If you’ve been watching Island Hunters on HGTV, then YOU KNOW the jaw-droppingly sumptuous private islands that are out there on the market. Every week on our Island Report, we’re bringing you a hot new property you DIDN’T see on the show. Here are the gorgeous little ocean hideaways you’ll probably never in a million years own, but, OH!, to pretend for a moment or two. Check out EXILE ISLAND in Fiji! This place looks seriously remote… if Cast Away is your thing (or even if it isn’t) be sure to check this gorgeous island out in the photos below. 

ABOUT EXILE ISLAND

Exile Island is just a short boat ride from the nearest town of Labasa which is the largest town in the north-eastern part of the second largest Fiji island of Vanua Levu from where there are daily flights to the International Airport of Nadi. One of the 333 Fiji islands, it is officially named Sausau Island but is better known as Exile Island due to its filming location in the 14th season of CBS’s hit reality series of “Survivor” filmed in Fiji.

A beautiful island with incredible topography, Exile Island has large level beachfront areas to build your villa with high peaks that afford fantastic views. You can build your own private lookout on top of the highest point of Exile peak where you can watch the breathtaking sunrises and sunsets. There is a lot to explore on this remote but quickly accessible private island including the many low tide areas which create patches of soft white powdery sand in the nearby vicinity interspersed with vegetation.

The pristine waters surrounding this 15 acre island are ideal for swimming, fishing, boating, diving, snorkeling, or jet ski excursions. There are many uninhabited islands nearby to enjoy as well as cascading waterfalls on Vanua Levu which create natural pools of crystal clear water in which to swim.

-Via Private Islands Online 

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I spent many a night being totally enamored of and entertained by the girls that performed weekly at NYC bar/lounge Barracuda. More specifically, the Star Search amateur night years, hosted by the super glamazon Mona Foot. For anybody who experienced her brand of “humor”, you can co-sign that she was bold, brash…and goddess help you if your drag was not on point…let’s just say that she had a way of making you rethink your burgeoning showgirl profession.

Twenty years, and still an incubator for new drag babies, Barracuda is a staple on the NYC gay scene…and they’re throwing a big bash to celebrate! Scheduled to appear so far (and perform), actress Candis Cayne (I Am Cait/Dirty Sexy Money/Nip Tuck), actress and YouTube star Sherry Vine, and the hilarious writer, performer and drag icon Jackie Beat. Barracuda 20th Anniversary party is Sunday, October 18 at 7pm in NYC, more info HERE.

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Michelle Visage
Alannah Currie
Anne Meara
Asia Argento
Debbie Morgan
Deborah Roberts
Gary Cole
Gunnar & Matthew Nelson
Jon Bernthal
Kristen Johnston
Maggie Cheung
Moon Bloodgood
Phillip Phillips
Sophia Loren

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September 20, 1934– Sophia Loren is Italy’s Cinema Icon, an eternal Diva, & I wish to nominate her to the status of Gay Icon. Loren’s exciting life has taken her from being a street urchin to becoming one of the planet’s most glamorous film stars. She had the pleasure of enjoying the special company of Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, & Richard Burton, along with her Italian soul mate Marcello Mastroianni.

Loren’s story plays just like an Italian film, with her extraordinary rise to stardom as a poor teenager discovered by a rich & famous film producer who later marries her & helps make her Italy’s greatest export after pasta.

She was born in Roma as Sofia Scicolone, later changed the spelling of her first name to “ph” & adopting the stage name Loren. She was the daughter of a failed performer whose lover, Sophia’s father, refused to marry her.

She grew up poor in Pozzuoli, near Naples. Her mother eventually took her back to Rome, where Loren earned a small income for both of them by modeling for pulp magazines & winning prizes in beauty pagents. At one contest in the early 1950s, she was spotted by producer Carlo Ponti, who found her the first screen roles & devoted the rest of his own life to her career. Loren & Ponti were married for 5 decades, until his passing in 2007 at 94 years old.

