Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Harper's Magazine Names Larry McMurtry as "New Books" ColumnistHarper's Magazine has announced that Larry McMurtry will join the magazine as its New Books columnist beginning with the November issue, on newsstands this week. McMurtry will fill in for Zadie Smith, who has served as the New Books columnist since March 2011, while she is on leave for the fall. ...
"Larry McMurtry is a major contributor to the world of American letters," said Ellen Rosenbush, editor of Harper's. "We are privileged to include his voice in our pages each month." In further comments, Gemma Sieff, editor of the Reviews section, said: "I've long admired Larry McMurtry's powerful fiction and wide-ranging criticism."
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Mormon bishop says church responsible for gays’ emotional woundsThe way gays are treated and perceived by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is an “atrocity,” an LDS bishop from Illinois told a group of gay Mormons Sunday.
“If you leave here not remembering what I have to say, remember this: I’m sorry,” Bishop Kevin Kloosterman said at an interfaith service held at the First Baptist Church of Salt Lake City.
Kloosterman spoke at the final event of a weekend-long seminar dedicated to exploring gay Mormon issues, titled
Circling the Wagons. He said he recently became aware of LGBT issues and his views changed from that of the church — that acting on gay urges violates its moral code — and had a “mighty change of heart.”
“If you leave here not remembering what I have to say, remember this: I’m sorry.”
“I began to see the emotional wounds and scars that many of you have today,” Kloosterman said, “and I began to ask, ‘Where did you get these wounds?’ And the answer, unfortunately, was in the house of my friends.
“The straight members of the church have a lot of repenting to do,” he said.
He clarified that he was speaking only on his own behalf and did not intend to represent the views of the church.
The conference drew about 300 people from across the country, said John Dehlin, a researcher and founder of Mormon Stories and the Open Stories Foundation, the organizations that hosted the event.
“I thought it was highly significant just to have a sitting bishop who cares so much for these issues that he’s willing to fly himself out here and speak publicly.”
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Michelle Williams keeps hair short 'in memorial of somebody who really loved it'Michelle Williams told Elle U.K. that she keeps her hair short "in memorial of somebody who really loved it," possibly referring to her former partner, Heath Ledger.
"What Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair," the actress told Elle U.K. for their December issue. "Though that's unlikely to happen any time soon."
"I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair," she continued, "and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it."
Even though Matilda isn't a fan, Williams said that that she felt like she'd "grown into" the hairstyle.
"I feel like myself with short hair... And it's been a really long time since I had long hair, five years," Williams continued, before admitting, "The only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair!"
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Catholic columnist resigns over “devil-makes people-gay” commentaryThe author of a column in the official publication of the Boston archdiocese, who also served as an advisor to the U. S. Catholic bishops, resigned on Friday.
Daniel Avila wrote an opinion piece published in The Pilot, a weekly newspaper. Published on Oct. 28, just in time for Halloween, the article suggested that homosexuality is the work of the devil.
Gay rights groups and many among the Catholic laity were upset by the author’s views, which they considered to be bad science, theology, and spirituality. ...
Reactions of gratitude and relief were swift from advocacy organizations.
"Mr. Avila’s dangerous view that Satan causes people to become gay has no place in any credible news publication, whether it be mainstream or religious press,” said Sharon Groves, director of The Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and Faith Program.
“He ignored not only the widely accepted science that [homosexuality] is normal, but also the modern thinking of many religions. I am pleased the Conference of Catholic Bishops accepted his resignation and I ask them to speak up and denounce his dangerous rhetoric.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio (Sorta) Plays Gay in J. EdgarBy now, you've probably heard that Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer share a kiss in
J. Edgar.DiCaprio stars in the Oscar buzzy flick as the late FBI boss man J. Edgar Hoover with Hammer taking on the role of Clyde Tolson, Hoover's right-hand man, who many believe was also his lover.
There is no concrete evidence proving or disproving that Hoover was gay, so...
It's up to moviegoers to make up their own minds—if they can.
"To tell you the truth, I don't have the answer to that question and I don't think there's anyone still alive who really does," DiCaprio told me last night at the premiere of the movie, which also served as opening night of the AFI Film Festival presented by Audi, when I asked if he thinks Hoover was gay.
