Tuesday, Sept. 28th, 2010 Love and Other Drugs to Open AFI Fest 2010Love and Other Drugs, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway,
will premiere November 4 as the opening night gala film for the American
Film Institute's AFI Fest 2010, which will run through November 11. The
festival will screen at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the Mann Chinese 6
Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
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theatermania.org | NAACP Leaders Reaching Out to Gay Rights Groups
Even as the NAACP engages in a tense debate over the issue of same-sex marriage, the group's leaders have begun reaching out more forcefully to gay rights groups.
The outreach has been steered by former chairman Julian Bond and the group's president, Benjamin Jealous. Both men are supporters of same-sex marriage rights, though the NAACP's national board has taken no stance on the issue.
Jealous, who is helping to lead a march for jobs and justice in Washington next month, will be in New York on Wednesday night to encourage members of the city's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center to attend the rally.
"The NAACP is opposed to discrimination in all its forms." Jealous said in an e-mail, adding, "We recognize that many of our members are also members of the LGBT community, and just as the LGBT community counts on us to stand with it for basic civil rights protections, so we count on the LGBT community to stand with us in our unified struggle for the broader civil rights agenda."
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| | Dan Savage to Gay Teens: 'It gets better, and it can get great'
It gets better.
That's the message Seattle-based sex advice columnist, author and gay rights activist Dan Savage is trying to deliver to gay and lesbian teenagers everywhere.
This week, Savage launched a new YouTube channel and posted a video of him and his husband, Terry, talking directly to the camera about how they were badly bullied as teens for being gay but persevered, and life had gotten much better as they grew up.
Savage told KOMO Newsradio the idea came to him after reading about a rash of suicides among gay teenagers over the last few months.
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| Exclusive Lunch for Two with Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams is a highly respected actress who first hit the screen in the teen series Dawson's Creek and later graduated to full-length features, most notably Brokeback Mountain, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her films include I’m Not There, Wendy and Lucy and Shutter Island.
Michelle Williams will dine with the lucky winning bidder and a guest in New York City, while helping to support aspiring women filmmakers through the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!
This two person package does not include any travel or accommodations.
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| Indian gay film faces censors as star's family disowns him
Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun, an Indian gay romance compared by critics to Brokeback Mountain, risks being censored by the Indian authorities over gay sex scenes. Meanwhile, the father of star Yuvraaj Parasher has told a newspaper that he is to fight in court to disown all ties to his son because of his role in the film.
The film, directed by Sanjay Sharma, faces censors because of two gay kisses and a gay sex scene between stars Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parasher and features the two kissing and gay sex scenes. However, because of its homosexual content the film is facing censorship from the Indian film board. Kapil Sharma said: "Why should the censors be scandalised if two men are kissing and making love?
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| | | Lady Gaga The Political Activist on the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Issue
Lady Gaga a political activist?
Lady Gaga is already a pop star, an icon among the gay community and a fashion trendsetter. Now Lady Gaga has taken a new position as political activist. Gaga has always been outspoken about her beliefs on gay rights. She is very pro-gay marriage and believes every person should be allowed to marry regardless of sexual orientation. She has also been an advocate for gay rights groups and has often commented on the treatment (or mistreatment) of gays in public schools and at the workplace. Her latest target has been the US military and their “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
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| Russian Gay Leader Alekseev Abducted, Released
Moscow Pride founder and leader Nikolai Alekseev has reported that he was abducted by government agents of some sort at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport Sept. 15 and held for more than two days.
He was seized after passing through passport control and taken to a room by security officials and an airline worker, he said. There, his luggage, documents and computer were examined for more than two hours.
Alekseev then was turned over to what he called "hulking men in civilian clothes, with faces not disfigured by intellect," who removed him from the airport via nonpublic passageways and drove him to a police facility two hours away, where he was further searched. In a moment when he was left alone, Alekseev used his iPad to discover where he was. ...
Alekseev said he was mocked and insulted, called "faggot" and "pederast," probably drugged via a glass of water and eventually presented with a paper to sign, which said that an agreement had been reached to drop his lawsuits at the European Court of Human Rights over Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's bans of gay Pride parades. He didn't sign it, "despite persistent 'advice' not to enter into conflict with the authorities."
