Sunday 12 October 2008
Remembering Matthew Shepard
We asked people: "What effect did Matthew Shepard’s murder have on you since it happened 10 years ago?"
Matthew Shepard’s murder has served as a reminder for me that even good can come out of the most heinous acts. Dennis and Judy argued against the death penalty for their son’s murderers, and after his death established the Matthew Shepard Foundation to promote lgbt equality.
Bryan Glick
I was heartbroken; at the time I was living life as if America was a safe and accepting place. Ten years later I have learned that, in order for America to be that safe and accepting place, I have to live a genuine, visible life and take every opportunity to stand up in support of my community.
Erika Church
Matthew Shepherd’s heinous murder made real for me the ugly bigotry that had been hidden too long by giving it a face and a soul. Whenever I read of homophobic statements and actions, I now see Matthew’s face and it reminds me to stay in the fight for equality for all.
Kurt Bestor
I remember where I was and what I was doing — morning rush hour traffic. It made me realize how vulnerable life can be, and that living in my little bubble in Salt Lake City couldn’t protect me. I am always paying attention to my surroundings and I take nothing for granted.
Matt Lyon
I realized that the time had come for me to pull my head out of my ass and begin to live my life as God intended; gay, courageous and out.
John Wood
Matthew Shepard’s murder put a face to the issue of hate crimes in this country and who the victims of homophobia really are. His death was not only a wake up call to society at large, it was a resounding bell for the GLBT community to stand up for equal treatment and protection under the law. May His Memory Be Eternal (Greek Orthodox blessing).
Connie Anast
Matthew Shepard died just a couple years before I came out at 17. He signifies to me both that it is important to stand up and be counted for who I am, but to always remember that it can be dangerous to do so.
Josh Adamson
I have become very sensitive of which strangers I am open with about my sexuality (at least when I am in a strange town). When I travel through small towns I imagine the frustration and fears that the local GLBTQ people may be going through and I hope that they find positive allies and friends who will help to protect them.
Jeremiah Maybee
I wondered to myself "How in the world could anyone kill such a beautiful young man with so much potential and so much more life to be lived?" I remember attending the vigil at the Captiol that cold fall night when our community gathered together lighting candles in remembering Matthew’s life. That memory will live for me forever. Unfortunately, even with Matthew Shepard’s passing, many today are still violently beaten or killed today. When will it stop?
Mark Swonson
Source: QStreet: 10 Years After Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard Foundation
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Interesting.
Kirsten Dunst is supposed to be in London right now. I always believed that her and Jake were definitely have some wild sex. Wouldn't it be great if Jake tapped her for a booty call and the paps caught them?
Yeah, I always liked her. ;)
TMZ
"Desperate Housewives" Star Seriously Injured
We've learned Gale Harold, the actor who plays Teri Hatcher's boyfriend on "Desperate Housewives," was seriously injured yesterday in a motorcycle accident.
We're told he's at L.A. County - USC Medical Center in the Intensive Care Unit.
Dang, we're gonna have to see Reese's mug on Vogue in every bookstore and newsstand like a thousand television sets running in department stores. I may have to walk past and make the sign of the cross! ;)
UK gays
POLL: Gay Men Prefer Prince Harry over William
From the department of useless polls comes this news:
"More than a third those questioned expressed a desire for a romance with Harry while William received 23 per cent of the vote. A third of the single gay men said they would steer clear of both...Adrian Gillan, spokesman for gay-PARSHIP (which conducted the poll), said: 'This fraught romantic vote suggests divided royal loyalties. Indeed, many gay male singles are so torn they say they would need to date both our young princes, whose female love interests prove only slightly less of a queer pull. Being part of an inclusive, modern monarchy, William and Harry will be delighted that they and their close circle can arouse such strong emotions from Britain's homosexual subjects."
Useless polls
Oh no! So sorry to hear about that! We love you and get well soon GH...
Gale Harold at Wikipedia
Get well Gale!
Dlisted
Brian Kinney Injured
Brian Kinney from "Queer as Folk" aka Susan Meyer's boyfriend on "Desperate Housewives" aka Gale Harold was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident yesterday. TMZ reports that he's currently being treated in the ICU department of USC. Not Brian Kinney! And not his pretty face or body or anything else on him! Just not him.
I'm going to tell myself that everything will be fine, he'll fully recover from his injuries and then he'll leave that dumb bitch Susan. He belongs with Justin.
La Daily Musto
In Praise of Fag Hags
There seem to be more fag hags running around bars than ever, grasping for attention with loud voices and deafening outfits, and I'm always hiding in the corner trying to figure out why. Well, as one poster on this blog pointed out, it's partly because the gays mostly hook up online these days and aren't as sexually driven in boites anymore. With the nightclubbing queers not as consumed by the dick hunt, they can tolerate some fruit flies nattering around them--and the flies heed this insect-ual casting call with a vengeance, honey.
But why be a fag hag in the first place? Why be the BFF of someone who primarily uses you as a buffer, a fluffer, and a holder-upper of compact mirrors?
I know that answer too! A lot of these gals are lumpy misfits who couldn't get a straight boyfriend if it killed them, so they instead fall in love with gays and try to get up in their lives by offering undying support and admiration. It's a far less painful platonic scenario because they can rationalize the sexual rejection with, "After all, he doesn't like the tang!" But that's becoming a somewhat antiquated view of fag hags, sort of the way all lesbians were thought to be moustachioed diesel dykes until The L Word came along.
Some nouveau fag hags are actually glammy types who are simply over straight men and want to be around guys who seem to have more reason for their vanity. An even smaller contingent--but they're definitely out there--consists of the hags who actually do want to sleep with the gays because (a) they're super cute and (b) It's the ultimate challenge; if a girl can nail a queen, you know she's really got something. (Probably lots of meth.)
But whatever the reason, there's no fighting the fact that women will always be pushing their way into my bars. So let's send out a little respect for these gals. Let's toast the fish!
La Daily Musto
Gale Harold Update
According to a representative for the actor, "We can confirm that Gale Harold was in a motorcycle accident yesterday, Oct 14. He has fractured his shoulder and is under observation to assess any possible further injuries. Everyone is hopeful for a full recovery. No one else was injured in the accident."
Star magazine
Reese is on the cover
ROFLMAO
Stars Without Makeup
Maybe Maggie isn't comfortable lying for Jake. And she and Peter are really more indie movie types than HW star types.
Lying to whom?
Stars Without Makeup cover
I can't decide which Reese picture is worst.
In makeup she looks like a tranny and without it she reminds me of my grandmother when she was in her coffin.
But she dress wonderfuly,though and in a right part she really can give a good performance.She is not the best but certainly not the worst,of course she is ridiculously overpaid,even if she were a nuclear scientist, she earns 2much money
It's obvious what 2:10 is saying. Sometimes I think posters who seem bewildered or confused or either newly involved in this conversation in other words naive in which case you need to educate yrselves or else wanting to question the premise of the argument - in which case you are in the wrong room.
I can understand why Jake might have the impression that he himself is an annoying person, because he does seem to annoy people, esp. his on set antics when not on camera. And anyone with ADHA is annoying. And so he perhaps identifying with other annoying people like Reese W.
But he's not always annoying, when he's on his meds he is sexy, professional, and obviouosly gifted.
Reese Witherspoon is a smug, pompous, annoying bitch.
Please don't insult people with ADHA.
he does seem to annoy people, esp. his on set antics when not on camera
Do you have any example except Fincher?
3:16, watch Donnie Darko director cut production notes.
apologies to any ADHA folks; but antic behavior is not easy to bear when you're trying to get a job done.
I can't imagine him not driving Reese nuts, and vice versa.
