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Academy Awards Snub "8: The Mormon Proposition" In Best Documentary Category Shortlist

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Yesterday the  AMPAS announced the list of 15 films that will contend for next year’s five Best Documentary Feature slots, and although there are several worthy films included (Waiting for “Superman”, Exit Through the Gift Shop, and The Tillman Story among them),  noticeably missing was Reed Cowan’s 8: The Mormon Proposition a scorching documentary  indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California’s Proposition 8. Also missing from  this years list was “gayish” acclaimed exposé Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, one of the sweetest and most fascinating films, unscripted or otherwise, of the year

The same branch failed to put Kirby Dick’s “Outrage” on its shortlist last year and in years past the classic gay documentary “Paris Is Burning”

I guess the moral of the story here is: If you’re gunning for a Best Documentary Oscar nod these days, you better not be gay or Joan Rivers.

( And before anyone says it. Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop doesn’t count.  It’s an ART Documentary)

What’s "Too Gay" Today? – Did Tom Cruise Hit On Zac Efron?, Christians Boycott William Shatner!, Evan Lysacek Twats, Married Gay Mormon Couple, Jack Mackenroth Winner!, and Big "TORCHWOOD: The New World" News!

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*  The Parents Television Council is calling for a boycott of William Shatner’s new show, $#*! My Dad  because the title implies a curse word.  $#*! You PTC!

*  Tom Cruise recently flagged Zac Efron down in the lobby of CAA. and used a creepy troll like pick-up line.  “You ride motorcycles?” Cruise asked? (Why didn’t he just ask if he liked Gladiator movies?) Cruise then invited him out to his house, taught him how a motorcycle engine works, showed him the hangar with his dozens of pristine bikes—including the Triumphs he rode in the Mission: Impossible movies. Efron was allowed to ride a pedigree-less dirt bike.  When Zac was ashed why Cruise “reached out to him”  Zac replied:  “I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t even want to know.   Yo Cruise! Back away from my Zac you short, crazy cultist creep!  (By the way your last movie SUCKED!)

*  Evan Lysacek was a “twat” on Twitter this weekend when he posted that the “verdict is still out” on Johnny Weir’s gender.  (Will you two just get a room and fuck already!  Oh, wait.  It would be lesbianism right?)

*  Married Gay Mormon Couple Spencer and Tyler, who were featured in the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition, say “Thnak You” to Judge Vaugh Walker, 

*  HIV Activist Jack Mackenroth (and former Project Runway contestant) won BIG this week at the Gay Games in Colonge, Germany winning 7 Gold Medals!  (Love Jack. he has a nose only a scalpel could sculpt.)

*  Torchwood’s creator Russell T Davies sat down and discussed some details for the fourth season of Torchwood that will be titled “Torchwood:  The New World”.  The events of Torchwood: TNW take place two years after the grim conclusion of of Children of Earth including the death of Captain Jack’s lover Ianto Jones. Joining Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) in TNW will be an American CIA agent named Rex Matheson (the part is not yet cast). Davies says that Matheson is an “entrance into the new story,” a way for new viewers to learn about Torchwood along with the character. Davies explains that given the fact that Torchwood was destroyed and the team broken up after CoE, Matheson will have no idea what Torchwood is since “It’s like something that ceased to exist a long time ago that’s spoken of only in whispers. It’s like a legend now.”   Read more….