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		<title>Mel Gibson divorce is just added proof</title>
		<link>http://www.harlequinade.biz/2011/12/24/mel-gibson-divorce-is-just-added-proof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thelimey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The news broke this morning that Mel Gibson and his long-estranged wife, Robyn Moore have concluded their divorce arrangements. Despite having never written, appeared in or been obliged to learn even a single line from any of his 43 films the former Mrs. Gibson now stands to collect around $425-million to complete the [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3183" title="money_bag" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/money_bag.jpg" alt="" width="186" height="186" />The news broke this morning that Mel Gibson and his long-estranged wife, Robyn Moore have concluded their divorce arrangements. Despite having never written, appeared in or been obliged to learn even a single line from any of his 43 films the former Mrs. Gibson now stands to collect around $425-million to complete the decree.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Her collective gender have spent four entire decades tirelessly proclaiming their desire and innate ability to earn an income themselves, and the same time ensuring such laws as Ms. Moore has now used are protected and left firmly in place so they are free to leech money from men and avoid the slightest need to do any such thing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One of these acions is bullshit. It&#8217;s time our compatriots decided which.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Photo by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66568868@N00/" target="_blank">Dolphin</a></p>
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		<title>Vanessa Hudgens plays victim, again</title>
		<link>http://www.harlequinade.biz/2011/03/17/vanessa-hudgens-plays-victim-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thelimey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; As you may know, photos of Vanessa Hudgens naked appeared online early this week, and the &#8216;High School Musical&#8217; actress is now helping the FBI track the thieves who allegedly &#8216;stole&#8217; them from her Gmail account.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The photos show a woman who looks like Hudgens kissing another woman [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3099" title="vannessa hudgens" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/vannessa-hudgens-194x300.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="300" />[The Limey] &#8211; As you may know, photos of Vanessa Hudgens naked appeared online early this week, and the &#8216;High School Musical&#8217; actress is now helping the FBI track the thieves who allegedly &#8216;stole&#8217; them from her Gmail account.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The photos show a woman who looks like Hudgens kissing another woman who seems to be fellow Disney star Alexa Nikolas. Hudgens claims they were hacked from her email and FBI sources tell <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/16/vanessa-hugdens-hackers-ring-stolen-pics-cell-phone-internet-computer/" target="_blank">TMZ</a> up to fifty <em>actual</em> celebrities could be victims of the same group of hackers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">People believed to be involved with this group have since attempted to sell pictures to various web sites, but the FBI believes their true motive is not the money it&#8217;s the sheer thrill of hacking.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is the third time 22-year old Vanessa has been the subject of  &#8216;stolen&#8217; nude photos. Full-frontal nude shots she&#8217;d stored on her cellphone were leaked in September of 2007, and more of them surfaced in 2009. But she released a statement saying she was &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; about them and Disney kept her on the payroll.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To misquote Oscar Wilde, &#8216;To have photos leaked once is a misfortune; To have it happen twice looks like stupidity. But three times is glaringly obvious attention-seeking, victim-playing BS perpetrated by someone so intellectually vapid they truly believe the people who made them half as famous as they <em>think</em> they are will not only still buy the story, but deserve to be insulted like this.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is nothing more than concocted drama, manufactured to enable a fading starlet to play the victim – again &#8211; and sell tear-coated stories to the low-rent gossip blogs, thus gaining acres of press, cash and attention with no work involved.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ms. Hudgens should now forsake this charade, admit the malfeasance and apologize to the true victims of this infantile ploy – the fans.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you&#8217;ve seen the photos, do <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you</span> think it&#8217;s her? And was it theft or a stunt? – Let&#8217;s hear your views&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Photo: <a target="_blank" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mwibisono3&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank">MWibisono</a></p>
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		<title>CBS &#8216;concerned&#8217; by Charlie Sheen case</title>
