I am loving Last Tango in Halifax with Derek Jacoby! Even though the plotting is rather simplistic, the casting and acting is superb. However, The Paradise, which premiered last night was just the opposite. Terrible actors overacting, artificial production and costume design, melodramatic plotting. Anyone else had a look?
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This site makes Fishstick's look downright humble. Gourmet ketchup. Special spoons. Pretentious they name is Blake.
He should take over the HRC. He''s the best. Except for the overly loud program ID tags.
I'm at a complete loss to pair this up. Any help from those familiar with dish is appreciated.
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I can't see how she could say it any plainer.
Elizabeth Warren on running for president in 2016: "No means no."
It is on another message board and the fraus are having a field day debating on the issue of a poor working mom who would let her daughter spend all day at the park while she worked at McDonalds. It was in the news because someone called the police. Anyhow, there is a link to the story on the thread
Who pays for all that travel? Number 16 in a saga.
Lots and lots of balls.
Does Fausto have pec implants? Those nipples look like they're about to jump right off his chest.
What is his damage?
Is it just me or does Jennie Garth seem totally embarrassed to be a part of this show. I dont blame her but still. Bitch needs to crack a smile.
He sure is hot. He seems really smart, too.
I never read the first three....can I pick up the narrative thread easily?
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"America is full of tales waiting to be told. There are beautiful stories hiding in small towns and big cities, on suburban streets and rural roads. Great wisdom lives in the well-worked hands of aging craftspeople and in the eager words of young artisans. Our very history is whispered into the materials they use to make exquisite goods according to timeless standards of quality and care. That is the tradition we aim to preserve. How wonderful it is to discover something that has been cast aside, to pick it up and restore it to its original beauty. Maybe it’s sentimental of us, but we hold fast to memories and moments, to relics from bygone eras. Our goal is to support the America we’ve always known, and the one we haven’t yet met. We hope to achieve this in small but meaningful ways, through the stories we tell, the treasures we share and our genuine desire to give back to those with fewer opportunities but just as much heart and soul as anyone else. We believe that nurturing a better tomorrow upholds the yesterday we cherish, for all of us. [bold]Sometimes we walk proudly. Other times we stumble gracelessly. Yet we take each step with a generous measure of never-ending curiosity and wonder. We remain in awe of the folks and folkways existing around us. We want to learn about them, embrace them… preserve them.[/bold] PRESERVE is all of us, together, championing the goods, makers and legends that instill meaning inside the moments of our lives. The curios that cozy our homes, the threads that define our silhouettes, the foods that leave our bellies happy, the projects that mean everything to us—we want to share all of this with you; we know we have so much to learn from you. In our ongoing quest for knowledge, these are our PRESERVE passions…" - Blake Lively
Move over Gwyneth Paltrow – Blake Lively has launched her own website
Please share your Sasquatch encounters here.
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I am already tired of that expression. Who or what created it? Can it just go away,please.
You know what I'm sayin'
This Making Of...special is fairly interesting. Mr. Jennifer Aniston is hot.
I'm one of the nosy neighbors, because barging into somebody's house when you're not wanted is a scream.
Just fuck off, okay?
It's a vile, nasty slur. Just because a particular genre of lesbian and effeminate young gays want to use it doesn't mean the entire gay population want to be referred to as "queer". Very few black people walk around calling themselves "n*gger" nor would the media or anybody else pick up on it. In the last week alone I've noticed two straight Facebook people refer to gays and lesbians as "queer", it's like the naughty word they're getting away with saying while hiding behind a p/c acceptance of it. It's NOT empowering. How many gay men and women (and even transgendered people) do you think died or lost eyes and limbs while being called "queer" as they were being attacked or beaten to death? How many of us cringed and began to sweat as we heard our fathers or friends say it when we were growing up, terrified it would be hurled at us, which it eventually was, at least a few times? You're not making yourselves or us 'empowered' and you're not 'taking it back' from anything. You're perpetuating a nasty stereotype. We are not queer/odd/different/bizarre. Please stop allowing people to use this as a label without calling them out on it.
Bonus points go for celebs who has serious scandals that we''ve "forgotten about" or anything, really. \ \ We can even discuss Mariska. OR Miss Kate Winslet.
needs a distraction
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Which actors, athletes, celebrities set your gaydar off .... ?
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He looked fabulous even up until the 80s and Murphy's Romance because he was such a handsome, handsome man--great jaw, great face, and a great athletic body. But he looked so terrible thereafter. What happened? It's not just aging because some men still look good even beyond sixty (like Michael Caine and Harrison ford). Did he smoke, or was it alcohol, or too much time in the sun?
I love the new Acura Gulliver's Travels commercial. The way Gulliver whines about wanting to go home and then flexes his toes is so sexy. The Acura Chariot literally made him curl his toes. The giant dirty flip flop at the end is awesome too. They're going to turn this into a series of commercials. They already made a sequel. Let's hope Gulliver and his flip flops become the new Flo.
Have any of you retired and moved to another county to finish out your life? What country did you move to, and what is it like? Do you think you'll eventually move back to the US, or are you staying gone for good? I dream of doing this when I retire. I think it would be really cool. How far is your money going where you live?
Please indulge me in this pointless bitchery but it's something I thought of over the weekend. We were in New England at a big farmer's market. The quiet hum of the crowd, the birds chirping... it was really nice except, for the two guitar players. One was the cliche' white guy playing "blues" with the stereotypical growling voice and wincing face.. The other was just your garden variety guitar guy doing his own version of a Dave Matthews song. The music and the players themselves are just fine and sometimes can be lovely, but what is it about a lot of these folks who just assume everyone wants to hear their picking and screeching at everything, as if it's a real treat for 100% of the people, 100% of the time? It would be awesome sometime to just enjoy the sounds around you, especially when you're outside. There's a lot to be said for taking in the organic sites and sounds of people and their activity and the humming of a market crowd or a park and such. But it seems like at every outdoor venue, increasingly there are more and more guitar players, sometimes only a few yard apart. It's great if you want to entertain the crowd but it isn't always about YOU being on stage someplace or collecting money from people because you happen to be playing a favorite song. Is this unreasonable? Should there sometimes be public spaces where musical performances (as well as loud radios, violin players et all.) be encouraged not to take place?
You guys don''t know what you''re missing. My cooter got punished last night. It''s almost 10 and it feels like his cock is still pounding my hole. I really wish every gay man could experience that just once. I am laying in bed still luxuriating in the feeling. \ \ Its gonna be a good Sunday. Love to you all.
The President & First Lady are said to be in escrow on the palatial home with its own putting green, 3 BR guesthouse and pool with waterfall. Damn, I wanna be that rich! This place is beautiful! Guess they won't be going back to Chicago. Who can blame them?
Report: Obamas under contract for $4.25 million home in Rancho Mirage, CA
She is truly one of the best.
First Elaine, then James....who's next?
Wow, no thread yet. Vicki: "What do people in Utah eat anyways?" Eddie: "I better butch it up for this gym class." Heather: "I simply know everything!" Shannon: "You fuckin' eat when I say you fuckin' eat!" Tamra: "Fancy pants. Fancy pants. Fancy pants!!!" Brooks: "Forgive me, baby." Will Ryan lose it and murder his family? Will Tamra have Mexi babies? ...plus the return of babyfat Briana!
It starts tonight (7/13). From Guillermo del Toro and the guy who does Bate Motel. Starring Corey Stoll, the man with the biggest dildo collection I've ever seen! I'm interested. It's a vampire story that's NOT about some kind of love triangle.
So fucking hot
Im dead for one and have to have it for the weekend.
Someone mentioned Elayne Boosler. But who else among the celebs is really aging badly?
Does anyone have recommendations?
According to Popnography, Robert Downey Jr. tells Rolling Stone magazine that his rumored bisexuality was something he manufactured: "A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual. That's OK. Being relaxed about sexuality is something you're born with...[My bisexuality] was manufactured. I didn't have an identity. I was playing around. I expressed it. I grew up in the Rocky Horror Picture Show world, where even my butch friends turned out to be androgynous on Saturday nights."
Proof that he's really straight.
Run girl! RUN! At least give us a choice!
Elizabeth Warren gives speech on the 11 Commandments of Progressivism
Mayor Rob Ford is more popular with black Torontonians than the first black president is with black Americans, Councillor Doug Ford said with sincerity on Monday. “I understand — just had a call saying the black community will not be supporting Rob Ford. That is the furthest from the truth. He’s going to have more votes in the black community than President Obama,” Doug Ford said in a call to Newstalk 1010’s Humble and Fred show. “You know that, everyone else knows that.” Nobody else actually knows that. Exit polls suggest Obama got 95 per cent of black votes in the 2008 election, 93 per cent in 2012 — more than 15 million people each time. A total of 383,501 people of all races voted for Rob Ford in 2010. If only 1) Rob Ford was American 2) He instead of Romney ran against Obama he could have beaten Obama for the Presidency!
While you can thankfully find real gay characters on television, trying to find them in the movies is still basically impossible. Of the 102 releases from the big studios in 2013, only 7(!!) had a gay character who had any tie to the plot. 7 out of 102 movies released.
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July 19th on the Hallmark channel. Are we interested? I might check it out.
He has to have at least lurked here, if not posted, at least in the past. Right?
This might not be the best place to post this, but this guy has been promoting his book and I have been watching him. This is my first exposure to him, he is very effeminate and affected. \ \ Any scoop?
What am I doing wrong? I just can't seem to keep the conversation going. Please help.
On the CNN Saturday sidewalk coverage of Anthony Weiner Jason is packing!
It's the 20th anniversary of EROTICA, and that for me was exactly when I realized she was just ridiculous and a famewhore. I've liked some of the things she's done since then (particularly "Ray of Light," one of her all-time best songs), but I've just not respected her generally for twenty years.
We haven't had one of these threads in a while. Yea, they're fake but still fun if done well. I'll get us started with a pic of Michael Phelps.
Who was your favorite English songbird and why?
Premieres Sunday July 13. Caroline, Kathy, and Jacqueline are out. Dina is back along with 2 new women.
Danny Aiello had never heard of Madonna before he was asked to play her father in the songstress's "Papa Don't Preach" video. So why did he do it? He was persuaded to be part of the mid-80s project by his daughter, who now can't stand the diva. "You know, that came about in a very strange way," Danny explains. "I had no idea who [Madonna] was, so I said to [daughter] Stacey in passing, 'They want me to do this music video with this girl named Madonna.'She said, 'Dad, Dad, you have to.' I went back and said I'll do it if my daughter is permitted on the set taking pictures with Madonna. ... Madonna sort of backed up and told her representative that I don't do that. My daughter has hated her ever since. ... I'm a movie actor doing this piece of crap!" Now Danny is making music himself -- jazz, but not of the traditional variety. He says he's an actor who interprets lyrics rather than calling himself a singer. "[My album] was dedicated to my son. Unfortunately, I lost [him] a year ago in May. He was a very special young man," Danny tells me. "It was pancreatic cancer. I have elected to do PSAs [public service announcements], and they have been so sensational. ... It's just devastating." To catch my entire interview, check out "Naughty But With Rob" on HDNet Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Danny Aiello: Madonna's 'Papa Don't Preach' Video Was 'Crap'
Never mind your personal favorites and who you have a fondness for. Who are the actresses who have caught the imagination of audiences and the business, affected how other actresses look at their acting, and spun imitators? I say, for starters (and I don't even much like some of them): Faye Dunaway Julie Christie Julia Roberts Jodie Foster Who else? (In the period immediately before this, and into this period, too, there also were Audrey Hepburn - enormously influential - and Liz Taylor, among others.)
I am just about caught up on House of Cards and OITNB. I watch MadMen and loved The Tudors. What other drama series that stream on Netflix would you recommend I start next? ThAnks in advance.
Discuss World Cup eye candy and other matters here.