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| | | Atlanta Pastor Bishop Eddie Long Denies Sex Claims from Church Members
Bishop Eddie Long, megachurch founder and campaigner against homosexuality, faces civil actions from three men
Bishop Eddie Long, the pastor who built the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta into a 25,000-member megachurch and publically campaigned against homosexuality, has denied accusations by three former male members of his congregation that he coerced them into having sex.
Two of the three men, then aged 17 and 18, allege that Long plied them with gifts including cash, cars and trips abroad. But Long's lawyers say he "categorically denies the allegations." A third man today launched a civil action against Long, the church and a related youth academy. | |
| In 2006 Long's church was the venue for the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King, attended by President Bush and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George Bush senior.
Long is an outspoken and high-profile opponent of homosexuality, once described by the Southern Poverty Law Centre as "one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement."
Long led a campaign for a national ban on same-sex marriage and his church counsels gay members in an attempt to "turn" them straight. In 2004, he led a march to Martin Luther King's grave in Atlanta in support of amending the US constitution to define marriage as "between one man and one woman" – and so permanently barring gay marriage under US law.
Read more. Source: guardian.co.uk | |
| Allegiance
A musical in the works draws on actor George Takei's experiences in an internment camp
George Takei will never forget the day in 1942 when U.S. soldiers came to take his family to an internment camp.
In the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, people of Japanese descent -- resident aliens and American citizens alike -- were being relocated from the West Coast for security reasons. The government allowed them to take only what they could carry in a suitcase. As for everything else -- furniture, cars, homes, businesses, farms -- they had to dispose of it for whatever price they could get.
Takei was 5 years old when his family was sent to Camp Rohwer in Arkansas, and later Tule Lake, Calif. | |
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| "I'll never be able to forget that scary day when two American soldiers with bayonets on their rifles came stomping up to our front door and ordered our family out," he recalled, speaking from his home in California. "We'd packed the night before, but I remember tears streaming down my mother's cheek as we walked out (of our home). The only things we could take with us was what we could carry."
His family lost everything his parents and grandparents had struggled to build: his father's cleaning business, his uncle's farm, the family car and everything else they couldn't bring with them to the camp.
"Internment was very divisive on the part of the government. It broke up families, it broke up marriages and it divided the community," said Takei, 73. "It was a very destructive act -- and on innocent people. Simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor, we were summarily rounded up."
For years after he achieved international stardom as Sulu on the original "Star Trek" series (1966-69), Takei wanted to do a movie or television miniseries about the internment. Now, almost 70 years after the soldiers came for his family, that dream is moving forward thanks to a chance meeting with theatrical producer Lorenzo Thione.
Read more. Source: staradvertiser.com | |
| Sunday in the Park with George Takei
By killersmom
John and I flew down to LA to attend the 3rd presentation of the Out West Series.
"One Man's Journey: A Conversation with George Takei"
He was truly amazing and kept us entertained for almost an hour, speaking from "his head and his heart", with no notes. He had a question and answer period for more than an hour and then met with folks from the audience. He introduced his partner of 23 years and husband of 2 years. He was just wonderful.. | |
| | | George Takei spoke at length about his role on STAR TREK, Gene Roddenberry the creator of STAR TREK, his personal experience of being uprooted and moved to an internment camp at the beginning of WWII when he was a young child, aged 5-8. The things he learned from his father. His college education, and his life as a gay man. The issue of DADT, Prop 8 in California, and the inequality still seen for the GLBT community in the US.
The ending of his conversation: “If you look at the history of the United States, we have been making progress,” he said. “When the nation was founded, there was no role for women in the institutions of American society. Or for blacks. Or for Latinos. Now we have three women in the Supreme Court. Three women have become U.S. Secretaries of State. We have a Latino mayor. New Mexico has a Latino governor. And there’s a Latina in the Supreme Court. We have now an African American as the President of the United States. When you look at it in the larger historical context we have made incredible progress. With much grief, much pain, enormous suffering, but we’ve come to where we are.”
More images of the event in the BBM Fifth Anniversary thread. | |
| Magical Music from McEuen and Friends
“A whole lot of musical talent, on a very small stage.”
