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I watch videos of people getting their hair cut and styled, make-up tutorials, manicures, massages, just to name a few. U?
I'm most looking forward to seeing what Todd Haynes does with "I'm Still Here."
Tom Hiddleston is the latest in a long line of distinguished actors including Lord Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellan to play Coriolanus. How will this rendition and Hiddleston's performance compare to his predecessors?
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My office has less than half capacity today because of the snowstorm, and it's just so quiet and relaxing. All of the more irritating co-workers called in this morning, and the fraus announced yesterday that they would not be coming in today, before the snow even started. They were standing in front of the windows beginning at 1pm yesterday, in the vain hope it would start snowing early so they could cut out and get a day and a half off. Anyway, I wish the office could be like this all the time. No bullshit, just getting our work done with no interruptions in a relaxed environment. God, it's nice without the douchebag VP's (I'm a VP but not a douchebag. It's just me, a cool straight guy and a VERY cool lesbian as far as senior staff goes today) and the fraus. A few of us are going out for drinks in an hour. Fun times.
In what could be one of the more startling reversals since New Coke, a report released Monday claims that Microsoft will bring back a Windows 7-style Start menu to what is being called Windows 8.2. (snip) (In Windows 8.2) with the ability to boot to the desktop, access apps via the Start menu, and launch Metro apps via Windows on the desktop, there seems to be a good chance that users will be able to bury the Metro-styled, Windows 8 Start page where IT WILL NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN.
"We just thought we were Jay Z and Beyonce," Pratt told HLN in a separate interview. "We didn't think about long term. In the moment, it was just, like, the money was coming so fast and there was so much fame. You just can't imagine it like a light switch turning off. We were reckless with our money."
Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt Blew Through $10 Million, Miss Getting Paid By MTV
Have any of you ever achieved this? I am 41, and am wondering if there is any point in continuing to starve myself. I have two obese parents. I recently stopped dieting, but continue to exercise. I have gained 15 pounds, but I don't feel terrible about it. I am still within normal bmi measurements (barely).
DES MOINES, Iowa %C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94 Police have arrested a Drake University student accused of sexually abusing a fraternity brother. \ \ Twenty-one-year-old Anthony Bertolone was arrested Wednesday and charged with third-degree sexual abuse. \ \ He was released from jail later in the day. Jail officials say they had no listing for an attorney and no attorney was listed in online court records. \ \ A telephone listing for Bertolone wasn''t found and a call placed to the Sigma Chi (KYE) fraternity went unanswered. \ \ Des Moines police spokeswoman Sgt. Lori Lavorato says the victim was incoherent at the time of the assaults and believes he was drugged. She says the victim was unaware of the assaults until he found pictures of himself and Bertolone on a computer. \ \ She says the assaults occurred multiple times with the first known assault occurring last September.
Police: Drake University student sexually abused frat brother
Totally inappropriate. Jesus.
Obama Takes Selfie With World Leaders At Mandela Memorial, And Michelle Is Having None Of It
I like the Clintons, I always have, but doesn't it seem weird how often Hillary and Bill show up with Chelsea at events? I'm around her age and I think it seems a little unhealthy to spend so much time with your parents.
[bold]Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is[/bold] If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe. Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the "largest temperature departure from average of any season on record." The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet's history. Not that our leaders seemed to notice. Last month the world's nations, meeting in Rio for the 20th-anniversary reprise of a massive 1992 environmental summit, accomplished nothing. Unlike George H.W. Bush, who flew in for the first conclave, Barack Obama didn't even attend. It was "a ghost of the glad, confident meeting 20 years ago," the British journalist George Monbiot wrote; no one paid it much attention, footsteps echoing through the halls "once thronged by multitudes." Since I wrote one of the first books for a general audience about global warming way back in 1989, and since I've spent the intervening decades working ineffectively to slow that warming, I can say with some confidence that we're losing the fight, badly and quickly – losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in. When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of our predicament, you just need to do a little math. For the past year, an easy and powerful bit of arithmetical analysis first published by financial analysts in the U.K. has been making the rounds of environmental conferences and journals, but it hasn't yet broken through to the larger public. This analysis upends most of the conventional political thinking about climate change. And it allows us to understand our precarious – our almost-but-not-quite-finally hopeless – position with three simple numbers. (please see the link for the three numbers, and a discussion of each one... it's interesting, informative, and sobering)
LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan member of the Republican National Committee said last week that gays want free healthcare because they are dying of AIDS. Dave Agema made the comments against people living with HIV and the LGBT communities while speaking Dec. 5 at the Berrien County Republican Party Holiday Reception, according to Equality Michigan, a statewide LGBT advocacy group. While speaking against marriage equality, Agema said that during his time with American Airlines he witnessed LGBT workers claiming a person living with AIDS as their partner simply so that person could get medical benefits. “Folks, they (gay people) want free medical because they’re dying (when they’re) between 30 and 44 years old,” he said. “To me, it’s a moral issue. It’s a Biblical issue. Traditional marriage is where it should be and it’s in our platform. Those in our party who oppose traditional marriage are wrong,” said Agema. Equality Michigan has called on Republican leadership to denounce Agema’s remarks and is seeking his removal as a committeemember of the Republican Party. The organization is also encouraging the healthcare community to correct Agema’s remarks, saying they perpetuate a harmful stigma about people living with HIV. “It is unconscionable that in 2013 a political figure in a prominent position would feel so comfortable spewing lies about real people in a pathetic attempt to deny fundamental rights to families in Michigan,” said Emily Dievendorf, Managing Director of Equality Michigan. “The HIV crisis should not be used to scare and divide Michiganders when our only route to overcoming the crisis is to eliminate the stigma surrounding HIV by having more frequent and accurate conversations about public health,” she said. Earlier this year, Agema came under fire from members of his own party after he posted an excerpt on Facebook from an article titled “Everyone Should Know These Statistics On Homosexuals.” Among the claims in the article by Dr. Frank Joseph is that gay people “account for half the murders in large cities” and that “part of the homosexual agenda is to get the public to affirm their filthy lifestyle.” The article, which cites studies from the 1980s for many of its claims, also attributes high medical insurance rates to caring for AIDS patients.
Mich. RNC member says gays want free healthcare because they’re dying of AIDS
Beginning this week I'll be driving about 700 miles, round trip, twice a month for my work. Expecting to do this for about six months. Any suggestions for how to make it go by faster? Other than breaking the speed limit, of course.
Yes, it's a Daily Mail article, but the DM always has the best pictures. The fast count: Kissinger, GWB, and Mugabe. I guess that as part of the American delegation Kissinger and Bush are traveling under diplomatic immunity. Aren't there indictments against them in a few countries? The DM commenters never disappoint Vicki from South Carolina, U.S. says "Commie love-fest. Sickening."
Joan is a bit long in the tooth playing a spinster who is "somewhat" older than Cliff Robertson. Lorne Greene steals the show as his sleazy grifter dad.
At the Brentwood Country Mart:
Patrick Schwarzenegger in L.A., December 2013
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Still in prison. Are they lifers, now? Stay tuned.
I''m making a quiche and it calls for 1.5 cups of light cream along with four eggs and the other ingredients (cheese etc.).%0D\ %0D\ No cream in the house!%0D\ %0D\ Can I substitute whole milk? That''s all I have.
making dinner for my BF and he''s coming home cranky
This guy is so hot the camera is melting. \ \ Then the guy he wrestles is really hot too.\ \ But the finish to the wrestling match is bizarre. Who would have thought?
A singlet so tight you can see his...
the talking hat
And Juliette Binoche is in it.
Hollywood rebooted "Godzilla" for some reason
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Two polls... one at the link (the official one) and another DL version here so we can see how we differ from the public and large... VOTE!
Does it feel like an extention of NYC or a suburb of New Jersey? Is it culturally and racially separate from the rest of PA? Is it another Detroit?
Mine: People who drive neck to neck on a 6 lane highway and under the speed limit. I don''t know if it''s where I live (on the coast, so people are more laid back) but every fucking morning I get stuck behind people lollygagging along doing 40 on a 45 mph road, so I normally do at least 55. All you can do is wait until one of them inches forward enough to squeeze in front. This morning I was doing 52 and left them all in the dust. WTF are they doing and do they ever look in the rearview mirror and see a mile of traffic behind them?
Everyone has one, even Adam Levine (and Andrew Sullivan). I am amazed they are in fashion: I like well trimmed beards, but these look awful
Do you just get a gift no matter what? or do you choose not to participate?
She isn't pretty. She has a masculine face and tree trunks for legs. Who did she screw to convince people she's a sex symbol?
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Michael Landon Robert Conard Burt Ward Larry Wilcox And the Fonz-hey I was twelve.
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This shit is getting ridiculous. Have these idiots thought that maybe a little exposure is good for them? I don''t know how any of these little hothouse orchids survived when I was in grade school.
A 70-year-old friend wants to buy healthcare insurance through his state's exchange. People covered by Medicare have met the ACA requirement. He will keep his Medicare benefits, so why would he have to get insurance through a healthcare exchange?
Because thigns are getting juicy with Brandi Kyle Kim Joyce Carlton Yo and Lisa Vanderpump!
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Continued... come here to make fun of RPatz and KStew and their stans!
Stars Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd.... I'm really surprised at how much casual nudity is in this movie. I don't really remember this movie (it was about the time I went to college), but it stars a lot of recognizable faces and big names... and so much skin. Very casual. And it made me realize that women showed boobs a lot more casually in mainstream movies in the 70s and 80s... I mean, this is billed as a John Landis comedy. There was even gratuitous beefcake.
What are the backstories here?
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I read about this show in EW a few weeks ago, but just started watching on HBO and Youtube. I like it but don't think that Chris Lilley is as funny as The Kids in the Hall.
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Starts today at 9 am, will come down thick and fast. I can't wait to wear my muffs.
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We rightly ridicule the frau lifestyle, but at least these women will have kids and grandkids to care for them when they're old. I'm only 46, but I'm preparing myself, psychologically, for end of life dilemmas. I don't want to feel lonely, but I imagine I will. I will off myself if the pain is too much, if I get ALS, and/or I am immobilized by stroke or accident.
My niece is convinced my brother will shoot Santa because he will mistake him for an intruder. Nothing he says can convince her otherwise. Don't you think it's time he tell her the truth instead of letting her live in this state of anxiety?
Sounds good!
Any stories?
Support for stronger gun laws has dropped from highs in the weeks after last year's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., even though other mass shootings have kept guns in the news.
Accepted a job at the Chronicle and need to move there. Is it better to live in the City or it's surrounding areas like Daly City, Bay View, Oakland, San Mateo, Treasure Island Media, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Emeryville, Walnut Creek, Folsom, Fremont, San Bruno, Redwood City, Mountain View, Hayward?
Michael Griffin worked at the Holy Ghost Preparatory School for 12 years teaching French and Italian. He said that although administrators, including the principal, knew he was gay, he never had any major conflict with the Catholic administrators until Friday. Griffin said he was fired on Friday after he had emailed administrators to tell them he was going to file for a marriage license and would be slightly late to work. Griffin said the school administrators told him that the email sent on the school email server made his relationship public and therefore they had to fire him if he decided to go through with the marriage. In a statement sent to ABC News from McCloskey and Holy Ghost Preparatory School, the school president said Griffin was fired for violating the terms of his contract by deciding to marry a partner of the same sex. "Unfortunately, this decision contradicts the terms of his teaching contract at our school, which requires all faculty and staff to follow the teachings of the Church as a condition of their employment," McCloskey said in the statement. "In discussion with Mr. Griffin, he acknowledged that he was aware of this provision, yet he said that he intended to go ahead with the ceremony. Regretfully, we informed Mr. Griffin that we have no choice but to terminate his contract effective immediately."
Gay male teacher fired after applying for marriage license. Only 3 weeks before x-mas
As the saying goes, “everything’s bigger in Texas,” and that certainly could apply to the level of kook-driven bigotry that seems to be teeming from the Lone Star state as of late. Just last month we told you about a charming group known as the Young Conservatives of Texas at the University of Texas that tried promoting a game called ”Catch an Illegal Immigrant” on Facebook, and of course Representative Louie Gohmert has a long history of mind-numbingly stupid and bigoted remarks. Now the people of Texas have someone else to be proud of. Larry SECEDE Kilgore (he legally changed his middle name from Scott to SECEDE in 2012) is running for Governor. Kilgore proudly calls himself a “Christian,” and has advocated for the death penalty for adulterers and women that have had abortions. He might be best known for his extreme anti-gay stances, and for making up words like “transvestism”: “Public use of vulgar sexual language would result in flogging. … Judges will flog more severely those convicted of transvestism.” In an interview with Lone Star Q on Monday, however, Kilgore has admitted that he’s willing to roll up his sleeves and work side-by-side with the homos in order to capture the ultimate prize - secession; “The only position I have is secession. I am a Christian, and I have lots of Christian beliefs. However, I am trying to build a coalition of all different types of people. I look at the lesbians and the homosexual folks and I say, ‘Hey, D.C. is stealing my money just like they’re stealing your money.’ After we get our freedom, then we can decide all that stuff — hopefully at a county level. Right now, lesbians and homosexuals and Christians may have differences with each other, but we’ve got a bigger enemy.” The Everlasting GOP Stoppers tracked down this video of Kilgore at a good-old boy rally ranting about how he “hates the U.S. flag,” and espousing the virtues of secession back in 2009. Hey, at least he’s consistent. Frankly, I’d love to see Texas try to go it on their own.
TX Candidate For Governor Believes Gays Should Be Flogged, Running On Secession Platform
Premiers tonight... this is the new fall show I've probably been most looking forward to. Karl Urban! Premiere tonight, and then a new episode tomorrow at its regular time. Anyone watching? Anyone excited?
Netanyahu had notified the South African authorities that he would fly in but cancelled his plans at the last minute due to the costs involved -- around 7.0 million shekels ($2 million) for his transport and security alone, pubic radio and the Haaretz daily reported. The Israeli leader has been in the spotlight recently with revelations that taxpayers dished out almost $1 million last year to maintain his three residences.
Israel's Netanyahu Will Miss Mandela Memorial, Says Travel Costs Too Expensive
Disgusting. (Btw this is from a straight sports blog.) "Free agent safety Kerry Rhodes was more or less outed by Media Takeout during the offseason (the pictures that MTO posted of him with another man appear to have been scrubbed from the site). He still hasn't found a job. This is fucked up, because Kerry Rhodes is good. In fact, by many metrics, he's very good. Rhodes picked off four passes last season (two of them came against the Jets, but still!) and was part of the fifth-best pass defense in the NFL. Pro Football Focus had him ranked as the fourth-best safety in all of football in 2012. Apart from the retired Ronde Barber, Rhodes is the only player in PFF's top 30 safeties from 2012 that doesn't currently have a job. Look at his career stats and you will see that there was no obvious drop-off in the quality of Rhodes's play in 2012 compared to the seven previous seasons. He's been serviceable at worst and Pro Bowl-caliber at best. Nothing about him has changed except for the fact that someone put up a picture of him with his arm around a dude. Rhodes has vehemently denied the gay rumors, and yet the mere [italic]suspicion[/italic] of his gayness seems to have been enough to make him unemployable." (more at link)
BREAKING NEWS: Kerry Rhodes has been BLACKLISTED from the NFL because he's gay
I'm 50 years old, and pretty alarmed at how many young guys I know who have sero-converted. Condom use has not caught on with the guys who weren't around to experience the big 1983-1996 AIDS die off. I'm figuring that the population who may benefit from a drug like this may often be in less than perfect health to start with, and if one can't use a damned condom, how likely is one to faithfully stay on a drug regimen? What might be the long-term effects? I was initially horrified to think anyone would take a potent HIV drug while perfectly healthy, and risk the side effects (and feeding into Big Pharma's profit scheme), just so they can continue barebacking.....but what if that's just my prejudice? What if ultimately it saves lives?
And I loved it! He had a six-pack to die for. I know they're all callboys, but what the hell.
The Divine Miss M. is taking on the great Mae West. HBO Films has put in development Mae West, a movie about the true Hollywood original, with Bette Midler attached to star and executive produce. The project is the brainchild of William Friedkin (The Exorcist), who will direct and executive produce. Broadway heavyweight Harvey Fierstein, who recently penned the book for Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots, is writing the script. Also executive producing is Jerry Weintraub, who executive produced HBO Films’ Emmy-winning Behind The Candelabra. Mae West, based on West’s autobiography Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It, chronicles West’s rise friedkinto stardom when she takes New York by storm after writing and starring in her scandalous Broadway show Sex and battles authorities over obscenity charges. Instead of taking the road of a wide-eyed Hollywood ingenue, West forged her own path, writing and starring in her own risqué plays, including her breakthrough Sex, which had her prosecuted and sentenced to 10 days in prison for “corrupting the morals of youth.” The notoriety fueled her career and didn’t stop her from tackling taboo subjects in her next plays, including 1928 hit Diamond Lil, about a racy 1890s woman, which opened the doors to Hollywood for her. GoodnessHasNothingToDoWithIt_bookWest was a late arrival, signing her first movie deal with Paramount at 39, but went on to make a string of hits, becoming one of the highest-grossing stars of the 1930s while still finding ways to push the envelope and keeping studio censors busy. Midler’s career path resembles that of West — she too made a name for herself onstage in New York (she made her Broadway debut in the chorus of Fiddler On The Roof) before segueing to features in her 30s for a successful movie career, which has earned her two Oscar nominations. Midler just started a three-week engagement at the Geffen Playhouse of I’ll Eat You Last after a successful Broadway run. Midler has been earning strong reviews for her portrayal of larger-than-life Hollywood agent Sue Mengers in the one-person play written by John Logan and directed by Joe Mantello.
Doh!
With the Winter Olympics two months away, the head of the IOC has asked athletes from refrain from any sort of political protest related to Russia's anti-gay laws. Due to Rule 50 in the Olympic Charter, athletes can be expelled for participating in a demonstration or in political, religious, or racial propaganda.
and when?
If we can make it through the night.....
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And though it isn't perfect, it's far from an "instant camp classic" as described in another thread. Spoilers inside.
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This was in another Sound of Music Live thread but really, it deserves its own.
The one they announced a few months ago that everybody said was an awful idea and that they subsequently put into turnaround. It will take place in Paris for some reason.
NBC revives stalled "Rosemary's Baby" miniseries
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In its newest story which is only available to subscribers so far, The Sun claims that it was Tom Daley that went after Dustin Lance Black. By LEIGH HOLMWOOD, Deputy TV Editor Published: 19 minutes ago [quote]How Tom Daley wooed boyfriend Dustin [quote]TOM Daley has revealed HE made the first move on boyfriend Dustin Lance Black. [quote]Tom Daley reveals he wooed his boyfriend by tapping his number into his phone - and signed off with a 'winky face' [quote]Call me ;-)
The Sun: Tom Daley has revealed HE made the first move on boyfriend Dustin Lance Black
Is it an aesthetic thing, or is it because they feel better when they''re inside you?\ \ I don''t have enough experience with bottoming to judge if it feels better to get fucked by a big dick than by a medium one, but I find medium(-to-smallish) dicks much more aesthetically pleasing.\ \ To say nothing of the fact that they''re much more comfortable to suck. But then I have a very small mouth - do all size queens have a mouth like Julia Roberts?
"I realized it was finished for good in 2008, when we reformed for our reunion tour," Beckham said of the group. "It should have been the best moment of my life, but I just wanted to be elsewhere. It wasn't a lack of respect for the girls or the audience, but the passion just wasn't there. By contrast, in my new career, the passion grows every year. I still want more."
Victoria Beckham, A.K.A. Posh Spice, 'Just Wanted To Be Elsewhere' During 2008 Spice Girls Reunion
It can't be healthy for them. Christian Bale has done it multiple times. He became very muscular for American Psycho; then lost all his muscle mass and 60+ pounds for The Machinist; then gained back all his muscle mass and then some for Batman Begins; then became skeletal and gaunt for The Fighter; then gained all his muscle back yet again for The Dark Knight Rises. Now he's put on an extra fifty pounds for American Hustle. Isn't this incredibly physically dangerous to keep doing? The strain on his heart must be immense.
Probably less. Garth Brooks expected to be #1, One Direction likely #2. Spears may clock in at #2-4. Poor homophobic bitch.
Britney Spears' New Album Expected To Sell A Grand Floppage Of 115-120k Copies
Are you going, darling? Anyone who's anyone will be - Bono, Peter Gabriel. Important people, darling.
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I saw him at the gym (Equinox in Soho/NYC, does anyone know if he lives around there?). The guy is a bonafide stud. He's a fucking bro. He's gotta be one of the hottest celebrities and definitely the hottest gay one. Over Ricky Martin, and got more meat and manliness than Matt Bomer. Would anyone care to argue?
Am I the only one who noticed this or am I the only one who is brave enough to say this? It's episode after episode of some random issue but really the best part of it is the fucking. That's why EVERY episode must have a love scene so that we may see young scrumptious Gale Harold's various beautiful body parts.
Does anyone else have an upper respiratory infection that wants to stay around for weeks and weeks of coughing, dribbling, and sore throats? Any tips on getting rid of it?
Ben Affleck knows the drill when it comes to the paparazzi, but he's sick and tired of his children being followed and photographed. In a new interview with Playboy, Affleck shares his thoughts on being in the spotlight and admits that although he's fine with photographers following him around, he's not okay with grown men chasing after his three kids -- Violet, 8, Seraphina, 4, and Samuel, 1 -- with Jennifer Garner. "You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can follow me around and take pictures all you want. I don't care. There are a couple of guys outside right now. Terrific. That's part of the deal. But it's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money," he tells Playboy. "It makes the kids less safe. They used to take pictures of our children coming out of preschool, and so this stalker who had threatened to kill me, my wife and our kids showed up at the school and got arrested. I mean, there are real practical dangers to this." "My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain ... As their father it's my job to protect them from that stuff," Affleck explains to Playboy. "I try my very best, and sometimes I'm successful. The tragic thing is, people who see those pictures naturally think it’s sweet. They don't see the gigantic former gang member with a huge lens standing over a four-year-old and screaming to get the kid's attention." "The kids are always looking down because they're freaked out and scared of these people," he adds. "And so they yell. Which is fine if you're Lindsay Lohan coming out of a club, or me or any adult," remarks Affleck. "With kids it's tasteless at best."
Ben Affleck Lashes Out At Paparazzi, Says It's 'Wrong And Disgusting To Follow Children Around'
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Two prominent U.S. and British anti-gay activists attended a conference in Jamaica over the weekend to urge their counterparts and the Jamaican government to retain that country’s colonial era law banning homosexual activity. The conference, organized by the Jamaican Coalition for a Healthy Society and the Christian Lawyers’ Association, was aimed at developing strategies to lobby against a proposed repeal of the anti-gay law. Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, who said prior to her election in December 2011 that “no one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation,” has suggested that repealing the anti-gay law might come before the nation’s Houses of Parliament, but her government has yet to take any action. Jamaica has been described by some human rights groups as the most homophobic place on Earth because of the high level of violent crime directed at LGBT people. The U.S. Department of State said that in 2012, “homophobia was widespread in the country.” On Saturday, Peter LaBarbera, founder of the Naperville, Ill.-based group, Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), warned conference attendees not to “sit idly by as so-called ‘LGBT activists’ manipulate words and laws to achieve dominance in your country.” LaBarbera reiterated the anti-gay propaganda that has formed the basis of his group’s message: “Homosexuals are made, they’re not born.” “The dirty little secret that the media and homosexual activists are desperate — desperate — to squelch is that people are coming out of homosexuality every day,” said LaBarbera. “This is the work of God, this is the work of Jesus,” he added, referring to so-called gay-to-straight conversation therapy endorsed by his group. LaBarbera, whose AFTAH organization has been labeled an anti-gay “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), also told the conference audience that he was working on a book on the connection between “homosexual activism and pedophiles.” He said that after winning rights like marriage and protection for gay kids in schools, “homosexual” activists were now championing the rights of MAPS, or “minor-attracted persons.” Also attending the conference was Andrea M. Williams, founder of U.K.-based Christian Concern, who — citing last week’s announcement by British Olympian Tom Daley that he was dating a man — said gay people are not born with same-sex attraction, that it is often “caused” by “the lack of the father,” and “sometimes a level of abuse,” suggesting a link between Daley’s father’s death and his same-sex attraction. “He [Daley] was loved by all the girls and had girlfriends, until he lost his father to cancer just a few years ago and he’s just come out on YouTube that he’s in a relationship with a man, that man is 39, a leading gay activist in the States,” she said. Williams urged Jamaicans to turn down aid from countries such as the U.S. and those in Europe who support LGBT rights. “Might it be that Jamaica says to the United States of America, says to Europe, ‘Enough! You cannot come in and attack our families. We will not accept aid or promotion tied to an agenda that is against God and destroys our families… If you win here, you will have an impact in the Caribbean and an impact across the globe.” Jamaican Justice Minister Mark Golding told conference attendees that he hoped to raise the issue of maintaining the ban as part of a broader review of the Jamaica’s sexual offenses law. LaBarbera isn’t the only American spreading the anti-LGBT message overseas. “As American groups opposed to LGBT rights are increasingly finding American audiences less receptive to their message, they are moving instead to spread their noxious propaganda overseas,” said Heidi Beirich, who heads the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.
