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Published by BANG Showbiz English Tilda Swinton believes identity is “entirely flexible”. The 61-year-old actress – who has 23-year-old twins Honor and Xavier with former partner John Byrne and is in a relationship with Sandro Kopp – doesn’t want to be confined to a “box” and enjoys changing who she is on any given day. She told Total Film magazine: “For myself, I feel most relaxed when I think that identity is something entirely flexible, that we can choose at any moment, and that it’s nobody’s business, what we choose on any given day, but ours. “It seems a bit of a waste to just put oneself in a box and cut off all one’s limbs. “For me, it’s never been more interesting than to stay as flexible as possible and to just play.” 61 In her upcoming movie ‘Memoria’, Tilda plays Jessica, who wakes one day disturbed by a sound in her head and the actress was able to channel her grief for her father, who passed away in October 2018, into the character because of how “alien” she felt. She told the new issue of Total Film magazine: “I think a lot of people who suffer bereavement experience this sense of disconnection and limbo. “That limbo is quite a run-of-the-mill – not exotic – experience for human beings. “But it does make us feel alien when we’re in that scenario. “Hang on, society is going out there and I’m just not connecting, my battery is not plugged in. So we did talk about that. “We talked about what it is to have that access to feeling alien and how humane it is.” The ‘Doctor Strange’ star revealed last year she identifies as queer and has found family in her professional collaborators. She said: “’I’m very clear that queer is actually, for me anyway, to do with sensibility. “I always felt I was queer – I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it. And having found it, it’s my world. “Now I have a family with Wes Anderson, I have a family with Bong Joon-ho, I have a family with Jim Jarmusch, I have a family with Luca Guadagnino, with Lynne Ramsay, with Joanna Hogg.” Tilda Swinton Queer Sense on Towleroad Demi Lovato Returns Home From Utah Rehab Facility After Rejecting Their Past ‘California Sober’ Lifestyle More Oprah Winfrey producing documentary about Sidney Poitier More Aaron Sorkin still hopes to make The Social Network sequel More Russia strikes tough, pessimistic line on chances for talks with U.S More Kardashian GBF Simon Huck Hangs Out With Pete Davidson While Kim Works; If Kardashian Davidson Was A Show, The TV Trope Would Be… ? (MULT CHOICE) More Resolutions For Queers 2022; LGBTQ To Do List; Gay Agenda 2022 — WEB STORY More Jillian Michaels ‘Used To Spit On People,’ Hateful Ex-Girlfriend Jackie Warner Tells All More Paris Jackson, Out and Unlabeled, Eyes Superhero or Supervillain Role More Mystery Solved? FBI Arrests Man Accused of Manuscript Stealing in Long-Running Crime Series Confounding Publishing Industry as to Motive More Load More View the full article

Published by OK Magazine mega Staying on track! Demi Lovato has returned home after quietly checking in to a Utah rehab facility 3 years after their nearly fatal drug overdose. The “Sorry Not Sorry” singer — who uses they/them pronouns — reportedly checked in to the treatment facility in order to maintain both their sobriety and their mental health. DEMI LOVATO GETS A ‘STANDING OVATION’ FROM AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENTITY IN NEW SERIES: WATCH “Demi is committed to their well-being, and throughout their life, they plan to do regular check-ins to make sure they are putting themselves first,” an insider told People. mega The former Disney star first went to rehab in 2010 to confront her addiction issues, and entered a sober living facility in 2012. Six years later, the “Skyscraper” artist candidly admitted they had “crossed a line” they had never crossed before and suffered an almost fatal overdose. “Any time that you suppress a part of yourself, it’s gonna overflow,” Lovato explained in their docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil. “I had three strokes. I had a heart attack. My doctors said that I had 5-10 more minutes [to live].” DEMI LOVATO STUNS ALONGSIDE ACTRESS ALLIE MARIE EVANS IN EDGY PHOTOSHOOT SHOT BY FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER TYLER SHIELDS Despite their near death experience, the Grammy winner decided to continue to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in moderation once they left the in-treatment facility. “I called [my recovery case manager, Charles Cook] and was like, ‘Something’s not right. I’m living one side of my life completely legalizing and this other side following a program that’s telling me if I slip up, I’m going to die,'” they told Glamour magazine. “Everything had to happen in order for