If you ever happen to come across a Republican on television these days, chances are that you will hear the name Ronald Reagan. Recent Republican debates are the perfect example of the love fest that the current Republican party has for Reagan as each candidate name drops the former president at every turn. If you only listened to conservatives you would think that Jesus Christ was the only person above Reagan on the totem pole of conservative love. They talk about his love of low taxes, less government and conservative family values. The problem is that when you step out of the conservative dream and come back to reality, you find that not only was Ronald Reagan a bad president, but he was one of the worst presidents we've seen in modern times. Reagan's policies have destroyed the United States for three decades, and for the eight years he was in office, here are eight reasons why Ronald Reagan was the worst president of our lifetime. 1. Reagan cut taxes for the Rich, increased taxes on the Middle Class - Ronald Reagan is loved by conservatives and was loved by big business throughout his presidency and there's a reason for it. When Reagan came into office in January of 1981, the top tax rate was 70%, but when he left office in 1989 the top tax rate was down to only 28%. As Reagan gave the breaks to all his rich friends, there was a lack of revenue coming into the federal government. In order to bring money back into the government, Reagan was forced to raise taxes eleven times throughout his time in office. One example was when he signed into law the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. Reagan raised taxes seven of the eight years he was in office and the tax increases were felt hardest by the lower and middle class. 2. Tripling the National Debt - As Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, the government was left with less money to spend. When Reagan came into office the national debt was $900 billion, by the time he left the national debt had tripled to $2.8 trillion. 3. Iran/Contra - In 1986, a group of Americans were being held hostage by a terrorist group with ties to Iran. In an attempt to free the hostages, Ronald Reagan secretly sold arms and money to Iran. Much of the money that was received from the trade went to fund the Nicaragua Contra rebels who were in a war with the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. When the scandal broke in the Untied States it became the biggest story in the country, Reagan tried to down play what happened, but never fully recovered. 4. Reagan funded Terrorists - The attacks on 9/11 by al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden brought new attention to international terrorism. All of a sudden, Americans coast to coast wore their American flag pins, ate their freedom fries and couldn't wait to go to war with anyone who looked like a Muslim. What Americans didn't realize was that the same group that attacked the United States on 9/11 was funded by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Prepping for a possible war with the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan spent billions of dollars funding the Islamist mujahidin Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan. With billions of American dollars, weapons and training coming their way, the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden took everything they were given and gave it back to the United States over a decade later in the worst possible way imaginable. 5. Unemployment issues - When Ronald Reagan came into office 1981, unemployment was at 7.5%. After Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, he began raising taxes on the middle and lower class. Corporations started to ship more jobs out of the United States while hiring cheap foreign labor in order to make a bigger profit. While corporations made billions, Americans across the country lost their jobs. As 1982 came to a close, unemployment was nearly 11%. Unemployment began to drop as the years went on, but the jobs that were created were low paying and barely helped people make ends meet. The middle and lower class had their wages nearly frozen as the top earners saw dramatic increases in salary. 6. Ignoring AIDS - By the time the 1980s came around, AIDS had become one of the most frightening things to happen to the country in recent memory. No one understood what AIDS and HIV really was and when people don't understand something, they become scared of it. The fear of the unknown was sweeping across the country and Americans needed a leader to speak out about this horrible virus, that leader never came. Instead of grabbing the bull by the horns and taking charge, Reagan kept quiet. Reagan couldn't say the words AIDS or HIV until seven years into his presidency, a leader not so much. 7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million Undocumented Immigrants - In today's GOP, the idea of any immigrant staying in the United States whether they are legal or illegal isn't something that conservatives embrace. What might shock them is that in 1982 Ronald Reagan gave nearly 3 million undocumented workers amnesty. The biggest reason for undocumented workers coming to the United States is because corporations hire them at a cheaper rate than they would an American citizen. All the laws that would have cracked down on companies who hire undocumented workers were, of course, removed from the bill. 8. His attack on Unions and the Middle Class - The Republican war on unions and the middle class has been heating up in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, but it has been going on for a long time. Unions are formed to give a united voice to the workers in an attempt to create fairness between the corporations and their employees. On August 3rd, 1981, PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) went on strike in an effort to get better pay and safer working conditions. Two days later, taking the side of business, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 workers for not returning to work.
8 reasons why Ronald Reagan was the worst president of our lifetime
Will most if not all politicians be voted out? Lets hope so especially the lifers that wield way too much power.
In preparation for spring training and the 2014 MLB season. ----- 2014 HOF Maddux, Glavine, Thomas elected to Hall of Fame Braves pitchers, White Sox slugger make it on first ballot; Biggio falls just shy
I can already predict the results of the internal investigation: no one did anything illegal, because municipal police in the US are never found guilty of anything ever in internal investigations. Why do they even bother having them?
Reported today by TMZ. Guy's gotta have nice hands.
I mean I have a couple pets I love, but that's as close as I want to get to being some caretaker-for-life. Sometimes I feel like a heartless narcissist. Could someone please explain the joy of procreating?
TIA
Since the other threads are closed, here's a new one!
This comes from his blog: "As an Escort, I have been hired by 10 Movie stars(A list ones), 6 well known Movie stars(D list ones), 15 TV stars(from shows, E.R., The Pretender, Heroes, Lost, Wings, 24, Weeds, bah bah bah)4 Reality TV stars, 3 Pro Basketball players, 2 Football players, 3 Baseball players, 5 Musicians(2 were Grammy winners, 1 won American Music Award) 100's of Husbands cheating on Wives, Doctors, Lawyers, Policemen, the list goes on and on...." Anyone care to guess?
Believe it or not, people with this affliction, at their very core, are the inverse of the narcissist. People with BPD start out 'too sensitive', too empathetic. People with borderline personality disorder empathize to the point of pain. When the highly sensitive person grows up in a very non-validating and/or abusive environment, with a history of trauma, BPD can manifest. In order for borderline personality to develop, an invalidating environment with and a highly sensitive person MUST BE present. What is going on in a Borderline Personality Disorder sufferer's mind and how they are acting can be two entirely different things. To the sufferer, BPD is about deep feelings, feelings often too difficult to express, feelings that are something along the lines of this : If others really get to know me, they will find me rejectable and will not be able to love me; and they will leave me; I need to have complete control of my feelings otherwise things go completely wrong; I have to adapt my needs to other people's wishes, otherwise they will leave me or attack me; I am an evil person and I need to be punished for it; Other people are evil and abuse you; If someone fails to keep a promise, that person can no longer be trusted; If I trust someone, I run a great risk of getting hurt or disappointed; If you comply with someone's request, you run the risk of losing yourself; If you refuse someone's request, you run the risk of losing that person; I will always be alone; I can't manage by myself, I need someone I can fall back on; There is no one who really cares about me, who will be available to help me, and whom I can fall back on; I don't really know what I want; I will never get what I want; I'm powerless and vulnerable and I can't protect myself;. I have no control of myself; I can't discipline myself; My feelings and opinions are unfounded; Other people are not willing or helpful. To the family members, BPD behavior is often very frustrating can feel unfair and punitive - something like this: You have been viewed as overly good and then overly bad; You have been the focus of unprovoked anger or hurtful actions, alternating with periods when the family member acts perfectly normal and very loving; Things that you have said or done have been twisted and used against you; You are accused of things you never did or said? You often find yourself defending and justifying your intentions; You find yourself concealing what you think or feel because you are not heard; You feel manipulated, controlled, and sometimes lied to.
For those who like mature men. He has done tons of episodic TV from Criminal Minds to Desperate Housewives to NYPD Blue to Law & Order to Grey's Anatomy just to name a few. But see him NUDE He could have a new career as a mature gay porn star!
Would have been 76 years old today.
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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?
On Monday, during a luncheon for East Coast voters, Liza Minnelli made an unexpected, rousing endorsement of the film. "I have nothing to do with this film except that I am a fan of how it was done, of the insight and the way they played these characters. And the fact that you were watching something that wasn't necessarily comfortable but you could not stop watching. It drew you in, whether you wanted it to or not, and that's magic. That's magic. I mean, the last one [that did that for me] was On the Waterfront! You, crazy Matthew, losing all of that weight -- it's one thing to lose all of that weight and to look like that -- that's harrowing enough -- but then to run like you did, with a body like that? And Jared, I mean, everything that you did -- all of the placements, every single second -- I felt wonderful for you, proud of you and sorry for you all at the same time, which I think one only feels for your friends. And Jennifer [Garner] was great -- she was just f---ing great! I don't know what else to say. I haven't seen a movie like that in so long, and I'm so proud to be able to tell everybody." The Hollywood Reporter reports that the remarks came before lunch was served, and she ended with an offer of her own for the film's star, Matthew McConaughey: "And honey, if you don't win the Academy Award, I'm giving you mine!"
Have you used one in the last ten years or so?
See link below! Too bad they didn't make the movie.
Goldie Hawn as Roxie Hart & Liza Minnelli as Velma Kelly is CHICAGO! All That Jazz!
For years he was the meanest film and (especially) theater critic in New York, obsessing in his reviews about how physically unattractive actors were (especially Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, and Wallace Shawn). It was incredibly amusing to read this unrestrained bitchiness, but it did seem very unprofessional.\ \ Why did New York magazine let him get away with being so nasty?
Get it, girl!
Has anyone else noticed this lately? I'm a bit of a commercial hound and love critiquing and studying advertisements and this trend makes me curious. In so many television ads, from cable companies to drug makers to appliance manufacturers: the home is often a gauzy white, with random light blue accents. The very white 'modern' by unoffending kitchen with a blue vase in the distance, a matching napkin folded on a table... or a living room, same white, with blue furniture, light blue walls, all of it slightly out of focus. Are these colors supposed to be appealing to the eye or are we somehow supposed to block them out while our attention is more focused on actor?
My total is, of course, approximate. But I don't think it's very far off.
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I got an age spot just looking at it. Of COURSE it would be full of women. Seems like a tiny group for an area as large as Jacksonville.
Dress shirts, t-shirts, wifebeaters, jackets, whatever. For the nitpickers, don't shit over someone's post if you don't happen to like it for whatever reason. Just move on! Other than that, let the hotness begin!
She really is doing her darndest to reenact her own version of "Dolls."
"Matthew Paetz is NOT a fag, and I'm the dame that can prove it!" vows Lea Michele
What sayeth the Datalounge?
Actor/model Aaron O'Connell posts provocative photo of his tit muscle on Instagram
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Have the colors in women's clothing always been this limited? I just finished a convention, and it seemed that every woman was wearing some combination of four colors- aqua, lime green, yellow, and salmon pink. It was like a chorus from a musical comedy circa 1940.
.. and other dissatisfied fans. Haha, after being burned by all the queer baiting in Supernatural I'm enjoying this: [bold]The CW's attempt to engage 'Supernatural' fans on Twitter backfired[/bold] It might be summer, but the CW, the network responsible for some of the biggest fandoms around, including Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, isn't taking a break. In fact, this week on Twitter, CW executives, or at least the people who run their social media accounts, have been getting thoroughly schooled in the ways of fandom and social media—and the dangers of inviting fans to talk back. On Tuesday, the network launched a series of Twitter hashtags for various shows, inviting fans to submit questions to be answered by the casts and crews at San Diego Comic Con. After a deluge of responses, the network eventually deleted all but two of the open requests: #AskTheFlash and #AskArrow. Among the hashtags whose official announcements were deleted are #AskTVD, #AskTheOriginals, and #AskSupernatural. Particularly in the case of Supernatural, the CW's ploy backfired; thousands of fans who were angry and upset with the network deluged the #AskSupernatural hashtag for days with snark, challenges, and critical questions, which seemed to far outnumber more innocent questions about the show's narrative. So many fans joined in that #AskSupernatural trended worldwide on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday, and shows no sign of stopping today. Numerous fans compared it to the equally ill-fated #AskRobinThicke. The vast majority of SPN fans joined in to criticize the show's oft-noted ongoing issues: cyclical plots, problematic tropes, and above all the sustained refusal to give Dean and Castiel, or "Destiel," an explicitly acknowledged romance. ... #AskSupernatural [italic]How do you write two characters in classic romantic tropes and then declare NO HOMO?[/italic] #AskSupernatural [italic]There has been 3 bestiality references in supernatural that I've managed to catch. Would a kiss between 2 men really hurt?[/italic] #AskSupernatural [italic]Do you believe bisexual Dean would ruin the show? How would you explain that to queer viewers?[/italic]
CW's #AskSupernatural twitter campaign brought to halt by Destiel fandom
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last wish was that his kids wouldn’t grow up to be spoiled brats. The Oscar winner, who died of a drug overdose in February at age 46, repeatedly rejected his accountant’s suggestion that he set aside money for his son and two daughters, because he “did not want his children to be considered ‘trust fund’ kids,” court documents reveal. Attorney James Cahill Jr. — appointed by a court to protect the interests of Hoffman’s children, Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5, in his estate proceeding — recently interviewed the actor’s accountant, David Friedman. Friedman “recalled conversations with [Hoffman] in the year before his demise where the topic of a trust was raised for the kids and summarily rejected by him,” Cahill says in the Manhattan Surrogate’s Court filing. Instead, Hoffman wanted his estimated $35 million fortune to go directly to his longtime girlfriend, Mimi O’Donnell, the kids’ mother. Hoffman said he believed she would “take care of the children,” Friedman recalled, according to the filing. “Friedman also advised that he observed Hoffman treating his partner/girlfriend . . . in the same manner as if she were a spouse,” Cahill reported in the July 18 filing. Hoffman told the accountant he “simply did not believe in marriage.” O’Donnell, a costume designer, had “substantial” joint bank accounts with Hoffman, whom she met in 1999 working on a play at the Off-Broadway Labyrinth Theater Company. “The size and nature of the jointly held assets support the position that [Hoffman] regarded [O’Donnell] as the natural object of his bounty,” Cahill says in court papers. O’Donnell had reportedly kicked Hoffman out of their $4.2 million Jane Street apartment before he died because of his drug addiction. But Cahill said that because there is nothing suspicious about the actor’s will, it should be approved by the court. Hoffman’s other concern was where his kids would be raised. He included in his will an unusual request that his son grow up in one of three cultural hubs. “It is my strong desire [that] my son, Cooper Hoffman, be raised and reside in or near the borough of Manhattan [or] Chicago, Illinois, or San Francisco, California,” he said in the will. It was written in 2004 before the births of his two daughters. “The purpose of this request is so that my son will be exposed to the culture, arts and architecture that such cities offer,” the Broadway and Hollywood star wrote. Hoffman’s latest film, “A Most Wanted Man,” opened in theaters on July 18.
