Gay dating app Daddyhunt, which takes on the mission of helping young guys and older men to meet, has taken a new step in promotion by creating a web-series titled “Daddyhunt: The Serial”that tells the romantic story of a young pup and his crush on his totally DILF-y neighbor.
Originally launched as separate minute and a half episodes on Facebook, Daddyhunt has put the episodes all together to make a seven and a half minute mini-movie.
I found both leading characters completely charming, and the story made me smile.
If you’ve ever attended a political rally, you know it takes a long time to get things started. And no candidate wants to walk out to a “cold” audience. So, it’s common for campaigns to play songs they feel will not only represent their message but rev up the crowd.
Sometimes, though, music artists aren’t so happy to hear their music used by a political candidate.
You can list Adele among those folks.
The Trump campaign has been mixing in some Rolling In The Deep from Adele at campaign events based on the lyric “we could have had it all.”
Trump has also utilized the singer’s Skyfall, I’m guessing due to the lines “when it crumbles, we will stand tall, face it all together.”
But Adele fans aren’t happy and have voiced their opinions on social media:
In a new cover story for Complex, Nick Jonas says he “has nothing to prove” when asked about his sexuality:
“There’s always going to be negativity toward anything that is a positive effort toward change,” he says. “As a heterosexual male, [I am] open and comfortable about loving my fan base, gay or straight, because to me there is no difference, it is my fan base. Your sexual preference does not matter to me and it shouldn’t matter to anybody. I thought [the criticism] was kind of dumb, considering I play this gay character on a gritty show. There’s a gay sex scene. I kissed a man.
“The goal is acceptance on all levels— that should be the focus,” he continues. “I’ve gone to normal clubs, straight clubs, and I’ve gone to gay clubs, to party with my friends and fans. There’s no difference. I have nothing to prove. I’m very comfortable in my own skin and I’m thankful to have as many close gay friends as I have, people who have been so supportive in my life, and have always been there for me.”
At a rally Monday afternoon in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that if they happened to see protesters getting ready to lob a tomato, they should “knock the crap out of them.” Trump began his speech by noting that he had received a warning from the “wonderful security guys.”
He said: “There may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience. So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell— I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise. It won’t be so much ’cause the courts agree with us too.”
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In an effort to show more facets of competitive athletes, it’s not unusual for a network to cut to an athlete’s loved ones in the crowd of fans at sporting events.
Last weekend, in what might have been a first, ESPN cut to skier Gus Kenworthy’s current significant other, Matthew Wilkas, cheering him on during the Aspen X Games. This is the first X Games since Kenworthy publicly came out a few months ago.
“Yeah, the TV boyfriend thing sounds weird, I know. But everyone I looked up to growing up, they would show their girlfriend on TV – you know, Simon Dumont’s girlfriend, or Tanner Hall’s girlfriend, or whatever. I was just kind of bummed that it was something that I’d never have. I felt like I was never going to be confident and authentic and introduce someone as my boyfriend to the reporters and have him on TV.
“It was really special to want to do that and be happy about it. It was amazing. I looked up at the screen and saw Matt at the bottom.”
Looks like Wilkas may have been a good luck charm as Kenworthy, who had never medaled at the X Games, took home two silver medals at the event.
The handsome athlete shared his enthusiasm at having his bf included in the coverage on his Instagram account.
Sarah Palin, the former half-term governor of Alaska, flipped out during an appearance on The Today Show this morning when she was asked a question about her recent comment blaming her son’s domestic violence arrest on President Obama.
The segment began with the show hosts asking about tonight’s Iowa caucus, and the scenario of Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz being at the top of polls in the state. During that conversation, Palin deftly took credit for getting Cruz elected to the U.S. Senate.
Then co-anchor Savannah Guthrie appeared to blindside the former half-term governor of Alaska and failed vice presidential candidate by asking about her suggestion that Obama caused her son to allegedly punch his girlfriend in the head.
