This week’s historic approval of the Respect for Marriage Act (in effect a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act) by the Senate Judiciary Committee is intelligently examined by American Foundation for Equal Right’s Matt Baume in a special episode of Marriage News Watch.
High School football coach resigns over handing out survey asking if players were “queer” or “a little bitch”
Pat Lynch, the football coach of Buffalo High School in Wyoming resigned this week after it was revealed he had handed out an offensive “Hurt Feelings Report” to players which included boxes for them to check with attributes like “I am a pussy”, “I am a queer”, “I am a little bitch”, and “My butt is easily hurt”.
Said Lynch in a resignation letter to the school board, according to the Buffalo Bulletin: “I would like to apologize for my lack of judgment and the poor choice that I made from my position as head football coach for Buffalo High School. I know that this situation has caused you pain and discomfort, and for that I am truly sorry. As a person and a professional, I believe I will learn and grow from this experience and use it to help others. I appreciate having had the opportunity to coach in this community for the past 22 years. It has been a rewarding experience. I am eager to earn back your trust as I continue to serve in a profession that I truly love.”
Lynch is being allowed to remain on at the school as a guidance counselor, the Casper Tribune reports.
SRSLY? Guidance counselor?
Check out the “survey”:
Beauty and the Beast (Bitchy Version)
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GOP plan to get America back to work
Rave reviews for Hugh Jackman – “Back On Broadway”
Hugh Jackman is rolling in rave reviews for his new show “Hugh Jackman – Back On Broadway”
NY Post: “No matter your age, gender or sexual orientation, the Australian star will melt you into a puddle of blissed-out goo. It’s called mega-wattage charisma, and they don’t teach it in school.”
NY Times: “The impossibly talented, impossibly energetic Mr. Jackman is a glorious dinosaur among live entertainers of the 21st century: an honest-to-gosh old-fashioned matinee idol who connects to his audiences without a hint of contempt for them or for himself. A movie star with a major action franchise (as Wolverine in the “X-Men” series), Mr. Jackman says he’s happiest as a song-and-dance man, the kind who conducts mass flirtation with a wink, a wriggle, a firmly handled melody and maybe a cane and some tap shoes.”
NY Daily News: “A giddy love-in has taken over the Broadhurst Theatre, where “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” opened last night for a limited run through Jan. 1. Singing and dancing, bumping and grinding, Jackman — known as Wolverine from movies and the Sexiest Man Alive from, well, look at him — is in top form performing his most beloved songs and his favorite role of Mr. Entertainer.”
CBS News Poll: Nov. 11, 2011
In the Republican race for the presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich’s support continues to slowly grow, and he is now tied with Mitt Romney for second place, while Herman Cain just edges both of them out for the top spot. Both Cain and Romney have lost support since late October.
In a new CBS News Poll, 61 percent of Republican primary voters say the sexual harassment accusations against Cain won’t make any difference in their vote, but 30 percent say the charges make them less likely to back him, and that rises to 38 percent among women. Cain has lost support among women since last month – from 28 percent in October to 15 percent now. He has lost ground with conservatives and Tea Party supporters as well.
Trailer: Snow White and the Huntsman
New movie with Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth
New web series – “Hustling”
Early on in the run of “Chicago the Musical” on Broadway, I had the chance to work with Sebastian LaCause as fellow cast members of the show (while it was still at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway).
Sebastian went on to several other projects including the featured role of “Rocky” in the Broadway revival of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” among other things.
Now, Sebastian has written, directed and starred in a new web series that also utilizes several other major Broadway names like Brent Barrett and two-time Tony Award nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega.
About the new, edgy project Sebastian says:
“I play Ryan Crosby. He’s been making his living working as a hustler, among other things, since his early 20s. This is a guy who sort of fell into turning tricks at a young age [and] realized that he could make a lot of money off his looks and body, with very little effort. Suddenly he’s 40 and the work is starting to dry up and he’s left wondering, ‘What the hell did I do with my life?’ We meet him at a turning point when he’s trying desperately to figure out how to change his life but has absolutely no idea how to do it or if there’s even anything else he can do.”
