Because I read a snarky comment about him last night on Twitter and decided to show my appreciation for the star of The Matrix trilogy as well as such memorable films as My Private Idaho, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Point Break, The Devil’s Advocate, A Walk in the Clouds, Speed, Something’s Gotta Give, The Gift, Constantine and many other films over the past 20-plus years.
Keanu, now 45, has been around long enough as a leading man that he certainly deserves some respect. I never found him more appealing than opposite Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give but also liked him in the less successful The Replacements and Sweet November.
I’ve never done a sit down interview with Keanu but I have had a couple of red carpet encounters with him, including at the Oscars 3-4 years back. I found him to have a good energy and very professional – a movie star who is very good at his job.
Love Portia de Rossi, the lovely actress who was so good in Ally McBeal, Arrested Development and Nip/Tuck. She’s currently in the ABC comedy Better Off Ted and, of course, is married to Ellen DeGeneres.
“It’s one thing to have attention; it’s one thing to stand for something,” she says in an Advocate cover story regarding her marriage to Ellen. “But unless it’s backed up with genuine happiness, I think people can sense that it’s not worth celebrating.”
“Ever since Ellen and I got together, I feel like I’ve been given an opportunity to actually—God, this sounds corny…” She rolls her eyes at herself, fidgets, and then forges ahead. “Well, I feel like my life can actually kind of stand for something. And I don’t mean that in a self-aggrandizing way, like, ‘Look at me, I can make a difference.’ But I feel like, maybe I get why I’m here. … Maybe by sharing my life, I can make people more aware of how important gay marriage is.”
“I think it’s up to us to save marriage,” she adds. “Up to gay people across the country, seeing as though we’re fighting for it so vehemently.” De Rossi has an impressive ability to marry the personal and political: “This whole thing has been a wave of excitement and hope, and then it gently falls back into despair. And then it picks us up again. Unfortunately, we’re the ones who have to suffer this—this humiliation, really. There’s kind of a dignity that’s been stripped from us. Gay people are the ones who have to suffer through it—but without it, it won’t change.”
Go to Advocate.com to read this terrific interview in its entirety.
It’s fine but I think Levi Johnston might have to actually accomplish something in his life (besides fatherhood) if he wants to stay in the public eye.
That, or he can go on a reality show or two.
Whaddaya think: Celebrity Apprentice? The Bachelor? Maybe he could gain a ton of weight and go on The Biggest Loser. Hey, it worked for Kevin Federline!
If you are a Meryl Streep fan, then you must see the brilliant Streep Tease which is being performed on Saturday nights all this month.
I went last Saturday and had the most terrific time. This evening of Meryl Streep Monologues is performed by an all-male cast at Bang, a West Hollywood theater and improv studio. The show had been selling out during its monthly performances last fall and the weekly performances seem to be just as popular with a complete sellout last night.
The show is a real tribute to the quality and the variety of roles the 16-time Oscar nominee has had throughout her unparalleled career.
The heart of this show is creator-producer Roy Cruz, a stand-up comedian who in the playbill writes: “It’s fascinating to know how a line from a movie resonates with one person, especially with Meryl Streep movies. So this show is maybe finding out why we are fascinated with Streep and her movies. It’s maybe the writing, the character, the way she delivered the lines, etc. But we all agree she is a great actress.”
Cruz delivers those lines pretty well himself as he kicks things off brilliantly with his Miranda Priestly monologue from The Devil Wears Prada. It was the perfect way to get us into Meryl mood and to have a few big laughs. He captures Miranda’s imperiousness perfectly (”Oh do move at a glacial pace, you know how I love that.”) and is savvy enough to hold back his next line when the audience is still laughing at the last one.
Cruz then slips into the narrator role and hilariously introduces the seven monologues that careen from heavy drama (Silkwood, Bridges of Madison County, Out of Africa and Sophie’s Choice} to unintentional comedy (A Cry in the Dark, The River Wild) to full-out comedy (Death Becomes Her and Prada). He also does a few trivia questions with the audience and for answering one correctly (The name of Streep’s character in Kramer vs. Kramer was Joanna) I got a Meryl fan as a prize. I can use it to fan myself when the weather get warmer and do lines from Postcards From the Edge, the Streep film that I know ALL of the dialogue.
