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#TBT: Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds Tell Oprah EVERYTHING (+They Sing Together!) Watch.

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Five years ago, in 2011, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher appeared together for an extensive interview on Oprah. During the interview, mother and daughter speak about many things; love, marriage, divorce, family, mental illness, drug addiction and their admiration for each other. Fisher said,

I believe my mother knows now but if she doesn’t, it would be good if she did: that I take her advice, that I follow her example, that I respect who she is … and if I’m like her in any way then I’m happy that I am.

And they sing together for the only time ever in public.

Watch.

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#TCM: Carrie Fisher’s Touching TV Tribute to Her Movie Star Mom. Watch

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Carrie Fisher was born into Hollywood royalty, as they say. And in this TCM tribute, narrated by Carrie, she says she couldn’t believe her luck that this glamorous movie star, Debbie Reynolds, was actually her mother. And, also, as they say, the rest is herstory. If you don’t know the story, this will fill you in on the details. Next year HBO airs a new documentary, Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds about the world’s most famous mother daughter team, who left the planet just one day apart. They lived next door to each other, you know.

In it Carrie quips,

You might say, I worship the ground we talk on…

Watch.

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Josh Flagg Proposes To Fiance In Epic Flashmob In Tonight’s MDLLA Season Finale

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There’s a lot of ways you can propose to someone. But Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles’ Josh Flagg proposal to finace Bobby Boyd in Paris takes the cake in our book.

In tonight’s season finale, watch as Flagg gets down on one knee at the infamous Four Seasons George V hotel in the French capital before breaking into a flash mob.

We saw Josh planning the proposal earlier in the season, and in the finale this week the big moment is finally here.

Check it out:

Josh + Bobby | A Proposal in Paris | Zen Film Works from Zen Film Works on Vimeo.

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Dual Funeral in the Works for Debbie and Carrie?

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TMZ is reporting that family members are meeting now to discuss funeral plans for Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, with most leaning towards a joint funeral.

It makes sense. TMZ broke the story, Debbie told her son Wednesday shortly before she was stricken with a stroke, “I miss her so much. I want to be with Carrie.” One family member tells TMZ, “I think this is what they would have wanted” … meaning a joint funeral.

We’re told the family is leaning toward a private, small ceremony and a much larger second memorial service.

Expect a decision to be made today.

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(Photos: MediaPunch)

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#Wowlebrity: WOW’s New Instagram Campaign

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Instagram over the past couple years has taken over the world. It’s user base has a growth rate of 4x in the last two years, and roughly 26% of the US adult population uses it weekly. In 2016 we all were schooled on how dominant social media and the internet were to deciding who our next president is. Now that we are 21 days out of Obama leaving office, and making way for Emperor Orange Cheeto it is time for resistance!

Here at World of Wonder we celebrate opposition, camp, and the queer variance of life. With that said, it’s time that we advocate on ALL platforms that we’re queer, we’re here, and everyone better get used to it!

Every Wednesday we are going to feature one of our lovely followers on our @wowreport Instagram. They will be dubbed “Wowlebrity of the Week” based off their artistic self portrait and a small reflection on why they believe they endorse WOW’s ideologies.

Check out our first promotion of our new digital team member Savannah Ward!

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Guidelines for Submission:

  • Must be following wowreport on Instagram
  • Tag photos you wish to submit with BOTH #wowlebrity and #WOTW
  • For easier submission you can DM us your photo of choice on Instagram *note all NFSW posts will be deleted*
  • Tell us why you consider yourself a Wowlebrity
  • Please limit yourself to one submission a week

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Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking” to Re-Air on HBO, Sunday 8PM

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HBO is paying tribute to Carrie Fisher with a re-airing WOW’s 2010 Emmy-nominated special Wishful Drinking on Sunday, Jan. 1 at 9PM.

The feature-length adaptation of Fisher’s hit one-woman stage show coupled with interviews with family and friends and archival footage received two Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.

Also:

LOGO is also set to honor Reynolds with a block of programming. According to TVLine, a 12-epiosde Will & Grace marathon featuring all of Reynolds’ appearances, she played mom to Debra Messing’s Grace, will start Friday, Dec. 20 at 5 p.m. On Saturday, Dec. 31, at midnight. LOGO will air the episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race that featured Reynolds as a guest judge and her episodes of Roseanne and Golden Girls will follow.

And coming to HBO in 2017,

Fisher will appear opposite her mother, Debbie Reynolds, in a new documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. The HBO documentary will premiere sometime in 2017. HBO’s documentary head Shelia Nevins told Variety they are being cautious with the timing considering Fisher’s passing on Tuesday, Dec. 27 and Reynolds’ passing on Wednesday, Dec. 28.

It’s a love story,” Nevins told Variety. “Carrie wanted to make Bright Lights for Debbie and Debbie wanted to make it for Carrie.”

The movie debuted at Cannes and the New York Film Festival.

“It’s life with Carrie and Debbie. It’s about both of them trying to stand upright, both having their frailties—age on the one hand and mental illness on the other,” Nevins said. “It’s a love story about a mother and daughter—they happen to be Carrie and Debbie.”

 

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“Surviving Trump: The Art of Resistance” – An Open Submission Call for WOW Gallery’s Next Show

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World of Wonder Productions
 is excited to announce our open submission for our Anti-Trump art exhibition at the fabulous World of Wonder’s Storefront Gallery in January: “Surviving Trump: The Art of Resistance.”

Do you have something to put on the canvas?! Check it out:

Artists are invited to submit wall art for our anti-Trump exhibition “Surviving Trump: The Art of Resistance” in Hollywood, California. These include protest art, anti-Trump propaganda posters, activists flyers, political parody and satirical artwork.

Our show will commence Wednesday, January 18th in our Storefront Gallery at World of Wonder Productions.

In addition to submitting your work, those chosen, will donate their works to the exhibition and all the proceeds from our bidders will go to the ACLU.

If interested, you must contact wowgallery@worldofwonder.net  by January 1st, and art must be submitted no later than January 13.

Just added: The infamous “The Emperor Has No Balls” Trump statue will be on display at the show as well.

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Art by Ginger & INDECLINE
Photo by Jason Goodrich

Let’s get this resistance party started!

