Ari Gold
Nate Buck
Jason Shumaker
Aubrey O’Day
Brandy
Burt Reynolds
Carey Lowell
Catherine Hickland
D’Angelo
Damian Lewis
Isaiah Mustafa
Jennifer Aniston
Kelly Rowland
Kelly Slater
Matthew Lawrence
Mike Shinoda
Natalie Dormer
Q’orianka Kilcher
Sarah Palin
Sheryl Crow
Taylor Lautner
Tina Louise
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February 11, 1962– Tammy Baldwin:
“In the House, I did a lot of sitting down with Republicans to talk about these bills. Often there was a real sort of intimacy in those conversations. People talked about gay brothers, or a child who was gay, lesbian or transgender. I can’t tell you how many of those stories I accumulated. I think I moved a number of my colleagues, and I think it at least caused a lot of internal conflict for those I didn’t move.”
She is my second favorite Baldwin. Tammy Baldwin is the USA’s first openly gay Senator and is currently probably the nation’s most reliably liberal legislator.
I was relieved when Baldwin acknowledged that she is gay and then moved on to other issues. In Wisconsin, when the Republicans use anti-gay rhetoric, it is likely to backfire on them. Everyone that I have met from the Badger State has been nothing if not nice; really, really nice. Besides, Baldwin’s sexuality is old news. Who cares if she is a lesbian? Not the Wisconsin media. Not the academics who study politics. Not the Democrats. Not the Republicans. Not the local or national LGBTQ leaders. Only the gay obsessed Christian Right Wingers seem to make it an issue.
With Wisconsin having just had a bruising battle over union rights to collectively bargain in the state, along with recall campaigns against state senators who supported their repeal, the political culture in this swing state, with only five million voters, is even more divided than usual. That created a perfect opportunity for a candidate like Baldwin, who is firmly on one side of the political divide.
Baldwin voted against going to war in Iraq, and she has pushed to end the war in Afghanistan. She was also one of the few members of Congress to vote against repealing the Glass-Stegall Act, which would have prevented Wall Street and the big banks from making the kinds of risky investments that led to our country’s near financial collapse. Baldwin believes in all people having access to quality, affordable health care, and she gave full support to The Affordable Care Act of 2012. Last legislative session, Baldwin introduced the In The Red Act, a major reform to address college affordability and move the country toward debt-free college.
In 1999, Baldwin became the first woman elected to Congress from Wisconsin, and the first openly gay candidate elected to Congress.
To help reduce our dependence on foreign energy and create jobs throughout her state, Baldwin pushed for investment in clean energy technology and renewable fuels. She has also been a vocal supporter of protecting and restoring Wisconsin’s environment so future generations can enjoy nature in that beautiful state.
She has been a national leader on Civil Rights and Equality issues, including Marriage Equality. She continually fights to see that all Wisconsinites receive equal rights and protections under the law. Baldwin is not the first openly LGBTQ candidate to win a statewide office, though few have won top political jobs and none have won statewide seats in the Midwest.
In fact, only six people have won state posts that required victory outside of the gay friendly metropolitan areas or liberal districts. Here in Oregon, we now have three openly gay officials: Kate Brown is our current Governor and Rives Kistler serves on the Oregon Supreme Court. Lesbian Tina Kotek, who lives in my neighborhood, is Speaker Of The House for Oregon’s House Of Representatives. Portland‘s best mayor ever was the openly gay Sam Adams, serving from 2008- 2012 after four years on the Portland City Council.
As of January 2017, all 50 states have been served by openly LGBTQ elected politicians in some capacity.
