Lucie Arnaz was born with the kind of purebred showbiz genes that can only rival Liza Minnelli’s.
I saw her perform in 2008 at an Actors Fund event inside the Pantages Theatre and she was absolutely dazzling. What was even more cool is that Lucie – the very talented daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, remains amazingly youthful, full of energy and in good voice.
She may have gotten her start co-starring with her mother (and brother Desi Arnaz Jr.) on the Here’s Lucy series but Lucie made it big on her own not long after. She made a big splash on Broadway starring in They’re Playing Our Song and went on to also star in Lost in Yonkers and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
She’s one of the rare performers who has headlined in television (The Lucie Arnaz Show, Sons and Daughters), on Broadway and in films (The Jazz Singer, Billy Jack Goes to Washington). She performs in concert all around the world and also produced the 1993 Emmy-winning documentary on her famous parents Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie.
“I’m doing whatever appeals to me at the time,” Lucie told me after that Pantages show in 2008. “I’m an actor who sings and dances and I like to produce and do documentaries. I jump all over the place and maybe that’s not such a good thing because people wonder, ‘Where is she? What does she do?’ But it’s been a great life, lots of different plains.”
It’s a life that has not been all about work. She has three children – Simon, Joseph and Katharine – and her husband Laurence Luckinbill has two more – Nicholas and Benjamin – from his previous marriage to actress Robin Strasser.
“I raised three gigantic children so that’s been my priority for a long time but now they’re out of the house!” Lucie said. “They live on their own and make their own kind of music – literally. And I can get on a ship go to Hong Kong or wherever whenever I feel like it.”
To celebrate the magnificent Lucie, here are three numbers: Hey Look Me Over from her mother’s 1961 Broadway hit Wildcat; The Best is Yet to Come and finally; the title song from Lucie’s biggest Broadway hit They’re Playing Our Song.
I guess you could say that Shaun Cassidy, who burned so bright as a teen idol in the 70s, was the Zac Efton or Justin Bieber of his day.
Shaun stardom picked up right where that of his older half-brother, David Cassidy, had left off with the elder Cassidy taking a low profile after his years on The Partridge Family and as a major pop star.
He was just 19 in 1977 when his self-titled debut album was released and had a number one single Da Doo Ron Ron and top 10 hits That’s Rock and Roll and Hey Deanie.
He also began a three-year run on ABC’s The Hardy Boys Mysteries during which Shaun released five more albums and did concert tours. Then, just as his brother’s stardom quickly faded, so did Shaun’s who also starred for a season in the ABC series Breaking Away.
But it really was just the beginning of a second act for the eldest son of Oscar winner Shirley Jones and the late actor Jack Cassidy (David has a different mother).
Shaun has become a prolific television writer and producer whose credits include American Gothic, Players, The Agency, Hollyweird, Invasion and Inseparable.
He’s also performed occasionally since his teen idol days. He and David Cassidy teamed up for a highly successful Broadway production of Blood Brothers and stayed with the show for more than a year in the mid-90s. Shaun has also appeared in several other Broadway and West End productions including Mass Appeal and Bus Stop.
Last Friday, the now 52-year-old Shaun was one of several “teen heartthrobs” who appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and he performed his hits Da Doo Ron Ron” and That’s Rock and Roll.
The gay stars are ruling the magazine stands this week!
We get major Portia de Rossi and Ricky Martin stories in People and there is a terrific three-page spread on Glee star Chris Colfer in the new Entertainment Weekly.
I love all the mainstream attention and after reading all of the articles, they have great “It Gets Better” messages for any troubled gay teens looking for some role models.
Glee’s next episode on Nov. 9 is called Never Been Kissed. In a timely decision, producers have opted to address the current rash of bullying through Kurt (Colfer).
Fed up with football players harassing him, Kurt ventures off to spy on his glee club’s competition and meets another openly gay student, Blaine (Darren Criss).
Producers, according to EW, have not officially decided whether Blaine will be Kurt’s love interest but he motivates Kurt to stand up to his tormentors.
Chris shares with EW that he was a social outcast in high school and was bullied by classmates who would often taunt him with gay slurs. Not unlike Kurt, he would fight back with wit instead of his fists.
“One time I was walking and someone said, “F–!’ and I turned back and said, ‘Yeah, but can you spell it?’”