3:16, watch Donnie Darko director cut production notes.
That's all?
1. ADHA is just a speculation
2. even if it's true, it's kept under control by medication.
3:25, REALLY you are like those who want "proof" Jake is gay. Do your homework for godssake, as some of us have done, go through interviews, commentaries and press conferences for the past few years like a proper obsessive, I mean researcher, do not badger others to feed you facts, it's exhausting and a waste of good time.
3:30 for goddsake read my orig post which i said was a bullshit theory, a specu-effing-lation like everything else concerning celebs we do not know
some people need to take a vacation!
3:34 PM
Which post is that?
nag, nag, nag, Im surprised you know how to breathe on yr own!
3:07 PM
You suggested that Jake suffers from ADHA, no one twisted your arm.
Reeke gets more desperate and ridiculous planting this sex story on Star. It’s so funny how hard they are trying to convince people the bearding is real.
Exclusive: Reese Gives Jake Sexy Lingerie Show
Just 24 hours after Reese Witherspoon arrived in London to visit Jake Gyllenhaal, she coaxed him into a sex toys and underwear emporium for a private strip show.
While shopping in a Myla boutique on the West End, Reese beckoned her beau into the changing rooms, where she surprised him with a private strip show. Jake watched — with a smile plastered across his face — as Reese slipped out of her clothes and wiggled into various bra and panty sets, including an itsy-bitsy pair of purple panties and a matching push-up bra.
Reese's private show seemed to have the desired effect — Jake brought some items up to the cash register, then Reese paid with her credit card.
"Clearly, that purple set did it for him," clerk Vanessa Brown tells Star. "Reese has a really fit body. She looks fantastic. She's petite... but I'm not telling her bra size!"
On the way out of the store, the lovebirds stopped, giggling at a display of sex toys. Reese pointed to a black spoon-shaped gadget designed for "all over body massage as well as more intimate use" and dissolved in fits of laughter.
"They were laughing and joking and just enjoying the moment," added Vanessa.
What do you think of Reese and Jake as a couple: totally hot or totally not? Talk back below.
Star Magazine
focus, 3:50, focus!
Oh god! How on earth does ANYONE know what Gyllenhaal and Witherspoon did in a changing room??? Stupid bullshit.
I do remember a story about Kiki and him making out in London in a changing room. Has he established a pattern? Imagine this: you work as a clerk in a lingerie shop and every now and then Jake Gyllenhaal drops by with another blond Hollywood star, disappears into a changing room and emerges all smiling and happy. I also remember somebody quoted Kiki saying they tried to spice it up and had sex everywhere: on the beach, in a bathroom, in a car, in a hotel corridor,etc.
Whatever his orientation is, I do think he is a bit of exibitionist.
Ha!
IMO this shows that the Kirten "sex in a changing room" article was PR planted too. I think Kirsten was a beard. Jake's PR follows the same pattern on his beardings. They have to plant sex stories to make them look real.
When I saw the Myla bag on the London pics, I knew it was there for a purpose. Here it is. To later plant this Star story and give it credibility! Reeke is beyond pathetic.
"BEST OF: NIGHTLIFE & LIBATIONS
BEST BEAR HUG: BEAR BAR You’re a man who’s into men who look like James Gandolfini, you’re into Top 40 dance remixes, and you find mainstream gay culture (made-for-television guys with fabulous, model-quality bodies, a baby’s hairless backside and a fascination with anything by Tom Ford)—you find that kind of gay culture a drag. Welcome, friend, to Bear Bar at Ripples, on the second Saturday of every month. It’s like the high school quest for quarterback and cheerleader, only with bellies and back hair. Even if you’re a woman or straight or more conventionally gay (Jake Gyllenhaal!) , this is one of the best nights out. All are welcome, in part at least because the emphasis on the condition of your abs is, like, Midwestern low, the emphasis on fun correlatively high. But arrive early: the line forms literally around the block. At the door, whatever your sexuality, you’ll be greeted with a friendly bear hug. clubripples.com"
The district weekly
Reeke gets more desperate and ridiculous planting this sex story on Star.
Ridiculous is the right word.
Jake watched — with a smile plastered across his face - ...
The door was opened? lol
ITA 4:23. Deja vu all over again, Kiki and Jake story was a plant.
Star didnt mention whether or not Jake got a boner watchin'
'Course not.
reverse slash for the giggle giggle snort and sniggle crowd. eeewwwww!
I think Kirsten was a beard.
^^^^
I'm starting to believe that too.
I always wonder why Kirsten spoke so openly about how hot they were as a couple and that they had sex in public places and all that shit.I remember back then,rumors about Jake's bisexuality were getting stronger and it's possible Kirsten made her friend a favor trying to make him look like a wild het-lover.
I just think is very strange kiki made those comments,no matter how drunk she was.
... no matter how drunk she was
Poor Kiki. lol
I believed the Kiki story until today.
- Reeke gets more desperate and ridiculous planting this sex story on Star.
- Ridiculous is the right word.
I think the right word is DISGUSTING
I thought that Reeke crap couldn't go any lower but they managed to surprise me! LOL
I believed the Kiki story until today.
I'm just catching up - what happened?
Oh I think I see - this fake-sounding scene with Reese is too reminiscent of Kiki's fake-sounding story. ITA!
PLEASE JOIN THE GYLLENBABBLE TROLL INVASION. GO TO GYLLENBABBLE AND POST LIKE THEY DO HERE AND ON OMG. MAKE THEIR WEB MASTER SPEND HER DAYS AND NIGHTS CLEANING UP TROLL PUKE.
For me the difference is that I realy like Kiki (dopy and all) and despice Reese for being a pretentious,liar little bitch.
^ ^ ^
well that's a plan. with western civilization falling down around our ears - why not?
6:44 PM
I love being nasty, it's so much fun, but the idea of visiting GB is extremely repulsing. Sorry.
ITA - I must keep my dinner down if Im going to watch the debate tonight.
AAAAGGGGGGG! Never been to this site before. I just took a look. Made my hair stand on end.
"Welcome to Pleasantville"
Alternate universe. Creepy.
I thought Donnie Darko fixed this.
How low will they go? I thought he had the potential to be a serious actor, and she's a bitch. I don't know what to say. :(
He's a bitch too, a pefect match!
Producer Steve Bing Pledges $500K to Fight Prop. 8
Duplicating a pledge made by entrepreneur and political activist Jonathan Lewis two weeks ago, producer Steve Bing has promised $500,000 to the campaign against Proposition 8 in California, to be made if it's matched by other donors.
Lewis made a similar pledge at the beginning of the month which campaign director Patrick Guerriero says has already been matched.
Bing's contribution is the largest from a non-LGBT individual, Variety reports: "Bing is one of the nation's top donors to Democratic and progressive causes. He's the top individual contributor to the 527 independent committees this cycle, having contributed more than $4.8 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics."
The 'No on 8' is holding a fundraiser at the estate of Ron Burkle in Beverly Hills on Thursday at which Melissa Etheridge and Mary J Blige will perform.
Check out the newest 'No on Prop 8' ad, AFTER THE JUMP, and donate HERE.
Towleroad
Star report :
More gutter pablum from Reese. This smells - literally - like her. Now you see why Jake is not leaving England?
This is making a fool of him, I feel so badly. What a shame. I noticed back during the time of Rendition's promotin that she had a terrible attitude - and she's only run amok since. Wait until her latest movie flops.
On a more positive note, I'm glad to see more people are donating to the campaign against Prop. 8.
"Four Christmases" is just around the corner, so I guess that means its time to kick the Gyllenspoon PR relationship blitz back into full gear.
We can probably expect more "strip show" reports in the near future.