Loren had no formal acting training. Pushed by her mother, her fabulous career began as a fluke when she met director Vittorio De Sica & told him she had never been offered a job after going on hundreds of auditions. Loren:

“I said to him, every time I am auditioning, people never hire me because I’m shy. They think my mouth is too wide, nose too long, there’s something wrong with my face. He told me he didn’t want me to audition, this conversation was just fine. I didn’t know what to say to this wonderful man. I nearly fainted on the spot.”

She made The Gold Of Naples (1954) with De Sica & it became her big break as an actor. The same year she did a comedy Eccato Che Sia Una Canaglia (Too Bad She’s Bad), the first of many films which Loren made with her perfectly matched star, Mastroianni. She immediately found steady work & made many films, including Boy On A Dolphin (1957) with Alan Ladd, Legend Of The Lost (1957) with John Wayne, & The Pride & The Passion (1957) with Grant & Sinatra.

“I have never been beautiful. I’ve never been a beautiful doll. In fact when I started, people didn’t want to hire me because I wasn’t photogenic.”

Loren’s stardom became truly international when she was given a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1958. For the studio she made the screen version of Eugene O’Neill’s drama Desire Under The Elms (1958) with gay actor Anthony Perkins, the sweet comedy Houseboat (1958) opposite Grant, & appeared as a blond in gay director George Cukor‘s unlikely western Heller In Pink Tights (1960).

“I didn’t change my face at all. They just got better at photographing it.”

Loren has starred in 100 films, so far, in several languages, projects of every genre: comedies, historical dramas, even musicals, including the thriller Arabesque (1966), Robert Altman’s romp Prêt-a-Porter (1994) & the delicious Matrimonio All’Italiana (1964) for De Sica.

Loren worked with the best of leading men: Sinatra, Grant, Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, & with Marlon Brando in Charlie Chaplin‘s final film, A Countess From Hong Kong (1967).

Most significantly, Loren starred in De Sica’s Two Women (1960) a stark, gritty story of a mother who is trying to protect her daughter in war ravaged WW 2 Italy. The pair are gang-raped inside a church as they travel back to their home city following the end of the bombing. Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against type to be cast as the mother. Loren won Cannes Film Festival‘s Best Performance award & an Oscar for Best Actress, the first for a non-English language performance & the first for an Italian. She skipped the ceremony because she was too nervous & discovered she had won via telephone by Cary Grant.

Loren has won a Grammy Award, 5 Golden Globes (so to speak), a BAFTA Award & a special honorary Academy Award for her contribution to World Cinema in 1991. In 1995, she received the Academy’s Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Her most recent role was as the only character in La Voce Umana (2014), from a 1930 play by gay writer Jean Cocteau  & directed by her handsome son Edoardo Ponti, a noted stage director. Her other yummy son Carlo Ponti Jr. is a famous orchestra conductor.

“I’m starting to count the hours, count the seconds; everything is important when you reach my age. Every so often you have to explode back into life.”

In 1992, Loren famously spent 17 days in an Italian jail as part of a plea bargain over a failure to file an income-tax return. At the time, she blamed it all on her accountant.

Loren is still ravishingly beautiful. She resides in Geneva & Roma.

“Beauty is not important. You have to be interesting, someone who is different to other people. Otherwise you just turn up & look beautiful, & there’s nothing more to you.”

Last year she published a well written, juicy memoir For Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: My Life.

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Well, technically, the wooden “wave” you’re looking at is called a “double conoid formation”. This four-bedroom mid-century modern house in New Jersey is set on 10 acres in the Delaware River Valley about 2 hours from New York City. Architect Jules Gregory‘s design was named one of the 10 Best Houses in America by Architectural Record the year after it was erected and the original cost was just $30,000. It was built as a home and studio for the architect himself, and has 1,200-square-foot workspace across the yard, which has this gorgeous undulating ceiling of fir beams, along with a sunken living room and glass walls and all those woods. It could use some reno work (those bathrooms are a bit out of character) but it’s original asking price of $1,125,000 in 2012, is now reduced to just $695,000. A bargain!