It must be a day ending in Y.
Oh look, Mark Consuelos is on vacation again with a group composed of almost entirely gay men
And thanks to the Internet, Twitter etc. I can basically stalk him every day. I have found his address, his mother's name and all sorts of personal details which means I'm getting sucked in deeper and deeper. How can I stop myself? Help!
They were roughly of the same time. Which do you prefer, and why?
Sad.
Damn, what happened to him is really horrible. He was a brilliant man.
“I’m going to push back a little on that," Farrow interjected. "We’ve had Palestinian voices on our air.” “Maybe for 30 seconds, and then you have twenty-five minutes for Bibi Netanyahu, and half an hour for Naftali Bennett," Jebreal countered, referring to Israel's prime minister and minister of the economy, respectively. Video:
MSNBC Contributor Accuses Network Of 'Biased' Coverage Toward Israel
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How is she on gay rights?
"And yeah, if the Vikings want to play dirty, we can talk about ALL sorts of stuff... Oooh, shall we talk about the time two very well known Vikings players were caught in a compromising situation with an underage girl?... Bet you didn't hear about that one in the news. We can do this all day, Vikings. Special teams hears *everything*... But we'll save all that for the trial. It'll be more fun that way."
Chris Kluwe Goes on Twitter Rampage After Vikings Slime Him with Sandusky Joke
From his pearl-clutching review of the new Harper Lee bio: "'The Mockingbird Next Door' conjured mostly sad images in my mind. Ms. Lee has a regular booth at McDonald's, where she goes for coffee. She eats takeout salads from Burger King on movie night. When she fishes, she uses wieners for bait. She feeds the town ducks daily, with seed corn from a plastic Cool Whip Free container, calling 'Woo-hoo-HOO! Woo-hoo-HOO!' Somehow learning all this is worse than it would be to learn that she steals money from a local orphanage."
NY Times Book Critic Dwight Garner Must be a Datalounger
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Mine: Men in glasses. Link is NSFW.
A friend of mine just got back from the Lake Como region, where she said her Italian friends all swear up and down that not only does everyone in the area know that George Clooney is gay (despite the engagement), but that he's had an affair for years with some sort of male psychiatrist or psychologist who practices in Florence. Have any of you heard about this before?
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Some comments in another thread made me want to post this…someone talked about a guy who gets super hard right before cumming. It reminded me of a guy I blew whose cock would bend a little right before he fired his load… What's a hot thing a guy has said, or done, or a hot physical response from a guy that you've experienced just as he's about to blow?
Literally.
Multimillionaire says "Eh, piss on you!"
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[quote]Vulture: Did you ever get a chance to talk to or bond with Luke Grimes when he was playing James, before they switched off? Ellis: I didn’t, but I’m completely… I mean, I can say I’m not going to make a comment, but I just think that, you’re an actor, you’re an actor on a show that’s True Blood, we’re all sitting there going, “You quit your job because … really?” I’m just… I’m over him. You quit your job because you don’t want to play a gay part? As if it’s… You know what? I’m going to stop talking. [quote]Vulture: That’s okay. I get what you’re saying. If you’re going to be on True Blood, you have to be open to a lot of experiences. Ellis: You have to be open. But more importantly, you make a statement when you do something like that. I did a documentary called Damn Wonderful, about gay suicide, and you make a statement, a big statement, when you go, “I don’t want to play this part because it’s gay.” If you have a child, if you have a son, and he comes out as gay, what are you going to do? If you have a daughter who comes out gay…? You just made a statement, and it has ripple effects. First of all, this show, it’s True Blood, and shit, we get scared when we read scripts! Excuse my language. When scripts come, we’re like, “What are they going to have us do this week?” But when you make a statement that is a judgment… I was kind of like, “Have you met Alan Ball?” I’m supposed to do what my boss tells me to do, as an actor. I can’t approach a character with judgment. I certainly can’t tell my boss, “I can act what I want to act, but not what you tell me to act,” especially on a show where you come in, knowing what it is. I was like, “Okay… I guess?” I just thought that, having just done the documentary, I didn’t like what he did because he made a statement, and sometimes you have to take responsibility. [quote]Vulture: Is it safe to say he won’t be invited back for the True Blood musical? Ellis: [Laughs.] I don’t think he’ll be invited back to HBO.
Nelsan Ellis confirms True Blood's Luke Grimes was an immature homophobe
He had a cute babay too!
Continuing the tradition!
Fabulous show! Just saw them in Los Angeles. Adam Lambert is perfect as a stand-in for Freddie Mercury. He twirled, strutted and preened like Cher imitating Liza Minnelli. He worked the runway like Naomi Campbell circa 1995. And he sang/screamed the sh*t out of those songs. Queen performed all of their best-known songs. There were even very nice Freddie Mercury visuals throughout the show, including Adam and Freddie duetting part of "Bohemian Rhapsody." Crowd was 60% for Queen and 40% for Adam and everyone left happy. It was the absolute opposite of the train wreck that you vicious DL b*tches predicted.
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Well, duh! Here's the link to an abstract of the actual study.
Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction, Study Finds
First Andy Schleck, after a fall. Then Chris Froone, after a series of falls. Two minutes ago, the third Tour de France winner just abandoned the race after a nasty fall. Contador, gone. If there were any other previous winners left in the race I'd say girl, you jn danger.
This thread replaces the earlier one where the links did not work for some people. I have switched the photos to a different hosting site. Oh, and to answer another question, the reason I started a separate thread is because these are all Israeli men - so I thought they could have their own special thread separate from the other men & soldiers etc. #1 - Naked Israeli ass in front of a gorgeous lake
I think they are hot! Especially holding on to the guy driving. I had no idea how erotic it is.
What the fuck is the matter with people ?
N.M. Teens Fatally Beat Several Homeless
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I saw the WEHT Danny Sommers thread, and suddenly remembered the Danny I wanted!\ \ Danny Brown. (American and French porn, including Le Main au Feu).\ \ And so I looked him up...\ \ Anyone remember him?\ \ Amusingly, his updated site says he is 30. Hmmm...
I'm moving to a new place and am shopping for a new mattress. Holy cow, there are so many choices and they're all so expensive. I don't want to drop 5 grand on a mattress. Is memory foam better than a regular mattress? Is it like sleeping on a giant sponge? I heard it gets hot and you can't sit on the edge. How is fucking on a memory foam? Do you just sink in since there are no springs to give it any pushback?
His handle is Twink69. I've been following him for about a week and it's like a train wreck...I can't stop watching. He admits in his bio that he has some physical challenges that limit him from doing some things. He also claims he is 18, but then later says he is 25 or 30 years old. He claims he has been living with a 78 year old man who picked him up online when he was only 10. Not to be mean or anything, but it's apparent after watching awhile that he has challenges other than physical ones. He has a big dick, but half the time he hides it under his low hangers so that it appears he doesn't have one and claims to viewers that he doesn't have a dick. He will stick his dick into his asshole as well to hide it. He also owns a very large dildo that he lays on his stomach to get people to think it's really his. The weird thing is, no one has ever seen his dick hard before. It is always flaccid, no matter what. Viewers get very angry with him for doing this and lying. He is online right now.
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can you sign a waiver or something so that the hospital will release you on your own?\ \ I want to have a procedure, but I don''t want anyone else to know about it. \ \ Thanks for the help and info.
There's a debate over it in astrological communities and online sources have switched between the two. I say Aquarius rising since that puts her sun in the 7th house and Saturn in the 10th--thereby explaining her tendency to partner with people to build her image and her obsession with her career. Virgo rising would put her moon in the 1st house, which I just don't see.
What do we know about him? Big cock?
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 just saw his segment on CNN , Any info , Gay ,straight ,Bi ? His biracial and a total hottie .
Damn, if Lifetime is good enough for Whitney Houston, why not Aaliyah? Her family has notoriously shut down any posthumous music or projects, yet they are holding out for her to have a major motion picture. Gurl, I love Aaliyah, but after a while nobody is going to care. Her family needs to get over themselves.
Best written comedy on TV, though in a weird way it could be funnier. The interplay between Selina and her poor neglected unloved daughter tonight was terrific.
As requested here is a new gym sex thread...
Pick one.
The BF and I are going there for a few days this summer, visiting with an eye to possibly moving there. What can you bitches tell me about the city and its neighborhoods? I know there's a project underway to expand mass transit, and it's going to a few neighborhoods. Where should we visit? Where should we look for houses (especially nice midcentury-ish places and not McMansiony monstrosities)? What should we avoid? TIA.
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I was 8 years old and we watched it in a rented house in Los Angeles on my family's first trip to California.
The first time man walked on the moon: July 20, 1969 - 45 years ago today.
Montage of the late British actor Nicholas Clay displaying his big butt. From 'Evil Under the Sun' :
Not who you want to have it, but rather who you think will win it.
They haven't been very successful have they? Hard Candy gyms, parfums.... I mean JLo she ain't.
This Craigslist ad is worth looking at for the pictures alone. And in case you were only born yesterday . . . NSFW.
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Any stories about him? He seems like an arrogant little fucker on This American Life. I wonder how he is away from radio.
The F/X series Fargo has been officially renewed for a second season, which is no surprise. However, it will continue with different characters, different cast and a different time period. Not sure how they're going to do this.. Perhaps sometimes, just sometimes, things are best left at one season.
Fargo set for a second season - Characters and actors will NOT continue with the series
The idea that Mitt Romney may run for president again in 2016 is getting closer to becoming a reality as a Vox Populi Poll found that 70% of Republican primary voters are open to voting again for Romney. Republican primary voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina were asked if they would consider voting for Romney again for their party’s nomination in 2016. Twenty-three percent of South Carolina primary voters would vote for Mitt Romney again, and 51% would consider it. In New Hampshire, 30% would definitely vote for him, and 47% would consider it. In Iowa, 21% would definitely vote for him, and 53% would consider it. The numbers in each state suggest that Romney already has enough support to win two or maybe all three of the first three primary states on the Republican calendar. Romney’s support has stayed fairly consistent with his 2012 performance. In 2012, Romney got 25% of the caucus vote in Iowa. Today, he is at 21% in the state. Romney got 39% of the 2012 GOP primary vote in New Hampshire, and he is at 30% today. In South Carolina, Romney got 28% of the vote in 2012, and he is sitting at 23% today. Romney’s lingering popularity with Republican primary voters suggests that voters aren’t in love with any of their possible options. Scandals have sunk Chris Christie and Scott Walker. Rand Paul remains a Paul, and his foreign policy views are completely out of step with most of the party. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have past support of immigration reform working against them, and the rest of the potential candidates hail from the Ted Cruz kooky wing of the party. A glance through the alternatives makes it easy to understand why Romney remains popular with so many Republican primary voters. It might seem unbelievable, but Mr. 47% could be the least damaged Republican option out there. The big money voices in the GOP have been trying to cut a deal to clear the field and hand Romney the nomination, but they may not even need to do it. A path is forming for Mitt Romney to run for a third time, and win back to back Republican nominations. Romney would lose to Hillary Clinton by an even larger margin than he lost to President Obama, but Republicans in early voting states believe that he is their best option in what could be a historically bad field of candidates. Republican voters are willing to hand the presidency to Hillary Clinton by returning to Mitt Romney as their nominee.
GOP Wants Mitt Back: 70% Of Republican Voters Are Open to Voting For Romney in 2016
The leader of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans, Evan Alvarez, announced Monday that he was resigning his post — and switching political parties. “I am leaving my position in the [Republican] organization and have begun to speak to members of the Mississippi Democratic Party and will be changing my party affiliation to Democrat in the next few days,” Alvarez told the Clarion-Ledger. (See actual tweets at link!) Alvarez’ departure was apparently motivated in part by the acrimonious primary campaign in which incumbent GOP Sen. Thad Cochran faced off against Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel. Alvarez campaigned for Cochran, the Daily Caller reported. “As chair of the [College Republican National Committee (CNRC)], some would expect I would be disappointed by today’s news,” CNRC Chairwoman Alex Smith told the Daily Caller. “I am not.” Smith said, “This defection was based on self-interest, not principle,” and added, “Mr. Alvarez will feel increasingly lonely in a party that is hemorrhaging young voters because of President Obama’s and Democrats’ extreme left wing agenda that is crippling our generation.” Alvarez’ Twitter activity reflects dissatisfaction with the GOP. For its part, the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans moved quickly and announced a new leader, Caroline Collins, Monday afternoon.
