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Take That, Gaga
4:50AM Brian Moylan | Barbra Streisand pulls off upset victory in the battle for gay America’s musical soul.
Music
Today A Musical War Is Waged For Gay America’s Soul
4:40AM Brian Moylan | This is a day that will go down in ginfamy (that is gay infamy) as the day that Mariah Carey, Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Britney Spears battled for supremacy in gay hearts and minds. Who will stand victorious? More »
People
Are Cameron Diaz And Keanu Reeves Feeling Minnesota Together?
10:08PM the cajun boy | Cameron Diaz and Keanu Reeves are allegedly dating, Spencer Pratt wants to be the next Brad Pitt, Michael Jackson’s gay lover speaks, Hayden Panettiere is dating the Pink Taco dude, Lindsay Lohan loses her phone and Penelope Cruz gets thicker. More »
When Bush Met Babs: A Defamer Romance
7:14AM STV | A momentous power summit accompanied last weekend’s Kennedy Centre Honours, where Barbra Streisand had her first-ever audience with President George Bush. Video from the event features Streisand — a vicious Bush critic who spent much of the recent election cycle as the Obama campaign’s Deputy Director of Fundraising Medleys — welcoming the outgoing president to not only within bitchslap’s-length, but actually close enough to share a skin-searing bipartisan kiss. More »Josh Brolin, You Can Love Your Dad, Just Don’t ‘Love’ Your Dad
5:50AM Kyle Buchanan | When we wondered a few weeks ago whether Josh Brolin might be bringing too much sexual energy to his role as George W. Bush in the upcoming Oliver Stone-directed biopic W., little did we know how much extra erotic mojo the actor has to throw around. In fact, in an interview with (the very appropriately named) W magazine, a freshly unjailed Brolin revealed the recipient of his most unlikely sexual crush — his own father, James Brolin: More »5:40AM STV | What a Gyp: So what did $2,500 get you at last night’s wallet-draining Barbra Streisand concert for Barack Obama? Four songs — and not even her best, we hear, with Streisand going all conceptual during a quartet featuring, “When the Sun Comes Out,” “Make Someone Happy,” “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” and “Shining Hour.” Meanwhile, for $26,000 more you could have shared rubber chicken and a playful slap from the candidate himself: “[T]his is not a game. This is not a reality show, no offence to any of you,” Obama told an elite, amused gathering of 250 industry insiders. “This is not a sitcom.” Expect a fair, even-handed and appropriately unfunny SNL riff on the matter this weekend. [Fox News] More »
6:00AM Seth | Barbra/Bush AwkwardWatch: On the eve of her command performance at an Obama fundraiser at the Regent Beverly Wilshire, Barbra Streisand has learned she’s been made a Kennedy Centre Honoree, which involves a reception at the White House, then sitting in a balcony just inches away from President George W. Bush as she relives her life in variety show form. To make things even more awkward, ABC News also points out that this will come two months after “Streisand’s stepson, Josh Brolin, hits theatres playing Bush in the Oliver Stone-directed biopic W.” Oh, can’t we set aside our petty differences just one night to bliss out to the underrated sex appeal of Marvin Hamlisch, people? [ABC News] More »