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Vanessa Williams lands new TV pilot: 666 Park Avenue
Vanessa Williams is moving off of Wisteria Lane and into 666 Park Avenue for ABC.
The complete pilot report: ABC’s got Mandy Moore, Natalie Portman and Reba McEntire
The Desperate Housewives star, 48, has joined the supernatural pilot about a young couple who agree to manage a historic apartment building in New York City. However, they soon begin to experience dangerous supernatural occurrences that risk the lives of everyone in the building.
Williams will play the beautiful and sophisticated, but cold, wife of the building’s owner (Lost’s Terry O’Quinn). If the pilot goes to series, it would be Williams’ third show at ABC, following Housewives, which wraps in May, and Ugly Betty.
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Exposing Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council
MSNBC rejected this ad asking them to explain why they’ve invited Tony Perkins, a hate group leader who lies about LGBT people, onto their network 23 times in the past 16 months, more than any other network.
It’s a question 20,000 people of faith have demanded an answer to, but MSNBC has refused to answer and continues to give Perkins a national platform.
I watch MSNBC every day. And it has always confounded me that occasionally Tony Perkins pops up on the network. The Southern Poverty Law Center designated Perkins’ group – The Family Research Council – a hate group in 2010.
From the SPLC website: “In 2003, former Marine and Louisiana state representative Anthony Richard “Tony” Perkins became president of the FRC after a failed 2002 run for one of Louisiana’s U.S. Senate seats. Under his leadership, the group continues to peddle its false claims about homosexuality and has made combating the “homosexual agenda” a seemingly obsessive interest.”
New Music: “I Heart You” by Toni Braxton
Six time Grammy Award winning singer Toni Braxton debuts “I Heart You”, a smash dance record for her fans around the globe.
Written and produced by Toni, the up-tempo electro song sets the dance floor ablaze with Toni’s signature sultry baritone vocals over a sonic thumping electro beat.
“When I wrote this song I was thinking about the feeling you get when you walk into a club and you hear the melody. You feel the beat and you just know it’s going to be a good night…” comments Toni.
For more info about the track and appearance dates, click here.
Check it out.
Adam & Jesse from Tennessee “It Gets Better”
Adam and his straight younger brother Jesse in Tennessee.
Thanks guys.
Cee Lo Green – shirtless and buff as a Chippendale?
The Voice judge Cee Lo Green in the new issue of Jet magazine, which features the surprisingly buff singer shirtless and Chippendales-worthy as their “Beauty of the Week.”
Oh wait. What’s that fine print in the upper left corner?
“Yes, your mind is playing tricks on you. Cee Lo’s brawny build is courtesy of photographer Derek Blanks.”
Photoshop is a beautiful thing.
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Catchy song – I like. And the boy in the video isn’t bad either.
Make sure you watch until the end of the video.
Ah, life…
Madonna – Girl Gone Wild video teaser
Rick Santorum: Government Paternity Tests For Single Mothers Or No Welfare
The Huffington Post obtained transcripts of Santorum’s comments and speeches from various campaign stops in 1994. Produced for the then-Sen. Harris Wofford’s campaign, the video and audio transcripts show that the Pennsylvania Republican was willing to deny unwed mothers government services including welfare until they revealed private family information.
Under the plan, those unwed mothers would have to reveal the name of their child’s father in exchange for welfare and subsidized medical care.
“What we say is that in order for Mom to be able to go on welfare if she has a child out of wedlock, you have to tell us who the father is,” Santorum said at an event in Carlisle, Pa., on April 1, 1994. “If you don’t tell us who the father is, you’re not eligible for any welfare benefits, none, not even medical care. You tell us who the father is or you don’t receive benefits.”
Santorum argued that his proposal could persuade single women to slow their sex lives, which, in turn, would lead to less out-of-wedlock parenting. “If Mom knows that she isn’t gonna receive welfare if she doesn’t tell us who Dad is, y’know maybe she’ll be a little more careful, maybe,” he said.
“Or maybe she gives us a list, say ‘Well it could be one of five,'” Santorum went on. “I mean, y’know, I don’t know what she’s gonna do, but at some point we’re gonna see her cooperate.”
Cartoon of the day: Energy policy
