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Last night I attended the 2010 NYC GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, where industry hotshots mingled with wealthy supporters as media contributions to LGBT equality were recognized in numerous categories. Joy Behar and Cynthia Nixon were honored for their outspoken activism and other top awards went to ABC’s Brothers & Sisters for Best Television Drama, …

An almost shot-for-shot copy of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage.

The Facebook campaign for Betty White to host Saturday Night Live has been successful. Joining the Golden Girl for the special Mother’s Day episode are six former SNL players, most of whom are moms: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch. At 88, White will be the show’s oldest host ever, and the gig …

Don’t click on the comments if your tired buttocks haven’t gotten around to Monday’s episode. If you have, let’s dish the elimination and the challenge winner.

The New York Times reports: The dolls are part of a premium-price collectors’ series for adults that Mattel calls the Barbie Fashion Model Collection. Although there have been Barbies and Kens based on other TV series, among them “I Love Lucy” and “The X-Files,” the dolls will be the first licensed line for that collection, Mattel says, with a suggested …

Former teen idol and actor Corey Haim has been found dead of a drug overdose at the age of 38. Haim died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. He was found unresponsive inside an Oakwood apartment, between Burbank and the Hollywood Hills, police said. His mother was at the home …

“Culture warrior” and infamous homophobe Janet Porter, the founder of the wacko Christianist group Faith2Action, is praying to the baby Jeebus for total Christian control of the American media. Enjoy the crazy! (Via – Right Wing Watch)

“I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never. I believe that nobody owes anything to anybody. Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don’t know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life? “I feel like …

The image above was ABC7’s misleading final message to NYC last night just before their parent company Disney yanked their signal to Cablevision’s three million subscribers. Disney wants a $40M annual chunk of the dough that Cablevision collects for local/basic channels like ABC7 and the cable provider won’t pay it. So Disney pulled the plug, not Cablevision, despite what the …

Last night Craig Ferguson devoted his entire opening monologue to the Ashburn scandal to hilarious results. Too many great jokes, I’ll just tip you to one. (Paraphrasing) “Police knew Ashburn had been in a gay bar because he tested positive for appletinis.” The final joke is the best, though.

LOGO has rejiggered their casting call for their gay take on the Housewives phenomenon after their first concept about houseboys, Kept, resulted in few applicants. The new title: The Gay Socialites Of New York. Retch. (Via Brian Moylan @ Gawker)

Riding on the success of RuPaul’s Drag Race, in two weeks VH1 will launch Transform Me, a show in which women are madeover by the show’s transgender stars. VH1 and Left/Right Inc. have teamed up to create a new breed of fashion makeover show, Transform Me. Each half-hour episode follows the makeover of one woman badly in need of a …

I never heard of this phenomenon until Rachel Maddow covered it the other day, but a quick search on YouTube reveals hundreds of clips of dogs howling to the Law & Order theme song. So strange.

The greatest fake ad for C-SPAN that could ever be. (Via – AmericaBlog)

I propose a new drinking game based on the catch phrases of House Hunters. One shot each for: Upgrade. Vaulted. Outdated. Flow. Jack and Jill. Hardwood. Backsplash. Bonus room. Man cave. Curb appeal. Crown molding. Two shots for every time the husband says “fabulous” or “plantation shutters.”

Christianist groups are so horrified by the rumor that Howard Stern might replace Simon Cowell on American Idol, they’ve launched a preemptive petition campaign aimed at the show’s producers at Fox. WHEREAS American Idol has come to be trusted by America’s Families as reliable, family friendly entertainment. WHEREAS Howard Stern is one of the most profane, sexually-explicit and anti-family performers …

America’s most famous unwed mother will play herself in an upcoming ABC series called The Secret Life Of The American Teenager. Bristol Palin, daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, will play herself as a friend to the show’s protagonist, Amy, at a music program for teen mothers. “Secret Life” focuses heavily on how Amy’s family and friends deal …

Media Matters notes: “Almost three months to the day since Fox News instituted its “zero tolerance for on-screen errors” policy, the [above] on-screen graphic was displayed during the February 22 edition of America’s Newsroom.”

JMG reader Robert tips us to this bit from the sitcom Accidentally On Purpose, which retreads a somewhat familiar device: pretending to be gay but attached in order to fend off unwanted advances from your gay friend.