That’s what music buffs got Wednesday night, Sept. 15, as local favorite David Starr joined up with John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Nathan McEuen, Matt Cartsonis and fiddler extraordinaire, Craig Eastman, on stage for a live concert at the AppleShed Arts and Gallery Complex in Cedaredge.
Eastman is a classically trained violinist and multi-talented instrumentalist. ... His writing and playing is featured in many films, including “Black Hawk Down,” “Pirates of the Carribean” and “Brokeback Mountain.”
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| Will Chord Overstreet Go Full Brokeback on Glee?
Chord Overstreet joins the cast of Glee in Season 2 as Sam Evans, a transfer student to McKinley High, and rumors have been swirling around the internet that the hunky, 21-year-old Bieber-haired Nashville native will not only become the school’s starting quarterback and a member of the Glee club, but might start hitting for my team as a possible love interest for Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer). In an effort to ferret out the truth—or at least some sensational and prurient details—I gave Chord a call and grilled him about guilty pleasures, kissing boys, and his athletic build. | |
| | | Brett Berk: I’m sure you get this all the time, but: Chord Overstreet? It’s like the moniker Charles Dickens would give to a plucky young dulcet-voiced hustler who lives in an abandoned coal shed on the elevated train tracks. Where did you get that name?
Chord Overstreet: I got the name from my mom and dad. I come from a big family—I have four sisters and one brother—and I was the third one born. And there are three notes in a chord, so, that’s how I got that name. My dad’s in the music business so he gave me a musical name.
The music business? What does he do?
He’s a songwriter.
Anything I may have heard?
Do you listen to country?
Um. Not so much.
Well, he’s written for Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton, Alison Krauss, Randy Travis, The Judds. His best known song is probably Kenny Chesney’s “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy”
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| Baby-maker Makes Her Way to Shanghai Expo
The extra-large model baby in the Spain Pavilion was 'conceived' by a Spanish filmmaker, Shi Yingying reports.
Visitors admiring the 6.5-meter-high giant baby, Miguelin, in the Spain Pavilion may be surprised to realize that it was not the concept of a famous designer or a group of groundbreaking engineers. It came from one filmmaker's interpretation of the meaning of "Better City, Better Life".
Spanish director Isabel Coixet developed the idea after being asked to contribute to Expo 2010 Shanghai.
"They asked me to do something to tell the Chinese audience about Spain in the future and the first thing jumped to my mind was a baby," said Coixet. "If we really fight to have better cars, better cities and better lives, it's for them - for our children."
While she doesn't know if she will shoot a film in Shanghai, two things have caught her attention: Shanghainese women and crickets.
After just arriving in the city, she was surprised by the mix of old Chinese culture in a booming metropolis. "Behind the skyscrapers, there is a flower and bird market with heaps of crickets and birdcages in," she said. "I'm totally amazed with the city."
Read more. Source: xinhuanet.com
For more pics from China World Expo 2010, visit monstersandcritics.com | |
| The Very Queer Portraits of Heyd Fontenot
A visit to the current exhibition at the University of Maryland's Art Gallery might have you thinking about "The Joy of Sex."
Don't worry. "The Very Queer Portraits of Heyd Fontenot" is not an erotic art show. But, yes, there's lots nudity, including one picture of a man in an obvious state of arousal. No one is having sex, though parents might want to think twice about taking the kids.
It's just that the paintings and drawings by the Austin-based artist -- depicting, for the most part, the defiantly average bodies of his friends -- are rendered in a style that's more than slightly reminiscent of Charles Raymond and Chris Foss's once-controversial illustrations for the 1972 sex manual (illustrations that were based, incidentally, on photos of the then-hirsute Raymond making love to his wife). There's a matter-of-fact, almost clinical ordinariness to the fleshy folds and occasional bulging tummies in Fontenot's art.
Then there are the bobbleheads.
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| | | 'Source Code' Bringing Duncan Jones And Clint Mansell Back Together
Clint Mansell fans didn't have to decipher any hidden messages to feel Duncan Jones' enthusiasm in message he posted about "Source Code" yesterday. As was revealed in Twitter-Wood, the "Moon" soundtrack composer and director will team up once more to work on Jones' film about a soldier (Jake Gyllenhaal) who wakes up in the body of a commuter and has to solve the mystery behind a train explosion.
