He’s in his underwear, did I mention that part? Paul Groslouis spins around on the stripper pole in his living room while playing “Wiggle” on his clarinet… and it’s probably the most joyous, uplifting thing you will see all week. I feel like my job here is done. I’ve spread a little happiness into the world and now I can retire.
Get this boy his own show! (via the DW)
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Legendary legend Candis Cayne plays the man-hungry hussy Vivianna in the indie slasher film, Crazy Bitches, which debuts at San Francisco’s Victoria Theatre on June 26. The actress and outspoken trans rights activist says says there’s a refreshing twist to the role “[Director] Jane (Clark) really gets me. She is the only person to ever really cast me as a girl,” Cayne tells HuffPo. “There’s never any mention of trans issues or any of that kind of thing.” Which is incredibly cool. Go, Candis.
Watch the behind-the-scenes video below, with a fun interview with Candis.
Indeed, while the film about seven sorority sisters who reunite for a weekend getaway which turns into a bloodbath features strong lesbian themes — and the requisite gay character, naturally — Clark allows Cayne to move past the Hollywood (and perhaps viewers’) perception of her as “the trans actress.” It’s a chance which, until now, has proven elusive, Cayne says.
“Not that I mind being a spokesperson [for the trans community] and doing that, because I don’t,” shares the beauty, who has been open about her gender identity throughout her career, “I love it, but I feel I’m definitely typecast as ‘the transsexual.’”
“It’s not even that I’m even excluded from roles, so to speak,” she shares, “But because I have name-recognition, I’m not even thought of to play in those roles.”
Fortunately, Cayne has a team of professionals who believe in her and are taking steps to change the way casting professionals think of her as an actress. Her agent actively pitches her for roles “outside the box” — “You know, the kooky girl-next-door type,” she says — but has had limited success to date.
That could begin to change, thanks to Clark, Cayne notes. The director has several upcoming projects in which she plans to work. And, one role at a time, she hopes to change the tide.
“It hasn’t happened yet, but you never say ‘never,’” Cayne says. “I’m going to keep trying. I love acting. I love going to those places, so it’s a joy to me.”
Crazy Bitches, directed by Jane Clark and starring Liz McGeever, Cathy DeBuono, Andy Gala, Nayo Wallace and Candis Cayne, screens June 26 at San Francisco’s Victoria Theatre as part of the Frameline Film Festival, 9:30pm.
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To gear up for season two of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia plays the word association game! Watch after the jump!
Make sure you tune in to Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce on June 11 at 11PM on Fuse! And go to iTunes for Big Freedia’s “Explode” featured in this episode!
Dance Lesson 3: Bend Over
Dance Lesson 2: Exercise
Dance Lesson 1: Exercise
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Tilda Swinton drives a lovely new Mercedes-Benz S 500 Coupe along the Scottish shoreline in this enigmatic commercial, stopping occasionally to bury… things?… and to, um, throw some magic beans (maybe), before meeting up with her son (possibly) on a foggy beach. To be honest, I have no idea what the hell I just watched but I liked her coat and her blue gloves, so that counts for something.
The pedigree of everyone involved is pretty astounding: The campaign was realized by art photographer and director Roe Ethridge, with Tilda’s frequent collaborator, Haider Ackerman, responsible for the styling direction. The gorgeous camera work was done by Andre Chemetoff, known for his work on videos such as Lana Del Rey’s “Born to Die” and M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls”. So the film may be oblique, but it’s FABULOUSLY oblique.
Says Tilda of the film: “Scotland is a timeless and a mysterious place. It represents my origin and was the perfect setting for the subtly intertwined story we are telling in this film. Working with Roe, with my old friend Haider and with Andre with his unerring eye was incredibly harmonious and inspiring. And driving through the wilderness in this fascinating coupé was a dreamy experienc.,”
(via Mercedes Benz)
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Host of Tipsy Television, Paul Zahn will be taking your calls on Ring My Bell today at 2PM! Click over and find out how you can call him!
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The legendary Lily Tomlin talks to PrideSource about Beyoncé selling sex to toddlers and calling it feminism. Ouch. Even more cutting: The fact that she says she just doesn’t care enough about Beyoncé to be conversant about her. Read the interview after the jump.As a feminist trailblazer, what do you think of modern examples of feminism, like Beyonce and “Girls,” for instance?
Well, how do you represent that? What does that mean to you?
Yeah, well, I guess that’s what I’m asking you.
(Laughs) You mean Beyonce’s total use of her body? Is that what you mean?
