Remains of the Day (08/08)

The Sun: Dark past of Richard Robin, mom of five Rachel Morin's boyfriend, emerges as he slams trolls after missing woman's body found

WaPo: Ireland bids farewell to Sinead O’Connor, musician and trailblazer

Boy Culture: A Rory Calhoun fleshback for the ages

NYP: I wish management at all restaurants followed this policy

MGM: When you give underwear modeling a shot at age 50 (ICYMI)

Daily Beast: Maybe it's because I've been obsessed with "Jaws" since I was a little boy in elementary school, after my step aunt (inappropriately) took my brothers and me to see it at the movies in a double feature with "The Owl and the Pussycat" when I was 8. (Miss Blackburn was so moved by my enthusiasm she gave me her shark poster at the end of the school year in second grade and Miss Jackson let me do an oral presentation about "The Jaws Log" in third.) But I must say "The Shark Is Broken" -- which depicts the on-set tensions between actors Robert Shaw and a young Richard Dreyfuss, with Roy Scheider running interference -- is the most enjoyable play I've ever seen on Broadway. Co-written and starring Shaw's son Ian Shaw, the play is smart, engaging, unpretentious and above all, hilarious. Read an interview with the leads -- Ian Shaw, Colin Donnell and Alex Brightman -- HERE.

Reuters: Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality,’ says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

ProPublica: Utah therapist Scott Owen (Canyon Counseling in Provo) built a reputation for helping gay Latter-day Saints -- now he's accused of sexually abusing them

VN: Husband a suspect in death of gay activist well known in The Villages

ABC News: Germany receives 178 compensation applications from gay servicepeople over discrimination

Baseline: But can they sing? ATP stars attempt Canadian national anthem in Toronto

The WoW Report: Wayne Brady -- who apparently played Neil Patrick Harris's gay brother on "How I Met Your Mother," replaced Billy Porter in "Kinky Boots" and appeared in a Todrick Hall video -- comes out as pansexual

Parade: 100 best rock bands that bends over backward to include people who aren't exactly rock or bands

CBS News: L.A. City Council debates historic monument designation for home of gay rights advocate

Greg in Hollywood: But what happened later in the steamroom?

Hot Cat of the Day: Celebrating International Cat Day with bedhead and my No. 1 feline! 

Happy International Cat Day!

Greetings from the cutest paperweight ever. #Caturday #HarveyTheCat

A Purrfect Day

How lucky are we? xo

UPDATE: How's this for a happy ending? 

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A Kansas woman says "it's a miracle" that she's been reunited with her cat three weeks after an explosion destroyed her home. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ashley Nadeau posted to her Facebook page Tuesday that her cat was found in a pipe at the site of her destroyed home in Topeka. Kunimitsu went missing after the July 19 explosion that destroyed Nadeau's home and two other houses. Topeka fire officials say the explosion was accidental and caused by storm damage. Nadeau and her daughter had left the house because of gas odor and a downed power line. Nadeau says Kunimitsu's ears and fur are singed, but she is otherwise in good shape. She says she took the cat to the Stone House Animal Hospital for observation.

Paws and Reflect

You're looking at the best thing to happen to us in the past year 'n' change! #MrTuftGuy

Happy International Cat Day!

From Harvey ...

and the eternally lovable Larry, whose autopsy came back "inconclusive."

Read my final update to the many kind people who so generously helped out with Larry's medical expenses on GoFundMe HERE.