Feminist Icon Mary Tyler Moore Dead at 80
The beloved actress passed away Wednesday morning in Connecticut.
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Former intern claims Piers Morgan used him to try to frame gay youth group for pedophilia
Former intern claims Piers Morgan used him to try to frame gay youth group for pedophilia
Author and journalist Benjamin Myers has claimed that as a News of the World intern, Piers Morgan tried to use him to help frame a gay youth group for pedophilia.
Myers made the claims on Twitter, where he said that as a teen he was paid to spy on the group for gay teens, as Morgan was convinced there must be something more sinister going on than just offering support to vulnerable LGBTQ youth.
Related: CNN gives Piers Morgan the boot, a look back at the host’s most memorable LGBT moments
He said Morgan assumed they must be involved in a child sex ring, despite having no evidence.
“And so that night I found myself in a youth club playing the role of a sexually confused 16-year-old who had just moved into the area and was seeking some friendship and, hopefully, according to my new reporter friend, the advances of some predatory nonce,” Myers wrote on Vice. “Ideally they would want to pass me and – fingers crossed – some of the younger members of the youth club into the grubby mitts of a child abuse ring.”
When Myers returned, assuring that the lesbian couple who ran the group were good people, Morgan was apparently unconvinced.
“No, no, no, I said. They’re good people. Really nice. Well-meaning,” Myers wrote. “You’ll have to go back next week, I was told. There must be something shady going on. We’ll find something. Don’t you worry. We’ll find something on them.”
Myers continued:
“Like a young eager news hound out to make his name I went back again. When the night was over and the reporter and photographer had enjoyed another curry, we met in the nearby pub…Was there even a hint of underage gay sex, they asked again. Can we frame the lesbians? No, I said. And by this time I had decided that even if there was anything dodgy I was not about to tell these cretins so that they could splash it all over the pages of a newspaper that would be read by three million people come Sunday. That would help nobody but them and Murdoch’s accountants.”
It was at that point that Myers decided he wanted nothing to do with the paper.
While the tweets appear to have been deleted, Pink News grabbed screenshots before they were taken down, which you can see below.
Morgan is upset at Ewan McGregor for skipping out on an interview with him, hence Myers’ last tweet about him being “one of the good guys.”
McGregor backed out of an appearance on “Good Morning Britain” when he realized Morgan was the presenter, objecting to his calling those at the recent Women’s March on Washington “rabid feminists.”
Related: Is a bread roll the source of Piers Morgan’s feud with Madonna?
Years after Myers realized Morgan’s willingness to sink low to get a story, Morgan would be forced to admit to having knowledge that he ran stories based on phone hacking while working as the paper’s editor, a scandal which ultimately shuttered the 164-year-old publication for good.
TV Icon Mary Tyler Moore Dead at 80
TV Icon Mary Tyler Moore Dead at 80
Television and cultural icon Mary Tyler Moore has died at the age of 80, the Washington Post reports:
Mara Buxbaum, a representative of Ms. Moore, announced the death in a statement. The actress, who had a home in Greenwich, struggled with diabetes much of her life and underwent brain surgery in 2011 to remove a benign tumor from the lining tissue around her brain.
Ms. Moore, who played the spunky housewife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the 1960s and an idealistic career woman on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s, was an actress of dynamic range and accomplishment. She won a 1980 Tony Award for playing a quadriplegic sculptor in “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” and an Emmy for her role as a villainous orphanage director in the TV production “Stolen Babies” (1993). She was nominated for an Oscar as the frosty matriarch in “Ordinary People” (1980), Robert Redford’s directorial debut.
Photo: Mary Tyler Moore by Ben Merk/Anefo via Nationaal Archief is licensed under CC 3.0 unported.
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Comcast's Xfinity On Demand to feature GLAAD Media Awards nominees
Comcast's Xfinity On Demand to feature GLAAD Media Awards nominees
Comcast
Comcast just announced partnership with GLAAD to curate more than 100 titles of GLAAD Media Awards-related content on Xfinity On Demand. Starting on January 31, in conjunction with the announcement of this year’s 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees, newly announced nominees, as well as previous award recipients will become part of the growing list of titles within the recently created Xfinity LGBTQ Film & TV Collection.
“Through this partnership, we’re giving these LGBTQ storytellers access to a platform that has the potential to reach tens of millions of viewers,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President & CEO. “We applaud Comcast for creating an experience that puts a spotlight on LGBTQ content and we’re proud to add our GLAAD Media Awards-related titles to their growing library of shows and movies.”
The Xfinity LGBTQ Film & TV Collection is available on the television, web and mobile devices. The new GLAAD content can be accessed by saying “GLAAD Media Awards” into the voice remote. The collection will include: Milk, Carol, Tangerine, The Imitation Game, The Kids Are Alright, Concussion, Beginners, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bound & Gods and Monsters, and Brokeback Mountain.
The 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards will take place on April 1 in Los Angeles and on May 6 in New York. The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBTQ community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD’s year-round work to amplify stories from the LGBTQ community that accelerate acceptance.