U.S., British anti-gay activists spread homophobic messages at Jamaica conference
She put out some pukey-looking food photos on Twitter and is appearing in public in unsightly outfits. One of her photos was of a slab of iceberg lettuce drowned in Russian dressing. Why would anyone even post a pic of that? Not exactly haute cuisine.
And pay your taxes, you hypocrite!!
December 7, 2013 Straight guys twerking awkwardly on Vine is officially a thing (thanks for kicking off the meme, John Mangum), so we may as well enjoy the gratuitous six second videos on a weekly basis, don't you think? This week's hottest half-naked bros twerking in a Vine video comes courtesy of Carson Hiner, who wastes a perfectly good strip-twerk-dance on someone who doesn't seem to be enjoying it as much as many people we know would.
"Hot Straight Shirtless Guy Twerking In A Vine Video" Of The Weekend
I'm beginning to think that it's a lot easier to get away with cold blooded murder than I previously thought.
A pie is one of those pastries with a sweet or savoury filling. I just don't associate pizza with pie.
Attacked by gang of Hasids in Williamsburg.
the camera does not lie!
BREAKING ++ Finally caught on tape: TomTin (Tom + Dustin lance Black)
The Herald in Plymouth [quote]Appalled by articles on diver Tom Daley I AM appalled at the way your newspaper has handled Tom Daley's appalling confession; and pages 16 and 17 of Saturday's Herald left me feeling I wanted to vomit. However you frame it, homosexuality is a perverted form of sex, and is absolutely abhorrent. The way your newspaper has glorified this disgusting lifestyle, has sickened me to the core, and I want no further contact with the Plymouth Herald. My contributions to Your Say, and my purchase of The Herald may not represent a significant loss, but it at least registers one person's rejection of your newspaper's appalling standards on this occasion. I shall at least have the satisfaction that I am no longer contributing to the ongoing circulation of The Plymouth Herald. I thank you for the past association, but I wish you total failure for the future, so long as you perpetrate such perverted ideas. JOHN J JONES
Angry homophobe writes letter to Tom Daley's local paper
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What exactly is it? I know eldergays pay for this service, but what does it entail?
Lysacek, 28, was unable to recover fast enough from a torn labrum in his left hip to qualify for the Sochi Olympics, he said on TODAY on Tuesday morning. The Chicago Tribune first reported the news overnight, saying Lysacek would not compete at all this season. “It’s very difficult for me to say that, but my road to Sochi ends here,” he said. “A lot of what played into that decision was my doctor warned me that if I continued to train, with 100 percent certainty, the injury would get worse. The pain would get worse every single day, and I could be doing permanent and severe damage. Video:
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I will never understand some people's fascination with trannys. Ugh just the though of a dude dressed up as a woman with breast and a penis makes my stomach turn.
Amber Rose & Wiz Khalifa Engaging In Threesome With A Tranny!
Bring my daughter the shot!!!
The last post of the other thread: "Does anyone know how Henry and Corey met? Did they star in a movie together? It just seems so random how close they are if they're dating or not."
So... what's going on here?
A DL holiday tradition! The 1925 Western Electric Christmas Party Photo!
They both made it official this month Provided they both qualify for their respective teams. Will they upset the apple cart? Or will they challenge others for the Gold?
I have an old basement. It gets a tad moist in the summertime. I actually do have a dehumidifier though. I've done everything but redo the entire thing. However, you know how cellars get, the smell, the dust. My question is - I have a number of books and doodads that I just can't fit in the rest of my house. No, I'm not a hoarder, it's not a ton. lol. I'm wondering if there are any airtight boxes, or some way I could put stuff down there and have them not be damaged and not smell of cellar. TIA, experts!
She has made over 60 films, and the Kennedy Center could only come up with one former co-star to pay tribute. Kathy Bates. So they were forced to stage selections from Pajama Game and Seesaw. Why wouldn't any of Shirley's former co-stars show up to salute her?
Eleanor Parker, 3-time Oscar nominee, dies at 91 Actress Eleanor Parker, a three-time Oscar nominee who played the scheming baroness in "The Sound of Music," has died at age 91.
NBC is looking to start a new holiday tradition. After the success of the ambitious The Sound of Music Live! last week that drew 18.6 million viewers, the network is committing to staging another live family-friendly musical production for the holiday season in 2014, NBC confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said in an interview with The New York Times that they were "circling a couple of titles" that could be staged next year, to be led by Sound of Music producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan. The only rules are that they must be Broadway classics with a slew of familiar songs. "All weekend, people have been calling us and emailing us," Greenblatt told the Times. "Rights holders of musicals have said, 'Please do one of our shows.' We’re excited to try it again." Greenblatt also confirmed that live TV musicals may become an annual thing for the network come the holidays, voicing his belief that event television is crucial to the future of broadcast. "There’s enough to do a handful of these over the next years, if we keep increasing the learning curve," Greenblatt said. "There may be a little bit of a phenomenon to the first one of these. Who knows what happens year two, three or four. But you’ve got to have events. I think we could do this again -- and again and again.” Though Sound of Music took 18 months to put together, Greenblatt said the next live musical won't take nearly as long. "Now that we have done it once, we don’t need 18 months again," he said. "We know a lot about how to do it." THR previously reported that the price tag for the three-hour extravaganza that aired Dec. 5 was close to $9 million. A 22-song soundtrack featuring Carrie Underwood is available on iTunes, with an encore airing sometime before Christmas and a DVD/Blu-ray release on Dec. 17. Meron had hinted in an interview with THR that he and Zadan had high hopes for more live TV events in the future should Sound of Music prove successful. "What we are hoping is in success that we open the door to another kind of entertainment that can exist on TV," Meron said at the time.
I understand that an inheritance is not a entitlement - and nobody owes anyone anything, even parents to children.\ \ But, it still kinda hurts that my brother and sister are getting the $1M house (already turned over in their name) and I''m left out.\ \ Oh well. I have my little house, 2 dogs/2 cats and good job. I''m content.
What was the name of that woman who wouldn''t give her daughter HIV treatment, who was also positive but denied that HIV caused AIDS?
By request, for the Eleanor Parker-worshipping queen from the SOM thread.
Lots of love from the Emmys but nada from Datalounge? Last night's episode was top notch. Absolutely no reduction in action, suspense or acting. Everyone is still bringing it and the excitement level from last season has been brought over to the new season. Am I the only one that watched?
Carrie is back...back I tell you!
If a trainer says that he offers "extras," what exactly is he saying?
A British pop superstar and Kim Kardashian's gorgeous half-sister walk into a gay bar . . . It sounds like the beginning of a tired old joke, but in this case, it's for real: This past Saturday, Dec. 7, Harry Styles took new girlfriend Kendall Jenner to Therapy, a popular gay bar in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen nabe, a source confirms exclusively to Us Weekly. The same day that the One Direction singer, 19, and model/reality star, 18, were spotting leaving the Ganservoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District together, the pair resurfaced at Therapy with a few other pals, and "didn't make a huge deal about it," the source tells Us. Saturday's theme at Therapy was "Gays Gone Wild," with other bargoers dancing up a storm to pop hits. Alas, Styles, Jenner et al, however, didn't hit the dance floor, the source notes. And the crooner isn't new to Therapy, either. "Harry has actually been her a few times before," the source explains of the fairly low-key hangout. "He's just a regular customer when he comes in -- he gets a table and usually drinks beer and cocktail on the side," adds the source of Styles, who was dating Taylor Swift around this time last year. As it happens, Styles "walked out when they played 'What Makes You Beautiful,'" as other patrons finally began recognizing the celebrities in their midst, the source said. "He was holding Kendall's hand." Although the pair have denied any romance, the evidence suggests otherwise: Five days after a news-making dinner date in L.A., Styles was spotted leaving the Malibu home of Kendall's father Bruce Jenner at 9:30 a.m., and the pair reconnected hours later for lunch at Soho House in West Hollywood, with Styles picking up the check. "They definitely plan to hang out more," another insider told Us.
List includes Michael Vick, Manti Te'o, Jay Cutler, Carson Palmer, Tom Brady, Tony Romo, Ben Roethlisberger
Let's try not to get this thread closed down too...
Because we will never get enough hot black men, bitches
Let's Post Pictures of Hot Black Guys - Part 3
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What goes behind the scenes in the Oscar season: [quote]Courting members of the press and critics who vote in pre-Oscar contests has long been standard practice because studios know that winning Academy Awards can bring big financial rewards. A film which collects Oscar trophies, or even just nominations, can expect a healthy bump in box office revenues. Of course, an Academy Award is also sought because of the prestige it brings. But the pursuit of winning Oscars has now become so intense, at times frantic, that it has reduced all the participants who are part of this annual frenzy – from journalists like me to big name stars – to pawns in a rather strange game.
I was at the gym today and "Another One Bites the Dust" and We Will Rock You" played back to back. I'm 28, so I had no idea that "Queen" did both songs (along with "We Are the Champions") with Freddie Mercury as the lead until a quick wiki search. So my question is: How big was "Queen" here in the states and was it well-known that Mercury was gay? BTW, what a voice.
I give them one more year. He sounds like a pig.
Let's countdown to Kelly Clarkson's divorce
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Matt Damon isn't asking you to start a revolution, but when you hear this, you might anyway. If you don't love what you're hearing after the first 29 seconds, jump to 3:31 for a nugget of truth that every American can stand behind
Frighteningly accurate.
I'm a rare gay that both loves sports and excels at them. Today, I went to my local park and played some pick up games with a few college aged straight guys. Naturally, my team won each game. Afterwards, we were all sitting around chatting. They were commenting on my balling skills, asking me if I played in college, etc. I let them know I was gay. One of the guys said, "I just got destroyed by a gay guy." I responded, "you wouldn't be first straight guy that said to me." We laughed; it was just typical banter that always happens after a game. Then we exchanged numbers for more pickup games later. Right. I know what those guys really want. Well, at least one of them. Haha I am telling you, sports is an awesome way to meet guys. I would encourage more gays to participate.
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“I don’t think that we should be going to the Olympics at all," Gaga reportedly stated. “I mean, I would never take anything away from [the athlete’s] hard work, I just think it is absolutely wrong for so many countries to send money and economy in the way of a country that doesn’t support gays..."
Why is it that overweight women all wear these damn things?? I rarely see thin women wearing them. I went to an event today and many men and women in their 40s and 50s were in attendance. Most of the men wore polo shirts tucked in under their pot bellies and shorts. Nearly all the overweight women wore capri pants. WHY??
The internet's #1 Aspie boyfriend is looking crazy hot in the September issue of Vogue. (Quality publication -- they mostly let other people do the talking.)
Would anyone be surprised by this news?
Jeremy Renner prefers his gals 'masculine'
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What I mean is, I have yet to meet a straight man who lusts after a butch lesbian or a straight chick who finds a flaming gay man hot. That is because they are opposite sex attracted. Does it not make perfect sense that a same sex attracted individual would not find someone who looks and acts like the opposite sex attractive? If I was attracted to masculine buzz cut women, I would be straight!
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This thread is a continuation of the one linked below.
The other thread is full, and we need to provide emotional support to Brandon, Cameron and Abe the only studs left whose taints are untouched by dick or dildo (at least on film). Stay strong and whatever you do don't sign up with Men.com!
This is not for the faint of heart. But if you eat frozen pizza, you might owe it to yourself to see where the cheese came from. The activist group Mercy for Animals recently published awful video taken from inside the Wiese Brothers Farm of Greenleaf, Wisconsin—a 2,500-cow farm and a major cheese supplier for Nestlé's DiGiorno Pizza, the country's largest frozen-pizza distributor. In the video, farmhands are shown kicking, dragging, stabbing, and screaming cusses at ill milk-producing cows. Cows that are too sick to walk are pulled by ropes around the neck or limbs, attached to backhoes. Ulcers and infected open wounds appear common. "Dragging live cows, and completely suspending them with the cow lift is severe animal abuse," animal behavior expert and livestock industry consultant Temple Grandin told Mercy for Animals. "The actions of these people went beyond rough handling and escalated to the level of cruelty. Kicking, beating, and hard whipping of downed cows is abusive." Commercial farm abuses like these aren't uncommon. But the sheer brutality of the abuses shown in videos like this one is enough to put many consumers off their appetites. Videos of the abuses are getting rarer, though, owing to a new flurry state-level "ag-gag" laws to ban agricultural photography. That's a shame, because the videos also get results: DiGiorno announced this morning that it was dropping Wiese Brothers as a supplier. "Nestlé is outraged and deeply saddened by the mistreatment of animals shown in this video," Deborah Cross, a company spokeswoman, told NBC, adding that "we will not accept any cheese made with milk from the Wiese Brothers Farm." The farm's owners told NBC that they, too, were "shocked and saddened" by the footage and had fired several employees in connection with the abuse. Gawker was curious, though, if there are any other long-term consequences for a farm where these incidents take place, so we called the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin, a trade group that boasts the Wiese Brothers Farm as a member. "As busy as any producer is, whenever you have an organization that is looking out for your best interests, like PDPW is, it is a good thing," one of the Wiese brothers said of the trade group back in 2010.
Secret Video Captures DiGiorno Pizza Supplier Treating Cows Horribly
I really hope this doesn't cost Richard the new Batman.
Internet's fangurls have begun slashing Richard Armitage and Lee Pace
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is gay. You knew that right?
Here's 2014 NYC Taxi calendar.
Wow - they're all pretty disgusting. This is not doing the "Persian" community any favors. And that gay guy needs to kill that moustache. Anybody else watching?
With more athletes coming out we should do a thread about gay athletes. Carl Lewis has to be a 'mo...right?
Here are just a few: There are seven calories in a teaspoon of semen. Complete sexual inactivity may lead to a reduction in penis size. Complete sexual inactivity may lead to a reduction in penis size.
Continue the conversation here.
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This is a thread devoted to tech questions regarding anything and everything tech. Ask and answer away, bitches.
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Saw After Midnight. Overrated.
The new wave of celebrity coming out dares you to not “bi” into it. Last week, diving champ Tom Daley posted a YouTube video intriguingly titled, “Something I want to say.” And it was a mouthful. Daley revealed that he’s in love with a guy (reportedly Oscar winning Milk writer Dustin Lance Black, though Black hasn’t confirmed that yet) and he’s deliriously happy about this development. But “of course I still fancy girls,” Daley significantly added. (That’s good news for girls, if not for Black, lol.) The week before that, Maria Bello—the Golden Globe-nominated actress from films like The Cooler, A History of Violence, and Prisoners—wrote a New York Times Modern Love essay describing how her relationship with her best friend (Clare Munn) eventually evolved into a romantic one, to the actress’s surprise and delight. In the article, Bello revealed that she told her 12-year-old son from an ex-boyfriend about the relationship, not sure of what to expect. His reaction? “Mom, love is love.” And that’s long been the most resonant message of the LGBT community. I’ve written before about people who pretend to be bisexual as a cover for their actual gayness, but that doesn’t discount the fact that millions of real bisexuals actually exist and that a relationship between any consenting adults is perfectly valid as long as they find it so. Just because some of us can’t fathom such a concept for ourselves doesn’t erase the reality that for many people looking for relationships, gender is not an issue, the person is. And that’s the same message gay men and lesbians have always propagated to justify their own relationships! Of course, the love flow can work both ways. In 1997, actress Anne Heche—who’d previously had relationships with men—hooked up with funny lady Ellen DeGeneres, as the world went wild flapping their gums about it. But when they broke up three years later, Heche took up with a man, as angry gay people called her a traitor and a phony. But Heche had already said that love involves falling for a person, regardless of expectations or labels. That seemed to me like a true statement of bisexuality, and her dating men again didn’t come off the least bit contradictory or hypocritical. So, let’s welcome Daley and Bello into our ranks regardless of the tags they might fall under. Let’s plug up the biphobia and open our minds to a world of romance where unscripted things happen all the time. Just please tell me off if I ever claim to still fancy girls.
Michael Musto: Tom Daley And Maria Bello Are Bi, Get Used To it
Everyone involved in that recent Carrie Underwood abortion now has BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS! Poor woman, must have watched it and keeled over.
As requested.
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We are doing a week in St. John in January and a week in Belize in April. I need to look forward to this to get me through the winter! How about you Datalounge?
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Gay men who fetishize bodybuilders usually (not always, but usually want them to be tops because we fantasize about having great power and mastery with their muscles. Yet most BBs I've met always want to fling their legs up into the air when you get them into bed.
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if another thread was started, my apologies.
What comes around goes around. She is a whore, and Edwards is a fool. I'm sure the 35 year really loves his sorry ass.
Yikes!
Chris Hemsworth is NOT a star: "Rush" opens to measly $11 million weekend
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Why am I disturbed by the rat eyes of Josh Altman? they haunt me.
I nominate this one. When I saw it on Amazon I almost busted my gut from laughing so hard.
Watched the scene again of her watching Darryl Hickman drown in the lake, with absolutely no emotion. That, and only seeing how things effect HER, is really a textbook case.
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1.Male celebrities: If people ask you why you got into acting, make sure you say that you took acting classes to meet women! Don't tell people you were doing Bette Davis impressions in front of the mirror as a 4-year-old. 2.Tell people you had a hot affair with a celebrity of the opposite sex who is now deceased. Since he/she is dead, there will be no way to disprove your claims!
Do you have one? Which one? How is it? It seems to make sense: spinning wheels catch air particles and rotate through water to wash them off.
A lot of people carp about "My Favorite Things" from THE SOUND OF MUSIC being appropriated as Christmas music but at least some of the lyrics evoke images of winter. And rattling off long lists of things we love is common in our consumer-driven culture. But when did "Over The Rainbow" become a Christmas song? I've seen this one popping up on more and more Christmas albums and holiday playlists. Doesn't sound Christmas-y to me at all. Are artists just desperate for another "new" song to record at the holidays?
at the Oscars!!!!
tells her "You are my Enemy!"
So, wait--she's a prude?
Dan Savage: Anal sex and rimming should not be first date behavior
This question is notoriously difficult to answer. Historical estimates range from about 2 percent to 10 percent.
How Many American Men Are Gay?
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Any other budding gay teens in the 1980s have a major thing for this guy? He was never a major teen heartthrob, but I thought he was so fucking beautiful. I would savagely JO whenever he'd appear shirtless in a film, which constituted most of his films.
Starring Carrie Underwood, hater of Obamacare.
In Rehearsal: The Sound of Music, Live!
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old, Old, OLD!
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He's adopted, biracial, heavily tattooed, and the most exciting QB in the NFL. Oh, and he's sizzlin' hot. Plus, he has a pet turtle that weighs 119 pounds.
I love that look! Both to observe and to participate in....in fact whenever I am naked without socks, I feel a little naked.
Gay for pay porn star Chance Caldwell / Jay Huntington tag-teamed a girl with his real life son and fellow porn star Jerry!\ \ Father and son are doing well.
I dare you!
The clearest definition of Bubble Butt EVER!
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There were rumors about Eminem which seem sort of gross since she was playing his mother but other than that, anything?
Started on request at end of Season Two thread. Enjoyed the first episode. Back to Season 1 style drama. But what the hell happened to Madeleine Stowe? I guess she's aging naturally. But boy is she aging.
I died, too.
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"She must not know who the HELL I am!" Starts November 3rd
Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6
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The men of the Warwick Rowing Team have just released another video showcasing the making of their 2014 nude calendar and they promise that this version is "bigger, longer, and uncut." Ay Dios mio! We're still thinking about the last one! Check out the new video for yourselves! (NSFW-ish)
Naked Warwick Rowers Reveal 'Bigger, Longer, & Uncut' Video Of Their 2014 Calendar Shoot
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Anyone watching? Only ten minutes in and my favorite character so far is dead. Dammit. But it was effectively creepy.
for r598 in the last theatre thread
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I've owned three sofas in my life and they have all worn out in a couple of years. They weren't supportive and were uncomfortable to sleep on. Look on Craigslist for sofas and you'll find a bunch of droopy misshapen cushions and wear and tear. Sofas just look bad after a few months. Is there something out there that's worth looking at? Anyone here know furniture who can lead me in e right direction? And yes, my sofas have been designer brands ($2000 and up in price) and no, I am not fat. Thanks in advance.
I'm surprised "noone" have posted this yet. Go on then, spew. Let the hate go forth.
Ai, Papi!
This blog lists the M4M group sex parties in New York Man I'd love to live in NYC
Adventures in Group Sex - Listing of Daily Gay Group Sex Parties
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This is *my* definition of a perfect body. Also, the hair on his chest and stomach is perfection. Thanks you Nick!
I noticed a few recently. 1. Just before they go to Hollywood, Lucy is on the phone with her friend Marian Van Vlack discussing the trip. Couple of episodes later, when Mrs McGillicuddy arrives, Lucy asks her mother how Marian Van Vlack is doing, as if she hadn't had contact with her in ages. 2. In that same episode where Mrs McG arrives, she announces she wants to go Hollywood so she can take her book to Dore Schary, with the hope that he'll turn it into a screenplay. A few eps later, when they're all in Hollywood, Ricky makes a comment about Dore Shary, and Mrs McG shrieks over and over, "Who's Dore Schary? Who's Dore Schary?" 3. This one's a blooper: in an episode when they're getting ready to go to Europe, Fred brings his old vaudeville trunk to the Ricardos. The phone rings, and Ricky picks it up. I don't know if the sound people had the phone ring prematurely, but just after he picks up the phone, with phone to the ear, he turns to Fred and asks what that trunk is. Lucy has to quickly remind him that he's on the phone when she scoldingly says, "the phone, dear." Any others you can think of?
My god.
Taking some time away from the industry to better himself, Adam Shankman checked in to a rehabilitation center on Monday (December 9). The "Hairspray" director's representative released a statement reading, "Adam Shankman is currently seeking treatment in a rehabilitation center. His friends and family support him and wish him well on his journey to recovery." On Sunday, the 49-year-old made an appearance at Trevor Live LA. Mr. Shankman has spearheaded numerous films, including "Rock of Ages" and "The Wedding Planner."
Will Aaron come out now?
Aaron Carter in bed with openly gay broadway actor MJ Rodriguez
Yum!
Does he have a hairy dick?
I'll always be a man who finds only men sexy. But I'm tired of the 'lifestyle': the std's, the social climbing, the shallow relationships, the rainbows and the parades, AIDS and discrimination, ageism. The body nazis, bears, cubs, daddies, twinks... It's like- all bad.
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Openly gay filmmaker Lee Daniels recently discussed his belief that gay men in the black community just "can't come out." The "Butler" director sat down with Larry King for an interview on "Larry King Now" and discussed when he first knew he was gay. He was just 5 years old when he knew "something wasn't right" after walking downstairs during his dad's poker game wearing his moms red pumps. His father, he said, beat him severely for the act. Daniels went on to discuss homophobia in the black community overall. "I think that [gays] are prejudiced upon even by the African-Americans, too," Daniels explained. He provided an anecdote about when he went to the Gay Men's Health Crisis center in New York City while doing research for his 2009 movie "Precious." He said he was shocked to see all black woman at the center: They [the center] service black women with AIDS. Why? Because black men can't come out. Why? Because simply you can't do it. Your family says it, your church says it, your teachers say it, your parents say it, your friends say it, your work says it. So you're living on this 'DL' thing and you're infecting black women. So it's killing us. I think that because the black culture and the Hispanic culture have a thing about this. Daniels, a Philadelphia native, has discussed being a gay black man before. In an interview with The Huffington Post last year, he said that gay people are "third-class citizens." "We are nothing to many people, especially in the African-American community," he said. "We are told, especially as black men, that we have to live up to certain expectations. The churches say it's not good. Our neighbors say it's not good. Our friends and family say it's not good. I am living in my truth, and I demand that in cinema, too." Daniels' honesty has led to people like BET's Keith Boykin commending him for breaking down barriers and challenging "the persistent meme of our community's homophobia."
