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A muscled, elfin, genetically engineered ex-military hunter Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis star in Jupiter Ascending, the latest sci-fi extravaganza from Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas) about a human targeted for assassination by the Queen of the Universe.
Eddie Redmayne and Sean Bean co-star in the film, which arrives in July.
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Posted Dec. 10,2013 at 11:40 AM EST by Andy Towle in Channing Tatum, Film, Lana Wachowski, Mila Kunis, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Actor Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Brideshead Revisited, Cloud Atlas), who was included in Towleroad's 53 Most Powerful Coming Outs of 2013, is confirmed to play Freddie Mercury in an upcoming biopic.
Hot off directing the musical Sunshine On Leith, British actor-turned-helmer Dexter Fletcher has closed a deal to helm the movie on rock supergroup Queen, with frontman Freddie Mercury to be played Ben Whishaw. GK Films’ Graham King is producing, and Sony Pictures has first crack at the film. This has been a passion project for King for several years, and it started with Sacha Baron Cohen attached to play Mercury, the singular-voiced frontman.
According to Deadline, "the pic will tell the formative coming-of-age story of the group, culminating in Queen headlining Live Aid in 1985. Queen’s performance is considered one of rock’s all-time great concert appearances."
Posted Dec. 10,2013 at 11:20 AM EST by Andy Towle in Ben Whishaw, Freddie Mercury, News | Permalink | Comments (1)
The marriage equality law in England and Wales will take effect on March 29, 2014, the BBC reports:
Initially it was thought the first same-sex marriage in England and Wales would not take place until the summer. Couples wishing to be among the first to marry will need to give formal notice of their intention to marry on 13 March. It comes after the government's controversial legislation on the issue received Royal Assent in July. The Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat leaderships all backed the proposals.
Posted Dec. 10,2013 at 10:50 AM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Marriage, Great Britain, News, Wales | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kansas City sportscaster and avowed Missouri fan Jack Harry made waves on social media over the weekend after he used the term 'Gayhawks' to mock the University of Kansas Jayhawks basketball team.
SB Nation notes the clip "does not remotely appear to be doctored."
Harry later posted a video to YouTube denying that he ever made the remark, even though there is a clip online of him making the slur.
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Continue reading "KC Sportscaster Denies Using 'Gayhawks' Slur Even Though It's on Video: WATCH"
Posted Dec. 10,2013 at 10:26 AM EST by Andy Towle in Basketball, Gay Slurs, News | Permalink | Comments (4)
The New York-based Satanic Temple that held a "pink mass" over the grave of Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelp's mother to turn her "gay for all eternity" has started a $20,000 IndieGogo campaign to place a Satanic Monument near the Oklahoma capitol to compliment the Ten Commandments monument currently on the north lawn.
According to the campaign page:
The existing Ten Commandments monument, donated to the Capitol Preservation Commission in 2009 by Mike Ritze, a representative of the Oklahoma State Legislature and ordained Southern Baptist Deacon, has raised the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who filed suit in August of 2013, noting that, “the monument stands alone, with no other monuments or memorials in the immediate vicinity.” Also of concern to the ACLU is the “self-evidently exclusive” religious message “that supports and endorses the faiths and creeds of some churches and sects.” We believe that in being allowed to place our monument within the proximity of the Ten Commandments monument, we can appease the ACLU’s concerns.
By accepting our offer, the good people of Oklahoma City will have the opportunity to show that they espouse the basic freedoms spelled out in the Constitution. We imagine that the ACLU will also embrace such a response. Allowing us to donate a monument would show that the Oklahoma City Council does not discriminate, and both the religious and non-religious should be happy with such an outcome. Our mission is to bring people together by finding common sentiments that create solutions that everyone can appreciate and enjoy.
Donors to the Indiegogo campaign will receive official Satanic Temple t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, buttons, membership cards and framed certificates of membership with a wax seal.
(image via the Satanic Temple Indiegogo page)
Posted Dec. 10,2013 at 9:56 AM EST by Daniel Villarreal in Fred Phelps, News, Oklahoma, Religion, Westboro Baptist Church | Permalink | Comments (7)
Fashion's leading man-on-the-street, the NYT icon Bill Cunningham, says that men are leading women when it comes to futurism and high tech in fashion.
Find out all about the look from the always-entertaining guru, AFTER THE JUMP...
Continue reading "Young Men are Pioneering a New Futurism in Fashion, Says Bill Cunningham: VIDEO"
Posted Dec. 10,2013 at 9:25 AM EST by Andy Towle in Bill Cunningham, Fashion Men, News | Permalink | Comments (14)
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