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It’s a new episode of UNHhhh! The show where Trixie Mattel and Katya talk about whatever they want…because it’s their show! On this episode, Trixie & Katya go outside the World of Wonder studio to ask the people of Hollywood Blvd deep and inspiring questions about the human experience.

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Here we go! Five days to go until the big season two premiere of Transcendent on FUSE! Can you STAND IT? Are you waiting on PINS AND NEEDLES? I recently sat down with Executive Producer Nikki Calabrese and asked her what we can expect from the luscious ladies of AsiaSF this time around. The answer? DRAMA! DRAMA! AND MORE DRAMA!

JAMES ST. JAMES: Can you tease a little fun stuff that happens this season to whet our whistle?

NIKKI CALABRESE: Let’s see… Last season, everyone talked about how Nya had a wall up and we didn’t get to know a lot about her. This season, we learn much more about her and what makes her tick. The stakes are really high for her this season and she gets really emotional, which she didn’t really do last season. She becomes vulnerable, as a manager, as the leader of the team, and breaks down – which shows a completely different side to her. It’s surprising and really, really interesting.

Another big thing that happens this season was our trip to the homeless shelter. We found out that Bionka was a drug addicted prostitute on the streets. We see this redemption story in an episode basically with her. And she’s so beautiful, strong, and incredible… She was just like “Yeah, I used to work these streets, I was addicted to drugs, I was homeless.” Its cool to be right there and see…

JAMES: … how she’s grown and how she’s changed. Interesting.

NIKKI: Yes, exactly. And then she breaks off from the group. This season we kind of see the girls as a fractured family and the question becomes if they will stay together. Its sort of like “what will happen to these girls?” “What’s their future?” Bionka is one of the girls who will tease the idea that maybe she doesn’t need to be a part of this anymore. She’s going to embark on her singing career, she hired a manager, she does a radio show – so you’re going to see her stepping away from the group and try to do her own thing.

It’s not necessarily a question that will be answered this season but, as an audience, you will start to wonder will they all stay together? Is this long-term thing?

JAMES: So what are the differences between the first season and the second? It sounds like we’re getting to know the girls a little bit more separately. Is that fair to say? In the first season we saw  the group dynamic. Now they are sort of fracturing off, and we’re getting to know their back stories a little more and seeing their own personal struggles.

NIKKI: Right, exactly. We’re getting a lot more in depth with what their lives are like. And what drives them and who they are. There’s a lot less footage from in the club this season, and a lot more outside of the club. We spent season 1, rightfully so, with “what is this place?”, “why are they here?” and “who are they?”…

JAMES: Establishing them as an ensemble…

NIKKI: Yeah, that’s the deal. Now all of that is changing…

JAMES: So tell me a little more about the challenges you faced this season and how shooting it was different?

NIKKI: The challenges this season, other than their crazy schedules, was that they were more aware this season. They are aware of their dynamics. As much as the they trusted us and loved the final product, they were still very anxious, right out the gate. They were aware that they were on a show, and they were aware that there was so much story to get in, in a short amount of time, and so everybody was kind of clambering to make sure we were aware of where the conflicts were. So none of the conflicts were made up, EVER, it was never bullshit, but it was like “oh you’re here, well let me just shovel my entire life story into 30 seconds”. So it was like the first week of shooting, everyone was very much hyped and anxious to get their stories out. So it was real. But they were great once we got into a rhythm.

JAMES: I can’t wait! Thanks, Nikki!

Transcendent Season 2 premieres Wednesday, June 8th on FUSE (11:30! Set your DVRs!)

Behind-the-scenes photos by Nikki Calabrese

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Red Lake premiered at the LA Film Festival tonight as one of five fantastic short films in the Documentary Shorts Program, and it was a family affair between director Billy Luther, his cast, and WOW Co-Founder’s Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.


With director Billy Luther and teacher Missy Dodds.

A powerful and poignant piece about community, violence, grief, and coping.

Watch the Q & A on our Facebook page!

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Angelina Jolie
Bar Rafaeli
Brandon Jenner
Bruce Dern
Dr. Ruth
El DeBarge
Evan Lysacek
Horatio Sanz
Izabella Scorupco
Julie White
Keith David
Michele Hicks
Michelle Phillips
Mollie King
Nikki Costa
Noah Wyle
Parker Stevenson
Rob Huebel
Russell Brand
Sam Harris
Scott Wolf

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June 4, 1907– Rosalind Russell:

“Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.”

