Sean Hayes, on his new sitcom, Sean Saves The World, not being “message driven” like The New Normal:
“Absolutely not. If that’s a byproduct of their viewing
experience, fantastic. But it’s definitely not in the forefront of our minds
when creating this show week-to-week. It’s making people laugh and telling
great stories. I think with me playing a gay dad, the gay part should be the
fifth most interesting thing about the character. It definitely doesn’t need to
be focused on that just like in real life. So if it’s groundbreaking for being
extra funny, great. But there is no agenda here other than to be funny.”
But, as in shows like The
New Normal, you can send a message and
make it funny. From what I’m hearing
Sean Saves The World doesn’t even manage to do that.
I mean, why have a gay character if you’re not going to
address the fact that he’s gay?
David Stern, NBA Commissioner,
denouncing the new President of the IOC and the organization for not stepping
up against human rights abuses.
“I’m gonna behave myself, for the record here,
which is unlike me, but you know, the first phone call to the new head of the
Olympics [was] from President [Vladimir] Putin, and everyone wants to talk
about the Russian law on homosexuality. Think about the opportunities that
sports have to make a continuing statement, and the only thing that we’re
saying in that context is ‘Shhhh! No one say anything!’”
Sports are one of those things that are universal around the
world, and sports can make a great impact on what’s happening in Russia if the
athletes, the leagues, the managers, speak up.
Phyllis Schlafly,
calling for the government to end all funding for, well, everybody and everything:
"We must shame and cut
off taxpayers' money from the groups that killed the American family, including
feminists, judges, legislators, public school teachers and administrators,
so-called child protection agencies, professors, psychologists, college
courses, government handouts and Democratic politicians who want big-government
spending in order to win votes. The problem cannot be remedied by prohibiting
same-sex marriage (even by a constitutional amendment) or by telling men to
'man up.'“
All I can think of to say is:
“What a delusional, ridiculously stupid, Pat Robertson-in-a-dress-and-a-fright-wig, out-of-date, relic from
the 50s.”
Oh, and I’d add, “Shut the
f**k up.”
Gilles Marini, on if he would ever lie to help a famous gay
friend stay closeted:
"We're in 2013. I think
it's very uncool to be in the closet nowadays. I never was a witness in any
wedding in my life, and the first time I was a witness in a wedding in my life
was for my dear friends Philippe and David — same-sex couple — and I think it
was fantastic. Don't stay in the closet. You'll only hurt your heart and, down
the line, probably your family. They need to know the truth about what you like
and what you want in life."
Word. From a hot guy.
Cher, on turning down an invitation
to perform at the Sochi Games:
“I can’t name names but my
friend called who is a big oligarch over there, and asked me if I’d like to be
an ambassador for the Olympics and open the show. I immediately said no. I want
to know why all of this gay hate just exploded over there. He said the Russian
people don’t feel the way the government does.”
Seriously? In 2013 there’s a person in the world that thinks
Cher … CHER … would perform for an
anti-gay country like Russia.
Now, if they’d asked JLo and the check was big enough ….
Rachel Maddow, on the sudden
crush that conservatives and anti-gay "pro-family" groups have on
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It’s one thing for the
right to fall in love with its own politicians, to make Reagan a saint, Sarah
Palin their own collective girlfriend, but the president of Russia, he is not
that into you. Seriously, I know you guys hate President Obama, so it feels
good to have a man-crush on somebody else, but this guy is the president of
Russia. Zip it up, you guys, seriously. Have some respect."
It’s that conservative
rightwingnut racism at work again. Putin and Obama have issues so the GOP falls
all over themselves to align themselves with the leader of a country which
seeks to punish people for being gay.
Remember that the
next time you vote.
Bill
Maher, on the GOP and their battle against all things Obama, including First Lady
Michelle Obama’s programs to have kids eat healthy and drink more water:
"I saw in the news that
Michelle Obama has a new program. You know she tried to get kids to eat better
and Republicans were against that. And now she wants people to hydrate more,
I’m not kidding, she says ‘Drink more water.’ I think this is a test to see if
the Republicans will come out against water. That’s not water, that’s socialism
juice!"
Apparently, the blowhards are
already speaking out. Rush Limbaugh, who never met a chain of McDonalds that he
didn’t want to eat and then wash down with illegally prescribed medications,
while calling the First Lady “Moochelle” says, "We have real trouble, real
problems in this country and around the world. What is this push to drink more
water? Now, we know that Bloomberg doesn't want people drink sweetened
soft drinks, limiting the size to 16 ounces. I'll tell you what I think
it is. I think there's an all-out assault on soda pop, soft drinks."
Funny how the fattest man on Earth,
with a head filled with cheese and a gut stuffed with lard, can call the First Lady
of the country a derogatory term.
Imagine if a liberal journalist
had done the same to Laura Bush.
Isaiah Washington, former Grey's
Anatomy co-star, on returning to acting and his claim that
"an agenda" ruined his career following those anti-gay remarks — he called co-star TR Knight, a ‘fag’ — he made in 2007:
"I didn't have a
choice. After the incident at the Golden Globes everything just fell apart. It
literally stopped. Whatever the agenda, whatever the plan was it worked. I lost
everything. I couldn't afford to have an agent. I couldn't afford to have a
publicist for the crisis management to continue. I couldn't afford to continue.
I went from 2 million dollars a year to residual checks. Zero. I couldn't get
another apartment after I turned in my lease for my $3 million home. I had to
put it in my wife's name. No one wanted to touch the name of Isaiah Washington
for three years."
And it’s all someone else’s fault, eh, Isaiah? Then why did you apologize if you never said it? And why
wait three years to expose this “agenda”?
The fact is, you made a mistake and called someone by a derogatory
name, and people, in the industry stopped wanting to work with you. I’d hoped
you would have learned from your mistake but you’ve gone back to the lie that
it never happened.