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3-D Printed Nuclear Explosion Lamp: Cool or Terrifying Glimpse of Things to Come?

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I can’t decide whether or not to get this mushroom cloud lamp. On the one hand, it’s pretty rad. On the other: As we lumber towards a nuclear Trumpacolypse, it might just give me nightmares.

Via boingboing:

Sebastian Wac designed and made this fantastic 3D-printed “Nuke Lamp.” He posted the parts and plans for free at MyMiniFactory, or you can purchase one pre-made directly from him.

Of course, you could always just tell yourself it’s a cauliflower lamp.

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#ThrowbackThursday: Debbie Reynolds’ Appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race

#Bi-Monthly Youtube: LGBTQ Youtube Channels To Check Out This Month

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Like most millennials, I spend my free time lazing around in bed with a bag of Hot Cheetos and probing the Youtube search bar. Many a time, have I gotten lost in hours of blackhead removal videos, and Marina Joyce kidnapping spirals. So here is my personal list for the end of the year, of cool LGTBQ oriented Youtube channels you should all subscribe too!

*This list is not in sequential order*

10. Arend Richard

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Richard’s channel is definitely for the strong tokers in your life. He posts once or twice a week with an array of videos ranging from DIY Homemade Bong to Stoner Advice How To Get A Man . He’s comedic, and tells stories that any stoner or lover of “weeds” can relate too.

9. Ash Hardell

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Ash Hardell has made a big name for herself since she began uploading videos in 2009. With a multitude of playlists, the most developed is her ABC’s of LGBT+. These videos range from gender explanations to making out tips. Also check out her super cute video of Ash’s proposal to her girlfriend!

8. Luke Birch

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Luke’s bright and happy channel boasts at, “[making] you smile”, and that’s just what he achieves. From random quirky videos like Sh*t Grey’s Anatomy Fans Say to an emotional Coming Out video, Birch knows how to make his audience feel like a close friend.

7. Unsolicited Project

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Quoted as a “comedy channel for women by women” the Unsolicited Project boasts a huge range of queer related videos.  Some of their best playlist videos are Pillow Talk Monday where Kristen & Kristen talk everything and all things Lesbian!

6. Will Doughty 

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I’ll admit it, I suck at make-up. Yes I can beat my face enough to be presentable at work, but I’m no winged eye-liner queen. This is why I love Will’s channel! He does subtle but beautiful make-up videos that I would want to wear everyday… if I had the talent. Also he creates on point Drag Queen Makeup Transformations where he even does a Kim Davis make over!

5. Davey Wavey

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You might ask yourself, what is this shirtless hunk doing on a lesbian’s list of her favorite youtube channels, BUT while he sometimes perpetuates the sexualization of gay men, his Lifting Up Queer Voices are conversations that the LGBTQ community need to talk about. Also praise Davey for his We Owe F*cking Drag Queens video!

4. Elle Bradford

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Elle not only is a beautiful soul, but she has a charming channel! As an out Transwoman she gives tips to other Trans individuals, does make-up tutorials and gives her viewers a look into her daily life. Check out this adorable Trans Q&A she does with her boyfriend!

3. Manny Mua

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Another make-up queen, Manny Mua is a literal goddess at beating his face. He’s the reason why I believe men should all be wearing makeup to the office, because of Mua’s fab looks in every video. Whether it be his detailed Make Up Tutorials or his new Sexy Silver Daddy video, his face is always fly.

2. Tom Goss Music

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Tom Goss is one witty flamboyant creative! While his weekly uploads are more vlogs about his life, every couple months or so, he uploads a completely choreographed music video that’s completely written by him. My personal favorite is his Bears video, with Son Of A Preacher Man as a close second.

1. Rose Ellen Dix 

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Rose has a special place in my heart, as she was one of the first lesbian Youtubers I found when I was questioning my own sexuality. I’ve watched her love with Rosie blossom from the beginning to their solid marriage now. Check out one of her first videos with Rosie about how they first met to Rose’s proposal!

 

And there it is, come back in a couple months for another Bi-Monthly Youtube Round-Up!

 

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December 30th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

#BornThisDay: Writer/ Composer, Paul Bowles

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December 30, 1910Paul Bowles:

“I’ve always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born.”

He was one of the last surviving members of a generation of gay artists whose work shaped 20th century literature and music. In the introduction to Bowles’s Collected Stories (1979) Gore Vidal stated:

“His short stories are among the best ever written by an American: the floor to this ramshackle civilization that we have built cannot bear much longer our weight. It was Bowles’s genius to suggest the horrors which lie beneath that floor, as fragile, in its way, as the sky that shelters us from a devouring vastness”.

Bowles thought of himself first as a composer. His music is as full of light as his fiction is dark. In the early 1930s, he studied composition with gay composer Aaron Copland, with whom he had an affair, and he was also a protégé of gay composer Virgil Thomson. As a couple, Copland and Bowles travelled extensively in Europe during their love affair. They settled for a while in Paris where they hung out with Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Bowles nihilistic personality irritated Stein who encouraged both Bowles and Copland to travel to Tangiers. It was a journey that changes Bowles’ life:

“As a result of this arbitrary action, my life was permanently altered. If Morocco had been then as it is now, I should have spent the summer and gone away, probably not to return. But Morocco in 1931 provided an inexhaustible succession of fantastic spectacles.”

Bowles was a musical sophisticate who had a working knowledge of an enormous range of music: Film Scores, American Folk, Jazz, South American, Mexican and Moroccan music, plus many other genres. Bowles music from this period is similar to the experimental sounds of Eric Satie. He composed Operas, Ballets, Orchestral Pieces, music for choirs, and songs.

In NYC in the 1930s, Bowles became one of the most important composers of American Theater Music, producing moody instrumental works that enhanced plays of Tennessee Williams and others. Bowles:

“Climax-less music, hypnotic music in one of the exact senses of the word, in that it makes its effect without the spectator being made aware of it.”

Bowles was born in NYC. His father was a cold, inflexible man who was full of secrecy, characteristics that would mark Bowles’ own life and writing. As a boy, Bowles had few friends and found solace in his writing. He attended college, but academic life did not interest him and he abruptly left for Paris in 1929, when he was just 18-years-old. After that, he would spend most of his life outside his native USA.