Lee Daniels, Gay 'Butler' Director, Says 'Black Men Can't Come Out'
For me, it's banana bread. Ummm...yummy!
I love this guy. Anyone know anything about this guy? Where is he from? He looks to be about 30, which is when I think most guys look their hottest and manliest.
I love them, hot and slutty!
They''re all so ridiculously good looking and hot. And don''t get me started on their thick, meaty bubble butts. They REALLY get my boihole all atwitter. Many of them are bi too. Most of the guys in my gym are Dominican, and I''ve slept with at least six of them in the past year. %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ I moved to Inwood last year, and they''re all around. They''re everywhere. It''s like a wet dream come to life. I never want to live anywhere else. Seriously addicted to these men. Surely there must be a 12-step program for me. Anyone else totally in awe of Dominican men?
who are those whores?
I kind of experienced this this morning. I'm pretty attracted to the new-ish security guard in my company's lobby. He's really cute and I can tell he works out. We chat from time to time, and I am definitely flirty with him, which I can't imagine is lost on him. I know this sounds totally cliche and somewhat MARY, but when we're talking it's like time stands still and we're the only two people in the world. I get totally lost in his gorgeous smile and hearty laugh, and don't even hear the words coming out of his mouth. In my dreams, the attraction has been two-way, though I know intellectually that's not the case. But it's sure been nice to think about. Anyway, this afternoon as I came back from grabbing some lunch, I was going to stop and chat with him briefly. When I entered the lobby, however, I saw him talking to some chick who works on the floor above me. She's your typical stupid, slutty admin type...you know the sort...dumb as a box of hair, always advertising her looks with exposed cleavage and short skirts, and those stupid 10-inch hooker heels. She was totally flirting with him, throwing her tits and pussy in his face, and he was just totally eating it up. I awkwardly said hi to him, but he didn't even acknowledge me. Didn't even toss me a glace, he was so caught up in her. Again, I know he's 99% straight and into pussy, but there was that part of me that hoped that 1% would come out and want to have sex with me. It was just totally soul crushing, and I can't stop thinking about it. I'm really hurt, though I know I shouldn't be. ugh, why am I always attracted to the straight ones, and why does it hurt so much when my fantasies are deflated and reality hits like a ton of bricks? ugh, just ugh.
The gossip continues.
When you smoked, what were your preferred brands and why? For me it was Parliament non-menthols in high school and part of college, then Marlboro reds (shorts in the box) for a time, then a college friend smoked Benson & Hedges Menthol 100s and I was forever bumming so I started buying and smoking these cigs to pay her back. Then after college I went back to Marlboro reds (this time longs in the box) and finally I switched to Carlton 100s in the box. I smoked Carltons for over ten years and I was smoking this brand when I quit four years ago. At the time I switched to Carlton, they were the lowest tar and nicotine. I know, so what -- low tar makes no difference from a health standpoint. I don't want to pick up this expensive habit again, but in some small way I miss the ritual of smoking.
I agree they're sexy - I've been into them since I was, oh, a teen (lots of sticky issues of International Male and Undergear). But what exactly is it about them - cumgutters too - that's so sexy? Is it just a matter of the arrangement of shapes? Or does a great set of abs mean something to our subconscious?
Porn production halted for the fourth time this year.
Is he the new Cody Cummings ?
OMG. What did I just sit through? That was horrific high camp. Michael Douglas should go into hiding.
Continuing a great thread with fabulous pecs.
the DL surely will know
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I took a cooking class and I thought the chef was a hottie. I saw him in his t shirt before he put on the white coat and felt lust in my heart. He did not really flirt back but seemed receptive with smiles etc. \ \ When he left the room for a minute one of other students who knew him told me that he was straight and very married. \ \ After the class I apologized and he said that one should never apologize for being complimentary and kind. I think he meant it. \ \ I wish everyone felt this way.
Like a tuck driver or mechanic or machine operator or lifting heavy objects? Do your coworkers know you're gay?
Like they'd be basically open to anything? (NSFW)
I can't figure it out. It's not that we need someone to do actual heavy lifting for us, or to physically protect me. All muscles really mean is that someone is physically disciplined for a long period of time and has enough leisure time to go regularly to the gym.
Starring Miss Swann (Alex Borstein)... Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly. Anyone watch? Thoughts? It's yet another American version of a BBC show.
'taint nobody's business if he do!
I don't think we've had a poll on this particular topic since he came out.
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Who knew this was a trend? Yeesh.
Ronaldo was attending the official launch of his new underwear range, CR7, and anyone wondering what his debut collection looks like didn’t have to look too far - a 19-metre tall campaign image featuring the chiseled winger in all his glory was suspended above in the landmark building’s renaissance courtyard. Meanwhile the man in question, never shy about coming forward, was clearly delighted as he posed for photos between its legs. ‘I am very proud to officially launch CR7 today and especially to see my campaign image displayed in this beautiful building, one of the most famous landmarks in Madrid,’ he said.‘I put a lot of passion and dedication into creating this new underwear line and I am delighted to finally launch it globally today. ‘ Ronaldo has previously modelled for Armani Jeans, but his latest campaign marks an inaugural brand venture and his first attempt at fashion designing. His design debut was aided by Richard Chai – best known for his collaborations with Marc Jacobs and Donna Karen.‘Fashion and design are two passions of mine and I have wanted to launch my own brand for a long time. Working on this collection alongside Richard has given me a great creative outlet and I have loved every part of collaborating on the range, from selecting the colours and designs to testing the styles and fits myself,’ he said. ‘I am very proud that the collection is launching worldwide today.’ Ronaldo's new underwear range will be available to buy via www.cr7underwear.com from November 1.
Did they not know he was gayer than Richard Simmons on a unicorn? I mean, look at the photo. He's clasping his hands in a pose that just screams MARY! And I don't mean the holy one, either!
You learn something new every day.
Please play nice, or don't play at all.
I've been testing my levels. They seem to go up and down a lot. Am I doing it wrong?
is because you suspect Dustin might be HIV positive. You know that's the real reason.
I just learned that 50s/60s sitcom star Bea Benederet of Burns & Allen/Petticoat Junction fame (and btw, Lucy's first choice for the Ethel Mertz role), is the mother of actor Jack Bannon (pictured; "Lou Grant", among many shows), who played Scott Easton, the character who stole Val's babies on Knots Landing. This is fascinating. Any others I should be aware of?
Redheads are so sexy.
OVERALL, do you think Michelle has a keen sense of fashion style, or do you think her style OVERALL, is a dud? \ \ Include pix to your replies if you like.
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Premieres tonight, bitches.
I submit that Ashton Kutcher is prettier than either Mila Kunis or Demi Moore.
I watched this last night and I don''t get it. Why is it talked about so much? None of them were good actresses and the plot was boring. Was this the original campfest? Patty Duke was practically screaming all her lines.\ \ What am I missing? Is the book better? I''ve seen is mentioned here so many times, I thought I would try it but ehhh.\ \ Sharon Tate was extremely beautiful though. Whatever happened to the lead actress? Barbara Perkins?
Here it is - the moment we have been waiting for! Have at it, bitches!
Did anyone watch this show? I thought it was awful. A bunch of self-centered douchebags and sluts!! No, thanks. Cancel this shit! What a disappointment!
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I admit it: I wouldn''t mind her life. Married to a rock star, huge career, tons of money, attractive, famous parents, jet-set lifestyle, etc.
He's a real life Bonnie Mace and puts R Kelly to shame. NSFW
In which we agree to stop posting XY pics then wondering why the thread was closed. Number 12 in a saga
Seriously, what is going on with the DL admin people?
Taking some time away from the industry to better himself, Adam Shankman checked in to a rehabilitation center on Monday (December 9). The "Hairspray" director's representative released a statement reading, "Adam Shankman is currently seeking treatment in a rehabilitation center. His friends and family support him and wish him well on his journey to recovery." On Sunday, the 49-year-old made an appearance at Trevor Live LA. Mr. Shankman has spearheaded numerous films, including "Rock of Ages" and "The Wedding Planner."
You're 35! Stay as sweet!
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I want to ride him until I squeal like a stuck pig. Is that so wrong?
What are your thoughts?
Damn boy!
Once you had carnal relations with a man of African-American descent, it's very unusual to go back.
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Coming up on its anniversary. Let's discuss it again.
It looks like George Zimmerman may get off Scot-free yet again after his girlfriend reversed course on her decision to press charges against him for allegedly trashing her house and waving a gun in her face. Newly obtained court documents show that Samantha Scheibe, 27, has demanded that Zimmerman's charges and his no-contact order be dropped, effective immediately. "When I was being questioned by police I felt very intimidated," Scheibe said in a sworn statement dated December 6. "I believe that the police misinterpreted me and that I may have misspoken about certain facts in my statement to police." Scheibe goes on to claim that Zimmerman "never pointed a gun at or toward my face in a threatening manner," and insisted she "want[s] to be with George." cording to the Orlando Sentinel and … Read… Scheibe's affidavit flies in the face of what she told a 911 dispatcher during the November 18 incident. "I need police right now," she exclaimed during the taped phone call. "He's in my house breaking all my shit because I asked him to leave. He's got a freaking gun, breaking all my stuff right now." Zimmerman was subsequently arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor battery, and misdemeanor criminal mischief. He was released on his own recognizance after paying a $9,000 bond. A search warrant released the following week showed that Zimmerman was packing a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 assault rifle, three handguns, and over 100 rounds of ammunition when he visited Scheibe's house.
George Zimmerman's Girlfriend Has Change of Heart, Wants Charges Dropped
Have at them, girls.
Anybody else watching this at US pace? It's an amazing French series about various people who've died at various points in time who suddenly reappear with no explanation. The acting is uniformly wonderful and the young man who plays Simon is exceptionally beautiful.
We have so much here for you to do - book clubs, wine tasting night and scrapbooking! Please do sign the roster and introduce yourself!
Just saw a promo for the new season - they have two new housewives and one of them is Joyce from Siberia!! 10 bucks says Vyle will hate her because she is a working actress. ring ring....ring ring.."hello?" "Hi Joyce this is Heather Dubrow, just so you know I turned down Siberia..I have a letter from my agent.."
Why didn't this incident get the high-profile Matthew Shepard treatment?
Would she be considered fat today?
Some say it is the best movie of the 1990s. What says datalounge?
When will any of my Independent movies be released, even to Video? What about my triumphant return to Broadway... err, I mean ENCORES. Who doesn’t want to hear me sing Joey, Joey, Joey? Will the public ever believe I don’t' have genital warts….just a bad snip job? Will Jason ever get new dentures? Will Monty find true love? Place your bets, will Broadway's "Bad Boy" ever go back to being Broadway's "It Boy"?
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Today is my 97th birthday. I am a lucky man. I've been married to my wife, Anne, for 60 years and she continues to captivate me. When you get to be 97, you can reflect on the lessons you've learned in almost a century of life. Mark Twain said, "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." I won't pretend that getting older is easy. But I find that it's given me a perspective that I lacked when I was younger. I was always running everywhere -- from meetings to movie sets, from shooting films all around the world to serving as a goodwill ambassador for the State Department in over forty countries. Staying still was something I did not do well. Now, I treasure the quiet times: reading books that make me think about new ideas; watching my roses bloom; gazing at the palm trees shimmering against the afternoon sky; seeing the simple path of a cloud across the sky; and especially sitting with Anne in front of the fire at sunset -- the Golden Hour. So I asked myself, what do I want for my birthday? There's nothing I need, other than good health for my wife and my family. Suddenly it occurred to me that I knew exactly what I wanted -- a better world for my grandchildren. But have you ever tried to put 97 candles on a cake? You can't. So I put 10 candles to represent the 10 decades of my life. Here are my birthday wishes: *A world where weapons, big and small, are symbols of weakness, not strength *A world where religion informs values, not governments *A world where the air is breathable, the water drinkable and the food is healthy and plentiful *A world where poor people are the smallest percentage of the population *A world where education and health care are available to everyone *A world where prejudice based on race, religion and nationality is non-existent *A world where smoking tobacco is considered a ridiculous practice from a bygone era *A world where all diseases are curable and physical pain is no longer a part of life *A world where we control technology, not the other way around *A world where greed is never considered good Excuse me -- I have a lot of candles to blow out.
BY SHAUN KITCHENER ON JULY 18, 2013 Zachary Quinto Splits From Glee's Jonathan Groff: 'They Remain Friends' Couple have reportedly gone their separate ways Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Groff have reportedly split up, but remain on good terms. The Star Trek actor is even thought to have seen Groff in a play recently, months after they parted ways unnoticed. According to Gossip Cop's source, rumours that the relationship ended explosively are false, and there is "nothing salacious" about the story. The couple confirmed they were an item last year, one year after Quinto announced that he is gay. Following the success of Star Trek Into Darkness earlier this year, Quinto will soon be diving into a threequel - and he reckons it could start shooting in 2014, despite JJ Abrams' involvement with Star Wars. "Star Trek 3 should be filming, I suppose, next year," he told Buzzhub. "It’s going to be made a lot quicker than the last one. That’s the plan, although nothing is confirmed yet." Groff, meanwhile, has previously appeared in 12 episodes of Glee in the recurring role of Jesse St James, and he's also been seen in The Good Wife and The Conspirator.
Zachary Quinto Splits From Glee's Jonathan Groff: 'They Remain Friends'
Great character actor. Loved him in Thelma & Louise, Fatal Instinct, Quiz Show and all of the many films he's been in--small or big budget. He also had a great ass back in the day, particularly in Grease 2.
Who are these idiots?
Tablets are all the rage now so now he must have one too. Obviously I'm not going to get him an iPad or Kindle Fire. Is Kobo or Boogie a good brand. They're the only tablets within my budget. Thanks.
Either because of societal changes, the fact that we just now know better, etc. I'll start. This was the 80s and my 12th grade government teacher, routinely fucked students. It was an open secret and no one cared or stopped it. In fact, it was kind of expected and laughed about.
[quote]When he’s working in New York, he shares his apartment downtown with his personal assistant, Spencer Soloman, a 38-year-old former dancer and camera man, who became close with Radcliffe’s family when he was teaching the actor to dance for “How to Succeed.” Soloman and Sam [i.e. his hunky bodyguard, pictured at link] function, in some ways, like older brothers: fun, but responsible and organized. Soloman plans Radcliffe’s schedule and talks to his father, agents and publicists two or three times a day; he might tell Radcliffe when he needs to shave for a photo shoot or search their apartment for a garment that his stylist wants him to wear for some occasion.
Tom Hiddleston is returning to the theatre for the first time in five years with the lead role in Shakespeare's Coriolanus along with a veteran, respected cast that includes Mark Gatiss. After that, he heads to Toronto to film Guillermo del Toro's paranormal thriller Crimson Peak with Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam will these roles finally help him break out of the Marvel universe?
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In contrast to the "Which celebrities will come out in 2014" thread, who are the gay celebrities that you think will NEVER come out, not even on their death beds? I nominate: John Travolta Hugh Jackman
Earlier this month, blogger Jessica Shyba and her family adopted an adorable 7-week-old mutt. They named him Theo. On his third day as part of their family, Theo joined Jessica and her toddler son Beau for afternoon snuggle time. Beau fell asleep and then so did Theo… The next day, he joined in the naptime ritual again. “And so began,” Shyba says, “the most organic and beautiful friendship I have ever witnessed.” Since then, every day Theo waits for Beau to fall asleep and then joins him for his two-hour snooze. Of course, mama can hardly contain herself and is posting pictures of the cuteness on Instagram. And for that, we can all be grateful…
Toddler naps with his 2-month-old puppy every day
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Thumbprint Cookies are my favorite for this holiday period; but I've never made them. I'm willing to this year. What are the best nuts to use? Does Datalounge.com posters prefer coconut to nuts? Concerning Macaroon Cookies: I haven't made them and wonder how involved they are. A local store has the colorful ones priced at 2 for $3.00; and I'm reluctant to spend that much. Are they really good; and would they worth making?
May the games begin again.
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Can anyone recomend a good biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat? TIA
Many say it is a gay thing, is it a DL thing. Let's do a poll and see who does what.
Why is she so self-destructive?
Janeane Garafalo: I've committed career suicide over and over
ROME — The full impact of Pope Francis' unexpected rise from little-known cardinal to heralded pontiff was hammered home Sunday, as a crushing capacity crowd jammed St. Peter's Square for a 10-minute prayer. "I'm pleased to greet you on Sunday, which is fitting as it is the day of the Lord," said Francis in Italian from the window of his papal apartment. Below him roared an estimated crowd of 150,000, filling the square as well as neighboring streets. Francis' first public appearance since being elected last week helped kick the new pontificate into gear. Among the Buenos Aires native's upcoming events is a meeting Monday with Argentine president Cristina Fernández, whom the conservative pope has criticized for her liberal stance on contraception and gay marriage. Tuesday morning is Francis' installation Mass, which will be attended by world leaders including Vice President Biden, who is Catholic. But perhaps the most-watched encounter will take place Saturday. That's when the pope is scheduled to travel to Castel Gandolfo outside Rome to meet with pope-emeritus Benedict, whose shocking resignation last month set last week's unexpected conclave in motion. It remains unclear how quickly Pope Francis will move to tackle some of the Catholic Church's tough problems, from financial scandals to social issues. But what's clear is that, much like an incoming American president riding a wave of good feeling, he has the momentum of public support. Pope Francis issued his first tweet Sunday on the papal Twitter account, @pontifex, saying "Dear friends, I thank you from my heart and I ask you to continue to pray for me. Pope Francis." The account, which posts in nine languages and has 3.5 million followers, came back to life Wednesday after Francis was elected. Before ending his brief appearance Sunday by saying the Hail Mary in Latin, the pope told the parable of an adulterous woman who isn't turned away by Jesus. "God always has patience," he said in Italian. "We can always go back with a contrite heart." Although she couldn't understand the content of his talk, the emotion of the moment got to Lucy Fanning of Pennington, N.J. "This is ..." she said before fanning her face with her hand. "I'm not even Catholic, I'm Protestant, but this is messing me up a bit," Fanning said, as her husband, Joe, a Catholic, smiled. The couple is escorting a group of private-school Latin students around Italy. "You can tell this is a once-in-a-lifetime thing," said Casey McGovern, 16, explaining the group's decision to brave the huge crowds only to get as far as a quarter-mile from St. Peter's. "It's his first address as pope to the people. You have to be here." None Crowds gather in St. Peter's Square before the Angelus with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday.(Photo: Alessandra Tarantino, AP) Countless other Romans agreed, choking the streets around the Vatican with baby carriages, dogs and bicycles as police officers struggled to keep order. A half-hour before the pope's "Angelus," or public prayer, frantic faithful tried to make their way to the massive piazza in front of the basilica. One man yelled out at a well-dressed carabiniere officer, asking the best way to see the pope. "On TV," came the clipped reply. Earlier Sunday morning, Pope Francis said Mass at the Church of St. Anna, which is reserved for employees of the Vatican and sits just inside its imposing walls. Wearing the purple vestments of the liturgical season of Lent, Francis was at his disarming best, at one point urging parishioners to applaud a man who worked with street kids in Uruguay, whom he invited to greet him near the altar. "Pray for him," the pope intoned. "I don't know how he got here (to Rome), but I'll find out." After Mass concluded, the pope stood just outside the small church's front doors greeting every exiting parishioner as onlookers, held beyond barricades, chanted "Francesco, Francesco, Francesco Most of the churchgoers kissed his left hand; many did so speechless and with tears in their eyes. Others clearly knew the pope from his recent incarnation as Cardinal Jose Mario Bergoglio, and with them he smiled and chatted amiably as if at a party. Not so relaxed were the pope's black-suited private security detail. As the pontiff made to leave, he unexpectedly walked over to the cheering masses behind the barricades to shake hands and kiss babies. Such interactions recall the papacy of John Paul II, who especially early in his tenure took particular pleasure interacting with his flock. A 1981 assassination attempt in the middle of St. Peter's Square changed things overnight, and gave rise to the often joked-about, bulletproof-glass-shrouded Popemobile. During the height of Sunday's frenzy, the look on the security officers' faces was one of both deep concern as well as resignation. Clearly, this pope's populist nature will not be held back, and they will have to adjust in kind.
I know there is a thread on this, but this is a better subject title. After being fired herself, Erica Hill went around shopping for a new job at the various networks. She found an opening at Weekend Today when Amy Robach left for ABC. But the Saturday shift wasn't enough for her. She wanted Saturday AND Sunday (which was being held by Jenna Wolfe) So Jenna got demoted to newsreader on weekends, and now Erica Hill will be weekend co-host on both Saturday AND Sunday. Sound fair?
CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. (AP) — The last walk that Ronald Westbrook took began as early as 1 a.m. when he slipped unnoticed from his North Georgia home with his two dogs. It ended three hours later when Westbrook, a 72-year-old who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, knocked in the dark on a stranger's door last month. Police said a man inside that home, 34-year-old Joe Hendrix, got a .40-caliber handgun, went outside to investigate and shot Westbrook in a horrible mistake. The unlikely collision between two strangers — one deeply confused, another perceiving a threat — illustrates both the difficulties that caregivers face in keeping loved ones with Alzheimer's safe and the consequences of miscalculation in a state that celebrates its gun culture. Westbrook's widow struggles to comprehend how she lost her husband of 51 years and discussed what happened in an interview in her house this week, sitting on her couch beside her Bible. "I can't imagine him feeling threatened by my husband, that's what surprises me," said Deanne Westbrook, 70. "Because Ron wasn't like that. He probably, I think he was so cold. He was looking for help when he was ringing that doorbell at their place. I think he just wanted somebody to help him." Hendrix declined to comment because of the ongoing investigation. His attorney, Lee Davis, described his client as distraught. The local district attorney has not yet decided whether to press criminal charges against Hendrix for what happened on Nov. 27. "He is not a gun-toting rights activist who's saying, 'Keep off my property,'" Davis said. "He's a man who thought he had to take action because of what he believed to be a real and imminent threat." A retired nurse who once cared for dementia patients in a nursing home, Westbrook's wife was perhaps better equipped than most to care for a spouse with Alzheimer's. The progressive disease results in memory loss, impairs judgment and can leave its victims disoriented. She installed door alarms to alert her if her husband tried wandering away. She was already making plans to get more advanced care at home as the disease progressed. "I don't feel angry," she said. "I just feel sad. I never would have thought he would've (come) to an end like this. I was prepared for the Alzheimer's to get worse and for me to take care of him here. And I was going to do it." Others can sympathize. Marylou Hable, who works for A Place for Mom, helping match families with care and living facilities, said she works with Alzheimer's patients and their families every day. Yet she still struggled when her husband's uncle came to live with them. She took all sorts of precautions to protect him, but one night he wandered out after midnight. She and her husband were exhausted and didn't hear the alarms. Alzheimer's patients often seize on a past memory, and the uncle was trying to find the streetcar to go home to Cleveland, Ohio, even though he had moved to Michigan. He was beaten up and robbed, but luckily police contacted Hable and her husband when he turned up in the hospital. "Here I am in the industry and I couldn't keep John safe," she said. An incident in mid-November may have set the stage for the fatal error. Shortly after Hendrix's fiancee moved into her new rental home, a man appeared at the door just before midnight on Nov. 19. He pounded on the door while Hendrix's fiancee was alone with two children, and he demanded to see someone whom Hendrix's fiancee did not know, Davis said. She called Hendrix, who was in nearby Chattanooga, Tenn., who told her to call 911. By the time sheriff's deputies and Hendrix arrived, the man was gone. Davis said what happened was documented in a police report. Afterward, Hendrix took a Glock handgun that he kept in his apartment and brought it to his fiancee's home. The following week, Deanne Westbrook woke up and noticed that her husband and the couple's two dogs were missing. Not long after, a police officer arrived to deliver the news, and the dogs were returned to her. For reasons that are not clear, Westbrook left his home and started walking. A deputy sheriff noticed him along a road around 2:20 a.m. and stopped to ask what he was doing, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said. Westbrook told the officer that he was gathering mail and then planned to return to his home up a hill. While Westbrook's answers were curt, nothing about the conversation alarmed the deputy. Wilson said barking dogs woke up Hendrix and his fiancee in her home sometime before 4 a.m. Westbrook had walked to their house, the last in a cul-de-sac. He rang the doorbell, knocked on the door and tried the handle. In what may have been a startling move, Westbrook left the front of the home and moved out of view. The woman called 911, and Hendrix got his gun. While the woman was on the phone with a dispatcher, Westbrook returned to the door a second time, Wilson said. Hendrix left the house and found Westbrook outside in the dark. He told police that Westbrook ignored commands to stop, identify himself and raise his hands. The sheriff said Westbrook approached Hendrix, who fired four shots. "Obviously, in hindsight, it's very easy to say, 'Why didn't you stay inside? Why didn't you keep the door shut?'" Davis said. "But the reality is, how long are you supposed to wait until somebody comes through your door? And had the person come through his door with his fiancee there, then what would have happened?" Under Georgia law, people are not required to try retreating from a potential conflict before opening fire to defend themselves from serious imminent harm, said Russell Gabriel, director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at the University of Georgia. State law allows people to use lethal force to stop someone from forcibly entering a home if those inside reasonably fear they are going to be attacked. Deadly force can even be used to stop someone from trying to forcibly enter a home to commit a felony. "Different people have a different understanding of what is reasonable," Gabriel said. "Reasonableness is a classic jury question."
