Our Will Horton is a supporting player in this episode and there is no Sonny. It reminds me that these are the final weeks for Chandler Massey in the role and he will be greatly missed.
I’m not sure of he has much storyline left until his departure but we will enjoy every moment this two-time Emmy winner is on screen.
In these scenes, he hangs out with his hottie cousin JJ and then later with ex-stepdaddy and possibly future stepdaddy EJ.
When I did a previous post about former American Idol finalist Crystal Bowersox coming out as bisexual, I neglected to mention that she will be performing on Sunday at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center’s Threads of Change clothing drive party.
I’m so there!
The Dec. 8 event, now in its seventh year, will take place at Eleven Nightclub in West Hollywood from noon to 4 pm. The Center’s Young Professionals Council (YPC), will collect gently used clothes for homeless LGBT youth served by the Center.
Crystal, runner-up to Lee DeWyze during season 9 of Idol, will perform her latest single, Coming Out for Christmas.
Also expected to appear are out pro athletes Robbie Rogers of the LA Galaxy and basketball’s Jason Collins who will donate clothes from their closets.
“We just hope someone can fit into Jason’s clothes!” says YPC member and event co-chair Tommy Johnson. “And to have Crystal entertain our guests with her latest holiday hit will truly make everyone’s spirits brighter. She is our American Idol!”
Iron Fist Clothing is giving $4,000 worth of clothes and accessories, which will help stock the closet at the Center’s Youth Center on Highland where staff distribute an average of 1,200 clothing items each month.
Admission to the clothing drive party is free, and guests who donate a bag of gently used clothes will receive a complimentary mimosa.
Items of apparel for men and women in greatest demand are:
· Gently used casual clothes (of all adult sizes)
· Gently used professional attire for job interviews
· Gently used winter coats and sweaters
· Shoes in excellent condition
· New socks and underwear
Guests are encouraged to post photos of their fashionable donations on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to @LAGayCenter with hashtag #YPCThreads.
Those unable to attend the clothing drive and party can drop off donations at the Youth Center on Highland, 1220 N. Highland Ave., any day between 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
When I posted the shorter version of this a few days ago, I did not realize that my favorite twins, Gary Lane and Larry Lane, not only appear in this Doritos commercial, they wrote it and produced it!
Is there nothing these boys can’t do? They starred in the documentary Hollywood to Dollywood, won ABC’s Winter Wipeout and NBC’s Fear Factor and had Greg In Hollywood at hello.
They also had Leslie Jordan at hello. The Emmy winning actor met the twins years ago at a West Hollywood restaurant and when he realized there were two of these handsome gay men he said: “God is good!”
Anyway, they’ve all been friends for years with Leslie making an enchanting appearance in their documentary.
Now this commercial which I think has a chance of airing during the Super Bowl if it gets enough online support.
Leslie sent out this email last night: ‘OK Everybody I need to go VIRAL! Help Leslie Jordan Make the Superbowl! Share! Tweet! We had so Much Fun. So many Incredible People!’
Leslie is damned funny in this and it also features Tim Pocock of NBC’s Camp and male super models Joel Rush and Nick Ayler who are so good looking they make me wish this extended version was extended even more!.
Daren Kagasoff is so far best known for his role on ABC Family’s The Secret Life of An American Teenager.
The show ended its five year run in June.
Earlier this year, Daren was cast as Alex in the FOX pilot Delirium based on the novel by Lauren Oliver. But the network decided against ordering it as a series.
Still, the 26 year old appears to be on the verge of even bigger things.
It was just announced yesterday that Daren has been cast in Ouija, a horror film inspired by the Hasbro board game. The film follows a group of teens playing with a Ouija board who make contact with an evil spirit then desperately try to close the door they’ve opened.
Calling his friend the best live TV broadcaster ever, Good Morning America news anchor Josh Elliott choked back tears on Sam Champion’s last day on the show.
Champion has left GMA to become the face of The Weather Channel and his departure brings to an end morning TV’s greatest bromance and most wonderful gay-straight alliance.