Adds Colfer: “Had you told me when I was walking down the halls being picked on and harassed, in a matter of four years I’d be put in a position where the character I’d be playing on TV would be inspiring so many people in that same situation, it would have been mind blowing. Everything happens for a reason, so maybe it was good I went through all of that because now it comes from a personal place.”
Here is a musical number from the Never Been Kissed episode featuring Darren Criss and Chris Colfer:
Ian McKellan was 49 when he came out publicly as a gay man and has since enjoyed the most successful phase of his career.
He’s been a part of two huge blockbuster franchises: The Lord of the Rings and X-Men, earned two Academy Award nominations (for Gods and Monsters and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring).
He’s in an excellent position to talk about being an out actor in Hollywood and he did just that recently with Popeater. Here are some excerpts:
On closeted actors: “If you’re going around telling a lie you may get by but you won’t be half as happy as you would be if you came out. If that means you have to give up hopes of being one of the three or four young sex symbols in Hollywood so be it. You probably weren’t going to be one of those anyway. That happens by chance and it doesn’t last for very long.”
Benefit of being out: “I don’t think any gay person is going to be happy and bring joy to themselves and other people unless they can be honest about their sexuality, and if other people don’t like that honestly, that’s a comment on them and not on the person who is being honest.”
On how open you should be: “There is a difference between living a private life and being in the closet. Being in the closet means you’re lying about your life but just because you come out doesn’t mean you have to talk about every affair you have. You don’t have to talk about what you do in bed anymore than I have to talk about the food I eat.”
REMATCH: The last time Roger Federer and Andy Roddick played each other, it was in the 2009 Wimbledon final and it was an epic. Federer finally won 16-14 in the fifth set after 4 hours, 16 minutes.
Their follow up, which took place earlier today in the semifinals of the Swiss Indoors in Basel, was a much more straightforward affair with Federer winning 6-2, 6-4. Still, it’s always nice to have Andy make it far into a tournament so his shirt will fly up and we can check out his abs.
Federer, currently ranked second in the world, improved his career record to 20-2 against Roddick. He will play Novak Djokovic for the title tomorrow. Federer, who has had a subpar years by his lofty standards, will be playing in his eighth final of 2010 and is seeking his fourth tournament win of the year.
It’s hard to believe, but it was 45 years ago that Sally Field first charmed audiences as the sunny surfer girl in her first TV series Gidget.
The actress, who turns 64 today, went on to do the even more successful sitcom Flying Nun but after that was over, Sally found it hard to be taken seriously.
But she persevered and by 1976, when she won the Emmy for her performance as a woman with multiple personalities in Sybil, no one doubted her abilities again.
She went on to make a bunch of hit movies with her then-boyfriend, Burt Reynolds, including Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper and The End before landing one of the greatest roles of her career in Norma Rae.
Sally won her first Oscar for best actress then five years later won her second Academy Award for Places in the Heart.
There have been many other hit films including Soapdish, Murphy’s Romance, Punchline, Mrs. Doubtfire and, of course, playing Tom Hanks’ mom in Forrest Gump.
As she has gotten older, Sally has never stopped working in quality projects earning Emmy nods for the miniseries A Woman of Independent Means and the HBO movies A Cooler Climate.
She was a sensation as Maura Tierney’s bipolar mother in a series of episodes of ER and won an Emmy for the role.
Then came Brothers & Sisters and the role of Nora Walker – matriarch of the Walker family of adult children played by Calista Flockhart, Matthew Rhys, Rachel Griffiths, Dave Annable and Balthazar Getty.
What a showcase it has been for Sally – a role filled with dramatic moments and with comedy. She won the Emmy for the first season of the show and in 2009 won the Screen Actors Guild Award for best actress in a drama.
The ABC drama is in its fifth season and it’s not known how much longer it will run. But Sally will no doubt remain in demand. She is reportedly in early talks to play May Parker, the beloved aunt of Peter Parker, in director Marc Webb’s big-budget Spider-Man reboot.
I’ve selected some photos from Sally’s career to mark her birthday and to just look at and realize what a really remarkable run it has been, non-stop, since the days of Gidget.
And also, I have to shine a special spotlight on her most iconic film role of all: M’Lynn Eatenton in Steel Magnolias.
Let’s take a look at her big dramatic scene at the cemetery after the burial of her daughter who was played by Julia Roberts:
Your faithful blogger is hopelessly unhip when it comes to most of today’s new music but I’ve become a fan of Kings of Leon since seeing them perform on Saturday Night Live recently.
