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He's just as dashing as you'd think he'd be.

Ewan McGregor was at the Outfest Legacy Awards last night to honor his close friend, producer Bruce Cohen and I got to talk to him very briefly before things got started.

So what brought him out to the event to honor Bruce?

"We worked together on a film called "Down With Love" and then again on a film called "Big Fish" and we;ve become really good friends since then. He's an amazing guy and he works very hard for all different causes."

Since Cohen and Gabriel Catone were married in June (by LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa), I wanted to get Ewan's thoughts on Proposition 8 which seeks to undo that marriage and all other same-sex unions: "That's ridiculous. He's very happily married."

And then he was off!

I gabbed with Jimmy Smits Thursday afternoon and am really happy to be featuring him in my newspaper column on Sunday. It was just one of those really good interviews with good energy. So, I am sharing it with Out In Hollywood readers a few days early.
On "The West Wing," Jimmy Smits' character of Congressman Matthew Santos was elected president of the U.S. but the show ended its run before we got to see Santos move into The White House.

On July 4, Smits returns to the scene of that fictional storyline to host "A Capitol Fourth," a televised party in Washington D.C. televised live on PBS.

"It's very moving to watch those fireworks with all the national monuments as a backdrop," Jimmy said a few days ago. "It fortifies you in a strange kind of way about what it means to be an American - especially for me, being second-generation in this country. It just gives me goosebumps."

Jimmy called to chat after a long day of shooting an episode of the popular Showtime drama "Dexter." He has joined the show in its third season as Miguel Prado, an assistant district attorney in Florida who forms a bond with the title character, a forensic expert-serial killer portrayed by Michael C. Hall.

"(Hall's) work is just really, really special," Jimmy said. "He can do more with an eyebrow than most people do with pages of dialogue."

Without question, Jimmy has had one of the most successful careers of anyone who has ever worked in television. He's also had a movie career that includes roles in the last two "Star Wars" films, "My Family/Mi Familia," "Lackawanna Blues," "Old Gringo" and "Switch."

He won an Emmy for his portrayal of attorney Victor Sufuentes, who he played for five seasons on "L.A. Law." Then he earned an Emmy nomination during each of his five seasons on "NYPD Blue" as Det. Bobby Simone.

Jimmy really re-invigorated "The West Wing" during its final two seasons as Democratic nominee Santos who engaged in a thrilling presidential campaign against Alan Alda's Republican Sen. Arnold Vinick.

"I had a blast," he said of "West Wing." "We did a live debate episode show that we did twice - once for each coast - and that will always stay in my mind as one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career on a lot of levels."

While "The West Wing" was a terrific high, his experience with the short-lived CBS series "Cane" turned out to be a professional low.

The drama about the lives and internal power struggles of a powerful and wealthy Cuban-American family in Florida running a rum and sugar cane business had its chances to succeed doomed by the writer's strike that crippled Hollywood earlier this year.

"The experience on 'Cane' was wonderful for me but it's just very bittersweet because of the way the year went down," he said. "It's basically collateral damage of the strike. I had a great time working on it, learned a whole lot and forged a lot of wonderful friendships."
He's happy to fit in the July 4 hosting duties with work on "Dexter" and said he's looking forward to hearing the musical acts which include Huey Lewis and the News and Taylor Hicks.

But mostly, he looks forward to those fireworks on the Washington mall and the feelings they evoke.

Said Jimmy: "When you start thinking of the framers (of the Declaration of Independence) and the chances they took when they put their name down, it makes you reflect on how deep those words were and how far this country has some. It also helps you acknowledge how far we have to go."

Writer Brandon Voss was nice enough to send us an early look at his 'Big Gay Following' feature on sexy David Duchovny in an upcoming issue of The Advocate. I'm excerpting some of my favorite questions and have a link to the entire thing at the end.