"His stumbling reminds me of my late grandfather. My grandfather had the good sense not to run for President. Of anything."
McCain's Senior Moments
Jeeeeeze! Almost scarier than The Chin doing a strip tease.
"We can probably expect more "strip show" reports in the near future."
I bet you dollars to donuts that you won't see this kind of gutter journalism when Brothers is promoted.
Stay in England, Jake.
I agree, I'm glad it won't be tainted with this tabloid crap. Where's his dignity? He's only a prop for her.
Are they sure she was not trying on strap on dildos. Now that may have an effect on Jake. Not surprised by this latest blurb. She was holding the bag so conspicuously, you knew there had to be a reason. Remember when Dr P said the last time Jake was in a woman, it was the staute of liberty. Still hilarious.
As much as I detest babbleworld, I dont have the energy to bombard them. Besides, they need to rename themselves. They are more about Reese now than Jake. He seems to be an afterthought. Reese has sucked the life out of him even there.
Does anyone know what happened to Dr. P? This latest round of Reeke seems to be the worst yet-we could sure use his input about now.
I'm really glad all of his movies have been pushed back, because this phoney crap would really affect box office negatively, I think. Nothing's wrong with it by itself, it would be fun, but in this case it's conspicuous, probably untrue, and not something anyone would want the Star and other rags to document. The entire "relationship" has been a documentary. I don't think if you haven't seen your bf in a few weeks, and you only had a couple of days with him, you'd want to drag him around London. :(
"the last time Jake was in a woman, it was the staute of liberty"
OMG! Thank you for making me laugh:)
Still, this is Paris, city of light and love, and if you've heard the song by Carla Bruni about French president Nicolas Sarkozy—"I give you my body, my soul, and my chrysanthemum/For I am yours/You are my lord/You're my darling/You're my orgy/You're my folly"—then you figure, what the heck, it's Paris. You ask.
"He's very supportive," she says.
Is it just me or is that just hilarious?! All that hot romance and she comes back with supportive?!!
And apparently she was in Rome for a few weeks with the guy "she doesn't want to blab about...." why not just say she was with Jake? Either that was made up or she was with some other guy in Rome, after all Reese couldn't be leading a celibate life right?! LOL
Few weeks? Yeah, right.
Is it just me or is that just hilarious?!
It is hilarious. Reeke BS is contagious. lol
"I DON'T believe you have to be monogamous, but you have to be respectful. Don't come home and say: 'Oh, I've just had sex with someone else'"
- Boy George to the Times of London.
Obama and McCain Face Off in Final Presidential Debate
Barack Obama and John McCain faced off in the final presidential debate at Hofstra University. Obama and McCain answered questions on the economy, health care, and energy, as well as negative campaigning and personal attacks. I may have more clips up later, but here is the immediate polling from CNN and CBS, which shows gains for Obama.
http://www.towleroad.com/2008/10/obama-and-mcc-1.html
The pictures from Marylebone Street: he's very tense and artificial, esp. in the 3 ones in which he has a clenched fist. I think she's intimidating him.
And in her video (vogue), when she drops "that's a wrap", it's quite "go away or i'm chucking you out" and "who're you to question me?".
She's not hiding her disgust. She'll have a hard time later when they'll try to humble her.
Ellen Tells Voters To Fight Prop 8
Ellen DeGeneres has finally done it!
After drawing fire for her allegedly lackluster support for gay marriage in California, the lesbian funny lady appeared on The Tonight Show and told right-wing activists not to "promote hate." Still, some said that wasn't enough. Well, the 50-year old's most recent plea should quell the queer masses, for she today released a video urging her fellow Californians to vote "no" on Proposition 8, a ballot measure that would overturn the State Supreme court's green light for gay marriage.
Says the recently wed DeGeneres:
"Hi, I’m Ellen DeGeneres. I got to do something this year I never thought I’d ever be able to do: I got married. It was the happiest day of my life. There are people out there raising millions of dollars to try and take that right away from me. You’ve seen their ads on TV. They’re twisting the truth, and they’re trying to scare you. I believe in fairness. I believe in compassion. I believe in equality for all people. Proposition 8 does not. Please, please, vote NO on Prop. 8."
Those of you who want to help should head on over to the Vote No On 8 website. It'll do you good and definitely brings good queer karma.
Ellen No on 8 (video)
She's not hiding her disgust.
The bitch is lying thru her teeth but she can't pretend to be normal and nice all the time. Her inner ugliness is showing.
I've never trolled the babble and won't begin now. They're too naive to bother with anyway.
And fascist, not forgetting that.
Gay Is The New Black
'Fauxmosexuals' Ruining It For Real Gay People
As if finding an actual gay companion in real life wasn't hard enough, now a bunch of celebrities are just pretending to be gay, the country of Australia complains. You know the types, the Anne Heches and the Lindsay Lohans (so some suggest at least. We kinda believe that one.) They're calling this trend—because we must name trends, always, silly mashup titles and puns and the like because to name one's enemy is to know it—"fauxmosexual." Or, in the case of the above examples, "celesbians." And people are arguing that all of this pointless "are they, aren't they?" speculation is damaging for the little ones:
"Experimentation is healthy — what it leads to can sometimes be a great thing, but you need to wonder what effect [fake lesbians] are having on women," said Mr Duggan, co-founder of gay and lesbian site SameSame.
"Women who pretend to be lesbians do it to titillate men.
"The current trend of gay acceptance is a Trojan horse: on the surface it's 'wow, isn’t it great, it's being talked about', but it's not real acceptance — it's a titillating, easy-on-the-eyes acceptance."
Online gay forums are abuzz with talk of the "bogus lesbian" craze, with some questioning whether the trend is putting real homosexuals at risk.
"Where do these fauxmosexual fads leave queer teens once they're packed away in the cupboard (with other fads)?," user timbo84 wrote.
"The statistic of 30 percent of teen suicides in the US being gay or lesbian teens is very distressing.
"Here's hoping pop culture moves on to focus on people like Ellen and Ian McKellen and not those who are just 'out' to make a buck!"
Which, yes! We agree with. But is it not, also, a bit presumptuous to assume that Lilo, for example, is faking it? How the hell do we know one way or the other? More in tune with the right vein of this argument, they name Katy Perry, with her Jill Sobule rip-off song "I Kiss a Girl," as a culprit in all of this too. I definitely concur on that one. "Look boyyyssss look what I diiiiid. Oh, sorry dyke. The boys are paying attention now. Scram." That kind of thing is gross without question, and we know she's actually straight because she says as much in the song. (And I'm not going to turn this into some boring argument for by-any-means-necessary progress—"we'll take the bad as long as some good comes shambling along with it!"—so don't worry.)
But I think the bigger problem here is, yes, that naming of trends. We must kill it. Which means we must know it. Which means we must name it. Trending? Are people who constantly name trends called Fadicals? What? What?? Tell me.
Fauxmosexuals
Ellen No on 8 (video)
"Somebody on Towleroad.com commented that Forbes magazine has listed Ellen's worth at $67 million and her mother has actually donated $700 [seven hundred dollars]; Ellen: ZERO. If you go to the website to donate you see that you have to provide your personal info…its the law. Btw, any U.S. National can contribute."
Just read the star article about Reeke shopping for purple underwear. Vanessa Brown? WoW, wonder how much Reeke PR paid her for that.... Poor Vanessa must have :
1. Left her glasses at home to say Reese has a really fit body (lol!)
2. Peeping over Jake's shoulder to see it all, otherwise how does she know Reese has a fit body??
And can you imagine Reese in a itsy-bitsy pair of purple panties with those thighs of hers. Ewwwwww! Oh my God Vanessa, you wanna give us all nightmares?!