Along with most gays my age, I simply must adore her, at the very least, for bringing all of us: Sylvia Fowler, Ruth Sherwood, Mame Dennis, Momma Rose and my favorite Mother Superior in film history.

Rosalind Russell was stylish, expressive, versatile, witty and smart. She was one of the best and busiest actors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Her career stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s and it encompassed all genres, but I especially appreciated her special talent for comedy, sophisticated or slapstick.

My favorite of her film roles was as Cary Grant’s foil, the fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in Howard Hawks’ classic rat-a-tat screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940). The very best of the six different film adaptations of the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Broadway hit Front Page (1928), this one with Russell playing a role specifically written to be played by a man. What other female actor could pull-off this character with such authority and abandon, playing an ace reporter who can trade wisecracks with the best of the boys in the newsroom?

But, most gay people hold Russell on the highest of Gay Icon pedestals for her definitive portrayal of Mame Dennis in what may be the gayest film of all time, Auntie Mame (1958). I caught it for the umpteenth time just last month. I always think I don’t need to watch the classic film one more time and then I come upon it while channel surfing and I get sucked right back into the madcap mayhem.

Russell won five Golden Globe Awards, a record at the time. She won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Ruth in the scrumptious Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green musical Wonderful Town (1953) on Broadway. Unbelievable, Russell never won an Academy Award, but she was nominated for My Sister Eileen (1942), Sister Kenny (1946), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) and Auntie Mame. She was given the prestigious Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy for her work raising funds and awareness for research and treatment of Rheuamatoid Arthritis from which she suffered so terribly.

Russell was born into a big Catholic Connecticut family. She studied at Marymount College in NYC, and at the American Academy Of Dramatic Arts.

After finding work as a fashion model she started her stage career in the 1920s and she appeared in summer stock productions and minor roles in Broadway plays before Hollywood wooed her first with a contract with Universal Pictures before moving over to the number one studio, MGM.

She made her first film in 1934 with a prestige role in Evelyn Prentice opposite William Powell and Myrna Loy. During the 1930s Russell worked hard, appearing in films of all stripes and sometimes dubious quality, until the studio brass finally realized that she was clearly made for comedy, with her expressive eyes and limber body. She often seemed to give performances that threatened to go way too over the top, but she would skillfully rein it all in, coming off as original, charming and very, very funny. Still, for most of her first decade as a film actor Russell was mostly given the projects that Myrna Loy tossed aside.

Her first truly great role was as Sylvia Fowler, the bitchiest of the bitches in The Women (1939), directed by gay George Cukor, a role she had to fight vigorously to win from the reticent director. In her memoir Life Is A Banquet (1977), Russell claims that Cukor kept asking for a bigger and more caustic performance, but she was afraid of making her all female co-stars unhappy. She did manage to take the focus away from professional scene stealers Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Paulette Goddard, sometimes simultaneously. The film was a critical and box-office success. It boosted Russell’s career and brought her a reputation as one of the best comic actors in the biz.

The 1940’s were her most prolific period for film work, but as roles for older females grew fewer (she was only in her 40s) Russell returned to the Broadway stage in the 1950s and she found unexpected success in musicals, reprising her earlier film role in My Sister Eileen in a new musical version of the story, now titled Wonderful Town. She continued doing stage work, the occasional television appearance, or sometimes a supporting role in a film such as the school teacher in Picnic (1955), adapted from the play by gay writer William Inge.

Then along came that role to end all roles in the long running stage hit Auntie Mame adapted from the popular novel by gay writer Patrick Dennis. In a rare move by Hollywood executives, she was allowed her to repeat the role in the film version in 1958, directed by gay Morton DaCosta. Russell’s Auntie Mame is the definitive Auntie Mame.

Russell returned to films during the 1960’s, giving spry, smart performances as a lady of a certain age in A Majority Of One (1961) and especially in Gypsy (1962), royally pissing off Ethel Merman who originated the role on stage. Raising the ire of Merman was a frightful thing. There has been a great deal of discussion among hard core musical theatre types (like me) about the casting of Russell in the film version of Gypsy, long considered Merman’s greatest triumph. But for me, Merman’s special gifts never came across well on screen and Russell’s Mama Rose has the wit, bite and emotional range that work well on film, although she is no Streisand.

Russell wrapped up her long career in one of my favorite nun flicks (& I am a sucker for stories about holy sisters), The Trouble With Angels (1966), along with its sequel Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968). Catholic educated Russell gave good nun.