me to learn the lessons that I learned,” Lovato told People in 2020. “It was a painful journey, and I look back and sometimes I get sad when I think of the pain that I had to endure to overcome what I have, but I don’t regret anything.” In December, OK! reported Lovato has recently chosen to reject their old “California sober” choices and strives to live a completely sober life going forward in their sobriety journey. “I no longer support my ‘California sober’ ways,” the 29-year-old wrote in a post on Instagram in early December. “Sober sober is the only way to be.” View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Oprah Winfrey is producing a documentary about Sidney Poitier. The 67-year-old media mogul is executive producing the project about the late actor – which she has been working on for over a year – for Apple and Reginald Hudlin is directing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Poitier’s family are involved with the documentary, which is a collaboration with Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Network Entertainment. Meanwhile, Oprah mourned the loss of “the greatest of the Great Trees” following Poitier’s death last week. The ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ actor – who was the first Black winner of the Best Actor Oscar for his work on ‘Lilies of the Field’ – passed away aged 94, and Oprah, who considered Sidney a friend and mentor, paid tribute to him on Instagram. Oprah wrote: “For me, the greatest of the ‘Great Trees’ has fallen: Sidney Poitier. My honor to have loved him as a mentor. Friend. Brother. Confidant. Wisdom teacher. The utmost, highest regard and praise for his most magnificent, gracious, eloquent life. I treasured him. I adored him. He had an enormous soul I will forever cherish. Blessings to Joanna and his world of beautiful daughters (sic)” The ‘Butler’ actress spoke about Sidney’s legacy during last year’s Black History Month, and detailed how he had laid the groundwork for her and many others within the industry. She said at the time: “When I tell you profoundly, I could start weeping right now, I was profoundly, deeply, sincerely moved by that moment. We were being called coloured people at the time. [And] I had never seen a coloured man look like that or present like that. And I just thought if he could do that, I wonder what I could do. “And because he did that, I was able to do what I have been able to do in the world, and every single other Black person who followed. It only happened because he was able not just to do that, but to be that. It’s what he represented: his dignity, integrity, presence, grace, choice of characters only doing, and choosing roles that were going to reflect the best of what a Black person could be in the world.” View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Aaron Sorkin hopes to revisit ‘The Social Network’. The 60-year-old screenwriter and director penned the script for the 2010 film – which tells the story of the formation of Facebook – and says that he wants to team up with filmmaker David Fincher to make a sequel. Speaking to Collider, Aaron said: “Well, it’s something I’ve thought about a lot, and I’ve mentioned it to David. I think I’ll leave it there. I don’t want to make any news with regard to a ‘Social Network’ follow up except to agree with you that there’s more story.” Asked if he would want to tell it with David, Aaron replied: “I’d love nothing more.” Aaron has also directed the film ‘Being the Ricardos’, which stars Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as ‘I Love Lucy’ co-stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and credits the crew for helping him not feel any pressure to make the movie despite only having 38 days to so. Quizzed on whether he had doubts during filming, Aaron said: “There wasn’t. I would say before the shoot, I was thinking, ’38 days, how can we possibly do this in 38 days?’ But another person who’s been with me is Stuart Besser, our line producer. He’s the one responsible for the schedule. “Not only didn’t I ever feel pressured, time pressure, during that time, I felt other kinds of pressure. Not only didn’t I feel time pressure, but there were some days that almost felt luxurious. Like, ‘Wow, we can take our time here. We can rehearse longer. Maybe I can send the crew home an hour early.’ I credit Stuart and a great crew.” View the full article