January 25, 2017
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www.glaad.org/blog/comcasts-xfinity-demand-feature-glaad-media-awards-nominees
Let's Make Fun of Betsy DeVos
Let's Make Fun of Betsy DeVos
This Youtube star lampoons the highly unqualified Education Secretary nominee.
Donald Trump just issued a press release boasting about how great he is; internet begs to differ
Donald Trump just issued a press release boasting about how great he is; internet begs to differ
So Donald Trump ordered his Press Secretary to draft up a totally pointless press release about how great he is and post it to the White House’s official webpage this morning.
“For immediate release,” the presser reads. “Praise For President Trump’s Bold Action.”
Related: Trapped in a glided cage: Does Melania Trump deserve our sympathy?
What follows is a bullet point list of a dozen or so tweets, quotes, and excerpts from various media outlets — including two from Fox News — that have said favorable things about Donald Trump since he took office less than a week ago.
The press release is meant to offer “alternative facts” to counter all the negative “fake news” that the mainstream media has been reporting about the Snowflake-in-Chief over the past five days.
The quotes include words like “incredible,” “phenomenal,” “a winner,” “positive,” “inspiring,” and “optimistic.”
Related: Activists climb crane near The White House to deliver not-so-subtle message to the masses
Unfortunately for Team Trump, nobody’s falling for his latest exercise in self-aggrandizement.
Check out how Twitter has been responding…
this is the strangest thing trump has done yet, can you imagine being so insecure you put out a press release of compliments about you??? t.co/BRbGDg2EQM
— Tyler Oakley (@tyleroakley) January 25, 2017
A few days after complaining about the media’s negativity, this appears on the White House website
t.co/ZBQLszDBI3— Liz Moyer (@LizMoyer) January 25, 2017
Bizarre press release direct from the White House
Shows twice daily with Saturday matinees #Trump t.co/vZ5z2GHcJ8— Amiable CDN (@amiableCDN) January 25, 2017
Trump cites praise from, wait for it, the lying, dishonest, biased press. t.co/s7tpm3IRNT
— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) January 25, 2017
The White House press office is now acting like a movie poster for itself, cherry picking favorable quotes. t.co/zP0d0g3Bs5
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 25, 2017
You GUYS. The White House just sent a press release of news clips that show how much the press lervz Donald Trump.
Here’s the whole thing. pic.twitter.com/66PgkTNWD9
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) January 25, 2017
They’re pandering to his need for applause and praise. Next, clapping when he goes potty and smarties for reward.t.co/UaoVNUsTDT
— MJ Overby (@taxvictim) January 25, 2017
This is a) weird and b) “Trump has done a lot” is not necessarily praise… t.co/fna0Ae67AK
— Jessica Abrahams (@jiabrahams) January 25, 2017
Wow, @realDonaldTrump was right! You can’t believe the media. (check out today’s insecurity briefing)t.co/4bDenJYjhV
— Jason Underwood (@JG_Underwood) January 25, 2017
Donald Trump now has the White House press office to amplify praise of himself pic.twitter.com/Z2vknnTlzI
— Oliver Milman (@olliemilman) January 25, 2017
I’m sorry, did they get hacked? Or are we now judging our leaders like we judge our Broadway plays? t.co/BT2YoPLWxt
— Gen (@Hautegeekgen) January 25, 2017
Queer Eye, Black Site Prisons, 1984, Madonna, Mary Tyler Moore, Sergei Millian, Louis Tomlinson: HOT LINKS
Queer Eye, Black Site Prisons, 1984, Madonna, Mary Tyler Moore, Sergei Millian, Louis Tomlinson: HOT LINKS
STOCK MARKET. Dow hits 20,000.
MARY TYLER MOORE. Hospitalized…said to be in ‘grave’ condition.
BEST SELLER THIS WEEK. George Orwell’s 1984. “First published in 1949, Orwell’s classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak” topped the best-seller list of Amazon as of Tuesday evening.”
BLACK SITE PRISONS. Trump prepping executive order advancing CIA’s ability to reopen torture sites: “President Trump’s three-page draft order, titled “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants,” and obtained by The New York Times would also undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Mr. Obama put in place in response to policies of the Bush administration.”
THE WALL. Trump signs order.
BREAKING: Trump signs immigration actions to build border wall, says, `We’ve been talking about this right from the beginning’ .
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 25, 2017
WHITE SUPREMACIST AGENDA. Trump lays it out.
FEDERAL LAWSUIT. Trump foreign profits in violation of Constitution: “Eisen helps run the non-partisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, which filed the suit in federal court in New York, calling President Trump’s continued ownership of his vast business empire a violation of what’s called the “emoluments clause” of the U.S. Constitution.”
THE VIOLENT DISRUPTER? Federal prosecutors slap felony charges on 200+ inauguration protesters.
IT’S BACK. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is getting a reboot.