Postcards was originally part of this show but the actor who did it is no longer part of the cast so a hilarious scene from Death Becomes Her (performed by Ron Morehouse) replaced it. I haven’t seen the film in years and did not remember what an absolute monster Streep’s character of Madeline Ashton was.
Morehouse said he chose that role because it’s a role that allowed Meryl “to play against everything we’ve come to know about her. She’s vain, catty and downright bitchy! As Madeline, Meryl encapsulates the true Hollywood that has always been around her but one she has never bowed to.”
A real comic revelation is Drew Droege’s Lindy Chamberlain from A Cry in the Dark. His Aussie accent is spot-on and his delivery is a real high point of a consistently superb show. I think my favorite comic line was during Mike Rose’s Gail Hartman’s The River Wild when he said, as Gail: “Now listen here you little idiot!”
Taylor Negron was deeply moving as Sophie Zawistowski in a monologue from Sophie’s Choice so intense you could hear a pin drop. Also pulling off a dramatic role with great skill was Trent Walker doing Meryl’s doomed title character in a scene from Silkwood.
Steve Hasley brought real depth – and a fine Italian accent – to his performance as Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County. The monologue reminds us of why this Iowa housewife from Italy decided to stay with a husband, a decent man who she did not love, instead of running off with the dashing photographer who came into town and turned her world upside down.
“I find Francesca’s struggle between the choices we have made in our lives and the choices we want to make to be universal and something that resonates within my own life,” Hasley writes in the playbill.
Probably the best-known actor in the cast is David Dean Bottrell who had a recurring role as the psychotic Lincoln Meyer ABC’s on Boston Legal. He chose the role of Karen Blixen from Out of Africa because of his love of Danish accents. With a few other cast members helping out in supporting roles and others helping to simulate an airplance, Bottrell turns the whole thing into a hilarious tour-de-force and actually manages to act out the entire plot on about six minutes.
The cast gets together for a wonderful finale from Mamma Mia which they perform with impeccable choreography and plenty of joy and it just leaves the audience wanting more.
I can see so many other possibilities including Doubt, Julie & Julia, Heartburn, She-Devil, and Adaptation. The possiblities are endless!
I’m not sure if there are any tickets left for the remaining shows this month but if so, I suggest snapping them up right away.
The star of the first two Eating Out comedies and a top 10 finalist in the first season of American Idol, the multi-talented Jim Verraros turns 27 today.
Jim has found great happiness in his personal life as he and Bill Brennan tied the knot in Chicago in a big, splashy ceremony in Chicago in September.
They were two-and-half years into their relationship when Bill, president of Bridal Expo Chicago, pulled a white gold ring with eight diamonds out of his pocket.
“Being a gay male in this day and age you don’t really think about marriage,” Jim admitted in an interview with Greg In Hollywood. “He’s in the business and he really wanted to have a wedding,. Everything changed for me when I met.”
“People say, ‘Why are you even doing it if it’s not even legal?’ We don’t have to wait for the government to tell us it’s okay, we’re doing it anyway. It’s more about our family and friends and people we care about witnessing something that is true and beautiful. It’s important for us to see our family to see something that is very traditional. Hopefully we will begin to create a movement. You can still have a wedding and no one has to tell you you cant do it.”
Jim the groom is a bit more buff than Jim the Idol contestant. He has added 20 pounds of muscle to his frame through intensive workouts.
“You get to a point in your life when you are ready for a change and you get to it,” he said. “I changed my diet and threw myself in the gym to see how far I could take my body, I got tired of being that geeky dork from the Eating Out movies.”
Anne Hathaway, star of The Devil Wears Prada and an Oscar nominee for Rachel Getting Married, tells GQ that she left the Catholic Church after her older brother came out as a gay man.
“The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out,” she said. “Why should I support an organisation that has a limited view of my beloved brother? So I’m… nothing. Fuck it, I’m forming. I’m a work in progress.”
I just love how in her late 80s, Betty White has become so popular that there is a Facebook movement to have her host Saturday Night Live.
Well, she’s certainly got the chops!
She was a quarter century into her showbiz career when she filled in the gap left by the departures of Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman who got their own spinoffs as Rhoda and Phyllis, respectively.
Enter the Happy Homemaker herself, Sue Ann Nivens, played tp perfection by Miss White who won two well-deserved Emmys during her three seasons with The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
This clips have about five of her best scenes. Enjoy!