Published by Reuters By Tom Balmforth and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Sunday it would not make any concessions under U.S. pressure at talks this week on the Ukraine crisis and its demands for Western security guarantees, and that there was a risk they might end quickly. The hard line from Moscow underscored the fragile prospects for negotiations that Washington hopes will avert the danger of a new Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the tensest point in U.S.-Russia relations since the Cold War ended three decades ago. Talks are due in Geneva, Brussels and Vienna but the state-owned RIA news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying it was entirely possible that diplomacy could end abruptly after a single meeting. “I can’t rule out anything, this is an entirely possible scenario and the Americans… should have no illusions about this,” he was quoted as saying. “Naturally, we will not make any concessions under pressure and in the course of threats that are constantly being formed by the Western participants of the upcoming talks.” Interfax news agency quoted Ryabkov, who will lead the Russian delegation in Geneva, as saying Moscow was not optimistic going into the negotiations. The comments from Ryabkov, who has compared the situation to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, were consistent with the uncompromising line that Russia has been signalling for weeks. Tens of thousands of Russian troops are gathered within reach of the border with Ukraine in preparation for what Washington and Kyiv say could be an invasion, eight years after Russia seized the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine. Russia denies invasion plans and says it is responding to what it calls aggressive and provocative behaviour from the NATO military alliance and Ukraine, its former Soviet neighbour which has tilted towards the West and aspires to join NATO. Last month Russia presented a sweeping set of demands including for a bar on further NATO expansion and an end to the alliance’s activity in central and eastern European countries that joined it after 1997. The United States and NATO have said large parts of the Russian proposals are a non-starter. RED LINES A senior Biden administration official on Saturday said the United States was not willing to discuss limits on U.S. troop deployments or the U.S. force posture in NATO countries in the region. It was ready, however, to talk about the possibility of each side restricting military exercises and missile deployments in the region. To accept that limited agenda and abandon its other demands would be a major climbdown that Russia seems unlikely to make, especially after weeks of troop movements near Ukraine and a series of tough statements from President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin leader has said that after successive waves of NATO expansion it is time for Russia to enforce its “red lines” and ensure the alliance does not admit Ukraine or station weapons systems there that would target Russia. Ukraine won a NATO promise back in 2008 that it would be allowed to join one day, but diplomats say there is no question of that happening any time soon. NATO says it is a defensive alliance and Moscow has nothing to fear from it. That is far from Putin’s world view, which sees Russia as under threat from hostile western powers he says have repeatedly broken promises given as the Cold War ended not to expand towards its borders. The United States and its allies dispute such pledges were given. In two conversations with Putin over the past five weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden warned him that Russia would face unprecedented economic sanctions in the event of further aggression against Ukraine. The Group of Seven nations and European Union have joined in threatening “massive consequences”. Putin responded that this would be a colossal mistake that would lead to a complete rupture of relations. Russia’s foreign ministry said the team led by Ryabkov had arrived in Geneva, where the formal talks are due on Monday. Russia is also due to hold negotiations with NATO in Brussels on Wednesday and at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna on Thursday. (Reporting by Tom Balmforth in Moscow and Mark Trevelyan in London; writing by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel) View the full article

=Good at tests. A) KIM trusts PETE with friend. Levels Up. B) Gay C) Swingers D) Kim needs to get work done. * E) KIM gives GBF SIMON room to ‘bro’ with love interest, PETE. In almost no time, PETE appeals to their ‘bro’ bond and shows his true self, good or bad. *** D) Those selfies don’t take themselves? Kind of do actually. ** E) The next scene in fanfic “Bro”ing of Pete Davidson has the SNL comedian saying, “Dude, I really like her. What do I do?” or “Dude, got to tell someone, Guess who i’m —–ing”. Potential love interest, PETE, blinded by his love for KIM will forget that gay guys never signed nor ratified the “Bro Rules” when proposed 20 years ago. SIMON will report to KIM with appropriate sympathy or excitement, fulfilling the defining mutual-security role that defines Gay Best Friend. The less world-shattering the news, the more appropriate it is to offer some history and context for the youth.