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02-29-2008

Ellen Speaks Out About Gay Hate Crime

Says Ellen:

We must change our country and we can do it with our behavior, we can do it with the messages we send our children, we can do it with our vote. This is an election year and there’s a lot of talk about change. I think one thing we can change is hate. Check on who you’re voting for, and does that person really truly believe that we are all equal under the law? And if you’re not sure, change your vote. We deserve better. My heart goes out to everybody involved in this horrible, horrible incident.

I’m so glad Ellen talked about this because it’s such a tragic situation, and I was extremely upset to see the mainstream media virtually ignore it.



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10-24-2007

Ellen Responsible For Oprah’s Worst Hate Mail

Oprah had a show today about how homosexuality affected people across the globe, one of which was former NBA player John Amaechi who mentioned a woman in New York City told him before he came out she didn’t know there were gay black people.

At the end of the show while talking to Rachel Dowd, Deputy Editor of The Advocate, Oprah opens up about the worst hate mail she’s ever received in the history of her career.

Oprah: You know, yeah, John and I were just saying during the commercial break it’s so easy to see when you look at other countries–there was–you can go to Oprah.com there was a piece that I don’t have time to run here today that was going to run but we’re live, on the Cairo 52 where 52 men were arrested in Cairo and held in prison for over a year. But when you see other countries doing that you think “Oh, isn’t that ridiculous, isn’t that awful?”. And yet, 2003 is when we decriminalized homosexuality here.

Rachel: Right. I do think we’re catching up. I think there’s signs. Ellen DeGeneres hosting the Oscars. It seems a little cheeky but that opened it up to a lot of people.

Oprah: That’s pretty amazing because I remember when I did–Ellen Degeneres–you know who she is? (To John)

John: Oh yes.

Oprah: Okay, Ellen DeGeneres. So when Ellen DeGeneres was doing her show and she came out on her show and I played the psychologist that she came out to–


[Audience Applauds]
[Oprah motions for them to stop]
[They do]


Oprah: So when I played the psychologist I got the worst hate mail in the history of my career for playing the psychologist that she came out to. And then years later, she gets to host the Oscars. That is progress.

I wish Oprah’s shows were more provocative like they were back in the day. Remember when she had some redneck racist guy on and everybody in the audience was going crazy like it was one of them episodes of Maury where some pre-teen skank with a tramp stamp walks out with her stank coochie showin’?

Get Tim Hardaway or Ja Rule on here and hold these people accountable for the dumb shit they say. But whatev, I love the Opester.



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01-18-2007

Forbes 20 Richest Women In Entertainment

Hey guys! So yesterday the site reached the most visitors and page views since November! What’s funny is that, yesterday what got so many people here was the whole T.R. Knight/Isaiah Washington story from the Globes. And what was it that peaked the site’s views in November and got us the biggest visitors the site has EVER achieved–even more than the Brangelina/Shiloh pictures? T.R. Knight’s coming out. Thanks, Grey’s Anatomy!

Anyway, some of our favorite people made the Forbes list for the richest women in Entertainment–including our girl Christina! Get it girl!

But of course, the abominable Oprah is still the richest.

Forbes’ 20 Richest Women In Entertainment:

1) Oprah Winfrey $1.5B
2) J.K. Rowling $ 1B
3) Martha Stewart $638M
4) Madonna $325M
5) Celine Dion $250M
6) Mariah Carey $225M
7) Janet Jackson $150M
8 ) Julia Roberts $140M
9) Jennifer Lopez $110M
10) Jennifer Aniston $110M
11) Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen $100M
12) Britney Spears $100M
13) Judge Judy (Sheindlin) $ 95M
14) Sandra Bullock $ 85M
15) Cameron Diaz $ 75M
16) Gisele Bundchen $ 70M
17) Ellen DeGeneres $ 65M
18) Nicole Kidman $ 60M
19) Christina Aguilera $ 60M
20) Renee Zellweger $ 45M


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08-22-2006

Ashton Kutcher In Details Magazine, Justin Timberlake In Fashion Rocks, Christina Aguilera on Ellen

Ashton Kutcher is on the cover of September’s issue of Details. He looks pretty smokin’.


No, you’re not seeing things. The top does read “Heterophobia: Has The Straight Man Become The Victim?”

I’m dying laughing too.

More caps:

Here are some caps from Justin’s spread in September’s Fashion Rocks mag.


Yes, ladies and gentleman, there is a new Video Clip of the Week, and this time around it’s vintage Xtina.

I’m loving her look and of course her music from this new Back to Basics era, but I think this Ellen performance of “Beautiful” will always by my favorite live performance of hers. Just..the way she interpreted the song, especially with the harmonizing choir in the background–it was just..well..beautiful. It’s almost a re-invention of what was already a perfectly-imperfect song. And the falsetto at the end is killer.

I love Ellen’s comments at the end. “Now that’s singing! That’s not lip-synching, that’s singing!”.



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08-15-2006

Top Model Twins, Ellen ‘Til 2010, and Ryan Phillippe For Two/Face?

So it looks like more odd casting has plagued the Batman Begins sequel. First we find out that Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger is The Joker. Wtf. Then we now get word that Crash star Ryan Phillippe will be playing Tommy Lee Jones’ old role Two Face. Uhm. Okay? Hopefully there’s some kind of great master plan because this shit seems pretty effing weird.

