Now how about her?
Fab.
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NYC: Central Park Reservoir – blue skies and blossoms
Blue skies & beautiful blossoms today at the Central Park reservoir – by the fabulous NYC photographer Inga Sarda-Sorensen.
Documentary “Bully” opens today in LA and NYC
After months of controversy over the MPAA rating for Lee Hirsch’s chronicle of the bullying epidemic, the powerful, heartbreaking documentary is finally being released unrated.
I speak to this because I personally dealt with being bullied – verbally and physically – when I was young. I look back and realize I lost several years of moving forward because I was concerned with how my peers treated me in middle and high school.
I got past that, clearly. And learned to not only own myself, but to respect everyone who might be perceived as “different.” As a matter of fact, I celebrate diversity today because of my experience – in great part because I experienced what I did.
Bully opens today in Los Angeles and New York, with more cities to be announced soon. Please go – and take your kids.
For more information go to TheBullyProject.com.
Mitt Romney supported Proposition 8 repealing marriage equality
In 2008, Mitt Romney’s political action committee made a $10,000 donation to the National Organization of Marriage at a time when the anti-gay rights organization was seeking repeal of a California law legalizing marriage equality.
But when Romney eventually made his donation, he did so quietly, and through an unusual channel. Records filed by Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC with the Federal Election Commission did not include details of that $10,000 donation. Nor did NOM’s public 990 form. In fact, record of the payment was only uncovered Friday when the pro-gay rights Human Rights Campaign was sent a private IRS filing from NOM via a whistleblower. The Human Rights Campaign shared the filing with The Huffington Post.
Asked for comment, an aide to Romney said that the donation was made through the Alabama chapter of the Free and Strong America PAC. State records confirm this. However, the 990 NOM filed lists the donation as having come from PO Box 79226 in Belmont, Massachusetts.
The secretive nature of the donation raised the eyebrows of Human Rights Campaign officials. Romney, after all, didn’t have to send his check to NOM through the Alabama chapter of his PAC.
“It’s clear now that Romney was a major financial donor to Prop. 8,” said Fred Sainz, HRC’s vice president for communications. “But it’s also clear that his campaign very cleverly hid this contribution in an obscure Alabama PAC.”
Keith Olbermann fired – again
Keith Olbermann, the political host, has just been fired from Current TV network.
Olbermann had been hosting “Countdown” on Current TV since June – soon after he got the fired at MSNBC.
In a statement from Keith Olbermann, he says he plans to sue: “It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current’s statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently.”
In a statement from Current TV owner Al Gore: “[Current TV] was founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it.”
Olbermann’s show will be replaced by “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer.”
Julian Bond: Gay rights are civil rights
CNN: Former chairman of the NAACP, Julian Bond reacts to efforts to drive a wedge between black people and same-sex marriage activists.
Thank you Julian Bond. Just because the phrase “civil rights” has been associated for a long time with the movement for equal rights for african-Americans in the 60s, doesn’t mean the fight now for gays and lesbians is not about civil rights. It is.
A marriage license issued by a civil government is a civil rights matter.
Any rights issued by a civil government are – by definition – civil rights. And every American should have the SAME civil rights.
NOM’s Maggie Gallagher down-plays race baiting strategies
This morning on MSNBC, with a shrug of her shoulders, NOM’s former president Maggie Gallagher batted her eyes at the idea that her organization “has the power” to influence the black and latino communities on the issue of marriage equality.
And yet, they’ve spent $20 million doing just that…
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Arrested drunk sings his frustrations: Bohemian Rhapsody
This guy got arrested for intoxication and didn’t agree with the charges. After pleading his case, he decides to belt out his emotions… through the music of Queen.
Over a million hits in a day.
(via JMG)
Delta Goodrem: Sitting on top of the world
Ah… my gorgeous friend Delta Goodrem has a new song out (and new CD coming) and I couldn’t be happier!
Delta is a huge music and TV star in Australia and has been releasing music in the US for a short while. She’s very talented, gorgeous, but most important – a beautiful person inside.
I love spending time with Delta. And when she’s not near, her fantastic music brings her closer.
Hope you like the clip above and you can find more about her at deltagoodrem.com
This photo was taken right after Delta and I were dancing at a party, so give me a break if I look happy… 🙂
Behind the scenes at Broadway Bares XXII
I’m always so proud of dear Jerry Mitchell and his mind-blowing, super-successful annual fundraising event Broadway Bares.
As longtime readers of The Randy Report know, for most of my life I worked as an actor and dancer in Broadway musicals. This community always has an important place in my heart for how much they give and give and give.
You want fun? You want sexy? And you want to help people all at the same time? Have I got the event for you!
Go behind the scenes of the fairy tale photo shoot for Broadway Bares XXII: Happy Endings.
The hotly anticipated Broadway Bares will pay tribute to favorite childhood fairy tales as only the modern-day burlesque show could as this year’s edition of the immensely popular event becomes Broadway Bares XXII: Happy Endings.
June 17th at Roseland Ballroom in New York City. I promise you, it’ll be the hottest – and I mean that every way I can – ticket in town.
Tickets can be purchased online at by clicking here or by calling 212.840.0770, ext 268.