Saturday, September 3, 2011
Time Magazines Pictures Of The Week !!
August 30, 2011. National Guard Blackhawk helicopters equipped with Bambi buckets drop water on the marsh fire in New Orleans East.
Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/02/the-best-pictures-of-the-week-august-26-september-2/#ixzz1WvkCi7gX
Kathy Griffin - 'Pray The Gay Back.'
Having already called out Michele Bachmann on a late night show for the Congresswoman and presidential candidate's anti-gay bigotry, Kathy Griffin is moving on to include the Minnesota Republican's controversial husband in her line of fire.
After discussing a number of pressing issues with "Late Late Show" host Craig Ferguson, including her breasts and how to meet a man while hiking, Griffin turned to politics and Bachmann's husband, who runs a controversial clinic in Minnesota that allegedly works to use prayer to reverse its patients homosexuality.
"The Bravo special was supposed to be called 'Pray the Gay Back.' You get the Marcus Bachmann joke? Marcus Bachmann is one of my new favorite targets, he's Michele Bachmann's husband," Griffin laughed. "Okay, he's very anti-gay and LGBT rights, and it's odd, because if you look at him on YouTube, it's almost as if he himself... or, it's as if..."
At this point, Ferguson jokingly warned Griffin, who boasts a large gay fan base and earlier in the show even called herself a gay man, to take care with her wording.
"I would say that Marcus Bachmann reminds me of a lot of the type of men who come sees my live shows," she continued. "And he wants people to pray the gay away, and so I was going to call the special 'Pray the Gay Back.''
Bravo, however, decided to go with the much more traditional title of "Kathy Griffin: Pants Off." TV execs, always going the conservative route.
VIA: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/kathy-griffin-hints-marcus-bachmann-gay_n_946297.html
Chaz Bono Let The Practicing Begin!
Chaz Bono began his march towards the "Dancing With the Stars" title, hitting up the practice studio yesterday in Los Angeles.
Chastity Bono and Brendan (Signed by Chastity)
Model Cortland Woodward at Southern Decadence
Southern Decadence—the predominantly gay annual New Orleans event—is in full swing. And this beautiful Fantasticsmags fashion editorial, shot by James N. in the French Quarter, might be just the thing to get y’all in the mood for the festivities. The weather promises to be late-summer warm and these colorful T-shirts from New Orleans-inspired line Fleurty Girl (seen here on model Cortland Woodward) allow you to stay cool while bringing some local flair to the table.
To see more Fleurty Girl T-shirts, click here
Six years after Katrina, New Orleans braces for storm
(Reuters) - Almost exactly six years after Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans and produced one of the worst disasters in the nation's history, residents are again bracing for a storm lumbering north in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical Storm Lee may not reach hurricane status before it comes ashore, probably on Saturday, on an expected path just west of New Orleans. But forecasters say the system could pack a wallop of between 10 inches and 20 inches of rain.
"Get ready for the wind, get ready for the rain. It's coming and it's going to be here for a while," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal warned on Friday.
New Orleans residents did not pay much attention as the system took shape in the Gulf earlier in the week. But on Friday, after state and local officials issued emergency declarations and meteorologists said the slow-moving storm could produce heavy rains, stiff winds and a tidal surge, locals began stocking up on supplies and moving cars to higher ground.
The mayors of Grand Isle and Lafitte, in coastal areas south of New Orleans, called for voluntary evacuation of residents, and emergency teams stacked sandbags along waterways.
Nine offshore oil platforms were temporarily closed and evacuated, Jindal said.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu advised citizens to be on alert.
"You need to be prepared for whatever may come our way," he said. "We thought Katrina was just going to be rain and wind. We didn't predict it was going to be a flood."
The New Orleans Levee District has closed more than a dozen floodgates during the last 24 hours to protect against flooding from tidal surges. Floodgates were being closed in surrounding parishes as well.
Along with coastal areas that will be affected by rain and tides, the tidal surges could produce backwater flooding in tributaries throughout the area south of New Orleans and into Lake Pontchartrain at the city's northern edge.