Robert Bauman of Maryland, Gerry Studds and Barney Franks of Massachusetts, John Hinson of Missouri, David Dreier and Michael Huffington of California, Steve Gunderson of Wisconsin, Mark Foley of Florida, Ed Schrock of Virginia, and Mike Michaud of Maine; all were outed after they were elected or after they were forced to resign for fooling around with pages, aides or rent boys. Republican closet case Stewart McKinney of Connecticut served in Congress for 15 years before being taken by the plague in 1987, denying he was gay until the end. Pretty Republican and Men Health Magazine cover boy Aaron Schock of Illinois has yet to fling wide that closet door, even after being forced to resign in spring of 2015 for having supremely bad taste and being in possession of perfect abs. That adorable Lindsey Graham of South Carolina claims that he just hasn’t met the right guy yet, and he is holding off coming out officially until he begins dating Ryan Gosling.
But, my favorite legislative closet case of all time is that charming anti-Gay Rights under-the-bathroom-stall-foot-action Idaho Republican stud, Larry Craig. Remember him?
At least 41 states have elected openly gay politicians to one or both houses of their state legislature. But, the two biggest statewide prizes, Governor and USA Senator, had not been won by anyone openly gay until Oreogn’s Brown and Baldwin. I know, I know, former handsome former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey is a big homo, but he was a straight married man when he ran for office, enjoying the occasional romance at Interstate highway rest stops. He resigned in 2004 when he was forced to admit he was having an affair with a man.
Current national gay office holders include: Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Representative Mark Takano of California (the first non-white gay Congressman), Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Representative Jared Polis of Colorado (the first gay parent in Congress), and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. All of them Democrats, of course.
On November 6, 2012, Baldwin became the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate. She ran against Republican Tommy Thompson, the former four term Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary Of Health And Human Services. Because of her 14 years in the House Of Representatives, under Senate rules she had the highest seniority in her entering class of senators. For many, it was no surprise that Wisconsin, a state that approved a gay marriage ban just six years earlier, would send the first openly gay politician to the Senate. Baldwin made no secret of her sexual orientation as she rose through local and state politics during the last two decades. When she was elected in 1998 to represent Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District where she was raised, she was the first out of the closet candidate to be elected to the chamber.
Do not mess with this Baldwin. She was just 9-years-old when her mother married a black man in 1971. She was forced to face the injustice of suspicious white adults stopping her stepfather to ask what he was doing with a blond, blue-eyed little girl. Despite anti-gay smear campaigns by her Republican opponents, she has won her last six elections by 2-to-1 margins.
She gave her unqualified support to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 Presidential race. She was very sad by the results of that election, but she came out fighting.
She has called for the firing of White Nationalist Chief Strategist shithead Steve Bannon and she opposes POTUS’s Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch. She voted no on Rex Tillerson for Secretary Of State and opposes the nomination of racist Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General,
Baldwin serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senate Committee On Health, Education, Labor And Pensions, and Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation.
And girls, Baldwin is single.
“Ignore the naysayers, the cynics, and the keepers of the status quo; those who say you can’t, you shouldn’t or you won’t.”
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David Pickup (seriously, queen?)
Senate Bill 651, filed last week by three Republican legislators, would prohibit state agencies that are responsible for regulating more than 65 licensed occupations from taking action against those who choose not to comply with professional standards due to religious objections.
David Pickup (seriously, PICKUP as an ex-gay in TEXAS, is your name?) identifies as an “ex-homosexual” and practices reparative therapy in Dallas. He told the Texas Observer that the law would be “a good step in the right direction.” Pickup, who’s also fought efforts to ban reparative therapy in other states, said,.
“For those therapists who are religious, certainly it would apply. There are a lot of therapists that have very sincerely held religious beliefs.”
In 2014, Pickup helped with endorsing reparative therapy that was added to the Texas GOP platform. He later put up a billboard (see, above) advertising his practice in Dallas. It was removed by the advertising company.
Five states and several cities have banned reparative therapy for minors. Texas is unlikely to do this anytime soon, but SB 651 would have major implications for OTHER professions. Eunice Hyon Min Rho, advocacy and policy counsel for the ACLU, said the bill could lead to rampant discrimination against LGBT people and other groups by anyone who is licensed by the state, from doctors to teachers to law enforcement officers.