“I just want to say thank you because it’s been a gift each and every day to work with you, Sam,” Elliott said. “A lot of people talk about our bromance. For me it was just a friendship. I promise there’s happy on the inside, but the tears … aw, I’m going to miss you. I love you, Sam.”
This second video is of Sam and Josh riding X-Flight At Six Flags Great America is a hoot! It also shows how close they are.
BTW, I’m with Josh – just can’t do roller coasters anymore. In my teens and 20s, could ride them all damned day.
Ellen DeGeneres @TheEllenShowToday we lost the world’s greatest advocate for peace and change. Nelson Mandela was a hero to so many. Rest in peace.
maria bello @maria_bello “@TheSquareFilm:Thank you,Nelson Mandela.Rest In Peace, your legacy will not be forgotten.” So true.Sitting w Clare – v sad.See you 2 later
Alec Mapa @AlecMapaI am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. #Mandela
Hilary Rosen @hilaryr#NelsonMandela was the first President to insist that equal rights for gays & lesbians be in his country’s new Constitution & it was.
Tom Daley isn’t publicly confirming that Dustin Lance Black is the man in his life but he’s not denying it either.
In an interview to air this weekend with ITV’s Jonathan Ross, the 19-year-old Olympic swimmer opens up about what he says is his first romantic relationship with another man.
“It really was love at first sight, I’d never felt like anything like it before. We were at a party and I hadn’t even spoken to him all night.
“I didn’t know what to do or if he was gay at first. I made the first move, I typed ‘call me’ in his notes with a smiley face on this phone and the next day he texted.
“He makes me feel safe and happy, right now I couldn’t be happier.
“I’d never felt the feeling of love, it happened so quickly, I was completely overwhelmed by it to the point I can’t get him out of my head all the time. I’ve never had it before where I love someone and they love me just as much.”
There have been a lot of bitches out there harping on the age difference between Daley and Black (he’s 39) and it seems like bitter grapes to me. I mean, so WHAT? Just think about the first time you ever really fell in love and how magical and special that initial period of time was.
Tom is in that now and I for one am happy for him!
Bing Crosby and David Bowie teamed up for a most unlikely of duets for Bing’s 1977 holiday special.
Bowie reportedly thought The Little Drummer Boy was all wrong for him and initially refused to sing it with Bing. Then a team of composers and writers frantically retooled the song and added another melody and new lyrics as a counterpoint to all those pah-rumpa-pum-pums. They called it Peace on Earth.
Bowie liked it. More important, Bowie sang it.
The duet has gone from oddity to a holiday chestnut in the years since and was even released as a single in 1982.
Bowie was 30 at the time and Crosby 73. They recorded the duet on Sept. 11, 1977 and a month later, Crosby was dead of a heart attack. The special was broadcast on CBS about a month after his death.
I must confess to not being very familiar with Dean Sheremet until last week’s Twitter incident with his ex-wife LeAnn Rimes.
If I had been more familiar with this guy, I assure you he would have been a Morning Man long ago – What. A. Hottie.
Dean is a former dancer and actor who has become something of a celebrity chef who is in demand for television appearances like his recent visit to the ladies of The Talk.
Rimes famously cheated on him after many years of marriage and has talked about it and written an album about it. You never really heard much from Dean but he recently appeared on Access Hollywood and told Billy Bush: “I never saw it coming.”
Rimes called and told him a magazine “may or may not have a picture” of she and her Northern Lights co-star Eddie Cibrian kissing.
Dean recalled asking: “What do you mean, ‘May or may not have a picture? What does that mean?’”
It all unfolded from there.
But he’s moved on and is now married to photographer Sarah Silver known for her work on America’s Top Model.
It’s been quite a week for celebrities coming out as bisexual.
Both Tom Daley and Maria Bello went public with the fact that they are in relationships with people of the same sex but did not label themselves as gay.
Sara Gilbert discussed these announcements with fellow panelists on The Talk and makes the point that people just don’t like or seem to believe someone can be bisexual.
‘There’s a pressure for people to label themselves as gay or straight. Whenever someone says they are bisexual – (Tom Daley) says he still fancies girls and in Maria Bello’s (New York Times) article, she’s talking about how she could still kind of like both it sounded like. People don’t like that and go, “Oh no, they’re probably one or the other.”‘
So news broke today that Perez Hilton is going to star in and co-produce a new reality show called Gay Dads of New York.
