Remains of the Day (01/15)

ATP World Tour: First Dominic Thiem's "good friend" Rico Bellotti deletes his Instagram account, and now Thiem has a new "best friend"?

The New York Times: Rex Reed is still here, damn it

Boy Culture: Touching remembrances of teen hustlers, kept boys and XXX actors

New York Post: Gwyneth Paltrow actually got a Go-Go’s musical to B’way / info/tickets update HERE

The WoW Report: When his son brings home a gay porn star, Dad's reaction is shocking

AmericaBlog: Playing fetch with sea lions at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. (video)

The Film Experience: "Jumanji" and "The Post" top weekend box office

HuffPost: Celebrities react to the death of Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries

Towleroad: Donald tells reporters he's the "least racist person you will ever interview" 

Deep Dish: Check out the gear shift on this guy

Homorazzi: Meet Mr. Gay Pride Australia 2018 -- yowza

Dlisted: "Modern Family" like to end after next year's Season 10

The Washington Post: Vulgarity used by Donald projected onto his D.C. hotel

The Randy Report: Virginia Senate committee votes down adding LGBT-inclusive hate crimes bill

Curbed: What $400,000 buys in NYC now

OMG Blog: Olympic diver Nicholas Robinson-Baker flaunts what's crammed in his Speedo

PinkNews: Man robbed at gunpoint during Grindr hookup

TeleSur: An American bloodbath Down Under, including 2017 finalist Venus Williams

TVLine: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's romance to become a Lifetime movie

Gr8er Days: Darlanne Fluegel, "Eyes of Laura Mars" actress, dies at 64

Greg in Hollywood: When "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" was Broadway's biggest booster

Outsports: Gay former football player finds incredible acceptance in the South(?)

Vintage NYT: Does Katie Roiphe's much-maligned 1993 date rape article sound any better in 2017?

Back2Stonewall: Florida to offer free HIV prevention drug PrEP statewide

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Hot Cat of the Day: Harvey would be good at this, so long as it was his idea to get in the booth!

Remains of the Day (12/21)

The AIDS Memorial: A loving remembrance of Lance Loud, TV's first gay "reality" star

Dlisted: As some suspected, Meryl Streep #SheKnew posters were the work of a right-wing guerrilla street artist

The New York Times: Janet Elder, top editor at The Times, is dead at 61

IndieWire: I know film critic Rex Reed has made his share of enemies, butmaking fun of a septuagenarian with no copy editor seems a bit like shooting fish in a barrel

The New Yorker: A few words in praise of eggnog

Towleroad: You'll love this 3D render of Instagrammer Max Emerson if you're a fan of idealized muscular male art

The Washington Post: Trump administration targets certain words, and the bureaucracy pushes back

Back2Stonewall: "Sexually suggestive" hot naked man in Vatican's nativity scene has right-wing Christians losing their minds

The Daily News: U.N. declares Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void" with vote

The New York Post: Man says he has a hard time getting get hired because his penis is too big

The Film Experience: At least Zac Efron is pretty

TVLine: Meet Darlene and David's kids on "Roseanne"

The New York Times: This one's a bit of a Rorschach test -- has Chuck Close actually done something "newsworthy" wrong, or did Robin Pogrebin of the New York Times produce #RevengePorn against the famed artist?

Boy Culture: Mamma Mia, here we go again with that trailer

Brooklyn Vegan: Five overlooked albums of 2017

Daily Intelligencer: Corporate PR stunts won't save the working class

The Gay Almanac: Pentagon outlines updated transgender military policy

Savage Love: Work friends and threesomes and pro unicorns

Cleopatra: Culture Club "Live at Wembley" deluxe packages available now

Gr8er Days: Jane Fonda redefines what it means to be 80

Homorazzi: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle share their official engagement photo

JoeMyGod: FRC offers "pray for President Trump" bumper stickers

Outsports: High school football star comes out as gay, will play at Indiana State

Tennis Life: Venus Williams won't be spending any time in the pokey

Hot Cat of the Day: Meet little Oliver and his owner, an Irishman with a cat fetish. (I'd better keep this one away from Damian!) 

Page 1 Roundup (12/20)

The Daily News: House approves Republican tax bill that benefits the wealthy, setting up Senate vote

It's official -- I don't want to be part of this society anymore 

#madforrightreasonatwrongperson

The New York Times: Bernard Law, vile cardinal disgraced by priest abuse scandal, is dead at 86

Ta-Nehisi Coates deletes Twitter account amid feud with Cornel West 

#socialmediaruinseverything

The New York Post: The Mooch rips ‘loser’ Steve Bannon at Hanukkah party

Page Six: It seems greed runs in the Koch family

The Washington Post: This is why I've never quite understood the fascination with dogs

Los Angeles Times: Who/what killed this beautiful mountain lion?

