Golden Boost: Brokeback Mountain bounds into #1 at the box office on less than 1/3 the screens of its closest competitor.
Is the world of professional sports that much different from the American West when it comes to homophobia and closeted macho men? Jim Buzinski of Outsports looks at Esera Tuaolo, Troy Aikman, Billy Bean, Mike Piazza, and others in regard to Brokeback Mountain and the deep dark secrets of the locker room.
TV shows The Office, Lost, and Desperate Housewives see bump in broadcast ratings after becoming available for download on iTunes.
Queerty pins down another Project Runway contestant, Nick Verreos, who talks about his relationship with that other contestant, Santino Rice: “I saw him out at an LA club right after we ended the show–briefly said ‘hello,’ but I have not spoken or seen him since. Would like to keep it that way.” Meow!
How can you trust someone who blogs? Andrew Sullivan sat down at the Colbert Report last night and let Stephen Colbert in on the secret: “The only way you can trust anybody who blogs is by following them and making sure they’re not full of it all the time. The one sign of a good blogger is that he immediately corrects a mistake. And unlike the New York Times, where they can put all of their millions of mistakes in a little box in the corner every day which you never read, a blogger has to fess up, right there, just like you do every night.”