Unusual for a figure in show biz, Russell married just once, to Danish-American producer Frederick Brisson, whom she met through their mutual pal Cary Grant. Merman referred to Brisson as “The Lizard Of Roz”. Their marriage lasted 35 years ending with her final bow in 1976, taken by that damn cancer. She was 69 years old when she went. She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, with of view of the former MGM lot.

“Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.”

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Muhammad Ali, the self-proclaimed “Greatest of All-Time”, is dead.

Ali died yesterday at a Phoenix hospital, where he had spent the past several days being treated for respiratory complications. Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman said,

“After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening.”

According to NBC News,

Ali had suffered for three decades from Parkinson’s, a progressive neurological condition that slowly robbed him of both his verbal grace and his physical dexterity. A funeral service is planned in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay on Jan. 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, to middle-class parents, Ali started boxing when he was 12, winning Golden Gloves titles before heading to the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where he won a gold medal as a light heavyweight.

He turned professional shortly afterward, supported at first by Louisville business owners who guaranteed him an unprecedented 50-50 split in earnings. His knack for talking up his own talents — often in verse — earned him the dismissive nickname “the Louisville Lip,” but he backed up his talk with action, relocating to Miami to work with top trainer Angelo Dundee and build a case for getting a shot at the heavyweight title.

As his profile rose, Ali acted out against American racism. After he was refused services at a soda fountain counter, he said, he threw his Olympic gold medal into a river.

Recoiling from the sport’s tightly knit community of agents and promoters, Ali found guidance instead from the Nation of Islam, an American Muslim sect that advocated racial separation and rejected the pacifism of most civil rights activism. Inspired by Malcolm X, one of the group’s leaders, he converted in 1963. But he kept his new faith a secret until the crown was safely in hand.

That came the following year, when heavyweight champion Sonny Liston agreed to fight Ali. The challenger geared up for the bout with a litany of insults and rhymes, including the line, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” He beat the fearsome Liston in a sixth-round technical knockout before a stunned Miami Beach crowd. In the ring, Ali proclaimed, “I am the greatest! I am the greatest! I’m the king of the world.”

The new champion soon renounced Cassius Clay as his “slave name” and said he would be known from then on as Muhammad Ali — bestowed by Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. He was 22 years old.

The move split sports fans and the broader American public: an American sports champion rejecting his birth name and adopting one that sounded subversive.

Ali successfully defended his title six times, including a rematch with Liston. Then, in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, Ali was drafted to serve in the U.S. Army.

He’d said previously that the war did not comport with his faith, and that he had “no quarrel” with America’s enemy, the Vietcong. He refused to serve.

“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, some poor, hungry people in the mud, for big powerful America, and shoot them for what?” Ali said in an interview. “They never called me nigger. They never lynched me. They didn’t put no dogs on me.”

His stand culminated with an April appearance at an Army recruiting station, where he refused to step forward when his name was called. The reaction was swift and harsh. He was stripped of his boxing title, convicted of draft evasion and sentenced to five years in prison.

Released on appeal but unable to fight or leave the country, Ali turned to the lecture circuit, speaking on college campuses, where he engaged in heated debates, pointing out the hypocrisy of denying rights to blacks even as they were ordered to fight the country’s battles abroad.

“My enemy is the white people, not Vietcongs or Chinese or Japanese,” Ali told one white student who challenged his draft avoidance. “You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. You won’t even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs and you want me to go somewhere and fight but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.”

Muhammed Ali was 74. (via NBC News)

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After winning the GOP nomination for President, there have been concerns that major GOP donors wouldn’t be supportive of douchebag Donald Trump. But the founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, says he’s ready to do whatever it takes to stop Hillary Clinton!

Marcus wrote a piece for RealClearPolitics endorsing Trump, and slamming President Obama.

“As a backer of former Republican presidential candidates, I now stand in support of Donald J. Trump because the fate of this nation depends upon sending him, and not Hillary Clinton, to the White House.

I know Donald Trump, but we’re not close friends. However, I believe he will begin on Day One undoing the damage done by President Barack Obama. I stand ready to help him at every turn.

Like many, I am deeply concerned about the US Supreme Court. When Trump recently released his list of potential appointees, I grew confident in his resolve to keep our court balanced. Even more important: Clinton will push the court leftward for generations. She must be stopped.

I genuinely believe that if we to started The Home Depot today, we would fail because of the hurdles government, especially the current administration, places in front of small business owners.