Bowles’s literary reputation focuses on his fiction, but until he was 35-years-old, he showed more interest in writing poetry. But, Bowles was gifted in a number of literary fields: Short Stories, Autobiography, Travel Writing, and translations of works by writers from North Africa and the Arabian world.

In 1930s Berlin, he met the gay writers Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood. Isherwood gave the name Sally Bowles to the main character in his story Goodbye To Berlin (the source for the musical Cabaret) as a nod to his friend.

With Copland, Bowles explored Morocco and the Sahara, Algeria and Tunisia. He was entranced by what he perceived to be the transcendental nature of North African life as well as by a society with a sort of tolerance of homosexuality.

In 1938, he had married fellow writer, Jane Auer, and in 1947, they went to live in Tangier. Jane Bowles had already published the lesbian themed Two Serious Ladies (1943), and she had explored gay relationships in both her private life and in her fiction. He was mostly gay and she was almost exclusively lesbian. They were devoted to each other.

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With the arrival of the Bowles, the Tangier ex-patriot community grew rapidly. American writers and artists, the literary, the louche, and the loaded came to pay their respects: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, Rick Peck, Cecil Beaton, Mick Jagger, Truman Capote, and others, all visited and socialized with the smart, sexy Bowles. The atmosphere of Tangier, plus the experimental drug use and sexual expression, proved liberating and stimulating to the Americans. Life in Morocco was exotic and easy. Tangier was a city where anything could be had for very little money, where homosexuality was forgiven, where drug use was commonplace, and an American could enjoy a lifestyle that was decadently delicious and depraved.

Jane Bowles, given to emotional breakdowns and always on the edge of a sexual scandal, left this world in 1973, taken by a series of strokes at just 54-years-old.

After his wife’s passing, Bowles spent much of his time translating the works of talented Moroccan writers and poets. He lived alone and aloof, looked after by his trusted, loyal manservant. He continued to attract some very interesting personalities to Morocco, and in his discreet way, he gained an even bigger following. He continued to produce a steady stream of amazing work until he left this world in 1999, just weeks short of his 89th birthday. The day after he checked out for good, a full-page obituary was featured in The NY Times.

Although he had lived in Morocco for 53 years, he was buried in Lakemont, NY, next to his parents and grandparents.

Bowles lived most of his adult life in Tangier, and is much identified with the city that he loved. He became the symbolic American expatriate, and Tangier became the symbol of his expatriate status.

Bowle’s great existentialist masterpiece, The Sheltering Sky (1949), was made into a hypnotic 1990 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich as the American artistic couple Port and Kit Moresby, stand-ins for The Bowles, and with Bowles himself making a cameo near the end of the movie.

In Paul Theroux’s terrific travel book The Pillars Of Hercules (1995), he paints a poignant picture of an old, frail Bowles, an American in an Arab city, still enjoying the illicit pleasures of boys, kif, and hashish jam in his 80s.

If you are interested in Bowles, and you really should be, try the documentary Paul Bowles: The Cage Door is Always Open. All of Bowles’ books are wrapped in mystery, but are highly readable.

“If a man was not on his way anywhere… then the best thing for him to do is set back and be.”

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Annual List of Various Things We Got Stuck in Our Penises, Vaginas & Butts

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Deadspin’s Holiday tradition returns. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits is out and as per usual here are the most awkwardly shaped, and least pleasant objects that America has shoved into its various orifices.

Hey, didn’t this happen during a Drag Race Season 8 challenge…?

HELD DOWN… SHOVED SEQUINS DOWN THROAT

Anyway, working south from the top, here you go:

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• DEFLATED BALLOON

• BEETLE

• “PLACED TOILET PAPER IN EAR SO WOULDNT HAVE TO HEAR NEIGHBORS”

• CHESS PIECE

• PLASTIC DRINKING STRAW

• PAPER NAPKINS

• HAIRPIN

• HAIR BAND

• GASOLINE

• “CRAYON STUCK IN EAR FOR 2 WEEKS”

• END OF SHOELACE

• FAKE DIAMOND

• PAPER & AN ERASER

• BALL FROM EYEBROW RING

• DOG’S PAW

Nose

• PEBBLE FROM THE FISH TANK

• “STUCK A RAISIN UP HIS RIGHT NOSTRIL, BROTHER TRIED TO REMOVE WITH TWEEZERS BUT PATIENT MOVED”

• STOVE PELLET

• “WAS LAYING ON HIS BACK AT SCHOOL WHEN AN ERASER FELL INTO HIS NOSTRIL”

• PLASTIC SNAKE

• MAGNETS UP EACH NOSTRIL

• PLASTIC HEARTS IN EACH NOSTRIL

• BABY WIPE

• MINI HOCKEY STICKS

• EGG DYE TABLET

Throat

• RULER

• BRANCH

• STALE CAKE

• “ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOWED A PILL BOTTLE WHEN TAKING HIS MEDICATION”

• ASTHMA INHALER

• “WAS OPENING A BOTTLE OF SODA W/ HIS TEETH & BOTTLE CAP FLEW DOWN HIS THROAT”

• HOOP EARRING

• PLASTIC HONEY FILLED STRAW

• “PLAYING WITH A BLOW DART GUN, BLEW THE PIN OUT, IT HIT THE WALLFLEW BACK INTO PATIENTS THROAT AND HE SWALLOWED IT”

• CANADIAN QUARTER

• “INHALED A WASP WHILE JOGGING NOW THROAT SWELLING”

• PAINT-STIRRING STICK & PAINT

• “HELD DOWN IN ART CLASS, CLASSMATE SHOVED SEQUINS DOWN THROAT”

• DOG SHAMPOO

• GLOW STICKS

• “EATING CLUB SANDWICH AND PART OF TOOTHPICK BROKE OFF, HE SWALLOWED IT, SCRATCH IN THROAT, ABLE TO FINISH SANDWICH”

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• “CARVED DOWN PIECE OF DOMINO INCISED PENIS INSERTED DOMINO PIECE INTO PENIS NOW WANTS IT REMOVED”