Brandon starts off by reminding the "Californication" and "X-Files" star about one of his classic guest appearances as himself on "The Larry Sanders Show' starring Gary Shandling. Larry's gay assistant estimates his friends' opinion of Duchovny: "A third think he's gay, a third think he's bi, and the rest don't care -- they just want to kiss him anyways." Is that a fair representation of his entire gay fan base? "On my best day, that would be nice," admits Duchovny,

In Californication your womanizing novelist character, Hank, lives in Los Angeles and works in the entertainment industry, yet there are no gay characters -- just a smattering of frat-boy fantasy girl-on-girl action. What's the deal?
That is quite unrealistic, and I hope to address that in the near future, and I apologize to my big gay following. It's funny because when we were casting the pilot, and even when we shot the pilot -- though we never told the actor -- the idea was always that Evan Handler's character, my agent, was gay. But that never came to pass. Actually, he became more of a player than my character.

Hank says he used to live in New York's West Village "amongst the gays," so I'd be surprised if he's never jumped the fence.
Well, Hank is a very passive sexual partner. He's like a boy who can't say no, so I could certainly see that. That was one of my favorite lines -- I love saying "amongst the gays."

What inspired the homosexual vibe you gave off on The Larry Sanders Show?
It was before this whole man-crush thing became played out -- the "bromance" and all that stuff. I had done one Larry Sanders and Larry and I had become friends, and we were thinking about what I could do next on the show. I said, "Why don't I have a crush on you, but I'm not gay, and it's funny because it doesn't bother me -- I just say it." And he said, "That is funny." So we ran with it.
Here is a clip from that classic "Larry Sanders" episode:

Have you been hit on by guys?
I grew up in the East Village and lived amongst the gays, so that kind of shit happens, and it's no big deal.

Have you ever been annoyed by gay rumors about yourself?
I didn't know I had a gay rumor! It wouldn't annoy me at all. I imagine if I were gay and wanted to hide it, it would annoy me. I find I only get annoyed at the things that are true, so that's a telltale sign.

Have you ever dealt with a friend or loved one's coming-out?
I had a friend come out in college, and I didn't handle it great because I'd just always assumed he was gay. So when he came out, I guess I wasn't surprised enough or didn't think it was amazing enough. It was always obvious to me!

To read Brandon's conversation with David in its entirety, click HERE and enjoy!

Happy LA Gay Pride Weekend everyone! West Hollywood is just nuts right now, so much fun. Was at The Abbey frim early evening to past midnight and it was a mix of out of towners (including my friend Ken from SF) and plenty of locals. Music, dancers and perhaps one too many Absolute Vodka's with grapefruit juice.

Anyway, I think this video of James Dean and Paul Newman is kinda cool as I put up a few random posts before heading to brunch with my old friend Hope who's in from Colorado! Good times...

Patrick Dempsey is about as handsome a guy as there is and he handles his stardom well. It's also nice to know that he's appreciative of his gay fans as we learn in the Q&A with Brandon Voss in The Advocate. Patrick is the subject of an upcoming "Big Gay Following" feature. Here are some excerpts:

Do you have a Rupert Everett-like gay best friend?
[Laughs] He's not like Rupert Everett, but yeah, I definitely do. He's a good guy, but it took him a long time to really get out of the closet. Everyone around him knew, and then when he finally came to terms with it and said, "Yeah, I'm gay," we were like, "Finally! Good for you." You could see the release in him where he wasn't having to pretend anymore and was becoming his own person.

We're not talking about T.R., are we?
No, no, no. It's somebody else.

<Your character (in "Made of Honor") often gets mistaken for gay, which also happens to your character in 1989's "Loverboy." Has that happened to you in real life?
Sometimes now, yeah. I try not to read the blogs, but it seems everybody's convinced I'm gay -- especially since Versace. But the great thing with sexuality and being gay is that there's really no stereotype anymore.

At 17, you dropped out of high school to play David in a San Francisco production of Torch Song Trilogy. Did you or your parents have concerns about your taking a gay part so early in your career?
No, not at all. Doing theater, the gay community was always incredibly kind to me -- never aggressive or predatory, always supportive and nurturing. That was the great thing about being a part of that show. Especially being so young, there was a lot of concern only because I was out there on my own and I'd never been in the big city before, but everybody looked after me.