“This is incredibly broadly written. It’s just really alarming. There are no limitations to this bill.”
David Pickup in his booth during the Texas Republican Convention in 2016.
(via Towleroad)
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Lange as Frida Kahlo
As Joan Crawford in “Feud”.
Photo, Robert Trachtenberg
Next month Lange stars along with Susan Sarandon in Feud, Ryan Murphy’s new anthology series, where she becomes another icon, Joan Crawford. Thoughout her career, Lange has now played other famous women; movie star Frances Farmer; the dowager of Grey Gardens, “Big” Edie Beale; and country singer Patsy Cline. For her the physicality is crucial.
“You do study every breath, every beat, but it can’t just be imitation… [With Crawford] we tried to do similar makeup and hair, of course, but that was the extent of the mimicry. And the voice. She had a very melodic way of speaking. It would rise and fall, and it was studied.
What’s interesting about it is you have to find those fissures, whether it’s just something that registers behind the eye, or in a gesture. There’s one interview, I think she’s at an airport and she’s drunk, and she’s trying really hard to keep the MGM-speak, you know. I’ve beeeen and haaaave. And at one point some children come toward her and — I had to listen to it over and over again to make sure that I really heard it — she turns to them and she says [in a distinctly Texan accent], ‘Well, hah’re yeeew?’ It was like, so right below the surface.”
For the full interview, check out the latest issue of New York.
As Gloria Steinem
As Georgia O’Keeffe
As Simone deBeauvoir
As Marlene Deitrich
As Mae West
As Janis Joplin
As Diana Vreeland
(Photos, Sandro; via New York)
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New York Fashion Week kicked off with an all-day blizzard on Thursday the 9th and the sloppy mess runs through February 16. If you have your fashionista/gay card then you surely you know that CFDA stands for? (I told you not to call me Shirley.) It’s the Council of Fashion Designers of America. This video, shot by Douglas Keeve obviously in the summer, has our man on the street, designer Isaac Mizrahi (who gets called “Isaac Maserati“) asking New Yorkers what CFDA means. He tells one guy he’s dressed like a whore, makes a drag queen (I’m sorry, I don’t know her) lip sync for her life and asks some overzealous hams,
“Can I have my fucking mic back please…“
Watch.
CFDA AWARDS VIDEO EXCERPT, ISAAC MIZRAHI DIRECTOR DOUGLAS KEEVE from Doug Keeve on Vimeo.
(via Avenue)
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Elise Daniels. Photo by Richard Avedon
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum will surely have another blockbuster this summer. Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion opens at the end of May, and gathers over 100 garments and 20 hats by Spanish designer, Cristóbal Balenciaga. Christian Dior once said of him,
“Haute Couture is like an orchestra whose conductor is Balenciaga. We other couturiers are the musicians and we follow the direction he gives.”
In the 50s, when most designers were following the New Look, Balenciaga broke through boundaries, and experimenting with new shapes in ways. His influence is still be seen on runway today. Exhibition curator Cassie Davies-Strodder, says,
“Cristóbal Balenciaga was one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century. Revered by his contemporaries, including Coco Chanel and Hubert de Givenchy, his exquisite craftsmanship, pioneering use of fabric and innovative cutting set the tone for the modernity of the late 20th century fashion.
His lasting impact on fashion will be explored through the work of those who trained with him and through recent garments by designers including Molly Goddard, Demna Gvasalia, and J.W. Anderson, who reflect the legacy of his vision today.”
The show includes the V&A’s own collection, as well as a collaboration with x-ray artist Nick Veasey that reveals the hidden genius of the designer.
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion opens at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, on May 27, 2017 and runs through February 18, 2018.
