LiLo reportedly fights for her laydee

Lindsay Lohan's tumultuous relationship with Samantha Ronson is back in the headlines again after a screaming match erupted between Lohan and Ashley Olsen over the lesbian DJ in New York this weekend. According to reports, Lohan began screaming at Olsen after the Full House star said hello to Ronson, telling the Olsen twin to get away from her "girlfriend".   

The incident between the two young actresses reportedly occurred at the Beatrice Inn on Friday evening in New York City. According to the New York Post's Page Six, Ashley Olsen walked up to Ronson and said hello. Lohan, who has been romantically linked to the lesbian DJ, screamed at Olsen to "get your 15 year-old Full House ass away from my girlfriend!"   

The following evening, Lohan and Ronson arrived together at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone club in New York just before midnight, according to People.com. Ronson was working the DJ booth at the club while Lohan hung out at a nearby table with friends. According to unidentified sources, Lohan was spotted drinking Grey Goose and Red Bull cocktails. Lohan has been struggling to remain clean and sober since an extended stay in a rehab facility for alcoholism last year following two DUI arrests and a brief incarceration in jail.

Lohan was videotaped in January drinking champagne while on vacation in Capri, Italy. Her lawyer at the time claimed the incident was an accident. "After being handed a champagne bottle while on a dance floor in Italy on New Year's Eve and drinking from it, the good news is that Lindsay stopped herself, called her sponsor and got herself back on track," Blair Berk told People. "There is no magic cure here. The most unfortunate part of this is that Lindsay has to share her 'one day at a time' with the entire world."

ANN TURNER © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Lesbian gossip from Los Angeles!

For the girl with little or too much time on her hands, here’s the quickie lowdown on what’s hot in lesbian and cute-girl related pop culture. From Hollywood’s latest big-screen releases to television water cooler gossip, music, DVD releases and fashion and consumer culture, Meow Mix is a catty corner serving up the latest dish.

 

Visual Pleasure on the Big Screen:

Baby Mama   

Hot nerd for the new millennium, Tina Fey, joins forces with her pal and Saturday Night Live alum, the unapologetically hilarious fool, Amy Poehler, in Baby Mama. A silly female-driven comedy—the likes of which haven’t been seen since the shlubby fat-boy gets the hot girl phenomenon overtook American comedy, Fey and Poehler play the estrogen card just right.

 

Sadly, writer extraordinaire Fey’s scribe skills aren’t work here. She just stepped into her acting shoes this time out, playing a woman whose biological clock is about to explode. Enter Poehler as a frightening, if not endearing, surrogate who becomes a live-in baby mama.

 

 

 

Throw in the ever-watchable Maura Tierney and hot cougar Sigourney Weaver and the eye candy alone makes it worth the price of admission.

Four Minutes

For serious cinephiles, check out the acclaimed German film, Four Minutes. Prison, piano music, a lesbian love story… this pristinely shot film has it all. Aging piano teacher Traude, who lost the love of her life to execution in WWII, is reinvigorated mentoring a young female piano prodigy, who also happens to be a full-on bad girl imprisoned for murder.

 

 

 

Haunting and hopeful, Four Minutes transcends age to deliver a powerful meditation on female relationships.

 

On the Small Screen:

 

A big fat WTF? Is in order for this season of American Idol. Tattooed, bad-assed Irish Lassy Carly Smithson received the proverbial steel-toed Doc Marten boot up the ass this week following her blistering hot rendition of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s "Jesus Christ Superstar".

Illustrating that tween girls and gay tween boys comprise the bulk of AI’s constituency, Carly’s fiery performance lost out to cringe-inducing light-in-the-loafers ballads by cupie-doll David Archuleta and overgrown Jim Henson creation, Jason Castro.

Even the show’s guest star, Lloyd Weber, commented that he never thought he’d hear Phantom of the Opera’s “Think of Me” and Cats’ showstopper “Memory,” “sung by boys.” Typically, I’m all for boys singing like girls and vice versa but when the one AI contestant hot, talented and mature enough for the average gay gal to lust over gets kicked to the curb, the gloves come off.

 

 

But at the end of the day, I blame that tart Simon Cowell and the AI machine for skewering Carly week after week— kind of like what the left-wing media has done to Hillary Clinton.

And here’s why…. If it’s not merely and old Irish / English feud between Simon and Carly then Simon’s steering the dumbass American public into voting for the only girl who could have taken this year’s cake. Four out of six Idols have been women and the two men who won are already relegated to the dustbin of pop-schlock culture. It's time for a boy to win to keep tween girls and gay boys watching. And Carly's the only girl who had a snowball's chance in hell of making it to the top this year. There I said it. Next week I'll tackle JFK and the grassy knoll theory.

 

Aural Stimulation:

 

Empress of Lillith Fair and Mistress of the ethereal vocal range, Sarah McLachlan releases yet another collection of her greatest performances-plus with Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff Volume 2, due out on April 29. And if anyone can put out another compilation / live record, it’s Sarah, who never fails to deliver a breath-taking performance.

Highlights on the new release include McLachlan teaming up with spritely songstress Cyndi Lauper on Lauper’s most covered tune of all time, “Time after Time.” Despite the countless renditions of the classic, McLachlan and Lauper’s voices silkily intertwine making the song as fresh as its original 1984 release.

Another gay gal pleasing moment is McLachlan and thef legendary Emmy Lou Harris taking on the mega-hit, “Angel.” Other hot duets include Bryan Adams joining McLachlan on “Don’t Let Go,” and, rather shockingly, Run DMC joining her on “Just Like Me.”

 

 

Not surprisingly McLachlan firmly plants her soaring vocal stamp on modern classics including The Beatles’ “Blackbird,” Paul Simon’s “Homeless” with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, “Rainbow Connection” and “Unchained Melody.”

But the single-most titillating moment on McLachlan’s new release, especially for the girls, is her obvious and adamant refusal to change up pro-nouns on the pining ballad “When She Loved Me.”

What to Wear:

Dame Dolly Parton, purveyor of big wigs, bigger boobs and haute couture trailer park chic has announced she’s churning out her own line of beauty products.

I want my own cosmetics line. When I first came [to Nashville] I really was the backwoods Barbie. Too much makeup, too much hair, the big boobs, country girl straight out of the mountains. It’s hard to take somebody looking like that serious, I guess, so I had to work double hard to prove myself,” Parton told Billboard Magazine.

 

 

A cultural icon worthy of her own theme park, Dollywood, it’s about damned time Parton shared some Smoky Mountain blue eyeliner with the rest of the world!

 

Check back next Friday for more "Meow Mix"!

Tracy E. Gilchrist
© 2008 LesbiaNation, All Rights Reserved.

