2024 Emmy winning comedy icon, Maya Rudolph, guesses line from some of her biggest films such as ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘Idiocracy’ and talks ‘Saturday Night Live’ and becoming Kamala Harris.
Mark Bingham was among the heroes on United Flight 93 who are thought to have fought their hijackers 22 years ago today. Their plane went down in Pennsylvania instead of a government building in Washington D.C. as was planned.
Mark’s inspiring story is the subject of the outstanding documentary With You and it is such a wonderful thing that so much video exists of Bingham from throughout what looks to have been a very full and happy life.
We see him in younger years then on the rugby field, in college, on trips abroad and through the eyes of his dynamic mother, Alice Hoagland, who was really something special.
Alice, who died in December 2018, had done a remarkable job of keeping the spirit of her rugby-playing openly gay son alive and talked to my friend Karen Ocamb ten years ago about when he son came out to her.
“I became grateful then that Mark had enough confidence in me and love for me and thought enough of me that he wanted me to be one of the first people in his life to know something very fundamental and true about himself. Even though he knew that my attitudes towards gays was vague and not accurate. I would say that I was vaguely antigay –imbued with stereotypes. I’ve had to fight through that. I am one of those lucky human beings that has done an about face and rejected a lie and embraced the truth. But I wish I had had the courage and goodness of heart to do that on my own.”
“But it took my son to do that for me by acknowledging, by telling me – challenging my stereotypes and telling me, “Mom, I’m gay.” Because of him, I have gone on a different journey in my life. And with all the important things in my life – and all the accomplishments that I have – most of them have been because I had a little boy who grew up to be a man who set me on an important life’s quest.”
In a new interview with Attitude, Sir Ian McKellen discussed his new film, The Critic, and his character Jimmy’s internalized homophobia. He plays a sharp-tongued theatre critic who eviscerates stage star Nina (Gemma Arterton) with his pen.
Gloria Gaynor is celebrating her 81st birthday so what better time than right now to enjoy two of her biggest hits – gay empowerment anthems I Will Survive and I Am What I Am.
Because I will – and I am!
I Will Survive reached number one in 1979 and it’s become an anthem for every gay man who’s ever had a broken heart. I’ve had a few and this song helped me to process it all – and to survive!
Four years later, Gloria hit our gay sweet spots again with her version of I Am What I Am from La Cage aux Folles. Although the song was not initially a big hit in the US, it reached #13 in the UK charts. It eventually became the second Gaynor songs to serve as a rallying cry for the gay pride movement.
When your mom is Goldie Hawn, your sister is Kate Hudson and the man you call pop is Kurt Russell, it could be a little tough to emerge as a star in your own right.
But Oliver Hudson has managed to do just that.
The handsome actor is celebrating his 48th birthday today. He is best known for the ABC comedy Splitting Up Together as well as the Fox series Scream Queens, the country music drama Nashville and the long-running CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement. In 2022, he played FBI agent Garrett Miller in Fox’s The Cleaning Lady and last year he guest starred in two episodes of And Just Like That…
Before landing the sitcom, Oliver was best known for his recurring role as Katie Holmes’ boyfriend during a few seasons of Dawson’s Creek and he also starred in the short-lived series The Mountain and My Guide to becoming a Rock Star.
I got to spend some time with Oliver and the rest of the cast of Rules on the set of the show in 2009 and found him to be extremely down to Earth and friendly. He told me that his mom had been attending some of the show’s tapings. I always wondered if we could hear any of Goldie’s famous giggle on the laugh track!
He grew up estranged from his biological father Bill Hudson who was Goldie’s second husband.
Oliver married Erinn Bartlett in 2006 and the couple has two sons named Wilder and Bodhi and a daughter named Rio.