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An opium-addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese ex-pat, an escaped slave, and a teen prostitute with one arm – not guys you’d peg as Civil War heroes, right? No so in “The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek.” Wendy Jo Cohen’s comedic mockumentary hones in on the lives of Colonel Jonathan Franklin Hale, General Li Shao-zu, Captain Elijah Swan, and Nick Brody, a quartet of very unlikely heroes who, even after saving the country during a battle that pitted 600 poor souls against an enemy army fifty times its size, went unrecognized because of sexism, racism and homophobia. In honor of “Pussy Willow Creek’s” March 1st to March 7th run at [ Read More ]

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In addition to his stellar reporting and news anchoring abilities, Anderson Cooper has made quite a habit of breaking into fits of giggles during his RidicuList segments on AC360, which are as endearing as they are hysterical. Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Cooper addressed his inability to keep it together while reporting on absurd happenings such as Gerard Depardieu’s airline urinating incident, and, most recently, while he explained the celebrated Polish-American holiday of Dyngus Day. Repeating his admission that he laughs like “a 12-year-old girl meeting Justin Bieber for the first time,” watch what else Cooper...

Michael Ausiello has some Glee news for next season, specifically how they'll handle the show-within-a-show aspect. It seems some episodes will be all in high school, and some will be all in New York. And yes, they intend to shoot some of the show on location in the Big Apple. But honestly, after last night I don't really care. I think I'll be getting a life – outside the series.

Alveda C. King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., who obviously knows nothing of her uncle, is angry at the NAACP endorsing marriage equality. "Neither my great-grandfather, an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda."

The White House has sent out invitations for the Pride reception,...

When he’s not dissolving into giggles on AC360, Anderson Cooper busies himself with leisurely gym trips (on Fridays, he works on his chest and back), jaunts to New York’s hottest bars and restaurants (see you at Booooooooof!), and endless posing for the paparazzi’s cameras. Well, according to Rush Limbaugh, anyway. The controversial radio host took aim at Cooper on Wednesday, blaming him for CNN’s recent ratings slump — and saying that the silver fox “is reported more in gossip columns to be at the gym, or that bar or restaurant, than he is in the studio.”

Cooper,...

Out’s list is out! The magazine just released its sixth annual power list of media mavens from entertainers to politicians that they deem the most powerful, and it is heavy with pop culture stars.

Making the list are talk-show titans Ellen Degeneres (#2) and Andy Cohen (#10), producing behemoth’s Ryan Murphy (#4), Scott Rudin (#13), and Alan Ball (#37), and clocking in at #40, Entertainment Weekly’s own Managing Editor Jess Cagle. Sitting at the top of the list is Apple CEO Tim Cook, who memorably took over for the late Steve Jobs last year.

Interestingly, Neil Patrick Harris (#11) and Jane Lynch (#47) are the...

Anderson Cooper added himself to his RidicuList segment last night after he was chastised for breaking out in a fit of giggles while describing Dyngus Day, a Polish-American holiday, during Tuesday’s AC360.

Cooper clarified that he didn’t put Dyngus Day itself on the RidicuList, but rather anyone who missed out on the holiday. He also explained that the “This is so stupid” remark he made during the giggle episode was directed at his inability to hold it together, not the holiday.

“I said it was stupid because it’s stupid that a grown man giggles like a 13-year-old...

Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins

Those of you in the Los Angeles area have two enticing theater options coming up. The first -- an absolute must see -- is the Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. It's coming to La soon from Broadway intact but for Bernadette Peters who will be replaced by another major but less famous talent, Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza). The other theater option is currently playing. I can't vouch for since I haven't seen it, but it's the one and only Kathleen Turner playing Molly Ivins in the one woman show Red Hot Patriot.

I have however seen Kathleen Turner live on stage twice (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and High) and she doesn't lose even one ounce of her charisma or gift on the stage the way many screen stars do when they attempt the transfer. Earlier this week she had...