In the city's tourism hub, the French Quarter, the streets bustled with good time-seekers as the annual Southern Decadence festival unfolded. The five-day event, which began Thursday, draws a mostly gay and lesbian crowd for a raucous weekend that attracts nearly 100,000 revelers.
Many hotels expected to be filled for the weekend, but the marketing manager at Hotel Monteleone on Royal Street said the weather is taking a toll. "We are experiencing a much higher than normal percentage of cancellations," Carly Plotkin said.
After the governor declared a state of emergency on Friday, bookings shrank by about 10 percent, she said.
Even so, festival-goers on Bourbon Street showed little sign of worry as they warmed up for their second night of revelry. John Kearns, operations manager at one of the festival's party hubs, Bourbon Pub & Parade, said "a little drizzle" wouldn't scare the revelers away.
"These guys like taking their shirts off anyway," he said.
While people throughout the area braced for heavy rain, the forecast does have an upside: A persistent marsh fire has been burning some 1,500 acres in eastern New Orleans wetlands for several days, blanketing the city with foul-smelling smoke and producing air quality and breathing problems for some residents.
Firefighters said that because the marsh is actually burning beneath the surface, it is virtually impossible to put it out using normal firefighting methods.
Jindal said Friday that firefighters believe the combination of wind and rains to come will extinguish the fire.
The storm had sustained winds of about 40 miles per hour with forecasters estimating it will make landfall on Saturday evening with winds of about 65 miles per hour.
The storm's track remains uncertain, but various possible tracks identified by the National Hurricane Center show the storm coming onshore just west of New Orleans and then curving in a northeasterly direction around the city. By Friday evening, some local forecasters were raising the possibility that the storm will follow a more easterly track, possibly putting New Orleans on the drier side of the system.
New Orleans was experiencing intermittent showers on Friday afternoon and tornado warnings were in effect for some areas just south of the city.
Hurricane Katrina swamped the floodwalls of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, putting much of the city under 15 feet of water and killing some 1,500 residents, many of whom were trapped in attics or on rooftops. The deaths were despite nearly a million people had fled to safety days earlier.
New Orleans had barely begun a massive cleanup when it was sideswiped by Hurricane Rita several weeks later. The city did not see another mass evacuation of residents until 2008, just ahead of Hurricane Gustav, though a last-minute turn by that storm spared New Orleans significant damage.
"Get ready for the wind, get ready for the rain. It's coming and it's going to be here for a while," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal warned on Friday.
New Orleans residents did not pay much attention as the system took shape in the Gulf earlier in the week. But on Friday, after state and local officials issued emergency declarations and meteorologists said the slow-moving storm could produce heavy rains, stiff winds and a tidal surge, locals began stocking up on supplies and moving cars to higher ground.
The mayors of Grand Isle and Lafitte, in coastal areas south of New Orleans, called for voluntary evacuation of residents, and emergency teams stacked sandbags along waterways.
Nine offshore oil platforms were temporarily closed and evacuated, Jindal said.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu advised citizens to be on alert.
"You need to be prepared for whatever may come our way," he said. "We thought Katrina was just going to be rain and wind. We didn't predict it was going to be a flood."
The New Orleans Levee District has closed more than a dozen floodgates during the last 24 hours to protect against flooding from tidal surges. Floodgates were being closed in surrounding parishes as well.
Along with coastal areas that will be affected by rain and tides, the tidal surges could produce backwater flooding in tributaries throughout the area south of New Orleans and into Lake Pontchartrain at the city's northern edge.
In the city's tourism hub, the French Quarter, the streets bustled with good time-seekers as the annual Southern Decadence festival unfolded. The five-day event, which began Thursday, draws a mostly gay and lesbian crowd for a raucous weekend that attracts nearly 100,000 revelers.
Many hotels expected to be filled for the weekend, but the marketing manager at Hotel Monteleone on Royal Street said the weather is taking a toll. "We are experiencing a much higher than normal percentage of cancellations," Carly Plotkin said.
After the governor declared a state of emergency on Friday, bookings shrank by about 10 percent, she said.