The pictures from Marylebone Street: he's very tense and artificial, esp. in the 3 ones in which he has a clenched fist.
I think it's subconscious "I don't want to be here / do this" body language.
Peeping over Jake's shoulder to see it all..
Changing rooms with no doors?
Panettiere Breaks Out Potty Mouth "For" John McCain
Hayden Panettiere lets the f-word fly in the video for Funny Or Die, in which the Heroes actress sarcastically urges voters to do three things: smoke cigarettes, disregard seat belts and vote for the Republican: "He's just like George Bush, except older and with a worse temper."
She goes on to remark, "John McCain - he's had affairs with lobbyists, so he'll get fucked and you'll get fucked. So everybody wins!" Indeed.
Hayden Panettiere video
Changing rooms with no doors?
hey, this is Reese Witherspoon we are talking of here....changing underwear!
Remember those Reese bikini pics a few months back? lol
Don't bring that up, we are trying to forget them!
Did Everybody See McCain Turn into a Zombie Last Night?
LOL picture
"Supportive" - means "quid pro quid, boyfriend. . . and dont you forget it. . . "
or "I need a new bra."
? ? ?
Reese needs a supportive bra.
More PoP Morocco movie set pictures
IMDb
'Hey guys, news just in, Daniel Illabaca is gonna double [parkour] Prince Dastan in the movie.
Sorry, can't reveal my sources."
Daniel Illabaca video
10:26 AM, no she doesn't. She has nice boobs. Face and legs we can argue, but the girl has great tits.
She has kids - she had nice boobs.
^ ^ ^
please give links.
(it's "talk like a babbler day". . . hahaha )
Please don't, who gives a shit about her tits.
She was topless in a movie I've seen years ago, she was very young. Maybe some others here have see it too?
Babbler? LOL. I can't stand Jake nor Reese.
I don't.
Ok, I get that even links to nude pics are forbidden. I apologize for posting them.
Daniel ILabaca can climb anything
Stuntman
Also, the hairlenght is right.
11:14 AM
Reese's nude pictures are forbidden :)
Reese's nude pictures are forbidden :)
Ok, I'll remember that. Again, sorry for posting them.
Daniel ILabaca can climb anything
Parkour is cool.
LOL picture
WTF?!?
There's an update today on Sgt. Gwen Beberg, the soldier in Iraq fighting the military to let her bring an adopted dog back home to Minnesota. Terri Crisp of Operation Baghdad Pups, an organization that helps place Iraqi animals in U.S. homes, went to Baghdad yesterday to retrieve Ratchet and six other dogs. Though Crisp was allowed to take the other dogs, the military did not clear Ratchet's release; the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals International said it would make another attempt to bring him to the U.S. in the next week. In a statement released by SPCA International, Beberg's mother says Ratchet "was the savior of her [daughter's] sanity" in Iraq. "I don't know how my daughter will cope" without the dog, she adds. [CNN]
PINK: 'I WANT A MAN'
Pop punk PINK could never have a serious relationship with a woman - because she loves men too much.
The singer admits she has had lesbian experiences, but will never have a long-term relationship with a woman.
She says, "I'm not gay so I guess I wouldn't try a relationship with a woman... I didn't say I haven't experimented but I love men too much to make it a permanent thing,." Pink split from husband Carey Hart in February (08) after two years together.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/65513
"Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal made an impromptu visit to a sex toy and underwear emporium during their recent trip to London. Yeah, I’m sure Jake’s never been in some place like that before. Star Magazine says
'While shopping in a Myla boutique on the West End, Reese beckoned [Jake] into the changing rooms… [with] various bra and panty sets.
Jake brought some items up to the cash register, then Reese paid with her credit card. On the way out of the store, the lovebirds stopped, giggling at a display of sex toys.'
I’m sure you noticed gaping hole in Star’s lingerie show timeline. What was Jake doing from the time Reese went into the dressing room with the panties until the moment he arrived at the register with her card? Use your deductive reasoning skills. Was it:
A) Fetal position and lots of crying
B) Feigned enthusiasm and barely-contained vomit, or
C) Putting on the bra and panty set and belting out “I Feel Pretty” while twirling a parasol and high-stepping in peep-toe pumps
I think the only way the answer could be any more obvious is if it could physically bitch-slap you in the face and hiss, “Girlfriend please.”
link
Posted on OMG
Guy Ritchie is "doing fine" since news of his impending divorce with Madonna hit the news, a pal tells PEOPLE.
"[The divorce] is news to you and everyone else, but for Guy this has been a long time coming," the friend adds. "I think he's sort of relieved that it's all out there. He doesn't have to fake it anymore."
Putting on the bra and panty set and belting out “I Feel Pretty” while twirling a parasol and high-stepping in peep-toe pumps
That's just plain nasty, but funny. LOL
“I Feel Pretty”
Hey, I posted that first!
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any boy who isn't me tonight.
Ryan’s movie ‘Franklyn’ premieres today at the London Film Festival. I wonder if the excess of Reeke these past days had to do with overshadowing this, like she did with the Cabo trip last time.
Wouldn't surprise me.
THE marriage of Madonna and Guy Ritchie has been dogged by bitterness and recrimination for YEARS — and any notion that they have battled to save it is a myth.
I think he's sort of relieved that it's all out there. He doesn't have to fake it anymore.
They were "working on their marriage" and holding hands only weeks ago.
"They were "working on their marriage" and holding hands only weeks ago."
Why does this sound *so* familiar?
New video, Ted talks about Reeke
Truth, Lies and Ted, Oct 16
Can't play the video. What does Ted say about Reeke?
What does he say?
Talks about "hunting for a house".
Ted: I think it's a great news ..., I just don't think they should live in it together.
He just says that he heard they were buying a house together in London, and that he thought it was great to buy a house - they just shouldn't live in it together. In fact, he would preferred it if either of them bought a house and lived in it with anyone *but* each other.
The contempt in his voice for this fauxmance is growing more obvious everyday. This entire fauxmance is a joke, and Ted sounds sick of it, but he's a gossip columnist and he has to mention it.
How can you blame him? First, there was talk of a joint house in Cabo - a complete fabrication timed to coincide with Ryan's film. Then there was talk of Jake officially moving into Reese's LA house, which all but died when he started filming Pop. How convenient that he's living in a house that he isn't really living in. Then there was talk of a joint house in London this summer - until Reese stormed out with the rugs rats in tow. Now there's talk of a house in London and staged walkabout photos, again timed to coincide with Reese's dogmeat film promos and refute the rumors of a spat between them in a restaurant.
And what are we not talking about? A stream of bad news : Reese's continuing obsession with Ryan (obviously she hasn't moved on yet, if you catch my drift), Jake's parents divorce, the fact that he has had *three* films postponed this year and no new films lined up for the future, the bad advance press for Four Christmases, the creepy buzz about Reese 's next dogmeat effort with Ben Stiller, Jake's scarring incident on the set and of course the big spat in the restaurant.
What a waste of bandwidth. Well, at least Jake is staying out of the fray in London, and isn't letting her drag him to every cockamamie promo and pr stunt she can in LA. What's a closeted gay man to do.....
He has no choice to be in London, he is under contract with Disney top film Pop, the show will go on when he returns.
And for the 100th time there was no spat, that was a PR plant to go along with the London pics and the news about them looking for a place in London. And there is no evidence that he hurt himself on set, if he did they would have insisted and forced him to go to the hospital.
That was BS along with the growing apart story, the strip show story and the sex on the plane story all from the same place: Star.
And Ted has no reason to mention them, the rest of the gosipper on that site pretty much ignore them, he only talks about them to cater to the TT auduence because that's the only ones that give a rats ass about them.