Make no mistake, Republicans who refuse to stand behind their party’s nominee are electing Clinton, whether they cast their ballots for her or not. I have a message for the #NeverTrump crowd: Enough already. Donald Trump is our presumptive nominee and it is time to get over wishing it were not so. If you don’t, change your social media hashtag to #HillaryGOP.“

The old white farts are scared shitless of another President Clinton, aren’t they? I always like Lowe’s better, anyway.

(via The Politcal Insider)

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We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! Beck‘s brilliant new song “WOW” featuring the lyrics “WOW!/ It’s like right now/ It’s like WOW!” may be the best thing I’ve heard all summer.

It’s totally the best song I’ve heard named WOW since Kylie Minogue’s “WOW”!

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“Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d ‘handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.’

But what made The Champ the greatest—what truly separated him from everyone else—is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing.

Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing. But we’re also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time.

In my private study, just off the Oval Office, I keep a pair of his gloves on display, just under that iconic photograph of him—the young champ, just 22 years old, roaring like a lion over a fallen Sonny Liston. I was too young when it was taken to understand who he was—still Cassius Clay, already an Olympic Gold Medal winner, yet to set out on a spiritual journey that would lead him to his Muslim faith, exile him at the peak of his power, and set the stage for his return to greatness with a name as familiar to the downtrodden in the slums of Southeast Asia and the villages of Africa as it was to cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden.

‘I am America,’ he once declared. ‘I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.’

That’s the Ali I came to know as I came of age—not just as skilled a poet on the mic as he was a fighter in the ring, but a man who fought for what was right. A man who fought for us. He stood with King and Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn’t. His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today.

He wasn’t perfect, of course. For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved. But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes—maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves. Later, as his physical powers ebbed, he became an even more powerful force for peace and reconciliation around the world. We saw a man who said he was so mean he’d make medicine sick reveal a soft spot, visiting children with illness and disability around the world, telling them they, too, could become the greatest. We watched a hero light a torch, and fight his greatest fight of all on the world stage once again; a battle against the disease that ravaged his body, but couldn’t take the spark from his eyes.

Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it. We are all better for it. Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family, and we pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace.”

—President Barack Obama

Cassius Clay by Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Night of a Thousand Judys the annual LGBT Pride Month benefit concert is a celebration of Judy Garland.

Now in its sixth year, it features Garland-inspired performances by Lillias White, Annie Golden, Alice Ripley and Nathan Lee Graham, among other Broadway and TV stars.

Proceeds from the event, which is hosted by writer-performer Justin Sayre, will benefit the Ali Forney Center, a New York advocacy group dedicated to homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. Artists Michael Wertz, Vanessa Bell, Pablo Lobato and my old pal, Jody Morlock are among those to put their creative spin on La Garland for a benefit auction.

Night of A Thousand Judys plays New York’s Kaufman Music Center on June 6. For more information go here. Let’s see Judy in A Star is Born sings The Man That Got Away. This is the final version, but it was shot three different ways. Watch.

Vanessa Bell

Jody Morlock

Pablo Lobato

Michael Wertz

(via Huffington Post)

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Arched eyebrows, neon Nagel-esque decor and sequins…Iconique is everything awesomely 80s and MORE!!! The LA-based trio ( brothers Eric & Greg Promani, and frontman Leo Paparella) has its influences correctly referenced in Disco, Duran Duran and tragically dark grooves…think David Bowie and Michael Jackson’s synth-poptastic foster babies. Oh, and their Facebook gender status is ‘Plural (neutral)’…I’m totally in!

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Brian McKnight
Chad Allen
Claus Norreen
Colm Wilkinson
Jeff Garlin
Kathleen Kennedy
Kenny G
Laurie Anderson
Lisa Cholodenko
Marky Mark
Mike Fisher
Nick Kroll
Pete Wentz
Rick Riordan
Ron Livingston
Stefania Sandrelli
Suze Orman

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June 5, 1974– Chad Allen:

“I have long held the belief that those of us who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender have been given an extraordinary gift. We are forced to go inside ourselves and determine, once and for all, that we are good. If we have anything at all to give the world, we are going to find it somewhere along that journey. We are going to show it to the world in a declaration of brilliant defiance against society and its rules. We only go looking because our sexuality forces us to. How lucky are we? But, it’s easy to forget the pain that forces us to go searching in the first place.”

