Dreamgirls doesn’t even come out till next Friday, and yet it’s already been a rollercoaster month for Jennifer Hudson. The all-but-anointed Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for her role as Effie is assuring The Gays of her love and support, despite previous comments to the contrary (possibly planted in the Dallas Voice by Beyonce, who has to be cursing J. Hud’s accolades).
To be fair, the Voice has a tendency to overreach in painting celebrity’s comments as homophobic (remember last month’s Carol Channing debacle?) - it occasionally reads like that old David Sedaris short story about “Glenn’s Homophobia Newsletter.” We’re pretty sure Jen was just trying to say that even though she was raised to believe homosexuality is a sin, she reconciles her faith with basic human respect for others. And, of course, most of her best friends (and her sister) are gay.
Frankly, if I had to spend two months facing roomfuls of bitchy entertainment journalist queens asking, “Do you feel like you have to be a role model for all the large, African-American girls out there?” I might get a little bigoted too.
‘Dreamgirl’ says, Gay is a sin [Dallas Voice]
12/7/06 Blog [Jennifer Hudson Online]
Look, we’re really glad that a high-profile same-sex couple is embarking on parenthood.
But did it have to be turncoat/Auntie Tom Mary Cheney? She’s the kind of person who would issue a press release about her impending motherhood and then support her father in claiming that the story was a homophobic Democrat conspiracy.
Normally, if a famous lesbian couple got pregnant, we would be excited about the eventual possibilites - that the spawn would grow to become a sitcom star/board chair of a gay rights-oriented nonprofit. But with Mary, we’re kind of convinced they’re going to birth a future oil company CEO named Trent.
Couldn’t Ellen have knocked up Portia?
Mary Cheney and partner are about to be moms [Washington Post]
Now that Tori Spelling has lost her meal ticket, she’s wasted no time pursuing alternatives to work in order to maintain her lifestyle.
First up: Selling off all her shit. (And, according to the second photo at the link, forgoing makeup.) That’s right, folks. You lucky PEN15 readers in the Los Angeles area can storm Tori’s manse this weekend and leave with a genuine article of Spelling-abilia. I wonder if her original Donna Martin Sideburns are available. In fact, I will personally pay someone $50 if they go and inquire if Donna’s virginity is for sale.
Should we be worried, though? Isn’t selling off one’s possessions considered a precursor to suicide? We hope Tori realizes that, even with the loss of her fortune and the dissolution of her career, she has much left to live for.
And, soon, to shop for. Most likely at Target. If she can afford it.
Tori Spelling Estate Sale [Sharon Yost Estate Sales]
Published by Jordan on December 5, 2006
in TV.
As if ‘Project Runway,’ ‘Queer Eye,’ ‘Blow Out,’ and ‘Top Chef’ weren’t gay enough to make Logo look like the Game and Hunting Network, Bravo is adding another fagcentric reality contest show to its lineup: Top Design, a show where a bunch of white people interior designers compete for compliments from host Todd Oldham.
With the exception of the straight female, appropriately standing as though she’s an outcast, the cast and judges just might be a wash of homos. Of course, I’m only using this picture as evidence (along with the facts that the show is about interior design and on Bravo), but have you ever seen such a fine, diverse collection of gayface?! I’m just trying to imagine what the photographer said in lieu of “cheese” right before the picture was taken, because all the gays look intrigued and all the lesbians look horrified. I bet it was something like “Chris Evans’ taint!”
So would someone email me and remind me to set the DVR when I get home? As much as I loathe being a slave to the TV, I just can’t pass up the opportunity to see a bitter homo weep into his apron because he was kicked off the show after losing to a labia-themed room.
Okay, so we were getting a little tired of things breaking at the PEN15 Club. Like the Blogroll, the email notifications, tags, and other things. So we’ve packed things up and moved over to WordPress. That’s why we’ve been so quiet lately. Rob insists on carefully labeling everything and making sure the moving boys get good and sweaty before anything happens.
During the transition, there’s going to be a few glitches. Like, the blogroll, email notifications, and tags are, uh, still broken. Or just not implemented yet. It’s not a drastic change - we tried to make the ‘club look somewhat familiar - but things are definitely looking a little cleaner and a little less loose. It’s like one of those vagina tightening surgeries I’ve read so much about. That’s right, we’ve had our preverbial vag tightened.
Anyway, we hope you enjoy the changes, and do let us know if there are any bugs or additions you’d like to see! We look forward to many more PEN15 posts!