Have you been aware of your gay following since your breakout success in 1987's Can't Buy Me Love?
Yeah, there was some stuff that [celebrity photographer] Greg Gorman and I shot that sort of opened things up, and everybody was telling me about that. It's good fun. It's flattering.
Did you or your agents have any hesitations before accepting a three-episode arc as Will's sportscaster boyfriend on Will & Grace, your first major foray into TV?
No. When I sat down and talked with the show's creators, they were like, "Here's what we want to try to do," and I was like, "Yeah, I'm in for that." It was fun. I loved that character, and certainly that role and being on that show helped turn things around for me profoundly.

Opposite another straight actor, Eric McCormack, was it challenging to make a gay romance appear believable?
No, because you just play a relationship -- two people attracted to each other. You just trust that and don't worry about it. The situation reveals that you're gay; you don't have to play gay to be gay.

As a Versace model, not to mention all the shirtless scenes you have in Made of Honor, do you feel pressure to constantly hit the gym?
Yeah, I work out, but I'm not fanatical about it. I'm not the kind of guy who can be completely cut-up; I just want to stay in shape and be healthy and lean. But there's always the pressure of having the perfect male body. At the same time, I've got way too much going on to worry about it. You just have to go, "Here's my body," and hope people like it.

On People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" list, you came in second to Matt Damon in 2007, George Clooney in 2006, and Matthew McConaughey in 2005. How's it feel to be that close to the title for three years?
At least I'm consistently in the top two. And I've been there longer than the other guys, so that's fine.

Which male celebrity do you find sexy?
Johnny Depp, certainly, without question. There's just something about his individuality, his humility, and his sense of style. He's also immensely talented and intelligent, and that's all very sexy.

What's the oddest thing you've done with your character's action figure from Disney's Enchanted?
It's not so much what I have done but what my friends have done with the doll -- and then sent pictures of to my cell phone. They've put the doll in various sexual positions with other dolls -- with Barbie and Ken.

Here is a LINK to the entire interview...

It was so fun to talk to Patrick Duffy a few days ago, one of my early TV crushes. He was the McDreamy of his day and pretty much still is!

Patrick Duffy made his first big splash on television in the late 1970s as the amphibious superhero on "Man From Atlantis." But it was his role as Bobby Ewing on "Dallas" that made him a household name. He starred with Larry Hagman, Victoria Principal, Linda Gray and the rest of the prime-time soap's large cast during most of its historic run from 1978-91.

After a few years, Duffy decided to leave the show and filmed a scene in which he "died." Fans were upset at his departure, he recalled when we spoke this week.

"After the episode aired, a few days later I went shopping and a woman accosted me in the parking lot of Gelson's," he said. "She was wailing and crying and saying: How could you die?"'

Duffy was persuaded to return to Dallas, and writers had to figure out a way to bring him back. In a plot twist that required viewers to suspend disbelief, writers made his death and the entire 1985-86 season, a really bad dream.
He was reintroduced to viewers when Pam Ewing (Principal) opened the shower door, sees Bobby lathering up and tells him of her nightmare.

"That resurrected another three years of my life on the show and I appreciated it to no end," he said. "Anytime you can be even a small percentage connected to an iconic moment in TV, it's like a little Medal of Honor.

"I feel the same way about the shower scene and I know Larry feels the same way about the `Who Shot J.R.?' episode."

Duffy, 59, moved from Los Angeles six years ago to his ranch in Oregon. He returned to L.A. to film episodes of "Bold and the Beautiful" on which he has a recurring role. He's also taking on new challenges like hosting "Bingo America" on the Game Show Network.
"It's a different set of muscles," he said of hosting compared with acting. "It's something I felt that I could do but it took about 4-5 shows before I really felt I was confident. The activity is relentless and you have nothing to fall back on. It's all you."

He's enjoying the gig ("I love giving away other people's money") and hopes to return for a second season.

