Melania Trump, Morrissey, Straight People, Classic Rock, Italy, Carrie Fisher, Cher ‘Mamma Mia’: HOT LINKS

Melania Trump, Morrissey, Straight People, Classic Rock, Italy, Carrie Fisher, Cher ‘Mamma Mia’: HOT LINKS

MELANIA TRUMP. She’s here to save Puerto Rico with a new PSA.

LUNCH CHAT. Mitch McConnell warned Trump that Steve Bannon could undermine his agenda: “The Kentucky Republican warned that Bannon’s push to find challengers for GOP lawmakers could make it difficult to accomplish key agenda items, like tax reform, as some of the Republicans Bannon is targeting are key supporters. ”

A SEVERED TONGUE. What Carrie Fisher sent a Hollywood producer who sexually assaulted her friend.

FORBES LIST. Trump drops 92 places on richest people in America list: “A tough New York real estate market, a costly lawsuit and an expensive presidential campaign all contributed to the declining fortune of the 45th president. After months of digging through financial disclosures and public property records and conducting dozens of interviews, Forbes now estimates POTUS’ net worth at $3.1 billion, down from $3.7 billion a year ago. He drops to No. 248 in the ranks of the richest people in America, down from No. 156 in 2016.”

CherMAMMA MIA. Cher has signed on for the sequel to the hit movie.

$238,000. How much Trump’s campaign has paid the lawyers for Donald Jr.: “Trump’s campaign made two payments — one in mid July, the other in early August — to the law firm of Alan S. Futerfas, a lawyer for the president’s son, who is facing scrutiny over a 2016 meeting he had with a Russian lawyer while seeking damaging information about Democrat Hillary Clinton. The third-quarter disclosures with the Federal Election Commission didn’t specify what the legal expenses were for.”

WEINSTEIN MADE UUS PAY ATTENTION. Now what?

John McCain spurious nationalismSPURIOUS NATIONALISM. Trump hits back at McCain: “Well it’s a shocker,” the president told radio host Chris Plante in response to a question about McCain’s comments. “Yeah, well I hear it and people have to be careful because at some point I fight back. You know, I’m being very nice. I’m being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.”

NYT. The gay architects of classic rock: “One of the 20th century’s most powerful creations was the rock star: the preening, erotic god of guitar-fired defiance. But those who embodied that character didn’t spring from nowhere. Managers groomed them and shaped them, and in the classic rock era those managers were often gay men.”

ITALY. Two men arrested for gang attack on gay couple in Bari. Four are still at large. “The couple, both 30, a Bari man and his Spanish boyfriend, were attacked by a gang of seven young people. Police have so far managed to indentify three of them, the two arrested Tuesday aged 19 and 20 plus a minor who has been placed under investigation. The attack took place in front of many beachgoers.”

REESE WITHERSPOON. A director sexually assaulted me at 16: “I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault, and I don’t speak about them very often. But after hearing all the stories these past few days and hearing these brave women speak up tonight, the things that we’re kind of told to sweep under the rug and not talk about, it’s made me want to speak up and speak up loudly because I felt less alone this week than I’ve ever felt in my entire career.”

OH STRAIGHT PEOPLE. Ellen launches a new segment.

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Morrissey “Spent the Day in Bed”.

TOO HOT TUESDAY. John Kim, captain of the swim team at Virginia Military Institute, who just came out.

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Man Tortured His Girlfriend’s 8-Year-Old Son to Death Because He Thought Boy Was Gay: Prosecutor

Man Tortured His Girlfriend’s 8-Year-Old Son to Death Because He Thought Boy Was Gay: Prosecutor

Gabriel Fernandez

An L.A. County District Attorney says 32-year-old Isauro Aguirre fatally tortured his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son because he thought the kid was gay. The boy’s mother, Pearl Fernandez, was an accomplice and also faces trial.

KTLA reports:

Prosecutor Jon Hatami detailed the acts allegedly committed by Aguirre and the boy’s mother, Pearl Fernandez, who also faces trial.

Hatami explained that the Palmdale couple beat Gabriel, bit him, burned him with cigarettes, whipped him, shot him with a B.B. gun, starved him, fed him cat litter, and kept him gagged and bound in a small cubby until he was found on May 22, 2013. The couple called first responders to treat Gabriel, but that was only in an attempt to mislead, the prosecutor said.

“They didn’t call 911 to help Gabriel. They called 911 to cover up what they did,” Hatami said. “The defendant lied on the 911 call.”

The boy was hospitalized and died two days later…

…The prosecutor said that Aguirre made Gabriel dress up in girls’ clothes and go to school. He added that Aguirre just didn’t like Gabriel and thought the boy was gay, and that was his motivation for his treatment of the child.

Aguirre’s attorney John Allan said that his client never intended the boy to die, a claim the prosecutor disputes:

“He is guilty of murder, but the special circumstance alleged, that he intended kill Gabriel with the infliction of torture, is not true,” Allan said.

“Despite the horrific abuse, Isauro never intended for Gabriel to die,” he said.

Hatami showed the jury text messages between Aguirre and the boy’s mother and said they prove the couple conspired together to torture and kill Gabriel. The texts also show that the couple tried to conceal their actions against the boy in order to prevent anyone knowing that they were harming him, according to Hatami.

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Three New ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Clips, and a New Trailer Offer More of the Gay Armie Hammer Film: WATCH

Three New ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Clips, and a New Trailer Offer More of the Gay Armie Hammer Film: WATCH

call me by your name clips

Here is a new UK trailer for the upcoming film Call Me By Your Name starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, and three new clips. If they keep releasing them at this pace we’ll be able to piece the whole film together.

RELATED: Armie Hammer Goes Viral in New ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Clip Which Shows He Can Dance to Anything: WATCH

In the adaptation of the Andre Aciman novel, Hammer plays a 24-year old American scholar who spends the summer of 1983 in Northern Italy, and attracts the eye of a 17-year-old Jewish-American boy, played by Timothee Chalamet, in the home where he stays.

A new clip featured in British GQ:

Take a look at this exclusive clip from #CallMeByYourName.
In cinemas on 27th October. t.co/7ry7rLXEOJ pic.twitter.com/uG8wPuCyjo

— British GQ (@BritishGQ) October 16, 2017

RELATED: ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Director Luca Guadagnino is Already Planning a Sequel to the Armie Hammer Film

A new UK trailer:

ok finally the uk ad of call me by your name came up and I screen recorded it ?pic.twitter.com/euHR9MdTul

— *nicole* (@billsgrove) October 15, 2017

And two additional clips:

 

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