Perez is, of course, a gay dad and he recently moved to New York.
The rest of the dads have not been selected yet but Perez promises the new show will not be ‘trashy or boring.’
‘I am honored and excited to bring to television a show that will be filled with love, humor and drama,’ he tells The Hollywood Reporter. ‘Up until now people know me more for my opinions than who I am. This show will give viewers the opportunity to get to know the “real” Perez Hilton and my family, as well as some other really dynamic gay dads, and the women that make up their support system.’
He is teaming up with the production company behind The Real World franchise and Keeping Up With the Kardashians on the project.
Perez, 35, has tried to re-introduce himself as a kinder, gentler personality than the snarky blogger determined to out people and draw inappropriate doodles on photos of celebs.
But plenty of people – on my Facebook page anyway – seem turned off for good.
I asked if people would watch a reality show with Perez. Among the comments: “Never.” “Absolutely not.” “Ugh.” “Barf.” “Hell no.” “I’d rather chew rusty razor blades!” and “Like Jack Nicholson said in Terms of Endearment: “I’d rather stick needles in my eyes.”
Don’t hold back folks, tell us how you really feel!
Members of Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) produced a short video with a nod to the viral success of retailer Kmart’s Joe Boxer holiday ad.
The original ad, which amassed over 15 million views in under three weeks, features six male models ringing in the holidays. It sent the anti-gay group One Million Moms into one of their tizzys which made it all the more enjoyable.
GMCLA member and Marketing Consultant Rich Meyers says: “Kmart brilliantly captured a fresh holiday spirit that readily appeals to a younger generation of Americans: a little naughty; a little nice. GMCLA’s concert programming embodies that same spirit, so our parody was simply an entertaining way of paying homage to an innovative marketing campaign.”
GMCLA video crew included Rich Meyers (producer/director), Kevin Bolling (producer), Tegr Powell (choreographer), Bernie Espinosa (videographer/editor) and Kevin DeKimpe (music/sound). The cast included dancers Fred Arens, Chris Etscheid, John Halbach, Richard Durazo, Jason Duguay, Jason Frazier, and announcers Ivan Estrada and Nico Decastro.
This is all to promote GMCLA’s annual musical extravaganza, “Holiday Spectacular: Festival of Carols” at the Alex Theatre (216 N. Brand Boulevard) in Glendale, CA on December 14th and 15th, 2013.
For more information about GMCLA, or to become a subscriber, or to purchase tickets to “Holiday Spectacular: A Festival of Carols,” which range from $20 to $75, please visit www.gmcla.org.
Emmy winner Leslie Jordan is his outrageous self in this new commercial for Doritos that also features plenty of hot young men – including my favorite twins Gary Lane and Larry Lane of Hollywood to Dollywood fame.
Leslie, who appears in several episodes of this season’s American Horror Story, will perform his new one-man show, Show Pony, at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center’s Renberg Theatre Dec. 12-15. More info HERE.
Oh man, I loved watching this entire interview last night.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour sat down with a pair of old friends – both icons – and had a wide-ranging chat about their remarkable lives.
They are Billie Jean King and Elton John who met at the height of their fame and have been genuinely close for 40 years.
Here are some of the quotes if you don’t have time to watch now:
BJK on being outed: “In the beginning, it wasn’t a relief. I thought, well, if I’m really going to be true to myself, then I need to do this. But I was outed. I wasn’t ready. I think you know when you’re ready. That’s why I wouldn’t out somebody.”
Elton on realizing he is gay: “I didn’t know anyone who was gay. I didn’t really do anything about it until 23 when I first had sex.”
Elton on fame: “I hate the celebrity that is around now. The vacuous, talentless, horror show that they get paid millions of dollars for, when there are people who are teaching kids every day that are trying to scrape by and earn a living. It’s a joke.”
