Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk:
Out in Film:
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Neil Patrick Harris stars as "The Music Meister" in
a sneak peek of what may be the gayest
Batman episode ever.
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Seth Rudetsky chats with Tony Award winner
Michael Rupert and the hilarious playwright
Christopher Durang.
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Ian McKellen on his
"geek projects",
The Hobbit and
X-Men Origins: Magneto.
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Matt Lucas has
officially withdrawn from the West End production of
Prick Up Your Ears following the death of his ex-husband
Kevin McGee.
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Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, the documentary about the
Where the Wild Things author, is now playing
on HBO.
- Make the yuletide gay:
The Michael Feinstein & David Hyde Pierce Holiday Show plays New York in December.
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Paul O'Grady to succeed Pamela Anderson (!) as the Genie of the Lamp in London's
Aladdin seasonal pantomime.
- Make it work:
Tim Gunn to
cameo as himself in
Sex and the City 2.
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Jonathan Groff, Tony nominated star of stage (
Spring Awakening) and screen (
Taking Woodstock),
officially came out at the National Equality March in Washington, DC last weekend.
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L Word creator
Ilene Chaiken teams up with The CW for
Confessions of a Backup Dancer.
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Queer as Folk's
Randy Harrison to play Andy Warhol in the "musical whodunit"
Pop!- Looks like
Carol Leifer (along with gay faves Cyndi Lauper and Sharon Osbourne) will be
on the next Celebrity Apprentice.
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Work Out star
Jackie Warner is
returning to Bravo with a new weight loss show,
Thintervention.
- It's an Honor:
Tony Kushner at the 13th annual
Courage Awards,
Lanford Wilson at the 2009
Dramatists Guild Awards,
Tennessee Williams inducted into the
Poets' Corner, and
Wanda Sykes and
Miss Coco Peru at the
LA Gay & Lesbian Center Gala.
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Gus Van Sant and
Bret Easton Ellis will team up for
The Golden Suicides.
Videodrone:
- Speaking of the National Equality March, here's the cast of
Hair singing
"Let the Sunshine In" and a
Towleroad interview with tribe leader
Gavin Creel.
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Dancing with the Stars Watch: Kelly Osbourne and
Louis Van Amstel find that
"life is a Cabaret".
Hands Off the Merchandise:
- Have you ever wanted to curl up in a
nice warm Tauntaun? Soon you may be able to in the next best thing, an
Empire Strikes Back-themed sleeping bag ... complete with intestine lining!
Women We Love:
- Sharon Stone gets
some Satisfaction.
-
90210 update: Shannen Doherty
will be Growing the Big One (a pumpkin, that is) for Hallmark, while Tori Spelling will
return to Bravo for a fifth season of
Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.
- Bernadette Peters will
return to the Broadway stage next month for
A Special Concert for Broadway Barks Because Broadway Cares.
- "I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want" ... how about a
Spice Girls musical?
- Joan Collins
opens up about her wicked life to
The Advocate.
Movie Music:
- "La Bambi":
Los Lobos Goes Disney on
their new album, available October 27.
Click hereto pre-order from Amazon.com.
- The music video for
Adam Lambert’s "Time for Miracles" (a.k.a. "The Love Theme from
2012")
will premiere in theaters playing with the Michael Jackson doc
This Is It.
Awards Watch:
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Seeing double with this year's potential Oscar nominees.
- A
closer look at this year's Foreign Language Film contenders.
Out of the Celluloid Closet:
- AfterEllen.com examines the
lesbian subtext of such recent films as
Whip It and ...
Hannah Montana?
Cinematic Crushes:
- Author
Frank Anthony Polito remembers 80's heartthrob
Jon-Erik Hexum.
- John Stamos puts on a happy face for
Bye Bye Birdie and
gives the word, hummingbird, on his gay fans and gay icon girlfriends.
- Gilles Marini's French lover
"could be it" for
Brothers & Sisters' Sarah Walker.
-
The Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder
has signed to top line the romantic gothic fairy tale
Cradlewood.
- Chris Messina, the hunky star of
Julie and Julia and
Vicky Cristina Barcelona,
makes a deal with
Devil.