Page 1 Roundup (03/23)

The Daily News: Cop who shot rival while off duty indicted for planting evidence, not attempted murder: officials

Robert Mueller delivers final report to the attorney general, marking the end of the Trump-Russia investigation

What the hell is wrong with Barbra Streisand?

UPDATE: Babs has issued a complete and total apology (I accept.) 

The Atlantic: And like it or not, there actually is strong science to suggest pedophilia -- the attraction, not acting on it -- isn’t a choice, so perhaps that’s what she was alluding to

ABC News: I thought tax cuts paid for themselves

CBS News: Jimmy Carter becomes oldest living president in U.S. history

New York Post: Parkland massacre survivor Sydney Aiello kills herself

Mueller submits full Russia report

The Washington Post: ‘If you took it all in in one day, it would kill you’: What Mueller’s investigation has already revealed

The New York Times: The makings of an epic constitutional battle over the executive branch’s power to keep information secret from Congress started to take shape on Friday, as Attorney General William P. Barr began to weigh how much to disclose about the findings of the special counsel, Robert Mueller

Trump undercut his own Treasury Department on Friday with a sudden announcement that he had rolled back newly imposed North Korea sanctions, appearing to overrule national security experts as a favor to murderous dictator Kim Jong-un(!)

The Wall Street Journal: The secret to winning votes: Take the name of a popular leader

Remains of the Day (03/14)

Yahoo: New video may exonerate Michael Jackson against child-sex allegations: He's wearing a disguise buying an engagement ring with a 7-year-old boy because he was about to propose ... to Sheryl Crow(!)

Towleroad: I wonder if Mike Pence tried to get the Irish prime minister and his partner into conversion therapy

Washington Post: New York appellate court allows Summer Zervos’s defamation suit against Trump to proceed

Metrosource: Playwright Joe Orton was bawdy, funny … and murdered by his lover

Lambda Literary: Not sure what makes queer stories from red states more "real" than elsewhere, but OK

OMG Blog: Bratty kid refuses to move feet from the seat on train so passenger does what everyone else was thinking

Sports Illustrated: Sexy Noah Rubin seeks to humanize tennis players with new Instagram account

Back2Stonewall: Tumblr loses over 87 million users in one month after ban on adult material

CBS Chicago: Jussie Smollett still thinks he's a victim

The Randy Report: At least seven GOP senators will vote for resolution to rebuke Trump's imaginary emergency

Boy Culture: Strip them, they're Irish!

Dlisted: I couldn't care less about a "Real Housewvies" criminal husband -- but that doesn't mean you should be deported people whose entire life is in the U.S. just because they broke the law and were born elsewhere

Rolling Stone: How Stacey Abrams is transforming Southern politics

The New Yorker: What America will see in Beto O'Rourke

Gr8er Days: Jan-Michael Vincent at his hottest

The Daily News: Docuseries about Madeleine McCann's disappearance is coming to Netflix -- resurfacing speculation about case and introducing theories about what happened to her

News Australia: "Therapy alpaca" killed in violent dog attack

Greg in Hollywood: Petr Hollesch has major pecs appeal

Hot Cat of the Day: My friends Frank and Tim have cats named Laverne and Shirley, and you can guess which one is the fun kitty!

Page 1 Roundup (03/08)

The Daily New: NYC homeless students stiffed by Mayor de Blasio's budget

Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison -- far less than Robert Mueller asked for

Did you know “whites have rights, too”?

No one is making “excuses.” I’m just not sure why shaming her into apologizing isn't enough here. Now we have to pile on with a thinly veiled resolution condemning what she did. That still feels like an entirely different standard -- and one done because a) she's a woman; b) she's black; and c) she’s Muslim

New York Post: Ocasio-Cortez sends fundraising plea for money to defend Omar, Tlaib

Funny or Die: The Emma Thompson/Mindy Kaling vehicle of your dreams is here

Yahoo: LaToya Jackson claimed her brother Michael was a pedophile in resurfaced 1990s interview

The New York Times: Paul Manafort is sentenced to less than 4 years in 1 of 2 cases against him

Washington Post: Federal District Judge Richard Seeborg has ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross broke the law when he insisted on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census

Only one thing can save Trump now: Democrats

The Wall Street Journal: Afraid to dirty your pricey Air Jordans? Call in the super sneaker cleaners

'Neverland' Post Script

Michael Jackson accusers Wade Robson, left, and James Safechuck, right, flank director Dan Reed

Finished watching "Leaving Neverland" last night and there was a grand total of one thing that didn't ring true: Michael Jackson tried topping someone? People keep asking me if they should watch the HBO documentary to which I reply: It's your call. Hearing about people who got seduced and brainwashed was fascinating to me. But I used to pretend I was Patty Hearst as a child and play SLA, so ....

