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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.
Lt. Dan Choi, the West Point graduate and Iraq veteran who received a discharge notice from the Army after he announced he was gay on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC in March, was in Los Angeles to introduche the new film Silent Partners. The film focuses on the plight of partners of military officers who must share the code of silence enforced by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Read More
Two-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel, currently starring in the Broadway revival of Hair, will be doing two shows at Joe’s Pub in New York July 27. Tickets for the first show sold out within an hour, prompting addition of the second set. Quiet, Creel’s follow-up to his 2006 CD Goodtimenation is due to be released soon.
Gavin Creel
Meanwhile, the entire cast of Hair will make an appearance on The Tonight Show tomorrow night (Monday July 13). Following the taping, they will troop out to West Hollywood’s Here Lounge where they will stage a “Be-In for Equality” with legendary gay activist Cleve Jones.
In an MSNBC interview about the breakdown of the “dignity code” in Washington politics, conservative commentator David Brooks recounted how he “sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time.” Brooks is adding fuel to the fire of recent Republican sex scandals, including the outing of several of them in a recent documentary film, Outrage!
BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.
HARWOOD: What?
BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.
O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?
BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you.
Let the guessing game begin. Lindsay Graham? Mitch McConnell? Orrin Hatch? I suppose it might have been Larry Craig but that would hardly be worth keeping secret.
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US Congressman Barney Frank, in the course of an in-depth interview with GQ magazine, has defined his criteria:
Q:There’s a new movie out called Outrage, about closeted politicians. Do you still adhere to Barney Frank’s Rule about outing?
A: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I wouldn’t do it myself, but I think people who are hypocrites…The way I put it is, there’s a right to privacy but not to hypocrisy.
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Abdellah Taia has written five semi-autobiographical novels based on his experiences growing up gay in Morocco, where homosexuality is punishable by fines and prison. As Morocco’s first high-profile openly gay man, and one of very few prominent gay Muslims, he has taken on the mission of increasing tolerance of gays throughout the Muslim world. Read More
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Reverend Scott Rennie, 37, told his former congregation that he was gay and in a committed relationship with a man. Now religious conservatives angry at Rennie’s appointment as minister of Queen’s Cross church have challenged the appointment. Read More
Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach is a distinguished flight weapons systems operator for the US Air Force. In the course of his 18-year career, he’s put in 2,180 flying hours, completing numerous missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s flown 488 combat hours on 88 missions. On September 11, 2001, Fehrenbach was among the top flyers assigned to patrol Washington, DC. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including nine air medals, one of them for heroism. Currently a flight instructor in Idaho, he has trained more than 300 Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers. He was getting ready to deploy overseas again, but in September 2008 he was notified that he was going to be discharged for homosexual conduct in violation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Apparently the US is prepared to waste the $25 million it invested to develop the career of Lt. Col. Fehrenbach. He’s one of over 200 miliary personnel discharged since President Obama took office in January. Read More
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