'Moonlight' Expands Into 1,500 Theaters This Weekend
Fresh off an Oscar win, Moonlight will be expanding nationwide.
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/3/04/moonlight-expands-1500-theaters-weekend
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Obama Responds to Trump Wiretapping Charge
Obama Responds to Trump Wiretapping Charge
President Obama’s spokesman Kevin Lewis has responded to Donald Trump’s charges of wiretapping.
Trump accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the election, ripping out a series of paranoid, hysterical tweets. The tweets seemed timed to distract the media from investigations of his administration’s potentially treasonous contact with Russians prior to the U.S. election.
Said Lewis in a statement:
“A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
Additionally Obama’s former deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes responded to Trump via Twitter early Saturday:
No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. t.co/lEVscjkzSw
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017
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Yelp Will Help Users Identify Businesses With Gender-Neutral Restrooms
Yelp Will Help Users Identify Businesses With Gender-Neutral Restrooms
Yelp is making it easier for users to find businesses that have gender-neutral restrooms.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2017/3/04/yelp-will-identify-businesses-gender-neutral-restrooms
WATCH: Ryan Reynolds gives the world an eye-full
WATCH: Ryan Reynolds gives the world an eye-full
Marvel fanatics hoping for a signature post-credits tease at Logan (which by all accounts is entirely watchable) were left sitting in the dark after the film’s premiere on Friday, but that doesn’t mean they walked out disappointed.
Before the film, a comedic teaser for the much-anticipated Deadpool 2 was debuted. And just like magic, the Superman-spoofing scene is now available for your home viewing pleasure, courtesy of Ryan Reynolds’ YouTube account.
Related: Ryan Reynolds Is Totally Open To Getting Deadpool A Boyfriend
As you can see below, there’s a whole lot to look forward to:
Recording Artist and Music Exec Tommy Page Dead at 46 of Apparent Suicide
Recording Artist and Music Exec Tommy Page Dead at 46 of Apparent Suicide
Singer-songwriter and music industry executive Tommy Page has been found dead of an apparent suicide at age 46, Billboard reports:
Page started his career as a recording artist for Sire Records and topped the Billboard Hot 100 with his single, “I’ll Be Your Everything” in April 1990. The song was written by Page, along with Jordan Knight and Danny Wood of Page’s tourmates New Kids on the Block. The group’s Donnie Wahlberg, along with Knight, also had a hand in producing the track.
Page later returned to NYU’s Stern School of Business to pursue his career as a music executive. He recorded nine studio albums and continued to tour throughout his career.
…”We are all mourning the loss of our friend and colleague Tommy Page,” said Billboard Entertainment Group President John Amato. “He was a magnetic soul and a true entertainer. Our thoughts are with his family.”
He is survived by his husband, Charlie, and their three children.
Page also worked for Warner Bros./Reprise Records, Billboard, Pandora, Cumulus Media, and the Village Voice at various points in his career.
Page’s “Ill Be Your Everything”:
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Nasty Wowen Project!
Gus Kenworthy’s dom top, Justin Bieber’s man-on-man action, & Matt Lister’s raw shake
Gus Kenworthy’s dom top, Justin Bieber’s man-on-man action, & Matt Lister’s raw shake
This week, Disney revealed its first officially gay character in the new Beauty and the Beast reboot, Lady Gaga confirmed she’s headlining Coachella, RuPaul dragged Seth Meyers, and the first trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9 finally hit the internet. Here’s what happened on Instagram:
Colby Melvin cleaned the pipes.
Matt Lister made a recovery shake.
What goes into your recovery shake? Scoffing blueberries while I throw mine together, I manage to cram around 4-5 portions of fruit and veg into every shake with #promaxlean #strawberry. As well as some added nuts and seed mix for fats to help me absorb as many nutrients as possible! …and incase you are wondering yes I’ve read every single one of those books front to back. Honest. ?? @maximuscle #forthefew #homeofgains #maximuscle #readingisfundamental
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Silver daddy Garrett Swann went sleepwalking.
#sleepwalking in my @bransunderwear #mybrans Thanks guys for my comfy undies!
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Moonlight‘s Ashton Sanders slipped into his Calvins.
Ashton X Calvin Klein Spring 2017 underwear campaign @calvinklein
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Justin Bieber turned 23!
He also wrestled his manager, Scooter Braun.
Pietro Boselli posed for Steven Klein.
?????? Photography @StevenKleinStudio Styling @NicolaFormichetti Collages @portiswasp1 @vman Magazine @soulartistmgmt @jasonsoul1 #ModelsOfSoul #SoulSquadWayUp
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Ricky Martin was beat.
Italian footballer Mario Balotelli woke up like this.
British model Chuck Junior hydrated.
Blake Skjellerup found his light.
Max Emerson gave up sugar for a month.
