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Heroes star Hayden Panettiere and popstar Katy Perry (who was recently seen hangin’ with Rihanna in Barbados) met up at Disney‘s Hollywood Studios at the Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, FL over the weekend to pose for a cute pic with Disney World‘s HBIC Minnie Mouse … behold:

Hayden and Katy were chillin’ at the park before they took to the stage for Disney’s Grad Nite, which is an in-park concert for High School seniors (Hayden hosted, Katy performed). The three ladies look all cute with their matching bows and shizz … it sounds like the Grad Nite was a big hit this year — bands like Metro Station and White Tie Affair also performed for the high school seniors. It’s hard to believe that it’s already graduation time again … but when the Mouse says it’s time to graduate, it’s time to graduate. Congrats class of 2009!!

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Earlier this month we learned the amazing news that the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional in the State of Iowa, making Iowa one of 3 US States to allow same-sex marriage. Today is the first day that same-sex couples are allowed to apply for marriage licenses in Iowa which means that today the State is taking a huge step forward towards marriage equality in this country:

Same-sex couples have begun filing for marriage licenses in the state of Iowa after the state’s Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. Two Lincoln, Neb., women were first in line at the Pottawattamie County Recorder’s office in Council Bluffs to apply for their license. Sarah Fentress and Bambi Smith have been friends for 20 years. Both women said it’s hard to put into words what this day means to them. “It’s just about us and that we can be a complete family,” Fentress said. Six couples were waiting outside the Courthouse before the doors opened Monday morning. Same-sex weddings could take place Monday if couples can secure waivers from judges that let them bypass Iowa’s three-day waiting period. One couple in Des Moines did get a waiver shortly after their license was issued. The Iowa Supreme Court’s unanimous April 3 decision makes Iowa the third state to allow same-sex marriage.

The New York Times published a story yesterday about same-sex marriage coming to Iowa which, it turns out, isn’t really that big of a deal to the people who live there:

Many people, even some who live here, cannot mesh their plain-Jane image of Iowa, a state that sits so sturdily in the middle, with the front lines of the same-sex marriage debate. “To be honest, I would rather not have it in Iowa,” said Shirley Cox, who has spent most of her 84 years in this old railroad town. Ms. Cox said she had always been proud to tell people what state she was from, but now was not so sure. “But the thing is,” she went on, “it’s really none of my business. Who am I to tell someone how to live? I live the way I want, and they should live the way they want. I’m surely not going to stomp and raise heck and campaign against it.” This reluctance to interlope in the lives of one’s neighbors — “a very Iowa attitude,” in the words of one local political scientist, derived in part from the state’s rural heritage — may help explain how Iowa finds itself in this moment. Add to that individualistic sensibility the state’s current political alignment and its little-known, pioneering legal past on once similarly volatile questions, like segregation and the role of women, and suddenly it seems far less surprising to outsiders that this could happen here in the seemingly endless, rolling acres of cornfields. “People may think of us some other way,” said Paul Lasley, a sociologist at Iowa State University, “but in the main, it is tolerance — not always support, but tolerance — that has really been the weave and warp of Iowa culture. Understanding the culture of Iowa is understanding that many of us are descendants of people who were once denied liberties in their home countries.” This month, the Iowa Supreme Court found a state law banning same-sex marriage to be a violation of the state Constitution, in essence deeming the practice legal, as of this week. Iowa will be one of three states, and the only one far from the coasts, to allow the marriages. (A fourth state, Vermont, will permit same-sex marriages come September. California did, briefly, until voters rejected the practice in November.) In Des Moines, the state capital, observers of the court said the unanimous decision surprised them. Mark S. Kende, a law professor at Drake University, said he had viewed these justices as “more a lawyerly court than left-leaning or willing to stick its neck out on something like this.” Five of the justices were appointed by Democratic governors; the remaining two, including the author of the opinion, Justice Mark S. Cady, were chosen by a Republican. “One doesn’t want to psychoanalyze the court,” Mr. Kende said, “but you can see how they drew on the heritage of Iowa in the area of equality and seemed to see their own decision in that context.”

