The writer who raised celebrity hackles with a widely read Newsweek.com essay about gay actors playing straight (and even earned himself a reference a...
popeater.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Melissa Etheridge's eleventh studio album, 'Fearless Love,' is dropping at the same time as she's rebuilding her love life from the ground up. The 48-...
AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A gay rights group is demanding an apology from Newsweek magazine for a recent story that the group says suggested gay actors can'...
Huffington Post | Lindsay Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011
Ramin Setoodeh, the Newsweek journalist who wrote the controversial "Straight Jacket" piece in April, is leaving Newsweek to write for People magazine...
Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011
The lesson on this Columbine anniversary that hits April 20 may not come from the shootings themselves. But rather, how the media has covered the shootings since the ten-year anniversary last year.
James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011
When musicals like Memphis and Million Dollar Quartet are able to snag nods for best musical... it's certain that the creative juices flowing around Times Square were strained this past season.
Posted 05.25.2011
Since Ramin Setoodeh wrote an article in Newsweek last month criticizing Sean Hayes' performance in 'Promises, Promises' because gays can't play strai...
Jason Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011
At the end of the day, if Setoodeh can't accept a gay actor in a straight role, then that's really his problem, isn't it? And he needs to keep that in the closet.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
It may be a rough weekend for some members of the media who are coming off cringe-worthy weeks. Below, check out the Media Losers of the Week, and vot...
Posted 05.25.2011
Since Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh wrote a now-infamous criticism of Sean Hayes' capacity to step out of gay and play straight in 'Promises, Promises,' h...
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
While the real world is not Broadway and filming Sex in the City sequels, the fact is that there are tens of thousands of gay men and women who perform in "straight roles" every day in the US military.
Aaron Sorkin | Posted 05.25.2011
With all due respect to Kristin Chenoweth and all the Internet posters who've crashed down on the theater critic who claimed that gay actors can't and shouldn't play straight characters, I don't think the critic was being homophobic. Just wrong.
Posted 05.25.2011
Kristin Chenoweth has rushed to the defense of her 'Promises, Promises' costar Sean Hayes, whom Newsweek criticized for not being able to pull off pla...
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