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Best Man Wins American Idol 2008

Congratulations, David Cook! You da man! In my book there wasn’t even a competition. This dude sang his ass off and quickly emerged as the best performer out of the lot. However, this season of Idol did have some of the best talent. And some of the worst as well.

Cook’s voice and energy can mesmerize and transport you outside yourself to forget your troubles. He can be tender one moment and push with the gusto of a rocker’s edge the next. He operates outside the box in a unique style that makes him golden and will surely lead him to many accolades in the music business. I for one am waiting with bated breath for his debut CD.

Heath Ledger: A Hell of a Man

The untimely death of actor Heath Ledger has cast a gray cloud over an already gloomy entertainment and awards season. The death of the 28-year-old has shocked many and driven others into insanity. For what else could you call the acts of the religious right and Bible thumpers who have decried his death as justice for having played a gay role in a motion picture and are planning to picket his funeral? I find the degree to which people can hate unfathomable. Of course we all say we hate someone or something at some point in our lives, but to revile and loathe to such extents makes me wonder how we as a people can possibly call ourselves human beings.

Heath was a fantastic actor with a gifted talent. There are not many an actor (straight, gay or otherwise undecided) who would’ve had the balls to take on a gay role such as Ennis Del Mar in “Brokeback Mountain.” He brought his own uniqueness to that role and to all of the others he took on. As his character Ennis held on to his partner Jack’s shirt towards the end of “Brokeback Mountian” to mourn him, we now to hold on and mourn the loss of our brother. Heath you will be missed and loved. We will never quit you.

Mind Ben-ding Dream

I was sitting at an organ getting ready to play for a packed house when I realized that a guy I used to work with was there (who I had a crush on, who was straight and who now is an asshole). As I was starting to play, I realized he had dissected the organ. Everybody began to look up at me wondering why I’m not playing. I yelled at him to put it back together, but he only continued his maniacal activity.

I noticed someone standing next to me, who turned and with a wink and glimmer in his eye, made his way past me. It was Ben Cohen! He approached the back room… err… I mean the bell tower room where the music was stored… and he looked back at me over his shoulder. I followed him and when I caught up he took off his shirt revealing his hunky torso. He took my hands and placed them on his amply hairy chest and we moved closer and closer. I could feel his warm moist breath against me as the bell rung and woke me up. With all the attention Ben Cohen has been getting, it was inevitable that he would push his way into my dreams.

I Dream of Darren

So Darren Hayes had come to stay with me for awhile and I was showing him around. When we got upstairs I said, “Oh by the way, my mom lives with me. She doesn’t like bad language so you have to be careful.” Coming towards me he replied, “Cool. We’ll only have wild sex when she’s not home…” And then the recycling truck woke me up!

I’ve been listening to his new album, This Delicate Thing We’ve Made. The 2-CD set, as is, is a great album, but pulling out the better dozen or so tracks to a separate playlist makes a fabulous listen.

Carrying a Torch for Capt. Jack

I’m in love. Yes, I’m in love with a married man! John Barrowman has official become my new crush. Unfortunately for us single guys he was married last December to his partner of 15 years in Wales. The Scottish-born actor is the star of the hit BBC series ‘Torchwood,’ just now beginning to air in the US on BBC America.

John’s character, Capt. Jack Harkness, is a time agent from the 51st century who ends up leading a team of alien investigators in current day Britain. The series is a spinoff of ‘Doctor Who’ where Jack was introduced in 2005 as one of The Doctor’s companions. Equally comfortable flirting and locking lips with men and women, Capt. Jack is a modern day gay superhero who saves the world from alien threats — not unlike Capt. Astro and Rage from ‘Queer As Folk.’

Only this gay superhero is not just fiction. Barrowman himself is a hero and inspiration to many a gay man, myself included. His infectious charm, wit and charisma not only shines in the characters he plays, but also radiates in the way he portrays himself.

Rubba-Dub-Dub, Three Men in a Tub

There is no doubt that Ewan McGreggor is one of my favorite celebrities. A recent photo of him seemingly moving in to plant a kiss on a smoldering Colin Farrell is more than one can bear. Add to that, both men fueling the situation by Ewan joking around that he and Colin were lovers, and Farrell adding that they get together every now and then to “make love” but have no caring relationship. Reeeally???

Wouldn’t Colin, with his trademark colorful language, ordinarily have said they get together to “fuck?” However, in this instance he chose to say “make love?” Hmm… must be true love!

This reminded me of one my all-time favorite Ewan pictures where he’s taking a bath with Jude Law, sort of. The only thing better would be all three of these guys in the tub together! Just maybe, Ewan with has hand on Colin’s shoulder, is inviting him to join the bath!
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Kathy Griffin Nabs Emmy

Kathy Griffin is now an Emmy award winner! Holy shit! The extraordinary comedian was granted the honor at a ceremony held outside of the televised award show. Her show, ‘Kathy Griffin, My Life on the D List’ won in the Best Reality Show category.

Unfortunately, we may not even get to see a clip of her acceptance speech because of the religious right threatening their wrath on The Academy of Television Arts and Science. Apparently, according to them, she insulted 85% of the population because she did not thank Jesus and cracked a joke. Uh huh. Yes, can you believe it? She started saying how so many people thank Jesus, but he had nothing to do with her getting the award and “he can suck it.” To get their knickers further in a twist she added that the golden idol clutched in her hands was her god! And so it should be and was very well deserved.

Well, she sure as hell didn’t insult me. I thought she was funny and right on her game. The Christian right that objects to her speech can suck it. Thank the gods that they didn’t see her bit of when she told her mother Bravo wanted them to go on Rosie’s gay cruise ship!

* Kathy will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live on Sept. 17, 2007 in her first interview since the win.

* UPDATE: Props to Larry King for showing Kathy’s uncensored acceptance speech, as well as Sally Field’s during the Sept. 17 show!!!

Kathy Griffin: Everybody Should Love Her

Kathy Griffin is hotter than ever and so is her show. I nearly choked to death, or make that died of hyperventilation while watching her latest stand-up, ‘Everybody Can Suck It.’ Okay, make that both because a new bit she did describing a conversation with her mother about going on a lesbian cruise with Rosie O’Donnell is side splitting and will make you laugh into a convulsive seizure. Well, maybe you have to be Catholic or an ex-Catholic to really get it. Nah, you just have to know Kathy and her mother! The new special is fantastic, as is the new season of ‘My Life on the D List.’ I hate to break it to you people, but she is no longer on the D list! Actually, I never bought that bullshit because she’s always been an A-list celebrity from what I can see, but it makes for uhm, a great bit.

I do have to say that I’m confused as to where she dug up her new “company whipping boy.” He’s not too bad to look at but he is ::gasp:: straight? WTF??? Kathy, wouldn’t a nice gay guy be better? She hasn’t sworn of us… has she? After the hotel suite debackle where assholes who called themselves gay MEN used and abused the opportunity to spend a night in the hotel suite that she decorated at a posh hotel and the dud of a dude who won her eBay auction to spend the weekend at her house last year, who could ever blame her? We aren’t all like that, but then I’m sure she knows that and knows that her good gays are always with her. Just like the Force with a Jedi! You go girl and keep stickin’ it to ‘em!