   

Zac Efron, Studio 54 and Andy Warhol

High School Musical cutie Zac Efron could be stepping up into a new adult role in a new movie.

Richard and Robert DuPont may not mean much to you, but in New York they are kinda iconic, being teen twin twinks from Connecticut who came to the Big Apple, got mixed up with the Studio 54 crowd, took lots of the drugs and did sex with famous old gay men.

Now nearly 50, they recently acted as associate producers on the movie Factory Girl, which was about that whole Warhol thing.

"We were Andy's proteges," they told the Daily Mail.

Richard and Robert DuPont  recently discussed what they got up to during their time as precocious runaways in the Studio 54-era Warhol camp. Andy, it seems, had a thing for twins.

"He would kiss me, and yes he touched me – he would sometimes jerk me  off," says Richard, according to SX News.

"Warhol also used Richard to recruit "cute  friends" to take part in the creation of the oxidation paintings.  "Andy would watch. He didn't touch himself, but he did this moaning.  'Oh!…Oh!…' It was like he was having an orgasm while he watched us.

"Or at least faking one. And then he would take us to lunch and give  us $100, or some of his silk-screen wallpaper of the cow or Mao."

Now the reclusive twins, 48, have said Zac is "top of their list" to play them.

What a scoop!

Still, allows everyone involved to print a pretty picture of Zac.

Muppets could go back to basics

Fresh from sharing screen time with a rehabilitated Britney Spears in How I Met Your Mother, series star Jason Segal is ready to assist in another reinvention: The Muppets.

 

Making the rounds to promote his new film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Segal says its time to light the lights on a brand new movie that will hopefully make all well in the land of Henson.

 

"I've just grown a little disappointed with Muppets in the Old West, Muppets Under Water and all these weird concept movies," the 28-year-old actor told MTV.

"I just want to take it back to the early '80s, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back."

 

Segal, who takes a huge step forward for equality by being the one who takes his clothes off in his new movie, says the idea came to him while shooting Marshall. In the film, his character fantasizes about making a puppet show out of Dracula's life.

 

“When you see the movie, you’ll see that there’s a puppet musical at the end," he says. "I’ve always loved puppets, and the Henson Studios designed those puppets for us. While I was there, I was talking to them and asking when the next Muppets movie was coming out, and they said ‘We don’t control the Muppets anymore, Disney does.’ And that just made me think back to those early '80s Muppet movies, and The Muppet Show."

 

Segal said that, like The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan, he wants to enlist big-name stars for the film, having already approached the Judd Apatow stable that includes Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig and Paul Rudd.

 

"I remember thinking that Kermit was the original Tom Hanks... he was the everyman for a kid," Segal said, revealing that the plot would focus heavily on the banjo-picking frog. "I remember watching Kermit and thinking ‘That’s what I want to do when I grow up.’ I don’t think I realized he was a puppet."

 

Segel said he hopes to dive head first into the Muppet movie after shooting this summer's I Love You, Man.

Angela D'Amboise © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Kylie split from "gay husband"

They think it's all over - the net is abuzz with stories that tiny singer Kylie Minogue has drifted apart from a man known as her gay husband.

Just last year William Baker, who is the chanteuse's stylist and erstwhile confidante, was busily promoting his "behind the scenes" documentary about Kylie, White Diamond.

Isn't that a cider homeless people drink? Anyway.

Tedious and sycophantic, the critics said of the Baker-directed doco, that provided less insight than a Newsround report.

Apparently the Australian is unhappy that Baker spoke to the press about her breakup with loverat (copyright: the tabs) Oliver Martinez.

A source told Metro:

"After being so close for so long it is now just a professional relationship.

"When two people spend too much time together there can be tension, and there has been tension."

 

Bi Bond? Daniel Craig thinks so

Actor Daniel Craig seems to be getting used to gay male attention following on from his spat with journalist and muscle enthusiast Johann Hari.

As we love to remind everyone, Hari came close to getting a punch from Craig at the BAFTA party for complimenting one of the nation's most talented actors on how well he fills a pair of speedos.

Anyway, in an interview for the Daily Star that can in no way be construed as yet another plug for his second outing as Bond in The Quantum of Solace, Craig said he thinks the secret agent's fans would say "why not" to a bi James.

He also told the tab that he has been getting attention from homosexuals, and not just the ones who write angry columns for The Independent:

'I was out recently and all these gay guys were over me like a rash. But for some reason they never ask about the Bond plot!'

Prolly cos it is, like, exactly the same as all the other bloody plots?

Megalomaniac wants to take over the world/blow up Belgium/poison the whisky industry? Gadgets? Cars? Sultry ladies?

It's straight boy fantasy porn - why he thinks it could go all bisexual without losing most of its emotionally malnourished fans is a mystery.

Of course, the whole thing could be some sort of April Fool .....

Joss Stone's steamy same-sex kiss!

Just when we were starting to recover from her bizarre ramblings at last years Brit Awards, Joss Stone says she's out to shock us again.

The 20-year old singer has just landed her first major movie role playing a lesbian holiday park entertainer.

The part in quirky British comedy Snappers will apparently see her character indulging in a "long, lingering French kiss" with another woman.

The star is sure that the new project will surprise some of her fans, commenting: "There are things that are going to really push the boundaries - I'm excited!"

Let's just hope that her performance is slightly less irritating than her recent turn in the Cadbury's Flake adverts!

Ricky Martin, Chace Crawford and other hetties

 by Ross von Metzke.

Who among us doesn’t remember abs man from American Idol?

OK, so his name is Alan Ritchson (see pic above) and while he didn’t exactly get very far on the singing competition, who can forget that attempted strip tease meant to entice Paula in which every gay viewer across America fell off their collective couches.   

It’s that collective gay gasp that’s continued to propel his career, from his Smallville appearance as Aquaman to his independent album to his numerous modeling gigs for companies including International Jock and N2N underwear.

Yeah, I know which one of those you picked up on. Smoking hot Alan in jock straps.   

Alan’s working on a couple of independent features and you can see him—well, an animated him—in the direct to video Justice League: The New Frontier, playing (but of course) Aquaman. If his animated self is anywhere near as hot as the real thing, you bet we’re dusting off our Blockbuster cards.

You know, for the past four years, I’ve stared at Priscilla Presley’s face and wondered if she got into a fight with Jocelyn Wildenstein or just crashed a Weho pumping party.   

Turns out the latter is close to the truth—she’s one of many celebs pumped full of industrial silicone by recently jailed Dr. Daniel Serrano. Licensed to practice medicine in his native Argentina—the plastic surgery capital of the world, according to many—he was running a bogus operation stateside, and now, he’s reportedly being shipped home by immigration.