• SANDAL BUCKLE

• BB

• DOLL SHOE

• “HAD PEBBLE STUCK IN PENIS WHILE SWIMMING IN A LAKE 3 WEEKS AGO”

• PEN CAP

• PEN

• 3 INCH STRAIGHT PIN

• “MARBLE IN PENIS, CUT PENIS TRYING TO GET IT OUT”

Vagina

• 3 PAPER TOWELS

• 3 GOLF-BALL SIZE BOUNCY BALLS

• 6 SCREWS

• PILL BOTTLE

• USB ADAPTER

• “SAT ON THE TOP OF A DOLL HOUSE AND THERE WAS A SPIKED ROOF”

• KNOTTED ROPE

• “WENT SWIMMING, WENT TO REMOVE TAMPON CANT LOCATE IT”

• POINTY TOY PIG

• “BOYFRIEND STUCK BOTTLE IN VAGINA. THE CAP CAME OFF AND GOT STUCK”

• HALF A BAR OF SOAP

• SHARPENED PENCIL

• “PUT A BOUNCY BALL IN HER VAGINA, IT’S STUCK, WAS MASTURBATING”

• “PLACED A BOBBY PIN IN VAGINA -STATES SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHY”

• DOLL

• SMALL PAINTING KIT

• PART OF A SILICONE DILDO BROKEN OFF”

• CIGARETTES AND LIGHTER

• SHOE HEEL

• PIECES OF PLASTIC CUP, BROKEN CRAYON, PIECE OF PLASTIC, & STRAW

• “POSSIBLE RETAINED VAGINAL FOREIGN BODY, USING VIBRATOR WHILE INTOXICATED”

Rectum

• “USING A VIBRATOR LAST NIGHT, THOUGHT WAS INSERTING IN VAGINA, INTERRUPTED BY MOM & SAT UP QUICKLY, INSERTED IN RECTUM, CAN’T REMOVE”

• WINE CORK WRAPPED IN PAPER TOWELS, ELECTRICAL TAPE & A CONDOM

• 10 BROKEN CRAYONS

• FLASHLIGHT

• “PER WIFE PATIENT SAT DOWN ON A SCREWDRIVER AND IT WENT UP HIS RECTUM”

• 2 DILDOS

• “PUT A PENCIL UP RECTUM TO MAKE BOWEL MOVEMENT TO GET GAUZE PATIENT SWALLOWED TO COME OUT”

• PLASTIC MELATONIN BOTTLE

• POSSIBLE SHOT GLASS

• “RECTAL FISSURE MASTURBATING FOR HER BOYFRIEND USING A HAIRBRUSH IN HER RECTUM YESTERDAY”

• NAIL CUTICLE TOOL

• EGG TIMER

• CURTAIN ROD

• “ICE PICK IN RECTUM TO PUSH HEMORRHOIDS BACK IN”

• HANDLE OF A TOILET BOWL BRUSH

• HAMMER

• NUT AND BOLT

• “SMILEY HAND TOY FROM VENDING MACHINE, MOM NOTED A RUBBER HAND PROTRUDING FROM RECTUM”

• BINGO DAUBER

• BINGO CHIP

• DECORATIVE PUMPKIN

• BOWLING PIN

• “SHOESHINE CONTAINER ALLEGEDLY INTOXICATED DID NOT KNOW GF INSERTED OBJECT”

• TUB DRAIN CAP

• WIFE’S SIX INCH VIBRATOR

• BROOM HANDLE

• BASEBALL

• SALT SHAKER

• “MALE USING PLASTIC SEX TOY (VIBRATOR) THAT BROKE OFF IN RECTUM BUT LEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT”

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(via Deadspin)

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#LGBTQ: Elton John To Perform “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” at George Michael’s Funeral

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gty-george-michael-elton-john-01-as-161229_12x5_1600Sir Elton John famously sang Candle in the Wind at Princess Diana‘s funeral in 1997, which he attended with George Michael. He’s now planning on singing Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me at Michael’s funeral, which he sang with him in ’91.

According to LGBTQ Nation, one anonymous insider says,

There will be so many mourners and friends. It will be the biggest funeral since George’s mate Di’s. Elton will sing as he did for Diana’s funeral as a final farewell.

Elton said on Instagram that Michael was,

a beloved friend — the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist.

Watch the original duet with the two, below.

(via LGBTQ Nation)

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#WOWBestOf2016: My Top Obsessions…QwerrrkOut, The Eric Andre Show, Joanne The Scammer & More!!!

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Dear, Dear…How queer everything was this year!!! No need to belabor the negative. There’s been TONS of fun and discoveries! Here’s my top pics, including the top QwerrrkOut posts on IG, super icon Amanda Lepore, social media sensation Joanne The Scammer, ultra-foul comedian Eric André, and MORE, MORE, MORE!!!

Most Viewed QwerrrkOut Pics/Videos:

QwerrrkOut is one of the coolest Instagram pages of the year…which was noted when it received an WOWie nomination last month. The IG page is where LGBTQQIA kiddies and their friends can have photos of themselves featured on the QwerrkOut page, by tagging or taking a photo of QwerrrkOut on their pages, capturing them queering out and being their authentic selves. Check out some of the “most liked ❤️” below!

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Amanda Lepore at Pizza Hut:

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The Eric Andre Show:

Comedian Eric André is THE MOST!!! I just got into this 0ff-piste, crazy dude this year…even though the weekly show’s been on since 2013 (I’m late…I know!!!). The Eric Andre Show, on the Adult Swim network, with cohort Hannibal Buress, is a parody of old skool public access shows…and it’s insane in the membrane! Each episode is like only 10 minutes long, and it basically does your head in. Best bits are when he gets naked (You can Google his d*ck pics), and his impromptu on-the street outlaw-ish skits! Check out a few clips below, with guests Stacey Dash, Flavor FlavT.I., and more!





 

 

KAWS’ BFF Companion:

New York-based artist and designer KAWS released his second, extremely limited edition plush toy KAWS’ BFF Companion this year, and of course, it sold out in a flash…literally turning up on eBay seconds after its debut at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The latest version is all black, with a super cute pink nose. Check out Pharrell with his below. Oh, and if you want one, the starting bid on eBay is $300!