The new America’s Next Top Model contestants have been announced..and quite frankly I’m both stunned and disappointed. I don’t see one single girl that looks even remotely attractive. The girl in the bottom right corner looks like Osama Bin Laden’s estranged daughter, the girl in the second row from the bottom on the far left looks like a black Hilary Swank, and everyone else just makes me wanna puke.

Uhh. Time for me to turn to Oxygen. I see prettier faces on the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.

And no, you’re not crazy. You do see twins. What the point of that is..I really don’t know.

Whoo. Hooray for the sexless dykes of daytime television. Our beloved Ellen DeGeneres who’s really a lesbian but you wouldn’t know it from watching her talk show has made her long-term gig an even longer one. She’s renewed her deal with NBC and extended her contract to keep doing The Ellen DeGeneres Show until 2010.

Her ratings with suburban soccer moms have risen every year her Emmy-winning show has been on TV.

Watch out, Oprah. The white lezbo’s coming to steal your throne.



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03-05-2006

Jake Gyllenhaal On Ellen

In honor of Jake’s Oscar nominated night, I’m gonna post up his appearance on Ellen. He takes his shirt off. Almost.



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02-27-2006

“Brokeback” Wins Gays Place In Hollywood History

For more than 100 years, mainstream Hollywood movies largely shunned gay subjects, which were either disregarded, closeted or dealt with by independent filmmakers.

But in 2005, “Brokeback Mountain,” the story of two cowboys in love, broke big at box offices and earned eight Oscar nominations, including best film. It was a hit and Hollywood loves a hit.

“Gay people are now living more honest and open lives and that leads to others wanting to know more about our lives,” said Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. “People want this product and we can provide it in a compelling and powerful way that can be profitable.”

Historians and experts divide Hollywood’s portrayal of gay life into three periods: years before the early 1930s “production code;” self-censorship under the code until the late 1960s; and the years since then as gays and lesbians have been slowly accepted into mainstream culture.

The production code, also known as the Hays Code, was devised by a forerunner of today’s Motion Picture Association of America and was strictly enforced by Hollywood’s major studios starting around 1934.

It set out general guidelines specifying that no film would lower moral standards of an audience member and included warnings against nudity and positive portrayals of crime and illicit sex.

Before the code, historians said movies showed no depictions of gays or lesbians because they largely kept to themselves and were ignored by mainstream society. As a result, the movies also set them aside, reflecting the culture of the day.

“It was not so much keeping a secret. It was more like, ‘How could you write about something that wasn’t being written about?”‘ said William Mann, author of “Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1910-1969.”

TO GAY, OR NOT TO GAY

Although the production code did not allow portrayals of gay life, some male roles were often built around effeminate personality traits. By association, the characters were deemed homosexual, although such a distinction was never talked about, said Jonathan Kuntz of the film and television school at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Some actors such as Franklin Pangborn enjoyed careers playing effeminate men and closeted homosexuals like Rock Hudson could live in privacy and still take heterosexual roles.

“Sexuality is overtly talked about now but wasn’t really in those days,” said Robert Osborne, author of “75 Years of Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards.”

The sexual revolution of late 1960s brought an end to the production code, and in 1969 “Midnight Cowboy” the relationship between Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) was widely considered a love affair, although the two never had sex on screen, as do the cowhands of “Brokeback.”

“Midnight Cowboy” became a box-office hit and won the best film Oscar, but what followed were film flops such as 1982’s “Making Love,” which made “gay film” sound like “money loser” to mainstream Hollywood. As a result, homosexual stories were fodder for independent filmmakers and art-house cinemas.

In 1993, “Philadelphia” starred Tom Hanks as a gay man, won Oscars and earned $206 million worldwide, but it was largely seen as an AIDS movie, not a gay film.

In the late 1990s, gay television shows such as “Will & Grace” and TV stars like Ellen DeGeneres helped mainstream Hollywood get to a point where it could promote a film such as “Brokeback,” the experts said. Now, they expect the major studios to be more accepting of gay stories and screenplays.

“I don’t know if we’re going to see any $200 million movies built around a gay character but certainly this will spark other films,” Kuntz said.



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02-03-2006

Paul McCartney, Kelly Clarkson Added To Grammy Performers

The performance lineup for the 48th annual Grammy Awards continues to swell. Following yesterday’s (Feb. 1) confirmation of a show-opening Madonna/Gorillaz pairing, the Recording Academy has added Paul McCartney, Kelly Clarkson and Ciara to a bill now made up of a dozen performances.

McCartney is nominated for three awards this year: album of the year and best pop vocal album for “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard” (MPL/Capitol), as well as best male pop vocal performance for the album track “Fine Line.” Despite his long career and 13 past Grammy wins, this will mark the former Beatle’s first Grammy performance.

Triple-nominee Ciara (best new artist, best rap/sung collaboration for “1, 2 Step” featuring Missy Elliott and best short form music video for “Lose Control” with Missy Elliott and Fat Man Scoop), will take part in the multi-artist tribute to Sly & the Family Stone. Double-nominee Clarkson (best female pop vocal performance for “Since U Been Gone” and best pop vocal album for “Breakaway” (RCA) is set to perform solo.

Comedian/talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been drafted to introduce McCartney’s performance. Other newly added presenters are the members of Destiny’s Child, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Chris Brown, professional cyclist Lance Armstrong and actresses Jennifer Love Hewitt, Teri Hatcher and Jenna Elfman.

Mariah Carey, John Legend and Kanye West share the lead with eight nominations heading into the Feb. 8 ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The event will be broadcast live on CBS.



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