Yeah, a lot of people think of Beyonce as a feminist, as somebody who embraces herself as a powerful woman – she’s even called herself a “modern-day feminist” – and I was curious to know your thoughts on that.
Yeah, well, I think that’s great, and what can I say? She is a pretty popular woman and she’s married to a very powerful man, but she’s still selling sex. She’s selling a lot of sex to teeny-boppers. I don’t know. Who are her fans? Everybody?
Everybody loves Beyonce, Lily, and if you don’t there’s “The Beygency,” which is, according to “Saturday Night Live,” a secret government agency who takes down anyone who doesn’t.
Oh, shit. I like her! I don’t dislike her! But I don’t pay any attention to that because – I mean, she’s fantastically beautiful and dances, but, you know, it’s very suggestive. If I was a 10-year-old, I would try to emulate her like most 10-year-olds do.
For me, young girls are too sexually available! I got in trouble with the show “Girls” because I was doing a junket and 80 people come through from different publications or networks or whatever to interview you. So, this girl comes in and she goes, “What do you think of ‘Girls’? I said, “I haven’t really watched it that much.” That was the truth!
So, I shouldn’t even talk about Beyonce because, hard as it is to believe and as much as she is present in the culture, I’m not terribly conversant with Beyonce. If you played her songs, I wouldn’t necessarily recognize them. I’m familiar with her image and how incredibly vivacious and sexual she is to watch, so I just chalk it up to the culture. I don’t pay any attention to it anymore.
The culture is so sexualized with girls and women. I was in a recording studio and a little girl who was about 4 years old was watching TV, and somebody’s dancing on the TV in very elaborate sexually overt dance steps and the little girl goes, “Oh, she’s hot.” I’m thinking, this is a 4-year-old!
She should be thinking about playing with her Barbies – wait, no, even Barbies are sexualized, so never mind.
(Laughs) She should be thinking about penetrating the Barbie or something, or bringing Barbie and Ken – I don’t know what she should be thinking about! But stop it right now! You’re gonna put words in my mouth! The whole Beyonce thing is gonna come after me. They’ll send Solange after me. I’ll be in the elevator and they’ll beat the hell out of me.
Jay-Z and Beyonce are their own thing. I mean, they come swathed in a culture that is wide and deep, and that’s great. They make a lot of money. I don’t know what else they do. I don’t know about them.
Listen, I was one of those people all through the ’60s. Because rock ‘n’ roll was a male-dominated culture, as a feminist, I railed against it. I railed against the fact that girls were used sexually, that they would just follow guys all over the planet. I cannot defend my state of my mind, that’s what I was thinking at the time. Look, when the Rolling Stones had that album “Black and Blue And Lovin’ It” – whatever it was called (editor’s note: it was called “Black and Blue”) – it showed a woman bound, sitting on a chair with her hands behind her back. She’s black and blue, she has bruises all over her. I mean, this was part of marketing!
I got into a big fuss with someone. I had a hairdresser on a movie and she started railing against these teenage girls, the way they went around and behaved. I said, “They’re an effect of the culture. Why do you support a culture?” She threw a hairbrush at me. She got so mad. She was mad at the girls, she was blaming me, the victim, the subject. I said, “How do you like the idea of a little 12-year-old girl down there at Tower Records going through those bins and seeing this cover with this girl bound and black and blue? The Stones, a very powerful group, is extolling this as the ideal feminist image, like, “Yeah, yeah, this is how she should be: black and blue and loving it.”
What’s the ideal feminist image to you?
There is none. I’m totally existential. I have no investment in the society or anything. Anything that could happen – I’m way too beyond that mark to think that I’m gonna change it.
To read the complete article, go to PrideSource.
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Welcome back to another season of adventures with Big Freedia, the Queen Diva! Today we find Freedia at the South by Southwest Music Festival representing bounce music like no one else can. Freedia and the shake team have fifteen minutes on stage to make an impression among the hundreds of other acts in Austin. It’s a bouncy beginning when Freedia’s DJ can’t get the music going- and the clock is ticking. Will the needle hit the record? Can Freedia release her wiggle for thousands of potential new fans or will the Diva Explode?
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The headline pretty much tells you everything you need to know. While one of their flatmate’s was away, two super-cute goofballs spent three weeks blowing up a couple thousand balloons and putting them in his bedroom. His reaction when he gets home and opens the door is pretty priceless. I think I’m in love.
From Gawker:
Although they joke in the video that what to do with all the balloons is their housemate’s problem, they did actually help him clean up—using these spiky sticks they rigged up with some tape and nails:
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Watch a preview from tonight’s season finale of Million Dollar Listing New York! Fredrik goes to the Hamptons for an exciting project, Ryan learns to dance, and Luis D. Ortiz and Fredrik have MORE drama! Watch the preview after the jump!