I wanna know how a celebrity is going to walk into a plastic surgeon’s office without some frame of reference. I mean, seriously—if I were a woman going into get my face done today, I’d march my ass right up to Susan Lucci and say, “Who do you use”?

I would not be following around Meg Ryan with a pair of binoculars to see who glued those trout lips on her kisser, least of all following someone to his backseat in the K-mart parking lot to find out how many $20’s he’ll take for a quick refresh.

Still, I don’t wish any ill will on Priscilla—or Dyan Cannon, Nikki Kidman, Sly Stallone, Jessica Lange, Michael Douglas, Cher or any other number of celebs who’ve gone under the knife more times than I can count.   

Heads up—for future reference, what the FDA approves is just fine. We don’t need to be dabbling in disaster.   

Even though half of Hollywood is probably using something the FDA didn’t approve. What is it with celebrities and additions… the only think more addictive than illegal substances in perusing the gossip sites to find out who’s addicted to something.

Which is why yesterday’s most emailed post on Perez Hilton—Whitney Smoking Crack….Caught On Tape!!!!—pissed me off.   

 

I mean, don’t get me wrong—I clicked frantically, thinking it might explain why her big comeback album is two years in the making. But imagine my surprise when all I came up with is a You Tube of ’80s pop blip Rick Astley.   

Now I can do a mean “Together Forever” at karaoke, don’t get me wrong. But is that how we’re driving page views these days? Misleading the reader.

Not that I was Whitney to fall of the wagon, but if you’re gonna make a promise, hold up your end of the bargain.   

Now, for Ricky Martin naked in a sauna… click here!

I didn’t say pictures… hahaha!   

But at least we’ve got related info.   

Some Ricky Martin fanatic—which is why you should take this news with a grain of salt—claims he shared a sauna with Ricky Martin over in Calcutta.

Calcutta? I can think of a lot of discreet places closer to home for Ricky than Calcutta. But this man swears it was him hidden beneath that beard and moustache, despite the fact that when he confronted the pop star, he was told he had the wrong guy.

The naked steam allegedly took place at the Grand Oberoi hotel and Ricky, the man says, has a tattoo on his lower pelvic area.

Later, when Ricky seemed to need help finding his locker, the man was all too happy to oblige—for an autograph. This timer, Enriqua gave it, smiled and left.

Is this exchange to be believed? Who can say… but, as it turns out, Martin actually was in Calcutta recently, working with a children’s organisation.

Damnit to hell—I walk into a steam room at Burke Williams and get Gene Simmons. I’m going to have to steam internationally more often.   

On the subject of gays in strange places, J.C. Chasez is absolutely insistent that he isn’t one, despite the fact that every time he’s out in public, Gossip Girl Chace Crawford seems to be at his side.   

Chasez swears they’re just friends, and takes issue with the fact that because they like to hang out and be affectionate in public that everyone thinks they’re dating.

First off—you don’t have to be dating to be screwing, which is how so many of the gay boys kick things off, after all.

Secondly, though some may consider this narrow minded of me, what does a 31-year-old seasoned vet of the recording industry who’s moving behind the scenes as a producer have in common with the 22-year-old pin-up star of the CW’s breakout hit show?

My gut says dick, but seeing as how I’ve seen nothing with my own two eyes, I’ll reserve judgment.   

We so want two gay ’Nsyncers. Make it happen, J.C.—that’s totally get your album released.   

Word on the street says another queen is sick of one of her gigs and wants to call it quits A.S.A.P.   

That queen is Tyra Banks, and for those of you crossing your fingers she wants to hang up her hat on her talk show, keep praying—no, word says Miss T is over America’s Next Top Model. She’ll continue to Exec. Produce, but she wants someone else in front of the camera.   

 

Why? Any number of reasons, from her rumoured spat with Jay Manuel—they aren’t talking, sources say—to the fact that she claims she only ever saw the show lasting three or four seasons (they’re closing in on eight).

Hell, maybe Tyra just wants to do a face plant into the nearest cheesecake. She’s earned that right. For more than a decade, she was swimsuit ready in a moment’s notice. Let the bitch eat.

For now, at least, Tyra’s committed to another season.   

Hey, if you get your wish, there’s always Kirstie Alley’s new diet plan—she could totally use a new side kick now that Valerie kicked the fat actress to the curb.   

There you have it fellas… more mud slinging that a gay rodeo. Until we chat again, remember… take the time to stop and smell the gossip.

 
© 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Moody Bond would go gay for Oscar claims co-star

British heartthrob and latest Bond incarnation Daniel Craig has admitted to a former co-star that he would be willing to do a gay scene if it guaranteed him an Oscar.

According to BANG Showbiz, who spoke with Craig's former Layer Cake co-star, Tamer Hassan,  it seems Craig's ambition to bring an the thirteen and a half inch statuette home is very serious indeed.

Hassan told BANG Showbiz:

"That's Daniel dying for an Oscar. Ever since Brokeback Mountain everyone wants  to have a gay scene to win an Oscar."

Craig has his hopes pinned on the next 007 installment, Quantum of Solace, which he hopes will earn him a  nomination in 2009.

Steely-chested Craig is increasingly becoming preoccupied with bringing Oscar home, ever since his BAFTA snub in 2007 for Casino Royale.

He lost to acclaimed American actor, Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. (Whitaker went on to take the Oscar nod for Best Actor as well).

Craig has done gay-themed before, in the  biopic of Francis Bacon, Love Is The Devil.

The film is infamous because the hunky actor does a naked scene and you can see his bits and everything.

It seemed Craig's desire for a highly coveted award has not been quelled since the infamous incident on the night of the BAFTAs when he verbally abused gay journalist Johann Hari in February 2007.

He called him a "fucking fool" after Hari light-heartedly complimented Craig for his physique and not his acting.

Sort of like going up to a female actress who had just been nominated for an acting award and saying "nice rack."

Craig was reported to have been clearly agitated for not having won the Best Actor BAFTA and unfortunately, Hari was the recipient of his foul mood.

Here's hoping the next major awards season brings Craig some better fortune and a greater sense of humour.

LiLo, sex tapes and suing Oprah: the week in entertainment

Kristin Davis and Lindsay Lohan sex deny sex tape rumours; The Hills star Audrina Patridge defends nude photos; Halle Berry welcomes a new addition; ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert and legendary author Arthur C. Clarke die; R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe 'comes out'; Sarah Jessica Parker mad at Maxim's "Unsexiest Women Alive" list; Oprah gets sued and Amanda Overmyer exits Idol with grace.