A Young Republican Leader Just Announced That He’s Becoming a Democrat
Still very funny. It's fun to recognize in the cast Kathy Griffin as Taffy the back-up singer and Donal Logue as ex-husband Shane Pencil.
Attached is a history of the Speedo from an Australian point of view. This paragraph caught my eye:%0D\ %0D\ ''American men have an aversion to displaying their bodies in public,'' one German visitor blogged. ''Ever since gay men came out of the closet in the ''80s and showed us who they were, straight American men went into the closet to show us what they weren''t. Before the late ''80s men wore shorter shorts and swimwear was short and fitted. Men used to be so free and liberated then. Now they are scared.''%0D\ %0D\ Amen! Americans need to get over their body aversion. The full article attached.
[quote]Rosie O'Donnell has made her deal with "The View" ... sources connected with the negotiations tell TMZ. We're told the show will make the announcement shortly. TMZ broke the story ... the negotiations fired up a few days ago and the deal was almost completed by end of business day Monday. The deal is now complete. Rosie will join Whoopi Goldberg on the show. As we reported, producers are also looking for a Latina and a conservative. Two conservative candidates who are being scoped are Abby Huntsman and Margaret Hoover.
Spits water at shutterbug during "Hedwig."
I just read "The Accursed" and would like to read something else of hers. Any recommendations?
Hold me Hillary.
After learning that her former View colleague might return to the program for its eighteenth season, the Fox & Friends co-host called into her new show to dredge up old drama. Hasselbeck, who is on vacation, brought up her infamous fight with O'Donnell, which led to the comic's premature exit from the show. "What could ruin a vacation more than to hear news like this?" Hasselbeck asked Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. "I know Rosie very well. We worked quite closely. Talk about not securing the border! Here in comes to The View the very woman who spit in the face of our military, spit in the face of her own network, and really in the face of a person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time that she was there, coming back with a bunch of control ready to regain a seat at the View table." According to Hasselbeck, O'Donnell's possible re-hiring is "not surprising" at all. As the conservative television personality explained to her co-hosts, "I think this has been in the works for a long time." "I'll go back to the reunion show for [Barbara Walters]. How odd is this, when you have the woman, who again, insinuated that our own troops were terrorists in Iraq at the time, then left the show...to have such ease the day of Barbara's goodbye show was shocking to me? She walked around with a lot of control and I had the chance to talk to her," the Survivor alum, 37, said. She continued, "Rosie herself told me, on-set, while we were mic'ed up, that she produced the reunion show to have everybody together and it was her idea. Now, would you think that the woman who left in the way that she did would be producing Barbara's goodbye show? Here's the shocker: It was actually her hello show." Hasselbeck said she will be "very interested" to see how O'Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg might interact, particularly because Goldberg is an EGOT winner and O'Donnell is not. "I don't think it would be wise for Rosie O'Donnell to challenge Whoopi Goldberg on anything. I really don't," she warned. "And I would also say that after years of being there, Rosie found out one thing about me: Don't mess with a pregnant mama and do not mess with our military when it comes to this girl sitting next to her." "I'll go back to the reunion show for [Barbara Walters]. How odd is this, when you have the woman, who again, insinuated that our own troops were terrorists in Iraq at the time, then left the show...to have such ease the day of Barbara's goodbye show was shocking to me? She walked around with a lot of control and I had the chance to talk to her," the Survivor alum, 37, said. She continued, "Rosie herself told me, on-set, while we were mic'ed up, that she produced the reunion show to have everybody together and it was her idea. Now, would you think that the woman who left in the way that she did would be producing Barbara's goodbye show? Here's the shocker: It was actually her hello show." When O'Donnell made her first appearance on the show in February 2014 since leaving the show seven years earlier, she joked about their feud. Hasselbeck, who played nice with O'Donnell when cameras rolled in May 2014, also dropped another secret about The View's reunion episode. "I do believe that this has been in the works for a long, long time. She wanted to re-do the split-screen and voice it over from our original confrontation right there. I was not up for that," she recalled. "She seemed to have a lot of control for Barbara's farewell show. Again, it is Rosie O'Donnell's hello show, in my opinion." Though she may sound bitter, Hasselbeck is much happier on a different network. "I could not be more thankful to be at Fox & Friends. You all are an outstanding group," she said. "I'm so thankful. Days like this remind me of that. You're all doing a great job. Mark my words, this is just the beginning—again!"
Bitter Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Vacation Ruined Because Rosie is Rejoining The View
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Someone gave me a bottle. What do I do with this?
Say you have enough money to tide you over for a while and you want do get out of the grind to save your sanity (You''ve been caretaking for an elderly relative and working full time for a while and you need a break). You have a tolerable and even sometimes friendly relationship with the people who hire and fire.\ \ What do you say to the big kahuna when you go in to quit? What do you say that will be graceful and not burn any bridges and not seem like a cry for help or a request for pity? What''s the grown up way to deal with this?
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!
Post your pics of love and affection.
One of my favorite tracks from DOA. Hunky soap actor James Hyde is the go-go boy/backup singer on the left. Love their jock straps!
What's his story?
It basically says that Michael Sam will have no problem in the locker room and that all athletes check out each others' dongs and even give out nicknames based on penis size! You watersports fans will enjoy the Greg Maddux aneccote
Very, very interesting ESPN magazine article about athletes' showering habits!
We go a few times per year and just got back from another long weekend. It''s become Palm Springs east. Lots and lots of older gays have moved-in and seem to have taken over.\ \ I don''t have an issue with older guys, I''m no spring chicken myself at 33, but the entire town seems to have taken on a different feel the last couple of years. While many of the crowds this summer were much of the same, much older guys are showing up. Some of them are the old crusty muscle daddies and some are just ancient. Lots of mimosa drinking happening, so many of the year-round townies appear to be mid 40s and up, lots of sneering and bitching about how they''re tired of the "tourists", etc. (we know several locals).\ \ What used to be a vibrant, diverse gay resort town has become God''s waiting room for fugly, sour faced old gays. I''m expecting piano bars specializing in Shirley Temples to dominate Commercial Street by this time next year.
I know we've fought several (all the recent) wars to prop up the US dollar. There are many smaller countries that can be intimidated in to staying with the status quo. But why hasn't Russia started trading in some other currency or a basket of currencies? If I were Putin, that's one of the first things I would have done. And you might say, "well, we could put a lot of economic pressure on them". Well, Putin knows our economy and empire would go down the tubes in no time at all. And more importantly, he knows that TPTB in the US know that all too well.
The canceled show burned off its remaining episodes last night and BJ guest starred and showed off his beautiful beefy body.
What do we think, DL? He's frightening, yes, but he does have great nipples and a beautiful foreskin. How does he get away with all these nude shots in Russia?
get your "freak" on… and you a "freak"… I dont get it.
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My boyfriend and I were lying in bed, naked, in a non-sexual way, and talking about how happy we are to be together. Eventually the conversation turned toward our mutual interest in possibly being married to each other some day. As we talked about the details of being committed to each other in such a capacity, we both sprung rock-hard erections. We now call this a "commitment boner". Has anyone else ever experienced this?
... is it "it's a doggie-dog world" or "it's a dog-eat-dog world".
A Facebook friend of mine (44 years old) just posted pics of her nineteen-year-old son and one of his "bros," and they were both wearing black grandpa socks-- the kind that go halfway up the calf-- with white beach shoes, tee shirts, and shorts. No, they aren''t nerds. They''re jocks. All the "grown-ups" are making fun of them in the comments, but the mom says her son insists this is the look now.
The Ghost of Walter Matthau
Yas, the new season starts next week. I can't wait! Too bad Kelly Price left the show. She brought so much fuckery to season one that her drama will be deeply missed. But we still got Lil' Mo on the show, the breakout star, so it should be a good season.
Don't I look and sound like James Marsden? I also look amazingly like several other actors who I won't name.
If you're really huge, but you can still move about without effort; you can bathe and dress yourself; and you're not bedridden, or wheelchair bound; are you still too fat?
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For years The Talk has been within striking distance of dethroning The View as the number 1 female panel show. After four years of hard work The Talk has finally BEATEN The View According to Nielsen live plus same day ratings, the CBS talker topped “The View” in women 25-54 by +10% (1.1/07 vs. 1.0/07) and by +14% in women 18-49 (0.8/05 vs. 0.7/05) for the week ending Friday, July 11. What can The View do to turn this sinking ship around?
This is the thread where you draw attention to pivots in TV introductory sequences, which for some reason is supposed to make actresses look more attractive (this was especially believed to be so in the 70s and 80s). I will start with the most famous on Datalounge: Susan Sullivan on the intro (beginning in the third season) for "Falcon Crest," at @:56 into the clip. We might classify this as the "Oh, I'm so relieved it's you!" 180-degree pivot.
1) What they really do for a living. What else?
Anybody else see last night''s 60-Minutes interview with "Marky Mark"? The reporter, Laura WhatsHerName giggled and grin throughout the entire thing while recounting to Wahlberg his multiple car thefts, stealing and robbing back in Boston. Even his local priest had an "aw shucks, he was such a little scamp" attitude while recounting how Wahlberg would smile and wave to him while driving by in stolen cars.\ \ He robbed a guy outside a store in Dorchester, a Boston ''burb and stabbed him with something and took the man''s eye out.\ \ Wonder what ever happened to that man and if the very high-brown ''actor'' and ''producer'' ever compensated him in any way.\ \ I had no idea he was such a violent little homophobe.
In spite of all the problems I'd still love to raise an Anne Hathaway baby. She's a little irritating but I think you could shield the kid from that. Plus the kid could sing and be statuesque!!! is that all that matters?
Continuing a great thread with fabulous pecs.
I''m thinking about doing this. There''s this guy at the gym I''m obsessed with. He seems totally narcissistic and I suspect he would love to have another guy worship him. Has anyone attempted this?
I would guess Whitney or Streisand, but I'm sure DL queens will school me. Is it just range that makes a voice great? Tone? Phrasing? (I know nothing about singing, so I preemptively apologize for my stupidity)
I recently went to my cousin's wedding and met his half-brother's two sons, age 14 and 11 for the first time. The 14-year-old struck me as a typical straight teenage boy, but in comparison, his little brother was very flamboyant in comparison. He was very friendly, crossed his legs, he got very clingy with other male relatives, and boy, could he ever dance at the reception. My gaydar reading was off the chart. They're both nice kids and we got along fine.
I have and it was heaven......
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Do you think they make him look smarter?
Why is Rick Perry wearing glasses?
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And he was also having sex chats with minors over the internet. Nice.
UCLA Associate Athletic Director charged with possession of child porn
Have you automatically blocked them? I don''t like the idea of him seeing my stuff on mutual friends pages.
34 going on 14
Jake is obviously an exhibitionist (yes, we've seen him onstage!) He just posted a picture of Adam Lambert stuffing him last night in New York. It's great when two openly gay celebrities feel free to mingle the way the the straight ones do.
Since 1992. I'm afraid to catching an STI At least I'm still alive.
I'm over a month behind on Stewart/Colbert. Last night I watched a few episodes and noticed Ron Reagan Jr., Celebrity Atheist, doing fundraisers for some atheist foundation (Separation of Church and State Org?). Cool commercial. He says he's a life-long atheist, supports the separation of Church and State as the founders intended and is not afraid of burning in hell. Always liked that boy, sometimes in spite of himself (and his closet).
What level are you on? Let's visit each other's towns and whack each other's snakes.
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It's been a whole season without it, I know. But I still miss it.
Musical of film 'Rocky' knocked down on Broadway Associated Press, By MARK KENNEDY 1 hour ago NEW YORK (AP) — The Broadway musical "Rocky" is hanging up its gloves after being battered at the box office. Producers said Tuesday that the show will play its final performance at the Winter Garden Theatre on Aug. 17, after playing 28 previews and 188 regular performances. Based on the Oscar-winning 1976 film by Sylvester Stallone, the musical features a score by "Ragtime" veterans Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and a story by Thomas Meehan, who wrote "Hairspray." Alex Timbers directed. The musical stays close to the film, which charted the rise and romance of amateur boxer and debt collector Rocky Balboa, who gets his shot against an undefeated heavyweight champ. Andy Karl starred as the hero. The musical never took off after mixed to poor reviews, despite a spectacular final few minutes when the boxing ring is lowered onto the first few rows. It broke the $1 million-mark only once and lately was making only half its $1,263,688 potential. The show earned four Tony Award nominations but took home no wins. The closing notice comes a day after "Holler If Ya Hear Me," a musical that that uses Tupac Shakur songs, announced it would close on Sunday after finding little love at the box office.
OH MY GOD!
What''s the dirt on this E! fashion guy? Does he have a boyfriend? How old is he?