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Joanne The Scammer:

She’s a real “messy b*tch who lives for drama”…a liar…a scammer. She smokes Newport ciggies and drinks champagne. She’s a WHITE woman…a caucasian chimera! Joanne The Scammer has become a patently offensive, pop culture phenomenon! Created by Miami-based comedian (and ex- porn star) Branden Miller, Joanne has documented her dark and crazy world on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, alluding to always being involved in some kind of stunt, from fraud deception and extortion, to breaking into houses and crashing the MTV Video Music Awards. Check out some of her best (or worst…depending on your moral compass) hustles below.






 

 

M.A.C. Haute & Naughty Waterproof Lash:

 

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This is the ULTIMATE mascara that actually STAYS on! Shout out to Tim at the M.A.C. Pro Shop in NYC for recommending this. Not only does M.A.C. Haute & Naughty have a dual-wiper system that offers either defined or voluminous lashes, if you are trying to touch-up a few stray, gray hairs in your beard (best for black or dark brown hairs), last minute before trade comes knockin’, this will last throughout your indiscretions, and not rub off, spilling all your tee, on your pillow….TRUST…I know this for a FACT!

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Our End Of Year “Best Of WOW Report” for Radio Andy on SiriusXM

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From Hollywood Boulevard, it’s The WOW Report for Radio Andy on SiriusXM! That’s right WOWers, World of Wonder Co-Founder Fenton Bailey, Executive VP of Development Tom Campbell, and WOW Report Editor James St. James have collaborated with reality TV guru and WOWlebrity Andy Cohen on a weekly Top Ten Countdown of the things from the past week that make us go…WOW!

It’s a pop-culture obsessed hour complete with colorful diatribes, opposing opinions, and a dissection-like discussion that will make your drive home from work more fabulous!

We air TODAY at 4PM EST on SiriusXM and repeat at 4PM PST (7PM EST). You can also catch “Top Ten Things That Make Us Go WOW!” on the SiriusXM app.

Without further adou, here’s our Top Ten of the things that made us go WOW this year!


10) The View: 2o Years and Counting

Tom reflects on his time working on the juggernaut chatfest – The View – during it’s infancy when he worked for ABC Daytime. Did you hear about the feud between Joy Behar and RuPaul? See it in the video below (2:15), and check out the full ABC special The View: 20 Years in the Making.

 

9) Domonique Echeverria: The Girl Whose Ass Saved Her From a Suicide Attempt

James St. James recently sat down with designer and beloved NYC nightlife icon Domonique Echeverria who came to the WOW studio to tell the harrowing story of her suicide attempt last November when, after being over-prescribed the mood-stabilizer Lamictal, she leapt in front of a subway train. She miraculously survived (thanks to being hit ass first, which actually cushioned the blow), but later lost both an arm and a leg. Now she’s here to talk about to detail the events leading up to that day, her subsequent healing process, and where she goes from here.

 

8) Opioid Constipation

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Most opioids produce analgesia by binding to mu-opioid receptors in the central nervous system. However, they also bind to these receptors peripherally in locations such as the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The intestinal tract is dense with mu-opioid receptors. Read more here.

 

7) Ore-OH MY GOD! There are SO MANY Flavors of Oreos!

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We had a little taste test this week of several different flavors currently available from Oreo. Let us taste them so you don’t have to!

 

6) The World’s Last Clam Spit Silk Spinner

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The ancient art of spinning golden sea silk – or byssus – from the saliva of a clam has been around for 10,000 years. It was brought from the ancient Middle East by the great-granddaughter of Herod the Great during the second half of the First Century, and is commonly believed to be the finest fabric known to Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Now there is only ONE woman on earth who knows how to do this!

 

5) Samsung’s Family Hub Refrigerator

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Have you ever wanted your fridge to take pictures? Well the new Samsung one does! Read more here.

 

4) Things That Make Us Go MEOW: A Theme Cafe in LA for Rescuing Pussies!

Our favorite feline lover Tom Campbell recently visited Los Angeles’ first ever kitty cafe called Crumbs & Whiskers and had the time of his life! MEOW!

 

3) Frat Boy Face/Off

Austin Harrouff, an athletic and well-liked 19-year-old Florida State University student, was eating dinner with his parents at a local sports bar in Jupiter, Florida, when he apparently got angry about something (“possibly the restaurants slow service”), stormed out in a huff, and what happens next is something you’d see at the beginning of a horror movie!

 

2) Randy Rainbow

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Randy Rainbow was chosen to moderate the first Presidential debate (I missed this somehow) between Agent Orange and Mama Hill.

Mr. Trump, let’s get back to what you were saying about Secretary Clinton’s makeup… you mentioned she’s been a little heavy on the eyeliner lately…

Watch.

 

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What could top all of these? You’ll have to FIND OUT at 4:00PM EST and again at 4:00 PST (7 PM EST) on SiriusXM!

Thanks for tuning in! Be sure to give your ears the gift of THE WOW REPORT on Radio Andy SiriusXM EVERY Friday.

And remember, do something this weekend that makes YOU go WOW!!!

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December 31st: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

#BornThisDay: Donna Summer

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December 31, 1948Donna Summer

In late summer of 1975, I was at a club in West Hollywood, dancing my ass off, when this hot shirtless redhead gave me a huge smile and stuck a little brown bottle under my nose as we moved, and all of sudden I felt super sexy and the strangest music filled the room, something I had never heard before, a driving thump-thump-thump as a woman purred: “Mmmm, Love To Love You, Baby”. I thought I had gone to heaven.

Unlike most musical artists in the 1970s, Summer never courted her gay audience, but her transcendental disco sound was perfect for our gay culture, and we loved her for it. Her sound and her persona were perfect for that moment.

But, Summer’s relationship with her gay fans became fractious after some comments about the AIDS crisis, comments that she denied ever having made.

Like her pop stardom, Summer’s early Gay iconography was not something she went after; it was something she was given. She didn’t nurture her talent for a gay audience.  But, we embraced her because of it. In a post-Madonna/Lady Gaga Pop Music world it seems almost unbelievable that such a thing could happen, but Donna Summer was an accidental Gay Icon.

