ABOVE: A timeless work of art, and he looks like Juan Pablo Di Pace, no?!
KENNETH IN THE (212): Maybe I should have taken up tennis.
The wife of one of Butker's ex-teammates let him have it. (Images via video still & Instagram)
NBC NEWS: Kicker (that's all he does for the Chiefs — he kicks) Harrison Butker, gave a shocking commencement speech, albeit at a right-wing college, in which he urged women to be homemakers and obey their husbands. He also used Taylor Swift's clout to get his point across, an idiotic and shockingly uncivil thing to do to teammate Travis Kelce.
Having told graduating women to stay at home, interestingly, the Handmaid's Tale fan has a mom who is an accomplished physicist. Something doesn't add up, and this is not a reference to women being bad at math.
CBS reports the NFL has responded by disavowing the speech (which Fox News characterized as faith-based):
Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.
DAILY BEAST: Trump will pick a woman or a Black man as his veep (there is no Black woman of enough national prominence whom Trump could select), and this makes me queasy that insufferable Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) will be his choice.
ADVOCATE: Michael McDonald and Wilson Cruz (above right) play a gay couple in Brooke Shields's Mother of the Bride ... and they're happy and well-adjusted! Groundbreaking, and shouldn't be.
CBS NEWS: VP Harris dropped the F-bomb — and with good reason, in context. I still think Hillary would have beaten Trump had she, during their too-close debate moment, told him to get the fuck away from her.
NYT: The case in New York against Trump is “incredibly strong.” Maybe that is why so, so many Republican flunkies from Congress are flocking to the trial — they know he'll be convicted, and they want to benefit from smearing the proceedings as biased and banana-republica stuff.
OUT: In an extensive new Q&A with Out, Jonathan Groff says:
Being gay has allowed me to forge my own path.
It is refreshing to hear an out actor referring to his sexual orientation as a plus, not as a negative.
SOCIALITE LIFE: It's insane that King Charles saw this portrait of himself and didn't immediately put the kibosh on it.
Look at that vest — stolen valor chic. (Image via video still)
TWITTER: Valentina Gomez, 25, is running to be Missouri's SOS, and I guess because she is a Latina running as GOP, she felt the need to toss gays on the bonfire — her new campaign, er, ad shows her jogging through a historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood and snarling that you can be ANYTHING in life, so:
Don't be weak and gay.
Also, try not being a cunt. P.S. The great Lupe Fiasco, whose music is illegally used in the spot, is known for rejecting homophobic words in music:
We are aware and currently taking action.
— CHECKIN’ Out Now! #APTMC (@LupeFiasco) May 14, 2024
Thank you. #TeamLupe
DEADLINE: Speaking of cunts (look, I loved her past work, too, but trashing an employee as a “little homosexual boy” and doing faith-based films ...
... makes loving the bitchy rep a hard position to maintain), Faye Dunaway is having a moment. Deadline loved her new doc Faye (nearly the same title as the '70s Lee Grant series!), though the review could have been written by an eighth-grader (“I found myself wanting to watch many of her films all over again, even The Happening, which is best known today for the title song by Diana Ross and the Supremes. Dunaway said she had a blast making it. Good enough for me.”) On the other hand, the Awards Watch review was meh. Most interestingly, Dunaway comes out as bipolar in the doc, which helps to explain her notoriously erratic, unpleasant behavior, even if it begs the question as to why she isn't consistently medicated for it into her 80s.
Faye is having a moment of sorts — I posted that video of her botched Master Class TV spot from 1996, only to see that nine days later I was walking into an L.A. BBQ and overhearing the little homosexual boys quoting it ... and then, a day later, to see it explicitly parodied on SNL!
The sketch, which also mocks Lauren Bacall coffee ads from 40+ years ago, is cute, but it devolves into a fart joke. Here is the Bacall ad that was a co-inspiration:
EXTRATV: The POS who allegedly punched Steve Buscemi in a random attack in NYC has been IDed.
As awful as it is, let's not forget NYC remains relatively safe, and is safer than the cities in which many of its loudest critics live.
INSTAGRAM: OMG — my favorite picture in forever has to be this snap of nasty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) and murderous Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) hanging out together in NYC. Little House on the Bad Seed!
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