   

Celebrity Sex Tape #1 - Lindsay Lohan   

A porn video featuring a woman rumored to be Lindsay Lohan surfaced on the Net on Thursday, launching the second celebrity sex tape blitz of the week. The video allegedly features Lohan engaged in a sex act with ex-boyfriend Calum Best. However, both Lohan and Best are denying they are the ones in the tape. This is not the first time Best has been linked to a sex tape. The model and son of English soccer star George Best previously made a cell phone video of himself having sex with two prostitutes, according to FoxNews.com.   

Gossip site TMZ.com states they have confirmed the video is not of Lohan, but instead were taken from an XTube.com video posted several months ago of an unknown couple. Though the case is likely closed on this rumor, apparently Best would have been happy to have actually had a real video of Lohan doing the nasty. His representative told In Touch Magazine, "If it was Column we would have it shrink-wrapped and put out onto a DVD for Christmas… We'd all be retired by now if that were the case."

 

>> Read more on this story.   

Celebrity Sex Tape #2 - Kristin Davis   

Steamy 'leaked' photos from a rumored sex tape featuring Sex and the City actress Kristin Davis exploded across the Net this week. The pics, featuring an attractive brunette with a strong resemblance to Davis, allegedly originated from ex-boyfriend Eric Stapleman. Stapleman claims, according to TMZ.com, the photos were taken years ago during their relationship and he sold them because he was angry with the actress.   

   

Davis, however, has stated through a representative that the photos are not of her and there "is no sex tape." While the latest information confirms that sex tape probably does not exist, it remains to be proven definitively whether the photos, at least, might still be of Davis.

 

>> Read more on this story.

 

Patridge Says Nude Photos Were "Artistic"   

Audrina Patridge, star of the MTV reality show The Hills, had no problem in acknowledging the nude photos of her leaked online earlier this week. The nude photos, apparently taken nearly five years ago, featured Patridge topless in a skirt and fully nude in a bathtub. Patridge quickly stepped up to say the photos were indeed of her, but that she was not ashamed of them.

   

The Hills star said in a post on her MySpace page that the photos were taken when she was "just out of high school and beginning to model… I was young and very trusting of others, and I didn't know to protect myself." Although she regrets having done them, Patridge said there was nothing wrong with the photos. "I intended them to be artistic and not in any way provocative… I'm not ashamed of these photos, but I don't want my young fans to think they have to do what I did."

>> Read more on this story.   

Halle Berry Welcomes New Baby   

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on Sunday. The 41-year-old star and model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry named their newborn daughter Nahla Ariela, which roughly translates to "honeybee" and "lioness for God." Berry reportedly had not picked out a name until just before leaving for the hospital to give birth.

   

Interestingly, both the child's first and middle names are similar to characters in two Disney movies—Nala from The Lion King and Ariel from The Little Mermaid. Rumor has it this may not have been an accidental resemblance as a source close to the actress reportedly said Berry has "always been a huge fan of the Disney films," according to Stuff.co.nz.   

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Sad Goodbye to Ola Brunkert & Arthur C. Clarke   

This week, the world said goodbye to two iconic figures, one in music and one in literature.   

ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert was found dead at his home in Spain on Sunday, the victim of a freak accident. Sixty-two year-old Brunkert, who played with the band and performed on their albums, died after shattering a glass door when he fell into it. "A glass door in the kitchen of the house was shattered and it appears that this man fell through the door. He then managed to get out into the garden where he died," a spokesperson from the Civil Guard told the press.

>> Read more on this story.   

   

Legendary science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke also died this past week. Clarke died at his home in Sri Lanka from respiratory failure at the age of 90. Clarke wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books during his life and co-authored the film 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick. Although Clarke was never open about his sexuality, he has long been believed to be one of the most prominent gay writers of the last century.

>> Read more on this story.   

R.E.M. Singer Michael Stipe Talks About Being Gay   

Although technically R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe has been out as a gay man for nearly a decade, this week he decided to finally talk more publicly about his sexuality. Stipe told Spin Magazine he made the decision to 'come out' more about being gay because he recognizes "that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there."

   

Stipe said that although he has always been open with his band members, family and friends, he previously believed being vocal about his sexuality wasn't all that important. Now, however, he says he understands why the GLBT community needs public figures to embrace their sexuality openly.

>> Read more on this story.   

Sarah Jessica Parker Bashes Maxim   

Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker came out swinging this week at Maxim magazine for naming her the #1 "Unsexiest Woman Alive" on a recent list. Second on the list was Amy Winehouse, trailed by Madonna, Sandra Oh and Britney Spears. Although the Maxim poll was published way back in October, Parker has apparently been holding a grudge about it for some time.

   

In a recent interview with Grazia magazine, Parker slammed the magazine, saying "Do I have fake boobs, Botox and big lips? No. Do I fit some ideals and standards of some men writing in a men's magazine? Maybe not… It's so brutal in a way, so filled with rage and anger, so it was surprising to me that more people didn't talk about the providence of it, that it's coming from these men." Parker continued, "I played a lot of parts, women that are really interesting and attractive to me. Obviously someone thinks I'm palatable to some degree."

Oprah Facing Multiple Lawsuits   

Daytime talk show diva Oprah Winfrey is defending herself in two new lawsuits against The Oprah Winfrey Show in the news this week. One lawsuit is from a woman who claimed she suffered "severe and permanent injuries" after being trampled when the audience rushed for seats during a taping of the show. Orit Greenberg is seeking over $50,000 in medical fees and other damages. Greenberg claims she was pushed down a flight of stairs after show crew told audience members they could pick their own seats for the taping and a mad stampede ensued for the choicest seats.

   

The other pending lawsuit comes from a woman who claims she was the one who came up with the idea for Winfrey's new hit show, Oprah's Big Give. Darlene Tracy claims the idea for the show was stolen from a reality program proposal she sent to Oprah's company in 2005. She claims she spoke several times with an executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show about the proposal around a show called The Philanthropist, but eventually was told they would be passing on the series. However, Tracy claims that only a year later, Winfrey launched the idea for Big Give—which she claims is basically the same as her proposed idea. A representative for the company said the claims were "without merit."

Read more on this story.   

Amanda Overmyer Exits Idol with Class   

Rocker girl Amanda Overmyer was voted off American Idol this week, but unlike some other vanquished contestants, she seems to be taking the loss in stride. Overmyer told Entertainment Weekly after leaving the show that she hopes she can make a career out of singing, but "this will not be the unicorn I will chase for the rest of my life."

   

Overmyer said she will see where her stint on Idol takes her, but that she is prepared to return to her life as a nurse who performs on the side if that's what ends up happening. When EW stated that usually ex-Idol contestants go on and on about how they are "destined to be a star," Overmyer replied frankly, "I hate those fucking answers. Are you kidding me?"