Duffy, after all, is a man used to long runs. He and wife Carlyn have been married 34 years, "Dallas" ran more than a decade, and he starred for seven years on the ABC sitcom "Step By Step" with Suzanne Somers.

"It was the most fortunate set of circumstances to go from working with my best friend Larry Hagman then I met Suzanne Somers and she became my new Larry Hagman (on `Step By Step')," Duffy said. "We stay in touch with each other and we love each other. When I'm in L.A., Linda, Larry and I still have our lunches and dinners. But I can't tell you where."

Sorry for the lack of posts today. I had to do an interview with Rosie Perez this morning then be on the set of CBS' sitcom "Rules of Engagement" and got to meet that cutie Oliver Hudson and the very funny David Spade. Will post a bit of the Rosie chat in a bit and the "Rules" interviews next week.

For now, I offer you thiis picture of the very handsome Chris Evans at the premiere Thursday night in Hollywood of his latest movie "Street Kings."

The stupidity of Jay Leno asking Ryan Phillippe to give the camera his "gayest look" gives us a good reason to look back on Ryan's days on "One Life to Live" when he was at the center of a breakthrough storyline playing a gay teen. Found this clip on Queerty.

I've enjoyed the trailers for "Nim's Island," the new children's adventure fantasy that stars Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin. Jodie looks completely at ease doing the comedy in this film which came as no surprise to me since she was so good in "Maverick" all those years ago.

But according to an interview with an Australian newspaper, the two-time Oscar winner had to fight for the part.

"I read the script and said, 'I really want to make this movie' and they said, 'hmm, I don't think so'," she said.
"I'm not a known comedy actress, (so) they didn't want me in it."

Jodie finally won the part of Alexandra Rover, a highly-strung, agoraphobic author who is forced out of her comfort zone to tend to a young fan in trouble. Jodie said the was delighted to be a part of a movie with a simple message, which didn't involve high-tech gadgetry or full-blown computer animation.

"It harks back to a time when heroism was actually doing something with your hands," she said. "Kids have lost this idea that if you do something with your hands and you try hard over and over again (then) maybe you'll be good enough and that will bring you success. It is kind of nostalgic and I miss that in kids' entertainment."

Jodie talked about how she copes with fame and unwanted tabloid attention: "You do a job from, say, seven in the morning to eight or nine that evening and when you end that day, you go back to your life. Your social life is not your professional life. They're very separate things, they should be separate things."

As the top-billed star in "Stop-Loss," I said to Ryan Phillippe at Monday night's premiere of the movie: "You're the big attraction here." He replied: "No, Channing is. Just Channing."

That would be Channing Tatum, whose presence was causing quite a sitr. But Ryan was still the biggest star in the room and his performance in the movie adds handsomely to his stellar resume of roles that includes parts in "Breach," "Flags of Our Fathers," "Crash," "Gosford Park" and a real favorite of mine, "Igby Goes Down."

I wanted to know where Ryan ranks the role of Sgt. Brandon King, a decorated war hero who triumphantly returns to his small Texas hometown and, against his will, is ordered back to Iraq for another tour of duty. This tests everything he believes in. As he grapples with the situation, the lives of his soldier buddies - wounded physically or psychologically from combat - are falling apart.

"For me, it was one of the most colorful parts I've ever had - the range of emotions and situations this character goes through," Ryan said. "That's why I wanted to do it really....This is the kind of movie that does kind of stay with you and you think about after you see it...That's the kind of thing I like to make."

With the war in Iraq now five years old, what does Ryan think about the movie's timing? "That's what makes it relevant and also the fact that the movie is from the soldier's perspective. There's no political agenda. This is happening right now. It happened last week, it'll happen next week. Also, the younger generation, they haven't seen the films about soldiers coming back from war and this film will be very new to a lot of people."

Sgt. King being stop-lossed when he was supposed to be finished tests everything he believes in. As he grapples with the situation, the lives of his soldier buddies - wounded physically or psychologically from combat - are falling apart. They are played by Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Victor Rasuk and Rob Brown.