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Not that it matters when you have loads of money, but Ariel Ashe and Reinaldo Leandro of the New York City architecture and design firm Ashe + Leandro, nor their client, had ever built a house…

“There’s something very exciting about trusting people early in their career. Whatever Ariel and Reinaldo may have lacked in experience, they certainly made up for in the energy and the love they poured into the project.”

The architects came up with a trio of structures connected by glass-walled corridors and a fully finished basement on Martha’s Vineyard for this Manhattan art collector. Now, what ap­­pears to be three individual buildings, is technically one big one. Building codes on the Vineyard prohibit guest houses, so it is “broken up” into three spaces.

A collector of works by some of today’s best contemporary artists, like Thomas Houseago, Rashid Johnson, Nate Lowman, and Sterling Ruby, the unnamed client asked for lot of white walls and even “slot” in the living room floor for moving artworks that are too big to go from the basement via the stairs.

“We did have to lose some of the windows we wanted. He has a great collection and wanted to give it real presence. Because he’s friendly with several of these artists and has them up to stay, we felt like we were designing as much for them and their work.”

Years ago I visited a friend on the Vineyard and I deemed it one of my favorite places on earth. To me it combines upstate beautiful New York forests with the pristine East Coast beaches of the Hamptons. The house itself is a combination of a Caribbean retreat, my upstate barn and the ideal at-home gallery. It’s all sort of too TOO perfect, but if you were offering, I’d take it.

(Photos, Björn Wallander; via AD)

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Patti LaBelle is not fooling around … NO ONE gets on her stage and strips down. LaBelle was in Vancouver Friday night and invited a couple of fans up on stage with her to sing and dance. However, one fan took things too far for Patti and started unbuttoning his shirt. No ma’am! Patti chewed the fan out and once he turned his backside to her, she lost it –throwing him out of the show! The 72-year-old diva even mentions Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus in the tirade… watch!

(via TMZ)

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Jackie Collins, the beloved best-selling novelist, has died. The Collins family told People in a statement.;

“It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who died of breast cancer today.

She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades. She was a true inspiration, a trail blazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words.”

Diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, Collins, 77, chose to keep her illness almost entirely to herself, confided primarily in her three daughters, Tracy, 54, Tiffany, 48, and Rory, 46.

Collins, sat down with People on September 14 at her Beverly Hills home in what would be her last interview, had no regrets about the decision to keep her cancer journey private while she embraced a very full life until her very last days;

“Looking back, I’m not sorry about anything I did. I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I’ve written five books since the diagnosis, I’ve lived my life, I’ve travelled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it,” said Collins, whose treatments over the years included a lumpectomy, radiation and various drug courses and combinations.

Now I want to save other people’s lives.”

Collins was a prolific writer for 4+ decades – selling more than half a BILLION copies of her novels have around the globe. Her latest book, The Santangelos hit shelves in June. As for her daughters, she said her voice breaking,

“I’m so proud of them… I want them to feel secure and I want them to feel whatever happens, I’ll always be there.”

Memorial services in both the United States and the United Kingdom will be held privately. The Collins family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Organization (in the U.S.) and Penny Brohn Cancer Care (in the U.K.).

Sad, of course, but what a life! (via People)

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TV’s biggest night really ended up just being HBO’s biggest night, which dominated the Emmys, with its Game of Thrones, Veep and Olive Kitteridge winning best drama, comedy and limited series, respectively. (Game Of Thrones had 120 nominations and took home a record 12 awards last night at the 67th Annual Emmy Awards and it was also the series writer, George R.R. Martin’s 67th birthday.)