(via Artnet)
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The most hotly anticipated collection in a while, Raf Simons new collection as the head designer at Calvin Klein seems to be a hit. It’s the work of Simons and the team led by Pieter Mulier, who has worked with Simons for the last 15 years. His collections, first for his own label, then for Jil Sander and for Dior, DO have a through line that is reflected here through a distinctly American label.
All this fuss over Simons understandable consider the risk and an iconic brand (which is no longer owned by Klein, btw) but I DON’T understand the need to redesign his iconic logo. See the before and after, above. ALL CAPS! Revolutionary.
Simons is in now New York and this collection reflects his view of the U.S., as a European. For the show, his friend, artist Sterling Ruby, created the parade streamers and bunting that hung from the ceiling that further reinforced the collections origins. As the New York‘s Cathy Horn says,
“This is not a satirical view of America, but neither is it wholly sweet. It is expansive, though, engaging and real.“
Take a look for yourself. You can see the whole collection here.
(via New York)
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The 59th Annual Grammy’s commences tomorrow night on CBS and we here at World of Wonder Productions are ecstatic to see who’s wearing what on the red carpet and who’ll be performing with who on the big stage. In honor of the big festivities, we will be counting down the top ten female performances of all time. It’s hard to narrow the countdown to just ten, but these are the ones that left a cultural impact on all of us.
Check it out:
10) Glitter In The Air, Pink
9) Born This Way, Lady Gaga
8) Vision Of Love, Mariah Carey
7) If I Were A Boy/You Oughta Know, Beyoncé
(Honorary Mention):
6) You Oughta Know, Alanis Morissette
5) From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart/Hit Me Baby One More Time, Britney Spears
4) Feel Good Inc/Hung Up, Madonna
3) My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion
2) You Know I’m No Good/Rehab, Amy Winehouse
1) The Greatest Love Of All, Whitney Houston
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Beau J. Genot
Jacob Isenberger
Latrice Royale
Arsenio Hall
Christina Ricci
Chynna Phillips
Darren Aronofsky
Ed Lover
Fonzworth Bently
Franco Zeffirelli
Jesse Spencer
Joanna Kerns
John Michael Higgins
Josh Brolin
Judy Blume
Maud Adams
Sarah Lancaster
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February 12, 1923– Franco Zeffirelli:
“I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.”
Zeffirelli lives in the spotlight, famous for his lavish films, opera, and stage production spectaculars. His works have brought applause and accolades, along with certain critical contempt.
Zeffirelli is a gay man and he is open about his sexuality in his memoir. His films have a decidedly gay sensitivity, yet he is an advocate of traditional Catholic Dogma including opposition to Gay Rights, particularly his backing of the Vatican’s effort to prevent a Gay Pride Parade in Rome. The contradiction is characteristic of Zeffirelli’s career, with works that possess extreme degrees of reverence and revilement.
Yet, many religious groups have strongly taken exception to Zeffirelli’s supposedly blasphemous representation of Biblical figures, at the same time, he also earned the derision of gay people for publicly taking the side of the Roman Catholic Church.
Zeffirelli writes that he never likes to discuss his personal life, and that he considers himself “homosexual”, not “gay”, a term he considers less elegant.
“When I was young, I was very attractive, very handsome, and a lot of women fell in love with me, some of them desperately. Same with men. One even tried to commit suicide. I managed to deal with it because I actually felt that I was a special person: I was so successful and handsome. I was in a commanding position. People panted around me to get my favors – one way or another. The real, serious commitment was more with men. I was hit right on the forehead and in the heart by a couple of serious love affairs – not important sexually, but for the involvement that they brought.”
A decade ago, Zeffirelli adopted two adult sons, men he has known and worked with for years who now live with him, dote on him and help manage his affairs.
He was born in Florence, the son of a rich businessman and his fashion designer mistress. He is from a family line that goes back to noted gay Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. His mother followed the Florentine tradition of naming a child born out of wedlock with a created name beginning with the letter Z. His mother passed away when he was a tot, and after her death, he was placed in the care of an English governess, from whom he learned the English language and English literature.
