Monday, March 22, 2010

Page 1 Consider (03/22)

  • Making of a Male Model: Some incredible photos of the late Jon-Erik Hexum that I'd never seen before. (Gods Amongst Men)

  • Oh, Andy: It sure looked like Andy Roddick had a big title under his belt, until he lost to Ivan Ljubicic in the final of Indian Wells yesterday, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5). It was a huge win for the 31-year-old Croatian, who claimed his first ATP Masters 1000 title after three losses in finals. (AP)

  • PR Week Awards: The winner for Best Re-branding Campaign of 2009 is ... the Ku Klux Klan as "The Tea Party movement." Was that Ogilvy or Edelman? (The Huffington Post) Republican leaders have denounced the hate speech, yet a member of their party screamed "Baby-killer!" at Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak on the House floor, when he should have screamed, "Fucking asshole, learn what a law is!" instead.

  • Welcome Back: I guess the rumors about Rosie O'Donnell plotting a return to television are true. (She apparently sees an opening in Oprah's retirement.) I guess I'm surprised because she was so insistent that the only reason she was doing her vlog and radio show was because she didn't have to get dressed or leave the house. Might a live-in studio audience be her estate's next undertaking? (NYT)

  • Puppetry of the Penis: Is Jon Stewart cheating on his beloved Gitmo? (Broadway World)

  • Smith and Lesson: I'm about halfway through Patti Smith's "Just Kids" (starting off sort of annoying, but I'm getting into it now). But nowhere in it so far did it prepare me for the "fashion icon" the Sunday Styles section is now trying to tell me she is. (NYT)

  • Sorority Girls: The lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's decision to cancel the prom rather than let her bring a same-sex date has received a $30,000 scholarship from Tonic.Com, a digital media company. The check was presented to her by the first runner-up mother of all lesbians, Ellen DeGeneres. (You just know Rosie would have written the check herself had her new show been on the air already!) (AP)

  • Hate Capital: First they hurled homophobic comments at The Washington Post for having the "audacity" to print a photo of two men kissing while celebrating getting their wedding license. Now the ombudsman is having to deal with these idiots saying the paper was "celebrating gay marriage" and therefore "abandoned neutrality" -- you know, like the style section of newspapers around the world do when they "celebrate heterosexual marriage" every weekend. (WaPo)

  • Broadway on a Budget: "Next Fall," the story of a gay couple tested by religious differences and family conflict, is the latest off-Broadway show without a "star" to try to make it on the Great White Way, and they're doing it on a budget. (NYT)

  • Pillow Talk: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis were coy about details about their upcoming "Sex and the City" movie. But one thing is perfectly clear: Kim Cattrall -- who stars in Roman Polanski movies -- does not want anything to do with this threeway. (MTV)
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