Host Andy Samberg‘s musical opening professed that he’d locked himself in a bunker and watched “every damn show” that is nominated and in a surprising moment he gave out his HBO user name and password as HBO had said recently that sharing your password wasn’t a bad thing. His info & in case you missed it…

Username: Khaleesifan3@EmmyHost.com
Password: password1

Some of Samberg’s best jokes were really one-liners. (Scroll all the way down for the full monologue);

“Orange Is the New Black is now technically a drama, while Louie is now technically jazz.”

Donald Trump of course is running for president to the delight of uncles everywhere. I’ve gotta say, sure Donald Trump seems racist… What else?”

“Is it just me, or does Bernie Sanders always look like his flight is delayed?”

And the best double whammy of the night…

“Paula Deen is on this season of Dancing With the Stars. But I gotta say, if I wanted to see an intolerant lady dance, I would’ve gone to one of Kim Davis’ four weddings.

It’s so ironic that she came out of jail to Eye of the Tiger, when you consider how many dudes have boned each other to that song.”

There were serious moments as well. Jeffrey Tambor won best actor in a comedy series for his role of a trans woman in Transparent;

“I had a teacher who used to say, ‘When you act, you have to act as if your life depends on it,’ And now I’ve been given the opportunity to act, because people’s lives depend on it.”

And while accepting her first Emmy for directing a comedy series, Transparent director Jill Soloway thanked her “Moppa” (her transgender mother, Mom & Poppa,combined) and encouraged viewers to vote to pass a trans equality bill.

“She could tomorrow try to find an apartment, and in 32 states, it would be legal for the landlord to look her in the eye to say, ‘We don’t rent to trans people’. We don’t have a trans tipping point yet. We have a trans civil-rights problem.”

Many acceptance speeches were earnest and heart-felt, like Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘s, who won her fourth Emmy for playing Selina Meyer on HBO’s Veep, and got in a really good zinger as well;

“I think it would be appropriate at this moment to quote our political satire Veep:

‘What a great honor it must be for you to honor me tonight,’

“Oh wait, oh no, no, no, I’m so sorry. Donald Trump said that. It’s getting trickier and trickier to satirize this stuff.”

Near the end of the show, Tracy Morgan got a standing ovation before he presented best drama to GOT. The cast alum is set to host SNL next month, over a year after devastating June 2014 accident that seriously injured him and claimed the life of his friend James McNair.

Offstage, Morgan appeared to be in good spirits while posing for a photo with Hamm.

“Man it feels good to be back!!! Love you all!”

How to Get Away With Murder‘s Viola Davis won for best actress in a drama, and after paraphrasing the words of Harriet Tubman, said;

“Let me tell you something: The only that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.”

It was the most racially diverse night ever for the Emmys, but the struggle IS real, as Samberg joked in his opening monologue;

“The big story this year is diversity. This is the most diverse group of Emmy nominees in history. Congratulations, Hollywood. You did it. Racism is over. Don’t fact check that.”

For me, the biggest injustice of the night was RuPaul’s Drag Race and Ru himself not even being nominated… I’m prejudiced, I know, but I really DO think it’s THE best reality competition series on TV.

Here’s what else won;

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
“Game of Thrones”
“Better Call Saul”
“Downton Abbey”
“Homeland”
“House of Cards”
“Mad Men”
“Orange is the New Black”

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
“Veep”
“Louie”
“Modern Family”
“Parks and Recreation”
“Silicon Valley”
“Transparent”
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

LIMITED SERIES
“Olive Kitteridge”
“American Crime”
“American Horror Story: Freak Show”
“The Honorable Woman”
“Wolf Hall”

VARIETY TALK SERIES
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”
“The Colbert Report”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live”
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”
“Late Show With David Letterman”
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”

VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
“Inside Amy Schumer”
“Drunk History”
“Key & Peele”
“Portlandia”
“Saturday Night Live”

LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA
Viola Davis, “How to Get Away with Murder”
Taraji P. Henson, “Empire”
Claire Danes, “Homeland”
Tatiana Maslany, “Orphan Black”
Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men”
Robin Wright, “House of Cards”

LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Kyle Chandler, “Bloodline”
Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards”
Jeff Daniels, “The Newsroom”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”

LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
Lisa Kudrow, “The Comeback”
Lily Tomlin, “Grace And Frankie”
Amy Schumer, “Inside Amy Schumer”
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Amy Poehler, “Parks And Recreation”

LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY
Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”
Anthony Anderson, “black-ish”
Matt LeBlanc, “Episodes”
Don Cheadle, “House of Lies”
Will Forte, “The Last Man On Earth”
Louis C.K., “Louie”
William H. Macy, “Shameless”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
Uzo Aduba, “Orange Is The New Black”
Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey”
Lena Headey, “Game Of Thrones”
Emilia Clarke, “Game Of Thrones”
Christine Baranski, “The Good Wife”
Christina Hendricks, “Mad Men”

SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
Peter Dinklage, “Game Of Thrones”
Jonathan Banks, “Better Call Saul”
Ben Mendelsohn, “Bloodline”
Jim Carter, “Downton Abbey”
Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”
Michael Kelly, “House Of Cards”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
Allison Janney, “Mom”
Mayim Bialik, “The Big Bang Theory”
Niecy Nash, “Getting On”
Julie Bowen, “Modern Family”
Kate McKinnon “Saturday Night Live”
Gaby Hoffmann, “Transparent”
Jane Krakowski, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
Anna Chlumsky, “Veep”

SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Tony Hale, “Veep”
Andre Braugher, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Adam Driver, “Girls”
Keegan-Michael Key, “Key & Peele”
Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
Tituss Burgess, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

Francis McDormand & Richard Jenkins in “Olive Kitterage”

LEAD ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Frances McDormand, “Olive Kitteridge”
Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story”
Queen Latifah, “Bessie”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman”
Emma Thompson, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street”

LEAD ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Richard Jenkins, “Olive Kitteridge”
Timothy Hutton, “American Crime”
Ricky Gervais, “Derek Special”
Adrien Brody, “Houdini”
David Oyelowo, “Nightingale”
Mark Rylance, “Wolf Hall”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Regina King, “American Crime”
Sarah Paulson, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Angela Bassett, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Kathy Bates, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Mo’Nique, “Bessie”
Zoe Kazan, “Olive Kitteridge”

SUPPORTING ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Bill Murray, “Olive Kitteridge”
Richard Cabral, “American Crime”
Denis O’Hare, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Finn Wittrock, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Michael Kenneth Williams, “Bessie”
Damian Lewis, “Wolf Hall”

GUEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Margo Martindale, “The Americans”
Diana Rigg, “Game of Thrones”
Rachel Brosnahan, “House Of Cards”
Cicely Tyson, “How To Get Away With Murder”
Allison Janney, “Masters Of Sex”
Khandi Alexander, “Scandal”

GUEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Reg E. Cathey, “House of Cards”
Alan Alda, “The Blacklist”
Michael J. Fox, “The Good Wife”
F. Murray Abraham, “Homeland”
Beau Bridges, “Masters Of Sex”
Pablo Schreiber, “Orange Is The New Black”

GUEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Bradley Whitford, “Transparent”
Mel Brooks, “The Comedians”
Paul Giamatti, “Inside Amy Schumer”
Bill Hader, “Saturday Night Live”
Louis C.K., “Saturday Night Live”
Jon Hamm, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

GUEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Joan Cusack, “Shameless”
Christine Baranski, “The Big Bang Theory”
Gaby Hoffmann, “Girls”
Pamela Adlon, “Louie”
Elizabeth Banks, “Modern Family”
Tina Fey, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

REALITY-COMPETITION SERIES
“The Voice”
“The Amazing Race”
“Dancing With The Stars”
“Project Runway”
“So You Think You Can Dance”
“Top Chef”

WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”
“The Colbert Report”
“Inside Amy Schumer”
“Key & Peele”
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”

