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The creative team for next year’s Academy Awards telecast is shaping up, and will include 5-time Oscar nominee Marc Shaiman. Shaiman will serve as music director for the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today.
“With Marc on board, we are sure to have some great musical and, hopefully, hysterical moments,” said Mechanic.
“Marc was my inspiration and musical partner on ‘Hairspray’ and he has been responsible for some of the most memorable moments in Oscar history, like Will Ferrell and Jack Black’s comedy numbers,” said Shankman. “He’s a genius! And he’d be the first to tell you!”
Shaiman is a prolific music composer who has earned five Academy Award® nominations. He received Original Score nominations for his work on “The American President” (1995), “The First Wives Club” (1996) and “Patch Adams” (1998), and he received nominations in the Original Song category for “A Wink and a Smile” from “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993) and for “Blame Canada” from “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” (1999). Shaiman has also been nominated for four Emmy® Awards, three of which were for his work on Oscar telecasts. He won the Emmy in 1992 for co-writing Billy Crystal’s “Oscar Medley” for the 64th Academy Awards. Shaiman’s other film credits include “The Bucket List,” “Bee Movie,” “Hairspray,” “A Few Good Men,” “Sister Act” and “City Slickers.”
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American Idol heartthrob Adam Lambert’s scheduled appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America has been cancelled following his controversial number on Sunday’s VMA Awards show. Reportedly some 1500 complaints flooded ABC after Adam locked lips with one of his male bandmates, live on east coast TV. The west coast feed was censored.
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Cherry Jones, who played President Allison Taylor in “24″ last season, was named the winner in the supporting actress category.
Jones is one of the brightest stars of American theatre. She won the Tony for Best Leading Actress in 1995 for The Heiress and again in 2005 for Doubt. At the awards ceremony in 1995 she made a point of acknowledging her partner at the time, architect Mary O’Conner. In 2005 she indirectly outed her current partner, actress Sarah Paulson, by thanking Laura Wingfield, the character Paulson was playing in The Glass Menagerie at the time. Paulson didn’t seem to mind.
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Two legendary gay figures are among the 16 notables who will receive the nation’s highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Tennis great Billie Jean King is remembered not only for her 12 Grand Slam singles titles, but also for blazing the trail for female athletes. In the sensational “Battle of the Sexes” of 1973 she defeated Bobby Riggs, a former Wimbledon’s men’s champion. President Obama also named Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978, to receive the award posthumously. Milk is the first gay rights activist to be awarded the Medal of Freedom.
It should be noted that one of the other posthumous recipients, Congressman and Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp, was widely rumored to be a closeted gay or bisexual man. He conceded that he owned a Lake Tahoe cabin in partnership with four gay men, but denied the implication that he might be gay himself.
The awards ceremony will take place in the White House on August 12.
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Two openly gay writers are among the 13 who have made the first cut for the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2009. Waters’ The Little Stranger is a psychological thriller set in post-War England. Tóibín’s Brooklyn is about a young Irish girl’s journey to America. The Booker Prize shortlist of six titles will be announced on September 8th.
Sarah Waters
Colm Tóibín
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