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Cali Supreme Court to rule Tues, the Penn Divorce is off, Rinna's lips secret
May 22nd, 2009
- The California Supreme Court has announced that it will issue its ruling on the overturn of Prop 8 on Tuesday.
- So You Think You Can Dance? judge Nigel Lythgoe leads the chorus of offensive comments towards a same-sex couple that dared audition for the show. Tells his Twitter followers that he is “not a fan of Brokeback Ballroom”.
- A Young and the Restless actor walks off the set and quits reportedly due to his inability to act out a same-sex kiss.
- Sad news, Natalie Cole’s sister dies during her kidney transplant operation :(
- The divorce of Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn is OFF again.
- Amy Winehouse cancels another gig.
- The boys at the Naval Academy climb their greasy pole again.
- Larry King does Jon Stewart.
- Now that’s a pricey toy.
- Leonardo DiCaprio’s model girlfriend shows off her fave bikinis.
- Hayden Panettiere rocks her bikini in the South of France.
- The folks at LAX Airport security aren’t familiar with Mariah Carey.
- Would you spend $20,000 for a peck on the cheek from Robert Pattinson?
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Heath Ledger’s final film, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
- Naomi Campbell is 39, Johnny Gill is 43, Morrissey is 50 and Bernie Taupin is 59 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
- Is Leonardo DiCaprio fit to wear Frank Sinatra’s shoes?
- Bruce Springsteen will be the last act to play at Giants Stadium.
- Lisa Rinna reveals that she had silicone injected into her lips.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
MSN took down the link to the Y&R actor same-sex-kiss story. Boo hiss!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
@Joanna — I pasted the link wrong, try this: http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/The+Suds+Report+May+14+2009/Soaps/Suds/Articles/090514_news_nelson_NB.htm?isfa=1
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Yahoo said the people paid $55,000 US dollars, ($20,000 euros) I wonder which story has it right.
It’s crazy either way! But I wouldn’t mind planting a kiss on him!!!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
@K – I believe he sold two kisses, for at least $20,000 each … but whatever the actual cost, it was a lot of $$$.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
The Nigel thing pissed me off a lot.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
that has to be the most expensive peck on the cheek ever.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
OMG. I can’t wait for the day when it is not okay to be a homophobe. At this point people will revolt when someone is outwardly racist but there are no repercussions for being homophobic. Imagine if the Young and Restless guy had refused to kiss a woman because she was African American!
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
re: SYTYCD judge comments
I’m so happy you put up that link Trent. I heart that show, but was disgusted with the way those men were treated. If you haven’t seen the clip of what happened, you all should. Makes me sick!! Seriously thinking of boycotting that show from that one incident. Such stupidity!
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Not only is Nigel a homophobe, he sounds like a misogynist as well. When you check out the first link, that article includes a link to another AE article which includes this charming quote: “What I don’t like on the dance show, to be frank, is effeminate boys that mince around the stage.”
So being feminine is bad, Nigel?
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I’m surprised about the outrage on SYTYCD.
So many people are upset that the judges “confused” masculine with leading and feminine with following, but I think it’s an honest and accurate look at the situation. In the majority of ballroom dancing the female follows while the male leads. Seeing two men dance together (in ballroom) confused the judges (and myself) because one of the men had to follow (a typically female role). Even Mary, the resident ballroom expert, was thrown for a loop by it.
Should these gender roles be forced on these two men if they want to dance with one another? No. But having a fit over one of them being called a feminine dancer for following is ridiculous.
If you’re a guy and want to wear a dress to your wedding, fine by me. Have a grand time. But don’t get upset when someone is confused because it’s a typically feminine action.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
wow, so because a man refuses to KISS another man, he’s labeled a homophobic? Really?
I’m sure there are many in your gay community that would be utterly disgusted to kiss someone of the opposite sex and would outright refuse, does that make them heterophobic?
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
@ Gabi:
IT’S HIS JOB! It’s on par with a pharmacist not filling prescriptions, or a bagger at a grocery store not handling certain items due to religious beliefs. There are plenty of straight actors playing gay characters (and gay actors playing straight characters) who have no problems doing their job. So yes, he’s a homophobe, because his discomfort led him to refuse to do his job.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
So if he was asked to do a nude scene and refused, it’s his job?
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I don’t think Nigel’s comments were homophobic at all. But, when two dancers who have been dancing together for awhile make mistakes and fall during an audition, they certainly aren’t going to be given a good critique. Especially when they don’t determine a leader and a follower in the dance. I think they were given an overly fair chance by letting them go to the choreography round, rather than refusing them right on the spot. The judges weren’t even mean to them, the girl whose audition was shown after them was terrible, and they blasted her for it. Should a person’s sexual orientation really determine special treatment, especially on a dance show? I don’t think so, just look at Lance Bass on Dancing with the Stars.
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
As for the Young and the Restless star quitting because he didn’t want to kiss another man, I would say that’s fair. If someone isn’t comfortable kissing another man, then they shouldn’t have to, it still doesn’t make it offensive to anyone who is homosexual. Also, if the scenario featured a woman not wanting to kiss another woman, would the situation be the same? Probably not, people would be pointing fingers and saying that it was sexual harassment of some sort if the did. Tolerance is a two way street, I think people need to remember that.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
@Gabi:
Well, a nude scene isn’t going to happen on daytime TV, and I think many actors get to pick out a double, so it’s sort of a moot point, but if his character was supposed to be nude, and he wasn’t given the option to use a double, then yes, he should do it, because it’s his job! There’s many things about my job that I don’t like, but I do them, because it’s what I get paid for. He hasn’t been on the show THAT long, he would’ve known this would probably happen. And in another article I read on this, it sounds as though he just walked off the set before filming the scene. He had plenty of time to bring it up with writers and producers and discuss it rather than just leaving.
@Gillian:
Unless someone is talking about chopping ginger or garlic, “mincing” is meant as a homophobic slur towards men.
As far as the Y&R dude, like I said, he signed a contract, he probably knew about this for quite some time, he should have done his job. This really is the same as someone working in a supermarket refusing to handle pork or alcohol, or someone refusing to fill a birth control script. And I’d say the same thing if it was a woman. The only REAL difference is that lesbianism would be more likely to be shoehorned in just to titillate viewers and get higher ratings, and may or may not have anything to do with the plot. But even then, the women involved would have enough time to voice their objections beforehand. And it’s not intolerant to expect someone to fulfill the legally binding contract that he willfully signed.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
The same sex ballroom dancers on SYTYCD were not a couple. One was straight and one was gay. I thought that it was interesting and different because I had never heard of same sex ballroom but to be honest, they weren’t that great dancers. Just because it was a different style of dance they didn’t judge them in any other way than they judged other dancers. The woman who was born with 3 vertebrae and danced was extremely brave and was a lot better than either one of those men and she was still critiqued by all the judges.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm
It’s called being an ACTOR … if he isn’t willing to go to some uncomfortable places – then he needs to find another profession.