“I never said that,” Palin said, pursing her lips in anger. “No, I never said that.”
Guthrie pressed on, and Palin argued the anchors had tricked her.
“You guys brought me to talk about Iowa politics and the caucus tonight, not to talk about my kids — and that was a promise,” Palin said. “But as things go in the world of media, you guys don’t always keep your promises, evidently.”
“I never blamed President Obama,” Palin continued. “What I have blamed President Obama in doing, though, is this level of disrespect for the United States military that is made manifest in gutting budgets and not trying to beef it up and let our military do the job that they are trained to do. And in specific issues that we’re talking about that are so hot today — specifically, let’s get there and let’s utterly destroy ISIS as we know our United States military can do, yet we have a commander-in-chief who seems to kind of want to kowtow and allow the enemy to be poking at us — and that’s unacceptable to most Americans, certainly to me.”
Before ending the segment, Matt Lauer pointedly said that no promises had been made to Palin other than the interview would be her first since endorsing Donald Trump.
It’s worth noting that the question Guthrie asked was not about Palin’s troubled children, but about the former governor’s public statement blaming President Obama for our veterans’ PTSD.
For the record, this is what Ms. Palin said on January 20, 2016:
“My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened.
“They come back wondering if there is that respect for what their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military have given so sacrificially to this country, and that starts at the top.
“It’s a shame that our military personnel even have to question, have to wonder if they’re respected anymore. It starts from the top. The question, though, it comes from the top, the question, though, that comes from our own president where they have to look at him and wonder, ‘Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America and to secure the freedoms that have been bequeathed us?’”
“So when my own son is going through what he goes through coming back, I can certainly relate with other families who kind of feel these ramifications of some PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with, and it makes me realize more than ever, it is now or never for the sake of America’s finest that we’ll have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them.”
Here’s the full interview segment from The Today Show this morning:
My dear Carol Channing celebrates her 95th birthday today.
Back in 2010, I performed with her again (picture above) in the opening number of the Gypsy of the Year competition, which is a major charity event for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She brought the house down as only she can.
For those that don’t know, I spent two and a half incredible years performing with Carol in the last Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!. I eventually became the production supervisor where she would ask me for notes – on how to perform the role of Dolly Levi! As if I could tell her anything she didn’t already know.
A quick Carol story: when I was supervising Dolly on tour, one day we had a particularly long and dreadful travel day – two planes, a bus, a train and a donkey or two – to get to what Carol called “a soccer arena” where we would perform the show that night.
In the sound check Carol looked down and realized that the musician’s pit was 25 feet beneath us. This was the pit that I had to leap over every night in the middle of the Hello, Dolly! number. For the first time in 30 years of doing the show she decided this was dangerous.
After the sound check she came looking for me to ask if someone could put a net or something between the pit and the stage in case those of us who jumped over the pit happened to fall into it. At this point, I had 30 minutes before the performance and was taking a long shower to rid myself of the long travel day. This being a “soccer arena” the showers where open showers in a locker room.
Covered in soap and standing under the water I suddenly heard a very low baritone voice say “Randy”. I turned and there was Carol, in the open showers with me, smiling. She waited for me to turn and went into her concerns about the pit, a net and all sorts of other things as I stood there completely naked.
When she finished expressing her concerns I said “Absolutely Carol. But right now I’m soaking wet, taking a shower.” She looked me up and down, smiled and said “Oh! Yes, of course. Well, you know – we’re all just show folk” and then turned and left me to finish my shower. Nudity was nothing to this old pro who had changed costumes in the wings for decades.
Celebrate our fabulous Carol Channing today. She is truly a national treasure.
As Carol likes to say, “the first 95 years are the hardest.”
English comedian and actor Peter Serafinowicz took one of Donald Trump’s stump appearances and redubbed the speech with a deep “Cockney/Gangster” accent to hilarious effect.
Serafinowicz notes that no words were changed at all.