Zeffirelli studied architecture at the University Of Florence where he began directing student plays and opera productions. He left the university to join the fight against the Nazi occupation of Italy, working as an interpreter for the British Army.
With the influence from his new British friends, Zeffirelli dropped his plans to become an architect, and instead he became a theatrical set and costume designer. He found work as an assistant to the great film director Luciano Visconti. His first big break was in 1949, designing the set for the first Italian production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Visconti. Zeffirelli:
“There were lots of stories of Visconti and myself and the relationship that developed, but the quality of my work did not authorize anybody to doubt my serious professional preparation.”
He lived with Visconti for three years. They broke-up when his own professional ambitions became too much for his competitive older lover to bear.
Zeffirelli found real success staging plays and operas, famously noted for his highly naturalistic productions of Shakespeare at London’s Old Vic and operas at Milan‘s La Scala Opera House, London‘s Covent Garden, and NYC’s Metropolitan Opera, directing the greats like Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, and Leontyne Price.
Zeffirelli’s lavish designs brought mainstream interest to the opera world, but the Zeffirelli style, which he compared to Hollywood epics of Cecil B. De Mille, “but in good taste”, met with resistance from the critics who found his productions overwrought, drawing attention away from the actual performances. But, audiences ate it up.
In the 1960s, Zeffirelli expanded his audience, becoming a film director, starting with The Taming Of The Shrew (1967), starring that high wattage duo of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, rather perfectly cast.
Zeffirelli gained my own attention when, as a young teen, I saw his Romeo And Juliet (1968). The film was an introduction to Shakespeare for many young people, with his casting of unknown, inexperienced and attractive teenaged actors in the title roles. A generation later, he would repeat the formula of obsessive teenage romance against parental prohibition with Endless Love (1981).
The Husband and I watched Zeffirelli’s Tea With Mussolini for a third time recently. We just love this charming film, with the added attraction of enjoying Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Lily Tomlin (as a butch lesbian) and Cher all in the same project. I nearly passed out with pleasure.
Other Zeffirelli films include: Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973), Jesus Of Nazareth (1977) with Robert Powell as Hot Jesus, Verdi’s La Traviata (1982), Otello (1986), Hamlet with crazy Mel Gibson and Glenn Close (1990), Jane Eyre (1996), and Callas Forever (2001).
Zeffirelli served as a senator for Silvio Berlusconi’s very conservative Forza Italia Party. He was staunchly anti-Fascist as a youth, but I was worried that he might be a fan of our American President, but he seems done with politics now, although he remains steadfastly conservative:
“I know that theater people often have very simplistic view of politics and tend to express very black and white patriotic sentiments but perhaps that is because we know the value of illusion, how it can help strengthen the weak, and stimulate the weary.”
His support of the Catholic Church confounds me. It seems baffling when the Church denounced his own Jesus film:
“I believe that Catholicism is the only one that comprehensively meets the needs of mankind. No other religion has words so full of hope as those Jesus preached in the ‘Sermon On The Mount’.”
In his memoir, Zeffirelli admits he was introduced to sex by a pedophile Catholic priest, but he shrugs it off by writing:
“Molestation suggests violence and there was no violence at all.”
Yikes!
Still, Zeffirelli did bring me that glimpse of Leonard Whiting’s fine ass as Romeo in that film in 1968. It had a major influence on my budding sexuality and may have made me begin to explore my own gayness.
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Alec Baldwin hosted SNL for the record 17th time and there was lots of Donald Trump-bashing on a People’s Court-style segment. Melissa McCarthy returned in the cold open as the violent Sean Spicer (now with a motorized attack-podium) and Leslie Jones made good pitch to be the replacement for Baldwin as Trump.