"Have a bloody fantastic bit of 'Source Code' news," Jones wrote on his Twitter account. "Super star Clint Mansell WILL be scoring the film. You have no idea how relieved I am."
Read more. Source: moviesblog.mtv.com
Jake on the set of Source Code, photo via jake-weird | |
| Did You Know? Randy Quaid
Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid (October 1, 1950) is an American actor best known for his role as Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, as well as his numerous supporting roles in films such as The Last Detail, Independence Day, Kingpin and Brokeback Mountain. He has won a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and a BAFTA Award.
Randy Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" (née Jordan), a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid, an electrician. He is the older brother of actor Dennis Quaid.Quaid is married to former Helmut Newton model Evi Quaid. Randy attended Pershing Middle School and Bellaire High School. His brother Dennis stated that his father was a "frustrated actor" and that his third cousin was Gene Autry.
In a career that spans over 37 years, Quaid has appeared in over 90 movies. Peter Bogdanovich discovered him when Quaid was a student at the University of Houston, and he received his first exposure in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show. His character escorts Jacy Farrow (played by Cybill Shepherd) to late-night indoor skinny-dipping at a swimming pool. It was the first of his several roles directed by Bogdanovich and/or based on the writings of Larry McMurtry.
Quaid's first major role was in the critically acclaimed The Last Detail (1973). He played a young US Navy sailor on his way to serve a harsh sentence for stealing $40 from an admiral's wife's pet charity. Jack Nicholson played the Navy sailor assigned to transport him to prison. Nicholson's character eventually becomes his friend and mentor, helping him experience different aspects of life before he goes behind bars.
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Rainbow Art: Caspar David FriedrichLandscape with the Rainbow, by Caspar David Friedrich
When the rainbow arching high
Looks from the zenith round the sky
Lit with exquisite tints seven
Caught from angels' wings in heaven,
Double, and higher than his World
The wrought rim of heaven's font,
Then may I upwards gaze and see the deepening intensity
Of the air-blended diadem . . .
Ending in sweet uncertainty 'twixt real hue and phantasy.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins,
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Pop In the Pit Stop
A new thread has been launched in the YOUR SPACE boards, and Chuck has all the details:
Calling all cars and car enthusiasts!
If you go to car shows, racetracks, like to work on cars or have a favorite ride join us in the Pit Stop. Share your stories, interests, tips, pix - whatever!
Street rods, daily drivers, show cars, race cars - all and more are welcome.
Also feel free to ask any questions involving cars here. | | |
Brokeback MomentsBayCityJohn had breakfast at the Cove on Castro and ordered
one of their unique weekend specials:
The Brokeback Breakfast. "Three Cheese Fritatta with Italian Sausage and a Fruit Salad"See more in
Life Through the Lens 5 Fun Question of the Week | This week's question: What civil rights leader did Dorothy Parker leave the bulk of her estate to? Speaking of Dorothy Parker, it is said that she once said this about a star in a Broadway play: "[She] ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B." Who is she referring to?
Let us know your answers in the Response Thread.
Last week's question and answer: When General Eisenhower told his assistant to make a list of all lesbians from the Woman's Air Corps for discharge, what was her response?
Forum member Tigs was correct -- "The first name on the list will be mine."
"In Europe after World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower told his clerk, WAC Sergeant Johnnie Phelps, that he'd heard rumors there were lesbians in the WAC battalion and asked her to prepare a list naming them so he could discharge them. Phelps bravely told Ike that she'd do as he asked, but that her name would be at the top of the list. A more junior clerk then spoke up saying, "Begging the general's pardon, but my name will be above Sgt. Phelps' because I'll be typing it."Realizing he'd be getting rid of most of his file clerks, typists, and a large share of his headquarters' support staff, Eisenhower withdrew the order."
Source: washingtonmonthly.com Photo of Johnnie Phelps via xq.com | |
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What Movie Did You Watch This Weekend? | Still am not sure where to put this, as it is a short, but stumbled upon it when on YouTube the other night.
It is just too good not to share.
YouTube video: The Closet
It took me several viewings to get all the nuances and I still see new things every time I watch it.
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Pets and other Animal FriendsAs
fritzkep says in the thread:
Geaux Blazy! Quote of the Day"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
~ Winston Churchill ~
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