I loved their sound and I was just transfixed by handsome lead singer and rhythm guitarist Caleb Followill.
Those eyes! That baritone voice!
Caleb is his middle name (his full name is Anthony Caleb Followill) and he’s 28 years old. He is in the Grammy Award winning group with his brothers Jared Followill and Nathan Followill and cousin Matthew Followill is lead guitarist.
Even though we all have crushes on him, Caleb is not on the market. He has been with his model girlfriend Lily Aldridge since 2007 and proposed to her in September.
The Advocate’s Jeremy Kinser has done a terrific interview with Patti LuPone. It was posted more than a week ago but it just came to my attention the other day. I’m glad I didn’t miss it entirely because I love it! Here are some excerpts:
The Advocate: I have to get this out of the way. A friend who is a big theater queen has this fantasy that you, Audra McDonald, Liza Minnelli, and Bernadette Peters hang out and have karaoke parties. Any chance this has ever happened? Patti LuPone: [Laughs] No, never! That’s a funny notion, but it doesn’t happen. I mean, I sing with Audra a lot, but I can’t say that I’m friends with Bernadette or Liza. I know them, but I don’t count them among my friends. Broadway is a place of work. My friends are my lifelong friends I’ve had since childhood. But on Broadway you go to work, you do your thing, and you move on.
Your book is dishy and revealing. You don’t hold anything back, and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. Was there any discussion about whether you should be so forthcoming?
No, that’s just who I am. I didn’t make an effort to be anything but who I am already.
When you star in a revival, such as Anything Goes or Sweeney Todd or Gypsy, is there ever pressure to distinguish your performance from a predecessor’s?
No, no. The pressure may come from other people placing it on me, but I don’t place it on myself. All I have to do is read the script and I’m a different person. Otherwise I’m an imitator. I don’t think actors are imitators. We are creators.
Are there any young performers on Broadway who remind you of yourself?
No, they broke the mold when they made me. [Laughs]
Do you think a TV show like Glee will create a new audience for musical theater?
Yes, yes, and more yeses. I hope they don’t get campy and crazy, but yes. You know what, everyone wants to be in a Broadway musical. Over and out. If you’ve a young girl tap-dancing in toe shoes in Fort Lauderdale Fla., everybody wants to be on Broadway. Bono is writing a musical. For some reason everyone wants to be on Broadway or write a Broadway musical. I don’t get it. As a performer, they certainly don’t know how difficult it is. I don’t know what the rockers are thinking … Oh, now we’d better write a Broadway musical. It’s so crazy to me. [Laughs]
Watched him on Access Hollywood last night and he was relaxed, fun, thoughtful and adorable. This was a gay man comfortable in his skin and loving his life and he’s telling his story to Oprah, to USA Today and all the other major stops – including People.
Here are some excerpts from his new interview with People. He was relegated to the upper left corner of the cover because, fantastically, Portia de Rossi got the main cover but lots of nice photos of Ricky inside!
On his new boyfriend: “I’m in love.” The relationship began just as he was writing a chapter in his new memoir, Me, about hoping for a soulmate. He won’t reveal the man’s identity but says: “He has nothing to do with the industry.” He says they will go public “whenever he’s ready.”
On writing his memoir: “All I wanted to do with this book was to let it all out. Every time I go over the pages, I feel relief.”
On fatherhood: “I always knew I was destined to be a father. … I will never forget the moment that each of them looked into my eyes for the very first time. Those were the most precious moments in my life. … I want to make sure that my kids grow up without the pressures that I grew up with. I want them to feel total freedom to be who they are. And if they like men or women or both, I won’t be the one to hold them back.”
On coming out publicly: “[Colleagues and friends] tried to dissuade me: it was not the right time, people wouldn’t understand. I know [it] came from love and concern. But I said, ‘What part of ‘I can’t take it anymore’ do you not understand?’ … When I pressed ‘Send’ [he came out in a letter on his website], I closed the computer and went to my room to take a nap. But the curiosity killed the cat. I called a friend and asked her to go to my Twitter account and tell me what people were saying. She said, ‘Kiki [his nickname], it’s pure love.”
His life today: “I feel strong, happy, and free. Thanks to [my sons], I found the strength to live without secrets. When they flash [their] smiles at me, I think, ‘The world could fall apart tomorrow, but it wouldn’t matter to me. This is the greatest joy imaginable.”