Alzheimer's Sufferer Fatally Shot After Knocking On Wrong Door
One of my favorite television shows ever. Very sophisticated, and very much predictive of the style of later TV shows--it was the first show to be called a "dramedy," it used only a single camera, and was a huge influence on later shows like Thirtysomething. Blair Brown was wonderful as the star, and was very beautiful. This was the haunting, moody intro. It really captures a vanished kind of Eighties glamor (yes, there was such a thing).
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William Freidkin presents Bette Midler in MAE WEST!
Director of "Boys in the Band" and "Cruising" will attempt to make his gayest film yet
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Does anyone else think so. She is so ugly and I'm not talking about personality-wise, I'm talking about physically.
I love Chopped and thought all of the celebrities came off as surprisingly not annoying, even Teri Hatcher! The celebrities were: Teri Hatcher, Anthony Anderson, Dawn Wells and Antonio Sabato, Jr. I really like Dawn Wells. I know she's a pothead but other than that I'm unaware of her political beliefs. I hope she's not anti gay.
Michelle Obama sics her dog on a defenseless little white girl.
Meanwhile, at the White House...
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Did women really dress like her in the mid-to-late '70s? Is what she was wearing considered a caftan or a muumuu?
Taboo!
We''ve been dating for 6 weeks, and he slept over for the first time last night. This is silly, but I''m curious. I keep my room at 66 degrees when I sleep. Is that really as cold as he says it is?
The Hollywood Reporter Roundtable Actress edition. Wow even Cate and Sandy have too much dignity to grovel like this.
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I'm binge watching Hell on Wheels on NetFlix, and wondering why on earth we haven't discussed Anson Mount, the lead actor. Tall, dark, and handsome, and with the best Southern accent I've heard on television. He's also 40 and no mention of ever having been married--is he of the homosexual persuasion?
I've been going through all of the Drag Race seasons for the first time. Is it just me or do things take a turn for the dark side with Season 5? First of all, I have to say Detox is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. Just really, really hard to look at. Alaska isn't much better. They both look like they smell. These bitches seem rode hard and put away wet. Two of them have porn pasts, a few look strung out. They're much nastier and shallower than past seasons. Jade Jolie - there is some dark shit in that girl's past - probably molestation. I've been watching them in a straight shot, so to speak, so there is no fog of memory going on. The earlier seasons are fun, even uplifting and the girls were people you might want to know in real life - think Jujube, Manila, even Raja. Now they're a bunch of hard cases I would cross the street to avoid. I think I'll skip the rest of this season and just watch All Stars.
How about female stars who were, perhaps, not known for their great beauty but had a film role or a few years when they were at their ravishing best OR were made surprisingly glamorous? %0D\ %0D\ I''ll start. Judy Garland. 1943-45. Perhaps in Presenting Lily Mars or The Clock. Never looked lovelier. Then the decline began.
Thanks, Mao!
A few are in Russia, a few in the U.S. and even one in a place called Hell, Norway. Photos and the cold facts:
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Someone who changed your life, male or female, for the better and for the worse? A romantic experience after which you were not the same? Share!
In a radio interview on Wednesday with conservative talker Laura Ingraham, Palin took dead aim at Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" initiative, which is all about getting children to "Just Say No". Here is a portion of the transcript: "Take her anti-drug thing that she is on. She is on this kick, right. What she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families to deal with drug use." "And I know I'm going to be again criticized for bringing this up, but instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician's wife priorities, just leave us alone, get off our back and allow us as individuals to exercise our own God-given rights to make our own decisions and then our country gets back on the right track."
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — The famous swimming champion who became an Actress, Esther Williams, has died at 91, according to media reports.
Brilliant. Excellent. Jaw-droppingly good. Can internet TV shows be nominated for Emmys? Spacey, Wright, the girl from American Horror Story, they're all great. If you have Netflix, watch it.
The guys at FM Forums claim this new video of outgoing 'Doctor Who' star Matt Smith is from his new production:
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...and it's not Gina Carano.
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Photographer Piero Pazzi, has delivered his annual “Hot Priest Calendar” where he has selectively photographed some of the sexiest Roman Catholic priests from Vatican City, Italy. Which sexy priest is your favorite?
These hot and REAL Vatican priests will get you on your knees and praying in no time
I vote for Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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Is it boring? Too expensive? Too depressing? Are the inhabitants as pretty as the rest of South America? Would a young( ish) American be bored there? Assume a degree of Spanish competence. Could I live there after retirement?
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[bold]Taste Test: Popeyes Rip'n Chick'n. Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?[/bold] It began, one imagines, as a simple question, posed conspiratorially around a gleaming boardroom conference table in an upper floor of AFC Enterprises headquarters in Sandy Springs, Ga.: Why settle for chicken fingers, when you could have an entire horrifying rheumatoid chicken hand that you grimly rip apart like the antagonist of some grisly fucking torture-porn movie? Thusly was conceived the Rip'n Chick'n, the first and only mass-produced foodstuff that, should the need ever arise, could function as the business end of a sadly ineffective short-range grappling hook. How To Eat A Popeye's Biscuit: A Guide For People Seeking The Harmony Of The Universe Consider the Popeye's biscuit.Read… The cashier at your local Popeyes gives you a little huh, how 'bout that? smile when you order your Rip'n Chick'n, either because you are the first person to actually order a Rip'n Chick'n at that particular establishment, or because you are the first person to order a Rip'n Chick'n at that particular establishment who was not wearing a hospital gown and a thickly-wrapped head wound when doing so. Rip'n Chick'n is a ridiculous thing to say to anyone, particularly if, as a symptom of your vain and doomed sense of linguistic propriety, you unthinkingly honor those very deeply stupid and needless apostrophes. Rip'n Chick'n. Go ahead and say it. It is ridiculous. I'd like a Rip'n Chick'n, please. Somehow, it becomes marginally more natural-sounding if you swap out that please in favor of a vigorous motherfucker. I'd like a Rip'n Chick'n, motherfucker. That's better. I bet that's how you're supposed to say it. I bet they'll appreciate you doing it the right way. The Chick'n you will be Rip'n turns out not to look very much like the Chick'n in the advertisements: Its fingers are thicker, even gouty; they vary more dramatically in both length and girth. Most distressingly, they splay at odd angles, some curling around each other, others jutting out, clearly dislocated at the knuckle. There seem to be seven of them, although it's difficult to tell in some instances if you're counting two separate fingers, or one that has been bifurcated. You could almost—almost—imagine that a seven-fingered circus freak ran afoul of his bookie. Way afoul. Or, you could imagine that you are holding a deep-fried alien facehugger. Which, OK, sure. Complaining that your Rip'n Chick'n is less appetizing in appearance than the one you saw on TV is more than a little bit silly—Y'know, I really must say, when I ignited it, I really expected a much more pleasant-smelling dumpster fire—and anyway, if you were looking for a particularly photogenic foodstuff when you sauntered into your local Popeyes and uttered the, um, "words" Rip'n Chick'n, look, there's no nice way to put it, but you're a psychotic person. The Rip'n Chick'n's looks only matter (to the extent that anything related to a gimmicky octopoid fast-food chicken snack can be said to matter, which is to say, [throws smoke capsule at feet] [runs away]) in the context of how tasty the Rip'n Chick'n is to eat. Allow me to explain. (continued)
The most hilarious fast food product review you'll read today:
Does it hurt a lot? I need my nose to be bigger, straighter. It looks kind of like a wad of Silly Putty now.
Good for her. Wonder if she has the same vocal chops as her mother.
Paul Rudd is host One Direction are the musical guest Did they start out by spoofing The Sound Of Music Live?
More than Madonna?
Lets name some. \ \ Either past or present. If you''d like, link a pic to back up your claim.
Jesus take the wheel! Carrie Underwood isn't letting "Sound of Music Live!" critics get her down. The country singer has slammed "mean people" via Twitter on the very same day the film's original star, Kym Karath, bashed Underwood for her acting chops. Karath played Greti von Trapp in the 1965 musical film "The Sound of Music." "Plain and simple: Mean people need Jesus," 30-year-old Underwood wrote via Twitter on Friday, Dec. 6. "They will be in my prayers tonight...1 Peter 2:1-25." The Bible scripture Underwood cites states to "rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind." Underwood responded to "mean people" just hours after the Internet exploded with some harsh words about the show. Karath was one of many to comment about the live event, and slammed the singer for landing the role of Julie Andrews' Maria von Trapp. At the time, Karath was watching the three-hour program with former costars Charmian Carr (Liesl von Trapp) and Angela Cartwright (Brigitta von Trapp.) "Mystified & disappointed so far by SOM special," Karath tweeted during the live performance on Thursday. "So far only happy with Stephen Moyer." ("True Blood" star Moyer played Christopher Plummer's Captain von Trapp.) "Must admit some scenes are actually painful to watch." She added: "Love Carrie Underwood but this role is just not right for her. She is lovely her voice is beautiful but acting is wrong." Despite snarky tweets from viewers, Underwood shared her excitement for how well the production went shortly after the curtain closed. "Glory to God tonight...I couldn't be more proud," she tweeted. "What a tough thing to pull off and we did it! I am so blessed!!!" "Sound of Music Live!" ultimately pulled in 18.47 million viewers for NBC.
Carre Underwood Slams 'Sound Of Music Live!' Critics: Mean People Need Jesus
Why am I not surprised?
TMZ is reporting.
I've never understood why that it is. You want big muscley guys to top and master you, not fling their legs up in the air.
There were little kids in the front row too. lmao. Groupies.
And to this this woman was honored as gay pride grand marshal in 2005 in Los Angeles.
Paris Hilton says Gays are all disgusting, horny and probably have AIDS.
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I didn''t know that there was a rumor that Meg Ryan was behind the Tim Robbins/Susan Sarandon break-up (see page 4 of the slide show).\ \ Other homewreckers listed:\ \ Natalie Portman \ \ Alicia Keys\ \ Julia Roberts\ \ Angelina Jolie\ \ Tori Spelling\ \ Jerry Seinfeld\ \ Calista Flockhart (really??)\ \ Claire Danes\ \ Jennifer Lopez
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He has made his first appearance on Arrow as Barry Allen. He made quite an impression with the fangurls: [quote]Did you go out and sniff the air last night? That special tang wasn't the nog n' pine scent of the holiday season, that was people across America falling in love with Barry Allen. "The Scientist," last night's episode, makes that doe-eyed dork absolutely irresistible. [quote]I loved this interpretation of Barry Allen so much it hurt! [quote]I loved GG as Barry Allen. It was a great performance, and I'm really interested to see more! Can't wait to see him with his powers, and his suit! There is something charismatic about him, but can someone who so looks gay actually be straight?
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Allergic reaction to prescribed pain meds. She was 38 years old
With 20 acting slots typical for Academy Award nominations, how many (or percentage) of these 2013 slots will go to first-ever nominees?
The Sportsman Channel said Monday it has hired Sarah Palin to be host of a weekly outdoors-oriented program that will celebrate the "red, wild and blue" lifestyle. Video:
The Fast and the Furious star has died in a car fire, per TMZ...
Is anyone else as bummed out as I am by the choice of Alyssa Milano as the host of the All Star Show? She's always struck me as the epitome of C list Hollywood, a tv star without charm or talent, just a kind of throwaway name. Couldn't they have gotten someone else? The list of All-Stars is actually kind of interesting though -- they actually have some winners this time, not just the runner-ups.
"Do you love me?... If you fucking love me, you will do as I fucking say!!" --Ja'mie, to her mother
Does it radiate a feeling to the penis? Second question: do researchers believe that the prostate is there for pleasure besides its main functioning?
A bit much, I'd say
Wasn't she the go-to female child star at the time? And it's obvious her mother/manager wasn't afraid of edgy roles.
the middle singer (in this pic) sports quite an impressive package.
on PBS now. Love them both.
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If I open multiple tabs with different articles, it's even worse. Has anyone figured out a way around it? I am very busy promoting the homosexual agenda so seconds count.
I think the majority of DLers would say intelligence, but in all honesty, I think most people are missing DISCIPLINE. It's kind of baffling to see how many people are incapable of sticking to any kind of routine or plan long enough to reach their goal--myself included. But it made me think just how far above the fray you can go with that one simple trait. Well, discipline and ambition. Those two seem far more important than intelligence or talent (unless by "intelligence" you mean craftiness or cunning).
Olivia sings "Love Song" as she fades into view with a "Logan's Run"-like set around her. The best parts are her hitting the Mariah Carey octaves and the final credits of the video. If you are not mesmerized by this moment in 70s pop culture, you have no soul.
For Olivia Newton-John fans, this may be the best moment in TV ever ...
What's it saying?
Who are they?
Bizarre. Did he look at the mirror before leaving the house?
What's going on with Kellan Lutz's makeup and skin in this pic?
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Which stars hate each other?
Dazed Fraus Lament: "If only there had been some way of harnessing this technology so that slower speeds would have been possible!" Teary Mourners Ask Sky Pal to Take Frankie Muniz Instead.
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The Wellbeing Toilet, as its called, is designed to enhance the position of your body (and ultimately how you get rid of bodily waste) by enabling you to squat rather than sit. Photos:
The Toilet Of The Future Corrects The Mistake We're All Making In The Bathroom
It's about two male actors on a cable drama show having an affair, one of whom is considering coming out. The other is married to a woman. Who is it?
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Gayvoice through the roof!
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Who knew she played Santa Claus wife! See link for more!
Justin Bieber IS ZORBA! Selena GOmez is EVITA! Sofia Vergara is KISS of THE SPIDER WOMAN! jesse Tyler Ferguson IS NABUCCO!
He's a household name now and totally beloved. He started working full-time for the Stern show back in 2006 when he went to Sirius. He was also on the Shatner roast. Was that the beginning of this massive career he now has? He's a national treasure.
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A spinoff thread from the never ending saga of Colton Haynes threads, dedicated Jerreth, ex-boyfriend to DL Twink Saint, Colton Haynes. Discuss!
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Let's cast it!!
The songwriting frauds are the ones who who brag about how they "write their own songs" as if they sat down and wrote them all by themselves, but when you look at the writing credits their names are listed with a committee of like ten other people
The Kelly McGillis thread has me thinking. I came out in the 80''s and it seems that almost every gay rumor around in the 80''s and 90''s have been substantiated. \ \ Let''s list the rumors and those that have been confirmed: \ \ Kelly McGillis\ \ Jodi Foster\ \ George Michael \ \ Lead singer of Judas Priest\ \ Queen Latifah
What are they really like? I'm too scared to do drugs so I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of fun. Am I? Can guys who go to these things share what they are like?
I know a few bi men who identify as straight. They''re completely comfortable within themselves and acknowledge that they like guys/girls equally, yet if you asked them they''d say they were straight....Is this common amongst bi men?
Please tell us of your latest problems. Your financial woes, your family troubles. Anything that is getting you down. I can't guarantee what the other bitches will say BUT I will officially condole you on your troubles in the official DL/AB Fab manner!!!
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This morning he said, "Take my load you dirty f-word whore cum dump."\ \ Is this the way he really feels? Afterwards, I felt like total dirt.
I was actually asked by a straight woman why gay guys are "statistically", she put it that way, more attractive. I didn't have an answer. I somewhat agree with her. Yes, there are MANY ugly gay males. However, you have to admit that there are a majority of what is classified as the desired male beauty. I'm referring to facially, not body, mind you. I know that a lot of us take care of our skin, and what not, but that doesn't explain why many of us have symmetrical faces. This brings me to the next subject: gay face. Why do so many gay men have it? Is there a link between homosexuality and what we classify as "gay face"? Many gays have it. Surely, you can create this look if you pluck your eyebrows, and put lip gloss on, but most of us don't, and many of us still have "gay face". So, you may be wondering, what do these two subjects have to do with one another. Well, male beauty is usually defined by faces that have some feminine features. In fact, when polled, women chose men who had more feminine facial features as the ones who would be good fathers.
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Neil Patrick Harris - definite top (Burtka couldn't top a sundae) Zachary Quinto - allegedly a top Lance Bass - allegedly a top Anderson Cooper - going to go with bottom Matthew Bomer - probably bottom Christopher Seiber - definite top Cheyenne Jackson - top (what a waste if he's not)
Close behind Sandler in second place is Katherine Heigl followed by Reese Witherspoon in third place.
Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of The Most Overpaid Actors
An official associated with the Republican National Committee made head-turning comments at a GOP holiday party last week, accusing gay individuals of pushing health care reform because they die earlier in life. Speaking at Berrien County Republican Party Holiday Reception last Thursday, RNC Committee member Dave Agema said that while working with American Airlines, he repeatedly witnessed gay colleagues claiming AIDS victims as lovers, just so they could get health care coverage.
Homophobic RNC Committee Member Accuses Gay Colleagues Of Manipulating Health Benefits
And they got married. *Married?* *MARRIED!*
George Eads will take a leave of absence from the long-running drama after engaging in a heated exchange with one of the show's writers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The actor, who has played Nick Stokes since the series premiered in 2000, will appear in the first three episodes of CSI's upcoming 14th season. Producer CBS Television Studios declined to reveal a date for his return but said he would be back later this season. "George Eads will not appear in several episodes during the first half of the season. We look forward to him returning to CSI very soon," a rep for CBS TV Studios said in a statement to THR. The actor signed on to return as a regular along with the rest of the cast when CBS renewed the series in March. His absence, sources say, is not considered an attempt to renegotiate his contract. Eads -- and co-star Jorja Fox -- were both briefly fired from CSI in 2004 after a short-lived salary standoff with the network and studio. Instead, Eads was unhappy with the creative direction of his character, sources tell THR, and clashed with an eight-months-pregnant co-writer of a recent episode. Word of the incident is said to have gotten back to showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and resulted in a meeting that ended with Eads threatening to quit. A rep for Eads declined to comment. Eads is one of only three actors who have been with CSI from the start (Paul Guilfoyle and Eric Szmanda are the others). Fox left and later returned to the show. Sources tell THR that Eads' absence will be addressed in the fourth episode of the season when Catherine (Marg Helgenberger, who will reprise her role in the landmark 300th episode) hand-picks his character to receive special training at Quantico. CSI returns Sept. 25 on CBS.
Enough to make such a product I guess. Weird. Any other strange Christmas gifts you've discovered?
So how many kids ask for a Lego PRISONER TRANSPORT for Christmas?
This is my own diagnosis, obviously, and I got my medical license on DL. He's trying to ruin my life and gaslight me to all our friends, what should I do? It really sucks, you guys, I still love him.
Family Guy is fixing their huge fuck up. Brian is returning to the land of the living. IMO maybe next time they should make Lois a widow. Lois and Brian always had he hots for each other. He could become the man of the family Peter never was or could be.
There is an interesting article in the New Yorker (linked from a Daily Fail article, I know) about a sales clerk in a luxury mall in the US getting depressed being in contact with wealthy customers. The little time I worked in sales my favourite customers were those who had saved a long time to treat themselves to something wonderful. You could tell they weren't the type to max out their credit and how truly exciting it was for them. I would give them the most sumptuous wrapping and extra samples and freebies. With wealthy customers, I got all kinds, blasé, cheap, difficult, friendly and unassuming. I never felt depressed about it, but then again it was a short stint. The New Yorker article has interesting comments.
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Here's a portion of my list: For my mother: Neely O'Hara's classic fragrance, "Self-Destructive". For my brother: the "Just Guy Stuff. No homo." sweatshirt with matching sweat pants. For my aunt: the Bonnie Franklin Memorial pop-up book. Everytime you open a page, you hear, "Dammit Julie". I'm still going through the catalog to figure out the rest. What will you be buying?
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What kind of swimsuits do you like on most guys?\ \ We''re not talking obese guys or elderly guys; or even necessarily just musclemen. What swimsuits do you like on most young men in general?\ \ (Also, I''m not including nudity as a choice since most public swimming pools and beaches don''t allow it.)
Clothing guide for everything from pants to suits to shoes: Converse sneakers, a leather watch, a navy suit...and the list goes on:
I have been watching OZ a few times a week as HBO is rerunning it on one of their channels. I never have seen it before and have only heard it referred to here, mostly in connection with Chris Meloni and Lee Tergesen. \ I have to say that these two men have a chemistry that is amazing. I can well believe the rumors that their relationship was more than a professional one. As to the show, it is truly powerful and very disturbing. Sometimes the brutality is too much for me and I have to turn it off. I''m also really impressed with Rita Moreno.\ If anyone cares to comment on the program or the actors, I would enjoy reading it.
I used to smoke, I quit. My parents absolutely hated it. A huge motivation for my quitting was that I didn't want to hear them carping about it. So I was surprised recently to be at a holiday party where my adult friend who smokes went out to smoke with his parents. I don't know what my point is here, it just felt really weird.
Paul Crouch, a pioneering televangelist who founded Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian TV network, died today, according to the network's website. He was 79. The church reported in October that Crouch had fallen ill and was taken to a Dallas-area hospital while on a visit to a TBN facility in Colleyville, Texas. He had "heart and related health issues," the church said, and he was later returned to California for continued treatment. The son of a Missouri missionary, Crouch moved to California in the early 1960s to manage the movie and television unit of the Assemblies of God. A decade later, after receiving what he believed was a message from God, he began to buy television stations, cable channels and satellites and developed enough Christian programming to sustain a 24-hour network. By the mid-1980s, Orange County-based TBN was “the country’s most-watched religious network,” according to J. Gordon Melton and Jon R. Stone in their book “Prime-Time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting.” With his bubbly wife Jan, Crouch anchored TBN’s flagship program, “Praise the Lord,” a nightly two-hour talk show featuring guests, Scripture and entertainment. He was known for preaching a gospel of prosperity, imploring viewers to open their pocketbooks to further God’s works and reap spiritual and material blessings in return. During four decades on air he often generated controversy, in particular because of the extravagant lifestyle he and his wife led. Critics complained that his jets, mansions and lavish expense-account meals were paid by tax-exempt donations from TBN’s legion of “prayer partners,” whose pledges enabled the network to surpass its rivals in size and global reach.
Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, dies at 79
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Let's continue all things Andy Cohen here.....
Anyone see the premiere? I thought it was nicely produced but don't see how they can make an entire series out of it.
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Someone in the another thread mentioned that Beyonce has mysteriously shut down the careers of a few artists who have spoken against her in the media! These include Blu Cantrell Keri Hilson Keyshia Cole Does she call up their record companies and tell them to cut them off, or else?