Ann Turner © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Tabloid outs Hollywood star's mother

Teen star Mandy Moore is no doubt familiar with being scrutinised under the spotlight, but now it is her mother, Stacy Moore, who is squirming under the microscope.

According to a report by the National Enquirer, momma Moore is a lesbian and left her former husband for tennis pro Claudette Laliberte. The couple have allegedly been dating since 2006.   

Although any bit of gossip reported in the Enquirer deserves to be taken with a truckload of salt, this particular rumour might just be right on the money.

Stacy Moore and Claudette Laliberte are supposedly living together and are not denying they are a couple.

When asked about the relationship, Laliberte simply replied, "It's nobody's business why we're together."

The relationship between Stacy Moore and Laliberte apparently came to light after intimate emails were discovered between the two women by one of Laliberte's lovers.

That's right, Laliberte apparently is getting some on the side as well as setting up house with Mandy's mom.

The Enquirer story says momma Moore left Mandy's father for the svelte tennis professional.

A former newspaper reporter, Stacy has three children with former husband Don Moore; Mandy, Scott and Kyle.

Reps for Mandy Moore have so far refused to comment on the story, which is hardly unexpected.   

A search for more information on Laliberte revealed that she may have recently worked as professional tennis coach for the City of Sedona Parks and Recreation.

Several sites also turned up home phone numbers and email addresses for Laliberte, which we will not reprint.

Someone should tell Laliberte that if you are going to shack up with a famous person's mother in a lesbian affair, you should be more careful about how your personal info is spread over the Net.

Ann Turner © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Clooney plays with us, we love it

There are gays that like twinks, and there are gays that like a more mature gentleman.

Mr George Clooney, of course, is one of the most attractive 'older' men there is, and this week he has commented on rumours he might be a friend of Dorothy.

But not for our George the angry denial. The notorious ladies man joked with Esquire magazine that he is "gay gay" but not "gay gay gay."

"I show him a site called "George Clooney is GAY GAY GAY."

"Clooney starts to read:

"George Clooney's life parallels Rock Hudson's way too much to be a coincidence. He was married once to some unknown actress --

"He breaks off: "No, Talia is not unknown. She's actually very successful. . . ."

"He keeps reading:

"He dates beautiful women and nothing happens and they disappear into oblivion.

"That's because I eat them."

"So . . . any truth to this?

"No. I'm gay, gay. The third gay -- that was pushing it."

Clooney, 46, who is starring in the upcoming Leatherheads, which he also directed, produced and wrote, has long been a supporter of liberal causes such as gay marriage.

He also voiced a gay dog for South Park. 

He is a United Nations envoy.

Earlier this year he missed out on the Oscar for Best Actor for Michael Clayton (pictured). 

Read the rest of his interview with Esquire here.

Lesbian gossip from LA!

Let's keep our fingers crossed she's a baby dyke, Juno's Ellen Page teased the trendy True Religion jeans and retro-print t-shirts right off legions of Lesbos on Saturday Night Live this week.   

Too clever to actually cop to any actual girl on girl, Ellen bid a fond flip of the bird to the likes of the Village Voice's gossip monger extraordinaire Michael Musto, who recently opined about Ellen in his column, "Is she or isn't she?" The cutest, smartest actress to dissemble about her bedroom proclivities since one Ms. Jodie Foster, Ellen's fluid sexuality worked Musto into a good ole gay boy froth.   

"I mean, come on already, is she??? You know, Lebanese! She certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy," Musto wrote.   

And this week, Little "E'"—Ellen Degeneres is "The Big E"—responded to the rumors on Saturday Night Live with a hilarious riff on what the masses consider all things Lesbo. For the skit, Ellen's thinly-veiled SNL alter ego returned home to her boyfriend—Andy Samberg—all butched out following an illuminating night at a Melissa Etheridge concert. Just to hear eat-her-with-a-spoon adorable Ellen utter the words, "Indigo Girls, Closer I am to Fine, great big lezzy jam and athletic girls in tank tops," was enough to send budding gay girls and dyed-in-the-wool dykes alike into fits of longing.

But the proverbial icing on Ellen's cake was when she dropped to her back with her legs in the air and queried, "Why does everything have to have a label? Why can't I just hug a woman with my legs in friendship if I want?"

Following up on Tina Fey's SNL mantra for Hillary—Seven Sisters—Clinton that "Bitch is the new black", Tina's erstwhile partner in crime, Amy Poehler, donned her Hillary drag for a skit that eviscerated the Democratic debate process in which Darryl Hammond, impersonating Tim Russert, interrogated Hillary while tossing Nerf balls at Barack—one minute I'm welcoming an anti-gay activist and gospel singer to my campaign and the next I'm sending Valentine's to the queer community—Obama.   

The real Hillary turned up with an "editorial response," and parried with her twin, Poehler. When little Amy asked, "How's the campaign going?" Hills responded with a very funny faux mélange of self-confidence and paranoia. "It's going great. Great. Why what have you heard?"

With support from Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Cher and Tina Fey, Hillary—it's small wonder her initials are HRC—has got the queer vote sewn up. But I'm not holding my breath for card carrying Texan and Ohioan homos to tip the scales away from her rival.

However, Jack Nicholson has thrown his support behind Hills with a video endorsement of famous Jack lines edited from his films.
   

Oddly there's no ax wielding, "Here's Johnny," in the mix.   

With the gay vote and now the pervy old man demographic behind her, she might just pull it out of the bag—or at least she'll be able to open a porn shop.

Nice girl Natalie Portman publicly objectified her on-screen sister—and by sister I don't mean the kind you find romping in the nude at the Michigan Women's Festival.

 

 

 

On the subject of her The Other Boleyn Girl, corset-clad co-star Scarlett Johansson, Nat said, "I would really want to grab Scarlett's breasts. She's got beautiful ones." Touché Natalie….touché. It doesn't take a Harvard grad to figure that out.

The student of gay girl action in Cruel Intentions, raven-haired Selma Blair, has become the teacher. She's signed on to play it gay on the big screen in Driving Lessons.

 

Selma's slated to play a "sarcastic lesbian schoolteacher" who gets down and dirty with a female student, played by Californication's Madeline Zima.

 

I can see it now, in a Notes on a Scandal-esque backlash, the politically correct among us will skewer the film on the basis that it makes all Lesbos look like predators, while privately drooling over the match-up.

Let's hope Selma gets a filthy tagline similar to her "f*** me…" in Todd Solondz's button pushing Storytelling.

Edgy teen star turned loopy shoplifter Winona Ryder's decided to tie the knot with Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett.   