VIDEO BONUS: Here is the hilarious Super Bowl ad for Snickers that Betty and Abe Vigoda were featured in yesterday. What a riot!
What a special guy New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is.
Watching his interview with Katie Couric yesterday before the start of the Super Bowl made me realize just how much he means to his adopted city and how much it means to him. Then to have him lead the Saints to victory with such an amazing performance, it’s as if the script was written in heaven.
“We just believed in ourselves and we knew that we had an entire city and maybe an entire country behind us,” he said after being voted MVP in New Orleans’ 31-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts. “What can I say? I tried to imagine what this moment would be like for a long time, and it’s better than expected.”
“I’m just feeling like it was all meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life we won a Super Bowl championship.”
When Brees arrived in 2006, both he and the city were at a crossroad. A torn labrum in his throwing shoulder in the final game of the 2005 season when he was with the San Diego Chargers left him wondering whether his career was over. But Saints coach Sean Payton wanted him for the Saints. As Brees drove around the city during that wooing period, he saw residents struggling to cope with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
He’d found the perfect place to begin his own comeback.
“Eighty-five per cent of the city was under water, all the residents evacuated all over the country, people never knowing if they were coming back or if New Orleans would come back,” he said after Sunday’s win. “But not only the city came back, and the team came back … when the players got there, we all looked at one another and said, ‘We’re going to rebuild together.’
“We leaned on each other,” Brees said, pausing as he choked up. “This is the culmination of that.”
Congratulations to Julie Emery and the entire cast of Then We Got Help for completing their first season of this terrific show which just won an Indie Soap Award for Best Web Series (Comedy).
Here is a synopsis of the season finale: While Jenny tries to convince the group that we all dream our lives will turn out like our favorite TV shows, surprises abound. Every single couple experiences some sort of bombshell this week. Gay couple Dan and Eric are no exception.
His new movie Dear John dethroned box office behemoth Avatar! The romantic drama (also starring the lovely Amanda Seyfried) grossed an estimated $32.4 million in its opening weekend relegating Avatar to second place after a seven week reign at the top.
No need crying for Avatar though. The James Cameron-directed epic took in an additional $23.6 million for an overall domestic take of $630 million (I’m not even gonna get into the international numbers which are equally gaudy).
But the fact remains that for this weekend at least, Channing Tatum is King of the World!
BARROWMAN IS ALIVE: John Barrowman, the star of the smash hit Torchwood and upcoming guest star on several episodes of Desperate Housewives, really gets to show what he can do when he performs on stage.
On London’s West End, Barrowman has been a smash in such shows as Anything Goes, Hair, The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Miss Saigon, Godspell, The Fix and most recently in a revival of La Cage aux Folles. But one of his greatest triumphs was the role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.
It’s Super Bowl Sunday so thought I’d pick Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning as today’s Morning Man.
(Morning Man Classic feature returns next Sunday.)
So Peyton, who turns 34 next month, already has established himself among the game’s all-time greats but his reputation will be cemented is his team can triumph over the New Orleans Saints to win their second Super Bowl in four years. What’s even more astounding his that Peyton’s younger brother, Eli Manning, won the Super Bowl last year as quarterback for the New York Giants.
It’s a family dynasty like Serena and Venus Williams!
Not only that, but Peyton and Eli’s dad is Archie Manning, the New Orleans quarterback who brought up his children in Saints country,
Peyton has a salary of more than $20 million and he sure earns it: his 33 touchdowns this season propelled Indianapolis to win their first 14 games. When he was rested for the final two regular-season games, breaking a run of 209 consecutive starts, the Colts lost both.
If you haven’t seen The Big Gay Sketch Show on Bravo, you must! It’s hilarious and also available on DVD.
One of my favorite sketches ever is the hilarious Julie Goldman playing “Super Liza,” a superhero who saves gays in trouble. The premise is that Liza Minnelli gets special powers whenever she drinks alcohol and that idea stemmed from when her fourth ex-husband, the oh-so-creepy David Gest, said our sweet Liza would beat him up after she had a few too many.
His boyfriend Noah has gone blind and the hot doctor who’s going to restore his sight doesn’t want Luke anywhere near the hospital. Then his biological dad, the creepy Damian, leaves town under mysterious circumstances and leaves Luke in charge of this huge corporation where nobody wants to do what he says.