		<link>http://www.harlequinade.biz/2011/01/14/cbs-concerned-by-charlie-sheen-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thelimey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; The former CBS &#8216;comedy&#8217; &#8216;Two and a Half Men&#8217; has attracted a lot of press recently – for all the wrong reasons. The show hasn&#8217;t been funny since about the time the dinosaurs left and Charlie Sheen has had some serious problems.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">And their Entertainment President, Nina Tassler [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2681" title="charlie-sheen" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/charlie-sheen-228x300.jpg" alt="" width="228" height="300" />[The Limey] &#8211; The former CBS &#8216;comedy&#8217; &#8216;Two and a Half Men&#8217; has attracted a lot of press recently – for all the wrong reasons. The show hasn&#8217;t been funny since about the time the dinosaurs left and Charlie Sheen has had some serious problems.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And their Entertainment President, Nina Tassler says her department&#8217;s concerned;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;We have a high level of concern, how could we not,&#8221; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/tca-cbs-nina-tassler-on-charlie-sheen-more/" target="_blank">Deadline</a> quotes her as saying. “On a personal level we are concerned, but he has his job, he does it well and the show is a hit.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Most of CBS&#8217; output is television for people who think oatmeal&#8217;s exciting, but this is just dumb.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Problem</strong>: Your network&#8217;s single remaining attraction is an alcoholic, borderline drug addict with <em>painfully</em> poor taste in women.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Solution</strong>: Drag his ass to rehab, put his dealers in jail – and cancel that <em>god-awful</em> show.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All &#8216;concern&#8217; shall thus be resolved&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Jason Bateman shows inflated ego at iPhone event</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thelimey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; Fans of Apple’s curious form of overpriced bling are often blessed with a calm outward demeanor, but Jason Bateman made more than 2,000 of them implacable enemies yesterday when he cut in line for the new iPhone 4G.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The former “Arrested Development” star was waiting in line outside [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2922" title="Jason Bateman" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Jason-Bateman.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="300" />[The Limey] &#8211; Fans of Apple’s curious form of overpriced bling are often blessed with a calm outward demeanor, but Jason Bateman made more than 2,000 of them implacable enemies yesterday when he cut in line for the new iPhone 4G.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The former “Arrested Development” star was waiting in line outside Apple’s store at the Grove shopping mall in West Hollywood yesterday, eager to secure the new phone on the day it came out.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then a store clerk appeared, plucked 41-year old Jason out of the throng and escorted him straight into the store.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Everyone literally started booing and hissing,” one Apple fanboy told <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/jason-bateman-booed-after-cutting-in-line-for-iphone-2010246" target="_blank">Us Weekly</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">‘The crowd just freaked and booed, and he put his head down,’ another recalls.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once kitted out with the latest technological crutch for a clearly malformed and unstable ego Jason then left the store, met by a chorus of more booing and cat-calls – without saying one single word to those he insulted.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The clearly misplaced admiration of his limited work by those standing in line had given this arrogant ingrate the rare privilege of both the free time and the money to buy the phone in the first place. And their respect is rewarded with inexcusable, self-serving behavior like this.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Also, photos on Us Magazine&#8217;s site, and other places, show Jason outside the store with a phone in his hand&#8230;Now, how do you suppose the Apple staff knew he was out there?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Does anyone know an app Jason could download that would let him say ‘Sorry, I’m an arrogant a-hole!” to 2,000+ people at once?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Photo: <a target="_blank" href="http://lukeford.net" target="_blank">Luke Ford</a></p>
