A few random, short things:
- I am deeply saddened by Sydney Pollack's passing. I really, truly adored that man; he was exceptional.
- It's possible that I love Phil Collins more than is entirely normal.
- Work sucks the energy out of me, but it's so much fun and the people are really great (especially now that I'm socializing more).
- My paycheck on Thursday is going to ROCK. Hard core.
- California overturning the ban on gay marriage rocks even more hard core. Small steps.
- I still love Alanis Morissette. So very much.
- My BFF is engaged to be married. So very weird.
- Policies and Republicanism aside, I think John McCain is a really good guy (and he has some AMAZING people on his staff who are steering him in all the right directions).



Alright...I can't think of anything else and I'm sleepy, so I'm going to watch a little TV before hitting the hay. I have to wake up at 5:10 tomorrow morning, so I can get to work by 7:15am. I work until 8pm...that's a 12-hour shift. Ouch.

Alright, so there was a report recently about Daniel Radcliffe being a smoker (up to 20 cigarettes a day, for shame).


But I could care less if he lights up.

What interested me?

The source revealed: “He’s been having late nights out with stars like Kevin Spacey and Stephen Fry and seems to have picked up bad habits from the luvvie set.”


Ah-HA! Proof (albeit entirely unsubstantiated) that my favorite boy wizard is totally gay.

Though I will wait for him to actually come out to say "I told you so."


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Source: The Sun (UK)

One more thing, there's a film blog I read (through indieWIRE), and he always posts the fun gay news, so I thoughts I'd report.

First off, in a speech she gave upon receiving the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the 16th annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast, Jodie Foster thanked those nearest and dearest to her, among them was “my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss.”

Apparently, it's the first time she's ever thanked her girlfriend in public. Kudos to that.

[EDIT: I figured I'd just add to this entry...according to mediatakeout.com, Queen Latifah got engaged last week to her girlfriend of 4+ years.]


Second, he reports on a couple upcoming movies here.

One stars Ellen Page and Olivia Thrillby, both of Juno fame, as girls who have a love affair in NYC. There's a twist: "Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire occasionally turns her into a werewolf."

Werewolf lesbians? One ticket, please.

The other will feature Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin in a Gus Van Sant biopic about former San Francisco city supervisor and gay-rights activist Harvey Milk (Penn). Brolin is in talks to play Dan White, the elected official who assassinated Milk in 1978, and Hirsch may pick up the role of street hustler-turned-Milk aide, Cleve Jones.

That's all well and good, but my favorite? James Franco is gearing up to play Milk's longtime lover, Scott Smith. LOVE IT.


Finally, Sherri Shepherd is a dumbass. If you haven't seen them yet, there are some stellar clips of her on YouTube. One in which she thinks that nothing happened before Christianity (the other women on the panel ASSURE her that the Greeks and Romans came first, but she's still skeptical). The second in which she gets all up in arms about a teacher letting boys dress up in dresses during play time and how she'd never let her son wear a dress because that's not what boys wear. It, of course, launches into a discussion of transgendered youth, which I felt Barbara Walters handled very well, and, of course, you want to punch Sherri Shepherd in the mouth. What are you gonna do?

The Next 9 Children's Characters That Should Come Out of the Closet

Hilarity, plus some very solid and well thought out arguments.