River Viiperi went to the pool.
Derrick Gordon jogged through the Castro.
Nick Cannon slipped his nips.
I think my titties is finally bigger than Black Bob’s!!! LOL ? #Ncredible #Grind 5’OCLOCK CLUB?????
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Johnny Weir reserved the hammock.
Missing Aruba in excess. Also, 4 pounds off my vacation belly! Hooray! #flashbackfriday
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Steve Grand made a new lady friend.
Made a new lady friend on a boat in Sydney. 😀 Playing 4:30 AM at @sydneymardigras after party. Tickets are selling out fast! Follow me on tour: Bandsintown.com/SteveGrand Booking inquiries? Contact: [email protected] #sydneybarbor
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Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton posed for Rolling Stone Colombia.
Eliad Cohen woke up in Sydney.
Michael Turchin launched a line of scarves.
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David Beckham flipped a pancake.
Happy pancake day kids ( And Grown Ups ) #pancakeday @gordongram
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Nick Adams found the dry goods.
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Brad Goreski and Gary Janetti considered having a baby.
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Colton Haynes was a #ProudBoyfriend.
So incredibly proud of my man @jeffleatham . His art never ceases to amaze me. It’s so fun to see how many people freak out & take pics in front of his flowers ??????? I’m such a lucky guy 🙂 #OscarWeekend #ProudBoyfriend
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Kevin Hart tried touching his toes.
Whooped my Abs ass on my lunch break today….Always grinding!!! #HustleHart #MoveWithHart
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Chris Colfer dusted Patrick Stewart.
When @SirPatStew asks for a touch up, you don’t ask questions. @ColbertLateShow
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Gus Kenworthy found his dom in Jamie Dornan.
And Olympic gymnast Samuel Mikulak injured his foot :/
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Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Swan Song, ‘Logan’ Has Its Aging Claws Out: REVIEW
Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Swan Song, ‘Logan’ Has Its Aging Claws Out: REVIEW
Hugh Jackman’s last stand as Wolverine in “LOGAN”
LOGAN, the latest and last (for now) solo Wolverine movie, was not kidding around when it opted for Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” as its trailer music. It’s not just the severity of the title, but the elegiac lyrics, and the dying man as guiding spirit / inspiration. Some trailers lie but this one spoke world-weary truth. This is exactly the kind of movie James Mangold, who also directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, delivers.
Wolverine’s mutation were never those iconic claws, which were a science experiment to weaponize him, but his ability to instantly heal which also slows down his aging process. The movie franchise got very silly about this, placing him in the civil war context in X-Men Origins as if the once feral Canadian hero was an immortal vampire rather than a mutant.
But Logan is anything but silly about aging. That is wise since this franchise is long in the tooth. What’s more Hugh Jackman does age as he is not, alas, a mutant — unless you count bonafide movie star charisma as a superpower, which: fair point!
So Logan hits Jackman with harsh light, exposes the wrinkles, grays the hair, and piles on the scarring and ‘seen better days’ makeup. Logan jumps ahead to the future of 2029 in which everything in the US has gone to total shit (this seems less like science fiction than probability given Trump’s America) and our world, particular for mutants, is unforgiving like a dystopian western. Logan is not healing quickly like he used to and is hiding decrepit Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) from authorities.
At first Logan doesn’t believe his former Professor that young mutants exist again (the movie is thankfully low on backstory, expecting you to imagine things that came between the films). But soon our familiar heroes are on the run with a mute young girl who is suspiciously like Wolverine himself, complete with claws and murderous rampages.
The story of Logan is actually fairly clever, dropping us into a plausible dystopia and shoving our faces in terrifying ‘What If?’ scenarios, which stack on top of each other like a Jenga tower ruled by Murphy’s Law. What, for example, would happen if the world’s most powerful psychic mind was experiencing mental deterioration and his seizures could incapacitate and even kill everyone around him? The film’s best action sequence, in which Wolverine has to agonizingly make his way through a crowded hotel and soldiers before Xavier accidentally kills everyone, is terrifying and superbly executed.
One of the film’s boldest moves, and its only arguable nod to “fun” is a meta riff on comic lore and superhero movies. Old X-Men comic books come into the plot and Logan has nothing but disdain for them, writing off superhero stories as escapist fantasy. Despite impressively smart elements like this, the movie falls into many usual traps of the genre: the villain is unsatisfying and ill-defined despite Boyd Holbrook trying his damnedest to zjoosh his role up on charisma alone; there are sacrificial characters of color (sigh) – why must black characters always die in genre films?; and the action scenes become repetitive.
This action sequence is purposefully out of focus, but it’s a good one.
