GLEE: GLEE gets a second-season pick-up way early, and announces a nationwide casting search to find the perfect person for three new roles. Hm, this sounds very American Idol-y, but gayer, which we love. Though the article incorrectly claims GLEE launched the singing careers of its young, talented cast (Lea Michele’s singing career started in 1987, wethinks), we’re excited to see all the bright-eyed youths come out in droves and offer video confessionals about how they are uncool in school. GO AUDITION CHILDREN! This is what Ryan Murphy has to say for himself:
“Anybody and everybody now has a chance to be on a show about talented underdogs. No matter who you are a Broadway talent or a struggling singing waiter with a dream in the Midwest you now have an opportunity to make that dream come true by posting your talent video and showing us what you can do. ALL the roles will be chosen from the video audition process, which is exciting and unprecedented. We want to be the first interactive musical comedy on television, and the search is ON.”
Building upon the show’s incredibly supportive community of GLEEks and with the hope of bringing fans even closer to the series, auditions will be open to amateur individuals as well as professionals between the ages of 16-26, and all hopefuls will be able to submit auditions online. Additional details to be announced soon, please check Fox’s Website for updates.
JILLIAN MICHAELS: Jillian Michaels visited The Ellen Show today! Anyone got a video? Well we got a photo, they’re doing SQUATS!
SKINS: Skins are taking over UK magazine stands with covers of COMPANY magazine and Stella (the teen issue!). So now we can all be super super excitant about more Naomi & Emily. Maybe we could recap it if there was a way to watch it in the US or Autstralia?
REAL L WORD: More from Showtime’s TCA Tour!: Coming soon is Showtime’s first foray into the world of traditional reality series. Get ready for “The Real L Word of Los Angeles,” which Greenblatt says will be on the air probably this summer. “We’ve just cast those women,” he said, “so at some point we will parade them in front of you for some kind of grilling…and I mean ‘parade’ in the best sense of the word.”
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: Speaking exclusively with ComingSoon.net on Sunday at the press junket for When in Rome, Will Arnett confirmed that an Arrested Development feature film should go into production sometime this year. (@comingsoon)
THE LYNCH CAN DO NO WRONG: Jane Lynch is interviewed at the UK Guardian, where she says that if she were an ingènue like Kate Winslet, being openly gay would hurt her career. But ’cause she’s a character actor it’s fine ’cause no one is projecting romantic fantasies onto her.
On gay marriage: “Shouldn’t there be safeguards against the majority voting on the rights of a minority? If people voted on civil rights in the 60s, it would have never happened. It took somebody like [President] Lyndon Johnson going, ‘F all of you! I’m going to do this… Obama won’t do it. He’s a huge disappointment to me.”
TILA: Tila Tequila had a big day on Sunday according to twitter in which she showed that she is just like us.
1. Admitted that she has no friends:
“NO FOR THE LAST TIME I HAVE NO FAMILY OR FRIENDS! YES I FINALLY ADMITTED IT! I AM A LOSER! MY DOG & HER WAS ALL I HAD! Why do I tweet so much? Even before Casey passed away? BECAUSE I HAVE NO FRIENDS! THERE! THE TRUTH COMES OUT! PPL say I need to get off twitter & grieve with friends & family… WHERE? I DON’T HAVE ANY! Casey was my only family & my Dogs!”
2. Told us she was gonna give us a piece of her life story, but then kept on going. Classic blogger move.
3. Decided to delete all her posts about Jasmine, which is good b/c those posts made us feel really itchy:
“Actually I’m gonna delete all my blogs about that nasty looking thing on my website. It’s scaring away all my fans & giving her more press. I’m deleting all those blogs now.”
“There! I just deleted all the NEGATIVE shit off my twitter and website! Negative people are gross!”
“1st I would like to Apologize to GOD for feeling vindictive. It’s tough right now, but I’m better than that. So I apologize God. Never again.”
CASEY: Also New York Magazine has an interesting piece on Casey by former Page Six writer Paula Froelich: “I won’t sit here and tell you how amazing, sweet, and generous Casey Johnson was. Or how we were “friends.” We had a contentious, symbiotic relationship. She was the billionairess who liked to be the center of attention, and I was the gossip columnist who would chronicle her exploits—in some ways her very existence, at least how she seemed to want to live it.”