Then on Friday’s episode, he finds out that Damian tried to kill his aunt Meg! Meg is the sister of Holden, the man who raised Luke as his own and who possibly killed Damian – or at least it seems that way. Some stranger comes to the door and hands Luke’s mom, Lily, Damian’s wallet which he found floating in the water.
The truth is, I have not watched MTV’s The Real World on a regular basis since the Las Vegas season way back when. But it’s so hard to believe that the current season in Washington DC is the show’s 23rd!
Time flies.
When I do watch the show, it’s always the gay cast members or the really hot guy(s) I am most interested in. This season, that package comes in the form of 22-year-old Mike Manning.
Mike has spent his time on the show not only socializing. He’s been working at jobs with the Human Rights Campaign and the Energy Action Coalition and become so rooted in the District that he wants to return for good.
Although he sometimes refers to himself as gay, Mike told Metro Weekly that he is actually bisexual and catches a lot of flack for it:
” hate America’s obsessive need to categorize everything.,” he said. “You’re either black or white. You’re either gay or straight. You’re either this or that. Even in the gay community, there’s like this biphobia. Everybody’s like, “You have to be gay or straight. You can’t be bi. You can’t like both. It’s not who you are. Blah, blah, blah.” Isn’t that committing the same crime they’re preaching against? They’re saying, “Don’t judge me, but I’m going to judge you within our own community.”
People should not give a shit. The question “What are you?” shouldn’t even exist. If you’re attracted to somebody, flirt with them. See where it goes. I like guys and girls. I’ve dated girls, had sex with girls and enjoyed it very much. I find females very attractive. I find males very attractive. If I want to date a guy, I’ll date a guy. If I want to date a girl, I’ll date a girl.”
You go Mike!
So what are his plans for the future?
“I’m doing personal training right now, getting my license. I’m trying to get a job out here so I can move back in May after I graduate. I’m also filming an indie film in Denver, The Big Red Chair. I saw an audition and I went and got the part. I didn’t tell them about [Real World] during my audition. I didn’t want them to try to ride the coattails of Real World.
No matter what I choose — personal training, nutrition, business, politics, acting — this show has given me the confidence to pursue anything I want. It’s given me the confidence to say, hey, I’m still young, I’m 22, I have a lot of life ahead of me. If I want to take off the next three years and just pursue things I wouldn’t normally have done, I’m going to do it.”
Brendan Burke had the courage to come out to his family – then to the world in an ESPN.com article – only to have his life cut short on Friday in a car crash on an Indiana road made slick my heavy snowfall. His friend, 18-year-old Mark Reedy of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. was also killed in the head-on crash.
Brendan’s dad is a well-known figure in the National Hockey League: Brian Burke, the president and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and general manager of Team USA at this month’s Olympics. The son had been was attending Miami University in Ohio and was working with the school’s hockey team.
In early December, Brendan (pictured with the Stanley Cup won my The Anaheim Ducks) came out publicly in a moving article by John Buccigross on ESPN.com.
“I think it’s important my story is told to people because there are a lot of gay athletes out there and gay people working in pro sports that deserve to know there are safe environments where people are supportive regardless of your sexual orientation,” he said to reporters after the article was published.
His father said at the time: “I had a million good reasons to love and admire Brendan. This news didn’t alter any of them.”
In the article, Brian Burke said: “I would prefer Brendan hadn’t decided to discuss this issue in this very public manner. There will be a great deal of reaction, and I fear a large portion will be negative. But this takes guts, and I admire Brendan greatly, and happily march arm in arm with him on this. … I wish this burden would fall on someone else’s shoulders, not Brendan’s. Pioneers are often misunderstood and mistrusted. But since he wishes to blaze this trail, I stand beside him with an axe! I simply could not be more proud of Brendan than I am, and I love him as much as I admire him.”
They were in a good place together, father and son, an example to a lot of families with gay children.
A file photo of Brendan Burke, who died after a car crash in Indiana on Friday. Jodi Hilton for The Globe and Mail
Also in that ESPN article, older brother Patrick Burke had said of Brendan: “He’s incredibly brave. He went back to our all-boys high school and gave a speech about the struggles gay teenagers go through and got a standing ovation from 200 kids who spend half their time insulting anyone different than them. In so many ways, I look up to him for who he is and what he does.”
“Obviously, there are gay players in hockey right now, just no openly gay ones. And there are gay people in management, whether they’re scouts or front-office people or coaches. We just don’t have any openly gay ones right now. I think it will be a challenge for the first person that comes out, because they’ll be putting themselves under a microscope.”