BJK on life today: “We’re out there every single day with our energy and we’re going to make this world a better place, no matter if it’s through tennis, through music, whatever, to try to help the LGBT community, just help humanity,”
BJK on the Bobby Riggs match: “For me, tennis was my platform, and what the King-Riggs match allowed was a platform for me to fight for equal rights and opportunities for boys and girls and women. So this match, I knew, was a seminal moment.”
Elton on Riggs match: “I honestly knew that all men I knew in my life wanted her to win, because Bobby was so cocky and so arrogant.”
This is, hands down, my favorite Christmas song – ever.
Merry Christmas Darling was written by Richard Carpenter and Frank Pooler was made a classic by the gorgeous delivery of the late, great Karen Carpenter who died in 1983.
The single of Merry Christmas Darling went to number one on Billboard’s Christmas singles chart in 1970, and did again in 1971 and 1973. It was then included in The Carpenters 1978 Christmas Portrait album and Karen performed it on their ABC Christmas special that year.
For a man who is so good looking Christian Bale has taken more than his share of character parts that require him to look far from his matinee idol best.
One of those roles, as Mark Wahlberg’s brother in The Fighter, earned Bale his first Academy Award nomination – and a win! He is getting Oscar buzz again for two films: Out of the Furnace and American Hustle.
Nice to see the 39-year-old actor now getting recognition after being ignored by the Academy for performances in such films as American Psycho and The Machinist.
He’s willing to become emaciated for a role or to become a buffed-out superhero and transform into Batman in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises.
Christian has been acting in major films since he was a teenager. He was just 13 when he starred in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun then went on to star as a teen in the Disney musical Newsies followed by Swing Kids.
He first got my attention in the 1994 film Little Women because by then he had grown into a very handsome young man. Before breaking through as a star, Christian played gay in the glam rock film Velvet Goldmine then two years later, in 1999, starred as a sexy and creepy serial killer in American Psycho.
Of Christian’s performance in that breakthrough film, critic Roger Ebert wrote: Of Bale’s performance, he wrote, “Christian Bale is heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability; there is no instinct for self-preservation here, and that is one mark of a good actor.”
So much has followed since including Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Rescue Dawn, The Prestige, 3:10 to Yuma, Public Enemies and Terminator Salvation among others.
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When I did a previous post about former American Idol finalist Crystal Bowersox coming out as bisexual, I neglected to mention that she will be performing on Sunday at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center’s Threads of Change clothing drive party.
Also expected to appear are out pro athletes Robbie Rogers of the LA Galaxy and basketball’s Jason Collins who will donate clothes from their closets.
When I posted the shorter version of this a few days ago, I did not realize that my favorite twins, Gary Lane and Larry Lane, not only appear in this Doritos commercial, they wrote it and produced it!
Daren Kagasoff is so far best known for his role on ABC Family’s The Secret Life of An American Teenager.
Calling his friend the best live TV broadcaster ever, Good Morning America news anchor Josh Elliott choked back tears on Sam Champion’s last day on the show.
Ellen DeGeneres @TheEllenShow 
maria bello @maria_bello “
Alec Mapa @AlecMapa 
Hilary Rosen @hilaryr 
Zachary Quinto @ZacharyQuinto 
Robert Gant @RobertJGant 
John Barrowman 
Dustin Lance Black @DLanceBlack 
What a life.
Tom Daley isn’t publicly confirming that Dustin Lance Black is the man in his life but he’s not denying it either.
Margaret Cho turns 45 today and just keeps getting better all the time.
Bing Crosby and David Bowie teamed up for a most unlikely of duets for Bing’s 1977 holiday special.
I must confess to not being very familiar with Dean Sheremet until last week’s Twitter incident with his ex-wife LeAnn Rimes.
It’s been quite a week for celebrities coming out as bisexual.
So news broke today that Perez Hilton is going to star in and co-produce a new reality show called Gay Dads of New York.
This is very clever!
This is so much fun!
Gabi is walking around Salem with a face that says: “I killed Nick Fallon.”
Oh man, I loved watching this entire interview last night.
This is, hands down, my favorite Christmas song – ever.
Originally posted Dec. 21, 2010 – updated
Dustin Lance Black @DLanceBlack 
