- Chastity Bono was at Tom Cruise’s apartment when her mother learned that she was gay. Cher, “having discovered this fact over the phone, was furious and told her daughter to leave Tom Cruise’s New York apartment where she had been staying, then hung up. WTF? He was helping her come out? [Scoop]
- Comic Robin Williams, a close friend of Christopher Reeve, insists he will take care of the orphaned son of Christopher and Dana Reeve, after the teenager's mother died of lung cancer last week. [ABC4]
- Meredith Vieira has said she wouldn't rule out the possibility of jumping to the "Today" show if Katie Couric decides to leave NBC for a CBS anchor slot. What would the girls at The View do? Poor Joy Behar. [NYP]
- Macaulay Culkin gets one thing in the introduction to his new book Junior right, "I'm not a writer." [ABC News]
- The Sex Pistols keep up their punk rock ideology by not showing up for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [Reuters]
- Get a taste of what David Beckham was like as a teenager. Read a recently sold letter of his from when he was 16. He calls himself Dave. [Towleroad]
- Master P and his brother, rapper Silkk the Shocker, pleaded guilty to weapons charges stemming from their arrests last month for carrying unregistered guns. The two face up to three years in state prison if convicted. Register your guns people. [TMZ]
- You can say that Keanu Reeves is gay, and he won't care. Are you listening Tom Cruise? Don't fight it, embrace it. [IDLYITW]
- Who will be the next American Idol? Odds are on Chris Daughtry, the rocker. [popwatch]
- Say goodbye one last time to the Plaza. [Jossip]
Small Fry says:
Shame shame Tom. L Ron would be mighty upset if he knew you were helping a gay person.
Tahler says:
L. Ron Hubbard was not homophobic.
He wrote hundreds of works over half a century on the subject of mind, education, drug rehabilitation and related subjects. If you, "Small Fry", pick an isolated quote from 1950, you will NOT understand what Hubbard had to say about homosexuality. Remember, in 1950, the American Psychiatric Association had homosexuality labelled as a "Mental Disorder." It took the work of Frank Kameny and the Mattachine Society many years to get them to change that finally in 1963. Yet, in 1967, two years before the Stonewall riots and only four years after the American Psychiatric Association stopped calling us mentally ill, and long before any other major church instituted policies of non-discrimination based on sexual orientation, L. Ron Hubbard wrote the non-discrimination policy I referred to BELOW in bold capital letters:
"It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or to attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition... Therefore ALL FORMER RULES, REGULATIONS AND POLICIES RELATING TO THE SEXUAL ACTIVITIES OF SCIENTOLOGISTS ARE CANCELLED."
Kelsey says:
YO, Tahler....take a pill would you?
Fry was making a joke, because for those of us who don't read/care about scientology, it was funny.
Scientologists are on Crack says:
Hello,
I worship a science fiction writer. I believe that he is a decorated war hero, even though that isn't true. i follow a religion that takes my money to get to "higher levels" of the truth. i believe that AIDS is a state of mind and it can be cured by paying money to learn the truth. i worship celebrities...
CUS says:
that last comment was insanely funny stuff...
doofus says:
one thing I don't understand about Scientology...
don't they claim that they can "cure" homosexuality?
if the official church stance is that there's nothing wrong with it, why would they need to "cure" anybody of that "affliction"?