What a Hot Mess: Hello, Entertainment Weekly? Where's Brandon Routh's Glory as Superman?

I'm sorry, but this is a hot mess.  Literally!  I just received my Entertainment Weekly in the mail and I'm disgusted with this magazine.  I think I'm going to quit it after this debauchery.  How do you cover Superman with 75 years of glory and not put the man who played him last, Brandon Routh?  Seriously, he was hot, perfect, and did exceptionally well as Superman.  I wasted my time watching Tom Welling on the CW's Smallville and he didn't even don the cape until the very end, and just barely.  Superman Returns actually made more than Batman Begins, grossing over $400 million dollars, so the movie didn't bomb.  And while everyone wants to blame it on Routh, the blaming goes much higher than that.  Regardless if the writers and producers didn't want to make it into a franchise, the man deserves credit where credit is due.  This is just absolutely wrong! One Hot Mess indeed!

Boybander Duncan James Does The Gay Times

I think I've come to the conclusion that every boy band has a gay member.  New Kids On The Block has Jon Knight, NSYNC has Lance Bass, Westlife had Stephen Gately, and BLUE has Duncan James.  Sorry to burst your bubble, One Direction fans, but I'm thinking there's a couple in that boyband as well. LOL.

Duncan landed himself on the cover of the June 2013 issue of Gay Times magazine, and well, I have no complaints.  The actor, singer, model, and TV personality came out in 2009 and has since been doing really well.  Can't you tell?

Image courtesy of Stephen Saban over at WOW

Katy Perry Covers Interview Magazine

Katy Perry is on the cover of Interview Magazine next month, and who knew she could look so amazing!  Ironically enough she kinda reminds me of Elizabeth Taylor in this spread.

If you haven't already heard, Katy Perry is our March covergirl. We're pretty excited (!), especially as she's interviewed by one of our favorite comedians, Kristen Wiig. Above is a sneak peek of Katy's cover, shot by Mikael Jansson and styled by Karl Templer.via Interview Magazine

Australia's Wonder Woman

Really?  Here in the U.S. we can't find a Wonder Woman who's outfit is perfect from the "get-go" and the U.K. manages to do it on the first try.  We can't find an actress good enough as Lynda Carter or beautiful enough to compare, and Australia has one in Miranda Kerr.   Really America?  What the hell is wrong with this country?  We want our Wonder Woman movie and new television series dammit!

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Quoted - Andrew Sullivan on his Newsweek Cover Story "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?"

"Under Obama, support for marriage equality and marijuana legalization has crested to record levels. Under Obama, a crucial state, New York, made marriage equality for gays an irreversible fact of American life. Gays now openly serve in the military, and the Defense of Marriage Act is dying in the courts, undefended by the Obama Justice Department. Vast government money has been poured into non-carbon energy investments, via the stimulus. Fuel-emission standards have been drastically increased. Torture was ended. Two moderately liberal women replaced men on the Supreme Court. Oh, yes, and the liberal holy grail that eluded Johnson and Carter and Clinton, nearly universal health care, has been set into law. Politifact recently noted that of 508 specific promises, a third had been fulfilled and only two have not had some action taken on them. To have done all this while simultaneously battling an economic hurricane makes Obama about as honest a follow-through artist as anyone can expect from a politician." 

- Andrew Sullivan on his Newsweek Cover Story "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?"

Margaret Thatcher On The Cover of Newsweek

Margaret Thatcher landed on the cover of Newsweek and I forgot to share it with you.  Oh, I'm sorry, my bad - did I say Margaret Thatcher?  I meant Meryl Streep.  She has such an uncanny resemblance to the former Prime Minister of Britain.

There hasn't been a movie I haven't liked where Streep has played a part in it.  From Silkwood, Marvin's Room, Angels in America, Mamma Mia!, Lions for Lambs, and The Hours, the list goes on.  She's an amazing actress.  Hence, the reason I can't wait to see her new movie, The Iron Lady which opens January 06, 2012.

Glee's Blaine & Kurt on The Cover of a Magazine

So I went to check our mailbox this afternoon, and Lord and  behold I received the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.  And who's on the cover? Blaine and Kurt.

The article was actually quite entertaining, they talk about how the producers and networks ended their years of silence and how just a glimpse of inspiration can go a long way.
I remember growing up watching shows like My So Called Life, One Life To Live, Dawson's Creek, Ellen, Will and Grace and Degrassi Jr. High, where the characters roles were hardly noticeable.  

Don't get me wrong, the episodes were great, but you usually saw just that one episode with that one gay character for just a second. The thought of a boy kissing another boy on national television, was minimal at best.  The article states it correctly when talking about My So Called Life, "he (Rickie) didn't even utter the word 'gay' on screen until the season finale.

I remember watching Ryan Phillippe on One Life to Live before he became the star he is now.  He was just a scrawny little kid then, nothing like the muscular god before us today. :-)  But I do remember his character coming out on the soap; he was trying to convince his friends and family that a pastor wasn't molesting him.  Of course, shortly after that he leaves town and you never hear from him again.

I look at today's shows and feel inspired by the storyline and plots to each season.  Who would have imagined that Kurt would be opening an episode of Glee with a cover of Beyonce's 'Single Ladies,' or he singing a duet with Blaine in the final episode before the winter break; which by the way, the article also states, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," became the most downloaded track off the Glee Christmas Album.

Now you have shows like Shameless, MTV's Skins, and Pretty Little Liars telling people that you're no longer alone, that you have no reason to be afraid, to hurt yourself or be a bully to others.

I leave you with this quote from Chris Colfer:

"They're kind of like Joanie and Chachi of our generation," says Colfer. "When we made the announcement that Kurt was getting a boyfriend, people went bats---."