ABOVE: Gulp.

BELOW: Keep reading for a Hollywood tell-all, Republicans harassing a cancer patient and more ...

He even nabbed an ONJ blurb before she died. (Image via BearManor)

KENNETH IN THE (212): Joel Thurm, a former casting director who is now 80, is publishing a tell-all memoir in which he claims he bedded Robert Reed and was offered sex by Rock Hudson but was too intimidated to perform.

He also writes that Brando and James Dean were, in fact, lovers, but I can't see where that is detailed in the book or how he was privy to that info.

It is clear Thurm is well-liked by stars — he even gets a glowing blurb from John Travolta. That's not so surprising, considering Thurm cast Travolta in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (in which Reed was Travolta's dad, suggesting a gay gene), but it's a little surprising considering Thurm is blabbing about closeted stars with nary a word about Mr. Travolta.

I may have to — GASP! — read a book.

TWITTER: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is undergoing chemo, so is wearing a bandanna on his head. Incredibly, Speaker McCarthy is insisting he remove it! Raskin's response is if they force him to remove his bandanna, he'll force them to remove their toupees — zing!

Kevin McCarthy has insisted Jamie Raskin remove the headscarf he is wearing because chemotherapy has caused his hair to fall out.
You would think they would have compassion for a colleague with cancer but they are monsters. pic.twitter.com/sVFwVHiHgK

— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) February 1, 2023

TWITTER: Laverne Cox is exactly right — all these new anti-trans laws (some are mind-bogglingly invasive) are designed to try to make trans people not exist:

"They don't want trans people to exist. That's really what this whole project is about. And you can't make us not exist. That just doesn't work." --@lavernecox on bills to restrict transgender health care https://t.co/FzNdYKNflu pic.twitter.com/yVprR5knW2

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) January 19, 2023

How are these GOP laws not anti-freedom? (And don't bring up kids, because all the laws regarding kids are simply precursors to making it illegal to be transgender, period.)

CLICK ORLANDO: Another Boomer Trumper who lives in The Villages in Florida has admitted to voting more than once in the 2020 election. Election fraud is almost always committed by Republicans. And whenever it is committed intentionally, it should be punished harshly. Here, 62-year-old John Rider is able to avoid jail via a pre-trial intervention program. What a crock!

EXTRATV: The odious Dr. Phil is ending after 21 seasons. However, it sounds like we have Dr. Oz-like right-wing balderdash coming out way, albeit only on TV and not at the polls — Dr. Phil McGraw said in a statement:

I have been blessed with over 25 wonderful years in daytime television. With this show, we have helped thousands of guests and millions of viewers through everything from addiction and marriage to mental wellness and raising children. This has been an incredible chapter of my life and career, but while I’m moving on from daytime, there is so much more I wish to do ... I feel compelled to engage with a broader audience because I have grave concerns for the American family, and I am determined to help restore a clarity of purpose as well as our core values.

Oh, boy. More family-values like Bhad Bhabie?!

TWITTER: Pierre Poilievre, the right-wing douchebag who is running for Canadian PM blatantly plagiarized the 1984 Democratic National Convention speech by then-Gov. Mario Cuomo:

Hey @PierrePoilievre, care to explain why you despise liberals but plagiarize their words in your most recent speech?#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/6DQaL0hNu7

— Iqwinder S. Gaheer (@IqwinderSGaheer) January 31, 2023

He also disrespectfully refers to sitting PM Justin Trudeau by his first name.