Perennial groupie and erstwhile slut, the gal who won our hearts with Heathers, has dated Johnny—Wino Forever—Depp, Matt Damon, Adam Duritz, Dave Grohl and others… many others.   

Congrats to Winona and Blake, but it's a tad bittersweet when a tried and true pill-popping kleptomaniac with a slutty edge settles down.

Like the famous blackout that spawned the Baby Boom generation, everyone was getting laid on The L Word this week... except there wont' be much baby-making going on there. A heat wave and rolling blackouts made the L Word ladies—and Max—mucho horny.   

Locked in an elevator, Bette continued to do what she does best and cheat on her partner Jodi—albeit with her ostensible "lobster" for life, Tina.

Shane scratched her straight-girl itch with Molly and Max got it on with a boy… P.S.—if anyone knows where to get a t-shirt like the one Shane was wearing that was emblazoned with the names of my fave director Michelangelo Antonioni's films, this trendy little film history nerd would be eternally indebted.   

Life imitated art this weekend when Lesbian Turkish Oil Wrestling became a palpable reality—at least for the greased up girls in the ring.

That's right. OurChart.com teamed up with West Hollywood promoter Linda Fusco and Fuse events to allow Weho women to objectify and ogle slippery women. The L Word's breakout star of the season, Elizabeth Keener, was on hand to do her best Dawn Denbo and play ringmaster. Sadly, "lover Cindy" was nowhere in sight.   

Joining cutie-pie Keener was Clementine Ford, Cybill Shepherd's real daughter and Molly on the show, and the genius who directed the oil-wrestling episode, Angela Robinson.   

A perfectly wholesome evening of boozing and ogling half-naked chicks in a crammed, sweat-soaked environment, was had by all.   

Check out babe Bridget McManus, the next big thing in lesbian comics on AfterEllen.com's weekly "Brunch with Bridget," in which a P.J.-clad and bed-bound Bridget rubs elbows and pillow fights with lesbian luminaries.

This week's episode features Bridget and my friend, the very funny Andrea Meyerson, Laughing Matters series director and founder of the wildly successful lesbian outings—not outing—group, Women On A Roll. After this Vlog, gay girls nationwide will want to pillow fight—or pillow bite—with funny girl Bridget.   

     

Missed the last "Media Blender"? Read it here!

 

Tracy Gilchrist © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Justin Trousersnake? Apparently not.

It was too good to be true.

It appears that the impressive bulge sported by Justin Timberlake in the upcoming Mike Myers movie The Love Guru is the real deal.

His outrageous performance as a Speedo-clad, handlebar-moustached hockey player, Jacques Grande looks to be pretty amusing, but an insider spoke out about his sizable crotch, telling Page Six:

"It's embellished, but that's the character."

Check out the trailer and Justin's funny turn:

The girl with the unusual Susan

We don't normally pay that much attention to film PR stuff here at PinkNews.co.uk Towers - we rarely have time for pursuits as proletarian as the cinema - but this one caught our imagination.

It is called TEETH and here is the pitch:

"High-school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the most active member of the local chastity group.

"Her task is made even more difficult by a string of male admirers and her bad-boy stepbrother’s provocative behaviour at home.

"However, previously a stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn makes a shocking discovery about herself. At first terrified and upset, she soon realises she has a formidable defence mechanism to ward off unwanted advances – a set of teeth where you’d least expect…"

YIKES!

It will be coming to a screen near you on June 6th.

Those Oscar winners in full

The 2008 Academy Awards are over and all the golden statues have finally been handed out.

No Country for Old Men took the win for Best Picture, while the film's directors Ethan Coen and Joel Coen won for Best Achievement in Directing.

Diablo Cody was the ingenue story of the night, winning the Best Original Screenplay award for Juno.

Some surprise winners included Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton and the documentary short film Freeheld.

 

Check out the complete list of winners below!

 

2008 Oscar® Winners

 

Best Picture:   

• No Country for Old Men

 

Achievement in Directing:   

• Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men

 

Best Original Screenplay:   

• Juno

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:   

• No Country for Old Men

 

Best Actress:   

• Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose

 

Best Actor   

• Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood 

 

Best Supporting Actress:   

• Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

 

Best Supporting Actor:   

• Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men

 

Achievement in Cinematography:   

• There Will Be Blood

 

Achievement in Sound Editing:

 

• The Bourne Ultimatum

 

Best Foreign-Language Film:   

• The Counterfeiters (Austria)

 

Best Original Song:   

• "Falling Slowly" - Once

 

Achievement in Sound Mixing:   

• The Bourne Ultimatum

 

Best Original Score:   

• Atonement

 

Best Art Direction:   

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

 

Best Documentary Feature:   

• Taxi to the Dark Side

 

Best Documentary Short:   

• Freeheld

 

Best Animated Feature Film:   

• Ratatouille

 

Achievement in Makeup:   

• La Vie En Rose

 

Achievement in Costume Design:   

• Elizabeth: The Golden Age

 

Best Animated Short Film:   

• Peter & the Wolf

 

Best Live-Action Short Film:   

• Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

 

Best Visual Effects:   

• The Golden Compass

Ann Turner © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Lohan's Marilyn impersonation dismays critics

Bloggers and Hollywood gossip gabbers have been spewing their collective two cents across the web about a nude photo shoot featuring Lindsay Lohan as a modern Marilyn Monroe.

The photo spread appears in the 2008 Spring Fashion issue of New York Magazine.

 

The magazine cover and pictorial spread recreates the famous Marilyn Monroe "Last Sitting" shoot by famed photographer Bert Stern in 1962.

Stern also shot the Lohan pictorial, in which the actress appears topless in a blonde wig, naked except for a bit of sheer fabric.

 

A slew of celebrity gossip blogs and Hollywood commentators are skewering both the actress and the photographer for participating in the controversial shoot.

Some say Lohan posing as Marilyn is a degradation of the memory of the legendary film icon.

 

In her blog on the Los Angeles Times web site, Monica Corcoran says "Stern should be ashamed of himself for aping such a memorable photo shoot for a 21-year-old actress whose most notable credit is Herbie Fully Loaded."

 

EGossip.com called the photos nothing more than "a desperate plea for publicity" and eFluxMedia.com's Jane Ivory said:

"Sorry Lindsay but you don't even come close" to the "beautiful memory of a true Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe."

GlossLip.com posted that "these photos made me feel kind of nauseous. I can't believe Bert would agree to such a thing... Marilyn

"Monroe deserves to never have the dishonour of being mimicked, and certainly not by the likes of someone as young and immature as Lindsay Lohan."

 

In the New York Magazine shoot, Lohan strips down to recreate the famous photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken forty-six years ago.

