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Big Brother 11: Bodybuilding bromance and homophobic slurs.
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WATCH: Rufus Wainwright reveals new opera, new beard.
Brad Pitt's back on the magazine covers because of his upcoming flick Inglourious Basterds. His cover shot for Wired recalls another goateed icon in a Bluetooth headset.
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Tony Perkins' Family Research Council has hired Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) to spew a bunch of lies about hate crimes in a new video. The hate crimes bill should come up for a vote this week.
Jeremy at Good As You lays out the lies.
Since I was gone last week, I'd also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Jeremy on his marriage to his husband Andrew.
Watch the Family Research Council lies video, AFTER THE JUMP...
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Highlights from the past couple days of testimony.
OPENING STATEMENT: "So help me God."
ABORTION: "Roe v. Wade is settled law."
ROE V. WADE: "Do you believe the Constitution is a living, breathing, evolving document?"
RACE AND GENDER: Does it affect her as a judge?
LINDSEY GRAHAM: The South Carolina senator's rather offensive questioning of Sotomayor's "temperament."
WISE LATINA: "Thank you for giving me an opportunity to explain my remarks. No words I have ever spoken or written have received so much attention."
For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.
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As I mentioned earlier, this week is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon mission. Monday night, Louis Vuitton held an event marking it (but really to flaunt its new ad featuring astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and Sally Ride and trot out a new trunk).
Lance Bass, who made an unsuccessful attempt to launch into space on a Russian rocket in 2002 (after financial backers pulled out) told the NYDN he'd like to complete his mission: "I'm a trained astronaut, and it's my time to go."
No doubt Virgin Galactic is looking for passengers. Louis Vuitton's astronaut ad, below.
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TMZ, the outlet to first break news of Michael Jackson's death by cardiac arrest, says the LAPD is already treating the case as a homicide focusing on Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray:
"Law enforcement sources tell us the evidence points to the anesthesia Propofol as the primary cause of Jackson's death. As we first reported, vials of Propofol were found in Jackson's home after he died.
Law enforcement sources say there is already 'plenty of powerful evidence' linking Dr. Murray as the person who administered the drug to Jackson. The evidence includes various items found in Jackson's house, including the Propofol, an IV stand and oxygen tank."
Meanwhile, the National Enquirer reports that Jackson's death was captured on security camera but that the tapes have gone missing amid "startling details of a massive cover-up by insiders who hid drugs and 'sanitized' the death scene."
In related news, Elizabeth Taylor has reportedly been hospitalized in grief over Jackson's death: "The heart's gone out of her...She's suffering weakness, tiredness, exhaustion, emotional draining. She hasn't stopped crying. She and Michael were devoted to one another."
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The Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission and the Fort Worth Police Department raid of the Rainbow Lounge late last month was the centerpiece of an emotional Fort Worth City Council meeting attended by 500 people last night during which the mayor apologized and several activists were led out after interrupting the proceedings.
The Houston Chronicle reports:
"[Mayor Mike] Moncrief told the meeting neither the TABC nor police had finished investigations into the raid, which initially had been called a routine license inspection. But the mayor said he has asked the U.S. Attorney's Office to review the department's findings. Someone in the audience then called out for an apology. 'If you want an apology from the mayor of Fort Worth: I am sorry about what happened in Fort Worth,' Moncrief said, as the crowd erupted in applause and stood."
Seven members of the Dallas-area activist group Queer LiberAction were escorted from the meeting after demanding the Rainbow Lounge incident be moved up on the meeting's agenda, reports the Star-Telegram:
"'Hear us now! Hear us now!' five men chanted in a hallway outside City Council chambers. The men, believed to be members of Queer LiberAction, a Dallas-based gay rights group, were led out of the building by city marshals. Inside the meeting, the group's founder, Blake Wilkinson, repeatedly interrupted Mayor Mike Moncrief. 'We're sick and tired of being put on the last of the list,' Wilkinson said. Moncrief, at one point banging his gavel to try to regain order, attempted to explain the 'house rules' to Wilkinson, stating that the agenda would not be changed but that everyone who wished to speak would be heard."
Additionally, Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead has named "an interim liaison to the GLBT community.": "
Officer Sara Straten, a 17-year police veteran, will fill the role by attending meetings, events, and various GLBT functions and report to the chief. Meanwhile, the police department will search for possible funding for a full-time position at which time Chief Halstead will seek input from various community leaders to ensure their involvement in the selection process."
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