The unique sound that she produced during the apex of Disco Music’s reign, with its elegance, confidence and open sexuality, hit a gay chord deep inside of us. When Diana Ross sang I’m Coming Out, she did it with a sly wink. When Grace Jones recorded an album of growling show tunes to a disco beat, its gay resolve could not have been more succinct. But, when Summer breathily gave us her climactic sounds, she did it under the guidance of a straight producer in a sterile Munich recording studio. Summer and Giorgio Moroder were not club kids. They simply were beatified with the divine ability to know that at closing time under a mirror-ball in a gay nightclub, that the sound should be sublime and transcendental. I Feel Love was it.

Summer became the Queen Of Disco. She had those doe eyes and the big hair, an airy, ethereal or bright assertive singing voice, that wafted over dance floors and blasted from our radios from the mid-1970s into the 1980s.

She moved through styles like Funk, Electronica, Rock and Torch songs as she lined-up 14 Top Ten singles, including: Love To Love You Baby, Bad Girls, Hot Stuff, Last Dance and She Works Hard for the Money. Before 1980, she had three double albums in a row that reached number one, with each selling more than a million copies. The first artists to so.

Her combination of church voice and the latest dance beats was the template for Disco. With her producers Moroder and Pete Bellotte, she was the mother of Electronic Dance Music, starting with synthesizer pulse of I Feel Love in 1977, a sound that infuses the current 21st-century pop sound. Her own recordings have been sampled by Beyoncé, Pet Shop Boys, and Nas.

Summer won Grammy Awards in several categories: Dance Music, R&B, Rock and Gospel. In 2009 she performed at the concert in Oslo honoring the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Barack Obama.

She was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston, one of seven children. She grew up singing in church and decided when she was a teenager that she would make music her career. In 1969, she was cast in the Munich company of the rock musical Hair and she moved to Germany. She became fluent in German and found work as a studio singer specializing in Musical Theater and as a member of the Viennese Folk Opera. In 1972, she married an Austrian actor, Hellmuth Sommer, and after they split she kept his name but changed the spelling. She recorded her first single under the name Donna Gaines, an unsuccessful remake of The JaynettsSally Go ’Round the Roses.

She found work as a backup singer, which brought her to the attention of Moroder.  In 1974, her debut album Lady Of The Night was released only in Europe. But with Love To Love You Baby in 1975, Summer became a sensation. She said she recorded that song’s breathy, moaning vocals lying on her back on the studio floor with the lights out, thinking about how Marilyn Monroe might purr its words.

Casablanca Records signed her after hearing the song in its European version, and asked her to extend it for Disco play. The resulting 17-minute single contains more than 20 simulated orgasms and it became an international hit, reaching number two on the American Pop Charts.  Summer quickly released two additional albums, A Love Trilogy and the concept album The Four Seasons Of Love.

But, Summer was uncomfortable being promoted as a sex goddess:

“I’m not just sex, sex, sex. I would never want to be a one-dimensional person like that.”

She fell into despair and in late 1976 she attempted suicide. She began taking medication for depression and became a Born-Again Christian in 1979.

Summer released two albums in 1977. I Remember Yesterday was built around the idea of mixing Disco with sounds from previous decades. But, a song representing the future, I Feel Love, was the tune that would make the most impact. Its all-electronic arrangement was a startling new sound, and the contrast of human voice against a synthetic backdrop echoed through gay dance clubs around the globe.

She followed it with an orchestral album, Once Upon a Time, a set of songs that told a fairy tale, and then a live album in 1978, Live And More, which had the hit with a version of MacArthur Park. That was the first of four number one singles she would have in a year, along with Hot StuffBad Girls and duet with Barbra Streisand, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough). Summer won her first Grammy Award, for Best R&B Vocal Performance, for Last Dance, written by Paul Jabara for the film Thank God It’s Friday (1978). It has remained a favorite for the end of wedding parties ever since.

When there was a backlash against Disco, Summer strove to stay current. Her double album, Bad Girls (1979) had a Rock sound and Hot Stuff won a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance. On The Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 and 2,” went to number one in 1979, and the newly recorded title song was a Top Ten single.

On The Radio was Summer’s last album for Casablanca. As Disco was diminished, she moved to Geffen Records, hoping for broader pop audience. She had a New Wave hit with The Wanderer in 1981, then switched to an R&B sound for Donna Summer in 1982 for producer Quincy Jones. She reached her 1980s apex with She Works Hard For The Money in 1983. It was her last Top 10 album, and it included He’s A Rebel, a Christian Rock Number with lyrics like: “He’s a rebel, written up in the lamb’s book of life”. It won a Grammy for Best Inspirational Performance.

Summer’s career slowed in the mid-1980s and she alienated the Gays when she was quoted as saying that AIDS is divine punishment for an immoral lifestyle. Gay people boycotted her music, and her streak of hits was broken. Her last Top Ten Pop hit, This Time I Know It’s for Real, was in 1989.

Yet, she persevered, which the gays always admire. She continued to record and give concerts. She moved to Nashville and recorded a number one Country Music single with Dolly Parton, aptly titled Starting Over Again. A remix of a song recorded in 1992 with Moroder, Carry On, won her the first Grammy ever given for Best Dance Music. Even in the new century, she continued to have Dance Music hits. Summer:

“This music will always be with us. I mean, whether they call it disco music or hip-hop or bebop or flip-flop, whatever they’re going to call it, I think music to dance to will always be with us.”

Summer left this world in the late spring of 2012. Never a smoker, she was taken by lung cancer, most likely by from toxic fumes and dust after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in NYC. Her passing stunned fans and friends in the industry. Barack Obama wrote:

“Michelle and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Donna Summer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Donna truly was the ‘Queen of Disco.’ Her voice was unforgettable and the music industry has lost a legend far too soon.”

Summer was 63 years old when she left us.

The irony of Summer’s spectacular career is that when she left Casablanca Records, where she had fashioned that unrivaled Gay Disco Music sound with the assistance of a bunch straight guys, she was signed by the most ostentatious gay man in showbiz, David Geffen. Under his secular direction, she did her most spiritual work. Summer’s incredible commercial and creative highs were a manual on how to do everything the wrong way. Yet, somehow, the magic happened.