–Editor Published by Radar Online MEGA You know you’ve made it when you’re hanging solo with your girlfriend’s gay best friend. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson took their unexpected romance to the next level earlier this week when they jetted off to the Bahamas via a private plane, but even more telling of their relationship status is that the 28-year-old comedian was photographed hanging out with the 41-year-old beauty mogul’s bestie – sans the beauty mogul. On Wednesday, the Saturday Night Live star was spotted sipping a cold beer and tossing around a football as he relaxed outside a beachfront terrace on one of the picturesque Caribbean islands. Though the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star was nowhere in sight, Pete was far from alone! Lounging in a nearby beach chair was 38-year-old Simon Huck, who has appeared in countless episodes of the E! reality series as a close pal of both Kim and Kourtney Kardashian. Pete sported a gray T-shirt, red shorts, and a backward hat, while Simon opted for a similar vibe. According to Daily Mail, the latter was in charge of the tunes. The new friends kicked back and relaxed alongside a few others, while Kim was elsewhere taking sizzling selfies for the ‘gram. “Sweet sweet fantasy baby,” the SKIMS founder captioned a close-up photo showing off her curves, which were barely held inside her teeny-tiny brown string bikini. Kardashian’s almost once brother-in-law, Scott Disick, was among the thousands who dropped comments on the star’s hot shot. @kimkardashian/Instagram “Damn! Where’s the tripod!” asked Kourtney’s ex-boyfriend and baby daddy, leaving many fans to wonder whether he was making a dirty joke about Pete and his rumored “BDE.” According to Merriam-Webster, a tripod is “a three-legged stand (as for a camera),” but according to Urban Dictionary, it can also be defined as “a man with a penis so big, it is interpreted as a third leg.” Kardashian and Davidson have been inseparable since sharing their first kiss during an October episode of SNL. Since then, the two have made a cross-country relationship work, going on several dates in both New York and Los Angeles. They’ve even met each other’s families. Insiders say the couple is “getting very serious,” which seems to be getting under her estranged husband’s skin. One of Kanye West‘s pals told Radar that the rapper’s new fling with Kim-lookalike Julia Fox is rooted in jealousy. “A Broadway show and dinner at a restaurant where photographers are always waiting outside! Come on, someone wanted to be noticed by Kim,” laughed the friend. “It is obvious that Kanye is trying to make Kim jealous. The only surprising thing is that Kanye didn’t go to see a show and dinner with a lady from Saturday Night Live.” “Kanye is pee-green over Kim’s relationship with Pete Davidson. He saw all the pictures of them together and wants to give her a taste of her own medicine,” added our insider. “Please, next Kanye will be heading over to Staten Island with Julia! It would be funny if it wasn’t all so tragic.” So far, Ye’s tactic doesn’t seem to be working. MEGA GBF gay best friend Kardashian Davidson on Towleroad Resolutions For Queers 2022; LGBTQ To Do List; Gay Agenda 2022 — WEB STORY More Jillian Michaels ‘Used To Spit On People,’ Hateful Ex-Girlfriend Jackie Warner Tells All More Paris Jackson, Out and Unlabeled, Eyes Superhero or Supervillain Role More Mystery Solved? FBI Arrests Man Accused of Manuscript Stealing in Long-Running Crime Series Confounding Publishing Industry as to Motive More Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky are ‘very much in love’ More Work(out) from home: Pandemic fuels online exercise boom More Flooding hits western U.S., winter storm in the east More Djokovic challenged officials on visa cancellation – court filing More Manchin’s $1.8 trillion spending offer no longer on table -Washington Post More Load More View the full article

Seems fitting to have our annual resolutions by Leo Herrera be first up in experimenting with a new format for us. You can click and swipe them as. you’d expect.. Follow the link below or swipe up at the end if you’d like a pdf version of your own. — Editor LGBTQ To Do List and Resolutions. Part of your 2022 Gay Agenda Download Free PDF of 2022 Queer Resolutions Add Your Resolutions and LGBTQ To Dos in comments below. What would you add to the 2022 Resolutions? Let us know in the comments below. Your additions need not apply to all. But, we’re lookking for your deeper thoughts and consideration of your year and place in the world and will more powerfully will come from something you are determined to consider or change yourself. (i.e. NOT starting a festival of “You know what’s wrong with you….?)) View the full article