Think his agent is just mindfucking him with all these offers?
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I love this show. The season finale just aired and it brought the usual drama and hysterics. Trina debuted her stage act for the entire family and was a success, amidst her own personal marriage drama. Tamar has decided that she wants kids (maybe), but wants to have "popsicle" babies (have the eggs frozen and have a surrogate carry them at a later date). Towanda offered to carry the child for her, but no more than one.
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Qaud and Mariah no longer friends. Dr. Simone is Broke.. Dr. Jackie is fighting mad... and Kari demoted to "friend of Toya"...oh my,
Arguably one of the best shows all time. Any behind the scenes dirt?
Just take a look at the comments which followed the story. Think the world is coming around on the gay issue? Think again.
A number of AIDS researchers possibly onboard Malaysian jet which was shot down
Mmmm... This looks peculiar. Health survey gives government its first large-scale data on gay, bisexual population Less than 3 percent of the U.S. population identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday in the first large-scale government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation. The National Health Interview Survey, which is the government’s premier tool for annually assessing Americans’ health and behaviors, found that 1.6 percent of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent consider themselves bisexual. The overwhelming majority of adults, 96.6 percent, labeled themselves as straight in the 2013 survey. An additional 1.1 percent declined to answer, responded “I don’t know the answer” or said they were “something else.” The figures offered a slightly smaller assessment of the size of the gay, lesbian and bisexual population than other surveys, which have pegged the overall proportion at closer to 3.5 or 4 percent. In particular, the estimate for bisexuals was lower than in some other surveys. The inclusion of the sexual-orientation question in an influential survey used to guide government funding and research decisions was viewed as a major victory for the gay community, which has struggled with a dearth of data about its special health needs.
Damn boy!
Colin Firth in [italic]Camille[/italic] (1984) He looked gorgeous and played Armand with all the finesse and nuance of a block of wood. The only tragedy in this tv movie was that the bitch took an hour and a half to die.
They Got Better - Terrible early performances of good actors
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Hot or Not?
Is he like a sex symbol or something? I keep hearing about him all the time. He doesn't do jack shit for me.
You can actually see his hole!
He's got a nice ass. What you think DL?
Video: UK Gymnast Louis Smith Shows Bare Butt While Stepping Into A Whirlpool!
Was she an escort?
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Although it has been around earlier than that, we have known about the existence of AIDS since 1981. Since then, we have come up with new drugs to combat it. But we still don't have a cure, and gay men are still seroconverting. Why? Is it ignorance of tried-and-true prevention methods (don't whine about lack of access when there's more access to HIV/AIDS education materials now than there's ever been) or just the inevitable result of self-destructive tendencies caused by internalized homophobia?
Still no homo.
It''s strange. I sometimes wonder how some people can date so much. I only find somebody attractive like once in a blue moon!
The fraus I work with started a Facebook group and invited about 5-6 people in our department to join. They do nothing but trash talk about the 1 straight boy in our group who is being groomed for our bosses job. It's a total HR train wreck, yet I can stop reading it. What are some of the amusing things the fraus you work with do besides organize potlucks?
What reason could he possibly have for not coming out?
Is it your primary source of income or a hobby? How did you get started?
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I recall as a child hearing about worms of some kind in pigs. I was told by at least one historian (or was it a grammar school teacher?) that it was thought to be the reason the early Jews didn't eat pork. One historian (I verified this) speculated that Julius Caesar's seizure's were the result of these worms infecting his brain, the final stage of the infection. Are any of you infected by brain worms? That you know of, anyway.
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July 21, 2014 edition.
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His face has that look.
Really good acting but it is so depressing. I want to throttle Teddy and some of the other hicks.
Why aren't they so embarrassed they leave their shirts on? Because they are just so gross.
I mean, aside from the gay husband thing, it seemed like the kind of thing she would do. (And no comments about "The Sterile Cuckoo," please.
Wasn't she going to beard for Tammy Cruise? hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Can someone explain the success of this talent- and charm-free, mostly tone-deaf "singer"? Was it the fact that she just happened to be the spawn of one of the biggest American singers? I can only imagine Frank must have called in some BIG favors to make that one happen.
How can I do this!? Tia
Nice body, but last years ESPN Body issue had more WOW factor shots.
How are they doing these days? Do they hate their youger (taller---I guess her growth wasn't stunted intentionally) sister? How's the skinny one holding up? Is she still engaged to Sarkozy's 80 year-old brother?
Proving once again that Christians are the most evil assholes on the planet.
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Breanna Mitchell posted image of her at concentration camp on Twitter She added the message: 'Selfie in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp' Shared an article criticising the photo alongside message: 'I'm famous yall' Claims it is a tribute to her late father who she studied the Holocaust with
"This is happening outside my office right now on 30th and 3rd," a tipster tells us. "Just when you think you have seen it all." "He is now doing yoga poses," he adds, attaching the photos you see above. **** Nice thighs!
Rooftop yoga man sunbathes in skimpy thong on a handy gable in midtown Manhattan
The investors in Woody Allen’s new musical are sweating bullets — “Bullets Over Broadway.” Just when it looked as if Allen’s new $15 million musical had a pretty clear shot at box-office and Tony-Award glory, the New York Times published Dylan Farrow’s essay accusing Allen of molesting her when she was a kid. Who knows if the charges are true? Allen refuted them in his own essay in the paper. Clearly, the guy has a dark side: In “Manhattan,” he’s 40 and sleeping with a teenage Mariel Hemingway. He gets away with it only because he is, at least on-screen, sexually innocuous. In real life, he was never prosecuted for the crime Dylan says he committed. And while his marriage to Soon-Yi is creepy, it’s not illegal. But the court doesn’t buy tickets to Woody Allen shows. New Yorkers do. And the investors in “Bullets Over Broadway” are fretting that the scandal will damage their show. From what I’ve learned, they should be worried. “Bullets Over Broadway” was selling at a decent clip until Dylan’s accusations became public. Sales have slowed down this week, and the advance now stands at just $4 million. Any hopes that the show would open April 10 with $10 million in the bank have been dashed. “They’ll be lucky if they get to $6 million by opening night,” says a source. All is not lost, however. There are, I’m sure, many New Yorkers who will not buy a ticket to a Woody Allen movie, let alone a Woody Allen musical, on principle. In their eyes, he’s a child-molesting creep, and that’s the end of it. But there are other New Yorkers (and I’m in this camp), who, though we think he’s weird and would cross to the other side of the street if we saw him coming toward us, still go to his movies and watch masterpieces like “Annie Hall” at least once a year. My sense is that most Broadway insiders — that is, Tony voters — fall in the latter category. “I love Woody Allen movies,” says a Tony voter. “Woody Allen himself? Yuck. But I’ll judge the show on its merits. If it’s good, really good, it can win the Tony for Best Musical. If it’s bad, or just so-so, I think voters will look for something else to get behind.” The onus, say several insiders, is on Susan Stroman, who’s directing and choreographing the musical. A Tony winner for “The Producers,” she’s a beloved figure on Broadway. If “Bullets Over Broadway” is good, she’ll reap the rewards and just might pull the show over the finish line for Best Musical. But if her work isn’t top-notch, Tony voters will go for something else, “If/Then,” perhaps, or “After Midnight.” “This is Susan’s show to lose,” says another Tony voter. “If her work’s half as good as it was on ‘The Producers,’ the show has a shot. If it’s not, it’s dead. I don’t think any of us could support a bad or even mediocre show by Woody Allen.” Allen can rule out any chance of winning the Tony for Best Book — and not because he’s an accused child molester. Those who’ve read his script say it’s little more than his screenplay run through his typewriter. “It’s not been reinvented for the stage the way Mel Brooks reinvented ‘The Producers,’ ” says a source. “Bullets Over Broadway” begins previews next month. Given the attention surrounding Allen’s scandalous life, you can be sure the same reporters who covered the first preview of “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark” — that is to say, me and Patrick Healy — will be there. We won’t judge Allen’s private life. But we will judge his show.
Best/favorite song? Video? Worst/least favorite song? Video?
Starring Michael Grazadai...former soap actor, has done guest shots on American Horror, Criminal Minds... What do we know about him? Rumors? Anyone had at him?
From a series he posed for several years ago:
How can I do this!? Tia
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I just finished the book "Thing of Beauty" (which I recommend) It's a great look at a different era. It was sad how many people in her life insisted that she couldn't be gay b/c she was so pretty. It also sounded like her narcissistic mom really did a number on her and made her a raging borderline. It sounded like there was some growth. Did any of you know any of these characters? I'm particularly fascinated by Way Bandy and some of the photographers. Also, the book didn't say it, but I get the distinct impression that Patti Hansen was the one who introduced her to heroin.
Drunk white trash? Check. Nude beach? Check. Gay sex? Check. Death on a sandbar? Check.
The Crazy Florida Story to end ALL Crazy Florida Stories
Gayle Grinds, previous title holder
So what part of "The Paper Chase" gave you a boner? I've seen it several times and it doesn't inspire me with a desire for the law.
There was that Susan Boyles lady that they irresponsibly thrust into fame. And now they've even made a movie about Paul Potts, who is famous for being ugly and winning Britain's Got Talent.
Why do British people get so excited when ugly people can sing?
Some people are too willful to take proper care of their diabetes, and they deserve to die.
I was at my brother's pool party yesterday and his son Traylor emerged from the pool in these flimsy white trunks. I say white but they became almost transparent in the sun, revealing he has not yet started shaving down there lol. Anyhoo, he was jumping and running around and everyone just kinda looked away, embarrassed, because his manhood (boyhood?) was flopping and swinging in an oh-so obvious way. The boy is twelve years old, why is he already packing sizemeat bigger than his dad and I? Too many hormones in phood or something?? Then he had to draw more attention by fiddling with it, til his mother snapped at him to stop that. Everyone was relieved when lunch was ready, and his mom said, "That's enough swimming for today or you'll get cramps and drown". He changed into some cargo shorts but when he passed behind me, he gave my shoulders a quick massage- discreetly grinding his crotch on my back- and giggled. I could hardly swallow.
Let's pretend we're stories about Elaine - or ones Elaine is telling us about her life. They don't have to be true or even logical. Christ knows Elaine didn't adhere to those rules, so why should we? Put on a hat, gulp down a stinger and share an anecdote!
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So UK dataloungers can Kim Cattrall pick up where Joanna Lumley left off in the US version of Sensitive Skin? Discuss.
Just saw her photo on Dlisted and this has to be the ugliest famous bitch to come along in YEARS. Lens Dunham is Grace fucking Kelly compared to this sow.
God damn her feet are huge!
Have any of you read it yet? Donna Tartt is the kind of writer who makes other writers, in the words of her fellow Southerner Scarlett O’Hara, pea green with envy. Donna Tartt’s novel “The Goldfinch” is partly set in Manhattan. She is so thoroughly well read that she is known to quote entire poems and passages from French novels at length in her slight Mississippi twang. In photos, she projects a ghostly mystery, her porcelain skin and black bob suggesting a cross between Anna Wintour and Oscar Wilde. And her self-confidence is so unshakable that it wouldn’t occur to her to fret that her novels, all three of them, only come out every decade or so. Ms. Tartt, 49, is making a rare emergence from her writerly cocoon for the publication on Tuesday of “The Goldfinch,” perhaps the most anticipated book of the fall season, a 771-page bildungsroman that has been called dazzling, Dickensian and hypnotizing. She avoids most interviews and has zero desire to be a regular on the book-world circuit of panels, readings and award galas. Arriving for lunch last week at a restaurant in Greenwich Village, Ms. Tartt shrugged off her tiny jacket and immediately lamented her discovery on the way over: the Barnes & Noble nearby had closed. “I saw William S. Burroughs there once,” she said, sounding mournful, then jumped into a rat-a-tat history of the book business from before the Internet to the current age of e-books, recalling that when her first novel was published, it was typeset in the old-fashioned, pre-computerized way. “It’s very weird,” she said. “The odd thing about it is that it’s so long between books for me that the publishing world changes completely every time I’m out, so it’s like I’ve never done it before.” Ms. Tartt became an instant celebrity with the publication of “The Secret History,” her 1992 novel about a pack of murderous classics scholars at a private college in New England. The book has sold more than five million copies and has been translated into dozens of languages. It was about two weeks before the publication of that novel that she became spooked by all the attention. The release was accompanied by a profile in Vanity Fair proclaiming that Ms. Tartt was “going to be famous very soon — conceivably the moment you read this.” “I learned pretty early on that I wasn’t cut out for sort of the public, literary....” she said, her voice trailing off, and her light green eyes darting to the side. “Too much noise, too much hubbub, too much.” To her relief, the publicity subsided, and Ms. Tartt went back to her writing, rarely granting interviews or discussing her private life. (For the record, she is unmarried, has no children, and divides her time between Manhattan and the Virginia countryside.) Ten years after “The Secret History,” Ms. Tartt and her publisher, Knopf, released “The Little Friend,” a story set in the South that received much less enthusiastic reviews but still sold briskly. She got back to work on a new novel that had its beginnings during trips to Amsterdam more than 20 years ago. Ms. Tartt is a lifelong keeper of notebooks, and some of the earliest scenes in “The Goldfinch” were taken from notes dated 1993. “I was writing for a while not knowing what I was writing,” she said. “That’s the way it’s been with all my books. Things will come to you and you’re not going to know exactly how they fit in. You have to trust in the way they all fit together, that your subconscious knows what you’re doing.” The book was centered on a 1654 painting by the Dutch artist Carel Fabritius — the “Goldfinch” — that Ms. Tartt, speaking with the authority of an art historian, said is the “missing link” between Rembrandt and Vermeer.