I mean really, would Ted's balls fall off if he didn't mention them? And why bother?
Trolly, we know you enjoy getting your knickers in a twist. If Ted stopped talking about TT what would you do for fun.
Trolly is right, if he has nothing new to add why bother?
But we all know if he doesn't make at least a mention twice a week, then he is in trouble.
At least the rest of the site ignores them for the most part, if it wasn't for him and his "readers" they would barely get a mention on that site, I guess it's better than nothing even though he has nothing to add.
Trolly is right, if he has nothing new to add why bother?
Trolly is wrong.
It's gossip, not the 10 o'clock news. Ted or any other gossip columnist always has something new to add - his comment.
Confession: being one who found Jeebus on DC after BBMT knockout, I heard for a coupla of years about Ted:
He's so vulgar,
Oh, so vulgar,
He's so vulgar and dirty and snide
And I pity
Anybody that goes on his ride.
Whut? He's sexy, funny and witty. Love the guy.
He's sexy, funny and witty. Love the guy.
Me too :)
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Oh my dog, you guys, there is a link between Myla's and Vogue. Doing a little internet scoping and it seems Vogue has featured this store's line in its publications in the past and apparently the present, including Myla's 2008-2009 autumn/winter campaign.
So what, was this just yet another business plug for Reese? A free plug for that store in the name of Vogue?
O whut a tangled web they weave? I see Reeke being caught in the web like the poor sod in The Fly, beeping "help me! help me! help me!"
O this is so sad. although Im no longer going to kill myself. it's their red wagon and they can just keep draggin' it along.
pathetic!
Take a look at the name of the person who signed the letter: MYLA, Reeke's lingerie store!
Dear Ted:
Why is Toothy Tile bearding when he has a baby with his boyfriend? As much as I adore Family Tile, I think Gray Goose should take Baby Tile with him and leave Toothy. Enough is enough when manufacturing a fake image! The baby comes first and requires honesty. What do you think?
—Myla
Dear Honest Woman:
I think you know what I think. After all, your letter's first, isn't it?
Dear Ted:
A lovely, smart lady on the boards thinks Dimpled Drew is Hugh Jackman. My guess was Goran Visnjic. Can you tell us who is closer? Belated congrats on the nuptials, keep up the political talk (they are media whores, too, and we all have the right), and you are proof positive that a known homosexual man can still be eye-candy to women.
—Suzy W.
Dear Tush Licking for Toothy:
Nice approach, I like it. Hmmm. Nope, Hugh a bit too famous for Dimpled (a bit), and Goran just the right amount, though the real D.D. is blondish at times, not brunet. Def keep on guessin' like you do, sugar!
I think Gray Goose should take Baby Tile with him and leave Toothy
Why? TT must have done something good if there's a BT.
I have a feeling Baby Tile is going to become a symbol or metaphor for truth and beauty.
In a shabby and compromised world.
Too good to be true.
3.31, great post!
Transgender Child's First Sentence: "I Like Your High Heels"
Atlantic contributing editor Hanna Rosin has a measured, nuanced article about transgender children in the November issue. Roisin spent several months with 8-year-old "Brandon Simms" and his family in their small, God-fearing Southern town. Even though Brandon had expressed the desire to be female since he could talk (his first full sentence: “I like your high heels.") Brandon's mom, Tina, hadn't even heard the word "transgender" until her mother showed her the 20/20 special devoted to transgender children a year and a half ago. Despite serious consequences from their friends and relatives (Brandon's best friend, Abby, is the child of Evangelical parents who now forbid her to play with him), Tina has encouraged Brandon to embrace being a girl, and Brandon is now living as Bridget. And experts are still debating over whether this is the proper tact to take.
Earlier this year we covered a two-part NPR story about transgender children. The first part compared and contrasted two children who felt they were born to the wrong gender — Bradley and Jonah. Bradley's parents were trying to get him to act like a stereotypical boy, while Jonah's parents were allowing him to live as Jona, a girl. The second part was about an aggressive new treatment that allows transgender preteens to block puberty so that they do not have to develop the secondary sex characteristics of the gender they feel is not truly theirs. Rosin covers much of the same ground as these stories and interviews some of the same experts, but comes up with a slightly different, and fascinating, conclusion.
She interviewed Catherine Tuerk, a woman who runs a support group for transgender parents in D.C. and is the mother of a gay son. Tuerk noticed that many conservative parents were surprisingly comfortable labeling their children as transgender, and she had the following theory: “Parents have told me it’s almost easier to tell others, ‘My kid was born in the wrong body,’ rather than explaining that he might be gay, which is in the back of everyone’s mind. When people think about being gay, they think about sex—and thinking about sex and kids is taboo.”
As I said when I first wrote about the issue of transgender children, most of these parents just want to do right by their children, who are obviously suffering greatly. Above all, what one comes away with from Rosin's story is that even for a child like Brandon/Bridget, whose mother is letting her live as the gender she feels she is, the road is a rocky one filled with tough transitions and outside prejudice.
I Like Your High Heels
He's sexy, funny and witty. Love the guy.
Me too, and he's also intelligent, socially aware, and loves animals. Yay Ted! :*
Jen Aniston Is a Masochist, but Could Do Worse
The John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston "back on" brigade is in full force, with the duo celebrating J.M.'s 31st B-day together in Hell-Ay. Doth we question Jen's decision-making skills when it comes to dating—but what the ef is this woman thinking? Once was irritating enough with this man-child, but twice? Is she really that desperate to steal some headlines back from Angie? (Just take a gander at the Changeling poster, Jen, it'll give you a good laugh like it gave us).
Then again, we guess it could be a whole lot worse...
Horrible Choices for a Boyfriend Jennifer Aniston Could Make That Are Worse Than Choosing to Date John Mayer Again (Vol. 1):
O.J. Simpson
Joe Francis
Brody Jenner, Spencer Pratt, Justin Bobby—pretty much any male on The Hills
Carrot Top
Michael Lohan
Blake Incarcerated
Bill Clinton
Oscar the Grouch
Ben from Lost
Her hairdresser, Chris McMillan
Flava Flav
Toothy Tile
Smithers from The Simpsons
Her own dog, Norman
Ross' monkey from Friends
Jon Voight
Maddox Jolie-Pitt
John Mayer for a third time
Did we miss anyone? This list could (and will) keep growing.
Tina has encouraged Brandon to embrace being a girl, and Brandon is now living as Bridget.
Thank God for good parents.
"Dear Honest Woman:
I think you know what I think. After all, your letter's first, isn't it?"
Translation?
I love how Jen and John broke up only about a month ago or so and he's now an old flame. ;)
7:32 - I think it means he agrees with her.
Jake and Maggie's mother filed for divorce yesterday according to TMZ. They have the documents: http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/16/jake-and-maggie-now-children-of-divorce/
Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal's Mother Divorcing Their Father
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, filed for divorce from Stephen Gyllenhaal on Wednesday, according to Los Angeles County court documents. The couple married in 1976, according to IMDB.com. They have property in Los Angeles and Martha's Vineyard.
At a 2007 press conference, Jake was asked what relationship advice his parents had given him. "This marks the 30th wedding anniversary of my parents," he responded. "A young man came up to my dad and asked him, 'What's it like being married to the same woman for 30 years?' My dad answered, 'She's not the same woman.'"
Naomi was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and received the Pen West Screenplay Award and the Golden Globe Award, for her screenplay Running On Empty. She also wrote and produced A Dangerous Woman, starring Debra Winge, Barbara Hershey and Gabriel Byrne and Losing Isaiah with Jessica Lange and Halle Berry.