Monroe died of an apparent drug overdose six weeks after the original photographs were taken. Echoing Monroe's photos, Lohan poses nude, wrapped in only a sheer scarf that at points leaves virtually nothing to the imagination.

The photo shoot took place at the Hotel Bel-Air in Hollywood on February 5th—the same location the original Monroe photographs were taken.

Lohan was excited about doing the shoot, telling New York Magazine: "I didn't have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up? It's really an honour."

Stern said he wanted to do Lohan for the shoot because he believed "she had a lot more depth to her" than it appears in "those teenage movies."

He told New York Magazine the idea for the project grew out of his interest in "controversial women… like Britney, Paris and Lindsay."
Lohan has long been a fan of Marilyn Monroe, even purchasing an apartment where the infamous Hollywood star once lived.

"If you saw my house," Lohan said, "I have a lot of Marilyn stuff."

In the New York Magazine interview accompanying the pictorial spread, Lohan compared Monroe's death to the recent tragic loss of Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger.

 

"They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone,” she said. "I sure as hell wouldn't let it happen to me."

 

For more on this story and to view a selection of photographs from the shoot, click here.

by Ann Turner
© 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Bafta winners announced

Best film
Winner:
Atonement
Other nominees:
American Gangster
The Lives of Others
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best British film
Winner:
This is England
Other nominees:
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
Control
Eastern Promises

Leading actor
Winner:
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Other nominees:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
James McAvoy - Atonement
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Ulrich Muehe - The Lives of Others

Leading actress
Winner:
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Other nominees:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Keira Knightley - Atonement
Ellen Page - Juno

Supporting actor
Winner:
Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men
Other nominees:
Paul Dano - There Will Be Blood
Tommy Lee Jones - No Country For Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Supporting actress
Winner:
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
Other nominees:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Kelly Macdonald - No Country For Old Men
Samantha Morton - Control
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement

Director
Winner:
No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Other nominees:
Atonement - Joe Wright
The Bourne Ultimatum - Paul Greengrass
The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson

Original screenplay
Winner:
Juno - Diablo Cody
Other nominees:
American Gangster - Steven Zaillian
The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
This is England - Shane Meadows

Adapted screenplay
Winner:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood
Other nominees:
Atonement - Christopher Hampton
The Kite Runner - David Benioff
No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson

Film not in the English language
Winner:
The Lives of Others
Other nominees:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Kite Runner
Lust, Caution
La Vie En Rose

Animated film
Winner:
Ratatouille
Other nominees:
Shrek the Third
The Simpsons Movie

Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film
Winner:
Matt Greenhalgh (writer) - Control
Other nominees:
Chris Atkins (director/writer) - Taking Liberties
Mia Bays (producer) - Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Sarah Gavron (director) - Brick Lane
Andrew Piddington (director/writer) - The Killing of John Lennon

Music
Winner:
La Vie En Rose - Christopher Gunning
Other nominees:
American Gangster - Marc Streitenfeld
Atonement - Dario Marianelli
The Kite Runner - Alberto Iglesias
There Will Be Blood - Jonny Greenwood

Cinematography
Winner:
No Country For Old Men - Roger Deakins
Other nominees:
American Gangster - Harris Savides
Atonement - Seamus McGarvey
The Bourne Ultimatum - Oliver Wood
There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit

Editing
Winner:
The Bourne Ultimatum - Christopher Rouse
Other nominees:
American Gangster - Pietro Scalia
Atonement - Paul Tothill
Michael Clayton - John Gilroy
No Country For Old Men - Roderick Jaynes

Production design
Winner:
Atonement - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Other nominees:
Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Guy Hendrix Dyas, Richard Roberts
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Stuart Craig, Stepheanie McMillan
There Will Be Blood - Jack Fisk, Jim Erickson
La Vie En Rose - Olivier Raoux

Costume design
Winner:
La Vie En Rose - Marit Allen
Other nominees:
Atonement - Jacqueline Durran
Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Alexandra Byrne
Lust, Caution - Pan Lai
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Colleen Atwood

Sound
Winner:
The Bourne Ultimatum - Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, Dave Parker, Karen Baker Landers, Per Hallberg
Other nominees:
Atonement - Danny Hambrook, Paul Hamblin, Catherine Hodgson, Becki Ponting
No Country For Old Men - Peter Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff
There Will Be Blood - Christopher Scarabosio, Matthew Wood, John Pritchett, Michael Semanick, Tom Johnson
La Vie En Rose - Laurent Zeilig, Pascal Villard, Jean-Paul Hurier, Marc Doisne

Special visual effects
Winner:
The Golden Compass - Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Wood
Other nominees:
The Bourne Ultimatum - Peter Chiang, Charlie Noble, Mattias Lindahl, Joss Williams
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Tim Burke, John Richardson, Emma Norton, Chris Shaw
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - John Knoll, Charles Gibson, Hal Hickel, John Frazier
Spider-Man 3 - Scott Stokdyk, Peter Nofz, John Frazier, Spencer Cook

Make-up and hair
Winner:
La Vie En Rose - Jan Archibald, Didier Lavergne
Other nominees:
Atonement - Ivana Primorac
Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Jenny Shircore
Hairspray - Judi Cooper Sealy, Jordan Samuel
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Ivana Primorac, Peter Owen

Short animation
Winner:
The Pearce Sisters - Jo Allen, Luis Cook
Other nominees:
Head Over Heels - Osbert Parker, Fiona Pitkin, Ian Gouldstone
The Crumblegiant - Pearse Moore, John McCloskey

Short film
Winner:
Dog Altogether - Diarmid Scrimshaw, Paddy Considine
Other nominees:
Hesitation - Julien Berlan, Michelle Eastwood, Virginia Gilbert
The One And Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island - Charlie Henderson, James Griffiths, Tim Key, Tom Basden
Soft - Jane Hooks, Simon Ellis
The Stronger - Dan McCulloch, Lia Williams, Frank McGuinness

The Orange Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Winner:
Shia LaBeouf
Other nominees:
Sienna Miller
Ellen Page
Sam Riley
Tang Wei

Academy Fellowship
Sir Anthony Hopkins

Outstanding British contribution to cinema
Barry Wilkinson

Gyllenhaal's cheeky lesbian ad supports writers

She wowed the sisters with her performance in the film Secretary, and now top actress (and sister of Jake) Maggie Gyllenhaal has shown her support for the striking screen writers of America.

In a short but sweet movie, Mags and two other girls arrive at a hotel room, only to discover they are all dating the same man.

The man in question, cheekily called Ampitepa" (Alliance of Motion Picture & TV Producers) has stood them all up.