The Wall Street Journal: Distraught investors go to extreme lengths to recover their lost cryptocurrency, including hypnosis and ‘brute force’ attacks with a supercomputer

Meryl Streep Responds to Rose McGowan's Criticism: 'I Wasn't Deliberately Silent'

As I wrote over the weekend, I think Rose McGowan is barking up the wrong tree lashing out at other women in Hollywood for their "part" in Harvey Weinstein's crimes. (Apparently she's since deleted her vicious tweet calling out Meryl Streep by name.)

Streep didn't appreciate the attack either, reiterating today that she wasn't deliberately silent -- "I didn't know. I don't tacitly approve of rape. I didn't know."

The statement, first reported by HuffPost, reads:

It hurt to be attacked by Rose McGowan in banner headlines this weekend, but I want to let her know I did not know about Weinstein’s crimes, not in the 90s when he attacked her, or through subsequent decades when he proceeded to attack others. 

I wasn’t deliberately silent. I didn’t know. I don’t tacitly approve of rape. I didn’t know. I don’t like young women being assaulted. I didn’t know this was happening. I don’t know where Harvey lives, nor has he ever been to my home.

I have never in my life been invited to his hotel room.

I have been to his office once, for a meeting with Wes Craven for “Music of the Heart” in 1998.

HW distributed movies I made with other people.

HW was not a filmmaker; he was often a producer, primarily a marketer of films made by other people- some of them great, some not great. But not every actor, actress, and director who made films that HW distributed knew he abused women, or that he raped Rose in the 90s, other women before and others after, until they told us. We did not know that women’s silence was purchased by him and his enablers.

HW needed us not to know this, because our association with him bought him credibility, an ability to lure young, aspiring women into circumstances where they would be hurt.

He needed me much more than I needed him and he made sure I didn’t know. Apparently he hired ex Mossad operators to protect this information from becoming public. Rose and the scores of other victims of these powerful, moneyed, ruthless men face an adversary for whom Winning, at any and all costs, is the only acceptable outcome. That’s why a legal defense fund for victims is currently being assembled to which hundreds of good hearted people in our business will contribute, to bring down the bastards, and help victims fight this scourge within.

Rose assumed and broadcast something untrue about me, and I wanted to let her know the truth. Through friends who know her, I got my home phone number to her the minute I read the headlines. I sat by that phone all day yesterday and this morning, hoping to express both my deep respect for her and others’ bravery in exposing the monsters among us, and my sympathy for the untold, ongoing pain she suffers. No one can bring back what entitled bosses like Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, and HW took from the women who endured attacks on their bodies and their ability to make a living.. And I hoped that she would give me a hearing. She did not, but I hope she reads this.

I am truly sorry she sees me as an adversary, because we are both, together with all the women in our business, standing in defiance of the same implacable foe: a status quo that wants so badly to return to the bad old days, the old ways where women were used, abused and refused entry into the decision-making, top levels of the industry. That’s where the cover-ups convene. Those rooms must be disinfected, and integrated, before anything even begins to change.

Some of my Facebook (and real) friends called Meryl a liar (about not knowing) over the weekend. Curious if they're still prepared to do so now.

Winning Streep

How could anyone resist a play featuring 14 iconic Meryl Streep characters (played by 12 actors) living together in the East Village? Details HERE.

Streep vs. Trump

From HERE.

I pre-wrote Trump's response for him last night, but he came up with one that was even more of a caricature of himself. 

Apparently thinking you shouldn't make fun of people with disabilities makes you an "elitist" in the eyes of most conservatives.

Trump really is going to run this country like Putin runs Russia. (God help us all.) Does this mean we really did cry wolf when we were outraged W. let the U.S. spy on us without going to the FISA court, locked people who haven't been charged with crimes for life in Gitmo and said it was OK to torture people, or has the bar simply been removed?

Meryl Streak

And we always thought Meryl Streep could do no wrong. From HERE.

Fun Couple: Meryl Streep and Hillary Rodham Clinton

  Not trying to get ahead of myself here, but I think a possible veep nod is looking good.

'Silk' Wood

Caught "Silkwood" on AMC the other night. Had forgotten that Kurt Russell was shirtless virtually throughout the film, perhaps the sexiest slab of white trash to ever grace the silver screen. (You just know he was wearing Confederate Flag underwear.) The only thing better was the "Indian joke," which I had completely forgotten about!