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This Week in Gayness: Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke Get Personal

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Allen Ginsberg actually believed (well, maybe that's too strong a word) Henry Kissinger would strip naked with him on national television in a bid to promote world peace.

The gay blogs are taking an "ex-gay" to task for appearing in anti anti-hate crime ads.

A divorced Mom in (surprise, surprise) Tennessee is not allowed to have her lesbian lover stay over. The lesbian lover has taken extreme measures to ensure the bigoted judge does not win...

Angel Chandler's partner, who has been with Ms. Chandler for nearly 10 years, was given a "paramour" restriction by the family court, despite the fact that a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation deemed Ms. Chandler's partner to be "a positive influence on her children." According to Jeanne Sager of Strollerderby, "The ACLU has stepped into the fray, filing a brief this week that urges the court to remove the paramour restriction, calling it unconstitutional for interfering with Chandler's abilities to raise her children as she sees fit."
For now, Chandler and her partner are getting around the ruling by living side-by-side in a duplex. [Jezebel]

If you consider yourself "trans" anything, it's better just to stay away from Memphis, as we've learned from this and other recent news stories.

Yay! Campbell's Soup is on the pro-gay side.

A New Jersey church is being sued for discrimination. These idiots think they are above the law or something? You can't discriminate against gay people, not even in Jersey!

If you're so upset at people for getting married and yet despise straight divorce, maybe you should get behind California's "Please Don't Divorce Us" campaign. Hey, you might learn something.

Battlestar Galactica has a gay character, it seems.

Poor Mickey Rourke is getting desperate in his bid for an Oscar. Check out the alleged text message he sent about rival Sean Penn:

“Look seans an old friend of mine and i didnt buy his performance at all—thought he did an average pretend acting like he was gay besides hes one of the most homophobic people i kno" [Defamer]

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While You Were Sleeping: Which TV Female Character Do You Wanna Be?

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:15:00 GMT

Morgan Freeman was released from the hospital and will have to wear a neck brace for six months or more.

Don't read this if you want to go on disliking Lauren Conrad.

Who are the two richest kids in Showbiz? If you guessed Ricky Schroeder, you really aren't reading the right blog...

1= Miley Cyrus, $26 million (GBP13 million) 1= Daniel Radcliffe, $26 million (GBP13 million) 3. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, $15 million (GBP7.5 million) 4. The Jonas Brothers, $12 million (GBP6 million) 5. Zac Efron, $5.8 million (GBP2.9 million).

We don't think the Jonas Brothers should count because there are, what, how many of them... and re-spawning every minute?

The World's Greatest Dad is guilty of being one of the world's scuzziest.

Obama and Bush were the targets one of main's assassination plots, unrelated to yesterday's story about the teenage boy who planned to kill W.

What do you think of Defamer's list of the Top 10 TV Characters Women Want To Be Like And Women Want To Be With? Sexist? Spot on?

Tom Selleck will join "Dancing With The Stars?" He's not looking too shabby these days, either, he's probably in proper shape...

And Battlestar Galactica fans, rejoice: a two-hour special will air... next year.

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Hey, Leoben From Battlestar Galactica Is In The Brand New X-Files Movie Trailer!

Bryan Christian — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:01:00 GMT

How the frak did this slip past us?

(Sorry, occasionally we have to geek out beyond all comprehension.)

Anyways, have a look at the brand new trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe after the jump, courtesy IGN.

We think it looks OK, we guess -- certainly there's running around and people and, um, stuff -- but probably it would have been a billion times better without that stupid six-note musical cue from the original show's opening credits. What is that, an SK1? That shit was excusable for a while, but seriously, doesn't everyone just cringe when they hear that today?

"Battlestar Galactica": In Desperate Need of a Safeword?

Bryan Christian — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:25:00 GMT

Battlestar Galactica has always been a parade of self-sabotage. Not that we're gonna drop any spoilers for those of you who haven't seen it, but even a cursory knowledge of the show reveals that you got your hotshot pilot wrecking herself with booze and ill-advised hookups, the possibly-delusional scientist who's led to do things he might never even conceive of by the voices in his head, the self-medicating XO, the medicated and messianic President, the honorbound and existentially lonely Adamas... we could go on.

