Page 1 Consider (11/20)

Saw the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line" yesterday. Loved it. This review has it exactly right. (Boston Globe)

Want an Oscar? Playing "a mental" will no longer do the trick. Better try playing gay. (NY Times)

Now everyone I know can dress way too young: Abercrombie & Fitch Hits New York's 5th Avenue (Reuters)

If I were going to pick a professional tennis player to be on People's sexiest list, he wouldn't have been anywhere on my list ... (Turkish Daily News)

Hot Shots

Three good reasons to look forward to men's tennis in 2006:

Marat Safin, Tommy Haas and Robby Ginepri.

For an endless supply of photos of shirtless athletes, check out Scott-O-Rama!

Page 1 Consider (11/18)

Is Bob Woodward the new Armstrong Williams? (Hint: yes, but he gets paid a lot more.) Watergate hero shame over White House leak (The Independent)

Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania rips Dick Cheney a new one and I love him for it. (SF Chronicle)

How embarrassing: "Laguna Beach" Talan is engaged to skank Kimberly Stewart after about a week of dating. Well, then again: Kimberly was willing to point out that Jennifer Aniston isn't anything special (the Friend-ly elephant in the room), so maybe now Kim will break it to Talan that he cannot sing. (AllHeadlineNews)

Surely this can't be right: Rappers in Drug Feud (Herald Sun)

Apparently Spokane Mayor James West's computer downloaded gay porn by itself, chatted with underage boys, and dated boys. If that's what he says happened then that's good enough for me. (Advocate)

Analyze This: I love when parents publicly humiliate their children and brag about it. I hope Mom is saving up for the years of therapy that will ensue. (AP)

Plenty of reason to live: Maxim's 25 greatest short dudes of all time (AP)

Calvin Who?

Former Calvin Klein model, "Baywatch" hunk and kiss-and-tell specialist Michael Bergin has re-emerged from his 2004 DUI arrest with a sexy new line of men's underwear, available exclusively on his Web site.

The world may not need another brand of designer underwear, but I say any excuse to see Michael in his skivvies is a worthwhile endeavor.

People's Republic of Sexy

People just named Matthew McConaughey its Sexiest Man Alive for 2005 (um, maybe if he got a pair of shoulders?). A quick glance at the magazine's Web site shows a number of rather odd choices. First, some aged Asian guy with a busted face I've never heard of; then there's some white-trash country singer who is nothing to write home about; and then I saw some 70-year-old guy named Ian McShane (who I've never heard of, either).

So what's going on, People? I guess this is just another cruel reminder of how long ago the JFK Jr. days really were ...

However, I will say kudos for the nods to Nick Lachey, Anderson Cooper, and Patrick Dempsey and the accompanying pics. Very hot.

Page 1 Consider (11/17)

Is Bob Woodward the new Judith Miller (only with a Midwest accent that makes him sound mentally retarded?) (LA Times) and (Woodward's explanation doesn't add up via AmericaBlog)

Dan Savage goes all NY Times Op-Ed on our asses: Can I Get a Little Privacy? (NYT)

Attacks on Gays On the Rise: Months after bashing, Brooklyn man is still struggling to get by (NY Blade)

Former 'Desperate Housewives' actor Page Kennedy says he wasn't fired, he just left the series because the producers decided they wanted to "go in a different direction." I've heard that this is true: they wanted to work with an actor who didn't commit lude and lascivious acts on the set. (AP)

Vice President Dick Cheney says "The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone – but we’re not going to sit by and let them rewrite history. We’re going to continue throwing their own words back at them." OK, first off: STOP SAYING "REWRITE HISTORY"! I cannot take it one more time. You know Karl Rove came up with that one and told Bush and Cheney that if they repeat it enough times the American people will start to believe it. Sadly, he's probably right. Fortunately, West Hollywood's finest Rep. Henry Waxman has nicely outlined 51 times that the Dick-head misled Americans about the war in Iraq. Maybe the Dems can come up with snazzy catchphrase, too. (AmericaBlog)

See? Democracy Breeds Equality: Iraq Says Abused Detainees From All Sects (AP)