CNN’s Anderson Cooper tonight spoke with Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, after she delivered a poem at the inauguration of President Joe Biden. She is most impressive and this is a wonderfully charming interview. At the end, Cooper described the young poet as “awesome.”
Robert Farah, one of my biggest pro tennis crushes, is celebrating his 34th birthday.
The dreamy Farah is the world’s top-ranked doubles player and with partner Juan Sebastián Cabal has won 15 ATP titles, including the 2019 Wimbledon title, 2019 US Open title and two Italian Open titles. They have also been finalists at the Australian Open and three times have made the semifinals of the French Open.
The Canadian-born Colombian professional tennis player played college tennis at the University of Southern California from 2006 to 2010. He finished his senior season as the number one ranked player in singles, while additionally ranked second in doubles. He won the 2008 NCAA men’s doubles national championship, partnering with Kaes Van’t Hof.
This year my birthday wish is a call for kindness. We can’t just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. So today, January 19th, let’s get to unearthing love https://t.co/CTShxNkbRqpic.twitter.com/0UFiMCyM9D
Stefano Tsitsipas, the sixth-ranked male tennis pro in the world, is not only an exciting player to watch but his booty is one of the great wonders of the world – in my opinion.
These Instagram photos are proof!
The 22-year-old sexpot has really made great strides in the past two seasons as he won the year-ending ATP Championships in 2019 upsetting Roger Federer and Dominic Thiem en-route to the title. The same year he upset Federer on his way to the semifinals of the Australian Open.
Last fall, he made it to the semifinals of the French Open and has won a total of five tour titles.
It’s hard to think of anything good that’s come out of four years of Donald Trump as president but I suppose one thing has been Randy Rainbow’s brilliantly scathing song parodies.
For this grand finale, he takes Seasons of Love from Rent and turns it into Seasons of Trump. He touches on the long list of horrors and shameful cast of characters and as we all continue to be terrified of the coronavirus, we are reminded of just scary the past four years have been.
It was 75 years ago today that Dolly Parton was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, as the fourth of 12 children.
It’s well known the family was quite poor in terms of material possessions but had strong values and a lot of love.
And out of that situation emerged a beloved star who has been making hits for 50 years such as Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, I Will Always Love You, Islands in the Stream, Here You Come Again and Nine to Five, among others.
Dolly made a big splash in the movies in 1980s Nine to Five with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda and had another big hit with 1989′s Steel Magnolias – both films are huge with us gays.
Of her longevity, Dolly says: ‘People feel like they’ve known me so long because I’ve been around a long time. I’m really like an aunt or a cousin or a person you’ve grown up with—like somebody in the family. So I think they feel comfortable with me. I really think that is Southern hospitality.”’
Below are some of Dolly’s most famous songs. Enjoy!
Wishing a happy 39th birthday to Pete Buttigieg who is expected to be confirmed by the US Senate as the new United States Secretary of Transportation. This will be historic as it will make him the first out gay cabinet member to be Senate-confirmed.
His hearing begins Thursday, the day after President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The cabinet position will put the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, in charge of the department’s $72 billion budget and 58,000-strong workforce.
Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was mobilized and deployed to the War in Afghanistan for seven months in 2014.
He came out publicly in 2015 and three years later married Chasten Glezman, a schoolteacher, writer, and LGBTQ rights advocate.