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Jonathan Groff in OUT Magazine
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Jonanthan Groff is a busy man. Currently shooting his TV series “Boss” with Kelsey Grammer and starring in the play RED in Los Angeles opposite Alfred Molina, it’s hard to catch up to him.
But OUT Magazine managed not only that but a photo shoot, too.
In the interview, Groff shares his addiction to Diet Coke and googling himself – both of which he says he’s sworn off. And, he discusses how coming out was never a big deal for him.
Groff, however, has long been transparent about his sexuality. He came out early in his career at a march for gay rights in Washington, D.C., when a reporter asked him why he was there. “I just told her,” he says. “I sort of always knew, in the back of my mind, that when the moment arrived for me to come out, I would. I wasn’t yanked out of the closet.” Groff was singled out, along with Sean Hayes, in a much criticized 2010 Newsweek article questioning the merits of gay actors playing straight, but his nonchalance on the subject points to a grounded, what-of-it mentality.
“When I came out, people said it may have a negative effect on my career, and that’s definitely something I thought about before I did it,” he admits. “But I don’t hold that belief. I just go on my auditions and plug away as I normally would. At the end of my career, I can look back and ask, ‘Well, did it, or didn’t it?’ But at the moment, I just have to move forward and hope that people will follow my actions.”
Groff also discusses his dilemma of shooting “Boss” in Chicago but having to watch what he eats, meaning no Chicago deep-dish pizza: “I mean, the show is on STARZ, so I definitely get naked at some point.”
Boss’s second season premieres August 17.
RED runs through September 9 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Check out the rest of the interview and photos at Out.com
Grand prize winner at the 1st Internet Cat Video Festival
This past Thursday in Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center hosted the first ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival.
The crowd — easily double what organizers expected — packed the lawn outside the museum, spilling onto the sidewalks across the street … They all settled in for a screening of cats behaving badly, or cutely, or mysteriously, sometimes all at once. That much of the audience had already seen the clips on YouTube did not seem to diminish the enthusiasm. Quite the contrary.
“People watch them, and they watch them over and over and over again,” said Gretchen Sealls, 65, a retired banker who drove five hours from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “I think you’re going to see a lot of copycat versions of this,” she added. “No pun intended.” …
It is an axiom of Internet life that the cat video is king …
The Golden Kitty award, chosen by visitors to the Walker’s Web site, went to Will Braden for his two-minute opus “Henri 2: Paw de Deux,” about the existential angst of a black-and-white French puss. Henri actually has an online store that sells $1,000 a week in mugs and other merchandise.
According to Clint Eastwood, Broadway’s EVITA got a visit from President Obama
Houston – we have a problem…
“Oh Michael…..”
Stevie Wonder apologizes for being misunderstood about comment on gays being “confused”
Music legend Stevie Wonder is now walking back a statement he made earlier about gays being “confused” about their sexual orientation. From The Advocate:
In a recent interview with the U.K. paper The Guardian, Wonder was asked about the media sensation caused by Ocean, the out hip-hop performer whose acclaimed hit album Channel Orange has drawn numerous comparisons with the veteran musician. “I think honestly, some people who think they’re gay, they’re confused,” Wonder said to the paper. “People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. I’m not saying all [gay people are confused]. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them.”
Wonder now clarifies his comment with an exclusive statement to The Advocate, saying, “I’m sorry that my words about anyone feeling confused about their love were misunderstood. No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music. Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man. What I’m not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.”
Richard Gere reminisces about AMERICAN GIGOLO
In a new interview with EW, Richard Gere discusses some of his biggest career highlights, including the 1980 film AMERICAN GIGOLO, which many feel was his big breakout film.
Replacing John Travolta, he says he only had two weeks before filming began to prep for the role – a role he says he didn’t really have much background knowledge about:
Gere recalls how he decided to take the role with which he would become synonymous during the early 1980s. “Paul came to see me in Malibu and said, ‘You’ve got to say yes to this by tomorrow at the latest.’ I read it and I thought, ‘This is a character I don’t know very well. I don’t own a suit. He speaks languages; I don’t speak any languages. There’s kind of a gay thing that’s flirting through it and I didn’t know the gay community at all.’ I wanted to immerse myself in all of that and I had literally two weeks. So I just dove in. If I recall, [the nudity] wasn’t in the script. It was just in the natural process of making the movie. I certainly felt vulnerable, but I think it’s different for men than women.”
I remember the film well, even though I was about 17 at the time. The soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder was huge, and really brought the music of Blondie with Debbie Harry to the forefront of the music scene as disco was on it’s way out and new wave was coming in.
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Speaking of invisible – The Tea Party at the RNC
Did anyone notice that there were no mentions of the Tea Party movement during the prime time speeches at the Republican National convention this week? Remember when Tea Party was everyone’s favorite phrase?
Not a single one of the 38 speakers during the convention’s key prime time hours has even mentioned the phrase, according to an examination of their transcripts — a sign both of Romney’s own distance from the movement and that polls have suggested that voters view the movement negatively.
At the very least, I expected Tea Party favorite Senator Rand Paul to give a shout out. Nothing.
Things that make you go “hmm…”
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Hurry and clean the house
New York Times calls out Romney/Ryan lies and distortions
In an Op/Ed piece in the New York Times, the paper ran an editorial calling out many lies and distortions put out by the Romney/Ryan campaign. And I, for one, am glad.
Run on your record, run on your truth. But don’t lie and distort to make yourself look better.
A few of the issues the New York Times highlights:
Deficit Commission: While Ryan spoke of the Simpson-Bowles commission, what he didn’t mention was that HE was a part of that panel. AND he voted against the commission’s recommendations.
Credit Rating: Ryan talked about the down-grading of the US credit rating blaming the President. What he didn’t mention was that the credit rating was down-graded because the GOP fought raising the debt ceiling for spending that had already happened and had been approved by Congress.
Medicare: Ryan tried to portray the President as “raiding” the Medicare fund of $716 billion dollars. The problem with that is HE himself had already recommended cutting the same amount from Medicare. However, the President’s savings would come not from trimming benefits for current recipients, but from cutting the projected growth in reimbursements to hospitals and insurers over the next decade.
Head over the the New York Times article and take a read.