Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Page 1 Consider (01/13)

  • Was He Moonlighting? Not sure what's more depressing, that Cybill Shepherd's cute son got arrested for stealing fellow passengers' personal belongings on a cross-country fight, or that he's one of the twins she had when she was on "Moonlighting" and he's 22 now. (Didn't "Moonlighting" just end a couple years ago?) (NBC News)

  • The Biggest Loser: While Conan O'Brien was in Los Angeles trying to make sense of the bait-and-switch being perpetrated on him by NBC honcho Jeff Zucker, Zucker was being eliminated in straight sets in a tennis tournament in New York by my friend Ray. If it makes you feel any better, Conan, it was in straight sets. (Maureen Dowd)

  • Gossip Over News: "Game Change," John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's new book about the last election, is all anyone in politics can talk about right now, but Joan Walsh wants to know why no one is making a bigger issue out of the fact that it's nearly entirely anonymous sourcing. She also argues that it might have been titled "Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse" so badly do Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Elizabeth Edwards and Cindy McCain come off in what is supposed to be the definitive book about Campaign '08. (Salon)

  • Major Details: Of all the horrible things that could go wrong on a movie set, Channing Tatum almost getting his penis burned off with scalding water ranks on my personal list of worst. Sure, I'll never experience it. But it's just nice to know that it's there. (Huffington Post)

  • Fear and Loathing in California: A Yale professor testifying in a case challenging California's same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday that the 2008 campaign to pass Proposition 8 played on stereotypes historically used to portray "homosexuals as perverts who prey on young children, out to entice straight people into sick behavior." (AP)

  • Money Talks: A bill under consideration in Uganda’s parliament to allow people to be executed for being gay is now being challenged by President Yoweri Museveni on foreign policy grounds. The 23-year incumbent says the measure would discourage foreign investment and might infringe on obligations to protect human rights defenders and medical personnel who treat Ugandan HIV and AIDS patients. Gee, way to stand up for what's right. (VOA News)
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