Remains of the Day (06/01)

UCR: I won't sneeze at a list of 40 best new wave albums that has my two favorite groups -- Blondie and the Pretenders -- in the top 3, even if the author is a little too Talking Heads happy ... my rebuttal list HERE.

NYT: No one knows how many LGBT Americans die by suicide

NBC: Armie Hammer will not face criminal charges in L.A. rape case, his accuser responds

WaPo: We ordered over $100 of delivery. Here’s how much the restaurants, drivers and apps made.

Thursday Ad Watch: He can trim my bush any time he wants 

ID: Ohmyf**kinggod. Stop reading if you don't want spoilers, but I am still reeling over "The Curious Case of Natalie Grace." I credit the producers for deftly presenting things so that you could firmly believe either side of the story: "In this stranger-than-fiction series that turns expectation on its head, we explore the question of whether Natalia Barnett is an exploited Ukrainian child with dwarfism or a dangerous adult masquerading as a child." But at the end of the day, regardless of her age it's obvious that she was the victim of physical and mental abuse -- torture, really. And I don't credit the filmmakers for abruptly ending the lengthy six-part series with a bombshell allegation from the mouth of Freddie Gill -- that Michael Barnett is said to have sexually abused Natalia -- literally midsentence. Does anyone know if this is being investigated further? Or are they blowing it off because the court randomly ruled that Natalia was an "adult," so prosecuting would be difficult? (Until someone can prove to me otherwise, DNA says she was a very young girl at the time and he was her adoptive father, so it's still incest if you ask me.) While you can't believe anything the source of the allegation (insane ex-wife Kristine Barnett) says -- or anyone in that family, really, because they've all been beaten into lying by the menacing matriarch -- it would go a long way to explaining why Natalia was so hypersexual, which has been confirmed by the mental ward where she was briefly held and all of her neighbors at the first apartment complex where she was left to fend for herself. None of this makes any sense. First Michael is acquitted (because the juror wasn't allowed to know all the facts) and then prosecutors withdrew charges against mastermind Kristine. It sure feels like there's something else we're not being told here. FWIW: Although I'm not convinced it will help much, a follow-up documentary called "Natalia Speaks" is set to air on ID later this summer.

Variety: Carol Burnett pitched her 90th birthday celebration to CBS -- home of her long-running hit variety show -- but they declined

Cosmo: Kim Cattrall is set to star in Netflix's "Glamorous," about a gender non-conforming person who lands a job at a prestigious cosmetics company run by former supermodel Madolyn Addison, played by the sometime Samantha Jones

WSJ: Die-hards still mailing newspaper clips to family and friends

Boy Culture: Gregory Harrison should never wear clothes

Boston Globe: New Jersey lawyer Matthew Nilo arrested in connection to 2007-2008 Boston rape spree

Time: How Congressman Gerry Studds -- who infamously had an "affair" with a 17-year-old page -- made history by coming out as gay in 1983 

NYDN: Teens killed and ate beloved village swan in upstate New York

Queerty: Meet the sexy cast of the homoerotic Argentinian dark comedy ‘Horseplay’

Page Six: Tina Turner -- who was frequently estranged from her two biological sons and two adopted son -- died without meeting her grandchildren and great-grandchildren

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