Bayh says bye to '08 bid

not getting political here....
Originally uploaded by your pal Matt.

"There's obviously room to the right of both Clinton and Obama, but who that will be isn't clear," Jordan said. "Today is a good day for everyone else in the field because Sen. Bayh would have been a formidable candidate." - LA Times

Interesting that the Dem crowd is thinning so quick, maybe the party's got it together and realizes a lesser filled field only increases the overall chances of Our Champion? Onwards LEFT!

Dr. Callie RULES

Size-12 Bliss

SIZE doesn't matter any more to "Grey's Anatomy" star Sara Ramirez , who plays Dr. Callie Torres. "There's catered food everywhere you look - I gained 25 pounds in four months," the big-boned hottie tells January's Glamour. "Nobody ever said, 'You're getting a little heavy.' Instead, they wrote scenes for me to dance around half-naked in my underwear. I went to Shonda Rhimes, the executive producer, and said . . . 'Why me? . . . She just looked at me and said, 'Work it.' " Ramirez did, and is comfy as a size 12. -Page Six

Check out Sararamirez.com for Sara's Tony acceptance speech, she won for Spamalot....I had no idea! Nor did I know she's from San Diego, GO CALI!

What others see is those reviews, a Tony Award and back home, proud people like Ole Kittleson speaking of her with tears in their eyes. "She was such a wonderful role model for the Latino kids," says Kittleson. "She had such a strong feeling for and was so proud of her Mexican heritage. When I saw the show in New York, I waited for her backstage. Out she came in her jeans, with her hair in a ponytail hanging out of a baseball cap, just as modest as she always was. I just burst into tears, I was so happy for her." - Sara's high school teacher!

AWW! Methinks I smell a musical episode of Grey's Anatomy coming!

Serenity cast saves Con!!!!!!

Firefly convention gets cancelled at the last minute but the cast still shows!From Akin's World:

All in all, the weekend was very cool, especially considering that there was no alternative. The California Browncoats pulled off a miracle here... and fans worldwide have helped out by donating more than 5K as of Saturday night, the last time I heard an official count! These are folks who had nothing to do with Flan, who were not coming on there own, but who took money from their pocket and donated it to help pay for the B3... the weekend might actually be in the black, last I heard... excess goes to Equality Now, if I heard correctly.

And the Big Damn Heroes... has anyone ever heard of any actor attending an event for free? I haven't... yet none of them were paid. SEE MORE PICS!

From the California Browncoats website:

"Booster Entertainment apologizes for the great inconvenience, but due to unforeseen circumstances, Flanvention is cancelled. An official notice will be posted within 10 days."

This is, of course, a huge imposition for all of us who spent hundreds and even thousands of dollars on our tickets, photos ops, special events, accommodations and airfare, are are not able to get refunds at such short notice. Over 150 people from across the country and overseas are already at the hotel, with more expected on Friday.

However, Browncoats are extremely resourceful.

- Cedric of the Bedlam Bards, singing the lyrics to their newest song.
Whedonverse fans are the coolest!

SPIKE LEE DOES THE RIOT

Now comes word that Lee will make the the violent race-based eruption in Los Angles (following the 1992 "not guilty" verdicts of four white officers who were videotaped beating motorist Rodney King) the subject of his next film.

According to 'Variety,' 'L.A. Riots' will be produced by Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment under Universal Pictures and John Ridley ('Three Kings') is attached as the project's scriptwriter.

"This isn't about some cavalcade of stars, but rather a truthful and realistic examination of what happened, what the ramifications were and where we are now, in hopes that something like this doesn't happen again," Lee told the industry trade magazine.

The filmmaker is also reportedly developing a sequel for 'Inside Man,' which is his highest grossing film, to date starring Denzel Washington, Jody Foster and Clive Owen.
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LA RIOTS ON YOUTUBE

David Lynch's New Movie Weirder Than The Last As Was Expected

MOVIE REVIEW | INLAND EMPIRE
The Trippy Dream Factory of David Lynch
By MANOHLA DARGIS

There are, in the movies, few places creepier to spend time than in David Lynch’s head. It is a head where the wild things grow, twisting and spreading like vines, like fingers, and taking us in their captive embrace. Over the last three decades these wild things have laid siege to us even as they have mutated: the deformed baby of “Eraserhead” evolving into the anguished distortions of “The Elephant Man,” the Reagan-era surrealism of “Blue Velvet,” the serial home invasion in “Twin Peaks” and the meta-cinematic masterpiece “Mulholland Drive,” a dispatch from that smog-choked boulevard of broken dreams called Hollywood.

Mr. Lynch revisits that bewitched boulevard in the extraordinary, savagely uncompromised “Inland Empire,” his first feature in five years, his first shot in video and one of the few films I’ve seen this year that deserves to be called art. Dark as pitch, as noir, as hate, by turns beautiful and ugly, funny and horrifying, the film is also as cracked as Mad magazine, though generally more difficult to parse. I’m still trying to figure out what the giant talking rabbits — which seem to be living in Ralph Kramden’s apartment, as redesigned by Edward Hopper — have to do with the weepy Polish woman who may be a whore or merely lost or, because this is a David Lynch film (after all), probably both.
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Johnny Depp is Dali?

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. - Salvador Dali

RICHARD AND Robert Dupont, of the old Andy Warhol daze in N.Y.C., remembered enough about those heady times to earn associate producer credits on the upcoming "Factory Girl" movie about Edie Sedgwick. Now the Dupont brothers are writing their own screenplay about that fabled artist of the surreal, the late Salvador Dali. They hope to produce through their own Double-Take Productions, and want Johnny Depp as the painter of all things odd. If you've seen Johnny in his flamboyant "Pirates" outings, you know Dali would be a walk in the park . - Liz Smith of the NY Post

My favorite Dali experience, Un Chein Adalou (1929).

Directed by Luis Buenel and conceptualized by Salvidor Dali...youtube rules for having this and A trip to the moon(1902)

Funny Gay Black Joke

FROM PLANET GOSSIP

...the African-American funnyguy delivered one of the night's best lines, about getting invited to his straight friends' weddings.

"I can't get married, so why the hell would I want to go to your wedding?" he joked. "If this was 1950, I wouldn't want to go and watch you vote, either!" - Andre Kelly @ Cracked Xmas, the combined fundraiser, awards show and auction for the Trevor Project, the nationwide suicide prevention hotline for gay teens.

CLINTON/OBAMA 08!!!!!!!!!!!!

Senator Hillary Clinton is officially considering a run for the White House in 2008. One of Clinton's top advisors says she has personally asked some fellow Democrats for their support in the event that she does begin a presidential campaign.

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IT'S NO SMALL SECRET THAT HILARY RAISED THE MONEY FOR THE DEM TAKEOVER OF '06. SHE RAISED A LOT OF POLITICAL CAPITAL WITH THAT, AND IF OBAMA JOINS HER TICKET WHO WOULDN'T VOTE FOR THAT?