Tune in to Bravo tonight at 9/8c to watch the final episode of MDLNY season 3!
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During World War II, if you wanted to know if someone was a Nazi spy, you’d simply ask them what bushy-tailed animal buries its nuts in the yard. If they could pronounce the word “squirrel,” they were good to go. If they contorted their faces and said “sqewkjhguihgcfghkd,” you knew you had a spy. (I might be making that up). Anyway, here we have ten really hot Germans (are there any other kind?) trying and adorably failing to say the word “squirrel.” It’s a weird word, of course. As Slate points out: “It starts with a pretty intense consonant cluster (which isn’t a particular problem for Germans) and segues right into a syllabic r—the hardest English sound—and then immediately fades to the mushy ‘dark l.’ I mean, English speakers don’t even really know how they say it. Is it one or two syllables? Is there really an r in there? Get even the most eloquent native speaker thinking about it too much, and there’s no way they won’t start to fumble it.”
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Latrice Royale recaps every episode of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce season 2! Each week she’ll tell you the BIG ASS moment from each episode! Click over and find out the BIG ASS moment from last night’s premiere episode of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce!
New episodes of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce every Wednesday at 11PM on Fuse! And catch Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce Big Ass Moments with Latrice Royale every Thursday on WOWPresents!
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Forget Scrooge! Screw the Grinch! Christmas has a NEW ill-tempered anti-hero: Internet-meme-turned-billionaire-multi-hyphenate GRUMPY CAT! Yes! The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the frowning feline is getting his own Lifetime movie, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. The network says the show – about a perpetually overlooked pet-store cat and the 12-year-old girl who can communicate with it telepathically (OMG I AM SO THERE) – is ”a little Home Alone and a little Die Hard,” and would also feature cameos from other famous Internet memes.
Lifetime is casting the voice of Grumpy for the live-action project. I’m thinking Brad Garrett. Or – oh! oh! –what about Season 10 American Idol winner Scotty McCreery? Or, hey, I’m sure the guy who used to voice Garfield needs work, and who’s gonna notice?
Wait. Is Grumpy Cat even a guy? For someone who spends nine hours a day on the internet, I know surprisingly little about Grumpy Cat.
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Home video of a swamp boat tour in Louisiana showing a guide in the water feeding chicken and marshmallows to the local ‘gators from his mouth. FROM HIS MOUTH. The video has attracted the attention of local and state officials who are disturbed by what they saw. To say the least. Now, of course, alligators aren’t crocodiles, they’re more lazy than ornery, but still this seems to be tempting fate. I guess the bigger question, though, is: Alligators like marshmallows? Who knew? (via The DW)
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James Franco plays a late-night talk show host, Seth Rogen is the producer and brains behind the show. When James scores the chance of a lifetime and gets an interview North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, the CIA steps in and asks James and Seth to assassinate him. They accept the mission, becoming two of the least qualified men ever to assassinate – or interview – the most dangerous man on earth. Pretty nutty setup. But this is from the guys who brought you This Is the End and Neighbors – both surprising good movies – so I’m pretty excited. Not sure what Kim Jong-Un is going to think, however…
Also starring Lizzy Caplan and Diana Bang. The Interview hits theaters on October 10. (via Coming Soon)
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On this episode of Courtney Naturally, Courtney Stodden does the blindfold object challenge! Using only her hands, Courtney has to guess what the objects are that she’s touching. Watch after the jump!
Watch new episodes of Courtney Naturally every Thursday on WOWPresents!
Wikipedia Mad Libs
Courtney plays some Mad Libs! Mad Libs with a twist! She fills in the blanks from her Wikipedia page!
Courtney N’ Krista
Courtney Stodden’s Mom, Krista stops by to take a trip down memory lane! She comes equipped with old photos and stories of Courtney when she was a little girl!
Hollywood Haul
Courtney has a shopping spree on Hollywood Boulevard, shows us what she bought, and gives a little fashion show!
Dear Courtney
Courtney answers questions that she was asked on Twitter.
#StoddenSelfie
Courtney shows how to take one of her infamous Stodden Seflies!
Helium Hoorah:
Courtney hits a high note while singing with the help of helium balloons.