In the terrifically engaging, creative 1980s television series St. Elsewhere, one of the main characters has a young son who was autistic. In the 1988 series finale, The Last One, it is revealed that all the storylines had occurred inside the head of a young autistic boy. That boy was played by the charming Chad Allen Lazarri. As a child actor, Allen went on to work on television series: Our House (1986-88), My Two Dads (1987-1990), and most notably, Dr. Quinn-Medicine Woman (1993-98), none of which I have ever seen, although My Two Dads is a title that might work well for my porn career.

In 1996, at just 21 years of age, Allen was outed in the tabloid The Globe which published photos (sold to the paper by his then boyfriend) of him kissing another man in a hot tub at a party. He was pushed from the closet, but since that time Allen has been an outspoken advocate for Gay Rights.

Allen:

“The letters started coming in from gay people: ‘Oh, my God’, ‘I had no idea’, ‘Just knowing helps me so much’. It helped me, actually, all this pressure I was getting to identify myself, identify myself. It just meant so much to know I wasn’t going through it alone either. After all, what is it about loving men? There’s so much attached to it, but at the end of theday, it’s love. I’ll take it. Whatever it looks like.”

I was especially taken with his strong work in the film Save Me (2007) opposite Stephen Lange, Judith Light and handsome out actor Robert Gant. Developed and produced by Allen himself, Save Me explores the life of a young gay drug and sex addicted man who is forced into a Christian run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his “gay affliction”, where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit. The film does not take the easy way out and it avoids clichés. Lang is excellent, and Light gives an astonishing performance of understated depth and nuance. Gant and Allen play very moving and complicated characters, plus they have their shirts off in several scenes.

With Third Man Out (2005), Allen began portraying Donald Strachey, a gay private detective in a partnered relationship. This became a series of television films based on the Strachey novels by Richard Stevenson: Shock To The System (2006), On The Other Hand, Death (2008) and Ice Blues (2008). Allen says that Strachey is the first gay character he had ever played on screen.

Allen was in a relationship with actor Jeremy Glazer who he met on the set of Save Me.  Allen is best friends with one of my most favorite people, the delicious Philip Mershon, the owner/director of the fabulous Felix In Hollywood Tours. Felix knows his Hollywood History!

Last year, Allen posted a YouTube video commemorating the end of his own website and saying that he has been studying to be a clinical psychologist.

“It’s easy, especially speaking politically, to want to clarify things as gay or straight, homosexual or bisexual or heterosexual. But I’ve always felt like the word homosexual described a person about as well as the word Republican or Democrat. It’s a nice little label to give somebody, but what does it really tell you about them? Nothing.”

Allen claims that he was a child actor, but not really a child star, although his face was all over teen fan magazines in the 1980s. He loved performing, but he also fell in to some of the child actor clichés:

“There was a lot of partying. After high school, I was living by myself in a motel. I had worked all my life, so I had my own money, and things were not so fabulous at home. I mean, I used to go there a lot to eat. They’d make sure I’d come over for food. We’re Italian, so there’s always a lot of eating and arguing. It was good to be away from it, but I kept drifting back for the food. I was a pretty crazy 17 year old, partying, never taking care of anything. My rebelliousness was a big issue.”

He is now clean and sober. I very much admire his talent, activism and good looks. I hope he is happy helping others. Allen’s outing seemed especially cruel and unnecessary,  but it was also a major moment because it was one of the first times a young actor was revealed to be gay while they still had that “teenage heart-throb” thing going on and Hollywood could tell that it didn’t hurt his work or the series he was working on, and that was real progress.

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Is Adele secretly married to Simon Konecki?

The living room has beamed ceilings and it comes with four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a swimming pool and gazebo. Two fun features you don’t get in every joint in Beverly Hills; a treehouse and outdoor train set, which she and her partner, Simon Konecki, might want for their 3-year-old son, Angelo. Momma is still on a sold-out worldwide tour, but this luxe L.A. mansion seems like the perfect place to come home to once the tour wraps in November. One presumes the decoration and renovations will be rushing toward that deadline so they can spend the holidays in their new home. Oh, you want to know the price? $9.5 million.

(via Domino)

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Last November Alex Korchinski did something genuinely nice. His past good deeds range from serving dinner at a homeless shelter, handing out balloons at a children’s hospital, and baking cookies for his neighbors. Here’s what he did,

“I think I’m a fairly nice person (after all, I am Canadian). But I’m not that nice. What kind of effect would extreme altruism have on my well-being?

The answer, it turns out, was a huge one.

I decided that I would give one stranger $100 and 100 strangers one dollar and then compare the two. Which one did I feel was more impactful?