Even so, festival-goers on Bourbon Street showed little sign of worry as they warmed up for their second night of revelry. John Kearns, operations manager at one of the festival's party hubs, Bourbon Pub & Parade, said "a little drizzle" wouldn't scare the revelers away.
"These guys like taking their shirts off anyway," he said.
While people throughout the area braced for heavy rain, the forecast does have an upside: A persistent marsh fire has been burning some 1,500 acres in eastern New Orleans wetlands for several days, blanketing the city with foul-smelling smoke and producing air quality and breathing problems for some residents.
Firefighters said that because the marsh is actually burning beneath the surface, it is virtually impossible to put it out using normal firefighting methods.
Jindal said Friday that firefighters believe the combination of wind and rains to come will extinguish the fire.
The storm had sustained winds of about 40 miles per hour with forecasters estimating it will make landfall on Saturday evening with winds of about 65 miles per hour.
The storm's track remains uncertain, but various possible tracks identified by the National Hurricane Center show the storm coming onshore just west of New Orleans and then curving in a northeasterly direction around the city. By Friday evening, some local forecasters were raising the possibility that the storm will follow a more easterly track, possibly putting New Orleans on the drier side of the system.
New Orleans was experiencing intermittent showers on Friday afternoon and tornado warnings were in effect for some areas just south of the city.
Hurricane Katrina swamped the floodwalls of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, putting much of the city under 15 feet of water and killing some 1,500 residents, many of whom were trapped in attics or on rooftops. The deaths were despite nearly a million people had fled to safety days earlier.
New Orleans had barely begun a massive cleanup when it was sideswiped by Hurricane Rita several weeks later. The city did not see another mass evacuation of residents until 2008, just ahead of Hurricane Gustav, though a last-minute turn by that storm spared New Orleans significant damage.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
What Show Do You TIVO / DVR ??
Thank God for DVRs, or fans wouldn’t get their regular fix of McDreamy. That’s right: Grey’s Anatomy is the most Tivo’ed show in the country for several years running – a pretty decent accomplishment for a drama that’s about to start its eighth season.
We asked Tivo, which began compiling data in October 2007, for the top 10 most DVR’ed shows and here’s what we got. The bad news: Three of these shows are no longer on the air. (Miss you, Greg Grunberg!)
1. Grey’s Anatomy
2. American Idol
3. Desperate Housewives
4. House
5. Lost
6. CSI
7. 24
8. Heroes
9. The Office
10. Glee
So what should this list mean, if anything, to the broadcast nets that air them? Not much, unfortunately. Says one high-powered suit at the Big Four: “Though it’s a nice list that indicates enthusiasm for a show, right now the live ratings mean a lot more.” Translation: ABC would prefer that you McDreamy fans watch the show when it actually airs — not on Saturday nights when you’re dateless and alone.
We asked Tivo, which began compiling data in October 2007, for the top 10 most DVR’ed shows and here’s what we got. The bad news: Three of these shows are no longer on the air. (Miss you, Greg Grunberg!)
1. Grey’s Anatomy
2. American Idol
3. Desperate Housewives
4. House
5. Lost
6. CSI
7. 24
8. Heroes
9. The Office
10. Glee
So what should this list mean, if anything, to the broadcast nets that air them? Not much, unfortunately. Says one high-powered suit at the Big Four: “Though it’s a nice list that indicates enthusiasm for a show, right now the live ratings mean a lot more.” Translation: ABC would prefer that you McDreamy fans watch the show when it actually airs — not on Saturday nights when you’re dateless and alone.
Madonna: Exes Guy Ritchie, Sean Penn Encouraging!
Madonna is, of course, a transcendant pop music star, nearly unparalleled in her success in that industry. But while she won a Golden Globe for her starring role in Evita, the Material Girl's film experience, as a whole, is thin at best. So when she decided that it was time to direct her second movie, she needed some help.
Luckily, she's a bit chummy with a couple guys who've spent some time in the movie industry.