TELEVISION MOVIE
“Bessie”
“Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Curtain, Poirot’s Last Case”
“Grace of Monaco”
“Hello Ladies: The Movie”
“Killing Jesus”
“Nightingale”

HOST, REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
Jane Lynch, “Hollywood Game Night”
Tom Bergeron, “Dancing with the Stars”
Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, “Project Runway”
Cat Deeley, “So You Think You Can Dance”
Anthony Bourdain, “The Taste”

STRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
“Shark Tank”
“Antiques Roadshow”
“Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”
“MythBusters”
“Property Brothers”
“Undercover Boss”

UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
“Deadliest Catch”
“Alaska: The Last Frontier”
“Intervention”
“Million Dollar Listing New York”
“Naked And Afraid”
“Wahlburgers”

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Hillary Clinton has said she won’t run negative ads against Democrat Bernie Sanders. Guess that the GOP is fair game? Her latest ad hones in on last Wednesday night’s CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate, focusing on a laundry list of issues close to Democrats‘ hearts that nonetheless failed to be broached at any point during the not-so-animate arguments: paid family leave, affordable child care and college education, equal pay for women, and protecting voting rights… The ad does emphasizes how eager each candidate is to defund Planned Parenthood, repeal ObamaCare, and vilify, yes, Hillary. Even if you’re a Republican (do they read The Wow Report?) Anyway, even if you are, it’s funny. Watch.

(via LGBTQ Nation, T/Y Berns)

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Frito-Lay announced last week that it was teaming up with the It Gets Better Project to launch a limited-edition version of its Cool Ranch-flavored Doritos. The chips came in Pride colors: green, blue, purple, red, and orange and are branded Doritos Rainbows and sold for a minimum donation of $10 with all of the proceeds going to It Gets Better. They sold out almost immediately.

But not everyone on the internet was happy with helping LGBT youth with the Pride-inspired snacks. Some jackasses took to Twitter to voice their disapproval, calling the chips “sick,” “disappointing,” “ISIS,” a threat to Christianity, while urging people not to make the contribution or buy any Frito-Lay product, anywhere. (As if these wide-load bigots would stop eating snack treats like Doritos for a cause. Right.) Anyway here’s what these jerks have been saying;

(via

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I really don’t want to bang on and on about the Emmys. Trust me, by the end of the day, you are going to be SICK OF IT. You won’t be able to read a blog or watch TV without being absolutely inundated with recaps and whatnot. But I did want to post Andy’s absolutely adorable opening song-and-dance number, because it was the highlight of my night. My week. MY LIFE. I fell in love with him all over again.

Via Rolling Stone:

Making his Emmy hosting debut, Samberg started things off with the musical number, in which he discovers how much good television he’s missed out on. (“So many shows, and so little time, I’m just a normal man, how can I possibly keep up?”) The star of Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine then locks himself in a “viewing bunker” to catch up on every single show on TV, emerging months later with a Last Man on Earth beard and horrible smell in order to tell Jon Hamm and Kerry Washington all about his exploits. However, an encounter with Nathan Fillion opens his eyes to Castle, which sends Samberg back into the bunker for another 151 hours.

The song then transformed into a Les Miserables-inspired musical with Will Forte in the Javert role and Billy Eichner as Samberg’s son before the host impressively begins listing countless shows on television, fromBetter Call Saul and Homeland to Pawn Stars and Cajun Pawn Stars. The tune also spotlighted the staggering number of shows with “wives” in the title: Army Wives, Basketball Wives, The Good Wife, Sister Wives, Mob Wives, the entire Real Housewives oeuvre, just to name a few.

Watch the opening number, below. And the opening monologue after that

And check out Trey’s roundup of the evening’s biggest moments here.

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Michelle Visage celebrates her sweet 16th birthday in the UK on Celebrity Big Brother: Bit on the Side. Watch the cherry on the top with lashing of sauce below.

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Embarrassed in Oklahoma writes in to Delta Work on Dear Delta because he has recently gained some weight, and his friends often bring it up. He wants to know how to politely tell them to stop. Do you have a question for Delta Work? Tweet her @THEEDeltaWork with the hashtag #DearDelta!