“The scary thing for me is that it might be Brendan, if he chooses to go into hockey. I don’t think it’s fair the face of homosexuality in hockey should be a 20-year-old college kid, but Brendan is more than willing to be the guy, which awes me. I think it’s a matter of when, not if, players and management start coming out.”
And finally, here is what Brendan himself said about the positive reaction to his coming out: “Imagine if I was in the opposite situation, with a family that wouldn’t accept me, working for a sports team where I knew I couldn’t come out because I’d be fired or ostracized. People in that situation deserve to know that they can feel safe, that sports isn’t all homophobic and that there are plenty of people in sports who accept people for who they are.”
The great divas Cher, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli have had great success in movies but even bigger success as live performers and as recording artists.
It seems that none of them have ever made enough movies considering how very good they are on the big screen. Most of Streisand’s films are classics but she’s only been in 17 movies overall while Ross, Oscar nominated for Lady Sings the Blues and Golden Globe nominated for Out of Darkness has made just five films. Liza is an Oscar winner for Cabaret and Hollywood royalty but her total number of films is just 15.
Then we come to Cher who has been in just over a dozen films. But the Oscar winner is, at last, returning to movies in Burlesque which is scheduled to be released in November.
I’m a huge fan of Cher the actress and am so glad her final film will no longer be Stuck On You which was fun but not on the caliber of her classics Mask, Silkwood, The Witches of Eastwick and, of course, Moonstruck. I also loved her in Mermaids, Suspect and Tea With Mussolini.
The less said about Faithful the better, however.
Entertainment Tonight went to the set of Burlesque and Cher admitted that she feels “rough” because her co-stars are much younger than her. She puts a lot of effort into her appearance to keep up with her fellow cast members.
“It is a hard job,” she said. “You get up at 5am and you try to look good. All these girls are, like, a third my age. That is rough.”
Cher also praised her co-star Christina Aguilera: “I’m shocked, but she’s really good. The other day, we were hamming it up so badly, so old, like vaudevillian. She was keeping up! She was hot. Her game was good!”
Aguilera described working with Cher as a “huge blessing” and added: “I can tell you I love her. I love Cher!”
Oliver Fish finally gets his emotional life together by coming out of the closet and committing to his true love Kyle Lewis.
And now he’s gonna be a daddy.
He got Stacy pregnant during a drunken encounter pre-Kyle and now we have this big elaborate plot that include Stacy being kidnapped and about to deliver “the chosen one.” Some crazy dude wants to snatch her baby then have another kidnapped woman, Jessica, raise it. I guess the plan is to kill Stacy.
But Oliver is among those who are searching for her and that’s where this leaves off.
I dunno, I kinda miss all the Oliver and Kyle making goo-goo eyes at each other stuff!
Christopher Meloni has been so good as heroic Det. Elliot Stabler on NBC’s Law & Order SVU for so long that it’s difficult to imagine him as a murderer.
But fans of HBO’s late, great prison drama Oz know him as the bisexual killer Chris Keller who embarked on a several seasons long love affair with fellow inmate Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergeson). The relationship had its ups and down but as time went on it became clear their love was deep and real.
And the actors had the most wonderful chemistry that really elevated their scenes together. They were affectionate off-screen as well kissing passionately on-screen at the GLAAD Media Awards several years ago. It was delish!
But I digress:
Tergeson, who was in prison on Oz for killing people in a drunk driving accident, will guest on SVU on March 3 in a very different kind of role: He plays a crazed killer who attacks a hooker named Gladys who is played by Mischa Barton.
Executive producer Neal Baer tells TV Guide: “Chris and Lee have a very intense scene.”
My guess is it will not be near as intense as some of their scenes on Oz. Just to refresh your memory, I’ve posted a few videos below:
Los Angeles Times Pultizer Prize winning columnist Dan Neil may be leaving the paper for the Wall Street Journal but this week, he wrote a column about the Super Bowl ad controversies and a part of it really made me laugh.
I gotta share a few excerpts:
I realize that what I’m about to say may ruin my chances of getting into Canton. But American football strikes me as a pretty homoerotic spectacle, beginning with the hypertrophic masculinity of the male form in tight pants and huge shoulder pads and ending with the most undignified gesture in all of sports, the hands-between-the-cheeks snap of the ball. Hike, indeed.