I checked-in on his Twitter feed and every Tweet is him self promoting a book he's writing, the line of shirts he's designing ("Look out Versace!"), photos from his club kid glory days, him posting images with the famous photographer who just shot him... Him speaking at Hofstra University with images in the background asking if he's the one who inspired Lady GaGa's style, etc. etc. etc. I get that he's got to figure out his life, but there's something shameless about it. I wonder if he's reached out or has tried reaching out to the family of the guy he murdered? And the people who are following him and paling around with him seem just as desperate and said, and seemingly convinced it's the late 80s/early 90s all over again. Remixed dance tunes titled "Michael Is Back" and such.... That whole wild club thing doesn't even exist anymore. Isn't he smart enough to realize what a mess he's already become?
Michael Alig apparently has learned nothing, and has NO shame
Not just perfunctorily, but really meaning it. Who was it?
Clark and Carole and cute kitties and a cigarette in the plate with a pickle.
Madonna Veronika [LAST NAME] (adopted from Russia). Everyone is giving us shit about it. What's wrong with it? It's a beautiful-sounding name.
She is once again emerging as the "inevitable" Dem nominee - but she's shown before that she is adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. There are other choices and before Hillary self-destructs again in a blaze of arrogance, double-dealing and mendacity, it's time people start taking a look at the other options. Which of these people would you consider supporting?
It's important, and the other thread got closed... so present away, men!
temporary new NY DMV design
Closeted heterosexuals, right?
He has amazing eyes, post your best lookers.
Actor Wahlberg hawks crèmes, jellies and suppositories.
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He kind of reminds me of Gale Harold...a little bit. I don't think he's as good looking, but there is something about him. Oh, he's the lead in the Sundance TV series Rectify. Whose team does he bat for?
Michigan woman who shot lover because he was "a weak ejaculator" is up for bail This woman is a DL HERO!
Canada is proposing to strip citizenship from people found guilty of some serious crimes, even someone born in Canada, but who for whatever reason also holds the citizenship of another country. The classes of crime in question are serious: treason, terrorism and specific military crimes such as spying for the enemy in time of war. But however serious the offence, when someone is born here, he or she is Canadian, for good or ill. Not anymore if Canada has anything to do with it. With more and more terror babies born in Canada, the government will now have to option to STRIP citizenship from Canadian born criminals, and ship them to the country they hold dual citizenship with!
I would never have guessed Kate to be a self-aggrandising, self-obessesed twat. "Eve Branson, the 90-year-old mother of billionaire Sir Richard, has denied being saved from an inferno on her son's private Caribbean island by film star Kate Winslet. In August 2011 it was widely reported that Titanic star Kate had rescued Eve as she tottered down stairs at Necker Island, picking her up in her arms and carrying her to safety, after a lightning storm caused a huge blaze. But, in an interview with The Observer Magazine today Eve dismisses the heroic act, saying that Kate only carried her down four steps and ‘that was it.’"
Grumpy Cat, Nala Cat, Hamilton the Hipster Cat, Oskar the Blind Cat & Klaus star in Friskies' latest music video, "Cat Summer." For every video view, Friskies is donating one meal to cats in need around the country (up to 1 MILLION meals). Share this video and help shelter and rescue cats this summer! So watch the video already! It's really cute. Up to 1 million hungry kitties will thank you.
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Sure seems that way, though she has a lot of competition.
When did they meet? Did Halls already have the kids? Did Bomer have much of a career at the time they got together?
I know there's a few straights hiding here. How many people have you had sexual contact with? Including, but not limited to, fingering, oral, heavy duty grinding/frottage, major titty play, and of course penis or penis-analogue insertion into someone's vaj or butt.
If you are attracted to this, are you a pedo?
He's gay, right? I'm watching him give the forecast on Good Day NY in my doctor's office. He's incredibly muscular, really well-groomed, and has a certain "pingy" quality about him. So what's the verdict on this gorgeous weather hottie?
She looks like Bjork now. Wow.
She was the Reese Witherspoon of her day, but much hotter. And she got to kiss hunky Tim Daly. Her duet with Peter Cetera was a big deal, and I thought would embark her a major singing career. I loved the video and used to twirl around my bedroom window pretending I was her. So what happened?
I'm watching his PBS travel show and it's absolutely hilarious. He constantly sounds like he should be a nellie choreographer in a 30s musical: "All right, on your toes, girls!" It's jawdropping to me he's a divorced heterosexual.
Have leftovers from yesterday and it's soggy, of course. Any way to save it?
Who has it?
I seriously don't want to spend time with most people anymore even friends who I think pretty highly of. I just want to go out alone or spend time with my cat. Anyone else ever go through this? I feel like an asshole for always saying no to plans but bring around people makes me unhappy. Is this how ill probably be the rest of my life?
How many gals have you gals been with? Include anything that a normal person would consider sexual; i.e., licking, tribbing, and of course use of a toy or strap-on, but also fingering and, if you want, heavy-duty boob-groping.
Some states have some of the lamest mottoes ever on their license plates: IDAHO: "Famous Potatoes" INDIANA: "Hoosier Hospitality" OKLAHOMA: "Is OK!" SOUTH CAROLINA: "The Iodine Products State" MARYLAND: "Drive Carefully" Let's come up with better mottoes for every state's license plate.
A month ago, I began taking a blue pill each day, called Truvada. It's a combination of two of the three antiretroviral medications that form the cocktail used to treat people with HIV. Last year, the FDA approved the prescription of Truvada for the preventing of HIV in people who are uninfected. The term for this is pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). I'm HIV negative. My choice to begin taking a highly-potent HIV drug wasn't an easy one. And the decision to come out publicly as someone who's on PrEP is not one that I take lightly. But the more I learn about PrEP, the more shocked I'm becoming that gay men are not shouting from the rooftops about this potential game changer in the fight to prevent new HIV infections, which we're losing badly. I'm ready to shout about it. Here's what helped convince me: Dr. Robert Grant of UCSF, the researcher who led the multinational study on PrEP, was quoted at an AIDS conference as saying that “No one in iPrEx [the PrEP study] acquired HIV infection with a drug level that would have been expected with daily dosing.” Was this really possible? Whether they used condoms or not, people who took Truvada, as prescribed, were protected from the virus? Before writing this column, I reached out to Dr. Grant to make sure I understood correctly. While emphasizing that PrEP is still "very new," Dr. Grant confirms that "we have not seen anyone become infected that indicated daily use." He explained that the people in his study were among those at highest risk of becoming positive: gay men whose partners were already positive, and other men who frequently had unprotected sex. Before I go any further, I do realize that I'm committing heresy. I'm certain there are safe-sex advocates in our community who are reading this right now, and whose heads are about to explode. Am I telling people to pop a pill and go have bareback sex? I'm not. I am advocating that we look at both the social and medical science, and begin responding accordingly. And I too am angry. In the past month, eight people I know have told me that they've tested positive for HIV. A couple of them had boyfriends who cheated on them. These friends, who didn't know about PrEP, are now unfortunately among the 50,000 Americans newly infected with HIV each year — one in four of whom is under 24 years old. Whether we want to admit it or not, safe-sex education has been an epic failure. In a recent national survey, the majority of gay men—58%—admitted to not using a condom the last time they had anal sex. Is PrEp better than condoms? Dr. Grant won't go that far, but here's what he did say in a phone conversation: "That actual use of PrEp is more effective than saying you'll use condoms and not using them. And that's often the choice people make." I'm know I'm not a public health expert, but I can't understand why we're not discussing, in a serious way, getting the most at-risk in our community on this medication immediately. With new and preventable HIV infections happening every hour, is the silence about PrEP among the safe-sex establishment not criminal? One more statistic: US News reports that if HIV infections among gay men continue to rise at current rates, more than half of college-aged gay men will have HIV by the age of 50. We desperately need a new approach to battling new infections. To be sure, taking Truvada is not like taking a vitamin. This is serious medication, and unless people take it every day, the protection it offers is greatly reduced. And like all medications, it carries risks and potential side effects—some of which are potentially quite serious. But none of the friends I know who are taking Truvada PrEP have experienced anything abnormal. And here's as another good thing about Truvada PrEP: You can stop taking it! You can use it at times when you're most sexually active, and stop taking it when you're not having sex. If the side effects are a problem for you, you can simply go off of it. But if you are HIV positive, that's simply not an option. As of now, you're on it for life. And if you're positive, you have to take another pill, which often causes diarrhea and other unpleasantness. I know this because I've slipped up before, and went on post-exposure prophylactic treatment, which includes all three medications. There are a few other downsides to the PrEP strategy. If your insurance doesn't cover it, Truvada costs around a thousand dollars per month. But Gilead, the maker of Truvada, is offering assistance (free pills) to qualifying individuals who can't afford it. You also must get an HIV test before starting Truvada, and between any "breaks" in using it. And, yes, you should continue to use condoms even while taking Truvada to avoid getting other STD's. I'm now 41 years old, and have been sexually active for at least 23 years. I've lived through the horrific period when AIDS was untreatable. It's a memory that will never go away. But since this disease is no longer a death sentence, our daily fear of has diminished, and we have become more likely to slip up. That's why the possibility PrEP offers our community is one we need to be talking about. Now.
Do they exist? I personally never met one.
Will Hedwig's hatbox fold with the new arrival? Will Woody's show bite the bullet? How much will it cost to renovate both the Palace AND The Winter Garden? What show will nab the Broadway? Will Terrence's husband get THE VISIT into NYC, FINALLY???? Will Scott Ellis mangle another classic or will the other Ellis production become the standard bearer? A DELICATE BALANCE in the Golden? Really?
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Besides your hole that is. I just listed a scooter and am worried about weirdos coming around and looking at it.
Stevie's best friend died of leukemia so she wrote "Gypsy" about her. She sings that "her memory is all that is left for you now" and "I still see your bright eyes..," both lines are so sad. There was a slightly different radio edit that also has Stevie singing "I can't find you..." as if her friend is alive somewhere in Stevie's dreams and she knows she's there but can't quite find her. Sad.
Maybe the third time is a charm...
The Good Wife won the best drama series prize at Sunday’s 2014 Television Critics Association Awards, besting Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Americans and House of Cards. Breaking Bad, however, did not go home empty-handed; the TCA honored the show’s final eight-episode run with the Program of the Year prize (the second consecutive year it won the top award). True Detective scored two wins, for best movie/miniseries and Individual Achievement in Drama for leading man Matthew McConaughey. Veep also walked off with two trophies, for best comedy (tying with Louie) and best individual performance in a comedy for Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In one of the evening’s biggest surprises, Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race triumphed over The Amazing Race, Shark Tank, Survivor and The Voice to win best reality series. Here’s the full list of nominees (* denotes winner). Program of the Year *Breaking Bad (AMC) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Good Wife (CBS) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) True Detective (HBO) Outstanding Achievement in Comedy The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) * Louie (FX) The Mindy Project (Fox) * Veep (HBO) Individual Achievement in Comedy Louis C.K., Louie (FX) Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project (Fox) * Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep (HBO) Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation (NBC) Outstanding Achievement in Drama The Americans (FX) Breaking Bad (AMC) Game of Thrones (HBO) House of Cards (Netflix) * The Good Wife (CBS) Individual Achievement in Drama Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (AMC) Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife (CBS) Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black (BBC America) * Matthew McConaughey, True Detective (HBO) Matthew Rhys, The Americans (FX) Outstanding Achievement in News and Information CBS Sunday Morning (CBS) * Cosmos (Fox) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) Frontline (PBS) 60 Minutes (CBS) Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming The Amazing Race (CBS) * RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo) Shark Tank (ABC) Survivor (CBS) The Voice (NBC) Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming Adventure Time (Cartoon Network) Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (PBS) *The Fosters (ABC Family) Sesame Street (PBS) Switched at Birth (ABC Family) Outstanding New Program Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) Fargo (FX) * Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Sleepy Hollow (Fox) True Detective (HBO) Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials American Horror Story: Coven (FX) Broadchurch (BBC America) Fargo (FX) The Returned (SundanceTV) * True Detective (HBO) Career Achievement Award Mark Burnett * James Burrows Valerie Harper Jay Leno William Shatner Heritage Award Lost (ABC) * Saturday Night Live (NBC) South Park (Comedy Central) Star Trek (NBC) Twin Peaks (ABC)
Television Critics Association Winners! RuPaul's Drag Race is now an award winning program
I love that look! Both to observe and to participate in....in fact whenever I am naked without socks, I feel a little naked.