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This is the story that just keeps on giving… first, I posted a story about Doritos’ limited edition Rainbow chips that were launched to support It Gets Better, which promptly sold out. Then, I posted about the social media firestorm that erupted (which, honestly these days, doesn’t take much) with many jerks and jackasses (oh, sorry… and “Christians”) calling Doritos every name in the book.

People took to Doritos’ Facebook page to vent their anger with Frito-Lay. Our fave internet troll-buster of late, Mike Melgaard, who you may remember as the guy who trolled anti-gay conservatives last month by posing as a customer service account for Target on Facebook, was up to his old tricks, turning his trolling talents on disgruntled anti-gay Doritos fans. Below are screenshots of his encounters under the fake Facebook account, “Doritos ForHelp,” which he used to hilariously mock Facebook users pissed-off with the brand’s pro-LGBT stance. He needs to have his own fake accounts all over and do this more! People use “LOL” for every little tiny chuckle lately, but I was literally “laughing out loud.” Read on…

Mr. Melgaard ended his trolling by posting the pic below with caption;

“A final ending to an afternoon of fun. Hope you all enjoyed!”

As funny as this all is, let’s keep in mind what the beneficiary of Doritos Rainbows, It Gets Better, actually does. It was started by Dan Savage in the wake of an epidemic of LGBT teen suicides. How is this doing anything other than what these “Christians” profess to do, which is help people? He’s a Catholic, but even Pope Francis, who lands in the U.S. today, when asked about gays getting into heaven said;

“Who am I to judge?”

Exactly.

(via The Gaily Grind)

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Yesterday James posted the story of the woman who jumped out of her moving car (with her child inside!) when she saw a spider. Good thing she wasn’t in the subway when this happened, or we would never have gotten this video, posted to YouTube by Matt Little, of a rat trying to carry a slice of pizza in its mouth while climbing down a stairway. He eventually dropped the pizza and ran away. Who can blame him? Damn, paparazzi! Watch.

Below you can see what happens when a fat rat tries to take the 6 train home…

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Sunday night’s Emmys included big wins for Transparent. Jill Soloway won for comedy directing, Jeffrey Tambor won for lead comedy actor and Bradley Whitford won for guest spot for his role on the show at the Creative Arts Emmys. I might be willing to bet that Oscar winner Anjelica Huston will be nominated next year for a guest spot Emmy herself. Soloway told Variety at a pre-Emmy party that Huston will be playing a “new friend” to Tambor’s character Maura in three episodes of Amazon’s ambitious series. Soloway said about Huston and Tambor’s characters’ on-screen vibe;

“They have a lot of chemistry… palpable chemistry! It was palpable. I was directing them together and watching through the monitor.”

Anjelica’s last TV role was playing Eileen Rand on NBC‘s musical series Smash and she also had a small voice role as a Hollywood executive in the first season of Netflix’s animated series Bojack Horseman. Houston joins Hari Nef, the actress and IMG’s recently signed transgender model, and photographer Petra Collins on this new season. Cannot wait. (Photo, Smash; via Out)

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Social media has been going nuts for this image of Christina Ricci as Morticia Addams. She famously played Mortica’s daughter, Wednesday, in The Addams Family nearly 25 years ago. At just 11, Ricci became an overnight sensation thanks to her scene-stealing performance as the gloomy Wednesday Addams, which was based on the 60s TV series and the original Charles Addams cartoon strips. She looks amazing, huh? But sorry to say, it’s fake. It has been flopped and Photoshopped from the publicity still of Anjelica Huston, below. But this kind of thing might get Hollywood thinking –we’ve not seem much of Ricci lately – so, get busy Paul Rudnick. He wrote the script to the sequel to 1993’s, Addams Family Values, which was the funnier of the two. Speaking of real or fake… remember Ricci’s classic line from the film when quizzed about her lemonade…? Watch.