“This series is about this guy trying to get unstuck and discover what his true passion is. The subject matter is definitely adult but regardless of his ‘life situation,’ his struggles as a human being, I think, are quite relatable.”
Starting in June, LaCause wrote the eight episodes and shot all of the footage over the weekends in August and September. Shooting began Aug. 1.
“It’s basically like making eight short films,” he explained. “It definitely has an improvised feel to it. It’s all about the characters and the relationships and the dialogue.”
Other “Hustling” cast members include Gerald McCullouch, Gary Cowling, Brian Keane, Max Carpenter, Andrew Glaszek, Gregory Gunter, Emily Shapiro and Todd Riegler. Original music is by SirPaul and Okai.
The web series has a fan page at www.facebook.com/HustlingTheWebSeries.
The 8 episodes go live online November 16th at http://blip.tv/HustlingTheWebSeries
Preview: NBC’s “Smash”
Looks promising. And a talented cast. Coming to NBC in February 2012.
I do have a tiny quibble with the “and introducing Katherine McPhee” – a bit grand since she’s done movies and been a very public recording artist for years. I hardly think the people who tune in for this show will be “introduced” to Katherine McPhee. However, that’s not a comment on her talent. I like her a lot.
But, the show does look interesting. Just the shots of people auditioning take me back to my New York days as an actor. (I actually had a director take a cell phone call during an audition once). Ah, the glamour of it all.
Penn State scandal and debacle
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As the students of Penn State rally in support of Joe Paterno, who was fired for being implicated in the child abuse scandal that has rocked the school, the details revealed in the grand jury report are becoming more and more clear.
A former Penn State assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, has been charged with more than 40 counts of sexual abuse.
In an article for The Daily Beast today, Buzz Bissinger – in clear language – writes about what has been alleged and what was NOT done.
The horror of it all, both in terms of what Sandusky allegedly did and what Penn State officials did not, can be summed up by a single sound.
It is a “rhythmic, slapping” sound, according to page 6 of the grand-jury report. It is heard by a 28-year-old football graduate assistant named Mike McQueary in the locker room of the Lasch Football Building on the Penn State Campus at 9:30 on the Friday night of March 1, 2002.
McQueary is placing some new sneakers into his locker. At first he finds it odd that the lights and showers are on. Then he hears the sound coming from the showers. He looks inside and according to his grand-jury testimony, sees the cause of the sound: a naked child of roughly 10 years old with his hands up against the wall with a naked Sandusky butt-f–king him from behind. Sadistic, yes. Sick, yes. Beyond disturbing, yes. Deviant, yes. Immediate grounds for calling the police? Of course, yes. The upshot?
Nothing. Nada. Not a goddamn thing but the passing of the buck up the food chain of bureaucratic bullshit where too many people know that something awful has happened and try to bury it.
McQueary, who witnessed the incident, witnessed it, doesn’t call the police, although he is 28. He runs to his daddy. His daddy advises him to tell Paterno. He tells Paterno. The great JoePa, who regardless of his noncredible insistence in grand-jury testimony that he was never told the specific nature of the sexual act, does at the very least acknowledge that McQueary did relate to him that Sandusky was “fondling” a young boy.
What staggers the mind is Paterno admitting that McQueary told him, at the very least, that Sandusky was “fondling” a young boy and all Paterno did at the time was report it to his superiors. NOT go to the police. NOT tell McQueary to go to the police.
And why on earth did McQueary, a former Penn State quarterback, not stop what he saw going on in the showers? At the time, McQueary was 28 years old and fit. He could have stormed into the showers and stopped this but he did not.
This boggles the mind.
McQueary will be coaching Penn State this weekend. Hard to imagine why. There are theories that the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office doesn’t want to lose McQueary as a cooperative witness, should the AG decide to pursue legal charges against Paterno for not doing enough in 2002, and the AG’s office has asked the school not to alienate McQueary by firing him. Maybe, maybe not.
But to think that this guy witnessed what is alleged he saw and did so little is incredible. And sad.