"Ultimately, it's about this brotherhood, this sense of connection - the bond that these guys formed during a time of war when they are in a combat zone and how that lasts," Ryan said.

The cast itself bonded at the beginning of the film when they participated in a boot camp: "We were out in the woods for seven days with no phones, no TV, nothing. We just had all this time to spend getting to know each other. We all stay in touch."

"We had a good time, Austin is a great place to shoot a movie - the food is great and the music and the beer," he added. "It's sort of a serious movie so we would go out and find time on the weekends to have fun but a lot of time on the set we were pretty focused."

I'm sure if Jodie Foster didn't have movies to promote, she'd shy away from doing interviews like the one that appears on the cover of Sunday's Parade. The cool site JustJared.com featured some curious excerpts today:

On protecting her kids, Charles Bernard Foster, 9, and Kit Bernard Foster, 6, from the spotlight: "I do what I can. We try not to go out at night or go places where there'll be 20 photographers. I try to minimize their exposure to assaults."

On being tight-lipped about her personal life: "I don't think there is any good thing about fame. In this business, in order to care for yourself and the people you love, you have to separate your professional life from your personal life."

And here's the real surprise:
On having not yet fallen in love: "Oh, my life is basically from the head up. I'm definitely not proud of that. I'm very analytical."

I assuming that last answer was taken out on context since Jodie is in a longtime relationship with Cydney Bernard who she. for the first time anyone can recall, at a breakfast for Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment in December.

I was there, broke the story and believed it was Jodie's way of acknowledging in a public what she never discusses in interviews.

Earlier posts: Jodie Foster thanks "my beautiful Cydney" at women's power breakfast...

Thoughts on my Jodie Foster story...

All anyone wants to talk about are those seriously sexy shots of Daniel Craig emerging from the water in his knickers. Yeah, so? It's those shots, made public before the release of "Casino Royale," his first film as James Bond, that let us know just how hunky this guy was and that he was more than worthy of taking over the iconic movie role of 007.

Daniel talks about the swimsuit pics in the latest issue of "Empire" magazine: "Was it a conscious decision of mine when I looked at that particular photograph and went, 'You look good' to let it go? Yes, probably. It did what it had to do at the time. Of course, it won't f******g go away now. If I ever get to a grand old age, hopefully drunk, sitting in a corner of a bar, mumbling, I'd probably be pleased that picture was taken. I have to see the funny side of it, but it would be nice if they moved on. They need to find a better subject. There surely must be other pictures of blokes in their knickers."

Hmmm. Nope, still can't think of one.

Can you BELIEVE this man is soon to be 54 years old? You could play a game of Monopoly on those abs! These are from the Italian version of Vanity Fair...

Jodie Foster gave a really moving and surprisingly candid speech when she received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the 16th annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast on Tuesday.

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 surprised at the public acknowledgement of who I presume is Cydney Bernard, the woman who is widely reported to be her life partner.

Lansing, who presented Jodie with the award before a crowd that included Queen Latifah and John Travolta, said of the actress-director: "Jodie Foster leads her life with dignity - she's her own person, she doesn't follow the herd. She's an original."

The two-time Oscar winner was funny and heart-warming during the speech, which brought some in attendance at the Beverly Hills Hotel to tears: "I feel fragile...unsure, struggling to figure it all out, trying to get there even though I'm not sure where there is," she said. "I've been working in this business for 42 years and there's no way you can do that and not be as nutty as a fruitcake."

Jodie and I had a light-hearted chat prior to the breakfast. I told her that just about everyone was either gushing about her or wanted to meet her.

"Really?" she said, smiling. "I think it's a lie. I think they're just saying that because I'm here."

I wondered if she ever gets tired of being feted since she's got a boatload of awards aleady.

"Well yeah, I get tired of getting dressed up," she admitted. "If I could get feted in my pajamas, I'd be there, I'd be like at the opening of a doorknob."