Published by Radar Online MEGA Jillian Michaels‘ ex-girlfriend, Jackie Warner, is spilling major tea about the Biggest Loser alum‘s alleged disturbing behavior that left the latter kicking her butt to the curb. Warner spoke out, claiming Michaels’ used to “spit” on people and would often get “thrown out” of restaurants for her crude ways. It allegedly got so bad that Warner “couldn’t stand” to even hear the celebrity trainer breathe. “We’d get thrown out of nice restaurants because she was screaming loud, cursing, and I couldn’t take it,” Warner, 53, said on the “Hot Takes & Deep Dives with Jess Rothschild” podcast earlier this week. “I just was not the same. I mean, she used to spit on people,” she insisted. Warner claims she hated Michaels so much that she had to end their romance. “I couldn’t live with her. I couldn’t stand to hear her breathe in bed,” Warner recalled. “I mean, it got so bad when she got on my nerves so much that I could not do day-to-day with her.” She claimed their 6-year age gap didn’t help. Michaels is younger and about to turn 48. “The age difference and her making really bad decisions and quite frankly, her just not being a good girl, she just wasn’t a good girl,” Warner claimed. “And I did bad things, but I’ve always been a good girl.” MEGA While Warner’s dislike for Michaels still seems evident, one person doesn’t agree — the fitness instructor’s new fiancée! Michaels’ popped the question to DeShanna Marie Minuto in November 2021 after three years together. “1153 days… here’s to thousands more. She said ‘yes,'” Michaels wrote, making the engagement announcement on Instagram. It wasn’t just any engagement either. Michaels asked Minuto to marry her with a 7-carat emerald-cut diamond. According to the television personality, her fiancée ticks off all her boxes. “DeShanna is ‘all the things’ — beautiful, smart, funny, creative, quirky, passionate … I could run down the list of adjectives,” she told PEOPLE following the news. “Those characteristics obviously attract you to someone. But it’s the quality of their character that makes you think, ‘Thank God for this person laying next to me’ every night when you fall asleep,” she added. This isn’t the first time Michaels has been set to walk down the aisle. She was previously set to marry Heidi Rhoades before they called it quits in 2018. They share two children together — daughter Lukensia, 12, and son Phoenix, 9 MEGA View the full article

Interesting casting either way. More interesting to have an unlabeled hero outside of the heroic work that is coming out about it: Paris Jackson, Michael’s Daughter, is Out and Unlabeled; Has Dated Men, Women, Non-Binary; Feels Excluded By Religious Extended Family. — Editor Published by BANG Showbiz English Paris Jackson wants to be cast as a “superhero or a supervillain”. The 23-year-old actress-and-musician – who is the daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe – has revealed her aspiration to star in a Marvel or DC blockbuster. She said: “I want to be a superhero or a supervillain. “I grew up reading the comics with my brothers. Every time a new Marvel film comes out, we go as a family to watch it … they haven’t let anyone down since 2009.” The ‘American Horror Stories’ star “grew up on Marvel”, but would be happy to join The DC Multiverse. She added to Variety: “I don’t think it’s either one or the other. “I just think that they’re different. I don’t think one is like necessarily better than the other. Marvel is what I grew up on. It’s like comparing The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. They’re very different.” Meanwhile, Paris recently revealed her godfather, Macaulay Culkin, helped her with her ‘American Horror Stories’ audition. The actress stars in the FX series, which is a spin-off of the main ‘American Horror Story’ universe, and called on her godfather and acting icon for help for her audition. Macaulay joined the FX universe for the 10th season of the main series, and so Paris knew she could confide in him to give her advice. She said: “They were very, very uptight about the NDAs and things like that. But I did figure, he signed an NDA, he’s in the ‘AHS’ family. I feel like if I could tell anyone, it would be him.” Paris plays mean girl Maya in the first two episodes of ‘American Horror Stories’, and her character comes face-to-face with the franchise’s iconic Murder House. And before landing her role, she learned from Macaulay to “overdo” parts of her audition to make them more “theatrical”. She added: “He said overdo it at certain points. Kind of like, overact and kind of make it theatrical.” Paris also said she and her godfather exchanged behind-the-scenes photos with each other from their