I, too, was very surprised to learn that Iowa has decided to allow same-sex marriage but in the context of the history of the State, it does make sense. I believe Iowa was one of the first States to strike down the ban on interracial marriage. The idea of live and let live seems to me to be a very American ideal, one that many people seem to forget. I’m pleased to know that the great State of Iowa holds true to its ideals even in the face of huge change. Here is a list of requirements for same-sex couples to marry in Iowa:

Marriage requirements: Two people, over 18, not already legally married, not closely related and legally competent to enter into a civil contract.

License: Applicants must show proof of identity, pay $35 fee, and have a witness sign the application. Three-day waiting period before wedding may be performed, although this may be waived by judge.

Ceremony: Must be in Iowa, with both parties, an officiate (judge or leader of a religious faith) and two witnesses present.

If a same-sex couple have been legally married elsewhere, their marriage is valid in Iowa as of Monday. It is not yet clear if civil unions from another state or registered domestic partnerships will be recognized in Iowa.

For a divorce, one party must have been a resident of Iowa for at least one year.

HMMM … sounds a lot like the requirements for heterosexual couples to marry as well. Kudos to Iowa for advancing the cause of marriage equality while other States disappointingly fall behind. The rest of the US will catch up with you Iowa, it’ll just take some time.

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Lindsay Lohan, who has been spending a bit of time with her recently ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson back home in LA in the past few days, has made her way to Maui, HI over the weekend to spend some downtime with her younger sister Aliana Lohan and some friends. Here are a few photos of a very happy-looking Lindsay doing a bit of retail therapy in Maui yesterday afternoon:

Frail Lindsay Lohan looked painfully thin as she donned a tiny pair of hotpants for some retail therapy. The troubled actress has been heartbroken over her split with Samantha Ronson and is now in Hawaii with her 15-year-old sister Ali and friends as she tries to get over the break-up. Wearing a small floral blouse and denim shorts, it was clear just how tiny the Mean Girls star has become. The blouse slipped over her shoulder to reveal her sinewy upper arms and back as she shopped in Gucci and Louis Vuitton on the island of Maui. Even the tiny hotpants, which would have been snug on the trimmest of celebrities, gaped around the 22-year-old’s thighs. A friend has told a U.S. magazine that the formerly curvy actress has been losing weight in an attempt to get attention from Ronson. “She wants Sam to see how bad she’s hurting,” the pal told People magazine. But while the actress has publicly said she is still in love with Samantha, the DJ has kept quiet about the end of their turbulent affair. And while Lohan spent thousands of dollars in upmarket boutiques, the DJ cut a lonely figure lunching at Sant Ambroeus in New York. She was with friends, but seemed more interested in checking her Blackberry for messages – and it seemed her former lover was doing the same thousands of miles away in Hawaii. Their on-off relationship came to a crashing end three weeks ago when the 31-year-old DJ and her family refused to let the actress into a party at Bar Marmont in Hollywood. The next day, Sam changed the locks on the Hollywood Hills home she shared with Lindsay and there were reports the Ronson family made inquires with police about a restraining order. But according to some U.S. reports, the actress was spent the night at Ronson’s place on Friday.

Despite the fact that Lindsay does look pretty frail these days, the fact that she is all smiles is encouraging. My guess is that the ladies are working on getting things back on track or, at the very least, are working towards remaining friendly with one another. Since Samantha had to jet off to NYC, Linds prolly thought it would be fun to take off for a mini-vacay in Hawaii with family and friends. Something tells that the ladies are staying in touch even tho they are so far away from one another. I’m still hoping for a total reunification of L. Ron. Maybe this time apart will help them realize that they need to be together :)

