Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Page 1 Consider (04/07)

  • Cereal Behavior: Others may find eating cereal in a restaurant to be "embarrassing." But given my lifelong obsession with Quisp, Cocoa Pebbles, Lucky Charms, et al., it's hard to imagine a better place to eat out than the Cereal Bowl in Washington. (City Paper)

  • Weekend at Bernhard's: Two German women have been accused of trying to smuggle a dead 91-year-old relative onto a budget flight to Berlin departing from Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Airline employees say the women transported the body in a wheelchair wearing sunglasses and a hat. They have been arrested for failing to report a death. (Mirror)

  • Q&A: Troops attending the first meeting of its kind on ending the ban on gays in the military said Tuesday they want to know what changes were in store for them if gays were allowed to serve openly. Picked at random and assembled in the Pentagon auditorium, about 350 rank-and-file troops asked the leaders of a new working group whether bunking arrangements would change and if the spouses of gay personnel would be given military family benefits, among other issues. (AP)

  • Up in the Air: No one has ever offered a plausible account of why thousands of scientists at hundreds of universities in dozens of countries would bother to engineer a climate hoax. Nor has anyone been able to explain why Mother Nature would keep playing along. (New Yorker)

  • Fresh Prince of Persia: Whether he admits using steroids or not, can Jake Gyllenhaal just stop being so damn adorable? (Popbytes)

  • Turn of the Tide: A new poll finds that a majority of Californians now support same-sex marriage. (LA Times)

  • Damnit, Janice: She is definitely crazy, but I definitely miss "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency," the ultimate television guilty pleasure. Hear what she has to say about Tyra Banks, Ricky Martin and what's next in the new Out HERE.

  • Maine-ly an Ass: When you get fired for being homophobic, who better than The Church to come to your rescue? (Bangor Daily News)

  • Taking Control: In coming out via his Web site, Ricky Martin is just the latest of a growing number of celebrities who want to control their public personas directly with their fans. (NYT)

  • Encore Performance: Terrence McNally and Tom Kirdahy got married yesterday in Washington. The Tony-winning playwright, 71, and lawyer, 46, tied the knot on the banks of the Potomac near the Kennedy Center, which is running a series of McNally's plays. (Reliable Source)

  • Fit to Be Tied: Bradley Cooper was looking awfully good on the set of "The Dark Fields" here in New York. (The Sun)

  • Plastic Oh-No Band: The blog Celebrity Smack tracks the freakish plastic surgery exploits of celebrities to great comic effect, including Carrot Top, Courtney Love and Mickey Rourke.

    • Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 6:00 AM



    2 comments:

    DavideSky2 said...

    I like your blog, but it drives me nuts every time you post about a male celebrity who got in shape for a role with phrasing that says, "He won't admit he did steroids but clearly he did and readers who think he didn't are naive idiots who understand nothing about Hollywood." I've been trying to figure out why it bothers me so much, and I think part of it is that, as a steady gymgoer myself, I know how angry I would be if someone cynically dismissed all my hard work by insisting I must have taken drugs. I also have worked tangentially with parts of "the industry," and I'm sure that some stars are pressured by studios into taking steroids--or decide to take them on their own. But I'm also sure that many actors--who have a lot of power in this situation--don't take steroids, but simply spend hours of their many job-free days working out, taking advantage of studio-provided trainers, nutritionists, and gym facilities. Clearly Sam Worthington doesn't do steroids, and frankly, Jake Gyllenhall doesn't look big enough to me to have done steroids. (Remember, we are seeing him only in posed publicity shots, or on set in full makeup and costume in overhead sunlight, which accentuates the shadows of his muscles.) If he did steroids, he didn't work out very hard alongside them in order to bulk up. I'd wager that most studios wouldn't want their stars to do steroids if they were confident the stars would train hard instead, as the risks of the star talking about it, showing skin blemishes, etc., would not be worth it. Most male celebrities become popular because they are, after all, pretty well-built to begin with--and they have an interest in keeping up their looks with a steady workout schedule. There are lots of well-built guys in the world--whom you obviously appreciate--who don't do steroids. I guarantee that every one of them would be extremely insulted by your insistence that they do drugs to get that way. I hope this comment will make you reconsider some of your assumptions here, even if I only succeed in getting you from "He won't admit that he obviously did steroids" to "We'll never know if he did steroids."

    9:22 AM
    Anonymous said...

    I am also not convinced that my Jakie took steroids. Unless proven otherwise, I choose to believe that men can have great bodies and be sexy as hell without resorting to the juice and that hard work in the gym will be rewarded eventually. It's the only hope I have that one day, I'll be a hunk magnet if I keep at it -- lol! Ultimately, it's not about the looks anyways; it's about feeling positive about oneself and comfortable in one's own body, no matter what shape that ends up being.

    5:56 PM

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