About those action scenes…
It doesn’t take long to realize that Mangold and team are as thirsty for blood baths as Countess Báthory and are going for the hardest of possible “R” ratings from the MPAA. Gone are the days when the X-Men movies pretended that Wolverine wasn’t a mass murderer (he doesn’t even try to leave survivors in any action situation now). This is the first X-Men movie in which people have arteries. There will be (lots of) bloodletting.
If the violence wasn’t enough to ensure critical favor for the film’s “seriousness,” Logan and Xavier both use “F**k!” in seemingly every other sentence as if to proclaim that they’re inside a very serious IMPORTANT movie for adults. The “R” seems to be winning unanimous praise from critics but I can’t personally hop on this bandwagon. Brutality, like any other noun, is not qualitative. It cannot make any work of art serious or important. It can only make it brutal.
I don’t have children but weirdly I’ve never felt older while watching a movie. You can say all you like, as people have to me when I’ve expressed this concern, that “this movie isn’t for kids!” but tell that to the hordes of children who love superheroes and will surely find a way to see it themselves. I literally have never seen a movie this violent that wasn’t part of the slasher genre and I see a lot of movies.
All that said, Logan is not just the latest but the greatest Wolverine movie. Sure, sure, the bar was very low after the appallingly joyless X-Men Origins: Wolverine and better but disposable follow-up The Wolverine but that’s still good news. A quick look around at early reviews suggests that Mangold has made a masterpiece. Like so many things connected to the world’s current favorite movie genre, this is more hype than reality. Still, even if the movie doesn’t live up to the fannish excitement, it is wonderful that Hugh Jackman got a swan song worth his time as he says goodbye to the character he’s played for nearly his entire career. For all of its flaws, this sometimes inspired hellish neo-Western is worth seeing (for those with strong stomachs).
There won’t be a sing-a-long version of Logan (that wouldn’t be sober and important enough!) but there should be:
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that’s real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that’s real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
Freed finally from those Adamantium claws, we can only hope that the next act of Jackman’s career will make up for lost time and allow him to explore his range as an actor. He’ll embrace his song and dance side in The Greatest Showman this Christmas and let’s hope for a comedy and a romantic drama follow on its heels. There’s more to movie life than superheroes and berserker rages. In other words: RIP Wolverine but long live Hugh Jackman.
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It’s time to stop joking and start taking asexuality seriously
It’s time to stop joking and start taking asexuality seriously
A 2016 review published by the University of British Columbia confirms that asexuality isn’t some bizarre form of “psychopathology” or the result an extremely low libido as famously diagnosed by zoologist and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Instead, researchers say, “available evidence points to asexuality being best conceptualized as a unique sexual orientation.”
In other words: Having no sexual orientation is itself a sexual orientation. Just like being gay, straight, bisexual, pansexual, etc., etc., etc. Now, one asexual man has opened up to HuffPost about his experiences surviving in a very non-asexual world.
“To me, asexuality has always meant simply a lack of sexual attraction,” Ace (not his real name) says. “There definitely are shades of asexuality. … There are asexuals who identify as sex-repulsed, sex-favorable, or any where in between.”
Related: Guys share what it’s like to be gay and asexual
Ace explains that many people treat asexuality, in general, the same way they do bisexuality, like it’s just a phase, or a joke, or some sort of character flaw.
“Asexuality is often portrayed as a joke or juvenile or as a result of another ‘undesirable’ quality in a character,” he says. “As I get older, I also experience a lot of young adults making rude or ill-informed comments about people who might not like sex. I realize that a few ignorant comments aren’t so bad, but they do hurt just a little.”
Since it’s not taken seriously, Ace says, there are a lot of misunderstandings surrounding it.
“I’ve read a lot of articles, opinion pieces, and social media posts telling asexuals that we are wrong or ill or confused,” he says. “I’ve had one person in my personal life try to convince me otherwise, but they turned out to be a very unsupportive friend in many other instances.”
He continues: “Ultimately, it’s not up to any person to make the label for another. Sexuality can be a very private thing; we can each label our own if we so choose, but I don’t think it’s fair to label anyone else.”
Related: Model Austin Armacost comes out as asexual
Another common misconception Ace hears is that asexuality is a result of some sort of negative sexual experience in a person’s life.
“Just like any human experience, there are an infinite amount of ways asexuality can come to be,” he explains. “Sometimes a person might experience a traumatic event, or have a hormonal imbalance, or any other cause, but it also happens without stimulus as well. In all cases, it doesn’t matter how the asexuality ‘came to be,’ if a person identifies as asexual, then you should take their word for it.”
So where do we go from here? The answer is simple: Education, of course!
“Just to learn as much as you can,” Ace says. “There are millions of different ways to experience life, and it is difficult for a lot of people to empathize with an experience they don’t like or understand. Knowledge and understanding are the keys to tolerance.”
Related: Asexuals are tired of your crap, demand greater visibility
h/t: HuffPost