I have about two servings left of week-old vegetable curry left and I'd hate to let it go to waste. The only things in it that aren't vegetables are light coconut milk and chicken stock. Would this still be safe to eat?
Because the last thread is just about full
'The Talk's' Sara Gilbert engaged to girlfriend Linda Perry By Chris E. Hayner | April 8, 2013 4:46 PM ET On Monday's episode of "The Talk," Sara Gilbert had exciting news to share with her fellow co-hosts. She announced her engagement to musician girlfriend Linda Perry. Gilbert told the audience that the proposal happened "about a week ago," and caught her by surprise. Gilbert says she and Perry were in a park eating, when people with string instruments showed up and began playing "Love Song," by The Cure. She says the couple had decided that particular tune would be "their song," as another favorite between them, John Waite's "Missing You," was about a breakup. As the song played, Perry popped the question. "She goes to her backpack and she pulls out these T-shirts and the first T-shirt says 'will' and then puts on another T-shirt and it says, 'you,' then 'marry,' 'me.' And the last one's a question mark," Gilbert says, "It's the most amazing proposal ever." The surprises didn't end there, as Perry then introduced Waite, and he played their other song, "Missing You." "We had our proposal with our breakup song," Gilbert says, "which is great." Gilbert went on to thank fans of the show for their support of gay marriage, and allowing her to feel comfortable talking about the event. " I wanted you guys to know because I feel like you're a part of our family here." Watch the clip below to see Gilbert talking about the proposal: (Video at link)
Why does the network insist on continuing this sham, year after year?
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How do you rank them, and why do you assign their ranks as you do? What is attractive and unnatractive about then? Ben Affleck Matt Damon Kellan Lutz Cillian Murphy Anthony Recker Drew Brees Andy Roddick Brad Pitt
Didn't you guys tell me he's gay? He has a live-in girlfriend and a one-year-old baby girl. He's probably C-list these days, which makes it odd that he would have a beard (and not just your run-of-the-mill arranged marriage). So: Is he actually bi? Is he straight, and the gay rumors were untrue? Or is he doing an elaborate dance for the public for no good reason?
Did you think it was underrated? She really had some gems on there (Rain, Bad Girl, Deeper and Deeper).
Gwyneth Paltrow is featured in Elle''s Women in Hollywood issue talking about how she got her start in acting.\ \ When asked whether she has had any casting couch experiences, Gwyneth replied:\ \ "Yup. When I was just starting out, someone suggested that we finish a meeting in the bedroom. I left. I was pretty shocked. I could see how someone who didn''t know better might worry, ''My career will be ruined if I don''t give this guy a blow job!''"
Gwyneth Paltrow Talks About Her Casting Couch Experience
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Boo hoo! He's a good actor but I think he's a phoney. I hope he gets the electric chair.
At one point, it was Ellen and Rosie. Then Ricky Martin. Now that they''re all out, who is it?\ \ My vote goes to Queen Latifah. \ \ I put her ahead of Travolta because Scientology is keeping him hetero.\ \ Who makes you say, "Just say it already!"
Pretty special. Pretty special voice and music. Didn't appeal at the time but decades later I realise he was simply a genius. Fave song?
I really like this show. The host Alison seems really sweet, but will call the contestants out if needed. And it seems to work! I'm watching right now and this one guy has lost 117lbs in 9 weeks! And there's like 10 episodes left!
New dating show on VH1 where they go on dates naked. Anyone watching?
Showing signs of dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.
He deserves to be scrubbed and showered vehemently.
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Can you please provide me with some tips on how to sing with more emotion? I worked on a few songs and sent them around to friends for feedback. A common complaint I heard was that while the backing music sounded good, my vocals were dull, and I sounded like I was bored. I do feel that sometimes I think too much when I'm singing because I'm trying to hit the right notes but I'm not sure how to stop that and sing with emotion without sounding fake or overdoing it. Any ideas? TIA.
Hey guys, I'm 23 and I'm struggling with how to feel about this situation. I have a friend whom I've known for about a year. We are not romantically involved in any way - I know him through another friend. I've hung out with him at parties, and he's a really nice guy. I find out that a month ago, he got drunk at a party and drove his car on the wrong side of the freeway at 4am, hit a taxi head-on and killed a passenger, and injured two others. He himself had just minor injuries. I'm not sure how to feel about this. I think what he did was completely repulsive and horrendous. That person is dead. But do I support him as a friend? Is what he did unforgivable? How do I support somebody who did something so heinous? Especially when it's at odds with my impressions of him - he is genuinely a nice guy, but he made a terrible decision and has to live with the consequences. Also just fyi, he is extremely successful, he's young around 24, and went to Harvard, Oxford, and was in business school. Have any of you experienced something similar? I feel like I should be supporting him as a friend, but I don't know how when I am so disgusted by what he did. What would you guys do? Thanks in advance.
I've never seen it but it popped up in the youtube sidebar for the "It's a living" credits. The opening titles show Scott Baio squeezing the other guy's arm, jumping on the bed with him. What did DL think of CiC?
From R37 of this thread.
What makes a thread worthy of DL, and when did other threads worthy of DL stop happening?
And all signs point to DL fave Jean Kasem as the culprit! [quote]Casem died June 15 and for more than a month his body remained at a Gaffney Funeral Home in Tacoma, Washington. Thursday, however, his daughter Kerri learned that the body had been removed, according to ABC News. Kerri was not told where her father’s body was taken or who had taken it, a family representative told multiple media outlets. A representative for Gaffney Funeral Home confirmed to BuzzFeed Friday that Kasem’s body was no longer there, but did not say where it had been taken. While no one knows what happened to the body, a family representative pointed to his widow Jean Kasem as a likely culprit behind the disappearance.
Animals are better than people. I have improved.
Summer is here. Now what?
What does DL think of this dark masterpiece?
guys who shoot hard and far, guys who have massive loads.%0D\ %0D\ Let''s see.
How are you handling the sultry stagnation of July and August? My sex drive has taken a nosedive with this Tennessee humidity.
Just because:
I'll start- "Liza, didn't you fly to Malaysia once when you were doing press junkets for Lucky Lady?"
Is it Bluetooth enabled? Do you speak to it hands free?
Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill laughed because she is a cunt.
Grandma%27s%20smokers%20hack.
Were they into dirty talk? Did your mom swallow? Did your dad like a finger up the butt?
Either by accident, or on purpose. What was it? Do you still have it?
The troubled race for the 2022 Winter Olympics is a case in point. High costs and internal political opposition prevented several potential contenders not to bid. Two candidate cities withdrew and two others could still drop out. That leaves four cities in contention for now: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing; Lviv, Ukraine; and Oslo, Norway. Most worrying for the IOC is the uncertain status of the Oslo bid. Polls show 60 percent of Norwegians are opposed.
Did she do anal?
We were playing shaving games and when I woke up this morning he was gone and so were my eyebrows. What the fuck am I supposed to do? And I thought he liked me. FUCK!
Me: Motivation, love, affection, energy.
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Houston area entrepreneur and fundraiser Theresa Roemer put her three-story closet in at a cost of $500,000 with the idea of using it to hold parties and fundraising events. Jesus would be so proud of her.
I'm Mrs. H's fabulous auburn hair.
Drugs?
Democrats out-raise Republicans while cutting debt from $23m to $3m • Democratic National Committee raises almost $9m in June • Republicans ahead $132m to $116m since January Associated Press in Washington; theguardian.com, Sunday 20 July 2014 21.05 BST The Democratic National Committee narrowly out-raised its Republican rival last month and cut its debt to $3m, down from a onetime high of $23m, according to federal financial forms that were due on Sunday. The DNC raised almost $9m in June; the Republican National Committee reported on Sunday that it raised $8.5m. Each central party committee began July with roughly $7.8m in the bank. Republicans have outraised Democrats in 10 of the last 18 months, although the RNC has done so only once since January of this year. Since the election cycle began, in January 2013, the DNC has raised about $116m. The RNC has raised about $132m. Both central committees tend to amass debt toward the end of a hard-fought presidential campaign, and the 2012 contest between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was no exception. The DNC spent heavily to help Obama win a second term and help motivate Democrats nationwide to support candidates elsewhere on the ballots. It went into debt to do so. The DNC's debt ballooned to a high of almost $23m in March 2013 as donors, who opened their wallets throughout 2012, tired of giving for a politically quiet year. The DNC since has been paying down those costs and working to control its spending ahead of the 2014 midterms. The top vendor owed money from the DNC is the Strategy Group, an Evanston, Illinois, media consulting firm led by veterans of Obama's re-election team. The DNC owes it $431,000. The party owes $304,000 to data giant NGP VAN, which provides voter information to most Democratic campaigns. The party also owes $218,000 to Omaha, Nebraska-based Infogroup, for direct mail consulting.
Democrats out-raise Republicans while cutting debt from $23m to $3m
Anyone using it? Is it the be-all-and-end all? Any bad long term side effects?
How did I miss this news? Guy sounds like a true psycho.
WW3 here we go! UN demands full inquiry but armed Russian separatists block access to crash site amid confusion over black boxes Pro-Russia separatist groups in eastern Ukraine are hastily covering up all links to the Buk missile battery suspected to have been used to shoot down the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane, according to western-based defence and intelligence specialists. As the UN security council called for a "full, thorough independent international investigation" into the downing of the plane, concern that a cover-up was under way was fuelled by a standoff at part of the crash site between observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and rebel gunmen, which ended with a warning shot being fired. Postings on rebel websites immediately after the crash boasted of having shot down what they claimed was an Antonov Ukrainian military transport plane, but these have since been deleted.
Cover-up: Ukraine rebels destroying all links to MH17 air atrocity
The location scenes always look so dreary.
Any gossip?\ \ It''s been around for a while now, surely someone has to have some dirt.\ \ Who loves each other? Who hates each other? Who''s fucking who?
It was supposed to be made into a full length feature film. Ron Howard has committed to directing but still no updates. Does anyone know anything about this project? What are your thoughts on the story? The darkest part was of the demons attempting to kidnap Nobody Owens into Hell. It's such a great little book, I'd love to see a discussion on it here. (Please, this thread is about this book only, not other Gaiman works or which ones you liked best. Thanks.)
Someone uploaded the entire 10 course meal with photos and critique of the soiree. Looks like a series of hors-d'oeuvres. Watch out for the unexpected breakdown from the reviewer under the lobster dish.
Even the hype didn''t do it justice. I first went on a long trip after college. It didn''t hurt that I was staying with French friends.%0D\ %0D\ Maybe it was because I grew up in Washington, DC?
October 11, 1963
Traylor, is that you?
I am watching Suzanne Pleshette in " Rome Adventure". She is so bad in this movie. And I don't remember ever watching her in a movie I liked her in -even "The Birds" which is probably her best film role. Certainly her most famous. But she was so watchable in " The Bob Newhart Show" . She has great chemistry with Bob Newhart. And she is beautiful. Didn't she date Johnny Carson or was that Angie( I slept with JFK )Dickinson? P.s. Can't stand Troy Donahue although he perfect in Godfather, Part 2. And he isn't really as handsome other people. He just looks like a frat boy in the mold of Greg Marmalard.
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Does it all go back to him having acne as a teenager?
And I still haven't found anything I like. I feel like I'm losing my mind at this point.
Beef is definitely brewing between Bobbi Kristina and Angela Bassett….and it’s all over a biopic. As you know, Angela will be making her directorial debut later this year on the Lifetime-produced Whitney Houston biopic, and actress Yaya DaCosta has already been cast to play the lead role, even though Bobbi Kristina expressed that she wanted to play her mother. During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Angela revealed why Bobbi Kris was the furthest thing from her mind when thinking of who could play Whitney. In short, the girl just isn’t built for the acting thing yet. "I did not think about casting her. And probably for a number of reasons, you know. One being that she’s not an actress. I know she’s acted here and there. I know she’s been on their family’s reality show, but she’s not an actress and acting is a craft. It’s an attempt to illuminate the complexities of human behavior and life. And this is a very fast-paced schedule; we have just 21 days to tell this story. It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story—there’s a technical aspect. No lies told there. Still, Bobbi Kristina felt a way because she hopped on Twitter and accused Angela of being born a man.
Bobbi Kristina Is Pressed That She Won't Play Whitney In Biopic, Calls Angela Bassett A Man
Is it just me, or does this spokeman guy look like a guy who used to be hot, but was ridden hard and put away wet and left for about 20 years, and just pulled out in time to do the commercial?
and I thought she was going to compete with The View? Poor Jenny
Who will be able to resist watching her surefire smash "Madame Secretary?!?!?!?"
