LGBTQ news and entertainment
Ok, so this is a WHOLE lot of talent all sitting together. What a picture with three true divas!
Barbra Streisand, Adele and Dame Shirley Bassey together after they all three stopped the Oscar show with their individual, spectacular performances.
From La Streisand’s Facebook page.
Brickstone catches up to the Westboro Baptist Church in Malibu (nice place for a picket!) and asks the members of the anti-gay group questions many of us have wondered:
“Have you ever wondered how good gay sex must be if they’re willing to go to hell for it?”
“Can a person go to heaven if he has homosexual urges but refuses to act on them, and he’s so upset about the openly gay people that he makes his whole family have signs that say ‘God hates fags’?
“Would you glass bottom boat Pat Robertson?”
“Didn’t I jerk you off in a Kmart bathroom once?”
“Why did the Newtown kids go to hell but not aborted fetuses?”
“Didn’t the hot members of your church leave because their brothers were kind of screwing with them?”
I didn’t find the answers terribly revealing, but it was fun to watch.
Assholes.
(via Towleroad)
Lynne Wintersteller sings “Life Story” from the musical CLOSER THAN EVER written by Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire.
From IF IT ONLY EVEN RUNS A MINUTE (3/26/12), created by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Kevin Michael Murphy, and Caleb Hoyer.
I saw the original run of CLOSER THAN EVER at the Cherry Lane Theater off-Broadway in the 1990s. This particular song, and Lynne’s fantastic performance, stayed with me for days. I played the recording over and over back then.
The night I saw the show for the first time, I rode the subway home with my friend Bryan Landrine, who knew Lynne. So, for an almost 30 minute subway ride, I had the chance to get to know her a bit and hear about the experience of doing the show. I worked hard not to turn into “fan boy” at the time. It was hard, but I stayed calm.
Fast-forward to a few years ago, I was choreographing a new musical at the New York Musical Theater Festival called PLANE CRAZY. At a press event for NYMF my show performed a number and a woman from another show performed. I remember thinking “Wow. She looks just like Lynne Wintersteller. But surely they can’t afford her off-Broadway.” I went up to say hello, and it WAS Lynne and she remembered me from our brief meeting years before. Still just as charming and warm as a decade before. Thus, further cementing her place in my admiration.
The song portion of the video begins around the 6:00 mark.
To see her perform the song now is a master class in voice and acting. Nothing is hard; she makes it look so simple. But what an amazing journey she takes us on. How note how she takes her time near the end without being indulgent. And in her eyes, you see how present she is in every moment of the song.
Art.
Loved having author Robyn Peterman on the radio show to chat on her new book “How Hard Can It Be?”
Robyn is charming and funny, funny, funny. And her new book is fab. I laughed out loud. Seriously.
Based on a three minute pitch, Robyn secured her first book deal – a two-book deal – and has already had her first book optioned as a movie.
Listen in to hear how this debut author navigated her way through publishing offers to author success! She, and her book, are very funny and entertaining.
From Robyn’s website:
“What happens when an accountant decides to grab life by the horns and try something new? Apparently a pirate named Dave, a lot of pastel fleece, and blackmail—just to start with… And only I could get arrested for a jewelry heist I didn’t commit—by a hunky cop whose handcuffs just might tempt me to sign up for a life of crime. Maybe I’ve found my calling after all…”
How Hard Can It Be? is available on Amazon.com
Check out more info on Robyn Peterman at her website.
A new Public Opinion Strategies poll commissioned by the Retail Association of Nevada finds that a majority of Nevada voters would support repealing the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Even with the normal partisan and age divides, 54% would favor removing the Protection of Marriage provision from the Nevada Constitution, with 43% opposed.
Bless her 22 year old heart. I really like Jennifer Lawrence here. She is so honest and unfiltered.
I can only imagine what it’s like to win an Oscar, fall down on your way to accepting the award, then facing the press minutes later. I really love her reactions to the media’s questions.
Here’s the fall – which I, for one, do not care about:
Wow. I can’t imagine behavior like this in the US with TSA.
From Towleroad: Yan Linkun, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC) from Shizong county, Yunnan Province, did not react well after he missed his plane last week. Yan had gone to have breakfast after purchasing his ticket but did not make it back in time to board.
He then destroyed everything in sight.
No sound, but the action gets going at the 1:30 mark. Really kind of amazing.
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel had the stars of White House Down on his show, Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum.
It turns out Foxx liked working with Tatum so much, he wrote a song in appreciation of Tatum’s sexiness.
Foxx sings, “I see a pretty lady all across the bar, she smiles at me and gets right in my car and I know… I wanna Channing all over her Tatum.”
The ever sexy Tatum seemed a tad uncomfortable with his name being used as dirty song lyrics at first, but then he got into it, takes to the top of the piano and serves up some Magic Mike/Chippendales moves.
Song bit starts around the 3:30 mark.
(h/t Homorazzi)
So, Argo won Best Motion Picture, Anna Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress and Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor – as practically everyone predicted.
Here’s the complete list:
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Animated Short Film: Paperman
Best Animated Feature Film: Brave
Achievement in Cinematography: Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Achievement in Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Achievement in Costume Design: Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling: Les Misérables
Best Live-Action Short Film: Curfew
Best Documentary Short Subject: Inocente
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for a Sugar Man
Best Foreign-Language Film: Amour (Austria)
Achievement in Sound Mixing: Les Misérables
Achievement in Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty & Skyfall
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Achievement in Film Editing: Argo
Achievement in Production Direction: Lincoln
Original Score: Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Original Song: “Skyfall,” Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth; Skyfall
Adapted Screenplay: Argo, Chris Terrio
Original Screenplay: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Achievement in Directing: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Motion Picture: Argo
