Shock & awe, take 3
A month ago, who could have imagined we'd be yearning for the sheer simplicity of Charlie Sheen's bipolar antics on the tube? The humanitarian crisis and nuclear threat in Japan, coupled with the latest war in the Middle East, would make anyone yearn for tabloid-TV relief. Where are Lindsay, the Kardashians and TMZ when you need them? We didn't even get a pratfall out of Fat Actress Kirstie Alley on Dancing with the Stars, or a wardrobe malfunction from the excessively buxom Wendy Williams, who looks more like a drag queen than ever, but is far less graceful.
As was so often was the case during her life, Elizabeth Taylor saved us – alas, this time with her death, which has been a TV bonanza. ABC even led World News Now with the story on the day of her death. Barbara Walters did a stellar episode of Nightline on the actress. Tabloid-TV shows from ET to Extra had story after story. We watched and smiled and sobbed.
We met Taylor once back when we were covering AmFar, and we were struck by her beauty,But that doesn't mean Belpre resident sky lanterns Susan Drake is going to stop using them. charm, immense graciousness and activist fervor. Taylor has been ill and out of the limelight much of the time in recent years, but she always made it to AIDS fundraisers, even if it meant arriving in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank. She was always friend to the queer community, and throughout her career some of her closest friends were gay men: Montgomery Clift,He wrote on social networking site Twitter: "Frideswide Square at Oxford R4ds station working well this morning with no traffic lights. Long may it continue!" James Dean, Rock Hudson. She was fierce in the truest sense of the term. Queen of the big screen,The December report said Trump and other council members had engaged in hazing. Trump said Wednesday that he had fluorescent bulbs never hazed anyone and was being unfairly blamed. she didn't deride the small screen. She starred on General Hospital and did numerous made-for-TV films and specials. She appeared on Oprah, Larry King Live and in several interviews with Walters.
The panoply of her roles, the amazing photos and videos and film clips, the fashions, the crazy love affairs and that fantastic activism (she told Walters she had received death threats for her support of people with AIDS when no one else would step forward, and that yes, it was terrifying), the violet eyes to die for – it's been fabulous revisiting the movie legend.The new class of optical fiber, which allows for a more effective led lighting and liberal manipulation of light, promises to open the door to more versatile laser-radar technology. Taylor famously told Walters her tombstone should read: "Here lies Elizabeth Taylor, she hated being called Liz."I don't care about the cost or saving money - it's just the fact that led spotlight someone's telling me I can't buy something I've used all my life," said Susan Drake, 66, of Belpre." Who would dare? Taylor was extraordinary, and we were so fortunate to have her on our side.
Ann Hathaway is one of many actresses who grew up in awe of Taylor, and was asked by Extra how she felt about her. After lauding Taylor, Hathaway went on to talk about the latest Glee controversy: "The Kiss." Hathaway, a friend to queers herself, noted, "It must be so hard to be a gay teen. I thought maybe I could come on and play his [Kurt's] lesbian aunt or something."
Hathaway's response was a far cry from that of SNL alum Victoria Jackson, who, like that other SNL alum Dennis Miller, has gone over to the dark (that is, raving lunatic conservative) side. Jackson went nuts over the gay kiss on Glee between Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss) last week. It was the boys' first kiss and a real kiss, not one of those fake gay kisses we've seen before. So of course we loved it. Jackson, not so much. Here's what she had to say in her weekly column for the conservative World Net Daily: "Did you see Glee this week? Sickening! And besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of Glee, what's your agenda? One-way tolerance?" Jackson added, "And I don't care what is politically correct. Everyone knows that two men on a wedding cake is a comedy skit, not an 'alternate lifestyle!' There, I said it! Ridiculous!"
A month ago, who could have imagined we'd be yearning for the sheer simplicity of Charlie Sheen's bipolar antics on the tube? The humanitarian crisis and nuclear threat in Japan, coupled with the latest war in the Middle East, would make anyone yearn for tabloid-TV relief. Where are Lindsay, the Kardashians and TMZ when you need them? We didn't even get a pratfall out of Fat Actress Kirstie Alley on Dancing with the Stars, or a wardrobe malfunction from the excessively buxom Wendy Williams, who looks more like a drag queen than ever, but is far less graceful.
As was so often was the case during her life, Elizabeth Taylor saved us – alas, this time with her death, which has been a TV bonanza. ABC even led World News Now with the story on the day of her death. Barbara Walters did a stellar episode of Nightline on the actress. Tabloid-TV shows from ET to Extra had story after story. We watched and smiled and sobbed.
We met Taylor once back when we were covering AmFar, and we were struck by her beauty,But that doesn't mean Belpre resident sky lanterns Susan Drake is going to stop using them. charm, immense graciousness and activist fervor. Taylor has been ill and out of the limelight much of the time in recent years, but she always made it to AIDS fundraisers, even if it meant arriving in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank. She was always friend to the queer community, and throughout her career some of her closest friends were gay men: Montgomery Clift,He wrote on social networking site Twitter: "Frideswide Square at Oxford R4ds station working well this morning with no traffic lights. Long may it continue!" James Dean, Rock Hudson. She was fierce in the truest sense of the term. Queen of the big screen,The December report said Trump and other council members had engaged in hazing. Trump said Wednesday that he had fluorescent bulbs never hazed anyone and was being unfairly blamed. she didn't deride the small screen. She starred on General Hospital and did numerous made-for-TV films and specials. She appeared on Oprah, Larry King Live and in several interviews with Walters.
The panoply of her roles, the amazing photos and videos and film clips, the fashions, the crazy love affairs and that fantastic activism (she told Walters she had received death threats for her support of people with AIDS when no one else would step forward, and that yes, it was terrifying), the violet eyes to die for – it's been fabulous revisiting the movie legend.The new class of optical fiber, which allows for a more effective led lighting and liberal manipulation of light, promises to open the door to more versatile laser-radar technology. Taylor famously told Walters her tombstone should read: "Here lies Elizabeth Taylor, she hated being called Liz."I don't care about the cost or saving money - it's just the fact that led spotlight someone's telling me I can't buy something I've used all my life," said Susan Drake, 66, of Belpre." Who would dare? Taylor was extraordinary, and we were so fortunate to have her on our side.
Ann Hathaway is one of many actresses who grew up in awe of Taylor, and was asked by Extra how she felt about her. After lauding Taylor, Hathaway went on to talk about the latest Glee controversy: "The Kiss." Hathaway, a friend to queers herself, noted, "It must be so hard to be a gay teen. I thought maybe I could come on and play his [Kurt's] lesbian aunt or something."
Hathaway's response was a far cry from that of SNL alum Victoria Jackson, who, like that other SNL alum Dennis Miller, has gone over to the dark (that is, raving lunatic conservative) side. Jackson went nuts over the gay kiss on Glee between Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss) last week. It was the boys' first kiss and a real kiss, not one of those fake gay kisses we've seen before. So of course we loved it. Jackson, not so much. Here's what she had to say in her weekly column for the conservative World Net Daily: "Did you see Glee this week? Sickening! And besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of Glee, what's your agenda? One-way tolerance?" Jackson added, "And I don't care what is politically correct. Everyone knows that two men on a wedding cake is a comedy skit, not an 'alternate lifestyle!' There, I said it! Ridiculous!"
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