Courtney Stodden, the infamous tabloid teen-bride and bombshell-beauty, is ready to expose a new and surprising side of herself in an original web series! Courtney Naturally reveals Courtney’s genuine and softer side that the tabloids have too often ignored – the girl behind the gossip. This intimate series showcases Stodden perched among a serene setting of fluffy white clouds, where she shares compelling personal stories, advice, and hosts quirky YouTube video challenges. Get a glimpse of Courtney Stodden’s unique perspective on the world that only someone of her age and experience could have! No topic is off limits, including her world famous boobs.
Courtney says about her webshow:
“It’s a delight and honor to be creating such a fun web series with World Of Wonder, I’m excited to reveal the many colors of my personality and share pieces of me, naturally.”
New episodes of Courtney Naturally every Thursday, on WOWPresents!
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Watch part two of RuPaul Drives… Olivia Newton-John! Check out never before seen footage from their first drive! Click over and watch now!
The two talk about Uber, being starstruck, Burt Reynolds, Olivia’s Vegas show, and meditating!
New episodes of RuPaul Drives… every Thursday on WOWPresents!
Here is part two of RuPaul Drives… Iggy Azalea! Check out never before seen footage from their first drive! They talk about Iggy’s boyfriend and lacefront wigs!
Here is part two of RuPaul Drives…John Waters! Watch never-before-seen from their first drive!
Iggy Azalea hitches a ride with RuPaul on this episode of RuPaul Drives! They talk about Australia, Iggy‘s music, and lace front wigs. This looks like the start of a beautiful friendship!
RuPaul picks up the undisputed QUEEN of NYC Nightlight and one of Ru’s earliest supporters at the start of his career, Susanne Bartsch, on this episode of RuPaul Drives! You’ve gotta watch!
RuPaul drives Chi Chi LaRue around Hollywood and they kiki about the porn industry today, thrift shopping, plus a special run-in with a pedestrian (hint: it starts with Lady and ends with Bunny).
RuPaul and Olivia Newton-John!!!!!! They back together for a great episode of RuPaul Drives…! I could watch these two all day. They talk about Grease, Xanadu, and more!
RuPaul’s hair and make-up guru Mathu Andersen hitches a ride with RuPaul on this episode of RuPaul Drives!
RuPaul picks up a hitchhiker..that hitchhiker is John Waters! You have got to watch this episode of RuPaul Drives! They talk about EVERYTHING! John’s new book “Carsick,” who John would cast in a movie today, how he got his love for entertainment from being on Howdy Doody, plus a bunch more that you’ll just have to watch to find out!
On this special episode of RuPaul Drives…MOTHAH has arrived! RuPaul interviews the one and only Ornacia!
Internet sensation, Lohanthony hitches a ride with RuPaul and drives around Hollywood and they talk about Ru’s new album Born Naked, must see movies, and dreaming big!
RuPaul picks up his TV bestie Michelle Visage on this episode of RuPaul Drives and they talk Michelle’s adoption and how she got her name Visage! Hairlarious!
RuPaul picks up his music producer Lucian Piane on this episode of RuPaul Drives and they talk Ru’s new album Born Naked and more!
RuPaul and Lucian talk about how he got his start in the music industry and Ru’s new album Born Naked which drops FebRUary, 24th on iTunes. New episodes every week on WOWPresents.
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Queerbaiting is the practice of capitalizing on homoerotic tension between two characters (usually on a TV show), with no intention of ever actually letting them be gay or putting them together in a romantic situation. Think Dean and Castiel on Supernatural, John and Sherlock on Sherlock, Rizzoli and Isles, the entire fucking cast of Teen Wolf. Personally, I think it’s adorable when, say, Reek looks at Ramsay Snow with those big cow eyes, or the way Merlin used to get all flustered around Arthur, but the following bullet-point infographic wants you to thinks otherwise. Apparently it’s insidious and needs to stop. Click to enlarge. (via Chadley MacGuff via SnuggyDaemon)
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Hodor, of course, is the Game of Thrones character who carries the crippled Bran around, and can only say his name. “Hodor! Hodor! Hodor!” That makes being on the Feud rather problematic. Watch what happens after the jump.
(via Towleroad)
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In the trailer for the upcoming December release of Paddington the Bear, Paddington arrives at the home of the Brown family and, of course, chaos soon follows . The CGI is a little wonky and I’m definitely not down with Paddington eating the gunk from his ears or drinking the mouthwash. I had a stepmother who drank mouthwash and it wasn’t pretty. Children should definitely not be drinking mouthwash. What do you think? Will you see this or is it just skull-fucking your precious childhood memories?
From Coming Soon: “From the beloved novels by Michael Bond and producer David Heyman (“Harry Potter”), Paddington tells the story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear (voiced by Firth) who travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says “Please look after this bear. Thank you,” and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.”
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