Portia de Rossi’s new book, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, is getting all kinds of coverage and I’m happy to see such an articulate out woman on Oprah for the hour and now on the cover of People.
(It’s a bit of a pity that Portia’s book is out the same week as Ricky Martin’s since it relegated him to a cover photo in the upper corner of People. But hey! They are both great stories and great stars who are at a place where they can really speak their truth and be so thoughtful and articulate about their journeys).
I had no idea how bad Portia’s anorexia was (she was at one point at 82 pounds and got quite ill). She was on Ally McBeal at the time and says there was much pressure to be thin but she took things to an extreme by going on a diet of 300 calories a day.
She went into treatment and recovered and a lot of good things started to happen like meeting future wife Ellen DeGeneres:
“I met Ellen when I was 168 pounds and she loved me,” Portia tells the mag. “She only saw the person inside. My two biggest fears, being fat and being gay, when realized, led to my greatest joy.”
“I still don’t like my thighs,” she adds. “But I’m not going to do anything to compromise my health or my sanity to change them. I don’t want to have secrets anymore. I don’t want to have a darkness that I feel that I should be ashamed of. And going forward now, without having anything to hide, the future looks pretty bright.”
She has gained a lot of self-awareness since the days of starving herself: “My struggle with anorexia, coming to terms with my sexuality, I realized I had struggled with self-acceptance my whole life. To be able to get to a point where you’re just happy with who you are, I think that’s when you know what real peace feels like.”
Video Bonus: Portia was on Nightline yesterday and it is a really good piece. I’m just in awe of her candor and of how far she’s come. Nice to see her in this happy and healthy place.
I feel like the National Enquirer or something but you know you want to know!
The sensational Adam Lambert, who has been touring like a mad man this year, is subject of the Nov. 21 episode of E! True Hollywood Story.
In it, he talks about his very first time.
“I lost my virginity at 21 years old.and it was to a man, not a woman. Uh, and it wasn’t very good. Sometimes it takes a little while to learn how to do that correctly.”
My guess is Adam has had a lot of chances to practice in recent years!
Every time Constance McMillen gets some kind of honor, I feel so proud of this 18 year old who stood up for herself in her rural Mississippi town where the homophobic adults behaved even worse than the kids.
Constance wanted to take her girlfriend to her prom and rather than letting her do so, the school canceled the event then parents held a private event they did not invite her to.
There was a legal battle which Constance won (she awarded $116,000 in damages and legal fees) and, I hope, some of these “adults” have learned a few things.
Meanwhile Constance goes on with her life and has just been named one of the women of the year by Glamour magazine.
“I was raised to always be proud of who you are,” she tells the magazine.
Ted Olson, one of the lead attorneys in the federal suit against California’s Proposition 8, tells the magazine, “Constance stood up to foolishness and inequity and irrational unfairness, sending a signal that this battle should be fought on every front.”
Melissa Etheridge also weighs in on the teen: “She stood up and said, ‘This is who I am.’ When someone does that, it changes the world. It gives hope.”
Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zaden are currently working on a TV movie about McMillen’s ordeal.
With anti-gay teen bullying causing some kids to take their lives, Constance tells the Associated Press in a new interview that she also was bullied.
“I went through a lot of harassment and bullying after the lawsuit, and I realized how bad it felt being in that position,” she said.
McMillen said she has had her own suicidal thoughts: “But I never really considered it to the point where I almost did it. Everybody thinks about it when times get hard.”
EXPOSURE!!! Pretty silly, I know, but hey it’s Friday!
Andy Roddick is still America’s number one tennis player but he’s had a mostly disappointing 2010 season and is looking to end it on a high note in Switzerland.
Andy, the 2003 US Open champion and a three-time Wimbledon runner up, made it to the semifinals of the ATP tournament in Basel earlier today. If he can win his next two matches, he will have won three tournaments this year. Unfortunately, none will have been one of the four grand slams.
If OUT Magazine wants to drag this out and just give us a couple of names each day, I’m game.
Joining Chris Colfer, T.R. Knight, Lisa Cholodenko, Michael Stipe, Christine Quinn, Scissor Sisters and Rich Ross on the annual Out 100 list is a quartet of really talented people: Meredith Baxter, Rufus Wainwright, Nathan Lane and Levi Kreis!
It’s been more than 10 months since Miss Baxter, the beloved star of Family Ties and an Emmy nominee for The Betty Broderick Story (she should have won!) came out in a very public way.
