The Cancer Society of Finland wants you to know that if you have “a jamming sex-machine-gun” you should “stop smoking”
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Christmas Prank
It seemed like a funny idea until: “A 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.”
Celebrities
Happy 65th Birthday Bette Midler!!!
Nate Berkus, the interior designer from Oprah, was hospitalized for appendicitis yesterday morning.
Yesterday it was being reported that Mark Ruffalo was on a terror advisory list in Pennsylvania after he arranged screenings of a new documentary, GasLand. A rep for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, which oversees PA’s homeland security department, has said that Mark Ruffalo is not on their terror advisory list.
Congrats are in order for True Blood hottie Ryan Kwanten who has been named Man of the Year by Australia’s GQ Magazine.
Heat Magazine released the 30 Richest British Stars Under 30 and the top five doesn’t surprise anyone: #1 Daniel Radcliffe (21), #2 Keira Knightley (25), #3 Emma Watson (20), #4 Rupert Grint (22), and #5 Robert Pattinson (24)
Nate Berkus, the interior designer from Oprah, was hospitalized for appendicitis yesterday morning.
Yesterday it was being reported that Mark Ruffalo was on a terror advisory list in Pennsylvania after he arranged screenings of a new documentary, GasLand. A rep for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, which oversees PA’s homeland security department, has said that Mark Ruffalo is not on their terror advisory list.
Congrats are in order for True Blood hottie Ryan Kwanten who has been named Man of the Year by Australia’s GQ Magazine.
Heat Magazine released the 30 Richest British Stars Under 30 and the top five doesn’t surprise anyone: #1 Daniel Radcliffe (21), #2 Keira Knightley (25), #3 Emma Watson (20), #4 Rupert Grint (22), and #5 Robert Pattinson (24)
NY Times Review Says Ballerina Is Too Fat
Dance critic Alastair Macaulay for the New York Times reviewing New York City Ballet's performance of The Nutcracker noted that a ballerina was too fat, saying: “Jenifer Ringer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, looked as if she'd eaten one sugar plum too many; and Jared Angle, as the Cavalier, seems to have been sampling half the Sweet realm.”
To make his comments worse, the ballerina in question, Jenifer Ringer, revealed in a recent magazine article that she once struggled with anorexia and compulsive eating.
Do you think she looks fat?
To make his comments worse, the ballerina in question, Jenifer Ringer, revealed in a recent magazine article that she once struggled with anorexia and compulsive eating.
Do you think she looks fat?
TV/Movies/Music
While Republicans were totally against the Net Neutrality Bill, the effects of not having this bill are already coming to Comcast subscribers. Since Comcast now has NBC-Universal, they want people to stream content from their sites. So they are slowing the connection for its user to Netflix and are charging Netflix a huge fee to provide its services which of course means that Netflix will have to raise its prices for Comcast users. (But you know, slowing connections and charging extra for competitors is apparently good for small business.)
The Wachowskis have returned and will be directing the adaptation of Cloud Atlas, based on David Mitchell’s novel. While at the NAACP Image Awards, Halle Berry confirmed that she would be in the film. It is rumored that Tom Hanks, James McAvoy and Natalie Portman will be in the film too.
Michael Douglas, who has been battling throat cancer since August, will be playing the title role in Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace, which will begin shooting in June. In January, he will find out if his cancer has been eliminated. His doctors have told him that he has am 80% cure rate.
ABC is taking tips from Fox and developing two music-themed series for next fall. Bob Kushell will write the show about a mother and daughter and will star Idina Menzel!! She will play a single mother of a teenager who works waiting tables and performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. The other series will be written by Robert Horn and is being described as “a half-hour female-driven musical comedy.”
Kevin Williamson, the creator of The Vampire Diaries, has reportedly been tapped by the CW to develop a “companion” series to the show, which will focus on a group of paranormal researchers.
Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes is developing a new drama for ABC loosely based on the life of PR consultant Judy Smith and her “dysfunctional” staff.
Broadway’s new musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark sold more than $1 million worth of tickets within 24 hours of its first preview performance Sunday. (Now they only have $64 million to go to break even)
Starting January 1, Billie Joe Armstrong will be taking the role of St. Jimmy in the Broadway production of American Idiot. Originally it was only going to be for 8 performances but he has just signed on now for 50 performances.
Former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi has just announced that she will be writing a memoir called A Helluva High Note: Surviving Life, Love, And American Idol. She says she is going to use this book as a why of setting the record straight and telling America why she left the show and what it was like to really work with Simon. The book is set to come out in April.
The Wachowskis have returned and will be directing the adaptation of Cloud Atlas, based on David Mitchell’s novel. While at the NAACP Image Awards, Halle Berry confirmed that she would be in the film. It is rumored that Tom Hanks, James McAvoy and Natalie Portman will be in the film too.
Michael Douglas, who has been battling throat cancer since August, will be playing the title role in Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace, which will begin shooting in June. In January, he will find out if his cancer has been eliminated. His doctors have told him that he has am 80% cure rate.
ABC is taking tips from Fox and developing two music-themed series for next fall. Bob Kushell will write the show about a mother and daughter and will star Idina Menzel!! She will play a single mother of a teenager who works waiting tables and performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. The other series will be written by Robert Horn and is being described as “a half-hour female-driven musical comedy.”
Kevin Williamson, the creator of The Vampire Diaries, has reportedly been tapped by the CW to develop a “companion” series to the show, which will focus on a group of paranormal researchers.
Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes is developing a new drama for ABC loosely based on the life of PR consultant Judy Smith and her “dysfunctional” staff.
Broadway’s new musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark sold more than $1 million worth of tickets within 24 hours of its first preview performance Sunday. (Now they only have $64 million to go to break even)
Starting January 1, Billie Joe Armstrong will be taking the role of St. Jimmy in the Broadway production of American Idiot. Originally it was only going to be for 8 performances but he has just signed on now for 50 performances.