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[quote]A romantic reunion? Tom Daley arrives in the US...just days after he announces new relationship with a man 8 December 2013 He’s increasingly spent time Stateside since he was linked to Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. And British Olympian Tom Daley was spotted arriving in Houston, Texas, on Thursday after flying in from London. The 19-year-old was met at the airport by a blonde woman and the pair made a stop at Whole Foods on the way to his hotel. The handsome star wore a comfortable casual outfit for his travels, wearing an olive green T-shirt, a black quilted jacket , beige trousers and black high-top trainers. He looked relaxed and happy to arrive in Houston, where he is training for the UK Diving Championships in February, wearing a smile as he dragged two suitcases. He recently sparked speculation that his new relationship could be becoming serious, he was spotted ‘house-hunting' close to the Olympic Park, where he triumphed at last summer's Games. The Sun reported that the sports star was eying up a plush new pad with rumoured boyfriend Dustin Lance Black, a stone's throw from his new training ground in east London. 'They were both asking questions about the facilities so it looks like the two of them will be spending a lot of time together there,' an onlooker told the newspaper. The athlete's personal life was thrust into the limelight recently when he posted an emotional video on YouTube, saying he was dating a man. Although Tom hasn't confirmed the identity of his new beau, the pair were photographed grabbing a coffee together in Los Angeles in October, where the 39-year-old Milk screenwriter lives. His spokesman refused to comment on his rumoured house hunt, while the star has continued to live with his mother Debbie in his hometown of Plymouth after the Olympic Games. However it looks like he is ready to fly the nest as he focuses on training for Rio 2016 at the new aquatic centre. Tom revealed that making the decision to come out and reveal his sexuality was 'terrifying'. Speaking about his new love, Tom said: 'I’d never felt like anything like it before. We were at a party and I hadn’t even spoken to him all night. I didn’t know what to do or if he was gay at first.' On the Jonathan Ross show Tom said: 'I’d never felt the feeling of love, it happened so quickly, I was completely overwhelmed by it to the point I can’t get him out of my head all the time. I’ve never had it before where I love someone and they love me just as much.' Asked why he hasn't identified his beau, Tom said: 'At the moment, I wouldn’t like anything to change. 'I hope it doesn’t get ruined by the media attention, everyone has been so supportive and I hope it continues that way.'
Am watching the film for the first time. Was this thing rated PG? It would be teetering on PG-13/R today mainly for all the minors in underwear and the hilarious masturbation scene. But it's enjoyable. My favorite is Scheckler. That actor is very talented and funny. And according to this pic in 2007, doesn't even resemble the chubby kid he once was. Barry Robins as Cotton is an acquired taste. His freakout at the end is pure scenery chewing. Bill Mumy is also quite good. Anybody see this in theaters upon its original release? How did it do?
"Bless the Beasts & Children" (1971)
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Tighter than tight pants--no wonder they sang so high.
Old thread link below. ...where will Kalinda end up? And what of the strangely perky Robyn? ...will Peter manage to promote all the pretty girls out of his line of sight? ...will Grace Florrick get into more boring, icky trouble? ...will Diane get her judgeship? ...and will Alicia ever find a man who's not kind of a sleaze? I don't really care that much about Will, because he's kind of a jerk. Cary is nothing but that self-satisfied smile, & Eli's great, because he's completely untrustworthy.
Let me tell you all a very bittersweet story. Let's just call it: "Karma" - So once upon a time in a land far away there was a special and sweet kid who had a dream to become a painter. He was a brilliant artist and was ahead of his time. He had hopes, and dreams just like we all do. Unfortunately, the art schools did not feel the same as he and they rejected him. Fast forward a few years lat...er he was roughed up and bullied on top of that by the same people he once loved. His Name was Hitler. Then fast forward a few generations, there was once upon a time a young lady who also had the same hopes and dreams as Hitler did. She probably loved the Jews as much as they hated her. She still loved them. As a matter of fact, the majority of her friends were Jewish. She loved them so much and just wanted to be accepted by them that she even tried to convert to Judaism, but no. It was still not good enough for them. They mocked her, rejected her and laughed at her through and through when all she ever did was show them her love. Her name was Tila Tequila. -
I think the guy's cute, but those yellow, filmy teeth are a complete turn-off. I admit tons of stars overdue the whitening, but he looks white trashy
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start reading ladies... my money is on Courtney Act.
Bop.
Movies: 12 YEARS A SLAVE AMERICAN HUSTLE CAPTAIN PHILLIPS FRUITVALE STATION GRAVITY HER INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS NEBRASKA SAVING MR. BANKS THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Television shows: THE AMERICANS BREAKING BAD GAME OF THRONES THE GOOD WIFE HOUSE OF CARDS MAD MEN MASTERS OF SEX ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK SCANDAL VEEP
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Yes, morbid, I know, but there was a similar thread here years ago, and you have to admit it''s interesting...\ \ [italic]Female:[/italic]\ \ Tori Amos\ \ Fiona Apple\ \ Fantasia\ \ Fran Drescher\ \ Terri Hatcher\ \ Oprah\ \ Billie Holiday\ \ Connie Francis\ \ \ [italic]Male:[/italic]\ \ Axl Rose\ \ Carlos Santana\ \ Billy Connolly\ \ Thomas Dekker\ \ Rufus Wainwright\ \ Henry Rollins\ \ Marilyn Manson\ \ Ozzy Osbourne\ \ John Peel\ \ Clyde Barrow\ \ Sid Vicious\ \ T.E. Lawrence
The bell-ringing charity removed two links to 'ex-gay' therapy groups from its website's resource collection for dealing with 'sexual addiction.' see link for more
Salvation Army 'Does Not Consider Homosexual Orientation a Sin'
Bieber was on the radio with Ryan Seacrest this morning to plug his new documentary, "Justin Bieber's Believe," which he claims will show how difficult it's been for him to go from teen star to manhood in the public spotlight. Audio:
Who is on your Favorites list. I have: fitdude82 dibs condoras treyhot youngbreeder david89ing spartacus_22 doublejuice dos_pedros amazinghole stevenexposd
Partying, partying, YEAH!\ \ Fun, fun, fun, fun.\ \ Looking forward to the weekend.
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I can retire, but I'm afraid I won't have enough to do and will sit at home all day. DL posters who have retired: are you enjoying the hell out of it?
I'm in the mood for a snack!
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His thread is maxed out, so here's a new one for anyone who wants to continue advising him, making fun of him, and reading him to filth. Old thread here:
After all Tom is just 19 and may lack the sexual experience of Dustin's typical partner. We can certainly assume Dustin has sucked Tom's cock. Do you think Tom has reciprocated yet? Do you think Dustin has touched Tom's asshole yet?
In what is easily the best news we've heard all damned day, Deadline, has learned that Dan Knauf, creator of the cult HBO series "Carnivale," has joined NBC’s upcoming 10-episode series "Dracula" as showrunner/head writer, working with series creator Cole Haddon. NBC's "Dracula" will feature Jonathan Rhys Meyers ("The Tudors", Shelter, Velvet Goldmine) as the iconic vampire. The series, from producers Tony Krantz and Colin Callender and writer Cole Haddon, is being produced for both NBC and the UK’s Sky Living. It was originally bought by NBC in January with a “script-to-series” commitment, meaning that it wouldn’t go through a pilot stage but straight to series if NBC brass liked the script. "Dracula" is produced by Krantz’s Flame Ventures, Callender’s Playground Entertainment, Universal TV, and NBCU International Prods.’ Carnival Films & Television, the company behind "Downton Abbey". Krantz and Callender are executive producing the series with Gareth Neame and Anne Mensah. Haddon and Flame’s Reece Pearson co-executive produce. Based on an idea by Krantz, it is set in the 1890s and has been described as “Dangerous Liaisons meets 'The Tudors,'” which is fitting given that "Tudors" star Meyers has been tapped to play the title role. The new series reunites Meyers with NBC's Bob Greenblatt, who cast the Irish actor in "The Tudors" while running Showtime. As a producer, Greenblatt gave Meyers his first starring role in the CBS telefilm Elvis, which was overseen by Universal TV EVP Bela Bajaria, then head of CBS’ movies and miniseries division. In the NBC/Sky Living series Dracula (Meyers) arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier but falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife. “It is a timeless tale with relevant, surprising twists and turns with the exquisite Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the marquee role,” Bajaria said.
I guess this year is as predictable as all the previous years: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Fruitvale Station, Gravity, Her, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska, Saving Mr. Banks, 12 Years a Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street. The 10 TV programs selected are: The Americans, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, House of Cards, Mad Men, Masters of Sex, Orange Is the New Black, Scandal, Veep.
I got douche chills watching this.
Who are some stars who are widely assumed to be straight, but you think they might be queer? For me its Jennifer Lopez. Never heard any rumors about her but she always dated flamers like P. Diddy and that backup dancer guy with gayface.
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He does make gaffes when he speaks, but he's pretty decent.
What is happening here on DL? There is a new 900 page Barbara Stanwyck biography by Victoria Wilson, and unless I'm missing something, no one on DL has mentioned it. The book is actually the first volume of the bio that Wilson is writing, and deals with the years 1907 - 1940. It covers her marriage to Frank Fay, her romance with Frank Capra, who made her a star, and second marriage to Robert Taylor. The reviews I have read say nothing about Stanwyck as a lesbian. Maybe Stanwyck didn't turn to the ladies for love until later in life.
Be honest!
I'm counting on DL to point out the differences. I've avoided getting involved with bisexual men for years - not for any issue with their own sexual orientation but because, based on my experiences, I've always felt they were different from gay men. But I met a really great guy and we're very attracted to one another. So I thought I'd break my rule and give it a go. We've had a few dates and have a lot of chemistry. I've made it clear that I'm not a bottom, that I'm versatile, that I'm gay and that I'm a grown man. I feel strongly that his sexuality shouldn't define mine in a limiting way. I've been pretty persuasive about the joys of ass play and I haven't been aggressive and have promised to take my time with him, etc. His comfort level is my highest concern. And he has a gorgeous ass. But he's a bit of a tease, a bit coy. He says things like, "If you're lucky, maybe I'll let you do this...," etc. I suppose a certain amount of negotiation is to be expected but it makes think what I've always thought about this equation - bisexual men just want to control everything. Any experience here?
Over the weekend, Barron Hilton — brother to Paris and Nicky, son of a hotel — got his ass kicked at a mansion in Miami allegedly at the behest of Lindsay Lohan. What a fantastic news story. According to the Hiltons, Barron and Lindsay were at a party for rich and gross people on Friday night when Lohan — who has miraculously managed to stay out of trouble since leaving rehab in August — overheard the boy Hilton trashing her. Later in the night, Barron was attacked by an unknown man in what the Hiltons say was retaliation ordered by Lohan. Though it now appears to be deleted, Paris issued a not-so-vague threat on Instagram (how the world turns!) regarding the attack, per the NY Daily News: "They both will pay for what they did. No one fucks with my family and gets away with it!!" Nicky Hilton also seemed to be alluding to the incident on Twitter, though I can't parse the tweets at all. Maybe you can do better. Or maybe not, whatever. Barron filed a police report after the incident, saying that Lohan egged on the attacker as he beat him up. Lohan's reps deny this, which I am and choosing to ignore as you also should. The feud between the Hiltons and Lohan dates all the way back to 2006 when an oily human named Brandon Davis called Lohan a "firecrotch" to paparazzi. Amazingly, neither side has quite yet figured out a way to milk television money out of this. But let's give them some more time.
Paris Hilton's Brother Bloodied in Attack Ordered By Lindsay Lohan
Men who self-identify as gay, whether they are telling other people or not.\ \ I didn''t really want to include men who are in full denial and have never really self-identified as gay, but it''s probably too fine of a line not to include them. I know that sounds crazy, but I was trying to gauge the percentage of men, in their minds, self-identify as gay who then either come out or stay closeted.\ \ Also, fully closeted vs. partially closeted. \ \ Partially closeted meaning they have important people in their lives who know, many have existing gay relationships, go out to gay clubs, have gay friends, but other important people (certain relatives, work colleagues, certain friends/acquaintances don''t know, at least not via the person). I''m not including random people, such as if the cashier at the grocery store doesn''t know. \ \ I''d say 35 percent fully closeted, 55% partially closeted, 20% fully out.
I quit watching a lot of shows this year, but these were the ones I really enjoyed. What are yours? 1. Orphan Black 2. Broadchurch 3. The Good Wife 4. Mad Men 5. American Horror Story 6. Parenthood 7. Masters of Sex 8. Parks and Recreation 9. The White Queen 10. Veep I could never get into Breaking Bad, Scandal, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy or Boardwalk Empire. I still watch Modern Family, Project Runway and Walking Dead,but the good days are behind them. I still watch Top Chef and Survivor and Girls sometimes. I quit watching The New Girl, Nashville, Vampire Diaries, Revenge and Grimm this season. Gave up on Glee and Grey's Anatomy a while back. No I'm neither fat nor live in a basement. I have a bf and a social life; TV is my relaxation.
in 2016?
Is he a girlyman?
6'5" Jared Padalecki needs bodyguard to go shopping in NY???
So fucking hot!
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C'mon all you people pronouncing NYC and SF and LA ovah, it's time to put your money where your mouth is and repopulate and revive this old bankrupt city. Crime, grit, dirt, pockets of artists, Detroit is where it's at. So why aren't you all going?
I want to hear his opinion on Jodie. Everyone go to their bathrooms, shut the lights and say, "I'm JIVE!" three times.
Tim Meadows WENT OFF on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend -- saying he'll NEVER WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN after they excluded him from a throwback sketch. Meadows -- who appeared on the show from 1991 to 2001 -- swore off the show after watching the "Brasky Bar Guys" bit ... a reoccurring sketch he often appeared in during his time with the show. Meadows tweeted: "They did Brasky without me" ... adding, "Not even a 'hey would you want to come to do one line and bring your kids to see the 5 directions...?' Nothing... Wow..." "I will never watch SNL again." Meadows also explained why he thinks he's persona non grata -- and it traces back to his movie, "The Ladies Man." "Sorry the ladies man bombed," Meadows wrote ... "If it would have done better they wouldn't treat me like a red-headed step child." After the rant, Tim cooled down and seemed to back off his comments ... saying, "I'm not mad at the show. I know what it takes to produce those sketches in a short amount of time. I talked to a friend on the show who said it WAS a last minute sketch." "I acted like a baby. I'm happy for all of my friends success and will always be grateful and proud to have been a part of SNL. That being said don't forget to see 'Anchorman 2' coming soon to a theater near you." Fun Fact: "The Ladies Man" bombed so bad it took SNL 10 years to make another movie.
Tim Meadows -- 'I Will NEVER Watch Saturday Night Live Again'
Years ago, I read an article in Harper's or The New Yorker about mothers in Polynesia or some tropical place. They massage their babies' genitals to get them to stop crying and this practice is completely acceptable. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Do you consider this to be child abuse?
Now, Clinton Kelly is no shrinking violet, but as a guest co-host, he's seated between Shrieking Sherri and Slutty Jenny. He can't get a word in edgewise. Neither of the bitches knows how to listen. They've run all over him in the rudest kind of way not letting him finish a sentence or even speak. I SO want to turn off the show and haven't watched it in months but for the first time in ages, I want to see/hear some of the guests. Johnny Mathis is about to sing.
Oh, Glennie - how fun for you to host the Kennedy Center Honors! I'm sure Caroline selected you because of your stunning resemblance to her uncle Teddy.....
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I knew it was coming but didn't know how or why, and then to see Chrissie, Sam and Zoe all together in a bar... with Pauline's doggie doorstop... Well, in a word, wow! And say goodbye to Andy Hunter, too...! Any other EastEnders fans care to weigh in?
So, what was the defining moment of 2013. For me, it was section 3 of DOMA falling and getting married.
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I am attending tonight's service and honey, Sister Bonnie is PREACHING IT. Tell 'em all, bitch!
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Michigan trash set at least 12 fires after Michigan State's football win over Ohio State. You just knew this was going to happen. Police put a brave face on it, say they didn't have to use tear gas as usual.
It's very frustrating as feminine gay woman who is attracted to the same to see these sexually ambivalent women in the bars. Yes, I live in L.A. so they are the minority, but still they ruin the vibe. Especially when they are of the stud variety who come on to ladies like 14 yr old boys! No class, no decorum. THEY SCARE ME!!
Is this legal?
He's already earned himself a reputation as a hell-raising movie star, even at the age of 27, but Shia LaBeouf has now allegedly been involved in a 'boozy bust-up' in which he unveiled his full fury. Dining at a chic restaurant bar in London's Covent Garden, Shia was approached by a female fan who left in tears after having spoken to the star. The woman's boyfriend is reported to have then approached the Transformers star which resulted in a 'tussle', according to The Sun of Sunday. 'Shia pursued him and was overhead saying, "I can get you killed",' the paper reports. The paper claims that Shia was eventually removed from the restaurant bar by a group of waiters and onlookers. A witness told the paper that 'Shia went for this guy after he upset his girlfriend. It was shocking. He looked out of control.' This is the second anger management issue for the American star here in the UK. In October the star was reportedly beaten up on a clubbing night out in London, while on a break from filming the aptly-titled movie Fury with Brad Pitt. Shia is said to have filmed two sisters, one of whom was vomitting, ignoring requests to stop doing so. The situation allegedly ended with Shia being hit and kicked by a pssserby who had intervened, with bouncers from the club then stepping in to break up the fracas. This may all be two cases of life imitating art. Shia's 2012 film Lawless saw him star in the gruesome Western killfest as a violent criminal during the prohibition era.
Shia LaBeouf to fellow restaurant guest: 'I can get you killed!'
Dayna Morales and the Gallop Asian Bistro made a 'joint decision' to end her employment at the restaurant, the business said on its Facebook page Wednesday. It did not determine exactly what happened with the receipt, in which Morales says a customer did not tip her because they did not agree with her lifestyle and criticized her for being openly gay. Long article, with photos and video, at NY Daily News link.
New Jersey [lesbian] waitress accused of doctoring receipt leaves job
I blame the Mexicans.
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Think of him on top of you...
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I thought I'd bring you up to date. I now have an ugly black eye and I am recovering from a pummeling you wouldn't believe. All of this was for simply suggesting I might consider a small financial settlement if he wanted out of our relationship. He smacked my face so hard I have three teeth that are loose. I have a dentists appointment on Tuesday. That was the earliest appt. I could get. Then he doubled his fist and punched me in the head giving a nasty black eye. He called me a bunch of names I can't correctly spell, but they were mean and nasty. I'm considering filing charges, but there were no witnesses, so it's my word and injuries against his bruised hands. I'm really confused as to what my next step should be.
MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin's ultra-liberal capital city is a place where just about anything goes, from street parties to naked bike rides. But city officials say a business is pushing even Madison's boundaries by offering, of all things, hugs. For $60, customers at the Snuggle House can spend an hour hugging, cuddling and spooning with professional snugglers. Snugglers contend touching helps relieve stress. But Madison officials suspect the business is a front for prostitution and, if it's not, fear snuggling could lead to sexual assault. Not buying the message that the business is all warm and fuzzy, police have talked openly about conducting a sting operation at the business, and city attorneys are drafting a new ordinance to regulate snuggling. "There's no way that (sexual assault) will not happen," assistant city attorney Jennifer Zilavy said. "No offense to men, but I don't know any man who wants to just snuggle." Snuggle House owner Matthew Hurtado hasn't responded to multiple requests for an interview. His attorney, Tim Casper, said in an interview last month the business is legitimate and Hurtado has put precautions in place to protect clients and employees from each other. "The concept is obviously a novel one and you can see where they (the city) might be a little skeptical," he said. "Could something happen? Yeah, I suppose. But they're taking every precaution." In recent days, it's become unclear whether or not the house is still in business. No one answered the door there Saturday. A posting on a Facebook page claiming to be the Snuggle House's site said it had closed, but the page owner wouldn't identify themselves — or confirm if it was the home's official site. Neither Hurtado nor Casper have returned phone and email messages. Madison's concern seems to be deeper than in other cities where similar businesses have set up shop as cuddling has grown into a cottage industry over the past decade. Police in Rochester, N.Y., said they've had no complaints about The Snuggery, which offers overnight cuddle sessions. Be The Love You Are in Boulder, Colo., offers cuddles with "Snuggle Stars." Cuddle Therapy in San Francisco offers packages that "focus directly with your current needs around connection, intimacy and touch," according to its website. Police in San Francisco and Boulder didn't respond to The AP's inquires about those businesses. The nonprofit organization Cuddle Party has trained about 100 people across five continents to run group snuggle sessions, said Len Daley, a psychologist who serves as executive director at Cuddle Party headquarters in Montgomery, Ala. Betty Martin, a Seattle-based sex educator who facilities cuddle parties in that city, said she's never had problems with government officials or police. Cuddle Party participants must keep their clothes on and go through a pre-session workshop on how to say "no," she said. "People think if there's touch happening there must be sex happening. That's not the case at all," Martin said. Madison might seem like an ideal spot for snuggling. Former Gov. Lee Dreyfus once described the Democratic stronghold as "30 square miles surrounded by reality." The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates for atheists, is based here. Every year UW-Madison students hold a blocks-long party to celebrate the end of the school year and biking enthusiasts pedal through the streets in various stages of undress each spring. The Snuggle House sits above a bar about a block from the state Capitol. The only indication it's there is a welcome mat that reads "Snuggle House." The business's website features photos of bedrooms with hardwood floors and videos of four snugglers — three women and one man — talking about wanting to help people feel better.
So why are these places still open before that guy arrives? Aren't there food inspectors in those towns?
Someone get this sick bitch a sammich!
The 19-yr. old high school senior gets an Ebony makeover.
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She said it was her worst interview ever? I can't find it online.
How about male stars who were, perhaps, not known for their great beauty but had a film role or a few years when they were at their ravishing best OR were made surprisingly glamorous?
is over. At this point, in 2013, only the most pathetic, craven souls remain hidden there. (I am not speaking of teens or even college students.)
My San Fran friends say NYC is expensive, but not San Francisco expensive. True?
What about the children?
The best part are the fake headlines from the future.
Pranksters Convince Alcoholic Friend He's Been in a Coma for 10 Years
I'm employed!!!!
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What does it feel like?
We're having FOUR at my workplace. The President's reception, the company party, the departmental lunch, and my working group lunch. I'm skipping the big parties and only going to the lunches. It's this kind of forced socializing shit that makes the holidays stressful for an introvert.
Very draggy looking, as well. I haven't seen her in years, so was kind of shocked.
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I don't think I've ever seen anything quite this disgusting... but look at the beautiful people enjoying it!
Is this a legit non-sexual bathhouse where straight guys go to let off some steam? I remember a guy I dated a few years ago telling me that he would go there with his dad, who'' straight, on occasion for some steam and straight male bonding. Anyone ever been?
Tell me about the Russian/Turkish baths in the East Village.
I guess I'm just mean
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First up: the original fierce bitch Donna McKechnie. Poor video quality, but worth every second to see Miss "no bones or ligaments" McK's brilliance. Notice how much better she is than everyone around her!
She has Asperger's syndrome.
How come this has never been turned into a movie or TV mini-series? Sounds fascinating. From Wikipedia: The Boise homosexuality scandal refers to a sweeping investigation of a supposed "homosexual underground" in Boise, Idaho that started in 1955. Beginning with the arrest of three men in October 1955, the investigation broadened to encompass allegations that over 100 young men and teenage boys had been involved in sexual acts with a ring of adult homosexual men. By the time the investigation wound down in January 1957, some 1,500 people had been questioned, sixteen men faced charges, and fifteen of them were sentenced to terms ranging from probation to life in prison. Reportage of the investigation and arrests set off a moral panic in Boise, fueled by incendiary editorials in the city's newspaper. Although framed in terms of "protecting children" from adult predators, the probe was not confined to investigating charges of men having sex with underage boys and some of those convicted and sentenced to prison were found guilty only of sexual encounters with other consenting adults. The scandal highlighted the tension between the perception of homosexuality as a mental illness requiring treatment and homosexual sex as a criminal act mandating punishment and led to an examination of the problems of juvenile delinquency. The reasons behind both the start and the end of the investigation are unclear. In his seminal book on the scandal, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City, journalist and academician John Gerassi suggests that the investigation began as a means for the wealthy elite of Boise to assert and maintain economic control of the city and the state. He asserts that a gay millionaire known as "The Queen" was the target of the probe, although he was never charged. With the son of the loudest proponent of the investigation implicated, Gerassi suggests that the forces behind the probe realized that homosexuals were at every level of society and that their wealth and power would not necessarily insulate them, leading them to quietly halt the investigation. More details at link.
In this thread we can dissect those men and post pics of them (both famous and non-famous).
Did you grow up with mixed bio/adopted sibling groups?