She was involved with the development of Sesame Street and The Electric Company and has an ongoing interest in progressive politics, according to her Foxsearchlight.com biography. She is involved with the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Laboratory, has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America.
Stephen is a long-time director who has worked on such TV shows Army Wives, Numb3rs and The Shield. He also directed A Dangerous Woman, which Jake and Maggie had roles in. Claptrap: Notes From Hollywood is his first collection of poems to be published. Stephen is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Jake's representative had no comment.
http://www.usmagazine.com/Jake-And-Maggies-Mother-Divorcing-Their-Father
Jake's representative had no comment.
Huh? Why would Jake comment?
A Candid Maggie Gyllenhaal Makes Political PSA
Maggie Gyllenhaal encourages young people to make it to the polls!
Maggie's new PSA for 18in08.com stresses the importance of 18-year-olds to vote in this election. 18 in '08 is a peer-to-peer movement to register, engage, and mobilize America's youth to vote and get involved in the political process.
Check out the PSA to hear Maggie's push for the polls!
ET Online
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PG, have you ever watched Moonlight Mile or listened to the commentary? Jakes parents did apparently fight a lot when he was young, and there's a scene in the movie where he overhears Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman fighting. In the commentary Dustin talks about how in that scene Jake looks like he really is 12 in that scene and says? suggests? he was basing it on his own life experiences.
I think Gray Goose should take Baby Tile with him and leave Toothy.
The plan is, Boyfriend Tile will then, legally (and far, far away from pokin' press types like yours truly) be listed as papa—when, in fact, our beloved Tooth just may be the correct daddio.
Worst-case scenario: If the bf is legally the father then he can take the child anytime, and TT would have no rights even if he is the biological dad.
Why would TT and GG split up? Over too much bearding?
Page Six
MICHELLE WILLIAMS BACK IN THE LIGHT
MICHELLE Williams came out of hiding to promote her new movie - and her new man. The elfin actress has been reclusive since the death of Heath Ledger, her "Brokeback Mountain" co-star and father of her daughter, Matilda. But on Wednesday night, Williams stepped out at the Cinema Society/Mulberry screening of her badly titled movie, "Synecdoche, New York," with film producer and new beau Spike Jonze. "He was always an arm's length from her, and they kept stealing private moments throughout the evening," said one party guest. Director Charlie Kaufman joined stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener on the Gramercy Park Hotel rooftop alongside Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Julian Schnabel, Juliette Lewis, Zoe Kravitz, Jon Voight, Jason Lewis and Cynthia Rowley.
So Ted agreed with this opinion:
Why is Toothy Tile bearding when he has a baby with his boyfriend? As much as I adore Family Tile, I think Gray Goose should take Baby Tile with him and leave Toothy. Enough is enough when manufacturing a fake image! The baby comes first and requires honesty. What do you think?
Looks like Ted is calling quits on TT story and seems he doesn't want to be held accountable.
Huh?
Accountable for what?
http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip/10-15-08_2/?GT1=28101
Reese Witherspoon looked completely at ease as she held hands and shared a few laughs with Jake Gyllenhaal as they strolled through London last weekend with a lingerie store bag in hand and the paparazzi in tow, but she's wisely keeping her guard up when it comes to sharing details about their year-plus romance.
In a relatively snooze-y interview with the November issue of Vogue (a good bit of the focus is on "Four Christmases," her unpromising-looking upcoming comedy with Vince Vaughn), the Oscar-winning mom of Ava, 9, and Deacon, 4, speaks of her newly buff and scruffy amour in only the vaguest terms. "He's very supportive," allows the former Mrs. Ryan Phillippe. "Suffice it to say, I'm very happy in life, and I'm very lucky to have a lot of really supportive people around me who care very much for me, and, you know, that's all you can hope for in life. I am very blessed in that way."
The spotlight-avoiding pair is rumored to be house hunting in London, where Gyllenhaal has been filming the big-budget epic "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." "I am convinced they will eventually marry ... and I really think it will be for good," a Jake pal recently declared to the Chicago Sun-Times. "I know we're talking about Hollywood stars, but these two have something special."
"Looks like Ted is calling quits on TT story and seems he doesn't want to be held accountable."
I don't think so. I think Ted likes Jake, can't stand Reese and can't stomach the bearding. It's Ted's way of saying appreciate what you have before you loose it for good.
"In a relatively snooze-y interview with the November issue of Vogue (a good bit of the focus is on "Four Christmases," her unpromising-looking upcoming comedy with Vince Vaughn), the Oscar-winning mom of Ava, 9, and Deacon, 4, speaks of her newly buff and scruffy amour in only the vaguest terms."
Reese's movie is dead in the water and with Jake in London, her daily pap photo shoots are limited. She must be spitting nails that not only is her interview be called boring, but that more internet sites are jumping on the phonymance bandwagon. Wonder when she's finally going to realize that the show with Jake isn't working and pull the plug.
"Looks like Ted is calling quits on TT story and seems he doesn't want to be held accountable."
Oh, you've been predicting that for a couple of years now - hasn't happened.
"Accountable for what?
"Accountable" just means that this is the poster who thinks Ted has fabricated the entire TT story, and is trying to find an exit.
Doesn't make sense as an ex-bf with a baby would still be very interesting TT gossip.
Ted would have dropped the Baby Tile story a long time ago if he wanted a way out.
Reese The Bore Witherspoon. lol
a relatively snooze-y interview
unpromising-looking upcoming comedy
only the vaguest terms
Not so good PR.
Sir Ian McKellen speaks out against Proposition 8...
I was just forwarded this by journalist Karen Ocamb who notes that out actor, Sir. Ian McKellen ("Gods & Monsters," "X-Men" and "Lord of the Rings" franchises) has stayed out of U.S. politics in the past. But this Knight of the British Empire has made an exception when it comes to Proposition 8, the measure on the November ballot that seeks to outlaw same-sex marriage in California.
To the Gay-Straight Alliance of Beverly Hills High School he said:
"California's influence stretches across the world through the imagination of its citizens in films and through the internet. At the same time, its welcome to strangers has meant it has been home to those escaping oppression, many of whom have identified themselves as gay. For both reasons I feel involved in the outcome of voting over Proposition 8.
"I think of Englishmen like the painter David Hockney and the writer Christopher Isherwood who emigrated to Los Angeles and Santa Monica where (far from home) they loved in the way they felt they were born to, with people of their own gender. I think of the gay novelist Armistead Maupin, a refugee from the Deep South who in San Francisco discovered his talent to amuse. These great men (and there are many women like them) deserve society's respect for their honesty and their determination to dream in the American way of being completely themselves, against all the odds.
"The world has turned to a point where any discrimination against gay people in your state, in your country, in our world is unseemly and unnecessarily cruel. If two people wish to declare their love for each other, who are the rest of us to stand in their way? If they wish to marry, as their parents did, who are we to stop them? In the great Californian tradition, Vote "NO" to Proposition 8, please."
Well said, Sir.
http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/2008/10/sir-ian-mckellen-speaks-out-ag.html
Looks like Ted is calling quits on TT story and seems he doesn't want to be held accountable.
Thanks for the laugh!
Ted would have dropped the Baby Tile story a long time ago if he wanted a way out.
ITA. He has upped the ante recently with several new tidbits.
7:42 is in classic denial. JIS JIS JIS because I said so!
ITA. And I also think that his comments about the two of them not living together has deeper meaning, and it's directed specifically at Jake. My intuition is that Jake is quite happy in London right now. He has privacy, control over his own space and career and he's in charge of his life. In fact, he probably has more control over his emotional and professional life than he's had since last summer. He doesn't have privacy and control in LA *at all*, and he doesn't have it when Witherspoon is in London. I think that his self-esteem is returning, and with it his need for more control over his *own* life.