Gay men adored her. We still do. The ill-will she produced during her contentious 1980s Jesus era was so tough because we still cared about her. Aside from the sensational music she made, her legacy will always be this. Gay culture, at its trashiest and most endearing, is now studied by pop stars wanting lasting success. Summer didn’t have such role models. The 1970s were an epoch that brought huge changes in our attitudes about racism, sexism and homophobia. Some of that was because of her unfortunate fall from the pedestal of Gay idolatry. In some crazy way, she actually opened our closet doors.

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#RIP2016: The Very Sad (& Way Too Long) List of Everyone Famous We Lost This *^#@! Year

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Much has been made that this is THE worst year for beloved celebrity deaths. No doubt there have been almost too many to count. Just scroll down and down and down, and your jaw will hang open and your eyes will get moist. The sad fact is, we are all getting older and those that we’ve looked up to are reaching their expiration date. Along with the fact that, that it’s the flip side of life –death. It reminds us that this isn’t a permanent gig.

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I’m sorry if you lost someone you loved. I sadly said goodbye to my old pal and colleague, writer Jeffrey Slonim. I was unfortunately out of the city a few weeks ago when his friends and family got together to pay tribute to him. I heard it was lovely. He’ll be missed by many. If you wonder why I put him among all these famous faces, it’s because it’s where he thrived. For years he has been a red carpet staple and if there’s a step-and-repeat photo opp at the pearly gate’s welcome party, Jeff will be there asking questions like,

If you could take just ONE THING to heaven, what would it be…?

I think he’d like that joke, but honestly he’d have a better question.

So why not use this as a positive, don’t be bummed. Go out in 2017 and live every day like it’s your last and, as the cliché goes, one day you’ll be right.

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David Bowie – 69, beloved musician, actor, cult-hero, our Man Who Fell To Earth

Pat Harrington, Jr. – 86, actor, One Day at a Time

Rene Angelil – 73, Celine Dion’s husband and manager

Alan Rickman – 69, actor, Harry Potter films

Dan Haggerty – 74, actor, Grizzly Adams

Glenn Frey – 67, musician, The Eagles

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Paul Kantner – 74, founding member, Jefferson Airplane

Joe Alaskey – 63, voice actor, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck

Maurice White – 74, founder, Earth, Wind & Fire

Dave Mirra – 41, BMX racer

Edgar Mitchell – 85, the Apollo 14 astronaut

Vanity (Denise Katrina Matthews) – 57, Prince protege

Antonin Scalia – 79, U.S. Supreme Court judge

George Gaynes – 89, actor, Punky Brewster

Boutros Boutros-Ghali – 93, former U.N. secretary-general

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Harper Lee – 89, To Kill a Mockingbird author

Umberto Eco – 84, Italian author

Sonny James – 87, country singer

Tony Burton – 78, actor who played Apollo Creed’s boxing trainer

George Kennedy – 91, Cool Hand Luke actor

Lee Reherman – 49, American Gladiator

Joey Feek – 40, one half Joey + Rory

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Pat Conroy – 70, The Prince of Tides author

Nancy Reagan – 94, former FLOTUS

George Martin – 90, The Beatles‘ producer

Keith Emerson – 71, founder of Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Frank Sinatra Jr. – 72, singer

Bob Ebeling – 89, booster rocket engineer

Phife Dawg – 45, songwriter, Tribe Called Quest

Rob Ford – 46, former mayor of Toronto

Joe Garagiola – 90, the former Today show anchor

160325-garry-shandling-in-larry-sanders-show-yh-1237p_6b8d4ef0a751531e78dc74c924c25afd-nbcnews-ux-600-700Garry Shandling – 66, actor and comedian, The Larry Sanders Show

Jim Harrison – 78, fiction writer, Legends of the Fall

Mother Mary Angelica – 92, Roman Catholic nun, EWTN

Patty Duke – 69, Oscar-winner, The Miracle Worker

Erik Bauersfeld – 93, Star Wars actor

Merle Haggard – 79, country singer

David Gest – 62, former husband of Liza Minnelli

Doris Roberts – 90, actor, Everybody Loves Raymond

Les Waas – 94, advertising legend behind the Mister Softee jingle

Chyna – 46, pro-wrestler

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Prince – 57, legend

Michelle McNamara – crime writer, wife of Patton Oswalt

Isabelle Dinoire – 49, the French woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant, died on April 22.

Papa Wemba – 66, “the king of Congolese rumba”

Billy Paul – 80, jazz/ souls singer, Me and Mrs. Jones

Afeni Shakur Davis – 69, the former Black Panther

jane_little_8bfca78848606ebc638aaacd88693b17-nbcnews-ux-600-480Jane Little – 87, Guinness World Record, “world’s longest serving symphony player” (71 years)

Emilio Navaira – 53, the Grammy award winning Tejano musician

Guy Clark – 74, singer-songwriter, L.A. Freeway

Morley Safer – 84, 60 Minutes correspondent

Alan Young – 96, the actor-comedian, Mister Ed

Nick Menza – 51, former drummer, Megadeth

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Muhammad Ali – 74, “the Greatest of All Time”

Kimbo Slice – 42, street fighter

Theresa Saldana – 61, Raging Bull actress

Gordie Howe – 88, “Mr. Hockey,

Christina Grimmie – 22, singer-songwriter

Ron Lester – 45, actor, Varsity Blues

Anton Yelchin – 27, actor, Star Trek

Ralph Stanley – 89, the godfather of traditional bluegrass music

Bernie Worrell – 72, keyboard player, Parliament-Funkadelic

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Bill Cunningham – 87, beloved NYC street photographer

Alvin Toffler – 87, author, Future Shock

Buddy Ryan – NFL coach

Scotty Moore – 84, pioneering rock guitarist best known

Pat Summitt – 64, winningest coach in Division I college basketball history

Elie Wiesel – 87, Holocaust survivor/ author, Night

160921-curtishanson-0631_62e623893ba956296e8943ca94f32174-nbcnews-ux-600-480Michael Cimino – 77, Oscar-winning director, The Deer Hunter & Heaven’s Gate