But the recent banning of Trump apologist, Kellyanne Conartist from CNN inspired a brilliant filmed bit with a nightie-clad Kate McKinnon as Conway menaces Jake Tapper a la Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Conway’s lust for fame takes her over the edge and then out the window.
Watch.
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Franklin Graham, son of the Rev. Billy Graham, has unleashed a another attack on the LGBT community. North Carolina is his home, and last year Franklin battled against a proposed non-discrimination ordinance, and WON, in a 6-5 city council vote. On Friday in a “WARNING” he condemned transgender people calling them “predators and sexually perverted people” and said LGBT people don’t deserve civil rights. The hateful Graham wrote on Facebook, wrote.
“LGBT activists are trying to hook their caboose to the ‘freedom train’ and drag their immoral agenda into our communities by claiming that this is a civil rights issue. Civil rights issues are very real and important—but don’t be fooled, this isn’t one of them. I heard one African-American minister say recently that ‘the freedom train doesn’t stop at Sodom and Gomorrah.‘”
Yes, he is actually saying that LGBT people are evil and don’t deserve any civil rights. Of course, Graham says, that these non-discrimination ordinances are “being used to discriminate against Christians.”
“Where sexual orientation and gender identity laws such as this have passed in other places, florists, bakers, photographers, adoption agencies, and t-shirt printers have been punished by the government for not wanting to use their artistic talents to celebrate and participate in same-sex weddings, not wanting to promote the LGBT messaging in Gay Pride events, or for not wanting to place an adoptive child with two men.“
Graham calls for Charlotte residents “by the tens of thousands” to “show up to stand against” a new proposed ordinance next week. Hopefully, they will gather to call out this man’s bigotry, hatred and ignorance.
(via NCRM)
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Courtney Act is pure FIRE on new track Dance Again from Australia-based opera tenor/pop singer Bielfield (yes…he goes both ways!)! The RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 6) break-out star was a semi-finalist on Australian Idol in 2003, subsequently releasing her first single Rub Me Wrong. Now she’s back with a voice that is pop heaven, proving she’s not just another pretty face…GIRL’S GOT TALENT! Bielfield first met Courtney last year, backstage at a music festival, and knew he had to work with her. The electro, Hi-NRG song, about getting over a lost love, is “as if Major Lazer and Ace of Base had a love child”, says Bielfield. Check out a clip below, and get Dance Again now on iTunes! (photo by John McRae)
Bielfield:
“Courtney was the big inspiration for this song. I wanted to write a song specifically for her voice. Something special that brought out her vibrant spirit and girlish innocence. We wanted a song that would stir emotions, not necessarily full on jumping ‘round the house craziness, but a track that might get people moving.”
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Yes, it takes money to make money. Multi-billionaire, Oprah Winfrey just made a nice little profit her selling her Gustav Klimt. Her 1912 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II sold for $150 million last summer.
Oprah, who is a noted art collector, originally purchased the painting, one of two portraits the Klimt did of Adele Bloch-Bauer, 10 years ago at Christie’s for $87.9 million. It was sold by the subject’s heirs, after they won a protracted legal battle with the Austrian state museum over five Klimt canvases seized by the Nazis from Bloch-Bauer’s husband during World War II.
The Nazi-looted works were the subject 2015’s Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren as Bloch-Bauer’s niece, and Ryan Reynolds as her lawyer.
In the ten years Winfrey owned the work, its value increased over 70%. It was purchased by an anonymous Chinese collector.
Another major Klimt painting, “Water Serpents II”, sold by Russian billionaire collector Dmitry Rybolovlev in November 2015 for $170 million.
(via Artnet)
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Australian comic Jim Jefferies told the repugnant Piers Morgan where to get off for defending Trump on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
Morgan accused Jefferies of whipping up hysteria, but Jefferies didn’t let him off so easily.
“This is what you do, Piers. You say, ‘He hasn’t done this, he hasn’t done that, he’s not going to do all these things,’”
Give him a fucking chance, mate. Hitler didn’t kill the Jews on the first day, he worked up to it, mate.”