"In fact, he probably has more control over his emotional and professional life than he's had since last summer. He doesn't have privacy and control in LA *at all*, and he doesn't have it when Witherspoon is in London."
If Jake feels that way, he has only himself to blame. He is a willing participant of Reeke. If he's not into doing anymore of the pap photo ops or the whole fake Reeke romance, all he has to do is say no and end Reeke. He's put in 2years of Reeke and all the gay rumors still follow him, so why not quit Reeke if he's tired of it.
Reese would probably have him jumped him in a dark alley if he quit now.
7:42 is in classic denial. JIS JIS JIS because I said so!
It's hard to believe but there are even worse fangirls in denial.
This one claims that Luke Macfarlane isn't gay because she wants Went to be straight:
One thing strikes me as being funny, and it's all these refrences to Luke being gay come from "forgine" press, Canada, Austraila where next Sally Field will mention it in the Finnish press?!lol.
BTW I'm totally not a Luke is Straight troll. I'm gay and I'd love Luke to be gay, I hope he is, he is totally gorgeous, but something just doesn't ring true about it, I kind of think some press are using Luke, who is gay friendly and doesn't read any press about himself, and is just so sincere and kind, he'd never want to offened anyone, to get a Wentowrth, they are say oh look Luke is gay, he must be Wentworths boyfriend.
It's actually very homophobic, and offensive to us gay men. I think it would be super cool if Luke and Wentworth were gay, but sadly I don't don't think either of them are.
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Sorry r475. I'm not, I guess it would be convinet if I were, maybe some part of me wishes that that post was written by a fangurl, who knows nothing, then there is a small chance Luke might actually be gay, and if we read something we don't like or if the truth hurts we can just throw that "delusional beyond stupid fangirl" line at it and ignore it and make it go away, but really when it comes down to it sadly, that excuse won't make Luke any less straight.
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I agree Miller isn't gay, I think he is straight, but has issues with relationships and intimacy.
I think Luke is more bisexual than gay.
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I do think he [Luke] is bi and I think he'll play that up more, he'll probably criticize the G&M interview, as while not lies, but definitely they unintentionally misinterpreted him as gay rather than bi.
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Luke to me is the kind of person who is attracted to the person not the gender. I think it would have been very easy for the Globe to take that wrongly and try to hype the interview up more, by using the headline as him being gay rather than the truth which he is bisexual. Also remember Luke does not read any media about himself, so it's easy to let that go and being bi he agent and family probably let it go also.
The truth is no one here knows Luke or his sexuality, but I think it's just more likely he is bi.
I think it would have been very easy for the Globe to take that wrongly and try to hype the interview up more, by using the headline as him being gay rather than the truth which he is bisexual.
Yep, this one is worse than our trolly.
This week Ringo Starr joined a long and not-so-illustrious line of celebs who don't have time for their fans, says Ed Power
'I just want to be left alone . . .'
The usually effusive Ringo Starr had a blunt message for fans this week: please stop pestering me. From Monday, the Beatle will no longer be signing autographs because it is taking up too much of his (presumably extremely precious) time. Fan mail received past the deadline will be binned, said Ringo in a terse posting to his website.
Starr isn't the first celebrity to give his audience a very public cold-shouldering. Indeed, stars have, down the decades, perfected the art of the brusque kiss-off. From Jake Gyllenhaal pretending to be on his phone when admirers approach (as reported to celeb website Gawker) to Justin Timberlake running from an upmarket Australian restaurant after promising to stay and talk to fans, celebs have never exactly earned merit points when it comes to showing the masses their love.
Standard public avoidance tactics include...
1 Refusing to Sign Autographs
Always uneasy about fame, Paul Newman was aghast at the thought of his signature being regarded as some kind of holy relic. So, he refused all requests for autographs. Back when people actually wanted his, Phil Collins took a similar stance.
He would happily pose for photographs but drew the line at whipping a pen out, explaining that if he had to stop and sign an autograph for a single person then he would inevitably end up spending all day at it.
Then there was Keifer Sutherland, who huffily stopped giving autographs after fans posted his drink-driving arrest pictures on the web. "He would always stand and sign for a half-hour," autograph collector Michael Wehrmann told a US newspaper, "but since his arrest, he's been telling collectors, 'I don't do that anymore. You guys screwed me'."
Sometimes even a squeaky clean hero can let you down -- at least that's according to a 10-year-old Scottish golf fanatic who claimed Tiger Woods blanked him when approached for an autograph after a practice round at St Andrew's several years ago.
2 Going out incognito
In an attempt to avoid public harassment many famous people venture out of doors heavily camouflaged. The standard disguise of super-sized sunglasses and base-ball cap pulled low over the face is practically a cliche by now.
But some celebs go to even further extremes. Cyndi Lauper tells people she is a Canadian backpacker; Heather Mills once donned a black wig to give paparazzi the slip. Of course, sometimes the desire to step outside one's fame is taken too far: witness Britney's Spears self-inflicted 2007 buzz-cut.
3 Becoming a recluse
Normally celebrities opt for a recluse's lifestyle when they've become burnt out and disillusioned -- or when they wish to avoid any awkward questions the media may have about their private lives.
Hence Michael Jackson's decision to abandon the Neverland Ranch in the wake of his crash and burn Martin Bashir interviews. Fleeing first to the Middle East and then to the east coast of Ireland, it was rumoured at least one book shop arranged to open especially so that he could go shopping for the latest Harry Potter with his children (quite how they can read with those cowls over their faces remains a mystery).
4 Acting crazy
Nothing kills the romance between a celeb and their adoring public quite like an outburst of properly nutty behaviour. Whether it's Britney Spears trying to impale photographers with a golf umbrella or Bjork body-slamming a reporter after she tried to interview her daughter, a public meltdown is the perfect way of cooling fans' ardour.
That said, it's possible to go too far: do people shy away from Tom Cruise because they wish to respect his privacy or because they're afraid he might whip off his sunglasses and hypnotise them into signing up for a Scientology course?
Perhaps Ringo's was the wisest approach -- a terse email delivered when the world has more pressing matters to worry about.
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/i-just-want-to-be-left-alone-1501354.html
Jake Gyllenhaal pretending to be on his phone when admirers approach (as reported to celeb website Gawker)
How can one tell if someone's pretending to be on the mobile?
I can understand this, up to a point. I'm sure they wouldn't want total "privacy" from fans, especially at film release time, so it's a bit hypocritical. However, we can give them all the "privacy" they want if they so desire when a film, book or record flops, but they can't have it both ways.
On the other hand, I do think Keifer Sutherland was right in giving it right back to fans who were insensitive and invaded his privacy at a difficult time. ;)
People
Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal's Parents Call it Quits
Naomi Foner – the mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal – has filed for divorce from their father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Los Angeles court papers show.
Married for 30 years, Foner – a Golden-Globe winning screenwriter with credits including Running on Empty and Losing Isaiah – cites irreconcilable differences. She says the couple has been separated since Jan. 1.
Foner isn't seeking spousal support, and she also asks the court to deny Gyllenhaal – a film director – any support. The papers were filed Wednesday.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20233907,00.html
I do think Keifer Sutherland was right in giving it right back to fans who were insensitive and invaded his privacy at a difficult time.
Keifer has only himself to blame. Does he really expect fans to ignore his drunkass behaviour?
But Jake has Reese so it doesn't matter if a few not good things (Heath's death, his parents divorcing, Paul Newman's death, Nailed problems, two films pushed back, etc. ) transpired this year--he got the ultimate gift, Reese! And all is well in the world.
He must be deliriously happy because of her love.