Is Jodie, who turned 45 last month, going to do more movies since she seems to do, at most, one a year? "One movie a year is really way too much even honestly. I did two movies in a year...and it almost set me over the edge."

She had a rare box office misfire this fall with "The Brave One" which opened at number one but went on to gross just under $37 million domestically. She's unfazed: "You make movies for the right reasons, hopefully, and that's a movie that I'm probably more proud of than anything I've done in many, many, many years. Some movies aren't for everybody."

Jodie, the mother of two children, told me that she has learned to juggle professional commitments with family.

"The one way that I've been able to make sense of it is to say that my job is something I do from 9 in the morning to 6 at night or whatever it is and my life starts after that," she said. "I've been able to compartmentalize and keep them separate. There are different parts to what I do for a living and part of what I do for a living is doing things like this [breakfast], part of it is being on a movie set at 4 in the morning, freezing cold and with a gun in my hand. Part of it is the thinking stuff. But when I get home, it's a different world."

Our gal Rosie O'Donnell just keeps making the news.
It used to be that it was because of what she said...but this week it's more about what people are saying ABOUT her. First there was that idiot Donald Trump wanting her to be on his "Apprentice" show and now, TVGuide's Michael Ausiello reports that the producers of NBC's "Friday Night Lights" are trying to convince Rosie to guest star on the show this fall.
"Rosie's a big fan of Friday Night Lights, as we know from The View, and we heard she was interested in being on the show," executive producer Jason Katims tells Ausiello. "Usually we don't do any stunt casting, but we have a character coming up - six or seven episodes into the new season - of a female soccer coach who is really angry about all of the school's resources going to football. It's a really funny character and I think she'd be perfect for it. There's a scene where she comes in to see Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and slams a dead soccer ball on his desk and basically says, 'You're the guy who gets everything!'" It's a really fun scene, and it's the one time I'm thinking of stunt casting."
Katims says he will formally approach O'Donnell in the coming weeks.

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Tab Hunter was Hollywood's Golden Boy and it is easy to see why when you look at the covers of his autobiography and of a CD featuring his greatest hits (I had no idea he could sing). So Mr. Hunter, who in his later years has lived as an out gay man, turns 76 years old today! Happy B-day to a Hollywood survivor...

More photos of Hunter (with James Dean and Roddy McDowell) after the jump...

In looking over the extensive photos posted on JustJared.com of a very glamorous Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the Cannes Film Festival this week, I was excited to see a pair of real movie stars who are in love and cause a real commotion wherever they go around the world. If you turned back the clock 40 years, you could just as easily be talking about jet-setting movie stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the couple basically responsible for the creation of the paprazzi. There are many similarities between the two couples: Taylor and Burton caused a scandal when they fell in love during the shooting of "Cleopatra" since both were married to others at the time while Brad and Angelina fell in love while making "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" while he was married to Jennifer Aniston; Taylor was already an Oscar winner when she met Burton as was Jolie when she got together with Pitt; Taylor and Burton adopted their daughter, Maria Burton, early in their relationship (both had children from previous marriages) while the Pitt-Jolie brood includes four children.


What remains up in the air is whether their love will stand the test of time. It's been less than three years of togetherness for Jolie and Pitt. Taylor and Burton had already been together for two years when they married in 1964. They made many movies together, most noteably 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", before divorcing in 1974. They remarried in 1975 but split again, for good, less than a year later. Still, their love remained even when married to others. They reunited, professionally, for the Broadway play "Private Lives" in 1983 which despite bad reviews, broke house records. When Burton died in 1984, Taylor was devastated and to this day, considers him and her late husband Mike Todd the two loves of her life.

She's come a long ways from the days of Chrissy Snow.
Suzanne Somers, star of "Three's Company" for five seasons, "Step By Step" for seven seasons and let's not forget the two years of "She's the Sheriff," isn't doing as much acting these days. But that doesn't mean she isn't appearing on television. From the Thighmaster to the Facemaster, Somers can be seen on QVC hawking an eponymous line of food, jewelry, and beauty products and has quite a following - including gay men around the country who are buying up her products at private parties in the best Tupperware tradition.