“I feel like I’m being honest for the first time,” she told People magazine last December. The actress has been with partner Nancy Locke for four years
I loved watching Meredith on the ABC drama Family when I was a kid and wished I could live in a guest house on my parent’s property like her character of Nancy did. And if you want to see one of her funniest performances ever, rent or buy the comedy The Mostly Unfabulous Life of Ethan Green.
These days, Meredith has her own skincare line called Meredith Baxter Simple Works from which she donates a portion of the profits to the Meredith Baxter Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.
Next up: a memoir in which she’ll discuss her fight with breast cancer, her 19 years of sobriety, and her decision to come out.
Then there is Rufus Wainwright who is so fabulous.
The magazine writes: It’s been 12 years since he released his self-titled debut album to a torrent of critical acclaim. Since then, Wainwright’s career trajectory has been anything but expected.
With work ranging from maudlin, sentimental music hall songs to folkie, lyrically nuanced hymns, his inclinations are so unexpected that his records are events—not because of, but despite, his sexuality.
Whether he be archly recreating Judy Garland’s campy turn at Carnegie Hall or flexing his more ostentatious muscles in his full-length opera, Prima Donna, the performer is as comfortable churning out splashy ditties as he is caustic odes to modern love.
Did you see Nathan Lane’s hilarious guest spot on Modern Family a few weeks back? The man is a comedy master who has starred in such Broadway hits as The Producers, The Odd Couple, The Man Who Came to Dinner, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Guys and Dolls and Love! Valour! Compassion!
Out writes of this great star: Two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane’s career has encompassed film, television, and theater, and he’s played everything from the histrionic, cross-dressing paramour of Robin Williams to the morbidly devoted husband of Bebe Neuwirth, which he does eight times a week in the Broadway show The Addams Family.
But his most sublime trick is that one cannot tell where Lane ends and the characters he portrays begin. His elastic face easily renders anything from curmudgeonly resign to whimsical clownishness all the while allowing him to stay true to his signature élan, which he threads through all his performances.
In addition to his current Broadway gig, Lane, who came out in 1999, guest starred this year on Modern Family.
I just realized that I forgot to include Levi Kreis in my Coming Out Day Gallery of out celebrities.
It’s awesome that there are so many openly gay famous folks now that you just can remember them all!
Here’s is what Out has to say about this guy: Levi Kreis picked up the Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his feverishly energetic portrayal of Jerry Lee Lewis in this year’s Million Dollar Quartet, his Broadway debut.
The Tennessee native has released four independently produced albums of his own—a mix of pop, gospel, and rock—and toured the country extensively, performing with a diverse roster of artists, including Herbie Hancock and Melissa Etheridge.
Greg In Hollywood’s Morning Men aren’t often models.
But I came across Garrett Neff photos the other day and see that he is one of the top male models in the world. Since he really is so ridiculously beautiful, why not enjoy him!
Garrett is a favorite of designers and photographers and has worked with some of fashion’s top guns including Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino, David Sims, Mert & Marcus, Bruce Weber, Michael Kors, and Louis Vuitton.
The 26 year old is best known for his Calvin Klein campaigns that helped earn his commercial fame.
According to Wikipedia, Garrett is currently the 18th most successful male model in the world on themodels.com list of the Top 50 Male Models. He has been ranked as high as No.2.
In 2009, he was ranked No.5 by Forbes publications on their list of the most successful male models of 2009.
Garrett not only caught my interest because of his looks, but he also plays tennis! He was team captain in high school and was a member of the Division 1 tennis team at Bucknell University where he studied management.
He appeared in the October 14, 2010 episode of NBC’s 30 Rock as “Young Jack.” It was announced just this week that Garrett had moved from Click Models to Wilhelmina Models. Good luck to Garrett in all his future endeavors!
That’s what Italian investor and photographer Jean Pigozzi is alleging.
According to the December issue of Vanity Fair, Pigozzi (he’s 6′4″, wears a size XXL) was at Ford’s celebrated men’s store in Manhattan and later complained to the designer (and now movie director) that he was not feeling the love.
Pigozzi related this conversation with Ford: “Tom, I went to your shop. I couldn’t buy a handkerchief. Tom said, ‘You know why? I don’t want big fat guys like you in my shop’ . . . But I think he’s making a mistake because big guys like me have the money.”