"If you talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there are staunch believers that these two men carried out a very professional relationship and they were sort of inseparable pals."
Inseparable is an understatement.
"These two men went on every vacation together," DiCaprio said. "They ate breakfast, lunch and dinner together. They went to work together. They were together for 50 years. They lived together. They were buried together. They never had a family. They never had a girlfriend. You know, put it together in your mind and..."
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Anne Hathaway Joins Monaco Royalty At Princess Grace AwardsThe princess motif was everywhere you turned last night as Monaco’s royal couple made their U.S. debut for the Princess Grace Awards Gala in New York City. Red carpets and tiaras dazzled left and right. National anthems played. As for a princess in the flesh—I counted four:
Arriving first was Dame Julie Andrews (she played Guinevere in Camelot and Queen Clarisse Renaldi in The Princess Diaries so it counts), who was honored with the Prince Rainier III Award for her contributions to cinema and the arts. Presenting the award was Anne Hathaway, whose role opposite Andrews in The Princess Diaries, also makes her a member of the fictional princess club. Then there was real-life sovereign, newlywed Princess Charlene of Monaco who made a grand, spotlighted entrance alongside husband Prince Albert II. Gazing out above it all was a monumental glamour shot of the American princess, Grace Kelly.
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Buddy and Pedro, the penguins who may be gayZookeepers at the Toronto Zoo, believe that two African penguins, Buddy and Pedro, are in love as they exhibit habits common to penguins ready to mate, according to a story in The Star.
Buddy, 20, and Pedro, 10, who are in Toronto as part of the popular African penguin exhibit that opened at the zoo in May, are said to be “inseparable.”
“They do courtship and mating behaviors that females and males would do,’’ one keeper told the Canada-based daily, The Star. ...
“It’s a complicated issue, but they seem to be in a loving relationship of some sort,’’ says Joe Torzsok, chair of the Toronto Zoo board.
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Mary McBride: Rock star reminds the need of ‘Harmony for Humanity’ISLAMABAD - On a rainy Saturday night, when a tall brunette Mary McBride started singing ‘One more time’, the packed house straight away looked at the erected photograph of slain journalist Daniel Pearl and it seemed that everyone was in search of the noble soul that was lost in 2002. It was clear that the lyrics
“Can’t blame you at all / Running here and running there / Crossing border towns / Stop at every last state fair/ I didn’t mean to pull you under /I didn’t mean to take you for a spin / Just one more try / Just one more time / I’ll let you win” had a mesmerising effect at the audience. The rock star with her four-member contingent brought the country music live to the federal capital to mark Daniel Pearl World Music Day.
The event ‘A Tribute to Daniel Pearl: A celebration of Life and Music’ was arranged by the Embassy of the United Sates of America in partnership with Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA). US ambassador in Pakistan Cameron Munter and his wife Dr Marilyn Wyatt graced the occasion that was also attended by other embassy officials, diplomats, music lovers and last but not least Daniel Pearl’s hundreds of fans. The world has come to know Daniel Pearl (1963-2002) as a Wall Street Journal reporter, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Karachi in early 2002, just four months after 9/11. Since then, people around the world remembered the US journalist as a symbol of hope- who built bridges between diverse cultures, as a prolific writer and a gifted musician.
The basic idea behind the day is to response to the assassination through music concerts around the globe, as musicians commemorate Pearl’s life through the universal language of music to spread the message of hope and bring the people together in a united stand for peace.
Clad in all black denim trousers, and black cardoi upper, with long dangling silver chain in neck, Mary truly spellbound the audience in a non-stop performance that lasted over two hours.
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pakistantoday.comWatch a brief video of Mary McBride performing "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" for Access Students in Islamabad, Pakistan on
vimeo.com
Legal drug addicts? Deaths from painkillers overdose has tripledDrugs such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone led to the deaths of almost 15,000 people in 2008. One of the more high-profile cases was the accidental death of 28-year-old Heath Ledger of "Brokeback Mountain: and "The Dark Knight" fame. That's more than three times the 4,000 deaths from narcotics in 1999.