Noel Neill – 95, first actress to play Lois Lane

Abbas Kiarostami – 76, Iranian director, Taste of Cherry

Garry Marshall – 81, writer/director, Happy Days, The Odd Couple, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy

Mark Takai – 49, U.S. representative, war veteran

Rev. Tim LaHaye – 90, co-author, Left Behind

Youree Del Cleomill Harris (Miss Cleo) – 53, actress/ Jamaican psychic

David Huddleston – 85, actor, The Big Lebowski

Pete Fountain – 86, Dixieland jazz clarinetist

Barry Jenner – 75, actor, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

160813-kenny-baker-mn-1231_8a5ff73c956cca009127bfa70ff3b183-nbcnews-ux-600-480Kenny Baker – 81, actor, R2-D2 in Star Wars films

Fyvush Finkel – 93, Emmy Award-winning actor

John McLaughlin – 89, conservative commentator, The McLaughlin Group

Lou Pearlman – 62, band boy mogul, Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync

Matt Roberts – guitarist and founding member, 3 Doors Down, died on Aug. 20.

Toots Thielemans – 94, Belgian harmonica player

Steven Hill – 94, actor, Law & Order

Sonia Rykiel – 86, French fashion designer

Juan Gabriel – 66, latin songwriter/ singer

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Gene Wilder – 83, actor, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Jon Polito – 65, actor The Big Lebowski

Jerry Heller – 75, producer N.W.A.

Greta Zimmer Friedman – 92, woman in the iconic photo shown kissing a sailor celebrating the end of World War II

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Edward Albee – 88, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

W.P. Kinsella – 81, Canadian novelist, Field of Dreams

Curtis Hanson – 71, Oscar-winning writer & director, L.A. Confidential, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Carlos (Shawty Lo) Walker – 40, Atlanta rapper

Bill Nunn – 62, actor, Do the Right Thing

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José Fernández – 24, Miami Marlins pitcher

Arnold Palmer – 87, golf legend

Shimon Peres – 93, Nobel prize-winning former Israeli president and prime minister,

Tommy Mykal Ford – 52, actor, Martin

King Bhumibol Adulyadej – 88, the world’s longest reigning monarch, Thailand

Steve Dillon – 54, comic book artist, The Punisher

Janet Reno – 78, the first female U.S. Attorney General

Leonard Cohen – 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, Hallelujah

Robert Vaughn – 83, Oscar-nominated actor, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Leon Russell – 74, singer-songwriter, member Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Gwen Ifill – 61, the co-anchor of PBS’ NewsHour

Holly Dunn – 59, country singer, Daddy’s Hands

161118-sharon-jones-mbe-856p_37b5570eed251fa64d35d49f0542ab68-nbcnews-ux-600-480Sharon Jones – 60, powerhouse singer, Sharon Jones ad the Dap Kings

Florence Henderson – 82, actress, The Brady Bunch

Fidel Castro – 90, Cuban dictator

Ron Glass – 71, , actor, Barney Miller

Grant Tinker – 90, former NBC chairman

Greg Lake – 69, co-founder, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer

John Glenn – 95, American hero, first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, U.S. Senator

Joseph Mascolo – 87, actor, Days of Our Lives

E.R. Braithwaite – 104, Guyanese educator and diplomat, inspired To Sir, With Love

Alan Thicke – 69, actor, Growing Pains

Craig Sager – 65, sports broadcaster

China Machado – 87, a groundbreaking model and fashion editor

Zsa Zsa Gabor – 99, actress, Hollywood icon

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George Michael – 53, pop superstar, LGBT hero

Ricky Harris – actor, Everybody Hates Chris

Richard Adams – author, Watership Down

Barbara Tarbuck – actress, General Hospital

Franca Sozzani, 66, editor of Vogue Italia

Carrie Fisher – 60, actress, author, Hollywood royalty

Debbie Reynolds – 84, actress, singer, dancer, Hollywood icon

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(via NBC News)

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#Bestof2016: Why “La La Land” Is “the Right Film at the Right Time”…

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It was, for me, the right film at the right time. Of course, it was a beautiful escape from the certain ugliness coming our way in 2017, plus there was the imaginative, skillful filmmaking, and the combustible chemistry of two leads, but one of the sure reasons I was so moved by La La Land was its theme of two artistic types who fall in love and try to make it all work, their relationship and their art.

From the very beginning, The Husband and I kept at out artistic pursuits, often taking turns being the breadwinner so that the other could try and fly high. For decades, we both would have “day jobs” that we would double-up on or discard depending on what the other was doing with their art.

While watching the movie, I had a memory jump out of a deep file in my brain, you know, the one marked “Never Consider This Again”, and it suddenly swept over me. In spring of 1982 I was invited to play a role in a rarely produced Tennessee Williams play and in Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Williamsburg Theatre Festival that coming summer. Without an audition! I thought about it good and hard and I was on the verge of accepting, when I just could not bear to leave my lover of three years. I could not pull away from the romance or the daily athletic sex. I sensed that if I went away for an entire summer, I might not return.

That lover became my boyfriend, then my partner, and in 2001, when were in our 22nd year as a couple, we shook everything up and for the pure adventure of it, we left Seattle and moved to Portland where we bought our first home.

When we arrived, I almost immediately got an agent, a role in a play, and a part in a film. To keep us afloat, my guy took a job selling high-end bed linens to rich people, which he hated. He did it so I could try and establish myself as an actor in Portland after a rather successful 20-year career in Seattle. But, I wanted to do more and do better for my little family and I ended up taking a full-time position, working a difficult job made more difficult by a monster boss. I tried, often with some success, to make this job creative, but it really wasn’t. I was kidding myself.

Three days before my 10th anniversary, I was laid off. I had anticipated getting a banner and balloons, but I got the boot.

Watching La la Land, it all flashed before me: Everything would have turned out differently if I had gone to Williamsburg, Mass. in the summer of 1982. And even more heartbreaking, I had walked away from the financial uncertainty of being a singer and actor to make some sure dough, wasting an entire decade of my life. This is the reason that the last minutes of La La Land had so much power for me. No wonder I had to be the last one out of the theatre, all puffy and red from crying.

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