On November 5th, I withdrew $100 from the ATM and gave it to the first person I saw. It was surreal, for both him and I. The exact word he used was ‘dumbfounded.’ He then told me that he was using the money to buy a PO box (of all things). It was unequivocally the nicest thing I’d ever done for a complete stranger, and it felt pretty good.

I wasn’t sure if giving 100 strangers one dollar could measure up. But a couple weeks later, I decided to try.

Thank the heavens for the people of San Francisco and for Greg and his camera… [the] beautiful people of San Francisco taught me that happiness spreads. That kindness begets more kindness.

That a smile, a handshake, a hug are worth so much more than money.”

Watch.

Via Observer)

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Yes, the real identity of elusive graffiti artist Banksy could finally be revealed at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. The artist from Bristol, who keeps his true identity secret, is set to attend the ceremony at The Savoy Hotel this afternoon in London after being nominated for his theme park Dismaland in the visual arts category.

The controversial attraction, which we reported on here, opened in a derelict lido in in Somerset last August. It featured migrant boats, an anarchist training camp and a Cinderella paparazzi car crash installation. It was later moved to Calais to provide shelter for migrants.

Comedian Eddie Izzard will accept the already-announced outstanding achievement award for his lifetime contribution to arts. Previous winners include JK Rowling, Sir Richard Attenborough, The Who and artist Tracey Emin. The awards will be broadcast on Sky Arts in England on June 8.

(via Daily Mail)

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Simmons posted this pic on Facebook on June 2 with the caption,
” Do these tattoos make me look tough?

Richard Simmons was hospitalized for “bizarre” behavior on Friday, June 3, only three months after his friends spoke out publicly with concerns that he was being held hostage at his Hollywood Hills house.

Simmons was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. after someone at his home

“became sufficiently alarmed to call 911.”

According to TMZ, paramedics reportedly rushed to Simmons’ house and determined that he should be taken to the hospital for evaluation.

A close friend told the New York Daily News in March that Simmons was being held hostage by his longtime housekeeper, Teresa Reveles.

Several days later, Simmons said in two interviews, that his disappearance was entirely voluntary and that the hostage reports were “very hurtful.” On March 14, during a phone interview with the Today he said,

“No one is holding me in my house as a hostage. You know, I do what I want to do as I’ve always done, so people should sort of just believe what I have to say because, like, I’m Richard Simmons!”

He told ET,

“I am not kidnapped, I am just in my house right now. No one should be worried about me. The people that surround me are wonderful people who take great care of me.”

He (or someone who has access to his account) posts regularly on Facebook. Let’s hope he’s OK. All joking aside, if “bizarre behavior” gets you checked into the hospital, what’s the hold-up with Donald Trump?

(via Us Weekly)

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As we reported, over the weekend, 67 year-old fitness guru and recluse Richard Simmons was hospitalized for “bizarre behavior” Today he’s speaking out and wants his fans to know he’s doing well. ,” Simmons said in a statement from his rep to ABC News,

“Thank you to everyone who has reached out with love and concern after hearing I was in the hospital. I was dehydrated and needed some fluids and now I am feeling great!

Summer is here – drink plenty of liquids. Big hugs and kisses for caring.“

Either Richard or someone who is in charge of his Facebook page, posted the pic above. And while he was in the hospital, the postings continued. Hmmm WTF is going on!? I feel like there’s more to this story… stay tuned. (via ABC News)

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There’s gold in them thar nuggets! McDonald’s Japan has created a Willy Wonka-style competition in which one lucky customer will win an 18-karat gold chicken McNugget. The competition is to promote its two new dipping sauces fruit curry and creamy cheese.

The contest has blown up on social media after the fast food chain revealed the prize in an ad introducing a new character: sauce thief Kaito Nuggets — aka Phantom Thief Nuggets.

Participants are encouraged to unmask their sauce hunter, Kaito Nuggets, aka Phantom Thief Nuggets. According to the contest’s rules, participants are tasked with helping unmask the nugget-crazed villain by posting when and where he’s spotted using the hashtag ＃怪盗ナゲッツ (which is “Kaito Nuggets” in Japanese, according to the chain).

“He may appear in some of McDonald’s restaurants through the country, may throw out a ceremonial first pitch for a professional baseball game, or pay a visit to a prefectural governor making a surprising request entertaining people,” McDonald’s Japan stated in an emailed release.

Those interested in winning need to help unmask the villain by following clues posted on the company’s twitter page. The contest runs June 8–28.

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