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December 21, 2007

ATWT: The silly Luke and Noah sequence...

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OK, I don't get it at all but hey, i'll take Luke and Noah doing their version my the great film "Maurice" anytime. Remember it? Hugh Grant was in it, he was the repressed gay who got married to a woman, much to the heartbreak of his male college love.

So Luke and Noah are in some kind of time dream, back in time and Noah comes to spoend Christmas with Luke's wealthy family. He hugs him hello and says: "I have news. I have to be engaged...to the daughter of a family friend. I'm being pressured by my family."

Luke: "I am happy for you.
Noah: After all we;ve been through, how close we were at school.
Luke: Youth and loneliness leads to all kinds of foolish things and then you grow up, as you have."

The point of all this, I do not know. Here is the clip. Maybe you can figure it out:

Get ready for John Barrowman in season two of "Torchwood"

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I have never watched "Torchwood" but am interested in checking out season 2 when it debuts on BBC America on Jan. 26. John Barrowman has gotta be worth checking out!

.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabarrow2.jpgPopnography has posted a preview from BBC America which states that Captain Jack (Barrowman) returns to battle rogue Time Agent Captain John Hart (James Marsters). Hart disrupts Captain Jack’s homecoming and his whole team, the city and world "are suddenly in grave danger. From the moment these two Time Agents come face-to-face, it’s apparent they have a history."

Happy Birthday to...

.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakieferrr.jpg .aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakiefer.jpgKiefer Sutherland.

Poor guy, has to spend his 41st birthday in the slammer. I do not approve of drinking and driving but I like the guy, what can I say? He's talented, good looking and has a terrific voice. When I first met him a few years back at an awards show, he was surprised at how I went on and on about his voice. He had done a presentation and I was absolutely smitten. It's no surprise that it was his voice chosen for the terrific Colin Farrell flick "Phone Booth." In it, we only hear the voice...

The Advocate on Jodie Foster...

.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafosterrr.jpg I just read a piece on Advocate.com about Jodie Foster's speech at the Women In Entertainment breakfast where she thanked her partner Cydney publicly for the first time. I feel compelled to remind the writer that I broke the story in the LA Daily News in print and on Out In Hollywood online and it was immediately picked up from there from such widely-read sites as AfterEllen.com, Queerty.com, Towleroad, Defamer, Popnography.com, Variety.com, Gay.com, AfterElton.com etc.

In his piece, Advocate writer Christopher Lisotta does not acknowledge where the story originated or, more importantly, the presence of an openly gay reporter for a mainstream paper who was the only journalist in the room to go with the story.

Don't you think this is a big oversight for a story in the premiere LGBT publication?

Lisotta writes in part: Foster's December 4 comments set off a rash of media coverage, with publications from South Africa to New Zealand reporting the words, but with widely varying interpretations of what they meant. The U.K.-based website Fametastic saw the statement as a sign that Foster “may be set to publicly confirm her relationship.” Other publications went further, with The Philadelphia Daily News declaring on December 15 that Foster “has officially announced she's gay.” The British tabloid Daily Mail reported on December 12 that Foster “has finally come out as a lesbian.”

I would not have any issue with the piece had it included how the story was originally broken and the tone in which it was written. Here are a few key paragraphs from my piece:

Toward the end of her remarks, Jodie thanked those nearest and dearest to her. Among them was "my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss." Since she has always been so intensely private, I was surpised at the public acknowledgement of who I presume is Cydney Bernard, the woman who is widely reported to be her partner."

I do believe that these are the two paragraohs that led to the "global headlines" Lisotta writes about.

Michael Urie's TLC gig...

With "Ugly Betty" on strike-incuded hiatus along with the rest of all our favorite shows, Michael Urie is keeping busy as host of "Miss America Reality Check" which debuts on Jan. 4, 2008 and will air on Friday nights through Jan. 26 on TLC.
This clip shows that Michael is bringing a lot of Marc St. Clair to the gig which means it will be fun!

Happy Friday...

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Well, whaddaya know, it's another picture of DNA cover boy Ryan Barry. This shot apparently didn't make the magazine but it did make the cut on Out In Hollywood!

Enjoy!

Greg Hernandez

Greg Hernandez has covered the entertainment industry for the Daily News since 2001. He's considered a bit odd by some for his obsession with box office numbers, has been known to camp out near the kitchen at premieres for first crack at the hors d'oeurves, and Greg's never seen a red carpet he didn't want to stroll down.
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