Remains of the Day (03/04)

The Randy Report: Teen kicked out of home for being gay becomes valedictorian, scores internship in Congress

The Hill: Dems unleash sprawling probe of Trump family, administration 

TPM: Matt Whitaker abruptly quits the Justice Department

Back2Stonewall: Democrats re-introduce the "Do No Harm" act to amend the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Baseline: Novak Djokovic got the tennis skills -- his brothers got the looks

The Washington Post: I still feel for Otto Warmbier's parents' loss, but not for their current dilemma: They got in the mud with a pig so they shouldn't act surprised that they got muddy 

Dlisted: Keith Flint, singer of the Prodigy, ends his life at 49

Metrosource: Tim Gunn speaks about new Amazon series and why he left "Project Runway"

Greg in Hollywood: Argentine tennis star Guido Pella is one hot piece of ass

UnPresidented: Greg Sargent of the Washington Post discusses Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress, Trump’s botched summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and his new book

The New York Times: I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that many Michael Jackson fans still aren't buying that he may have been a serial child molester. (Fandom does strange things to our ability to think logically.) But I guess I would only say that Jerry Sandusky's son -- even after Dad had been exposed for the serial rapist that he was -- continued to swear up and down that he himself had never been abused ... until he didn't

BosGuy: I'll take this one in or out of a kilt

Raw Story: Fox News spiked 2016 Stormy Daniels story to help Trump

Towleroad: Cute guys kicked out of Uber car for being gay

OMG Blog: You won't want to miss seeing model Tomas Skoloudik's towel-draped d**k

Hot Cat of the Day: I love a happy ending -- especially if Cop No. 2 is involved

Men Detail Alleged Sexual Abuse by the King of Pop

Hard to look away from HBO’s horrifying new Michael Jackson documentary, “Leaving Neverland,” in which James Safechuck and Wade Robson describe in intimate detail their yearslong relationships with Michael Jackson, who befriended each of them as young boys then allegedly began using them for his sexual gratification. So many parallels to “Abducted in Plain Sight” -- the grooming, the blatantly inappropriate behavior, the obvious red flags -- only perhaps a bit more understandable how the parents could have been so badly seduced/duped here. Bravo to the two men for coming forward to tell their stories. Part 2 airs tonight.

Remains of the Day (02/20)

The Guardian: Historian who confronted Davos billionaires leaks rant by frozen-food heiress Tucker Carlson

The Washington Post: Justice Department said to be preparing Mueller report in coming days

The Daily News: Jussie Smollett is now officially a suspect in his own attack

Gr8er Days: Anderson Cooper and I were born three days apart -- but his mom is old enough to be my mother's mother

Towleroad: Video shows hunky Nigerian brothers linked to Jussie Smollett "attack" buying red hat and ski masks

Back2Stonewall: Remembering Roy Cohn, "the most evilest closet case" in history

The Randy Report: HBO releases disturbing trailer for Michael Jackson "Leaving Neverland" documentary

Boy Culture: Did somebody say naked Oscar nominees?

The New York Times: The White House still isn't sure if climate change is a national security threat

The Hill: Dems seize on Times bombshell to push allegations of Trump obstruction 

Film Experience: Oscar presenters and a "Whoopi Goldberg as surprise host" conspiracy theory!

Baseline: Kvitova, Svitolina enjoy a little party time in Dubai -- notorious for its welcoming stance on women

OMG Blog: No denying that Lee Pace's naked body was a highlight of "Angels in America" on Broadway

The Ethicist: Can I cut off a relative with hateful views? (I have ... on Facebook.)

New York Post: Man dragged to death by subway after bag gets caught on train

Greg in Hollywood: Is it incestuous of me to find a guy who played a gay law student named Connor Walsh hot?

The New York Times: For years, former Queens assemblywoman fought for stronger sexual abuse laws -- her son was the reason

The WoW Report: Kind casting alert: Chris Hemsworth to play Hulk Hogan in biopic 

Hot Cat of the Day: I want to adopt the late Karl Lagerfeld's cat, Choupette, and not just because she's worth $200 million 

Everything That's Wrong With the World: Right Now Edition

Watched the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix over the weekend. I only understood about 10% of what they were talking about -- what’s a Gigi Hadid, Major Lazer, Ja Rule, influencer, etc.? -- but I’m guessing like most of you, the only people I have any sympathy for are the Bahamians who got stiffed for all their hard work. Shouldn’t it have been called “Schadenfreude: The Movie”? I can't for the life of me figure out how we got to a place where people are more interested in how they look online than how happy they are in their real lives, but that's where we are. We'll probably check out the Hulu one at some point. I heard Billy McFarland was paid to sit down for an interview -- not really interested in what a sociopath has to say, but that money had better not have wound up in his pockets -- and that it answers some other questions, although I'm not sure what that could be. 

My boyfriend’s takeaway: It’s time to shut down the internet. 

P.S. We actually started to try to watch “Get Me Roger Stone” in honor of someone finally getting indicted over Hillary’s emails -- and were considering making an exception on hearing Trump’s voice since it was from before he fraudulently became president -- but then Tucker Carlson popped up on screen and we just couldn’t deal with looking at that frozen-food heiress’s face. 

I reckon the Michael Jackson documentary will be next on our list. If *only* there had been some way of knowing something was amiss ... 