The pats on the fanny, the showering together, the endlessly rolling around in the dirt. All things considered, I think figure skating is more butch.
The most subversive part of the Mancrunch.com ad is not its open acknowledgment of gay life, or even its portrayal of two guys kissing — and kissing for comic effect, much like the Snickers Super Bowl ad of two years ago that caused a flap. No, the ad’s real transgression is to imply that football-loving straight men, the sort who high-five after touchdowns, might under the right circumstances act out sexually with another man.
You have to wonder what sort of marvelously awkward silences on Super Sunday the ad might have provoked before the tension was broken.
“Want another beer?” “Yeah, dog . . .” (while thinking, as his friend walks to the fridge, “That Jimmy, he’s sure got a nice butt. . . .”).
These ads are definitely not brought to you by the NFL.
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Why Keanu Reeves you wonder?
Love Portia de Rossi, the lovely actress who was so good in Ally McBeal, Arrested Development and Nip/Tuck. She’s currently in the ABC comedy Better Off Ted and, of course, is married to Ellen DeGeneres.
“I think it’s up to us to save marriage,” she adds. “Up to gay people across the country, seeing as though we’re fighting for it so vehemently.” De Rossi has an impressive ability to marry the personal and political: “This whole thing has been a wave of excitement and hope, and then it gently falls back into despair. And then it picks us up again. Unfortunately, we’re the ones who have to suffer this—this humiliation, really. There’s kind of a dignity that’s been stripped from us. Gay people are the ones who have to suffer through it—but without it, it won’t change.”
Cruz delivers those lines pretty well himself as he kicks things off brilliantly with his Miranda Priestly monologue from The Devil Wears Prada. It was the perfect way to get us into Meryl mood and to have a few big laughs. He captures Miranda’s imperiousness perfectly (”Oh do move at a glacial pace, you know how I love that.”) and is savvy enough to hold back his next line when the audience is still laughing at the last one.
Postcards was originally part of this show but the actor who did it is no longer part of the cast so a hilarious scene from Death Becomes Her (performed by Ron Morehouse) replaced it. I haven’t seen the film in years and did not remember what an absolute monster Streep’s character of Madeline Ashton was.
A real comic revelation is Drew Droege’s Lindy Chamberlain from A Cry in the Dark. His Aussie accent is spot-on and his delivery is a real high point of a consistently superb show. I think my favorite comic line was during Mike Rose’s Gail Hartman’s The River Wild when he said, as Gail: “Now listen here you little idiot!”
Steve Hasley brought real depth – and a fine Italian accent – to his performance as Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County. The monologue reminds us of why this Iowa housewife from Italy decided to stay with a husband, a decent man who she did not love, instead of running off with the dashing photographer who came into town and turned her world upside down.
Probably the best-known actor in the cast is David Dean Bottrell who had a recurring role as the psychotic Lincoln Meyer ABC’s on Boston Legal. He chose the role of Karen Blixen from Out of Africa because of his love of Danish accents. With a few other cast members helping out in supporting roles and others helping to simulate an airplance, Bottrell turns the whole thing into a hilarious tour-de-force and actually manages to act out the entire plot on about six minutes.
Anne Hathaway, star of The Devil Wears Prada and an Oscar nominee for Rachel Getting Married,
I just love how in her late 80s, Betty White has become so popular that there is a Facebook movement to have her host Saturday Night Live.
What a special guy New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is.
Channing Tatum is such a stud!
It’s Super Bowl Sunday so thought I’d pick Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning as today’s Morning Man.
If you haven’t seen The Big Gay Sketch Show on Bravo, you must! It’s hilarious and also available on DVD.
It’s not easy being Luke Snyder.
The great divas Cher, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli have had great success in movies but even bigger success as live performers and as recording artists.
I’m a huge fan of Cher the actress and am so glad her final film will no longer be Stuck On You which was fun but not on the caliber of her classics Mask, Silkwood, The Witches of Eastwick and, of course, Moonstruck. I also loved her in Mermaids, Suspect and Tea With Mussolini.
Christopher Meloni has been so good as heroic Det. Elliot Stabler on NBC’s Law & Order SVU for so long that it’s difficult to imagine him as a murderer.
Los Angeles Times Pultizer Prize winning columnist Dan Neil may be leaving the paper for the Wall Street Journal but this week, he wrote