Ledger died from an accidental overdose of painkillers and sedatives in 2008. A few months later, a 12-year-old girl from suburban New York overdosed on methadone she bought from a 15-year-old boy.
Painkillers "are meant to help people who have severe pain," Frieden says. "They are, however, highly addictive."
A new report has found that nearly five percent of Americans ages 12 and older say they've abused painkillers in the past year, such as using them without a prescription or "just for the high."
Overdose deaths reflect the spike in the number of narcotic painkillers prescribed every year, which is enough to give every American a one-month supply, Frieden said. It must be noted, however, that the majority of addicts get painkillers from friends and family, and not doctors.
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catholic.org
Gay high school student suspended for wearing make-upAn openly gay 16-year-old high school student was given a three-day suspension for wearing make-up in class.
Kasey Landrum was censured by the principal at Lexington High School in Tennessee after being told he had violated the school's dress code.
'The principal walked into the school and immediately started yelling at me for it, and told me to get outside,' Kasey told WBBJ-TV. ...
However Kasey said he had gone to school with three different colours in his hair before and teachers did not deem that a disruption.
The 11th grader also said that another 'punk-rock' student who had been wearing make-up that same day was not reprimanded. 'He had it on all day, and I was like, "If he can wear make-up, so can I,"' Kasey told WBBJ-TV.
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Kim Kardashian, this really takes the cakeFirstly, it is a slap in the face to the 434 gays that pick your clothes, paint your nails, match your handbag, road test your shoes and do your long hair, take that long hair and suture it to your scalp hair for you to use marriage as a cheap way to get attention, money, attention and money.
This is because those 430 gays and their gay brothers and sisters are right now doing their utmost to prove to the straight world that they should be allowed to marry. That they won't cheapen or defile the institution. How dare you piss on this thing for a quid and a laugh, when there are those out there fighting earnestly for it? Those, incidently, that are probably two-feet away from you right now wiping spray tan off your elbows.
And what the hell kind of society do we have that allows scum like this to get married, but not champions like me and my gay mates?
Though maybe we should thank Kim Kardashian for bringing to light what's really going on in the marriage debate. The wedding of Kim Kardashian and The Groom makes abundantly clear that it is perfectly OK for straights to cheapen and defile the institution. No laws are being bandied about to stop her or any or all other straights from wrecking the institution from the inside out. As John Waters says, if you really want to protect heterosexual marriage, outlaw heterosexual divorce. It seems the problem isn't about people not taking marriage seriously, it is simply about keeping gays out.
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abc.net.au
Stuart Walker death: Ryan Esquierdo chargedA TEENAGER was ... charged in connection with the brutal murder of barman Stuart Walker.
Detectives arrested Ryan Esquierdo, 18, days after they questioned him about the killing.
They had taken DNA swabs from Ryan and brother Robert as part of their probe into the death at the weekend in Cumnock, Ayrshire.
A report will now be sent to the procurator fiscal and Esquierdo is expected to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court on Monday.
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The Brokeback Mountain war 
A few things have happened since we last met here. For instance...let's see...oh yeah, I almost forgot: the war in Iraq ended!
There won't be any famous pix of sailors kissing nurses in a celebratory Times Square, but, nevertheless, President Obama's Friday announcement, heralding the imminent withdrawal of all remaining troops by year's end, will bring overdue closure to one of the most disgraceful foreign policy follies in U.S. history.
And how do the Republicans celebrate the moment? By assailing Obama, because they deem it important to denounce or minimize every Obama foreign policy achievement. And, more importantly, by drawing inspiration from Brokeback Mountain and demonstrating that their star-crossed allegience to the war is still too tempting to resist. They just cain't quit it.
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Ditch: Two sailors, stranded in the ice and a harsh societyThe grisly fate of the men in the lost Franklin expedition is usually the stuff of horror stories, not love stories. But Geoff Kavanagh’s
Ditch takes the raw facts of that doomed 19th-century quest for the Northwest Passage and weaves a pathetic, tender tale of two British sailors sharing a forbidden love. You’d be tempted to call it an Arctic
Brokeback Mountain, if the play didn’t predate that film by a decade.