The smart ass kids, the over the top stereotypes, stupid dads, overbearing wives, gay minstrels, shaky camera, plots of nothing but reactions and punch lines. Shit. Just shit.
"I'm deeply concerned with this movement that somehow marijuana isn't harmful and it doesn't hurt our kids," said Bergen.
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The boy band are currently leading the battle for Christmas number one fragrance - maybe that's why Harry Styles and Swifty didn't work out? :( People want to smell like One Direction more than Lady Gaga, according to soaring sales figures for their new fragrance. The boys are leading the battle for Christmas number one fragrance according to online beauty retailer feelunique - proving they aren't just pretty faces. The teen heartthrobs' Our Moment fragrance has sold at least five times as many as any other celebrity fragrance in the run up to Christmas. Well it's no surprise really given the amount of obsessed fans they have. According to the fashion site, one bottle is currently being sold every minute - that's a whole lot of 1D love. Coming in second is outrageous singer Lady Gaga with her 18th century-inspired Fame perfume. Close behind her is pop princess Britney Spears with Fantasy, followed by chart topping songstress Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday. And poor Justin Bieber clearly hasn't dropped his top enough this year after all, because the women are beating him as he comes in fifth with his fragrance The Key. Despite Taylor Swift’s Wonderstruck being the biggest celebrity seller last year, she is coming in sixth so far this time round - let's hope she's not TOO bitter about her ex stealing the top spot. At number 10 is burlesque babe Dita Von Teese's scent, with David Beckham, Kate Moss and Beyonce stealing spots above her. Siobhan McDermott, feelunique general manager, said: "It just proves that women will quite literally do anything to have Harry Styles’ scent on their skin.” Yes, yes they will. Here are the top 10 so far: One Direction: Our Moment Lady Gaga: Fame Britney Spears - Fantasy Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Justin Bieber - The Key Taylor Swift - Wonderstruck David Beckham - Homme Kate Moss - Kate Beyonce - Heat Dita Von Tesse - Eau de Parfum
One Direction perfume beats Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift fragrances
Here she is interviewing Jodi Arias. What do you think of her looks?
Posey, Pence, Ellsbury among 81 striking deals Associated Press - 5 hrs ago NEW YORK (AP) — NL MVP Buster Posey agreed to an $8 million, one-year contract with the San Francisco Giants, teammate Hunter Pence got a $13.8 million deal and Jacoby Ellsbury settled with the Boston Red Sox for $9 million on a busy Friday as players and teams swapped figures in salary arbitration. Eighty-one players reached agreements, leaving just 36 headed toward arbitration hearings next month in Phoenix. San Diego third baseman Chase Headley had the largest request and the biggest spread, asking for $10.3 million while the Padres offered $7,075,000. Boston reliever Craig Breslow had the slimmest gap. He sought $2,375,000 — that was $50,000 more than the Red Sox offered.
I am a lesbian who very rarely finds a straight woman attractive. Yet, on DL, straight men are highly prized. I just don''t get it.
Tom Daley was pictured with a UK male stripper name Johnson, 6 months prior to him coming out this past week. And still follows the stripper on Instagram. Maybe Tom is not as innocent as he would have us to believe I think he is a little freak that plays naive and innocent for the cameras, but behind closed doors he's a big freak that gets it INNNNN ! I'm sure he watched Dustin Lance Black's porn and then met him and gave him his number because he wanted to experience him sexually for himself.
Tom Daley Pictured With A Male Stripper 6 Months Before Coming Out!
I got my BMW 328i sedan yesterday. Thought you'd like to know...TTFN.
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Lots of talk about bisexuals and bisexuality on this board; most of it pretty biased, shallow, yada, yada.\ \ So for all you bi folks out there and those of you who know the great bisexuals, give us your candidates for the Bisexual Hall of Fame, those who''ve raised the bar for all future bisexual men and women.\ \ No theories about if bisexuality or bisexuals exist. (We know they do.) No guesses about who is bisexual. No second hand stories. Just your first hand experience with the Best Bisexuals - either you or someone you know.\ \ What makes a great bisexual?
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Go to the site below, record, post and then see if people can tell what part of the country/world you're from....
Inspired by the Tom Daley thread. So did you ever date someone 20 years older while in your early 20s? Vote below and discuss
My parents rejoiced with pride in our President. I was about 10 but I knew then they weren't right in the head.
How / why did the industry settle on '40 ?
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Two designs. $25 each. I'm not affiliated w/Steve (though I sure would like to be).
Tom Daley's sweet little ass would be constantly wet and delicious
One of my favorite standards; they're playing the Willie Nelson version on the radio right now. The lyrics are almost poetic. I didn't realize that the verses were all haikus until I did some research. Question for you savants: I've never understood the reference to "icy finger waves." I thought a finger wave was something you did to your hair. Does anyone know what it means in this song?
It seems so phallic. Who sticks it in and what do they think as they do it?
Discuss.
I have recently lost about 80 pounds (combined surgery, diet change, and exercise), and I am exercising (cardio and weights) almost daily. I look SO much better and it is nice to feel good again, and look good in clothes. I still have belly fat though. Anyone know of any secrets that really concentrate on getting rid of it? I am wondering if it's just my age (48), or can this fat be blasted away? Help me Obi-Won Datalounge, you're my only hope.
I just finished reading the book by her friend/maid ("Living with Miss G") and the only memory I have of her is in Earthquake where she was cast as Lorne Greene's daughter ("Daddy!"). She wasn't very good in that, and as I went through this memoir it looks like her only real hit movie was a part in "Night of the Iguana" back in 1964. She was often described as wooden. Could she act? The book is good, by the way. And I kind of got the feeling that Ava and her maid were definitely more than employer/employee and possibly more than "just friends."
Think his agent is just mindfucking him with all these offers?
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She looks like the Joker.
This would probably cause a shitstorm. Free PR. Madonna will do it.
This thread is dedicated to my future gay husbands, Nathan Owens and Charles Michael Davis!
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For r29 in the "Why do Republicans hate Biden especially" thread.
fillin' yer hole!
For domestic abuse! He was arrested for beating his girlfriend with one arm.
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The things I would do to this man! He has to be the sexiest athlete in all of sports. I hope one day he gives in and does ESPN's Body issue for 2014, I wil buy several copies because I want to see him naked!
Video: Cristiano Ronaldo Shows Off Abs & Bulge Modeling His CR7 Underwear Collection!
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.
At what ratio do you seed?\ \ I always seed a minimum of 2 to 1 and if I really like a movie like Thundercrack I seed 10 to 1. \ \ I have about 250 seeds and I turn on so many at a time, turning some off if no one is taking advantage of them and moving down the line. \ \ I do however have about 20 loaded at 70 to 90 percent with no seeds re-appearing. \ \ What do you think my chances are of ever completing these films. \ \ I should let you know that the bulk of what I download are obscure 70''s porn flicks. Mostly hetero, but all fun.
I had one that worked really well. I used to edit video clips in HD, edit them together, etc. Suddenly it became to much for my laptop to handle (videos would become choppy). The fan would go into overdrive. Yes, I cleaned the vents and wiped the hard drive clean. It didn't help any. So what size and specs should I get in a laptop? I'm not looking to purchase anything major, but I'd like to get something that'll work. TIA.
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Of course there are tons of black and brown belts. I've seen blue, red and even green belts. But grey belts are now extremely rare. Why is that? I've seen a number of grey shoes, so why no grey belts? I've always thought grey goes with more colors than brown, so why is brown so much more popular?
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Yay for them. Seriously.
Pamela Geller is once again calling for Congress to reject a resolution condemning the persecution of Burma’s Rohingya minority. As we noted on Wednesday, the Rohingya minority in Burma is facing a campaign of persecution that many human rights groups describe as ethnic cleansing. But since they are Muslim, they have little sympathy from Geller. In a blog post today, she claims that the Rohingya are waging “jihad in Burma,” but the “goosestepping thugs” of “Jihad agitators and their leftist shills” are covering it up and unfairly criticizing her. “Pure evil. The Left always does this,” she writes. Geller must then consider Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation as a leftist, jihadist group, as the conservative organization denounced the “ethnic cleansing” and “atrocities” committed against the Rohingya. We’re sure she also has words for the Republican congressmen who are co-sponsoring the resolution. Opposition to the jihad in Burma is fast becoming the third rail. The bogus myth of Muslim victimhood has become the rallying cry for Islamic supremacists organizations (CAIR, the OIC, et al) and their leftwing operatives across the nation and the world. And I dared touch that third rail when I called for Atlas readers, twitter followers and FB friends to contact their congressmen and vote NO on resolution 418 (more here). Jihad agitators and their leftist shills were none too pleased. It is clear that jihad terrorists are converging on Burma from Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan -- a jihad group from the Caucasus announced that back in July. Still, media coverage and reportage on the violence in Burma is notoriously pro-jihad (is there any country that opposes jihad that the media likes?). Much is made of the Buddhists' reponse [sic] to Muslim violence against Buddhists in Burma. But Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese nobel peace prize winner and Myanmar's democracy and human rights icon, has spoken uneqivocally [sic] in support of the Buddhists, much to the media's crushing dismay. She had been, up until that point, a media darling. … Now their goosestepping thugs, the illegal uber-left network of hacktivists and anarchist entities, "Anonymous," has taken up the jihad in Burma as their latest cause -- so of course they would target me on twitter. The FBI has dismantled the leaders of Anonymous and arrested the group's core members, but anonymous trolls abound. This is left's idea od [sic] intellectual sparring. Pure evil. The Left always does this. They try to demean the character of their enemies by engaging in mockery and ridicule, which only makes more glaring their total inability and unwillingness to engage on the level of ideas.
Pamela Geller: Evil Liberals Who Condemn Rohingya Persecution Support 'Jihad In Burma'
It's manipulative and lacks restraint. There were several audible guffaws toward the end as people were clearly thinking, "Oh please, now what?" I half expected the movie to end with Skylab falling on her. Apollo 13 was better.
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It's important, and the other thread got closed... so present away, men!
A thread dedicated to the Blatino model turned actor that is possibly the hottest stud ever to be on daytime TV. Discuss.
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Carry on, literate DLers.
Anyone tried it?
Nelson Mandella is gone, the person I would have picked as Most Important Person (Living) in the World. I can think of no one else who even comes close.
The first thing I liked about Orange Is the New Black is that it premiered on a dull summer Thursday. While weekends get busy in the summer, so much of the television goes away during the week (that’s the only real explanation I have for why I’m still watching Under the Dome). So on a pure consumer level, this television junky was thrilled by Netflix debuting 13 meaty new episodes of an intriguing prison drama this week. And in many respects, Orange is proving to be a perfect solution to the drought of quality content available this month on both digital and traditional platforms. I watched the show over the past few days, admittedly at a much slower pace than usual, but even still got sucked into the story of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a newly convicted resident of the federal penitentiary system. Orange represents an interesting cross between the distinctive styles of House of Cards — traditional serialized storytelling — and Arrested Development Season 4 — which is a Russian doll of flashbacks and interwoven events. The show, created by Weeds showrunner Jenji Kohan, chronicles Chapman and the eclectic ensemble cast’s coping with prison life, but makes heavy use of flashbacks to shed light on how many of the inmates came to be institutionalized. Other scenes flesh out Chapman’s life prior to conviction, and between those reveals, the peeks into the lives of others and the main storyline taking place within prison walls, the end result is both linear narrative and rich tapestry. The format has invited comparisons to the ABC series Lost, the difference being that while Lost overused its flashbacks and rarely shed much real light on the characters, there’s seasons worth of back story left in Orange. The only main flaw of the experience came every time a new episode started — as visually gripping as the opening sequence is, you can only listen to a Regina Spektor song so many times in a row; skipping forward to timecode 1:13 or so became habit for me by Episode 6. It’s been said before, but it’s worth saying again: If Netflix is building its future on binge-viewing, it really needs to address a clean solution for those who wish to skip past the opening sequences. Those who might wonder about Orange, know that the show’s quality is solid — while the cast doesn’t include any Oscar winners, there are plenty of non-unknowns in the game, including Jason Biggs, Taryn Manning, Natasha Lyonne, Laura Prepon and the amazing Kate Mulgrew as Red, who could easily be a stereotype of a character (tough Russian mobster turned tough Russian prison cook) but is a surprisingly vulnerable presence. Not only is the show strong (so strong that Netflix has already renewed it for a second season), Orange is the New Black represents a major milestone for the service: Previous show releases have been major events, and the channel has used the novelty of premiering original content in bulk to drive press coverage and audience attention. Now, however, Netflix seems to be seguing to a new phase of its operation — where subscribers can just come to expect, on a semi-regular basis, the launch of new great shows. Orange is the fourth series to launch on the service in 2013 — none other, aside from the animated content being produced by Dreamworks, have been announced. Which is frankly disappointing; with the exception of Hemlock Grove (which currently has a 44 percent rating on Metacritic), Netflix has set an impressive bar for high-quality original series over the last six months. Similarly to the golden age of HBO, where the end of The Sopranos meant the return of Six Feet Under, followed by a new season of The Wire, the steady stream of new, unique and intriguing series we’ve been getting from Netflix has created a new, and quite welcome, tradition of potentially award-worthy programming. Here’s the highest compliment I can pay: Other Netflix series have left me excited for more Kevin Spacey political scheming or Bluth family antics. But Orange is the first time that I’ve finished watching a show and been excited about what Netflix might release next.
It''s a photo of Chris Pine and Zach Quinto, fully clothed but in a VERY homoerotic pose. It is a professional shot, and looks real, but I can''t imagine the context.
Does anyone have this old recording? If so, could you please tell me how "Marvelous Party" begins on this recording? I had an album (back when one had LPs) of one Coward revue, and in it, the first thing you heard was the tinkling of ice in a glass as a rather Noel-like fellow woke from having been passed out, and moaned, dripping with sarcasm, "I've been to a marvelous party..." Only by the end of the song does he realize just how fun a party it was. Does this sound familiar? Is it the version on Oh Coward? If not, any idea what album it was? ALSO--totally unrelated--I once owned an LP of "Gorey by Grimes" (Tammy Grimes reading Edward Gorey poetry and books, hysterically). Of course it was never issued on CD. I can't seem to find the LP anywhere online. Anyone have a lead?
Each wrestler is covered in one of the following toppings. Raspberry jam, butter cream, vanilla cream, frosting, chocolate, jelly and toffee. All to bring more attention to HIV/AIDS. See link below!
Fresh off the smash ratings of Sound of Music, the producers of the Broadway bound musical Bullets Over Broadway have made an offer to Carrie to join the cast. They are eying her for the pivotal role of Olive Neal, which garnered Jennifer Tilly an Oscar nomination for the film version. What is it about Carrie's performance in Sound of Music that would make producers think she would be right for Olive Neal?
I am curious where people are posting from. I know this has been done before, but I searched back, and only found one ersatz poll from earlier this year.
Seriously. Every site has different rules. It makes it almost impossible to come up with a password or pattern I can remember across three dozen different sites that all demand passwords. I know you're not "supposed" to use the same password on multiple sites, but it's easy to use one for "non-critical" sites (where you lose nothing if you get hacked, really), and then just have a simple pattern that is easy to remember to vary the passwords across other sites. But when different sites have different, and conflicting rules, it fucking sucks. Like one site demands that you use an upper-case, a lower-case, a number, AND a symbol, and that your password must be 10 characters or longer. A different site says your password must be 6-8 characters. Yet another says "no special characters". UGH! Fuck you all. Let ME choose the password. If I get hacked, let it be my fucking fault... not YOURS because you made me have to write down my damn password just to remember it. Either that or just get one UNIFORM set of standards. Seriously, this is fucking ridiculous.
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I was going to buy it for the photos, but they made him look all gross and sinewy. I can't fap to this.
Talk about nerve. Hoping to match History Channel's gigantic numbers for its 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys, that cable network's sister station A&E has bankrolled a four-hour tale about the real-life outlaw couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. It's not exactly fresh material: In addition to countless history books and documentaries, the bloodthirsty pair's story has previously been told in Arthur Penn's 1967 drama Bonnie and Clyde, one of the most important American films of all time, in terms of its violence, sexuality, and ironic style. A&E hired Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) to direct the project, and decided to air it simultaneously on A&E, History, and Lifetime, so kudos to them, I guess, for dreaming big. But this miniseries is terrible, as close to a complete waste of time as I've encountered in my two years of writing for this publication. In contrast to Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, or for that matter almost any gangster story you can name, this miniseries has no real point of view of its main characters — no sense of who they were beyond their most basic plot functions, much less what values they expressed or opposed. There's a smidgen of artistic POV in the dubious notion that Bonnie totally drove the relationship, while Clyde was a schlump who might have whiled away his twilight years in peace if that vain tart hadn't gotten her hooks into him. ("He held the gun. She called the shots," the ads assert, which would be silly even if we didn't see Bonnie firing actual shots in the clips.) Beyond that, this is another one of those dag-blasted historical potboilers that thinks "drama" equals "acting out stuff that happened." Clyde — played by Emile Hirsch, who has been excellent elsewhere but is close to a zero here — narrates the miniseries as a sort of extended rise-and-fall narrative, coupled with a foolish love story. This is the worst kind of narration — the kind that tells you things you could already see or intuit, when it's not smearing personal and historical factoids atop the scenes. Bonnie, played by Holliday Grainger of The Borgias, is a sexy hellion who attaches herself to Clyde as a means of escaping her humdrum existence. There's not much sense of the real-life Bonnie, who was comfortable around the "criminal element" long before she met Clyde and married a brutal criminal at age 16. This one just wants to be famous. She dreams of being an actress and practically falls apart when she gets a rejection letter from Columbia Pictures. She's the mastermind of Bonnie-and-Clyde-as-celebrities, the half of the couple who escalates violent situations or reacts to them with chilling indifference, and the fame-monger who obsessively maintains a scrapbook, comes up with the bright idea that "Bonnie" should go before "Clyde" in newspaper stories, and even confronts a reporter at home when she fails to get the order of billing right. Clyde, meanwhile, is depicted, rather half-assedly, as a quasi-mystical seeker, a man-child who had a vision of Bonnie as a much younger man and recognizes her as his dream girl: his destiny. Throughout the miniseries, Clyde comes off as essentially decent, if rather dumb and volatile, while Bonnie becomes more and more of a harpy, to the point that any love she once felt for Clyde is subsumed by a ravenous desire for more, more, more fame. This is vastly less complex, not to mention interesting, than the version of the relationship presented in the 1967 movie, where Bonnie and Clyde's thirst for notoriety was a team effort that came out of two very different dysfunctional family histories. An all-star supporting cast — including Holly Hunter as Bonnie's mother and William Hurt as Frank Hamer, who comes out of retirement to catch the duo — acts mostly in a void, their often precise and thoughtful choices presented in a blandly unimaginative manner. Were the miniseries well-made, its story might be engaging anyhow, in a bad-for-you-but-you-can't-stop-watching way. But the script, by Joe Bateer and John Rice, has no sense of shape; it's just a collection of things that happen
one guy awhile back basically washed my face and recently another tried to chew off my lips. most recently another darted his tongue around. What the fuck?
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My sister has been taking care of my Dad who is in hospice care and not expected to live much longer. This past Saturday, my sister called me to say that "something beautiful" had just happened in Dad's room. A white light appeared on the wall. They thought it was a reflection of the sunlight coming in through the window so they shut the blinds and darkened the room. My sister says it only got brighter. I linked the photo below. (Dad's in a deep sleep, not yet gone.) My best friend's mother is also in hospice and he went to see her this weekend. A white light (he says looks exactly like his late father) appeared over her bed too. And they also got a (more indistinct) picture. So I went online and started reading. It seems this phenomenon is pretty common. Has anyone else had an experience like this? I'm floored by it!
I want to run away from my life and go to a foreign country. I don't want friends or family to find me.
Because the first thread is full
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Any UK DataLoungers watching this? Second episode airs on BBC4 tonight. Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves (BBC Four) is an award-winning Swedish drama about the Aids epidemic in Eighties Stockholm. Touching, bleak, at times painful to watch, this was a stark reminder of the disease’s impact. Based on Jonas Gardell’s novel Love, the first of three episodes introduced us to Rasmus (Adam Palsson), a 19-year-old from a provincial country town who throws himself into the city’s gay scene on leaving home for the first time, and Benjamin (Adam Lundgren), a reserved Jehovah’s Witness slowly coming to terms with his sexuality. We met the two protagonists in childhood, then as adults at a extravagant Christmas party thrown by Paul (Simon J Berger), with horrific flash-forwards to them in hospital beds just hours from death. “The story you are about to see is true,” said the voice-over. “It happened here, in this city. It was like a war fought in peacetime.” It was not an easy story to watch. It was, however, beautifully shot, flipping between shaky footage of men loitering under lampposts in Stockholm’s parks and cosy, softly-lit family scenes of the boys’ unsuspecting families. Symbolism was used very effectively, from the handprint on the window to the majestic white elk (“In some parts of the forest there are whole herds of them,” Rasmus’s father told him as a boy. “People shoot them because they are different.”) Paul was a brilliant character – flamboyant, self-deprecating, the very image of Rasmus and Benjamin’s parents’ worst nightmares with his feather boas and flowery wallpaper. The story developed quickly, giving us just enough of a glimpse into the world in which Rasmus and Benjamin found themselves – in parts seedy, yet also close-knit. The final scene, of the two lovers holding hands in the street, snow softly falling all around, was visually stunning, but a stark reminder that the worst is yet to come.
"Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves" - Swedish gay miniseries
I have a really big family, somewhere around 45-50 adults, and for quite a few of us we only see eachother at the family's huge get togethers at x-mas time, so my grandmother picks names out of hat for who we are to buy a present for and then calls to let us know. This year I got my half-brother's new wife. I don't know her at all and I barely know my half-brother. He's 17 years older than I am so I saw very little of him growing up as he was out of the house to college and then the military. Pretty much the only time I've spent with him has been when he's been able to be at the giant x-mas gatherings at my grandmother's house. I had no idea what to get her so my grandmother offered to try to find out what she might want. My grandmother just called and told me what she wants is a "serious purse" . I have no idea what that means, and neither does my grandmother. I guess when she asked my half-brother's wife what a serious purse was she just laughed and said that I'd know what she meant. (WTF?) I have no idea what she meant by that, or what a "serious purse" is. Does that mean an expensive or designer purse? Or a work purse? Or what? Anyone have any idea what it is?
When does a relationship between therapist and their patients go too far? When does it start to be a bit strange? So I have this friend who goes to a therapist. Nothing unusual. She also goes to the group therapy. Nothing unusual. She also became good friends with a couple of the others going to the group therapy. Nothing unusual. I find it strange how the revere their (female) therapist. Now when they have an event, they invite the therapist. They are on first-name terms with their therapists and also 'friends' on facebook. One published a book (I read a couple of pages, it's IMO tirdsome) and the therapist is commenting on facebook all the time aboug how wonderful and superb the book is and on which page she currently is. Of course the therapist also appears in the book along with her contact details. Maybe I'm jealous but I find all of this very strange. And I can't talk to my friend about as she won't hear any 'critical' opinions about the therapist.
Dang. The Orwellian doublespeak they keep coming up with is staggering. I hope some of his teabagging nitwit followers are among the 1.3 million. Extending federal unemployment benefits would actually be a “disservice” to the millions of out-of-work Americans who receive them, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. "I do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they're paid for. If you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers," the popular Tea Party Republican said on “Fox News Sunday." "When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy," Paul added. Paul’s comments come in response to efforts by congressional Democrats to extend the benefits as part of a year-end budget deal, but most Republicans have rejected the package due to the estimated $25 billion price tag. About 1.3 million jobless Americans are slated to lose their federal benefits at the end of the year if Congress doesn’t renew the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program that provides a federal safety net to the long-term jobless whose state benefits have expired.
Rand Paul -- Extending unemployment benefits is a disservice to people who receive them
Post about a time when you got revenge on someone well deserving of it, in an epic way.
Do full-flown autistics?