When Morgan labeled his verbal attack as “ridiculous,” Jefferies responded by flipping him off and telling him,
“Fuck off you asshole…”
You just like that you won ‘The Apprentice’ and you have a famous friend, mate. That’s all you fucking like.“
Watch.
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The corner of Read and Tyson Streets in Baltimore is the scene of an iconically filthy film moment. Divine playing Babs Johnson in John Waters’ Pink Flamingos, claimed her status as the “Filthiest Person Alive” by watching as a dog poops and then eating it.
This golden cinema moment is being commemorated with an eight-foot-tall monument on that corner. Baltimore’s mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, is all for it. Her spokesperson, Howard Libit, told the Baltimore Sun,
“The mayor thinks that the idea sounds divine and looks forward to seeing more details on the proposal.”
According to the Kickstarter for the project, it will be made of marble and granite and
“will clearly reference other devotional spaces built for contemplation and reflection”
With the addition bronze poop at the foot of the monument, the Kickstarter says:
“At first glance this monument might masquerade as a typical devotional space, but make no mistake with a second look across the alley, the piece will irreverently and outrageously scream in pitched Bawlemorese,
‘Hey, damn it. I’m right here — and I’m simply DIVINE!‘”
The idea was started by Michal Makarovich — owner of the Hampden Junque antique shop — who clocked the traffic of people visiting Baltimore who were interested in John Waters’ relationship to the city. The design is a collaboration between Baltimore artists David Hess and Sebastian Martoran.
Apparently, the monument will be a “gift of public art” — with a budget of $70,000 — but is technically on mostly private property (it’s against the side of a house), and could remain even if the city weren’t to officially condone it.
The “Divine Monument Team” has until March 26 to earn the $70,000 minimum. (As of this writing, only $14,000 has been raised.) You can donate here to make this idea a Divine reality.
Tyson Street, Baltimore
(via Flavorwire)
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It’s been a good year to Alaska Thunderfuck. The current reigning queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2 released her second studio album “Lil’ Poundcake” (that’s currently in the top 100 albums on iTune’s dance charts), she met Lady Gaga (and they kiki’d like two “regular girls”), did a little motorcycle ride on Celebrity Apprentice, and oh yeah, won All Stars 2.
She’ll be werkin’ it on the Grammy’s Red Carpet live at 1PM EST (4PM PST) and she channeled one of the late greats, Amy Winehouse. Known for paying homage to her idols (she does a campy rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing” that’s a MUST-SEE!), she wore a giant blonde sculpted bird’s nest with her signature flower and a stunning dress by the Lady Hyde.
Check it out:
We. LOVE. it!!!
We can’t wait to see more of her on the E’s Red Carpet.
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Our girls sure are doin’ some important work, today! If you haven’t already gagged over Alaska’s Amy Winehouse eleganza on E’s Grammy’s Red Carpet live, than maybe Katya will give you the cuntry fix you’re fashionista’s heart desired. At a first glance, one might suspect a Gaga “Million Reasons” moment, but the pink floor length fringe and feathered hair resembles more of a Dolly Parton vigor and candor.
Check it out:
Alaska just shared a super cute photo too:
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Don’t be a hater: Kris Jenner is a queen. There, I said it. When you’re trying to keep up with the Momager of all Momagers, one has to wonder how fabulous her life REALLY is (because I’m pretty sure it is.) Well, she’s just like with her SnapChat filter obsession. As trolls began to comment, let’s all be real and shut those trolls down: if you were invited to the Grammy’s, you would TOTALLY be like Jenner. You’d probably have 1 to 12 (?) glasses of Champagne and ask your friend to take tons of SnapChat videos of you.
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Gia Gunn from RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6 and her bestie Nikita Dragun compete for cash on this episode of Bestie$ For Ca$h!
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