Kavanagh’s 1995 Chalmers Award-winning drama – receiving its first Toronto revival by Sometimes Y Theatre – speculates on one of the grim discoveries made in the years after Sir John Franklin and his crew went missing: a lifeboat in a ditch on King William Island, containing two skeletons. In Kavanagh’s imagining, they belonged to a pair of not-so-able-bodied seamen rather amusingly named Whitbread and Hennesey (Kavanagh must have written his play in a pub).
When we meet them, a sick Whitbread (Clinton Walker) is on the verge of death, while Hennesey (Robert Tsonos) has had his foot crushed. They’ve been abandoned by their starving shipmates, who’ve curtailed a desperate trek across the tundra and gone back to the ice-bound ship in search of food. As Hennesey hobbles about, cursing his fate and making futile attempts to haul the lifeboat out of the ditch, Whitbread is already imagining what a future search party will think when they discover their bodies.
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theglobeandmail.com
Hollywood Screen Kisses
Watch Peter Sarsgaard (Jake's brother-in-law)
kissing (among other things) Jon Foster in "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
Beyond Brokeback - Roosevelt University, Chicago - November 13, 2011 | Dear Friends of Beyond Brokeback:
I am so looking forward to meeting everyone this coming weekend in Chicago for the debut of Beyond Brokeback and also for all of you to meet each other. A year ago at this time, we were rehearsing for our first performance at the Autry National Center Romance Gallery in Los Angeles. I never dreamed that a year later Beyond Brokeback would make it to Chicago at a venue as spectacular as the Auditorium Theater.
At the Autry there is a beautiful painting by Thomas Moran called "Mountain of the Holy Cross," 1875, intended to inspire migration to the far reaches of the American West.
When I first saw images of the vast and beautiful Auditorium Theater, I was reminded of this painting, and others like it. As we perform Beyond Brokeback and look out from the stage and up to " The Gods," a theater term for the highest, least expensive seats in a theater, as humbling as this may feel, remember that the West belongs to everyone and there's a place for everyone on the West!
I am so grateful to all of you for lending your time and talent to Beyond Brokeback in Chicago, to the Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum, some who will be traveling as far as Sweden and France for our performance, and to Brett Batterson and David Zak for producing and directing Beyond Brokeback, to Shawn Kirchner and his beautiful music, and the staff of the Roosevelt University and the Auditorium Theater for the all hard work they have done in making this production a reality.
I will attend each rehearsal and look forward to saying hello. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Gregory Hinton | |
Fun Question of the Week | This week's question: What arboreal animal cannot walk or hop, though their feet can be used to scoot sideways?
Let us know your answer in the Response Thread.
Last week's question and answer: The two highest rated episodes of the "Batman" TV series (starring Adam West and Burt Ward) featured what villain, played by whom?
The answer is the villain, "Chandell", played by by the famous American pianist, Liberace. From bat-mania.co.uk: "Chandell turned to a life of crime after being blackmailed by his evil brother Harry (also played by Liberace). Chandell's plot was to murder both Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson then to marry Aunt Harriet so he can get his hands on the Wayne's Foundations funds. He would then use the money to pay off his brother Harry."
Liberace: "Like some of the children, I loved the villains because they were sort of the anti-he-roes and you always wanted to see what they could do to put Batman and Robin in a predicament and then, of course, it was fun to see how they got out of it." | |  | |
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There are two ways to make your text appear in a color, other than the colors available in the standard drop down color menu.
When creating a post, look for the dropdown menu that says 'Change Color.'
Select it, and for simplicity’s sake, choose the color 'Black.'
Type your comment between the HTML tags: [ color=black]Type your comment here.[ /color]
Next, go back to the beginning of your post and replace the word 'black' with the name of the color you desire, (most of these are compatible with the technical widgetry used here on the forum, but a few are not), from this chart (making sure to remove the blank spaces in your code that I have put there so I could illustrate this for you).
And post! Your text should appear in the color you chose.
If those colors aren’t enough to excite you, there is another way to change the color of your text.
Set up your HTML brackets like this: [ color=#123456]Type your comment here.[ /color]
Replace "#123456" with any of the six digit color codes as seen here (making sure to remove the blank spaces in your HTML code that I have put there so I could illustrate this for you).
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