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NYC held the Playing Politics With Women’s Health: The 2012 Election And Why It Matters event in Times Square on Friday and some great women leaders attended the Planned Parenthood symposium including Julianne Moore, Maggie Gyllenhaal and America Ferrera. It is good to see great women stars not afraid to play with politics and the big issues. Read on for more pics from the event…

Everyone knows that Tina Fey famously played Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live during the 2008 presidential election but the torch has been passed to actress Julianne Moore to portray the former Alaska governor in an HBO film titled Game Change. The Hollywood Reporter gives us our first look at Moore as Palin and, I gotta say, the resemblance is striking.

In their yearly effort to honor “a diverse group of men and women who made significant strides in the gay community”, Out magazine has released their Out 100 list of men and women who have made meaningful advancement for the GLBT community and have revealed the people they have chosen to grace the cover of The Out 100 issue … behold:

Out, the world’s leading gay fashion and lifestyle brand, today unveiled the cover to its highly anticipated Out 100 special double issue, also the publication’s 200th issue. This year pop star and new father Ricky Martin, MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow, Oscar-nominated actress Julianne Moore, Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir, and designer and TV star Nate Berkus host an “An Affair to Remember” as the Out 100 cover honorees. Find out who made this year’s Out 100 list at www.out.com/Out100_2010. “For this year’s cover, the five honorees all reflect major breakthroughs in the profile of the LGBTQ community, including one of the most successful pop stars of all time, a leading commentator on politics and current affairs, a wildly entertaining Olympic ice skater who captured everyone’s imagination in Vancouver this year, the first openly gay male host of a daytime TV show, and the fabulous LGBT ally Julianne Moore, star of The Kids Are All Right, a boundary-pushing movie that quietly and profoundly lent legitimacy to our relationships and families,” said Aaron Hicklin, Editor in Chief of Out. Divided into three distinct sections, this year’s Out 100 features stunning imagery from photographers Larry Fink, Roger Erickson, and Jason Schmidt. Fink’s interpretation of Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball re-creates a time when gay rubbed shoulders with straight and elegance trumped intolerance. Erickson brings the spirit of the Stonewall riots to life, while Schmidt pays homage to the triumph of fame, talent, and individuality that was Studio 54.

After the jump, check out individual portraits of these 5 Out 100 honorees and find out which award they have won this year …

The principal cast of A Single Man — Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode — are featured in the pages of the new issue of V magazine (which recently featured Natalie Portman on the cover) in photos shot by fashion designer turned film director Tom Ford (who, as you may already be well aware, directed A Single Man). Here are his photos of the cast in V mag:

Everyone knew he could put together a glossy package, but ‘A Single Man’ showed the world that Tom Ford had a soul, and wasn’t afraid to bare it. Now, with Oscar buzz heightening, he talks about film, the future, and why a return to fashion may be in the cards. Maybe.

As you may recall, we saw photos of the cast at the NYC premiere of A Single Man yesterday ahead of the film’s limited release this coming Friday. I love these photos … they seem to be a nice hint of the look and feel of the film to come. This issue of V magazine won’t hit newsstands until January 12, 2010 so it’s nice to get this little sneak peek so early.

[Photo credit: Tom Ford; Source]

Fashion designer turned movie director Tom Ford was joined by a gaggle of his closest friends, including his movie stars Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult, at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC for the NY premiere of his debut film A Single Man. Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man tells the tale of a single day in the life of a middle-aged gay Englishman who works as a college professor in Los Angeles and the drama he experiences in that one day. Thus far, the film is getting a lot of great press and if the reviews are any indication, will be a great success. Here are a few photos from the red carpet arrivals at the premiere event and some deets about Ford‘s vision of Isherwood‘s novel:

Tom Ford has ruminated about death ever since he was a small boy growing up in Texas. It was the flip side to his early, genetic fascination with beauty. “Everything in life is bittersweet for me, because when I see something beautiful, I also see it aging, old, dead, gone,” he says. “I was very aware of mortality. I was very aware of my time on the planet.” Still today, almost every morning he awakes and wonders, “If I die tomorrow, what am I going to miss?” Ford speaks quickly and hypnotically, words rolling out with a seductive, almost aromatic intensity. Intimations of death swirl around his directorial debut, “A Single Man,” based on the Christopher Isherwood novel, which opens Friday. Set in 1962 Los Angeles, it is the lushly beautiful tale of a suicidal, gay college professor ( Colin Firth) contemplating his last day on earth in the wake of the sudden death of his longtime lover … “A Single Man” has a mesmerizing sensuousness. “Everyone keeps saying to me, ‘Everyone is so beautiful. Everything is so beautiful.’ I didn’t even notice that!” he says. “That’s just the way I see. That’s the way I think.” This said, Ford’s visual panache is put to the service of a story far from the ephemeral catwalk. “Midlife is when you get to the top of the ladder, only to realize you’ve had the ladder against the wrong wall,” he says, describing his loss of a certain identity after leaving Gucci. He sees the film as a personal reaction to the prevalent culture of more, of almost always thinking life will improve with a new job, or a new pair of shoes. Ford related to Isherwood’s theme of “the true self observing the false self going through the day,” and grafted details of his own life onto the story, including George’s obsession with ritualistic grooming. The details of his proposed suicide are based on the suicide of one of Ford’s relations, who killed himself in a sleeping bag so as not to make a mess. Then there’s the relationship between George and his former lover, played by Julianne Moore, who’s forever disappointed George is gay. “That’s my relationship with a lot of women in my life,” Ford says. “I’ve had very heterosexual periods in my life. I’m perfectly sexually attracted to women, but I fall in love with men. Unrequited love is always heartbreaking, especially on the side of the person who feels the love and it’s not returned” … “A Single Man” touches on the … seize-the-moment, life-affirming theme, though now it’s refracted in a softer, more reflective light. Three decades after he first read Isherwood’s book, “A Single Man” popped into his head again as he was driving to work one day. A film devotee since he was a kid (with passions for Kubrick, De Sica, Hitchcock and Bette Davis), he’d been thinking about making a film for some 15 years. Ford wrote the screenplay himself (although credit is shared with the writer of an earlier incarnation, David Scearce). Unlike the book, which is essentially a long interior monologue, the cinematic George is contemplating suicide, an addition made by Ford to give the film more plot. The film is frank about gay sexuality, although there are no sexual scenes, he says, because the story is about love.

I’m very excited to see this film for myself. I read the Isherwood novel in graduate school (among other Isherwood novels) and remember really loving the book. I’m not very familiar with Ford‘s film work for Gucci but I have no doubt that his fashionable eye is capable of crafting beautiful visuals to accompany the beautiful but stark tale. As I said, I’ve only read great things about this film … I’m very curious to see if the all the love being heaped upon this film measures up to the reality.

[Photo credit: Wireimage; Source]