Tila Tequila is disappointed she wasn’t invited to Casey’s funeral: “Over the weekend, Tila (real name: Tila Nguyen) told E! News: “I don’t want to talk about the funeral. I wasn’t allowed to go, and I am so upset. I can’t sleep, and I am on suicide watch.” (@usweekly)
REALITY TV: Students at a California beauty college were shocked to find out the owners of their school were shopping the following reality TV proposal:“The students are mostly inner-city, unwed mothers taking advantage of government subsidies for a better life. The instructors can’t find any other job that offers ‘bennies’ [benefits]. The new owners are white, naive suburbanites bleeding cash and trying to keep it all under control.” (@bitchmag)
CALVIN & HOBBES: Calvin Faces: they did them. All of them. From Calvin & Hobbes. It’s amazing, you really have to see it to believe it. (@buzzfeed)
WHAT WOULD JON THINK?: Brian Williams tell us why Jon Stewart is good for news. “A lot of the work that Jon and his staff do is serious,” Williams says. “They hold people to account, for errors and sloppiness. … It’s usually delivered with a smile — sometimes not. It’s not who we do it for, it’s not our only check and balance, but it’s healthy — and it helps us that he’s out there.” (@npr)
NETFLIX: The New York Times has a really cool infographic about which netflix movies are rented and where. Milk is in the top 10 almost everywhere in Manhattan and also in a lot of places in New Jersey. (@nytimes)
LEZ: Meet the man behind Lady Gaga; Nicola Formichetti, her fashion stylist! (@lezbehonest)
Re: Skins… have you tried filmon.com? It works for me from France and allows you to watch BBC channels as well as E4 and others streaming live. It works for me from France… may be difficult to recap without recording capabilities, but better than nothin’.
I was just talking today about Jon Stewart and how great/awful it is that a comedian often does more than anyone to hold politicians/the media accountable for being ridiculous. I love him SO MUCH.
ps. you sign up for filmon, but no charge
Thanks for the tip! So with filmon.com, can you only stream the episodes live, or does it allow you to watch them again once they’ve aired?
You can watch the channels live. There may be a re-watch option if you subscribe, but I haven’t looked into it (I’ve justed used it pretty minimally for Dr. Who/Top Gear and a morbid fascination with Come Dine With Me :P).
CRYSTAL! i will sends skins to you. then you can watch it over and over and over again. don’t worry, it’s totally selfish. i just want to read the recap. don’t hate me. <3
DEAL. We’ll have to find a more efficient way of sending files than Australia Post.
you know, it’d probably be a LOT more efficient if i actually send things when i say i will. instead of procrastinating for a month and a half. just sayin’
so. i’m gonna work on that.
but if you have any other ideas, i’m listening.
Skins is uploaded everywhere on the world wide web, but I can understand if you’re principally against using the online versions or feel obligated to pretend like you are. The screenshots would obviously be terrible/AWESOME. You should have more British friends.
that Netflix infographic has kept me occupied for like a whole 10 minutes. I looked at everywhere I’ve ever lived because all 3 of those places are on there haha. NYC has Milk as #1 Boca Raton, FL has Milk as #9 but frankly I was surprised it was on there at all for them.
Also, my mom said she would leave my dad in a second for Brian Williams. I just felt the need to share that with the internet. I know she’d appreciate that and so would my dad
I also feel the need to comment on how just after I sent that comment I heard my mom say “make sure you record ‘my Brian’ ”
I like Jon Stewart more
I’m just going to come out and say this: Poor Tila. I feel for her. There, may God and a thousand less-easily emotionally manipulated lesbians strike me down for it.
May no one ever strike you down for showing another human being compassion.
Word.
Word.
Dear Liz, Always refresh the page after taking your sweet ass time reading the articles. You may end up commenting and looking like a douche.
XO Me.
Also- buy toothpaste
Seriously, when I heard the news about Casey, I had this emotional urge to call Tila and offer my condolences. But then I thought, “Wait, you interviewed her one time; don’t be a creeper.”
Sounds like she’d probably appreciate it, actually.
I second this.
Thirded, and add some love from me sitting in Brisbane as well.
Please please please do it!
Jillian and Ellen should of made out instead of doing squat
*no pun porsh* lol
well to me thats a big step for tila to have taken down the blogs about Jasmine, maybe shes trying…
and wow i’m late, i just realized when you click the persons gravatar photo you get directed to their link or site smh…i am soo late for this i know
…!!! That’s a revelation to me! *clicks on interesting gravatars like yours*
I see those Calvin faces every day because I have my own personal Calvin. It’s cute until it’s school picture time…or soccer picture time…or really anytime a camera is nearby.
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omg my skin just melted off from seeing that GA-ORGEOUS photo of the skins girls.
I just finished watching Skins season 3 (literally) and I want/need to see season 4 (even though it makes me feel skeevy because I am like, 109 years older than the cast…)!
Skins, as possibly one of the most entertaining shows around right now, is semi-inaccessible for US viewers when it comes out (no pun intended) in the UK. If you’re patient, you can wait for the edited, subtitled version that airs on BBC America and is sold on iTunes. If you’re not, be stealthy and find it somewhere on the web…I’m not gonna say how, but there are ways. FYI…
On another note, I’m sooooo happy the premiere is this month. My friends and I at school are organizing a Skins viewing party, which will happen at our LGBT Center and will be AMAZING!!! Love it!
Naomily FTW!
Your link to the New York Post article on Casey is broken…
I’m not so sure how I feel about Glee casting people this way, probs b/c I have a strong dislike for idol. I love the chemistry the cast has now, and don’t want anyone disrupting it.
p.s. has anyone else noticed all the lesbianic photos and videos on the interweb of lea michele (rachel) and diana agron (quinn)? no? just me?
hey i’m in that set of calvin faces!
2nd set #3 in the first row :P