Watch: Joy Behar, Andy Cohen Discuss Carrie Fisher's Outing of John Travolta

Was it right for Carrie Fisher to tell The Advocate:

"Wow! I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don't care. Look, I'm sorry that he's uncomfortable with it, and that's all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just Leave it be."

Joy Behar and guests discuss, AFTER THE JUMP....

News: Polari, Carrie Fisher, Bernie Madoff, Ke$ha

The language Polari, which was once used by gays in the United Kingdom, might go the way of the dinosaurs.

Billboard magazine celebrates Ke$ha's big year.

Carrie Fisher on the gay rumors surrounding John Travolta: "I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don’t care. Look, I’m sorry that he’s uncomfortable with it, and that’s all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just leave it be."

Tonsillitis shuts down the Glee set.

The attention-seeking Westboro Baptist Church picketed today's funeral of Elizabeth Edwards. She was eulogized by her daughter and a couple of long-time friends but not John Edwards.

Showgirls and Black Swan get the trailer mash-up treatment (nsfw).

One dead, two injured in Stockholm bombing.

The Thor movie trailer officially hits the Web.

Christmas came early in Boston today: spectators were treated to runners dressed in nothing but Santa hats and speedos.

Chances are that Winona Ryder is not reading this right now.

Bernie Madoff's 46-year-old son has taken his own life - on the two year anniversary of his father's arrest.

Bill O'Reilly offends Barbara Walters by implying she's nothing but a celebrity journalist.

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council finds that evangelical TV host Charles McVety violated broadcast code: “McVety may not like homosexuality. That is his entitlement, but to leave the totally unsubstantiated impression that gay and lesbian adults have a predilection toward young, underage people is insidious and unacceptable. In all, the Panel finds the McVety mis-characterizations as excessive, inappropriate, disparaging, and abusive.”

Tom Ford has no problem watching straight porn.

John Travolta's Legal Team: Gay Allegations 'False And Outrageous

John Travolta's attorneys want Gawker to remove a post (titled "The Secret Sex Life of John Travolta") on their site that recounts, via a book by author Robert Randolph, the actor regularly engaged in sex with men at public saunas. Travolta's legal team sent a letter with the request to the website on the same day as the birth of his son. They also called allegations that he is gay “false and outrageous.”

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:

The lawyer calls the claims "blatant defamatory lies" from a "patently unreliable source," pointing out the author previously suffered permanent brain damage, which he has acknowledged on his own website.

Singer also notes the claims "go back fifteen years, yet inexplicably, he (Randolph) has waited until now to peddle these phony tall tales."

Travolta's lawyer is demanding the immediate and permanent removal of the Randolph post and "the publication of an unequivocal and prominent retraction of the false and defamatory statements."

The full five-page letter from Travolt'as legal team is up on the Gossip Cop website.

 

News: Janet Jackson, Pink Locker Room, Space, Mark Twain

Former GLAAD president Neil Giuliano will now head the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jimmy Kimmel have fun belting out “Gonna Eat That Talkin’ Sandwich: The Sarah Palin Song.”

Sarah Palin's book publisher is suing Gawker because it claims that "the reprinting of pages from Governor Palin's book without permission constitutes a blatant infringement of copyright."

More hate: Anti-gay message spray-painted on Illinois school involved in "Straight Pride" T-shirts controversy.

Is decking out the opponent's locker room at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium entirely in pink a homophic act? The school's former coach who initially chose the color says: “Frankly, the only color paint we could find at the stadium was pink."

Thousands march for marriage equality in Melbourne.

Wesley Snipes won't be starring in any movies over the next three years.

New cool pictures from space released tis week, thanks to NASA.

Daniel Day-Lewis to portray Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg film written by Tony Kushner.

More excerpts have been released from a new book that claims John Travolta has frequented gay saunas for decades.

The bad news for Lindsay Lohan just keeps coming: she's been canned from another job.

Control: Janet Jackson wants you to help pick the 35 cities she'll hit on her next world tour.

A 500,000 word autobiography about Mark Twain seems to be the book to get this season. If you can find it.

 

I Would Call the Claim Neither 'Shocking' Nor 'New'

The National Enquirer offers some Labor Day reading.

Cruise and Travolta to Remake Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Two movie star Scientologists may soon team up for a remake of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Travolta would play Butch:

"A source tells The Daily Mirror: 'Butch and Sundance is a labor of love for Tom. He was eight years old when he saw the original and it made an impression that has stayed with him all his life. He can’t wait to get to work.' Tom hopes to revive the role of Sundance–played by Robert Redford in the original film–while 55-year-old John is expected to play Cassidy. The 46-year-old star even got the blessing of Paul Newman – who originally played the role of Cassidy in the film about a pair of lovable bank robbers–before he died of lung cancer last September, tattles tell the tab.' It has been a pet project of his that has been on the back-burner for years. But now he’s ready to go, and will most likely happily eschew the enormous salary that he normally commands.'"