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		<title>Betty White doubles SNL ratings, both new viewers amused</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 05:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thelimey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; So, after what feels like six moths of endless, relentless and immeasurably pointless hype and self-serving marketing, the great Betty White / SNL spectacular is finally done.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Now we can suppose NBC will spend the next six months telling us how smart, funny and bitingly relevant the show [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2891" title="Betty-White-small" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Betty-White-small.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="300" />[The Limey] &#8211; So, after what feels like six moths of endless, relentless and immeasurably pointless hype and self-serving marketing, the great Betty White / SNL spectacular is finally done.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now we can suppose NBC will spend the <em>next</em> six months telling us how smart, funny and bitingly relevant the show still is &#8211; which is a lie &#8211; and how those who don&#8217;t watch it clearly need help. But let&#8217;s get one thing clear up-front:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If an 88-year old can give teen-focused SNL its best ratings in two years, that only  proves what a tired, humorless, self-absorbed corpse the show has become.</p>
<p>For me, it&#8217;s a fail. I&#8217;m just glad this incessant and patronizing  NBC-driven PR stunt is over.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood needs a new blacklist</title>
		<link>http://www.harlequinade.biz/2010/04/12/hollywood-needs-a-new-blacklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thelimey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; People, we need a blacklist. A list of all the brainless, worthless, attention-seeking egocentrics who are currently suffering from the groundless delusion they&#8217;re famous. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m talking about the seemingly unending swathe of mediocre performers who are so irreparably inept, yet driven by ego they engage in one [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2864" title="sunglasses" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunglasses.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="160" /></span>[The Limey] &#8211; <span style="color: #000000;">People, we need a blacklist. A list of all the brainless, worthless, attention-seeking egocentrics who are currently suffering from the groundless delusion they&#8217;re famous.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I&#8217;m talking about the seemingly unending swathe of mediocre performers who are so irreparably inept, yet driven by ego they engage in one risible, lamentable and inexcusable publicity stunt after another to achieve notoriety and unwarranted wealth by exploiting and insulting the very people they <em>should</em> regard as the single most important life-forms on this planet – the few blameless souls who even know they&#8217;re alive: Their fans.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">We need a list which, once one of these dim-bulbs is rightfully placed on it, renders them effectively invisible to all modern media. No interviews, no gossip, no exposure at all – no matter what slick yet desperate stunt they might try to provoke it.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">After a short time of such treatment it&#8217;s my belief those who face this position will either develop some definable talent – at last – or quit &#8216;showbiz&#8217; altogether and seek out a job they <em>can</em> actually do; Thus freeing both the media&#8217;s time and the public&#8217;s attention to focus on those comparatively rare beings who possess both a talent <em>and</em> the willingness to work and thereby deserve the reward.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I&#8217;ll start the list:–<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Tila Tequila, Heidi Montag [<em>and</em> her hamster-haired cohort,] Madonna, Jon Gosselin and Jennifer Aniston.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">If you can think of others – and there are <em>dozens</em> – add them as comments and let&#8217;s get that list made, then we&#8217;ll all get some peace&#8230;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Photo by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/viviannguyen/" target="_blank">Viv</a><br />
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		<title>Joaquin Phoenix stars in brutal PETA fur ad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; When Joaquin Phoenix stepped out of the limelight in 2008 the world lost a fine actor. Now back, and with a movie in which he&#8217;ll play Edgar Allen Poe already in development Joaquin has made a new film for PETA – and the story is brutally true.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2856" title="Joaquin Phoenix" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Joaquin-Phoenix-210x300.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="300" />When Joaquin Phoenix stepped out of the limelight in 2008 the world lost a fine actor. Now back, and with a movie in which he&#8217;ll play Edgar Allen Poe already in development Joaquin has made a new film for PETA – and the story is brutally true.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The 35-year Puerto Rico-born actor has already made one PSA in support of suicide prevention, but this time he stars in a video supporting PETA&#8217;s campaign to end the sickening and barbaric practice of using animals for fashion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Exotic animals are mostly unknown to us,&#8221; he says in the video. &#8220;And so is what they suffer before being turned into belts and bags. You can help stop the suffering. Anything you have that is made from animal skins can be made without,” the message goes on.