respective ‘AHS’ sets. She said: “I sent him a picture of my face covered in blood and then he sent me a picture of blood in his hair. It was cute.” The ‘Home Alone’ star has been a longtime friend to Paris, and said back in 2018 he was “protective” of the actress. Macaulay – who is also godfather to Paris’ brothers, Prince and Blanket – said: “I am close with Paris. I’m going to warn you now I am very protective of her so just lookout. I am a very open book when it comes to things but like with her, she is beloved by me.” Paris Jackson Super on Towleroad Jillian Michaels ‘Used To Spit On People,’ Hateful Ex-Girlfriend Jackie Warner Tells All More Mystery Solved? FBI Arrests Man Accused of Manuscript Stealing in Long-Running Crime Series Confounding Publishing Industry as to Motive More Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky are ‘very much in love’ More Work(out) from home: Pandemic fuels online exercise boom More Flooding hits western U.S., winter storm in the east More Djokovic challenged officials on visa cancellation – court filing More Manchin’s $1.8 trillion spending offer no longer on table -Washington Post More Sinead O’Connor’s Teenage Son Dies By Suicide Almost 5 Years After Singer Attempted To Take Her Own Life More ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 14 Premiere Comes Down to Two Sloppy Bottoms More Load More View the full article

Is this mystery solved? Arrest made in hard-to-understand series of scams/crimes against writers. Published by AFP Margaret Atwood, pictured in 2019, was reportedly a target of an alleged scam to steal unpublished manuscripts New York (AFP) – A mystery that has shaken the literary world for years — the theft of hundreds of unpublished manuscripts — may finally be about to be solved. The FBI arrested Filippo Bernardini, a 29-year-old Italian employee of major publisher Simon & Schuster, in New York this week. He is accused of impersonating literary agents and publishers over email to steal unpublished works from major authors. The alleged scam had been known in literary circles for around five years with Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and Sally Rooney among writers reportedly targeted. Bernardini was arraigned in court in Manhattan on Wednesday after being arrested by agents at JFK airport the day before. He has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft, crimes punishable by 22 years in prison. “Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated publishing industry individuals in order to have authors, including a Pulitzer prize winner, send him prepublication manuscripts for his own benefit,” said US prosecutor Damian Williams. “This real-life storyline now reads as a cautionary tale, with the plot twist of Bernardini facing federal criminal charges for his misdeeds,” he added in a statement. Bernardini worked in London for Simon and Schuster, which said in a statement it was “shocked and horrified to learn of the allegations.” “The employee has been suspended pending further information on the case,” the publisher said in a statement. “The safekeeping of our authors’ intellectual property is of primary importance to Simon & Schuster, and for all in the publishing industry, and we are grateful to the FBI for investigating these incidents and bringing charges against the alleged perpetrator,” it added. Bernardini was released under “home detention” with a $300,000 bond secured on his home, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York told AFP. In 2019, Atwood’s agent revealed that the manuscript for “The Testaments” had been targeted. A New York Times investigation at the end of 2020 found that “Normal People” author Rooney, “Atonement” author McEwan, and actor Ethan Hawke had also been targeted. One element of the story prosecutors hope to find out is what the accused’s motivations might have been. None of the stolen manuscripts seemed to appear online and the indictment does not mention whether he made any financial profit from the alleged theft. Mystery Solved Towleroad Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky are ‘very much in love’ More Work(out) from home: Pandemic fuels online exercise boom More Flooding hits western U.S., winter storm in the east More Djokovic challenged officials on visa cancellation – court filing More Manchin’s $1.8 trillion spending offer no longer on table -Washington Post More Sinead O’Connor’s Teenage Son Dies By Suicide Almost 5 Years After Singer Attempted To Take Her Own Life More ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 14 Premiere Comes Down to Two Sloppy Bottoms More U.S. VP Harris was in building when pipe bomb was discovered last Jan 6, official says More Real-Life Ricardos: Domineering Desi Kept Lucy Under His Thumb More Load More View the full article