Still. Holy crap. Can you believe what they've been putting people through in the last few episodes? More to the point: can you believe what the characters have been putting themselves through? Like, if this were Gossip Girl, everyone would be cutting themselves or something. If you're caught up on the show, then click on through so we can discuss in more spoiler-friendly environs after the jump.

We're not complaining, you understand. We're still pretty much right with the show, and we're impressed with the degree to which its creators seem committed to playing through the endgame -- this is the final season -- as unsentimentally and, indeed, as cruelly as possible. But we are kind of wondering where all this self-destruction is going. Because just in the last couple weeks, we've had Starbuck making herself crazy and hinting at a reconciliation with Leoben, Tyrol edging steadily towards Travis Bickle-dom, Cally contemplating offing herself and then someone else taking care of it for her, Colonel Tigh getting a Number Six to pound the crap out of him and then (possibly) seduce him, the President burning off whatever legislative goodwill she'd presumably earned with the Quorum, and Gaius Baltar skirting with religious martyrdom. Oh, and then there's the entire Cylon race, which decided in the space of a single episode to cave in on itself. (And if somehow we didn't catch all that, we had that helpful scene where Tori got all kinky on Baltar, thus illustrating how she -- and by extension everyone -- has lost the distinction between pleaure and pain.)

So what do you guys think? Are they losing you with all the extra gravity or does the go-for-broke-ness of it all excite you? After three years of everyone fighting each other, is the lesson here that the most difficult battles are with ourselves? Or does it all seem a little forced, like they know they're gonna have to do something crazy in the final episodes -- let's say a Human/Cylon allegiance of some lasting sort -- and the first step towards that is breaking everyone down so they can start anew.

Oh: and when does one of those dumbass cult gals get jealous and try to cut Baltar?

"Battlestar" Producer Working on "Children of Men" TV Show For Sci-Fi Channel

Bryan Christian — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:51:00 GMT

Actually, you know what, we're not quite sure what to put in the rest of this blog post, since we seem to have packed it all in the headline. Oh, hang on, there is one thing we forgot: the part where our hard-on to see this is about to shatter our fucking keyboard.

Slashfilm: Children of Men: The Television Series

"Battlestar GalactiSimpsons" Makes Our Spines Glow With Awesomeness

Bryan Christian — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:02:00 GMT

You know, we think you probably get the idea here, right? Total TV nerdgasm. So we won't distract you with jibba jabba, except to say that we are a little disappointed to find Number Six as unsexy as she is in Simpson-mode. Like, we were expecting her to be at least as hot as Marge when she got those breast implants. That was pretty hot, right? Right? Well, anyways, just click on through and have a look at President Roslin, Admiral Adama, and the rest of the cast. (Oh, and spoiler alert: this very large image is crawling with allusions to BSG Season Three, so if you're not caught up...)

TV Gets Back to What It Does Best: Canceling Shows

Bryan Christian — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:06:00 GMT

Now that the Writer's Strike is over, it's time to figure out what shows are coming back and when. We got a couple of links to pages here and here with hints, and heard something on NPR yesterday, and while we haven't done a case-by-case comparison, we'll summarize what we know:

-- Lots of shows -- particularly sitcoms -- are going back into production now, and will be burning off already shot episodes or shooting a handful more to be shown through May or beyond. Big names include: 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, My Name is Earl, Lost, and a few other shows you probably first saw on iTunes.

-- Gossip Girl -- which all of us Scanner bloggers just realized means nothing to us but has a fairly dedicated following, we hear -- will return with new episodes aired through the summer, so just like we did with 90210 and The OC, expect us to "get way more into it than we thought" around June.

-- No 24 and no more Heroes, Life, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Moonlight, Private Practice or Chuck for the year; they will likely all be relaunched or continued next fall.

-- Cancelled or iffy: Bionic Woman, Cane, Life is Wild (which, like... huh?), Friday Night Lights, Prison Break, One Tree Hill, Reaper, Back to You, and ER, which we imagine NBC has been looking for an excuse like this to unload since Noah Wyle left.

-- Producer Bill Lawrence is negotiating for time to wrap up Scrubs. Bill: let it go.