Before the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, President Obama promised Americans they could keep their healthcare plan if they liked it. But already hundreds of thousands of citizens are receiving notification that their plans are being cancelled because they don't comply with the new law, and, according to NBC News, the Obama administration has known for at least three years the cancellations were coming. While campaigning for health care reform in 2009, Obama went out of his way to make one thing perfectly clear: if you like your current health care plan, you will be able to keep it. On June 15, 2009, Obama said this: "We will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period.” In 2012, he echoed that sentiment, saying, "“If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.” However, many are finding that not to be the case. More than 300,000 cancellation notices have been sent out in Florida, according to Kaiser Health News, and another 180,000 in California. In New Jersey, the number of cancellations tops 800,000, the Star-Ledger reports. According to NBC News, approximately 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million Americans who buy their health insurance individually should expect to receive a cancellation letter over the next year "because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law." This could result in millions of Americans being forced to purchase different policies, potentially at higher premiums. Top 5 Product Launch FailuresPlay video." Top 5 Product Launch Failures So how did the Obama administration know the cancellations would be coming? The Affordable Care Act states that people who had health insurance prior to March 23, 2010 – the day President Obama signed the bill into law – will be able to keep those policies even if they don't meet the requirements of the new law. However, the Department of Health and Human Services tightened that provision, so that "if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date -- the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example -- the policy would not be grandfathered," NBC News reports. Because the market for individual insurance experiences significant turnover, the insinuation is the Obama administration had to have known many policies "grandfathered" in would not qualify for the ACA. NBC News claims that the administration knew in 2010 that "more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them." “This says that when they made the promise [that individuals could keep their plans], they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” Robert Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates told NBC News. Monday, former Obama adviser David Axelrod said on MSNBC's Morning Joe that "most people are going to keep their own plan." When asked about Axelrod's admission of "most" as opposed to all, White House spokesman Jay Carney acknowledge that some individual's plans will be cancelled, but countered that the plans they switch to will be better and affordable. "What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage," Carney said. "… So it's true that there are existing health-care plans on the individual market that don't meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act." Actually, what the President said back in 2009 was "[the Affordable Care Act] is for people who aren’t happy with their current plan. If you like what you’re getting, keep it. Nobody is forcing you to shift." Only now, some who like their plans are being forced, including Laszewski. According to NBC News, he has a so-called "Cadillac plan" – "the best
What is going on here? Are insurance companies cancelling coverage to derail Obamacare?
for those on the regressive right calling for fewer regulations on businesses, or worst of call, toxic libertarians calling for NO regulations on business insisting the "free market will sort things out", i ask, is this how you want to live? because THIS (shanghai) is the product of unfettered capitalism...
What is up with Claire Forlani doing that awful Irish accent for that Scotch commercial?
Many of those voting to cut food stamps are "Democrats." So those of you who hate the poor can celebrate. In a few months the poor will have about $2.85 a day to eat or 95 cents a meal. Congratulations America. You've officially become the cruelest nation on earth. Oh and btw, the money they are taking from food stamps are going to corporate farms, basically billionaires. This is only the beginning. Politicians on both sides want to take another 33 billion from food stamps. All of you who cheer this should hope every second of your life you will never find yourself in a position to need help from the government. Once they've sucked the programs for the poorest dry they'll be coming for SS, Medicare and unemployment.
The bill in the Senate to stop the cuts to food stamps failed, 33 to 66
It just seems like a place that makes buying clothes easy - a one-stop shop. Right?
I've been studying like mad for the past few days and I'm so tired. What about you? What y'all up to?
Interested to know what ethnic make-ups frequent the data lounge. Please don't make this more than what it is, just a curious census.
Discuss.
The UK store. What's the big deal about it? So much press about it in Los Angeles and NYC.
Another poll says 50% are from the US, but wasn't too informative on non US posters. Where are you?
Carter and George Nov. 22nd Bush are 89. Clinton and Jr. are 67.
It's like the topic says: which male actors and celebrities are bisexual? I don't mean out bisexual like Alan Cumming but the ones who you know or who are rumored to be bisexual.
Yet I still hate him.
Look at me. LOOK! AT! ME!!!
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Because hairy chest is a thing of beauty...
Revenge of the "Lets Post Pics of Guys Presenting Their Hairy Chests" thread
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!
Because the original was so popular. Original thread at link.
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Let's post pics of guys self-sucking
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I'm one of the people who just tonight began looking at the health insurance programs offered to me in my state under the health insurance exchange program which is part of the very much needed ObamaCare program. I'd like for this thread to be a place where we can all talk about what we need, how we figure out how to get it, and what we should look for in a private health insurance program. I encourage all people with a previously diagnosed illness, HIV+, diabetic and more to participate. We can help each other. I spent only one hour and I found my best plan, it isn't that hard to do. Let's help each other figure this out before November 15. Kisses.
With Tom Daley coming out as bisexual, will other men follow his lead? And if not, why not, asks Patrick McAleenan As a gay man, I have mostly avoided dating bisexual men, but perhaps that's because I fell in love with one once. (He’s now married. To a woman.) Or perhaps there's another reason. Perhaps I haven't met enough of them, which would be understandable considering they are often compelled to remain closeted when it comes to their split sexuality. If that last point seems a stark generalisation, consider this. There's a pretty long list of famous women who have come out as bisexual: Anna Paquin, Evan Rachel Wood and Lindsey Lohan, to name a few recent examples. But with his admirable coming out earlier this week, diver Tom Daley is the most notable famous man. David Bowie circa 1970 doesn’t count. It was a long, long time ago. Daley’s revelation is considered significant because he is a sportsman at the peak of his abilities, and very few top athletes have outed themselves over the years. But will the news lead to a mass coming-out among male bisexuals? I sincerely doubt it. You can understand why. Society as a whole views bisexual males and females differently. I’ve sat at many dinner parties where the female guests have openly admitted to same sex attractions or experiences, but a man doing the same is simply not the norm. While a woman might receive a nod of approval, a bisexual man can still generate a stunned silence and a quick skip to the next course. We may have relaxed about out-and-proud gay men, but guys who admit to a dabble still face the questioning stares, and whispers of “is he gay, straight or lying?" Of course, men and women differ in sexual responses, attractions and desires. Women tend to be more flexible in their sexuality, but whether that’s innate or a function of living in a society where Katy Perry is worshipped for singing a song called ‘I Kissed a Girl’, and Madonna snogs Britney Spears on stage, remains to be seen. Young women are regularly bombarded with the message that bisexuality is something sexy to explore and display, but mainly for one reason: men like it. Had Justin Bieber released a song about flirting with bisexuality, it would have been career suicide. Had Michael Jackson followed Madonna's marketing strategy and kissed a male singer on stage, his reputation would have been destroyed long before his unfortunate demise. Male bisexuality is simply hard for many straight people to tolerate. Few would disagree that it’s seen as more acceptable for women to show affection to one another and be more physically close than men are. As a result, male bisexuality is more hidden. Many bisexual men are also in relationships with women who have no idea their partner likes both her and other "hims". It cannot be easy for a man to confess to his girlfriend that he is bisexual, and his partner is bound to worry that bisexuality is the beginning of the end of the relationship, which will conclude in a “bi now, gay later” scenario. Many writers and psychologists have wondered whether most self-confessed male bisexuals are simply homosexual men either in denial or trying to “have it both ways” - having sex with men while holding on to heterosexual privilege. Aside from the potential hurt that may be caused if the bisexuality is revealed, bisexual men face a real threat of abuse or violence. A 2013 hate crime report by Galop.org.uk, London’s leading anti-LGBT hate crime charity, showed that 1008 homophobic crimes were reported in London during 2012/13. Prejudice, stigma and abuse of bisexual people originates both within and outside LGBT communities, and is a hidden problem. But if male bisexuality remains underground, then there's no way to have an open conversation about it and the myths and challenges surrounding it. Once that conversation is out in the open, we would soon reach an important question: why does it matter if men are bisexual or not? Whether they are largely gay but just haven't accepted the fact yet, or largely straight with a touch of gay thrown in, out of date ideas about who gets to have what kind of sex are bad for everyone. There are potentially many men who feel they have to suppress healthy, normal sexual feelings to avoid judgement, or even worse. Male bisexuality remains a challenging and confusing subject for most people, and often most of all for the bisexual man himself. The only way that will change is if we're prepared to talk about it more.
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The AFI Top 10 will be announced Monday, 12/9. The SAG nominees will be announced Wednesday, 12/11. The GG nominees will be announced Thursday, 12/12. Winners from the NY Critics, LA Critics, Boston Critics and the National Board of Review: Best Picture: "American Hustle" (NY); "Gravity" (LA - tie); "Her" (NBR; LA - tie); "12 Years a Slave" (Boston) Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity" (LA); Spike Jonze, "Her" (NBR); Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave" (NY, Boston) Best Actor: Bruce Dern, "Nebraska" (NBR, LA); Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave" (Boston); Robert Redford, "All Is Lost" (NY) Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine" (NY, Boston, LA - tie); Adele Exarchopoulos, "Blue is the Warmest Color" (LA - tie); Emma Thompson, "Saving Mr. Banks" (NBR) Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, "Nebraska" (NBR); James Franco, "Spring Breakers" (LA - tie); James Gandolfini, "Enough Said" (Boston); Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club" (NY, LA - tie) Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle" (NY); Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave" (LA); Octavia Spencer, "Fruitvale Station" (NBR); June Squibb, "Nebraska" (Boston) Discuss....
So as per usual I am loosing weight and as per usual the last fat to go is in my face. The rest of my body fine.My face looks like they did practice moon walks on it.:) It sucks!! Anyone have any ideas how to lose it?
Which celeb hit Skid Row the hardest?
1. Who is DL's most despised chicken hawk? 2. What is the term for someone who was once in great shape, but has gone to seed? 3. What kind of soap is considered "trashy?" 4. What items must you NEVER stack in random piles throughout in your home? 5. If you are vacuuming and come across some dried up cat poop, what should you NEVER do with it? 6. How much money should you try to extort from your rich boyfriend when you dump him? 7. What is Cheryl's hygiene problem? 8. Who is DL's most hated female celebrity? 9. Paul Walker's recent death was tragic for DLers predominantly because he was: a. rich b. relatively young c. gorgeous and had a big dick 10. What is the name of the Janet Jackson troll? 11. You can tell someone is gay if they look like they're smelling __________. 12. What kind of exercise can you do while wearing pearls? 13. Name a popular frau disease. 14. If you can tell someone has a large endowment by looking at their face, they have_______. 15. What is the sexiest sign of the zodiac? 16. Name something lesbians like to bring to a potluck 17. True or False: Bisexuality is rare in men 18. How does Anne Hathaway sign her posts? 19. Name the celeb who or died shortly after a DL'er 'allegedly' hooked up with him. 20. Name for an older man who wears inappropriately young clothing and hairstyles.
Trailer for the upcoming movie "Gravity" starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney; astronauts attempt to return to Earth when their space station is shattered by debris. The screenplay is credited only to Alfonso Cuaron (who also directed) and Jonas Cuaron, but I swear I read a sci-fi story with the same basic plot when I was a child -- I can't remember if it was a space station near Earth or near Mars, but it gets hit and the survivors, in their space suits, are drifting away from each other, inevitably to die, but still able to communicate with each other. Anybody else know this story?
I just arrived last night here in Seoul and I have a round of consultation appointments today at various clinics. Which clinic I choose, I am to have the surgery tomorrow or the next day. I am thinking of getting rhinoplasty, sliding genioplasty, and maybe liposuction under the jaw to make my jaw look more defined and masculine. Jealous, bitches? Anyone here have plastic surgery before?
Joachim Gauck is first major political figure to boycott Games, understood to be in response to Russia's rights violations The German president has become the first major political figure to boycott the Sochi Winter Olympics in February. According to German weekly Der Spiegel, Joachim Gauck last week told the Kremlin of his decision, which is understood to be a response to the Russian government's violations of human rights and harassment of the opposition. Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor who played a key part in the East German protest movement before the fall of the Berlin Wall, has declined any official visits to Russia since coming to office in March 2012 and repeatedly criticised the country's "deficit of rule of law" and "air of imperialism". In June, a scheduled meeting between Gauck and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was cancelled – supposedly because of clashing schedules. Gauck visited the Olympics and the Paralympics in London last summer. The head of the Russian parliament's foreign delegation on Sunday criticised Gauck's decision. Alexey Pushkov tweeted: "The German president Gauck has not criticised the killing of children and women in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But he is so critical of Russia that he doesn't even want to travel to Sochi." The boycott is the first of the Games by a major political figure. So far, it has mainly been artists and activists such as Stephen Fry, Harvey Fierstein and Lady Gaga who have called for a boycott of the Sochi Games in reaction to a new Russian law that criminalises gay "propaganda". In an open letter in June to the British prime minister and the IOC, Fry said "an absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 in Sochi is simply essential". David Cameron has ruled out a boycott, arguing that anti-gay prejudice would be better tackled by presence rather than absence. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has since echoed Cameron's stance, pointing to the Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan as proof that public attention could do more to change attitudes than boycotts. In July, US senator Lindsey Graham also called for a US boycott of the Gamesin July, though his motives had been slightly different: the South Carolina Republican said Russia needed to be rebuked for offering asylum to Edward Snowden. While Germany under chancellors Gerhard Schröder and Merkel has traditionally been keen to tread carefully in diplomatic exchanges with Russia, a standoff between Gauck and Putin has seemed only a matter of time. Gauck, in his post-1989 role as special representative for Stasi archives, has come to represent a systematic investigation into the crimes of East Germany's surveillance state, while former KGB agent Putin has overseen the rehabilitation of secret service personnel during his time in power. In German political circles, it is no secret that there is little love lost between the two presidents. On Sunday, Gauck's office confirmed he had declined to travel to Russia next February, but seemed to pull back from explicitly describing his decision as a boycott. A spokeswoman said there was no fixed rule that the president had to visit the Olympics, and that president Horst Köhler did not visit the 2010 Games in Vancouver. The German Union of Olympic Athletes said no visit by the president to Sochi had ever been planned in the first place. Gauck was, however, planning to take part in a welcoming party in Munich for returning German Olympians.
I caught a few episodes of this show last year. Meh. A few weeks ago I was spending the weekend with my family (very rural, no cable) and caught the show again. I was shocked- I laughed my ass off, and loved how the "two different worlds" theme had developed. I know it's "family friendly" and somewhat lowbrow...but the execution is flawless and the chemistry is awesome. The subtle, "over the head" jokes are (and I risk credibility and goodwill by typing this) at the level of "Arrested Development". Working in a "Dick in a Box" joke into a show like this? Brilliant. Anyone else watching?
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Who will play the little gay wrestler from New Jersey?
It's horrific. The week lies before you - obligations, stress, possibly a job you detest. The weekend is over. You're possibly alone and confronted with your own purpose in life. Is this what you want? Is this what your week should be, year in and year out? Set that alarm!
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So I was unboxing some stuff and found this bottle of wine that was given to me when I graduated from High School in 1998. So I was like, ooooo gurl, I'm gonna have me some wine with a vintage. So I open that shit up and the cork shreds and it smelled like fucking ass vinegar. What the fuck? So I Google and discover that corked wine spoils. So how in the hell do these people keep these 200 year old wines around?
Who will she cry over more?
So for whatever reason,lets say I was cocky and I thought it would be easy and all my friends said Apple sucked,so I got a Samsung after an Apple 4.THE BIGGEST MISTAKE ON A PHONE I HAVE EVER MADE. Is hard to use. The battery constantly drains and make s Apple's battery a masterpiece. In short I find after 6 months of using this phone that I want to yell to the world that Apple is the messiah of phones and Samsung is a sad substitute. Know I am in the minority with this and yes itunes sucks but I wish I'd never thought of Samsung. My fault totally. Anyone have any other stories they wld like to share?
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That is when my books are coming. Who is bringing them? What service started Sunday delivery?
First, he insists that there be a meal of hot tamales, which he usually gets shipped in from Texas. I can deal with it, even though they are pork and the essential element is LARD. But, he insists on making chili with that. And he goes BALLISTIC over the idea that we put kidney beans in the chili. He says chili is about peppers, not beans and will not allow it. He gets hostile, even. So here we go: lard-pork tamales and this beef soup made with five types of peppers, tomato paste and beer.
is way over the top. The guy was 95 is it any surprise that he died? It's not like he was Princess Diana, the most beloved human being in the world and died tragically and unexpectedly in a car crash.
Gay or not? He has gay-voice.
Did they rub their penises together?
-Book stackage kept to a minimum -Great fabrics, but the living room looks staged for a Redfin shoot -Two paintings for which I'd kill your mother -Lovely bedroom, needs better art. Love the bare wall above the bed -His own work is displayed everywhere. Staging? All in, it's surprisingly contemporary.
Tasteful Friends, Roy Hamilton Proves Everything Comes Back Into Style
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So Far: Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave" Runner-up: June Squibb, "Nebraska" Best Supporting Actor: (tie) James Franco, "Spring Breakers"; Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club" Best Cinematography: "Gravity" Best Editing: "Gravity" Best Production Design: "Her"
The hauntingly brutal nonfiction film Blackfish focuses on those leaping, frolicking, seemingly happy-go-lucky (even dolphin-esque) whales in captivity in places like SeaWorld, where every so often they’ll crunch down on a foot or arm and drag someone under until he or she drowns. And then you glimpse something wrong — something monstrous and unnatural — in this picture. And once you do, you won’t be the same. The film begins in 2010, when esteemed 40-year-old trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by a whale named Tilikum before a horrified Orlando SeaWorld crowd. The incident was generally viewed as a freak accident. The first wave of reports said that Brancheau had slipped and fallen into the water, the next (the version SeaWorld still stands by) that Tilikum had gone for Brancheau’s inappropriately dangling ponytail. But this was — by all credible accounts — a savage attack. Tilikum had killed before, once at a place called SeaLand in Vancouver, once (possibly) at SeaWorld in Orlando. (The problem is that no one could prove what had actually happened to a disturbed man who’d snuck into SeaWorld after hours and was found in the morning on Tilikum’s back, naked and dead.) The big fella remains at SeaWorld, by most definitions psychotic but a source of million-dollar sperm to make more orcas for more lucrative fish shows. What’s an aquatic theme park without a killer whale? This is one of those docs during which audiences gasp and cry out — or just cry — at regular intervals. Sometimes we cry for the humans, sometimes for the whales. After the prologue that alludes to Brancheau’s fate (we must wait more than an hour to hear the full story), director Gabriella Cowperthwaite cuts to a burly, bushy old guy who took part in a 1970 expedition to steal baby whales from their mothers to supply the burgeoning fish-show industry. The man is an ex-mercenary who claims to have toppled presidents. But what he can’t forget are those whales. Orcas, you see, don’t part so easily with their children. Cowperthwaite animates what happened while a researcher narrates. The males attempted to divert the human predators while the females and children swam the other way. A brilliant diversion — spoiled by a spotter plane that relayed the whereabouts of mothers and children. Whales are complicated, intelligent, highly emotional beings. They stick by their mothers for life in family pods. A mother who loses a child will make the kind of sound that transcends species. You hear that sound in Blackfish. You will never forget it. Tilikum was one of those young ones snatched from his mother. Former Orlando SeaWorld trainers recall the anguish of mothers losing children (SeaWorld would ship babies to other parks), the excruciating solitary confinement of orcas like Tilikum, and even how males’ dorsal fins, erect in the wild, would sadly go limp and curl over in captivity. Those ex-trainers are riveting subjects, chiseled and eloquent. And traumatized. Editor Eli Espres will cut back and forth from their tearful recollections to footage of their younger selves, smiling and spouting their insipidly hearty SeaWorld spiels. I loved listening to curly-haired Samantha Berg (now living at the opposite end of the U.S. — in Alaska), Dean Gummersall (especially cretinous as a SeaWorld spokesman in his early days, now appropriately and likably embarrassed), John Jett, and especially the weathered, sardonic Dr. David Duffus. But I shouldn’t single anyone out—they’re all compelling. They all came to love those whales, even Tilikum, driven mad by isolation and regular attacks by the tag-team torture of formidable mama whales. There was no place else for him to swim. The movie unfolds like a thriller. We see trainers seconds away from their deaths — which are not, mercifully, shown. But the near-deaths are shown and are awful enough. Top trainer Ken Edwards is repeatedly pulled under by a whale (not Tilikum) that will not let him go. It went on for twelve agonizing minutes.
John Waters' no-smoking PSA I didn't realize he used to be hot.