O yeah make way for more lurid speculation from the extended family that is all of us who dote on this celeb family.
Let's see, my own bullshit speculation is: I think Maggie and Naomi are home safe, Naomi well rid of the Scando hipster, Maggie apparently enjoying Papa fucking a woman that shaves her legs and is not such a crazyass as Naomi. Jake, let me think about it. . . hmmmmm . . .
no, I dont want to think about it. if he's gonna shop for lingerie while the world is falling down a rabbit hole, Jakehoney, Im outta here.
(Oh I keep saying that dont I?)
"He must be deliriously happy because of her love.
Right! in his delirium he almost put out his eye.
couldnt he get a stunt double to shop for lingerie? and for other PR stunts?
Jake really has had a tough year.
Are we sure Reese was the one trying on the lingerie?
We are sure no one tried any lingerie :)
Joe Biden Expresses Opposition to Prop 8 on 'Ellen'
Joe Biden taped an episode with Ellen yesterday to air on Monday during which he reportedly expresses opposition to Proposition 8, the measure that would ban same-sex marriage in California. He repeated his opposition at a campaign fundraiser later in West Hollywood:
"At the event, Biden told IN Los Angeles magazine journalist Karen Ocamb that he opposes Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California. He had just finished taping an episode of 'The Ellen Show' that will air Monday, and expressed his opposition to the measure to host Ellen DeGeneres. At the vice presidential debate with Sarah Palin, Biden said that he opposes same-sex marriage. Obama holds the same position, but also has said he opposes Proposition 8, citing the fact that it would write a restriction into a state constitution. Biden plead with the crowd gathered at the $500-per-person fund-raiser at the Pacific Design Center to talk to their friends and family and 'make the case for us.' ... 'There's a great deal at stake, so my plea to you is, we have less than three weeks to go, so this is the time to focus like we never have before.'"
http://www.towleroad.com/2008/10/joe-biden-expre.html
Jake really has had a tough year.
Two years.
Glad to hear Biden is speaking up. I was disappointed when he said he "opposed" gay marriage. I wonder if that was a bit of a misstatement. They could at least have maintained the Kerry / Edwards position that said "leave it to the states."
My impression is things were great for Jake through August 2007 (at Martha's Vineyard) but went bad in October (Rome - gross).
Poor Jake... making millions of dollars for looking pretty.
As a Catholic he's pretty much bound to oppose gay marriage, abortion, etc. But does not deny the constitutional right of others to disagree.
At least that's how I understand it.
I just wish Jake, with his stated committment to GLBT rights, would say something. Whatssa matter with him, anyway? Gone baby gone.
Millions of dollars can't buy happiness.
Yes, 1:49, seems to me things went bad - and I think his handlers moved in, and he GAVE in, being spooked by - what?
Probably we'll never know.
Last squawk of protect I heard from him was on Ellen show when he said the Interview pictures were "not him" - but then, he said the Swoff role was the "real him" so the kid is pretty fucked up, altogether. I guess Im expecting too much.
Rome was the grossest thing I ever saw, Jonathan Ross shameful interview to be followed by Piggybackgate in the Holy City.
The beginning of The End.
Is nothing Holy?
I remember that time - wasn't that around the time he said on another show that he felt like a fraud being touted as "The Hottest Bachelor in America" by Interview. Hmmmm . . . I wonder why, was it because of Austin (I hope) or the Reese setup?
Piggybackgate in the Holy City ROFL!!!
"felt like a fraud being touted as "The Hottest Bachelor in America" by Interview. "
Was he a fraud because he didn't consider himself hot or because he wasn't a bachelor (name your partner)? Choose your poison.
I have no idea. He did seem a little uncomfortable with the title, so hopefully it was the former. I think it was on Regis and Kelly?
Both. Not "hot" - not really - scared of women, as he proclaimed in an interview, fear'd of being homo, that's clear - in another interview he showed how he went into his "sexy" mode for photo ops -
Not a bachelor? not. he was more fully than any of us comprehended committed to Reeke at that time, despite the c'teasing foolin' around with Ellen about "the love that darest not nameth thy true desire" shit.
Same double lie he told on J Ross about being "single for the ladies"
o what a tangled web we weave eetcetec. he should embroider THAT on his pillow.
In retrospect, I am afraid you may be right. :(
in another interview he showed how he went into his "sexy" mode for photo ops
That's interesting. Do you remember which interview?
-He did seem a little uncomfortable with the title-
BS! it was the typical fake act of humility that every star always put in the media
"oh no, i don't think i'm hot at all...no,i don't care about fame and money,i'm just like the person next door,...blah blah blah...BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!
they are all vain famewhores ;DDD
Good for them!
"Anonymous Anonymous said...
As a Catholic he's pretty much bound to oppose gay marriage, abortion, etc. But does not deny the constitutional right of others to disagree. "
Most Catholics I know are liberal Catholics like my parents (and even the nuns at my church) who support same-sex marriage and think the Vatican is wrong on that and on birth control.
it was the typical fake act of humility that every star always put in the media
Matt Damon was sincere. And right :)
"That's interesting. Do you remember which interview?"
Not sure, but I think it was in Gr Britain. It was awful cute to see him do this, how he had it at his fingertips. someone will have it.
I guess as a model he is often told to "look hot. . . "
one of the reasons I enjoy watching Vanity Fair photoshoot video.
but those Interview lumberjack photos! ye gods! LLBean does a better job with their male models.
4:03, but that's not the message that we are told is given from on high, and until that changes, or the liberal stand up and make changes, which it hasn't for thousands of years, it means nothing. Those messages still foster hate, and overpopulation & spread of disease. Those messages no longer apply in today's world. In fairness, it's not the only relgion to do so. I'm glad Joe Biden at least stood up against Prop 8, that's a start.
anyone know how is Gale Harold doing?
4:03 I suspect Biden is a liberal Catholic also, but he has to be respectful and inclusive of more conservative Cathlolic views, it seems to me.
I was pleased that he came out against Prop 8, as did Obama.
Jake, where are you, bud? Please take time to address this issue, and also do a video on the importance of voting. Whattsa matter, do you hate America, or whut? (joke)
A liberal Catholic is not considered a true Catholic by the Catholic chrurch. It's nice that everyone in your insular world is liberal, 4:03, but the majority are not, and are actively working against gay marriage. Don't try to sugar coat it. That's the only thing I have a problem with with religion, the hypocrisy and excuse making.
& they are against gay adoption.
anyone know how is Gale Harold doing?
DL gossip:
10/16/08 @08:33
Even though he was taken out of ICU, he's still listed as critical. That means, in case any of the jokesters and smart asses don't understand, his life signs are erratic.Bottom line, he could live or die from one minute to the next. Until that condition is upgraded to serious, anything can happen. There was a report that said he was critical but stable. That's incorrect. It's a contradiction of terms. You cannot be critical and be stable. You can be in serious condition and be stable. As far as the swelling on the brain? The first 48 hours are the most important, to determine if it goes down w/o non-surgicial methods. If it doesn't then they have to operate. In either case, long term effects are unknown. He may be fine now but sometimes years from now there could be residual problems. He experienced confusion when he finally woke up. Couldn't remember the accident and had no clue as to where he was and why he was in the hospital. This was not just a little accident, folks.
10/16/08 @11:36
this was posted on a yahoo group this morning: I just heard from Stephen Lynch (makeup artist for QAF) and he has talked to Peter and Scott and say that Gale is going to be OK and that he is "cranky as hell.) Those are his words not mine.
"he was more fully than any of us comprehended committed to Reeke at that time"
In other words, he had decided to beard with Reese by that time. I'm sure that they were just working out the contractual and logistical details.
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