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On Saturday we learned the incredibly sad news that famed actress of the stage and small screen Bea Arthur, prolly most remembered for her role as Dorothy Zbornak on the beloved TV series The Golden Girls but also for her ground-breaking role in the 1970′s as Maude on both All In The Family and her own series Maude, passed away at the age of 86 after losing her battle with cancer. Bea‘s surviving co-stars Betty White and Rue McClanahan have since paid tribute to Bea in interviews and official statements. Betty issued a statement, which you can read in full here, and Rue spoke fondly of Bea in an interview with Entertainment Weekly and on The Today Show. Here are a couple photos of Bea, Betty and Rue all together at The TVLand Awards last year where the ladies accepted a pop culture award on behalf of The Golden Girls (Estelle Getty was still alive at this time last year but was too ill to attend the award show):

Here is the full text of Betty White‘s statement on Bea‘s passing:

“I knew it would hurt, I just didn’t know it would hurt this much.. I’m so happy that she received her Lifetime Achievement Award while she was still with us, so she could appreciate that. She was such a big part of my life.”

Here is a portion of Rue McClanahan‘s interview about Bea with Entertainment Weekly:

What did you learn about acting from Bea Arthur?
What I got attached to, as an actress, was her impeccable timing. And I loved playing scenes with her. She taught me, by watching her, even back during Maude, to be outrageously courageous as a comedienne, to go out on a limb, to go farther than I’ve ever dreamed of going. [On The Golden Girls], Blanche had to say and do things that Rue found difficult. And it would always be Bea who said [deepens voice to perfectly imitate Arthur] “Oh say it! It’s funny!”

What was she like off-camera?
As a friend she was giving and loving to me. She was a very close, quiet, rather timid person, very gentle. I saw someone say something once that they didn’t mean to be a cutting remark, but it hit her wrong, and she immediately burst into tears. That was not seen very often, but those emotions were right under the surface.

It’s interesting to hear that, because I think a lot of fans just assumed she was as tough as Maude, as gruff as Dorothy.
Not just the public! When I first worked with her on Maude and came back to New York, actors descended upon me and said “Oooh! What was it like? Was it scary working with Bea Arthur?” I said “Good heavens! Anything but!” That height — she was 5’10” flat-footed — and that deep voice, and that manner she was able to summon up, made people think she would be difficult. But she wasn’t.

Any interesting quirks?
[On Golden Girls], Bea always sat in the same chair at rehearsals. Always. And she always had to have me on her right, and Betty [White] and Estelle [Getty] across the table from her. And we could not change seats from year to year, or even from week to week.

How did Bea feel about her status as a feminist icon?
Of course she was aware of it, but I tell you what meant something to Bea: Acting, performing, playing comedy and doing it well.

What did Bea mean to women of her generation? Maude and The Golden Girls both tackled a lot of issues older women face, and did so with a candor that we don’t always see in Hollywood.
I think, in both of those shows, we really did change the perception of a woman’s role. I don’t think anybody thought that it was okay to be a feminist back when she was doing Maude. And I’m sure that [show] released a lot of inhibitions. I know The Golden Girls certainly did because I’ve got fan mail saying “Thank you for allowing me to act and dress like I feel.” Because in those days, when you were over 50, you were supposed to be wearing certain types of clothes and behaving a certain way. And women were writing saying “Thank you, thank you, thank you for the freedom, for the release, for the permission.” And I’m sure Bea got that same kind of fan mail, too.

What was Bea’s lasting contribution to TV history?
What’s any great star’s lasting contribution? What’s Lucille Ball’s? I don’t know how to put answers like that into words. I suppose perhaps the thing she did the best and the most of was make people laugh.

Bea Arthur was truly an amazing woman. It will forever be one of my great regrets to have never met her in person. I remember when she did her one-woman Broadway show back in 2001 … I was not yet able to travel to NYC whenever I liked so I was not able to see her show live. It just pains me know to think that I missed out on a golden opportunity to see this genius comedic actress live on stage. Thankfully, we have reruns of The Golden Girls to remind us for all time what a truly special woman she was. After the jump, check out video of Rue McClanahan being interviewed on The Today Show …