America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it. About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each other, and yet we are living in such proximity. There’s no barbed wire around West Baltimore or around East Baltimore, around Pimlico, the areas in my city that have been utterly divorced from the American experience that I know. But there might as well be. We’ve somehow managed to march on to two separate futures and I think you’re seeing this more and more in the west. I don’t think it’s unique to America. I think we’ve perfected a lot of the tragedy and we’re getting there faster than a lot of other places that may be a little more reasoned, but my dangerous idea kind of involves this fellow who got left by the wayside in the 20th century and seemed to be almost the butt end of the joke of the 20th century; a fellow named Karl Marx. I’m not a Marxist in the sense that I don’t think Marxism has a very specific clinical answer to what ails us economically. I think Marx was a much better diagnostician than he was a clinician. He was good at figuring out what was wrong or what could be wrong with capitalism if it wasn’t attended to and much less credible when it comes to how you might solve that. You know if you’ve read Capital or if you’ve got the Cliff Notes, you know that his imaginings of how classical Marxism – of how his logic would work when applied – kind of devolve into such nonsense as the withering away of the state and platitudes like that. But he was really sharp about what goes wrong when capital wins unequivocally, when it gets everything it asks for. That may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, that it has achieved its dominance without regard to a social compact, without being connected to any other metric for human progress. We understand profit. In my country we measure things by profit. We listen to the Wall Street analysts. They tell us what we’re supposed to do every quarter. The quarterly report is God. Turn to face God. Turn to face Mecca, you know. Did you make your number? Did you not make your number? Do you want your bonus? Do you not want your bonus? And that notion that capital is the metric, that profit is the metric by which we’re going to measure the health of our society is one of the fundamental mistakes of the last 30 years. I would date it in my country to about 1980 exactly, and it has triumphed. Capitalism stomped the hell out of Marxism by the end of the 20th century and was predominant in all respects, but the great irony of it is that the only thing that actually works is not ideological, it is impure, has elements of both arguments and never actually achieves any kind of partisan or philosophical perfection. It’s pragmatic, it includes the best aspects of socialistic thought and of free-market capitalism and it works because we don’t let it work entirely. And that’s a hard idea to think – that there isn’t one single silver bullet that gets us out of the mess we’ve dug for ourselves. But man, we’ve dug a mess. After the second world war, the west emerged with the American economy coming out of its wartime extravagance, emerging as the best product. It was the best product. It worked the best. It was demonstrating its might not only in terms of what it did during the war but in terms of just how facile it was in creating mass wealth. Plus, it provided a lot more freedom and was doing the one thing that guaranteed that the 20th century was going to be – and forgive the jingoistic sound of this – the American century. It took a working class that had no discretionary income at the beginning of the century, which was working on subsistence wages. It turned it into a consumer class that not only had money to buy all the stuff that they needed to live but enough to buy a bunch of shit that they wanted but didn’t need, and that was the engine that drove us. It wasn’t just that we could supply stuff, or that we had the factories or know-how or capital, it was that we created our own demand and started exporting that demand throughout the west. And the standard of living made it possible to manufacture stuff at an incredible rate and sell it. And how did we do that? We did that by not giving in to either side. That was the new deal. That was the great society. That was all of that argument about collective bargaining and union wages and it was an argument that meant neither side gets to win. Labour doesn’t get to win all its arguments, capital doesn’t get to. But it’s in the tension, it’s in the actual fight between the two, that capitalism actually becomes functional, that it becomes something that every stratum in society has a stake in, that they all share. The unions actually mattered. The unions were part of the equation. It didn’t matter that they won all the time, it didn’t matter that they lost all the time, it just mattered that they had to win some of the time and they had to put up a fight and they had to argue for the demand and the equation and for the idea that workers were not worth less, they were worth more. Ultimately we abandoned that and believed in the idea of trickle-down and the idea of the market economy and the market knows best, to the point where now libertarianism in my country is actually being taken seriously as an intelligent mode of political thought. It’s astonishing to me. But it is. People are saying I don’t need anything but my own ability to earn a profit. I’m not connected to society. I don’t care how the road got built, I don’t care where the firefighter comes from, I don’t care who educates the kids other than my kids. I am me. It’s the triumph of the self. I am me, hear me roar. That we’ve gotten to this point is astonishing to me because basically in winning its victory, in seeing that Wall come down and seeing the former Stalinist state’s journey towards our way of thinking in terms of markets or being vulnerable, you would have thought that we would have learned what works. Instead we’ve descended into what can only be described as greed. This is just greed. This is an inability to see that we’re all connected, that the idea of two Americas is implausible, or two Australias, or two Spains or two Frances. Societies are exactly what they sound like. If everybody is invested and if everyone just believes that they have “some”, it doesn’t mean that everybody’s going to get the same amount. It doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be people who are the venture capitalists who stand to make the most. It’s not each according to their needs or anything that is purely Marxist, but it is that everybody feels as if, if the society succeeds, I succeed, I don’t get left behind. And there isn’t a society in the west now, right now, that is able to sustain that for all of its population. And so in my country you’re seeing a horror show. You’re seeing a retrenchment in terms of family income, you’re seeing the abandonment of basic services, such as public education, functional public education. You’re seeing the underclass hunted through an alleged war on dangerous drugs that is in fact merely a war on the poor and has turned us into the most incarcerative state in the history of mankind, in terms of the sheer numbers of people we’ve put in American prisons and the percentage of Americans we put into prisons. No other country on the face of the Earth jails people at the number and rate that we are. We have become something other than what we claim for the American dream and all because of our inability to basically share, to even contemplate a socialist impulse. Socialism is a dirty word in my country. I have to give that disclaimer at the beginning of every speech, “Oh by the way I’m not a Marxist you know”. I lived through the 20th century. I don’t believe that a state-run economy can be as viable as market capitalism in producing mass wealth. I don’t. I’m utterly committed to the idea that capitalism has to be the way we generate mass wealth in the coming century. That argument’s over. But the idea that it’s not going to be married to a social compact, that how you distribute the benefits of capitalism isn’t going to include everyone in the society to a reasonable extent, that’s astonishing to me. And so capitalism is about to seize defeat from the jaws of victory all by its own hand. That’s the astonishing end of this story, unless we reverse course. Unless we take into consideration, if not the remedies of Marx then the diagnosis, because he saw what would happen if capital triumphed unequivocally, if it got everything it wanted. And one of the things that capital would want unequivocally and for certain is the diminishment of labour. They would want labour to be diminished because labour’s a cost. And if labour is diminished, let’s translate that: in human terms, it means human beings are worth less. From this moment forward unless we reverse course, the average human being is worth less on planet Earth. Unless we take stock of the fact that maybe socialism and the socialist impulse has to be addressed again; it has to be married as it was married in the 1930s, the 1940s and even into the 1950s, to the engine that is capitalism. Mistaking capitalism for a blueprint as to how to build a society strikes me as a really dangerous idea in a bad way. Capitalism is a remarkable engine again for producing wealth. It’s a great tool to have in your toolbox if you’re trying to build a society and have that society advance. You wouldn’t want to go forward at this point without it. But it’s not a blueprint for how to build the just society. There are other metrics besides that quarterly profit report. The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It’s a juvenile notion and it’s still being argued in my country passionately and we’re going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I’m astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not? If you watched the debacle that was, and is, the fight over something as basic as public health policy in my country over the last couple of years, imagine the ineffectiveness that Americans are going to offer the world when it comes to something really complicated like global warming. We can’t even get healthcare for our citizens on a basic level. And the argument comes down to: “Goddamn this socialist president. Does he think I’m going to pay to keep other people healthy? That’s socialism you know. HMO [health-maintenance organisation] contract. Motherfucker.” What do you think group health insurance is? You know you ask these guys, “Do you have group health insurance where you …?” “Oh yeah, I get …” you know, “my law firm …” So when you get sick you’re able to afford the treatment. The treatment comes because you have enough people in your law firm so you’re able to get health insurance enough for them to stay healthy. So the actuarial tables work and all of you, when you do get sick, are able to have the resources there to get better because you’re relying on the idea of the group. Yeah. And they nod their heads, and you go “Brother, that’s socialism. You know it is.” And … you know when you say, OK, we’re going to do what we’re doing for your law firm but we’re going to do it for 300 million Americans and we’re going to make it affordable for everybody that way. And yes, it means that you’re going to be paying for the other guys in the society, the same way you pay for the other guys in the law firm … Their eyes glaze. You know they don’t want to hear it. It’s too much. Too much to contemplate the idea that the whole country might be actually connected. So I’m astonished that at this late date I’m standing here and saying we might want to go back for this guy Marx that we were laughing at, if not for his prescriptions, then at least for his depiction of what is possible if you don’t mitigate the authority of capitalism, if you don’t embrace some other values for human endeavour. And that’s what The Wire was about basically, it was about people who were worth less and who were no longer necessary, as maybe 10 or 15% of my country is no longer necessary to the operation of the economy. It was about them trying to solve, for lack of a better term, an existential crisis. In their irrelevance, their economic irrelevance, they were nonetheless still on the ground occupying this place called Baltimore and they were going to have to endure somehow. That’s the great horror show. What are we going to do with all these people that we’ve managed to marginalise? It was kind of interesting when it was only race, when you could do this on the basis of people’s racial fears and it was just the black and brown people in American cities who had the higher rates of unemployment and the higher rates of addiction and were marginalised and had the shitty school systems and the lack of opportunity. And kind of interesting in this last recession to see the economy shrug and start to throw white middle-class people into the same boat, so that they became vulnerable to the drug war, say from methamphetamine, or they became unable to qualify for college loans. And all of a sudden a certain faith in the economic engine and the economic authority of Wall Street and market logic started to fall away from people. And they realised it’s not just about race, it’s about something even more terrifying. It’s about class. Are you at the top of the wave or are you at the bottom? So how does it get better? In 1932, it got better because they dealt the cards again and there was a communal logic that said nobody’s going to get left behind. We’re going to figure this out. We’re going to get the banks open. From the depths of that depression a social compact was made between worker, between labour and capital that actually allowed people to have some hope. We’re either going to do that in some practical way when things get bad enough or we’re going to keep going the way we’re going, at which point there’s going to be enough people standing on the outside of this mess that somebody’s going to pick up a brick, because you know when people get to the end there’s always the brick. I hope we go for the first option but I’m losing faith. The other thing that was there in 1932 that isn’t there now is that some element of the popular will could be expressed through the electoral process in my country. The last job of capitalism – having won all the battles against labour, having acquired the ultimate authority, almost the ultimate moral authority over what’s a good idea or what’s not, or what’s valued and what’s not – the last journey for capital in my country has been to buy the electoral process, the one venue for reform that remained to Americans. Right now capital has effectively purchased the government, and you witnessed it again with the healthcare debacle in terms of the $450m that was heaved into Congress, the most broken part of my government, in order that the popular will never actually emerged in any of that legislative process. So I don’t know what we do if we can’t actually control the representative government that we claim will manifest the popular will. Even if we all start having the same sentiments that I’m arguing for now, I’m not sure we can effect them any more in the same way that we could at the rise of the Great Depression, so maybe it will be the brick. But I hope not.
Creator of ‘The Wire’ says ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.’
And yet Beyonce shoes up to a VEGAN restaurant draped in fox fur! Is this bitch and her fake blonde ratty weave for real?
OMG, has anyone seen this Ken Burns film? I'm riveted. It's like we are doomed to repeat our history's failures. Trying to legislate morality. Plus all the glamour and murder of the 20s
The American porn industry is facing shut down once again, after another performer tested positive for HIV this week. Neither the name nor gender of the performer have been released but the adult-film industry trade group Free Speech Coalition has called for all filming to be suspended following the positive test at a Los Angeles testing centre, the LA Times reports. If the shut down goes ahead, it would be the third time filming has been stopped this year. Diane Duke, from the Free Speech Coalition, said: "We take the health of our performers very seriously and felt that it was better to err on the side of caution while we determine whether anyone else may have been exposed. "The next steps will be to perform additional tests, determine a timeline, and identify any first generation partners. "We want to make sure all performers are protected. The performers' health and safety is the most important thing." The industry was previously shut down in August after an actress tested positive for HIV , and again in September when a doctor reported another performer had tested positive. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation told the LA Times they hoped this latest case would encourage agencies to enforce a law requiring condom use in adults films.
Porn industry to shut down for third time this year after performer 'tests positive for HIV'
Is he out of his mind?
Has anyone here seen it? thoughts?
Where's Philly Snoop, and why isn't he shoveling my sidewalk?
This has been CONFIRMED by Howard Cosell, live on Monday Night Football! I'm crying as I type this!
***** BREAKING NEWS! ***** John Lennon is dead to me ... DEAD TO ME!
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (Runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska) Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity (Runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis) Best Editing: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity (Runner-up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, Upstream Color) Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, Her (Runner-up: Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis)
Which celebrity deserves this distinction?
That is all.
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Via his Twitter account, Boston Globe critic Ty Burr offered a behind-the-the scenes look at the votes, and Peter Keough kept a live tally on Critics a Go-Go. Here's what we learned: 12 Years a Slave came second to Nebraska for Ensemble Cast, with some suggesting August: Osage County's Meryl Streep for "our annual Anne Bancroft Award for Overacting." Best Screenplay took five ballots to decide, with Enough Said prevailing over The Wolf of Wall Street. Again, Burr expressed regret more voters hadn't seen Wolf. Voting for Best Animated Film was preceded by a statement from Village Voice critic Inkoo Kang, who echoed accusations that Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises goes easy on war criminals. After a polite debate, The Wind Rises won the award, with Frozen finishing a close second and four critics abstaining. The Act of Killing's Joshua Oppenheimer finished second for Best New Filmmaker, winning best documentary shortly thereafter. Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmaster finished second for cinematography. Burr quipped that the "best editing" award should be changed to "most editing," a complaint often lodged of the Academy Awards as well. The Wolf of Wall Street came second; Burr speculated it might have done better had more critics been able to see the film first. Runners-up for "Best Use of Music," an award unique to the BSFC, were Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street. Best Ensemble Cast: Nebraska Best Screenplay: Enough Said Best Documentary: The Act of Killing Best New Filmmaker: Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises Best Cinematography: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) Best Editing: Rush (Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill) Best Use of Music in a Film: Inside Llewyn Davis
The only gay actor who was a box office draw and who played gay.... This was 50-60 years ago. He was an expert performer who is largely forgotten--does he embarrass the gay cultural elite?
Zombie!
I realize this show has been around for years but, as always, I am late to the party. What a great show. Everyone is very calm and serene. No over-the-top reporting. The stories are diverse and I find them interesting and informative. Bus safety, The Black Keys (?), Cuban BBQ, Guam...they make it all very interesting. Anyone else a fan to this sweet way to start Sunday mornings?
Negative restaurant reviews are a dime a dozen. Negative customer reviews? Not so much. Or so we thought. Brave Cafe, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia, may be disrupting the status quo. The Bondi Beach cafe's owner launched an epic exchange with customer Paul Martin on December 2 after Martin wrote a few negative words about the place. "Dirty. Ants. Burnt food. Extortionate prices," Martin wrote on December 1st on Brave Cafe's Facebook page and in a review of Brave Cafe on his blog, Paul in Oz. The next morning Martin woke up to a vicious response via Facebook from Brave Cafe owner Benjamin Hewitt, which Martin then published on his blog. "Paul, I’m shocked to hear that you didn’t love the food and enjoy the vibe," the message started. It quickly spiraled out of control from there. In response to Martin's complaint that there wasn't enough maple syrup on his pancakes, Hewitt wrote: Your table said that you weren’t happy with the amount of maple, for instance. Well, for one, we actually use REAL maple syrup at $50 per litre! But why not just politely ask for some more at the time instead of waiting until 10pm that night to take revenge? And then there was this outburst: Do you know how to/can you simultaneously manage ten, gen Y part-timers, so well, that you are able to ubiquitously catch every sloppy act of laziness (and there are more than you can ever prepare or train for these days), across a menu that has so many components and potential pit-falls-before they are almost certainly pounced upon by the average, ‘scarcity-based, pumped-up, myopic consumer-come-casual-social-media-activist-OUTRAGE-readied-advocate’ for unreasonably great food, at unreasonably cheap prices, in impossible time frames??? Well, if you haven’t, I don’t really recommend it. In defending the price of Brave Cafe's organic gluten-free pancakes, whose flour is "6 times more expensive than the regular crap bleached flour you would get anywhere else," Hewitt wrote: Thanks for throwing it on just to kick our business, even although the price is right and that what happened was out of my control. No, really. Thanks Paul. Martin handed it back to Hewitt on his blog, addressing each point, from ants -- he flicked off 8-10 from his table -- to the burnt pancakes -- so hard you could use them as a hammer. He suggested Hewitt "invest in a people-skills course." We haven't seen an online meltdown like this since Amy's Baking Company lost its sh*t after the owners appeared on Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" and caused Ramsay to walk off his show for the first time ever. When accusations surfaced over how owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo yell at their customers and steal tips from their employees, the Bouzaglo's responses on Facebook were nothing short of insane.
Restaurant Owner Unleashes Insane Rant After Customer's Bad Review
The world mourned the death of Nelson Mandela on Thursday, but at least one British columnist wanted it to stop mourning quite so much. Rod Liddle--a writer for the Spectator magazine whose views on race tend towards the incendiary--scoffed at the amounts of coverage he was seeing on the BBC: It's as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black man dies! Let's re-run the entire history of South Africa. That's better than watching the country we're in being flattened by a storm. Liddle hedged his bets by allowing that, "on balance," Mandela had probably done good in the world. Criticism came swiftly.
Columnist On Mandela Coverage: 'Famous Nice Black Man Dies!'
He's gay as fuck. Who's he kidding?
Tom Daley Discusses Really Being In Love For The First Time With “Mystery Man” (Video)
If for some reason you still don't understand how repellant Reagan was, look at this Buzzfeed piece about all the times the mention of AIDS got him and his people to laugh.
All the times the Reagan White House Briefings Laughed at AIDS
DENVER -- A baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony must serve gay couples despite his religious beliefs or face fines, a judge said Friday. The order from administrative law judge Robert N. Spencer said Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver discriminated against a couple "because of their sexual orientation by refusing to sell them a wedding cake for their same-sex marriage." The order says the cake-maker must "cease and desist from discriminating" against gay couples. Although the judge did not impose fines in this case, the business will face penalties if it continues to turn away gay couples who want to buy cakes. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against shop owner Jack Phillips with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission last year on behalf of Charlie Craig, 33, and David Mullins, 29. The couple was married in Massachusetts and wanted a wedding cake to celebrate in Colorado. The commission is expected to certify the judge's order next week. Nicolle Martin, an attorney for Masterpiece Cakeshop, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Phillips had argued that making cakes for gay wedding ceremonies violates his Christian beliefs. Mullins and Craig wanted to buy a cake in July 2012, but when Phillips found out the cake was to celebrate a gay wedding, he turned the couple of away, according to the complaint. A similar case is pending in Washington state, where a florist is accused of refusing service for a same-sex wedding. In New Mexico, the state Supreme Court ruled in August that an Albuquerque business was wrong to decline to photograph a same-sex couple's commitment ceremony. Colorado has a constitutional ban against gay marriage but allows civil unions. The civil union law, which passed earlier this year, does not provide religious protections for businesses.
Judge to Colorado baker: Serve gay couples wedding cake or face a fine
Links to pics would be nice. Thank you.
TIME magazine critic Richard Corliss placed the space epic at the top of a list that includes "American Hustle", "Her", and "12 Years a Slave". Commenting on his #1 pick of Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, Corliss gushes: "An epic of desperate peril and profound wonder, Alfonso Cuarón’s thrilling 3-D drama is a testament to human grit and groundbreaking technical ingenuity. It deserves to be seen once for the wow factor and a second time to try to figure out how Cuarón and his digital savants managed to make the impossible seem so cinematically plausible."
Gravity is #1 on TIME Magazine's Top 10 Best Movies list for 2013
today's NYT
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
Calling something Cajun does not make it Cajun. Voodoo sauce is not a thing. The latest entry into the fake Nawlinz food scene is Noveau Tavern in Chicago. The menu say 'New Orleans Cuisine' yet it has bullshit dishes on the menu. NO ONE IN NEW Orleans eats maple syrup on a po boy. Chicken sausage....WTF? This is an American cuisine, the ingredients are not hard to find. Why on earth hire some Chicago chef to make a mockery of it?
Colder than a witches tit!!!
There's not been enough love out there yet for the hot British actor Sam Claflin, who in "Catching Fire" plays the sexy Finnick Odair, who is forced to prostitute himself for both sexes in the Capital by President Snow after winning a previous Hunger Games. He is very sexy in the movie, which downplayed his whoring (although it is alluded to, and he does wear little but a fishnet over his waist in one big scene).
News UK red-top outsold by rival by more than 20,000 copies in November, but remains the UK's top-selling title across six days
Daily Mail overtakes Sun as biggest-selling Saturday paper in UK
Is this possible? Anyone know? Thanks in advance for sharing any knowledge you may have.
They need to take the stick out
Danica Patrick and her boyfriend don't take too kindly to Jay Mohr poking fun at her
I fully support breast cancer awareness and do one of the walks with my boyfriend's sister every single year for the past 4 years. However, I never see any heavy public push for 'mens' cancers; those cancers which kill many men such as colorectal, testicular etc.. Everywhere you look, products in the stores are emblazoned with the pink ribbon, in my state there are those pink ribbon license plates and I swear it seems like every other person has one. The NFL and major league baseball go totally pink during this time of year to the point of being slightly absurd. The network news will have long packages covering the plight of those suffering from breast cancer and/or who've overcome it. Those are all really great things, but colon cancer and testicular cancers kill many men every year; perhaps less than breast cancer but not by so much as to ignore it. There are also men with breast cancer, but one would think breast cancer is a strictly female thing, even though it overwhelmingly affects women. Isn't there some way to bring the plight of mens' cancers more to the forefront? Or, how about just a pop culture push to make everyone aware of all cancer? Maybe a new logo or ribbon which would bring to mind cancers suffered by all people regardless of sex or race?
LOL!
Crazy fangurl in this thread trying to argue that Tom Daley is not actually dating DLB
[quote]Well I have to be completely honest and say, I''m not a huge fan of Charlie Sheen. I don''t make it my goal to ever talk badly in the press, we''re all in it together, that''s the way I look at it, but Charlie in particular, especially the way that he''s affected other people that I know %E2%80%94 point blank, Charlie and Corey started their careers pretty much together, and Corey fought for his entire life to recover from those early experiences and to get his life together%0D\ %0D\ %0D\ [quote]And [he] eventually did so, and yet he was snubbed by all his peers on both of the award shows where he should have been honored. Whereas Charlie has lived a very parallel life, the only difference being is that he had a hit TV show.%0D\ %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ %0D
gay or straight? and who's she dating?
I wanna smack those "va-kay shway" girls in the mouth on those Old Navy commercials.%0D\ %0D\ You?
Police estimate it was only going 40-45 mph. Although they hit a curve with a posted 15mph limit, a car with that kind of handling capacity should've easily been able to take it at 40. "The Porsche that actor Paul Walker was riding in when he died on Saturday was traveling at approximately 40 to 45 mph when it came to a bend in the road where the speed limit drops to about 15 mph, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told NBC News on Monday. It was in that vicinity where the driver, Roger Rodas, apparently lost control of the vehicle, ending in the fiery solo accident, the source said. Walker, 40, and Rodas, 38, were killed at the scene, police said. Their autopsies were put on hold Monday, as the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office waits for dental X-rays for each man to aid in making the official identifications, said Craig Harvey, chief of the coroner's operations bureau."
BREAKING NEWS: Paul Walker's car was NOT racing right before crash
H A P P Y. W/ @jasonrlandau," wrote Cheyenne Jackson with this cute photo on Instagram yesterday. It appears that the actor and singer has found love again with fellow Instagram enthusiast Jason Landau — a few months after it was announced that he and husband Monte Lapka were divorcing amicably after two years of marriage and 13 years together. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Jason is a L.A. actor best known for his recurring role on American Dreams and a guest spot on Will & Grace. photos of the new lovers at link
You are WASTING my time! What do you want?
Looks like another "auto accident" happened.
A six minute trailer of the new Wachowski produced film and directed by Tom Tykwer. Starring Academy Award Winners Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent, Halle Berry & Susan Sarandon. Gorgeous music, looks beautiful and I hate trailers that give everything away, but at six minutes, I still have no idea what's it's about.
What are the major differences between those actor/actresses who work on a TV series like Breaking Bad and those who work exclusively in films such as Skyfall? Do they make the same amount of money? And from reading the DL, it seems many here hold the opinion that being a TV actor is not very good to an actor's career.
Thoughts?
Will she have us all killed?
Lesbian drama for a cold winter's day!!!!
He's on AC 360 Later....will he and Anderson hook up after the show?
Do men wear jorts anymore? I mean the [italic]really[/italic] short-short ones, with the extra fraying at the bottoms where you can tell they just cut up a pair of old jeans.
Tom Cruise looked extra yummy in jorts
This is an offshoot of the "guys who won't bottom" thread. A trade top is someone who only gets sucked (and sometimes rimmed) and tops. In other words, he doesn't kiss, rim, suck, or bottom. For me, this is a total turn-off. I don't mind guys who don't bottom, but if they don't do ANYTHING else, it doesn't work for me. I wouldn't want a guy like that in real life, so I don't like it in porn either. When I see a video with any of these guys, I automatically avoid it (unless it's obvious that they've changed their proclivities.) Some trade tops (please add to the list and correct me if I'm mistaken): Trystan Bull Cody Cummings Zeb Atlas (although I think he's sucked a couple of times)
So implies Vanity Fair in a huge takedown in the January issue. [quote]She doesn't display much, if any, warmth (at least not to those who aren't in her inner orbit) and often won't meet people's eyes. In Silicon Valley, where having Asperger's has almost become a badge of honor—aren't all super-smart people a little socially awkward?—that shouldn't matter so much. The rules are always different for women, but Mayer's quirks go beyond coldness.
Yahoo's Marissa Meyer is a PR-hungry cunt! And possibly autistic!
Both of their new films are bombing in their opening weekend!
Do the men from any other continent even come close to the Australian level of manliness? Answer honestly.
Steve is older and more experienced. But Tom is a hot twink with a marginally hotter body.
Paul Walker and his friend were murdered shortly after they discovered a conspiracy to supply victims of Typhon Haiyan with a prototype permanent birth control drug hidden in medicinal supplies and food aid. They had a damning recording and they were on their way to rendezvous with an ally who would have helped them get in touch with the right people. Turns out they were betrayed and someone rigged their car’s breaks to malfunction after a certain speed. Now that the loose end has been tied up, and the recording destroyed, the people responsible have nothing to fear as this will become another “conspiracy theory” no one will take seriously. “Now here is another thread with a conspiracy on a possible motive here. Apparently, Paul Walker had discovered dirty money in the Philippines disaster relief and that would make sense because he owned a company that specialized in rapid disaster relief. “ Did Walker dig to deep into corruption or was it an Illuminati Death? Then we have the massive damage to the car, the two videos below show the same car Paul Walker was killed in that had also been involved in an ultra high speed crash with fatalities and then the video of the aerial view of Walker’s car after the fatal crash.
She was a teenage prostitute who turned tricks after school.\ \ Why don''t more people talk about it?
Do you think this guy is secretly gay?
What do we think?
The Ordway Girl
Will the trend ever end. It makes me self-conscious. I hate having to take a group photo after every event and gathering.
Who was the most beautiful?
Discuss!
I am curious where your priorities are. Please answer this as honestly as you can.
One of a kind. Actor, writer, pianist, humanist. Comes from respectable Austrian stock. The 1950s and 1960s public had Schell. We have Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks.
Midway island. 200 miles from the nearest continent. The birds are dying from eating all of the plastic crap people throw into the ocean. Heartbreaking footage of dead birds cut open to show what's inside of them. It looks like the bottom of somebody's garbage can. Why the fuck are people dumping their garbage into the ocean?
Sad documentary about an island of birds, who die from eating our garbage in the ocean
They're doing a mash-up of Janet's "Rhythm Nation" and "Nasty" tonight. Looks promising.
On a POST-IT! With ME! Fuck him! I thought I picked a winner with him. I thought he could give me the stable relationship I craved. Shit, I've gotta find myself a man who will commit. No more horsing around!
Carrie
I just realized this. Gene says weird things once in a while - out of the blue - like "I''m a top!" (season finale) and something like "I want our new dad to be blonde!" He also loves house music.\ \ The show is pretty LGBT-friendly. Bob befriends trans hookers when he drives a cab part-time, for example.
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