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The video cuts between scenes of Joaquin talking and clips that show just a few of the ways in which snakes, alligators and other reptiles are bludgeoned to death and even prematurely skinned to be turned into shoes, boots, handbags, jackets and belts &#8211; all to feed the vanity of those who have neither their beauty, nor the IQ to care.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I have not eaten meat or worn leather in more than two decades, and the brutal and brainless abuse and its motives that are undoubtedly displayed in this film – which I would never watch – are one reason why.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For the ghoulishly curious who have not recently eaten, you can watch the PSA <a target="_blank" href="https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=3003" target="_blank">here</a>. But PETA don&#8217;t pull their punches so don&#8217;t say you weren&#8217;t warned&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Spencer Pratt is the victim, Producer should quit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; I&#8217;m not the man&#8217;s biggest fan and I&#8217;ve never seen the show, but the way Spencer Pratt disappeared from MTV”s tiresome &#8216;reality&#8217; slapstick &#8216;The Hills&#8217; is too much to stand.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The story, first floated by People said the 26-year old actor was leaving because he&#8217;d found “a new [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2660" title="spencer-pratt" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/spencer-pratt.jpg" alt="" width="185" height="250" />[The Limey] &#8211; I&#8217;m not the man&#8217;s biggest fan and I&#8217;ve never seen the show, but the way Spencer Pratt disappeared from MTV”s tiresome &#8216;reality&#8217; slapstick &#8216;The Hills&#8217; is too much to stand.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The story, first floated by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20351567,00.html" target="_blank">People</a> said the 26-year old actor was leaving because he&#8217;d found “a new passion and new purpose to my life,&#8221; when President Obama announced that online security was at serious risk, and Spencer explained he would use his superior intelligence to protect us mere mortals from harm.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But that&#8217;s not the real story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/categories/spencer-pratt/" target="_blank">THG</a> says Spencer was actually benched for six weeks after he &#8216;flipped out&#8217; on a female producer who asked him to do something stupid. [Exactly what is unclear.]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;I should kill you for even asking me to do that!&#8221; was his apparent reply.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And here comes the sick part – Instead of growing a spine and fighting her own battles, the &#8216;victim&#8217; promptly filed an official complaint with MTV&#8217;s bosses and Spencer was given a choice – Quit for six weeks or be fired.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">And</span> he has to complete an &#8216;anger management&#8217; course before they&#8217;ll allow his return.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I said, I&#8217;m not his biggest fan by any means, but this man is being both victimized and portrayed as a psycho by an MTV flunkie who used both her sex and her superior place in the MTV food-chain to blame Spencer for something solely provoked by her own dumb behavior.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And not one of her female peers sees one thing wrong with that. Swap the genders and those same people would be having a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">fit</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I stand four-square behind Spencer. What he did was provoked and no more than words. He should be restored to the show with an on-air apology, and the cause of the problem should both face and accept the blame she deserves and lose her<em> own</em> job.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, I know &#8211; Fat chance!&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Will and Grace co-star, Sean Hayes drops the last veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] &#8211; In the final denouement of what may be Hollywood&#8217;s worst-kept secret since the personal life choices of the late Liberace, Will and Grace actor Sean Hayes has finally agreed that he&#8217;s gay.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">When the now 39-year old actor first appeared on the screen in 1998 as Will&#8217;s constantly [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2836" title="sean_hayes" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sean_hayes-223x300.jpg" alt="" width="223" height="300" />[The Limey] &#8211; In the final denouement of what may be Hollywood&#8217;s worst-kept secret since the personal life choices of the late Liberace, Will and Grace actor Sean Hayes has finally agreed that he&#8217;s gay.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When the now 39-year old actor first appeared on the screen in 1998 as Will&#8217;s constantly unemployed neighbor, Jack McFarland, speculation soon grew that no straight guy could play &#8216;gay&#8217; so well. But Sean was then in public denial.