Speaking at the Venice Film Festival in a press conference for her British royal period drama, "W.E.," the superstar thanked ex-husbands Guy Ritchie and Sean Penn for helping her with the ambitious production.
"I am and was attracted to very creative people which is why I married Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, two very talented directors," Madonna said. "They both encouraged me as a director and as a creative person to do what I did, and they were both very supportive."
The film, about the drama between would-be King of England Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated his chance at the throne. She also told the press that she identified with Simpson, especially.
"I identified with her in that I think it's very common when people become celebrities or public figures or icons that we are often reduced to a soundbite and that you're given a few attributes and then you're not allowed to have anything more than that," the director said.
"W.E." has received mixed reviews, including this largely cool one from The Hollywood Reporter.
Cover Boy - Kellan Lutz
Kellan Lutz shows of his hot body in the photos from GQ Style Autralia’s September issue.
The 26-year-old actor, who’s also featured on the mag’s cover, posed for photographer Robbie Fimmano and shared how he keeps in tip top shape.
“I get bored working out inside, so the beach has been my place lately,” he explained.
“I run, I swim, I play paddleball, basketball, do some mixed martial arts. I like mixing this up,” he added.
For more of Kellan’s interview and pics, head on over to GQ.com.au and check out some behind-the-scenes video from his cover shoot!
Rob Kardashian's Rear End
Rob, who will be on "Dancing With The Stars" this coming season has something in common with his sisters:
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Kelly Clarkson's 'Mr. Know It All' Single: What Do You Think?
We all know Kelly Clarkson "Does Not Hook Up," but in her new single, "Mr. Know It All," she's warning suitors with a different but equally empowered message: "Baby, you don't know a thing about me." Listen below.
"Mr. Know It All," the first single off Clarkson's "Stronger" album, premiered yesterday evening on her official website. The track hit radio directly following the webcast, and will be available at all digital retailers on Sept. 5.
Maroon 5 / Christina Aguilera's 'Jagger' Moves to No. 1
Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera, struts to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, rolling 4-1 with Airplay Gainer honors for a third consecutive week. Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine makes chart headlines of his own, as well, thanks to a leap into the top 10 as a guest on Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts."
"Jagger" returns for a second week at No. 1 on Digital Songs (2-1) with 217,000 downloads sold (up 6%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. On Radio Songs, the collaboration darts 15-11 with 72 million all-format audience impressions (up 20%), according to Nielsen BDS.
The song marks Maroon 5's second Hot 100 No. 1. The band previously reigned for three weeks in 2007 with "Makes Me Wonder." For Aguilera, the return to the chart's apex ends an even greater hiatus. She had last ruled alongside Lil' Kim, Mya and P!nk on "Lady Marmalade" for five weeks in 2001. "Jagger" is Aguilera's fifth Hot 100 No. 1. She banked three leaders from her self-titled debut album in 1999-2000: "Genie in a Bottle," "What a Girl Wants" and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)."
The accolades don't end, however, for Maroon 5's frontman Adam Levine. He concurrently enters the Hot 100's top 10 (15-10) as a featured artist on Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts." The track vaults 7-3 on Digital Songs (146,000, up 28%) and 37-23 on Radio Songs (40 million, up 28%).
The ascensions of "Jagger" and "Stereo" grant Levine an unprecedented (and certainly quirky) Hot 100 achievement: he becomes the first artist in the chart's 53-year history to reach No. 1 as part of a group and enter the top 10 as a soloist in the same week.
Happy Birthday - Debbie Gibson
Deborah Ann Gibson
August 31, 1970 - Age 41
Brooklyn, New York
August 31, 1970 - Age 41
Brooklyn, New York
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1987 she was pronounced the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, with her song "Foolish Beat" and she remains the youngest female to write, record, and perform a No. 1 single to date.[1]
She appeared on the covers of teen magazines (in the USA), such as Tiger Beat. She has gone on to starring roles on Broadway and touring musicals, as well as independent film and television work. She continues to record, and reached the Billboard Adult Contemporarychart as high as No. 24 during 2006 in a duet with Jordan Knight titled "Say Goodbye." She is currently touring with Tiffany.
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