An Advocate.com article explains the phenomenon. Here is an excerpt:
Hosted by "independent Suzanne consultants" since October 2006, the events are a decidedly contemporary take on the Tupperware and Avon parties of yore. Misael Maldonado, a gay man and longtime Suzanne fan, hosted such a happening at the home of charter consultant Mark Paulk in New York City earlier this year.
The eager queens, fag hags, and the occasional straight couple at the gathering started by sampling various food products, including a pot roast prepared with Suzanne's Beef Bourguignon Simmer Sauce and crudités with a cilantro-and-lime dip. “I'll buy this dip. It's delicious,” said party guest Maria Vaccaro as Paulk looked on proudly. Was Vaccaro at all influenced by Somers's association with the creamy yogurt-based concoction? “Well, I've always liked her—for God's sake, she was Chrissy," she said, picking up an order form. Paulk then demonstrated the creation of La Somers's light and fluffy chocolate mousse. Total prep time: three minutes.
The partygoers were particularly spellbound when Paulk demonstrated the Face Master. Using microcurrents of electrical energy (nine-volt battery not included), the gadget is supposed to stimulate and strengthen by zapping face muscles, thus improving facial tone.
The Suzanne business (motto: "Share the joy") is designed to be an ever-growing entity, targeting freelancers, beauty and food specialists, and stay-at-home moms as ambassadors. Consultants, currently numbering around 1,000, are encouraged to bring others into the fold. Aside from income, incentives include exclusive hostess gifts, such as a Maltese cross cuff bracelet or a hand-painted violet chip-and-dip bowl.
“C'mon, she looks damn good for her age," Maldonado said. “The woman's been around for like 200 years. She must be doing something right.”

Remember a few years back when Paris Hilton was on the cover of Vanity Fair? Oscar winner Shirley Jones was so upset that she wrote a letter to the magazine informing them that she would be cancelling her subscription. Who could blame her? It brought the magazine down a notch and made being on the cover seem less special. I mean, who was next? Kimberly Stewart?
But next month's issue gets it right. In this early peak, via JustJared.com, we see Leonardo DiCaprio, the finest actor of his generation and a genuine movie star, on the cover.
Now that's an issue worth buying...

Adorable Dominic Monaghan, current star of "Lost" and a key actor in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, shows just how gay-friendly he is in these photos. Since he's happily coupled with his "Lost" co-star Evangeline Lilly, we know these pics were taken in fun. My fave? The one below with the sign describing himself as "Gay Scottish Sex Symbol." If I were going to date a Hobbit, I'd want him to look just like Dominic Monaghan...

You wouldn't except an interview with Cybill Shepherd to ever be boring would you? The piece with the newest cast member of "The L Word" in the current issue of The Advocate is pretty juicy.
Cybill, the beauty queen turned movie star ("The Last Picture Show," "Heartbreak Kid" and "Taxi Driver") turned television star ("Moonlighting" and "Cybill") turned author ("Cybill Disobendience"), has long been a favorite of mine because she always speaks her mind.
Current girl crush: Salma Hayak. "I've fantasized about her for years" but adds, "Right now I have a boyfriend and we're monogamous."
On her first same-sex love scenes: "I was very turned on immediately...it was surprising and wonderful and crazy."
Shepherd says that off-screen, she says she has not only fooled around with a woman, but was once, years ago, in love with one: "But we never acted on it. I was in love with a woman and in love with her male partner. I was kind of on the verge of becoming his lover. She said, 'You know, women should never do that to women.' I backed off. And we're still all really good friends. That woman will always be somehow one of the loves of my life."
On Martina Navratilova: "I had an incredible sexual feeling for her." She also says she finds Paula Poundstone "very attractive" and that Poundstone was her first choice to play Maryann Thorpe on the "Cybill" sitcom. Christine Baranski won the role, and the Emmy.
She an Baranski had terrific on-screen chemistry but off-screen, they ended up not getting along...