Gil Soares (Image by Skye Tan for Garçon Model)
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DailyMail.com: Clay Adler, a 27-year-old reality star who became known on Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County from 2007-2008, took his own life while on a trip to the California desert with friends.
Adler reportedly shot himself in the head March 25, passing away from his injuries the following day.
Adler was a frequent hot-list choice for years. He acted in small roles in The Fish Tank and Make It or Break It (both 2009).
Bruce Vilanch (Image via Help Is on the Way)
When you get an opportunity to interview Bruce Vilanch, one of the most celebrated comedy writers in history and a way-out gay man to boot (and boots go with anything), you do not pass it by.
Vilanch spoke with me last week about a cause close to his heart, the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation and the great work it does and will continue to do thanks to the bucks it seeks to rake in from a one-night-only Help Is on the Way cabaret benefit: the Broadway touring cast of Beautiful will perform in Motown & More on Monday, September 12, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. at the Marines' Memorial Theater in San Francisco.
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The highly anticipated show will be co-hosted by Vilanch and operatic drag diva Katya Smirnoff-Skyy. Get your tickets here.
Vilanch's career took off when a friendship with Bette Midler (before she was Bette Midler!) led to him writing for her 1974 Broadway show Clams on the Half Shell. He's collaborated with her many times, and has written for a dizzying array of TV shows and performers, from Donny Osmond to Elizabeth Taylor, and for some of the funniest people of our time: Robin Williams, Roseanne Barr (she really did used to be funny), Billy Crystal, Lily Tomlin and more.
Help Is on the Way performers speak out about the charity:
Somehow, Vilanch has been able to be a part of the best and worst of pop culture, writing for the Oscars for 27 years and counting, and also counting The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976-1977) and that infamous Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) among his credits. He is the nuclear cockroach of HA!, and always the best thing about whatever project he's tackling.
Vilanch survives in any milieu because everyone knows he knows from funny. He's beloved because, unlike some very funny people, he also has a sense of humor about himself, and a sense of duty toward the gay community and people in need.
Read on for my chat with the most hilarious person in the room, because the room is usually filled with people delivering lines he's given them to say ...
"Your honor, we have decided that I am the victim in this case even though it doesn't involve me in any way" pic.twitter.com/HDPhPCoPhv
— Herbo (@HerbMcDerb) August 29, 2016
Taylor Swift gets called for jury duty, but is dismissed.
Britney has “no recollection” of her first MTV VMAs performance. Is she trapped in another era?
As I wrote—Frank Ocean is intentionally mysterious. Hard to blog about him all the time!
How Frank Ocean become one of the most mysterious artists working in music https://t.co/4x5k5p5tIw pic.twitter.com/QlPSzvL2C9
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 30, 2016
Corey Lewandowski—fired by Trump, hired by CNN—is back with Trump?!
God, the U.S. continues to be flushed down the toilet by itself: Rick Perry joining DWTS.
Gay writer Bob Smith, who is battling ALS, typed his new book with one finger on his iPad.
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I think I need a moment after watching @beyonce’s #VMA performance https://t.co/lYVFfrIenO
— MTV (@MTV) August 29, 2016
ABOVE: Beyoncé wins MTV VMAs Video of the Year for “Formation,” dedicates award to New Orleans.
Beyoncé brought the Mothers of the Movement to the show.
Rihanna said her success is shared by just about everyone. (Video still via MTV)
Rihanna's performances knock 'em dead at VMAs; 28-year-old takes home Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Speech.
.@MichaelPhelps' reaction to @jimmyfallon dressed as Ryan Lochte though... 😂 #VMAs pic.twitter.com/VEOxz0yFfw
— ExtraTV (@extratv) August 29, 2016
Jimmy Fallon roasted Ryan Lochte for his lying scandal. ABOVE: Michael Phelps was shocked.
I don't get the appeal of this song. Anyone? (Video still via MTV)
ABOVE: Britney decides to go sexy for a change with “Make Me ... ” performance at MTV VMAs with G- Eazy.
— Jesse⚡️ (@LesseJongerbeam) August 29, 2016
ABOVE: Not-gay Nick Jonas performed “Bacon” on the VMAs, and Joanne Prada scammed her way into it.
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Attitude Magazine offers this stirring cover in honor of the 49 people killed in Orlando, using each and every one of their faces as a backdrop for a never-going-away rainbow.
With its release comes word that four survivors of the Pulse shooting, all gay, are taking part in MTV's True Life: We Are Orlando, a reality series documenting their painful road to recovery:
One of the survivors, Tony, opens up on the episode about the difficulties he’s faced both physically and mentally since the attack, during which he was shot in the back and arm, before losing consciousness on the floor of Pulse and waking up in hospital.
“People think that because I got released from the hospital, and I’m in rehab right now, that I’m OK,” he says. “I’m not OK. I’m still connected to a machine because of my back. I have a hole in my back. My arm is still shattered. It’s healing, but I don’t have movement in my two fingers.”
(Video still via MTV)
Remember MTV's cheesetastic Undressed? Here's a particularly gay flashback ...
(Video still via MTV)
I remember watching the cringe-inducing Next!, but didn't think it had been 10 years already. Watch why this was the kind of show that wasn't exactly the greatest for gay visibility ...