 “Like [alleged victim Wade] Robson, [James] Safechuck says he was instructed by Jackson never to tell anyone about the abuse, which occurred between 1988 and 1992. Safechuck began to think he was gay until he developed a crush on one of Jackson’s backup dancers, Sheryl Crow. But, the complaint says, Jackson was displeased by this and showed Safechuck pictures of Crow without makeup to try to convince the boy she was unattractive.”

Page 1 Roundup (01/26)

Don't normally post these on the weekends, but wanted to see how the four major New York City papers handled Trump's acquiescence. Not at all surprising that the Post couldn't quite bring itself to admit defeat, giving the top spot to a celebrity pedophile of color ...

The Daily News: Untold damage for nothing

New York Post: Explosive Michael Jackson documentary details 'shocking' sex abuse claims

The New York Times: Trump signs bill reopening government for 3 weeks in surprise retreat from wall, 'or whatever you want to call it'

The Wall Street Journal: Why are people wearing earplugs in church? Hint: it’s not the sermon

Song of the Day: 'Black or White' by Michael Jackson

Not a favorite of mine, although I remember seeing it premiere on a big screen at Newport Station in Costa Mesa, whose Thursday gay night was THE place to go (in Orange County!) back then. I post it today because I read that Rachel Dolezal got a standing ovation after finally admitting she's white yesterday on "The Real." (Hooray for mental illness!) 

Shades of 'Billie Jean'

Prince Jackson wants to know who HIS DADDY is. 

Song of the Day: 'Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)' by the Jacksons

This one from the Jacksons' 1978 album, "Destiny," foreshadowed the incredible solo career Michael was about to embark on. It still gives me chills.

Destiny - The Jacksons

Michael Jackson Had Sex With Me on The SECOND Night I Stayed At Neverland -- When I Was Just 7

Wade Robson Tells His Story of Sexual Abuse by Michael Jackson

Awww, how sweet. He didn't want to rush him on the first night. Read HERE.

The Kid Is Not My Son

Corey Feldman is the father of Michael Jackson's son Prince, right?

Blame It on the Boogie

 

 I can't remember a time in my childhood growing up in the suburbs of Detroit in the 1970s when Jackson music wasn't on the radio. I was very young back then, but every time I think of being in my mom's orange Datsun station wagon I can hear Michael singing "Rockin' Robin." While we all know what a superstar Michael became in the '80s, the songs I remember most fondly are from the mid- to late '70s -- maybe it's because of my age -- during the post-Jermaine "Jacksons" era, like "Enjoy Yourself," "Blame It on the Boogie"and "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground" (talk about fun music!). Michael and I watched the memorial yesterday in movie theater full of fans in Chelsea. Michael grew up absolutely adoring Jackson (his first record was a 45 of "I'll Be There" that he had to beg his mother to buy for him at TSS on Long Island -- "Mom, I NEED this"!), so when a Japanese television crew came over to ask him what brought him out to the community screening he spoke eloquently and from the heart about the joy Jackson had brought to him, and the need to be around others who felt the same way. When he declared the moment "the end of an era," I realized how right he was. And then the program began and from the moment Mariah Carey sang the opening words of "I'll Be There," the waterworks began to flow for me and they more or less haven't stopped since. (No one is more surprised than I am by this, but I'm gonna blame it on the boogie.)

   

 While I was expecting a garish affair, I was moved by the relative restraint of it all, and by the many wonderful speakers and stories (Queen Latifah and Berry Gordy in particular, his "questionable decisions" crack aside). Jermaine's rendition of "Smile" and little Paris' impromptu remarks about her dad were the final blows, though, the sobering reminder that whatever the truth is about the way he lived and died, he was still someone's son, brother, uncle and father. Having grown up without my father, I couldn't help but think of the lifetime of memories that have been stolen from those kids forever, and what a lasting impact it will certainly have. Deep down, I think we'd all be lying if we didn't admit that what became of the sweet boy from Gary, Indiana -- long before his death -- devastated all of us in some way, so maybe this is where the tears are really coming from. But as I have over the past 20 years, I will choose to fondly remember the wunderkind and, for a brief time in the early '80s, the adorable young man he became for the joy he brought us when things were so much more innocent, and before merely looking at him became as uncomfortable for us as it obviously was for him all along. If "Smile" truly was Michael's favorite song, then I figure he would want us to adhere to its sentiment. And with a little help from a friend and Photoshop, that's exactly what I am doing. RIP, Michael J, and thank you for all the smiles. ...

 

Just smile ...

He's Bad

Anderson Cooper says that when he was 10, he went to Studio 54 with Michael Jackson and bunch of other people. (Yikes!) Even Andy thinks Child Protective Services should have a word with mom, Gloria Vanderbilt. 

Earful

Music for the soul

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Tick Tock Lyrics Omarion	This Christmas Lyrics Chris Brown
She Can Get It Lyrics NLT	I`ll Still Kill Lyrics 50 Cent
You Can't Lyrics One Chance	No Happily Never After Lyrics Nicole Scherzinger
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