Happy birthday America!
At 236 you’re still moving forward towards freedom and equality for all every day!
Celebrate!
Happy birthday America!
Betty Buckley – A Video Library
Playbill, in celebrating the birthday (July 3) of the brilliant Tony Award winner Betty Buckley, has assembled a list of some of Betty’s greatest performances caught on video.
If you love music theater you have to take a look. I watched every one.
I’ve loved Betty’s talent for as long as I can remember. I actually attended the same high school as I’m from the same hometown, Fort Worth, Texas.
I think she’s a thrilling talent. The first time I actually met her she came to see Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!” on Broadway which I was lucky to be a part of. Then our cast went to go see her in “Sunset Boulevard.” She was heart-stopping. Some the “Sunset” songs are in this collection.
Hit the link and go watch some fabulous theater by a great artist.
Jay Leno as a Chippendale
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HBO Documentary: One Nation Under Dog
Americans have always had a love affair with canines, but lost amidst the pampering are unpleasant truths about dog ownership, care and commerce. ONE NATION UNDER DOG: STORIES OF FEAR, LOSS & BETRAYAL offers an eye-opening, three-part portrait of America’s complex relationship with dogs.
The documentary looks at FEAR, LOSS and BETRAYAL in it’s three episodes.
In FEAR, a dog owner is taken to court repeatedly for the aggressive behavior of his Rhodesian Ridgebacks.
LOSS covers the deep grief people can experience over the loss of their dogs.
And probably most difficult to watch, BETRAYAL presents an unflinching look at the issues of overpopulation, shelters, rescuing, spaying and neutering. Approximately two million dogs are destroyed in animal shelters each year.
As regular readers of The Randy Report know, dogs play an important part in my life and always have. I’m aware of how, for some, the responsibility of dog ownership falls short. In my home, Bruno, Bear, Tyler and Bandit have my attention every day. It is a relationship I take seriously.
I’ll be watching ONE NATION UNDER DOG. If you have HBO and love dogs too, I urge you to watch.
Watch Monday, June 19th at 9:00pm.
Thanks to reader Dave for the tip.
Anderson Cooper comes out
“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” Anderson Cooper writes in an email that he agreed to have published on The Daily Beast.
Cooper’s acknowledgment comes in response to a conversation with his longtime friend blogger-commentator Andrew Sullivan about Entertainment Weekly‘s recent cover story about the matter-of-fact way people in the public eye reveal their homosexuality these days. Cooper writes that despite being a public figure he’s tried to maintain a level of privacy for professional reasons. A journalist shouldn’t be the story, he’s long said.
“Recently, however, I’ve begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle,” he tells Sullivan. “It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something — something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true.”
Day One for President Adam Levine: legalize same-sex marriage
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According to the Advocate, Adam Levine says the first thing he’d do if he were president for one day is legalize same-sex marriage.
During an interview to promote their irresistible new album Overexposed, Levine and Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine are queried on what would be on their agenda if they were president for a single day. “First I’d make gay marriage legal because that’s just archaic and ridiculous,” Levine says immediately.
Levine, who will make his acting debut in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story this fall, is a longtime equality advocate, who in 2010 recorded a video for the It Gets Better campaign to help prevent LGBT teen suicide.
Could President Obama have done more on health care?
Great explanation on why the US got the Affordable Healthcare Act and not the single payer system many liberals and progressives truly wanted; both the political and realistic levels of accomplishment it just wasn’t possible in this political landscape.
Watch the video. Not long but it covers some issues in good common sense language.
Movie: Craigslist Joe
This movie looks cool to me. The idea of the physical isolation issue due to social media and finding connection and community is interesting to me.
Check out the trailer.
Thanks to John for the tip.
Outserve and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network to combine
The boards of directors of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe today announced the intent to combine the two organizations into a single organization by October 2012 with a new name and a newly configured board of directors led by a representative from each existing organization.
In the intervening period, the boards and staff of both organizations will focus on unifying the two administratively, financially, and organizationally.