Hearing Ellen qualify her outrage at a gay child's murder by saying "This is not political" seemed to map to her discomfort in addressing serious and, yes, political LGBT issues on air.
Animal lovers -- the "when I die I'll bury you right next to me, Mr. Sunggle-Wuggles, yes I wiiill!" hard-core ones -- have always had a misguided sense of proportion.
When Ellen asked me to do her show I was absolutely thrilled. I love her show! But with the writers on strike, I am unable to do it. This was a very difficult decision to make.
Ellen's reasoned plea for everyone to sit and stay, could be a blueprint for warring factions everywhere. I hope Condi has TiVo.
Ellen should convene a panel of rescue professionals on her own show as quickly as possible to discuss what these organizations do and how they do it.
Is it harsh to liken the Senator from Arizona and other civil unionists to segregationists who fought to the death to deny equality to blacks?
Were we wrong to think when Ellen was with Ann Heche that she was the stable one?
Just when you thought nothing worse could happen to Ellen DeG after her unfortunate canine adoption caper, comes the writer's strike bringing fresh grief to America's TV Sweetheart.
Hillary seems to provoke a condemnation disproportionate to her sins. She is not Dick Cheney. She is not even Lynne. She is not my candidate, but I do hate the word triangulate applied to her.
Women have been elected all over the country, in many states that Hillary Clinton lost. She didn't lose those primaries because she's a woman, she lost them because her message doesn't resonate with voters.
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If you need a celebrity to "come out" to legitimize your chosen lifestyle, maybe you need to re-evaluate your lifestyle.
Ellen DeGeneres coming out didn't legitimize the GLBTQ community, millions of people were happily living an "out" life and being accepted by their friends and family before she came out. When she came out, her show was cancelled and it was her talent, not her lifestyle that put her back on top. Comparing homosexuality to a desire to have sex with multiple partners from the safety of a lifetime commitment is disingenuous.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett being in an open marriage wouldn't convince me that open marriage is a great thing but that's mainly because I don't actually know of anyone who's made a success of an open marriage. I've been married for 28 years in a deliciously conventional marriage and we've seen friends and a family member go though hell because in each case, the open part of the marriage was only truly desired by one person in the marriage or they failed to disclose their agreement with their multiple partners and someone on the outside of their arrangement was hurt.
The fact that I've never seen it work in a practical sense doesn't mean it can't happen... but even Will Smith said in the UK mag interview that although they have an open marriage, they haven't yet gone outside their relationship...
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Cinemaven: I see your point about not needing Ellen to come out to "legitimize" things--however, her celebrity has helped in a very general way change the overall atmosphere for gays. Today she's an out lesbian with a top talk show. 10 years ago--never would've happened. Things have changed because of what she did.
But just because you don't know of any open marriages that work doesn't mean they're not out there. Just like GLBTQ relationships. For decades or longer, conservatives used tha same argument: "I don' t know any happy gays in relationships, so they don't exist and it must not be possible." That's never the case. Instead, the happy ones live under the radar.
So if Will and Jada are in an open marriage and it is working and they do become public about it--that totally would help others who are thinking of such an arrangement as well as those currently living under the radar.
Wes, unfortunately, the space limitations didn't allow for a lot of elaboration on the Ellen point. I do agree that her coming out began an important dialogue and made it so much easier for others to publicly come out. Maybe I was just lucky to have had good friends and family members who have never lived under the radar when it came to living their genuine lives.
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I have nothing against open marriages or any other arrangement two legally consenting adults want to pursue. I'm just gettin' old and have seen too many people try the open marriage route and then watched the damage as someone ended up getting hurt so I'm a bit jaded and don't think it's possible to have both a long term committed relationship AND as many sexual partners as you can find. If a friend came to me and let me know that she was in a happy and wonderful open relationship, I'd be very accepting but I'd also have a box of kleenex on hand just in case...
.... oh, and conservatives will ALWAYS use that argument. Ellen,Rosie or Neil Patrick Harris coming out won't make them open their eyes to anything they don't want to accept. Will Smith opening up on how open his second marriage is also won't make a conservative embrace that idea. :)
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