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that’s a gay character. And when I play a straight character, I want you to believe that, too,” he explained to the press when the show ended its eight-year, 16-Emmy winning run in 2006.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But now, faced with an imminent Broadway debut opposite the sparkling Kristin Chenoweth in &#8216;Promises, Promises&#8217; a 1968-vintage musical based on the Jack Lemmon film, &#8216;The Apartment&#8217; Sean has finally decided he&#8217;s a gay Emmy winner, and proud of these facts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“I feel I’ve contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I’m open to it,” he rashly declares.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But Sean also tells <a target="_blank" href="http://www.queerty.com/sean-hayes-just-came-out-and-hes-furious-you-made-him-do-it-20100308/" target="_blank">Qweerty</a> the years of suspicion and whispers really hurt;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Why would you go down that path with somebody who’s done so much for the gay community?” he asks. “That’s the thing about celebrity &#8211; It sets you up to fail because the expectation is so high. What more do you want me to do? Stand on a float? <em>Then</em> what? It’s never enough!”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For me, all that&#8217;s really required is to drop the pretense and admit who you are. Especially when you then plan to claim &#8216;monumental&#8217; contributions to the struggle endured by those you coldly denied as your peers for more than a decade.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This entire admission is entirely self-serving and too long overdue. I remain unimpressed&#8230;</p>
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		<title>James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar deserved Oscar snub</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">[The Limey] So the music has faded, the red carpet&#8217;s rolled up and the whole endless ego-fest is over for a year. Or at least, until James Cameron demands a recount.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">But of all the clues to be gathered from this glitzy debacle, two stand out above all: Having an original [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2830" title="red-carpet" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/red-carpet.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="343" />[The Limey] So the music has faded, the red carpet&#8217;s rolled up and the whole endless ego-fest is over for a year. Or at least, until James Cameron demands a recount.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But of all the clues to be gathered from this glitzy debacle, two stand out above all: Having an original story helps to win the gold man, while beating your audience over the head with disingenuous, self-serving hype demonstrably does not.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Both prior to and since its debut on December 18,  Fox and James Cameron have engaged in a sickening, endless and often clandestine campaign of hype for their $237-million curio, desperately trying to maximize their box-office profits and win the gold man.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And they failed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Only the art directors, the cinematographer and the geniuses at Wikka Digital with their TRS-80&#8242;s took home a prize. James and his tired, plodding and derivative story were rightfully left empty handed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And the moral of this story is far clearer than the plot of that film; To be successful you need to actually be good at your job. Inept mediocrity inflated by hype does not make a star, or ensure true success.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Many &#8216;celebrities&#8217; would do well to take notes.</p>
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		<title>Adrien Brody to lead Predator reboot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">In yet another unjustified reboot, Oscar winner Adrien Brody has now signed on for Fox&#8217;s latest horrendous mistake &#8211; the forthcoming remake of Predator.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The 36-year old New Yorker will now join Robert Rodriguez&#8217; upcoming retread of Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s 1987 jungle-based romp, which Rodriguez is now writing along with some friends.</p> [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-2743" href="http://www.harlequinade.biz/2009/10/07/adrien-brody-to-lead-predator-reboot/adrien-brody/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2743" title="adrien-brody" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/adrien-brody.jpg" alt="adrien-brody" width="262" height="375" /></a>In yet another unjustified reboot, Oscar winner Adrien Brody has now signed on for Fox&#8217;s latest horrendous mistake &#8211; the forthcoming remake of Predator.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The 36-year old New Yorker will now join Robert Rodriguez&#8217; upcoming retread of Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s 1987 jungle-based romp, which Rodriguez is now writing along with some friends.