Legendary actor James Garner -- star of "The Rockford Files" and "The Notebook" -- has died ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us an ambulance was dispatched to the actor's home in Los Angeles around 8PM Saturday evening ... and he was dead when they arrived on scene. We do not know his cause of death at this time. Garner was one of the first actors to amass success in both television and film ... and he starred in a long list of classic films -- as well as a co-starring role in the '94 big screen version of "Maverick" starring Mel Gibson. Garner was the original Bret Maverick from 1957-1960 ... as well as the same character in a short lived 80s remake.
Who will join Donny in the Team America alliance? Will Zach make Frankie his grande bitch? Will Cody walk around in a jockstrap? Will Caleb carry his Amber obsession too far? Will Devin's head explode from sheer douchery? But first...
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Anyone else experience this?
Hi!
Holy shit. [quote]Don't get me wrong, Sierra: Appropriation does happen, and it can be can ugly and embarrassing. For instance, when you misuse the word "bottoming," telling your white gay male addressee "I don't care who you are bottoming" when in fact we thirsty faggots don't "bottom someone," we "bottom for someone," we forget to be offended by your crass slut-shaming and objectification of gay black men because we are trying to digest the flabbergasting but increasingly likely notion that you have not in fact talked to a gay man in your life and still felt qualified to pen your essay.
'Bye Sierra': A Slightly Angry Queer Response to the Sierra Mannie Controversy
Continue the conversation here.
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Do Atoms wear clothes???
Jerry Sandusky's son
Just wondering?
Which one is the most patronizing?
No girlfriend. Lives with two platonic female roommates. BFFs with fellow Olympian Natalie Coughlin, who is married. Zero romantic or lascivious mention of girls on his Twitter feed. Could it be? Link to the best body on the Olympic swim team below.
A Manassas City teenager accused of “sexting” a video to his girlfriend is now facing a search warrant in which Manassas City police and Prince William County prosecutors want to take a photo of his erect penis, possibly forcing the teen to become erect by taking him to a hospital and giving him an injection, the teen’s lawyers said. A Prince William County judge allowed the 17-year-old to leave the area without the warrant being served or the pictures being taken — yet. The teen is facing two felony charges, for possession of child pornography and manufacturing child pornography, which could lead not only to incarceration until he’s 21, but inclusion on the state sex offender data base for, possibly, the rest of his life. David Culver of NBC Washington first reported the story and interviewed the teen’s guardian, his aunt, who was shocked at the lengths Prince William authorities were willing to go to make a sexting case in juvenile court. “The prosecutor’s job is to seek justice,” said the teen’s defense lawyer, Jessica Harbeson Foster. “What is just about this? How does this advance the interest of the Commonwealth? This is a 17-year-old who goes to school every day, plays football, has never been in trouble with the law before. Now he’s saddled with two felonies and the implication that he’s a sexual predator. I don’t mind trying the case. My goal is to stop the search warrant. I don’t want him to go through that. Taking him down to the hospital so he can get an erection in front of all those cops, that’s traumatizing.”
WaPo: Police Want to Photograph Teen's Erect Penis in Sexting Case
Does me talking and fighting about this foreign conflict make me look butch?
Who's on your list, dahlinks?
Zsa%20Zsa
What a great, intense documentary. I have some questions for those who''ve seen it. Do you think the Stones were to blame and egged the crowd on? I couldn''t get over the Hells Angel who kept glaring at Mick while seething, stretching his neck...so scary. Do you think Jagger was scared? I think he looked scared out of his mind. Also, what was up with that enormous nude woman rushing the stage? Jeez. Anyway I''d love to hear from others who know about the incident and watched the movie...Thanks.
Jumpin Jack Smash
This morning I packed a lunch, got in the car and drove out through some country roads. When I found a nice spot, I parked, had my lunch and enjoyed the word around me. It's amazing how something so simple can make me feel so good. What do you do?
Handsome, natural, a walk in the woods:
So that no one can buy it and develop it. My family thinks I''m crazy because it will take up most of my savings. I say fuck it. I always claim to be an environmentalist. So I figured I''d put my money where my mouth is. \ \ The only payoff will be that I hate most people and this will help keep them away. \ \ \ That is all.
I''m going to buy this 12 acre tract of land behind my house.
I need any and all information about the three uber bottoms. I am in love with all three of them, and as luck should have it they''ve all retired from porn so I''m left pining for new information. Does anyone know their real names/whereabouts/recent pics/etc? I''ve already found Kevin Williams on Facebook but the other two seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Any and all information you may know about them is greatly appreciated!!!
The late James Garner had an extensive career in both TV and film, so many great performances. Which was your favorite?
If so, how'd that go?
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I live in Austin and I need to supplement my income. I want a part-time job so I can save for a down payment on a condo. I don't mind working weekends. Do any of you have experience driving for Uber?
Meth? Protease face?
Is it the best movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the Seventies? Why didn't they cast Barbra Streisand as Martha Jefferson? Or as Ben Franklin?
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So I took a vacation in Europe and smoked again. I have done this before. When I came back, I kept having a few every day. Damn, I am so MUCH happier. So much more hopeful. Even my OCD seems gone when I just have a few smokes every day. WHY?? Day three without and I in shock how much better I felt smoking. Any advice or insights would be aprpeciated.
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When I say unusual I mean, not the usual Italian, French, Chinese genre... Say Danish, Dutch, African, Swedish... I used to go to an Austrian restaurant here in London that was so good and since it went there's not a decent Austrian restaurant left in this whole town, in fact hardly any Austrian restaurants at all. So, where to go for strudel & schnitzel now? Nowhere. Just the same old boring nationalities over & over...
We saw it again this past week with the Washington Post's inimitable Dana Milbank writing a column July 4th suggesting that perhaps the Obama presidency might benefit from the Democrats losing their Senate majority. But for Obama, while yes, he would be recorded as he first African-American president, he would also be remembered for having lost a House majority in 2010(his first midterm election) and the Senate majority in 2014(his 2nd midterm).... a fairly inauspicious record with the Affordable Care Act credited as having assisted in the play.
Let's pretend we're 1996 or so. A golden year IMHO. I'm The Rachel, America's coolest haircut.
Me: Porn Socks Shoes Clothes Towels Kitchen Appliances and Equipment
I always thought they were nothing but trash garbage bangers who had nothing but loud noise and were a refuge for misfits who were racist and homophobic and couldnt stand the fact that when soul and disco were king they werent at the top of the heap. Good riddance.
Leave it to Prince Harry to provide the only tantalizingly shirtless glimpses of the Royal Family – but really, what other member would you rather see sans clothing? I think Prince William has passed his expiration date, even if he is destined for the throne. Kings are rarely sexy. Princes on the other hand can be very sexy. Especially when they’re totally starkers. (That means naked.)
I'm going back on the market after over seven years at the same company. I asked a respected colleague if he would look provide me with feedback. He advised I add color - literally, make the headers an array of different colors - and remove reference to Phi Beta Kappa. ("People won't know what that is. It sounds like a frat.") Oh, and replace semicolons with periods, even if the result is not grammatically correct. I admit it has been a while since I last sent around a résumé, but I'm in my early thirties, I am educated and reasonably accomplished, and I don't feel compelled to misrepresent my style or education in order to seduce prospective employers. And now he "want(s) to see those changes!" I'm dumbstruck. What is the most insane résumé gaffe you've personally seen?
My BF and I are considering a vacation there soonish. We're Canadian so anywhere warm and pretty is what we're looking for.
I just have the streaming video portion of Netflix since they did that stupid shyt last summer. I check the site every Tues for new releases, but the pickings are always paltry. The last straw that made me cancel my Netflix subscription this week... they have a shytload of Indian films. I'm through
Discuss:
I heard they changed the tampon string from blue to white! Is nothing in the book sacred? I also heard they're using a CGI tampon! Ugh, CGI blood always looks so fake.
Out of all the homophobic actors out there--and I’m sure their numbers are legion--Jensen Ackles irritates me the most. I don’t understand the gay men who worship him. He’s undeniably good looking but he can’t open his mouth without making a homophobic comment. What kills me is that gays everywhere take up for him just because of his looks. “Oh, he didn’t mean it that way;” or “Oh, it was just a joke;” or “Oh, you’re taking his comments too literally;” bullshit like that. Are you fuckin’ kiddin’ me??? I’m sorry but affecting a lispy high-pitched voice while ineffectually slapping at someone OVER AND OVER AND OVER, TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME, IN EVERY POSSIBLE CONTRIVED SITUATION isn’t funny. It isn’t a joke. And, similarly, using the word “gay” or “pansy” as a derogatory adjective in interviews isn’t okay either. Those things are evidence of a belief, people, an attitude toward gays, and I’m sick of guys lusting over him. I’m 46 and own my own architectural firm, and I have 6 architects working for me. Two of them are gay and about 10 years younger than me, and I had listen to them all goddam night go on about this guy. Even on DataLounge his name pops up constantly. It’s like a bunch of freakin’ yeshiva boys jonesin’ to blow motherfuckin’ Hitler. I don’t know what Ackles makes per episode, but word is that he clears 40k to 50k for an appearance at a “Supernatural” convention. So far this year he’s done twelve. On top of that, once he’s there he charges for meet-and-greets and photo ops, and it’s gays who are putting a lot of that money in his pocket. (Unless you’re [i]too[i/] gay. Then there’s no photo because he won’t pose with you.) Gays are also the ones glued to their tv sets each week, boosting his show’s ratings while they queer every gaze between him and his on-screen brother. [i]Idiots.[i/] This guy doesn’t even have the testicular fortitude of Sabrina the Teenage Witch! He won’t just come out and say what he thinks about gays, gay marriage or even politics because he knows it would hurt his career. In fact, his wife will re-Tweet stuff showing mild LGBT support just to muddy the waters and throw people, most likely Hollywood producers, off their GOP scent. However, the latest is that Stone Park Trust, the same trust that owns his Brentwood property--the same trust for which he’s the trustee--has allegedly made past donations to NOM, Prop 8 and Romney’s campaign, so anyone who thinks Ackles isn’t a Republican is nuts. His wife’s Twitter page practically spells it out, along with their very devout “I love me some Jesus” status. “Jensen’s favorite book is the Bible;” “His favorite actor is Jim Caviezel;” “His favorite time of year is Easter.” Blah, blah, blah. Man, I got nothing against anyone’s religion or their personal beliefs about gays and lesbians. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is entitled to their own opinions, but that doesn’t mean that I have to buy their product or watch their show. I’m not going to further any actor’s career so they can fight harder against my rights. And I’m sure not going to give someone like Ackles a starring role in my fantasies. I mean, compare his douchebaggery with the incredibly respectful and classy comments George Clooney made about constantly being called gay. Night and day. Night and day. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE HOMOPHOBIA, PEOPLE. STOP LUSTING OVER ASSHOLES.
If Warren runs against Hillary - who would you vote for?
Tell us your favorite color and why you like it so much. I like green because it sets off my eyes beautifully.
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I'm totally rooting for Miss Sudan, but I wouldn't be surprised if Miss Malawi takes it.
I love Brian Kinney (the character not the actor)! I want to marry him!!!!!!! I would try to change him. What I didn't like: Emmitt...oh my god, I didn't get his purpose for being on the show. Blech.
I got an email inviting me to try something called Ebay Now. It's a service where you can order stuff from local vendors and have it delivered within 1-2 hours, for a $5 flat fee. There is no minimum purchase. The list of vendors in my area are places like Walgreens (run out of toilet paper? Get a roll delivered!), Staples, Target, and about 8 other stores. It sounds like a great deal... is there a downside or a catch somewhere? Do they meet the delivery window or is it a gamble? Another service that make it possible to never leave your house, along with Fresh Direct, Amazon Prime, Seamless, Grubhub, etc.
Putin is a KGB Cold Warrior- Obama is no match.
It's amazing that the White House pulled this off after such an inauspicious start. The people that most needed help are being helped. And yes, some people who don't need help are paying a bit more. I'm one of those people and I don't give a fuck. It's worth. Congratulations, Mr. President. Your signature piece of legislation, owned lock, stock and barrel by the Democratic party, is working!
Name a celebrity and state when you think he/she will die, followed by what you think the cause of death will be. I'll start: Charlie Sheen - 2016, drunk driving accident Lindsay Lohan - 2017, overdose
The SATC for Dudes sketch was awful but the other stuff was fun. I like PubLizity the best.
"The Waltons" has been airing on Hallmark Channel in HD. Not just a HD logo at the bottom right-hand side of the screen. The whole picture. The CBS series ran from 1972 to 1981. Are there were other series, from around this period, which are also possibly in high definition?
I wanna smack those "va-kay shway" girls in the mouth on those Old Navy commercials.%0D\ %0D\ You?
Discuss.
Can You Be Gay, Pro-Choice, and Republican?
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