It seems that Pigozzi favors patterned tops and has opened his own boutique with men’s casual wear in meatpacking district called Limoland.
Still waiting to find out of Mr. Ford is claiming to have been misquoted.
Today’s big reveal is Rich Ross, the guy in charge of Disney’s movie studio.
He’s the first out movie chief but that’s not what people are talking about. They are talking about how how he steered Disney Channels Worldwide to untold billions thanks to his franchise behemoths Hannah Montana and High School Musical before being picked last year to lead the studio.
Sexuality has proved to be a spectacular nonissue.
His radical rewriting of the Disney rule book, on the other hand, has sired plenty of resentment, but also admiration for the way he’s remaking the studio for the digital age, wooing new talent like The Social Network director David Fincher into the fold. And with not one but two billion-dollar grossing movies—Alice in Wonderland and Toy Story 3—already under his wing, Ross is riding out the storm with aplomb. The real test will be 2011, when the films commissioned under his new team are scheduled to hit the big screen.
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino may not have lasted as long on Dancing With the Stars as Bristol Palin, but he was a lot of fun to watch on the ABC dance competition.
The breakout Jersey Shore star, who has turned his phenomenal abs into big business, is on the December/January cover of Men’s Fitness.
Inside, he shares his 8 rules for being fit which include: Aim to eat six small meals per day—three meals and three protein shakes; Drink tons of water; choose lean proteins, fruits, and veggies whenever you can; Get six to eight hours of sleep; Avoid simple carbs and junk calories, including condiments like mayo and jelly; Approach fitness as a longterm lifestyle, not an instant transformation; Make working out your No. 1 commitment because it builds the confidence and discipline you need to succeed in every domain of your life; Give yourself one “cheat day” per week when you can eat whatever you want and recover from your training.
Learn more about Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, his famous abs, and how he’s turning his Jersey Shore fame into a lucrative fitness career in the Dec/Jan 2011 issue of Men’s Fitness. On Newsstands November 15, 2010
Okay, here’s the deal: I’m officially sick of the whole controversy of the gay joke in the upcoming comedy The Dilemma.
I wish the writers and director Ron Howard could have found a way to not have it in because using “gay” as a pejorative in this day and age is offensive and not necessary. Star Vince Vaughn’s character says in a workplace scene: “Electric cars are gay.” He goes on to make clear that he doesn’t mean “homosexual, gay, but, you know, my parents are chaperoning the dance, gay.”
But, filmmakers do have the right to stick to their vision, obviously, just as I have the right to not buy a ticket to their movie.
Anyway, in what I hope will be the last word from Vaughn on this, the actor remarked on director Howard’s recent comments to the LA Times that the joke will remain: “I’m glad to hear it’s staying the movie,” he told Q100′s Bert Radio Show this week. “It wasn’t a derogatory term… We clarified within the joke [that it was] not ‘homosexual-gay’ but, you know, your parents are chaperoning a dance.”
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Lucie Arnaz was born with the kind of purebred showbiz genes that can only rival Liza Minnelli’s.
She’s one of the rare performers who has headlined in television (The Lucie Arnaz Show, Sons and Daughters), on Broadway and in films (The Jazz Singer, Billy Jack Goes to Washington). She performs in concert all around the world and also produced the 1993 Emmy-winning documentary on her famous parents Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie.
I guess you could say that Shaun Cassidy, who burned so bright as a teen idol in the 70s, was the Zac Efton or Justin Bieber of his day.
The gay stars are ruling the magazine stands this week!
Ian McKellan was 49 when he came out publicly as a gay man and has since enjoyed the most successful phase of his career.
It’s hard to believe, but it was 45 years ago that Sally Field first charmed audiences as the sunny surfer girl in her first TV series Gidget.
Your faithful blogger is hopelessly unhip when it comes to most of today’s new music but I’ve become a fan of Kings of Leon since seeing them perform on Saturday Night Live recently.
When you star in a revival, such as Anything Goes or Sweeney Todd or Gypsy, is there ever pressure to distinguish your performance from a predecessor’s?
Just loving this Ricky Martin book tour.
Portia de Rossi’s new book, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, is getting all kinds of coverage and I’m happy to see such an articulate out woman on Oprah for the hour and now on the cover of People.
Every time Constance McMillen gets some kind of honor, I feel so proud of this 18 year old who stood up for herself in her rural Mississippi town where the homophobic adults behaved even worse than the kids.