Former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi has just announced that she will be writing a memoir called A Helluva High Note: Surviving Life, Love, And American Idol. She says she is going to use this book as a why of setting the record straight and telling America why she left the show and what it was like to really work with Simon. The book is set to come out in April.
The 2010 Independent Spirit Award Nominees
Best Actress
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Greta Gerwig, Greenberg
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Best Actor
Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs
Aaron Eckhart, Rabbit Hole
James Franco, 127 Hours
John C. Reilly, Cyrus
Ben Stiller, Greenberg
Best Supporting Actress
Ashley Belle, The Last Exorcism
Dale Dickey, Winter's Bone
Allison Janney, Life During Wartime
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jack Goes Boating
Naomi Watts, Mother and Child
Best Supporting Actor
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Samuel L. Jackson, Mother and Child
Bill Murray, Get Low
John Ortiz, Jack Goes Boating
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Best Feature
127 Hours
Black Swan
Greenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Winter's Bone
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Danny Boyle, 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right
Debra Granik, Winter's Bone
John Cameron Mitchell, Rabbit Hole
Best First Feature
Everything Strange and New
Get Low
Night Catches Us
The Last Exorcism
Tiny Furniture
Best Foreign Film
Kisses
Mademoiselle Chambon
Of Gods and Men
The King's Speech
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Best First Screenplay
Diane Bell, Obselidia
Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture
Nik Fackler, Lovely, Still
Bob Glaudini, Jack Goes Boating
Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener, Monogamy
Best Cinematography
Never Let me Go
Black Swan
Tiny Furniture
Winter's Bone
Greenberg
Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Marwencol
Restrepo
Sweetgrass
Thunder Soul
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Greta Gerwig, Greenberg
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Best Actor
Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs
Aaron Eckhart, Rabbit Hole
James Franco, 127 Hours
John C. Reilly, Cyrus
Ben Stiller, Greenberg
Best Supporting Actress
Ashley Belle, The Last Exorcism
Dale Dickey, Winter's Bone
Allison Janney, Life During Wartime
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jack Goes Boating
Naomi Watts, Mother and Child
Best Supporting Actor
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Samuel L. Jackson, Mother and Child
Bill Murray, Get Low
John Ortiz, Jack Goes Boating
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Best Feature
127 Hours
Black Swan
Greenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Winter's Bone
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Danny Boyle, 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right
Debra Granik, Winter's Bone
John Cameron Mitchell, Rabbit Hole
Best First Feature
Everything Strange and New
Get Low
Night Catches Us
The Last Exorcism
Tiny Furniture
Best Foreign Film
Kisses
Mademoiselle Chambon
Of Gods and Men
The King's Speech
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Best First Screenplay
Diane Bell, Obselidia
Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture
Nik Fackler, Lovely, Still
Bob Glaudini, Jack Goes Boating
Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener, Monogamy
Best Cinematography
Never Let me Go
Black Swan
Tiny Furniture
Winter's Bone
Greenberg
Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Marwencol
Restrepo
Sweetgrass
Thunder Soul
Legal Issues and Politics
The Illinois State House has approved its civil union bill by a vote of 61-52. Also yesterday, the State’s Senate moved its version of the civil union bill out of committee by a vote of 6-2. The state will now vote on a concurrence bill.
Two men charged in the brutal October 2009 gay-bashing of Queens resident Jack Price have pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery as a hate crime. Price, 49, spent days in a medically-induced coma after the attack left him with collapsed lungs, multiple broken ribs, and liver and spleen damage. The sentencing is scheduled for Dec 13th but people are expecting 8 years in jail and 5 years post-release supervision.
On Thanksgiving Eve, the Ali Forney Center received a grim letter from New York City’s Department of Youth and Community Development. Due to budget reductions for FY11 and FY12, this amazing organization’s Street Outreach Services will be reduced by 50% in FY11 and eliminated in FY12. This organization works with homeless youth to ensure they have a safe place to sleep and have access to resources to get them back into schools. It is said that programs like this have to be eliminated because of crazy spending and people upset about paying taxes.
Last week, a Minnesota judge ruled that the Minnesota Family Council and the Alliance Defense Fund do not have standing to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit brought by three same-sex couples and one minor to strike down Minnesota laws that deny marriage equality. Judge DuFrense held that the Council’s “strong feelings” and “purely ideological” interest in the lawsuit does not give them the right to take this case away from the state of Minnesota, which doesn’t want the Council to intervene.
Two men charged in the brutal October 2009 gay-bashing of Queens resident Jack Price have pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery as a hate crime. Price, 49, spent days in a medically-induced coma after the attack left him with collapsed lungs, multiple broken ribs, and liver and spleen damage. The sentencing is scheduled for Dec 13th but people are expecting 8 years in jail and 5 years post-release supervision.
On Thanksgiving Eve, the Ali Forney Center received a grim letter from New York City’s Department of Youth and Community Development. Due to budget reductions for FY11 and FY12, this amazing organization’s Street Outreach Services will be reduced by 50% in FY11 and eliminated in FY12. This organization works with homeless youth to ensure they have a safe place to sleep and have access to resources to get them back into schools. It is said that programs like this have to be eliminated because of crazy spending and people upset about paying taxes.
Last week, a Minnesota judge ruled that the Minnesota Family Council and the Alliance Defense Fund do not have standing to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit brought by three same-sex couples and one minor to strike down Minnesota laws that deny marriage equality. Judge DuFrense held that the Council’s “strong feelings” and “purely ideological” interest in the lawsuit does not give them the right to take this case away from the state of Minnesota, which doesn’t want the Council to intervene.
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