The Second Coming: Anjelica Huston as Morticia

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Actress-turned-director Rose McGowan is now actress-turned-director-turned-POPSTAR Rose McGowan– who knew? Her new (slightly NSFW) video – directed by the brilliant Jonas Åkerlund and styled by the equally brilliant fashion maverick B. Åkerlund – features a variety of looks that range from alien Nostferatu to Squeaky Blond realness to a GORGEOUS bejeweled red skull that I would so totally rock the shit out of. Oh, and the music is pretty incredible too!

From Nowness:

Having called out the film industry for sexism and left her acting career behind, The Doom Generation star returned to Hollywood earlier this year with guns blazing – this time from the other side of the camera. After shooting her arresting directorial debut, the Sundance Award-nominated short Dawn, the actor-turned-director has teamed up with Spun director Jonas Åkerlund, enlisting his signature gothic vision for her unanticipated pop promo

“Not only did I not fit in, I didn’t want to fit in”

Styled by Swedish fashion icon B. Åkerlund, each of McGowan’s theatrical guises represents a different facet of the star’s morphing persona: from alien outsider (“Not only did I not fit in, I didn’t want to fit in,” she says of her formative years) to Hollywood starlet and beyond. Each persona carries a message, with the goth confronting people’s perception of beauty: “I actually think she’s the most beautiful,” McGowan says. Here the actor-turned director talks rocking the boat and kicking up an art fuss.

This release marks your musical debut, why now?
Rose McGowan: In the last few years I’ve actually released some songs under different names, just me pranking the public. I woke up one day and realised I hated acting and that I’d always hated it. Imagine, its predominantly men whose scripts get done so it was mostly a male voice coming out of my mouth for fifteen years.

Your film work touches on ideas of female empowerment and sexual liberation – do you feel a responsibility to create a feminist dialogue?
RM: Yes I feel like it’s my duty and other people who have a voice, it’s their duty as well. We’re told from when were very young: ‘don’t upset anybody, don’t rock the boat.’ Why not? I believe in civil disruption. I also think it’s important for bodies to be represented in a non-sexual manner, especially women’s bodies.”

You’ve been vocal before about the importance of nudity, why do you think it’s important to reclaim the representation of women’s bodies this way?
RM: The body shaming that goes on in America is absurd. Recently at a museum there was this woman behind me looking at a nude sketch of a man and she said she’d never let her child around that, and I turned to her and said, “Oh really? Would you like your child to first see a penis when it’s erect and coming at her?” I don’t want to do this kind of thing but I feel like I have to, to stimulate change. You realise when you’re well known that you have won the public election: you are in office of a sort, and what you say does matter.”

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If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area on October 23, then THIS IS THE TICKET! Our good friend Carly Usdin and Cesar Hawas are producing Le Bal which will be hosted by the ONLY Candis Cayne and performances by RuPaul’s Drag Race queens Raja, Willam, Courtney Act, Delta Work, and Mariah Balenciaga! Tickets are on sale now at $20 – $40 and it will take place at The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

Le Bal will not be your typical drag show. Taking advantage of our theater’s cinematic backdrop, ​​Le Bal will recast the space with the unique opulence of the modern day drag performance, complete with international DJ Kim Anh ​​filling the air with garage and minimal wave sounds. An homage to the last 60 years of variety entertainment, Le Bal  brings the art form of drag back to the legitimate stage and seeks to introduce new audiences to counterculture entertainment. The whole production will celebrate the evolution of variety performance, from cabaret to theatre to contemporary drag.

The divas we’ve invited to the ball represent a diverse roster of top notch drag entertainers carefully curated to represent some of the best that the industry has to offer.   World-renowned showgirl and actress Candis Cayne, who performs in the show as well as serves as the evening’s host and emcee, will be joined by Raja Gemini  (winner of season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race)  Courtney Act, Willam Belli,  Mariah Balenciaga  and Delta Work.

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