So the ladies decide that “they dont need him after all” and get intimate on the bed.

You can watch the short at http://www.speechlesswithoutwriters.com

 

 

 

Oscar nominations - usual suspects

Them Oscar nominations are in - not an out gay in sight but lots of Brits. It is still not what effect the ongoing writer's strike will have on the ceremony, which takes place on the 24th February in LA's Kodak Theatre, presented by lovely John Stewart off the Daily Show.

Earlier this month the Golden Globes ceremony was cancelled as apparently people can't write their own jokes.

BEST ACTOR

George Clooney - Michael Clayton

Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tommy Lee Jones - In The Valley Of Elah

Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Casey Affleck - The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War

Hal Holbrook - Into The Wild

Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Julie Christie - Away From Her

Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose

Laura Linney - The Savages

Ellen Page - Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There

Ruby Dee in - American Gangster

Saoirse Ronan - Atonement

Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone

Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Persepolis

Ratatouille

Surf's Up

BEST DIRECTOR

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly - Julian Schnabel

Juno - Jason Reitman

Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy

No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson

BEST PICTURE

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

No Country For Old Men

There Will Be Blood

BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)

Atonement - Christopher Hampton

Away From Her - Sarah Polley

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly - Ronald Harwood

No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson

BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)

Juno - Diablo Cody

Lars And The Real Girl - Nancy Oliver

Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy

Ratatouille - Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco

The Savages - Tamara Jenkins

Lesbian watch: Denise Van Outen

Denise Van Outen, who is dating Any Dream Will Do winner Lee Meed, says that she thinks women make better kissers than men because they lack stuble.

But she will disappoint some girls, she says she isn't a lesbian.

Van Outen who kissed a woman as part of her portrayal of Maureen in the musical rent, is quoted on MonstersandCritics as saying: "I played Maureen the bisexual so I got to kiss girls and run around on stage grabbing t**s. A whole new experience for me.

"Kissing girls is much softer. You don't get all that stubbly chin thing. T**s are not doing it for me though. People are always shocked because they expect me to be really naughty, but I've never fancied a woman and it has just reconfirmed to me that I only love boys."
(photo:BBC FAIRY TALES - THE EMPRESS'S NEW CLOTHES)

Zac Efron is the coolest

You may only know him as the boyish star of High School Musical, but in an all-grown-up interview with Details magazine young Zac Efron has shown some true class.

As well as looking very attractive, he has given a really dignified response to gossip-slag Perez Hilton, probably the least-liked gay man in the world.

Hilton has a bit of an obsession with Efron’s sexuality. When asked about it, the 20-year-old star said:

“I know it’s very addictive to read that kind of stuff. It’s entertainment. Perez has obviously struck a chord in the public eye.

“He’s doing something right. That deserves admiration. I think he does a great job. Um—' He pauses for a moment, then adds, 'Honestly, if the worst he can say about me is that I’m gay, then I think I’ll be fine. I can handle it.”

Oh, you go Zac!

Watch this delightful clip that accompanies the interview:

(Check out his comments about Leonardo DiCaprio!)

Read the whole interview here.

Lesbian gossip from La La Land.

Will the writers’ strike smash the celebrity oglers dreams of a Cate Blanchett / Angelina Jolie celebratory kiss at the Golden Globes?

Did Posh Spice pull a Showgirls on Baby Spice? Legendary Liza takes a holiday tumble off a Swedish stage, Paula Abdul has an APB out for some missing urine.

Hillary Swank, Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon romp around as BFF’s and adorable Ellen Page gets knocked up.   

 

 

 

 

 

If nobody’s there to fondle the Golden Globes, will they even bother to put on a show? The Hollywood Foreign Press—whatever the f*** that really is—has announced the slew of oddball nominees for its annual celebrity pat yourself on the back throwdown and Oscar precursor.

While the Golden Globes, which melds television and film personalities in a more laidback and boozy setting than the Academy Awards, has become the second High Holy Day of the year for this celebrity gawker, but the blasted writers’ strike promises to muck up the awards.

A few anti-scab celebs who possess strange qualities called honour and integrity have vowed not to cross the picket line, over the backs of the geek squad—the writers—to get to their awards.

Among these goody-two shoes celebs is the inimitable Ms. Glenn Close, nominated for a Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series-Drama (that’s a mouthful) for her butch turn as take-no-prisoners attorney Patty Hewes on the lesbo-centric Damages. Damn her scruples!   

   

A hodge-podge of stars landed nods this year including some gay gal goddesses.

With the writers on strike and the show’s content sure to suck, I say the nominees join the L Word gang and engage in Turkish Oil Wrestling to determine the winner. Everybody wins!   

Imagine Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama—whew—nominees, Empress Angelina Jolie of the Holy Order of Hot Lips for A Mighty Heart, Queen Cate Blanchett for The Golden Age, Lesbian Vigilante Jodie Foster for The Brave One and stunning stick figure Keira Knightley for Atonement, topless and oiled up vying for their awards.

Dame Julie Christie is also nominated for her turn in Away From Her, but at Julie’s age, she’s safer playing the ring girl.

While Jodie and her truckers drawl v. bad-assed Angelina seems like the ultimate match-up, Keira might just Bend it Like Beckham and pull a surprise win on this one.   

Comedic and Musical Queens of the Red Carpet will include film fest darling Amy Adams for Enchanted, little newcomer Nikki Blonski as the big-screen Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, Merchant Ivory darling gone awry Helena Bonham Carter for Sweeney Todd, Marion Cotillard for her uncanny Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose and baby—not sure if she’s a dyke but she’s damned cute—Ellen Page for Juno.   

   

Other possible oil wrestling match-ups include the Best Performance / Television-Drama gang that pits Patricia Arquette for Medium, Glenn Close, Minnie Driver for The Riches, Edie Falco for The Sopranos, Sally Field for Brothers and Sisters, Holly Hunter for Saving Grace and Krya Sedgwick for The Closer, against one another.

Looking very much like an Emmy’s redux—and I can’t recall who won the Emmy.

Probably a yawn, Grey’s yawn Anatomy, yawn boring broad.

Fingers crossed for Ms. Minnie on this one. But the nominated babes alone constitute a win. In a town like Hollywood where the women are put out to pasture at 35, this category rife with sexy older women and MILFs alike.

Funny ladies who garnered nods from the Foreign Press include the hottest MILF on the block Mary Louise Parker in Weeds, hot nerds America Ferrara for Ugly Betty and Tina Fey for 30 Rock, the cat with nine lives Christina Applegate for her smash hit Samantha Who? and Anna Friel for the darkly comic Pushing Daisies.   

Look for more red carpet eye candy and estrogen heavy hitters in the Best Support