LAWSUITS. Drag star Jimmy James sues over Marilyn Monroe stamp. “The image on the stamp of James as Marilyn in a pair of glasses seems to be taken from a 1991 ad James did for the brand L.A. Eyeworks.”
GOLDEN SHOWERS. Russian businessman said to be source of Trump dossier claims: “Sergei Millian, a naturalized American citizen who most recently headed a group called the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, said he was in Moscow at the time the dossier accuses the billionaire American businessman of being involved with Russian prostitutes. Millian claims to have helped Trump recruit Russian investors, and he posted pictures of himself attending several black tie events during last week’s inauguration.”
COMING SOON. Glee co-stars are set to reunited in new musical episodes of Supergirl and The Flash.
PHILADELPHIA. Bisexual man attacked in alleged hate crime near Temple University: “The student was walking with a group of friends on Bouvier Street near French when he said an intoxicated man walked up to the group with two women. The intoxicated man berated the student’s friends, then walked over to him and pushed him from behind to the ground and kicked him in the back, yelling “f****t” at him.”
MADONNA. Singer hopes to adopt two more children from Malawi: “A government spokesman says the singer appeared before a High Court judge on Wednesday. Spokesman Mlenga Mvula says it is now up to the court to decide whether to grant the adoption order. The singer will have to wait a week before hearing the decision on her application.”
PALM SPRINGS. Two men plead guilty to felony charges for attacking gay married couple: “Christopher James Carr, 31, and Keith Edward Terranova, 36, admitted assaulting George and Christopher Zander in a Palm Springs parking lot on the night of Nov. 1, 2015. Carr pleaded guilty to assault and admitted a hate crime allegation and was immediately sentenced to four years in state prison, while Terranova pleaded guilty to assault and received a three-year probationary term. The plea agreements were reached as their trial date neared.”
KELLYANNE CONWAY’S STAND-UP ROUTINE. Don’t quit your day job.
MOO. Cows have a good scratch:
JUST HOLD ON. Louis Tomlinson and Steve Aoki bring their hit to The Tonight Show.
HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Danny Daniels.
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Scarf Season
Scarf Season
jessicajane9 posted a photo:
Navy jeans, white top and patterned scarf with ankle ankle boots
A Sundance feature that includes genuinely hot gay sex scenes? Yes, indeed.
A Sundance feature that includes genuinely hot gay sex scenes? Yes, indeed.
This the first we’ve heard of Beach Rats, a film The Daily Beast is hailing as “the rare gay drama, and maybe the next wave of queer storytelling, that makes you feel uncomfortable.”
Related: The Most Realistic Gay Sex Scenes In Film — Reader’s Picks [NSFW]
Eliza Hittman’s followup to It Felt Like Love is set in Coney Island and centers around Frankie, a teenager who compulsively cruises gay hookup sites that stars model-turned-actor Harris Dickinson, who reportedly gives “one of the most grueling, sensual, and captivating star turns at Sundance.”
“And,” The Daily Beast is eager to point out, “certainly one of the most enticingly naked.”
Well, we’d by lying if we said we weren’t curious.
Related: Well. So Here’s Every Sex Scene In “King Cobra.” (And There’s Plenty.)
As The Guardian reports, “Hittman was inspired to make Beach Rats after seeing a shirtless selfie online, captivated by the fine line between heteronormative bravado and homoeroticism.”
“I was completely happy to be part of something that did normalize male nudity,” Dickinson, who’s straight, tells The Daily Beast.
I was talking to someone the other day who asked about it, and I said to them, “Have you seen how much female nudity there is throughout the history of film and TV?” So yeah, I was comfortable with it, and I’m quite comfortable with my sexuality and my body.”
There’s no official trailer yet, but you can at least get acquainted with Dickinson through this “selfie interview”:
Boy George Talks About George Michael’s Later Years and Their Reported Feud: WATCH
Boy George Talks About George Michael’s Later Years and Their Reported Feud: WATCH
Eighties pop icon Boy George spoke with Watch What Happens Live! host Andy Cohen about his fellow ’80s pop icon, the late George Michael.
Boy George said that in the early days they were competitive if only because of a few similarities:
“In the early days, we were competition to each other. We were both called George, both made soul music. So in the early days, we were really in competition. Then sort of later on, I started to really appreciate him as a musician — you know, right around “Faith”. I started to really appreciate his talent, you know?”
Later, the two were reported to be feuding over Michael’s hesitancy to come out of the closet. Boy George said everyone was doing it:
“It wasn’t really a feud. In the ’80s, everyone — Pete Burns, me, we all used to like, be really bitchy about each other. It’s like the thing that you did in the ’80s in those pop magazines. Now it’s the Housewives who do it! Nowadays it’s a bit more respectful but in the ’80s, you just said vile things about everyone.”
And he said Michael never allowed people to get too close to him, so he knew about as much about his “personal issues” as anyone else:
“I read stuff in the papers, obviously. But I never knew kind of really what…he was very kind of…kept people out, he was quite private.”
Watch:
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Boy George Talks About George Michael’s Later Years and Their Reported Feud: WATCH