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8216;That 70&#8242;s Show&#8217;s Topher Grace is also debating getting involved, and if the price gets worked out he&#8217;ll join Alice Braga, &#8216;The Shield&#8217;s Walt Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, the UFC star, and one of Rob&#8217;s favorite actors [and his second cousin,] Danny Trejo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This time around – who knows how many <em>more</em> there will be?? &#8211; the story concerns a group of elite warriors who become unwilling prey to a swarm of alien trackers called Predators. Adrien is the leader, who has a strong rep as a hunter of men. Topher, meanwhile, plays a placid bean-counter, inside of whom lurks a serial killer. Braga – last seen in &#8216;I Am Legend&#8217; &#8211; is a cold-hearted assassin, Goggins will play a radical type and Taktarov will be a Russian Special Ops expert.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And in what sounds like the most fun role of all, 64-year old Trejo will be a merciless warrior who roams the world with two loaded Uzis strapped on his back.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Shooting is penciled-in for Hawaii next month, with interiors, effects shots and green-screening booked to be done at Rodriguez&#8217; &#8216;Troublemaker Studios&#8217; in Texas. The finished movie is slated to bow on July 9th, 2010.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Photo by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcb/" target="_blank">Mecredis</a></p>
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		<title>Emma Watson harassed at Harvard</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Although admired by millions as Harry Potter&#8217;s indulgent accomplice, Hermione Grainger, Emma Watson endured some truly infantile admiration at the hands of people who should have more sense.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The NY Post reports that the 19-year old actress and Brown University freshman was harassed and insulted during a visit to Harvard on [...]<p>Text © 2009, <a href="http://www.harlequinade.biz">The Loquacious Limey</a><br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-2731" href="http://www.harlequinade.biz/2009/10/01/emma-watson-harassed-at-harvard/emma-watson/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2731" title="emma-watson" src="http://harlequinade.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/emma-watson.jpg" alt="emma-watson" width="209" height="315" /></a>Although admired by millions as Harry Potter&#8217;s indulgent accomplice, Hermione Grainger, Emma Watson endured some truly infantile admiration at the hands of people who <em>should</em> have more sense.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The NY <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/harvard_jerks_stalked_emma_crBg4Lp4fKZzHP74EuEg5H" target="_blank">Post</a> reports that the 19-year old actress and Brown University freshman was harassed and insulted during a visit to Harvard on Tuesday to attend a football game. She was even protected by minders in case the Ivy League types had plans to get close.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In a day-long display of maturity that could make even Sponge Bob look cultured, members of Harvard&#8217;s college magazine, &#8216;Harvard Voice&#8217; uploaded a blog post before the big game, making it clear they intended to stalk and harass Emma for no other reason than they thought it was fun. &#8220;We will be Live-Tweetin&#8217; the game and possibly stalking Emma Watson, so keep your eyes peeled for that!&#8221; it read.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There followed a barely literate snowstorm of tweets in which they recorded this puerile pursuit, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go, Hermione! Lolz!!&#8221; said one. A later tweet proved the offenders were now at the game, &#8220;In enemy territory. Lookin&#8217; for a certain witch,&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The magazine also posted a photo of Emma on its web site and bragged that their infantile stalking was a total success.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In welcome proof that at least <em>some</em> of Harvard&#8217;s alumni had experienced puberty, this sordid campaign of adolescent annoyance drew some scathing reviews, &#8220;There is a locatable cause of Ms. Watson&#8217;s experience&#8230;and a blameworthy party,&#8221; said one. &#8220;Anybody can do anything unfeeling to anybody in this day and age, especially if they feel entitled by membership in Harvard College.&#8221; read another review.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Voice eventually posted an Editor&#8217;s note on their photo of Emma, clearly intended to both diffuse the results and deflect all the blame, &#8220;There seems to be much ado about nothing over this photo and live-blog. Understand that these live tweets were intentionally outrageous and overblown,&#8221; it explained.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You&#8217;ll notice they left out &#8216;childish,&#8217; &#8216;small-minded,&#8217; &#8216;intellectually vacant,&#8217; &#8216;moronic&#8217; and least of all &#8216;dumb&#8217;!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Not surprisingly, the self-absorbed simpletons who publish &#8216;The Voice&#8217; have refused any comment. Emma&#8217;s own university, Brown, is also declining to talk, and her reps clearly have orders to stay silent as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The poor girl&#8217;s trip was not even worth it – Brown lost to Harvard, 24-21.</p>
<p>Photo by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23489340@N04/" target="_blank">Ursulakm</a></p>
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